51-year-old woman called a “Karen” for making waffle at hotel breakfast while kids were waiting to make one, she defends herself: “Should I have just given up my waffle?”

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    AITAH for not letting kids eat my waffle at the hotel?

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    I (51f) am a teacher having my last quick getaway before school starts. The hotel I am staying at has free breakfast with a waffle
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    maker. I decided to splurge and make myself one-it was Texas shaped so why not? I placed the batter, turned the handle, and
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    was waiting the 2.5 minutes for my waffle to finish. As I was waiting a family of five came downstairs. The children were aged probably 11-4. The boys
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    immediately came to the waffle maker and were waiting. They were nice, polite, and just eager for breakfast. My waffle finished, I pulled it out, and went to my
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    table to eat it. A few minutes later the mom started speaking loudly about "that Karen who wouldn't let her kids make a waffle”. I looked for this person as I was
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    going to be mad at an adult, but quickly realized she was talking about me! As a teacher I always go above and beyond to give to my kids and am genuinely asking
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    if I should have given my waffle to the one of the boys? They weren't even downstairs when I started my waffle. Just feeling confused and sort of hurt.
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    DistributionAlone... • 16h ago NTA...these are the kind of entitled parents that sour your taste on the whole batch, the kind who demand
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    your give up an airplane seat you paid for so their kids can sit with them
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    Playful-Escape-9212 • 16h ago you made yours, they could do theirs when you finished. What about that is preventing her children from making a waffle? the kids
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    were probably more excited about getting to make it than eat it and the mom was finding someone to blame for them being late.
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    CrabbiestAsp⚫ 16h ago NTA. I've got an 8yo and she knows if someone is using something, we wait for our turn. Just because she is younger doesn't mean she should get pushed in.
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    T... 16h ago Edited 14h ago NTA. That mom is ignorant of waffle etiquette. Taking someone else's waffle is simply not done. Not on my watch!
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    ruinzifra 16h ago That's why i wear noise cancelling headphones, if I'm by myself.
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    JonBovi_msn • 16h ago I was struggling with the waffle maker at a hotel and a little girl showed me how to use it. If that kid knows
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    how a make a waffle the kids at your hotel can figure out how to make their own.
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    • Zealousideal-Law... 16h ago Those machines feel like they take forever, and the lines mean kids can't all eat at the same time. Unless the
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    mom came down to make waffles in advance, someone is going to have to wait. NTA
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    fibrobabe 16h ago NTA. Don't give it a second thought. Weirdos gonna weirdo.
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    iesharael 16h ago NTA I bet her kids didn't even care and waited patiently for their turn
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