29-year-old stunned by "bold" entitled customer who demands cashier help her before 6 other customers: 'My mouth literally fell open, y'all'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Oct 14, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

Main character syndrome is a real problem, as this customer proudly displayed when she snuck through a line of other shoppers to demand that she be helped first. 

Politeness, or the lack thereof, is evident while shopping at stores these days. People tend to be on their phones, staring straight down, meaning that you can easily bump into them. They're blocking the middle of the aisle as they look something up, completely oblivious to the people trying to get around them. Some of them will stand there with a freezer door open in the grocery store trying to decide which item to pick… unaware that the 3 people beside them already know which frozen good they're going to pick, and are now stuck waiting and rolling their eyes. 

This lack of social awareness is often on display at small craft stores, too. It's a popular hangout for older folks who have nothing better to do with their time than inspect swaths of cloth or bundles of yarn (and of course, they're going to park their cart in the pathway while they do so). But this woman really took it to the next level with her "bold" move, as a customer witnessing this described it. 

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  • This woman detailed how this entitled customer marched to the front of the line, cutting off her and 5 other customers, to insist that she be helped first. She truly expected the cashier to leave the counter, with all those people waiting to be rung up, in order to help her find something. The entitlement is stunning! In her mind, she was the main character in this situation, and everyone else's needs would just have to wait. 

    At least, as this person recounted, the cashier handled it with grace — check out the full tale for yourself to see exactly how it went down. 

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    'Karen thinks her needs are more important than 6 other customers'

    Woman in brown fur coat and black glasses, in background is long line of people waiting in line at a store
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    Relatively small transgression compared to some of the stories here, but this happened 15 minutes ago and I'm still a little shocked.
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    I 29f) was at the store grabbing some craft supplies for some holiday presents I'm making. There are about 5 people in line behind me. Karen walks RIGHT PAST
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    everyone in line, interrupts the cashier mid- sentence as he's checking me out, and goes "excuse me, I can see you have a small line here, but I'm having
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    an issue in aisle X, can you come help me sort it out?" My mouth literally fell open, yall. I've seen some Karen behavior, but it's been a while since
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    I've seen such bold entitlement. What makes it worse is that there is a button you can press to get assistance from a staff member in literally every aisle-
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    guess she just couldn't wait that long. My cashier took it so much more gracefully than I would have, he just told her someone
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    would assist her in a moment and went back to checking me out. I probably would have told her to get in line, and if she protested pointed out that it's a small line lol.
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    Anyway, that's my Karen story from today. Like I said, not too crazy, but I'm still in disbelief over it.
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    mexiwok Had a customer do this me, I'm a cashier, and looked at my line and said "well should I help her out or check y'all out first?"
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    She turned super red and left the store. It was very satisfying.
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    davemich53 I would have replied," It's just a small line, I'll get to you soon."
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    Maleficenten... Honestly you should have. just yelled out "have some EFFING patience. because apparently your parents never taught you that!" And then just blatantly ignore her when
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    she starts ranting and you just put up your hand opening and closing and silently saying blah blah, blah blah. Lol that would have been funny though right →
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    TheBlonde1_2 I've been part of this sub for so long, I know I'd have immediately snapped 'no he can't, because he's dealing with
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    me.' Than I'd have treated her to my Level 1 RBF and I would not have backed down.
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    [deleted] I'm glad your cashier didn't stop in the middle of your transaction to go price check for another customer like mine did this morning. They were literally the next and only
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    person in line. All they had to do was wait another literal 30 seconds. They didn't even have the item. The cashier actually just left to go get the item while I
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    stood there wondering if all these people were really that stupid.
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    Woman in brown fur coat, black pants, black shirt, and black sunglasses, carrying a chainlink purse and walking through doorway
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    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

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