Salty elderly woman interrupts man's public proposal to his girlfriend at a Halloween event, one of the scare actors decide to frighten her as revenge: ‘Karma ended up getting her later that day’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Oct 23, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

A man proposes to his now-fiancée and an angry elderly woman decides to interrupt the proposal with unwanted comments. Though the proposal took place in a public space, the now-fiancée explains that nobody else in the area had a problem with this self-described prompt proposal, which took place at a Halloween event in the area. When you enter a public space, of course you sign up for a stranger's intervention in whatever you're doing. The proposal, despite the elderly woman's anger, meant everything to the woman who shares this story, and it seems like it touched a few of the scare actor's hearts… So much so that they decided to give Grandma a fright she'll never forget. Scroll below to read all about it.

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  • You can only propose in so many places without being an even slight annoyance to anyone out in public. Honestly, you can annoy anyone doing quite literally anything in public, that's just a fact of life.

    Many folks believe they can control public spaces. The narrator described “Karen” in this next story is an example of this, and it only takes a few distasteful comments for the public to bite back at her.

  • "Yesterday a Karen ruined my boyfriends proposal to me."

    So first of all- hey potato peeps! I've been a long time fan but Ive never posted before because I never had a reason to... Until now. I've always in- visioned how I'd be proposed to and my reaction. It's always been
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  • something I looked forward to my whole life. Well the part of my life that knew what it was anyway.
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  • Me and my boyfriend have been together for 5 years and have two sons together. Obviously we have had our ups and downs but in the end we have always stuck by each other think and thin.
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  • We always talked about marriage but we just kept getting distracted by our kids and the fact I decided I'll be going to school at some point soon to finally follow my passion career: forensic tech.
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  • Yesterday started out early in the morning as we traveled to a theme park named Carowinds. It's fall so there is tons of fall activities and decor all over and at night they start this thing called Scarowinds. Carowinds is
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  • the same company as Six Flags so basically that Halloween type thing. We went with our two sons 3M and 2monthM and my sister and her husband and their kids 14M and 11F.
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  • Right when you enter the park officially, there is a giant sign kinda Hollywood style that says Carowinds and since it's October, they put a giant angry jack-o'-lantern decoration pumpkin behind it. There are trees
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  • and shrubs and it's just beautiful in my opinion. I was dying to get pictures. in front of it. After we got inside my sister wanted me to go to the bathroom with her and her daughter and my younger son. Her son and
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  • husband and boyfriend were going to handle the diaper bag check to get in. After we were done she was instant that I change both my kids just to make sure.
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  • FINALLY after what seemed like forever I was able to get pictures with the pumpkin. I've always LOVED Halloween. There was a natural formed line of people to get pictures and we all waited our turns. There wasn't many
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  • people in line at all but plenty of people congregating around the area. Then it was our turn. We took a family
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  • photo of me my boyfriend and our kids. I could see 2 families were behind us. A mom and daughter and then a grandma? And her little family group.
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  • After the family photo my boyfriend suggested a photo of just us. What I didn't know was he was videoing us.. not pictures.
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  • After the "picture" was done I was about to walk away so they could have their turn but my boyfriend tugged my arm. He was on one knee.
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  • I was standing there shocked in my damn Halloween pants with a baby harness wrap over my body and hair frizzy.
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  • That's not a complaint, I love the whole thing. I wasn't dolled up, I was just me. And it was overwhelmingly emotional that it was all happening with my family, in October, doing things I love to do.
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  • Except for one thing... During my fiance's speech he was giving me. He was already so very nervous because he had a hard time remembering words when they are
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  • important to him or emotional, and while he was talking the grandma I mentioned started yelling "Hurry up" and "other people want a picture too" "this is a public
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  • place" all of which made it into the proposal video too. She was standing right behind my brother in law and overlapped what my fiance was saying and he cut his speech short.
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  • Obviously I said yes but I feel terrible. To me the proposal was BEAUTIFUL and I loved it. I feel bad because my fiance feels humiliated. He had the whole speech planned out. He had the video planned out for memories of a happy day. He went
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  • to great lengths to plan this whole thing out without me knowing. To him, it was all ruined. He did later on that night tell me the whole speech. and I gave him one back on the spot because I
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  • wanted him to know it wasn't just a "yes" it's a "I love you too and I want to always be with you" No one stood up to the Karen in that moment but I remembered her face.
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  • Karma ended up getting her later that day though. Scarowinds had started and there were scare- artists walking around.
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  • We were just enjoying one of the music concerts they had going on when we noticed Karen and kept our distance. A scare-artist was near by and Karen was trying to
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  • get a picture of herself and her family when the scare-artist ran into the photo screaming bloody murder "ITS A PUBLIC PLAAAAAACE!" Which scared the life out of Karen.
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  • Turns out Scare-artist was the mom that was standing in life behind us. with her daughter when the proposal happened.
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  • Thanks for reading my story, it's probably not channel worthy but it was mildly interesting to some of you I hope.
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  • Edit: I don't understand where or how this happened but some of you got the impression that I was complaining and upset with my proposal. I am not upset with it. Like I already said.
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  • It was beautiful and I loved it. I understand how the public works and at the same time everyone is allowed to have their turn. This was our turn.
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  • Absolutely no one around us was upset except this one woman. What I am upset about is that my fiance feels terrible about the whole thing. I don't like seeing him beating himself up over something that wasn't his fault.
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  • Edit two: we took about the same amount of time as everyone else AND waited in the same line. His speech was simply "will you marry me, after 2 kids and 5 years - I figured it was about time"
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  • what was taking so "long" was he had a hard time getting the words out. The "it's about time" is how he "shortened" his speech.
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