Woman at the renaissance faire puts two teenage boys looking for trouble in their place with just three words: ‘I must have been a bit more scary then I meant to…’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Nov 12, 2025 4:00 PM EST

Sometimes you don't even need to be an actual mom to go into scary-mom-mode. For most women, if you reach down within yourself far enough, you'll find the ability already there. Take this woman trying to enjoy a nice day at the Renaissance Faire with her friends. While her and her friend were shopping around two teenage boys approached them. The woman could already tell by the look in their eyes that they were looking for trouble. They tried talking to them, to no avail. The women simply ignored them. So one teen had the grand idea of blocking one of them women from leaving and putting himself in her way. However, little did he know, but he had just messed with the wrong woman. 

 

This woman is already known for being extremely intimidating. She has no problem putting grown men in her place, so she was ready to reprimand these teenage boys as if she were her mother about to ground them. To her lucky, though, it only took her saying three words in a "scary" tone to get these boys to revert to respect and then run away. She simply said, "Do you mind?" in a low octave and intimidating face. The boys apologized to the woman, called her ma'am, and literally ran straight for the exit. 

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  • "Scary mode."

    Woman at the renaissance faire puts two teenage boys looking for trouble in their place with just three words: ‘I must have been a bit more scary then I meant to…’
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  • So this is a very short story, but I'm feeling pretty satisfied about it. Basically I was at the Renfaire with a couple of friends,
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  • and me and my closest friend had been separated from the other two. We went into a shop and there were real, incredibly well
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  • constructed, beautiful corsets. Now I love corsets, but they aren't in my budget at the moment and probably won't be
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  • for another couple years. So I said to my friend "These are beautiful, it's a shame I'd never be able to afford them."
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  • Just then two teenage boys appeared from seemingly out of nowhere, but actually ftom behind a rack of clothes.
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  • They were looking at us with those predatory looks I usually only see in the eyes of grown men. Like they're about to jump us. A
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  • bad start to say the least. Now in my Renfaire outfit, smiling and laughing with my friend, leaning on my cane, I probably look like
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  • Woman at the renaissance faire puts two teenage boys looking for trouble in their place with just three words: ‘I must have been a bit more scary then I meant to…’
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  • She didn't even realize that she tapped into a natural part of herself, the mother deep within, and it immediately made these teenager boys shake in their boots. It's quite the super power, actually!

  • an easy target. So one of the boys says "These corsets are so pretty, which one do you think would look the best on me?" Now if he
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  • wasn't giving that creepy ass look I would've answered him, but he was so I just stared back a him. His friend said something creepy
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  • that I don't remember, I remember after he said it my friend walked away, disgusted.
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  • Now I have been told all my life I have a horrifying energy about me. No one has a good first impression of me, because unless I
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  • really, really, try not to be, I'm intimidating. I have terrified grown men, I'm certainly not scared of two boys.
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  • So when the first boy blocked my path with a wide erratic motion and moaned I looked at him, tuning into my horrifying energy,
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  • and I asked loudly, full of deep rage, "Do you mind?" | thought I was being pretty calm but my voice did drop an octave.
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  • Woman at the renaissance faire puts two teenage boys looking for trouble in their place with just three words: ‘I must have been a bit more scary then I meant to…’
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  • I was prepared for a full confrontation! I thought we'd have a bit of a back and forth before I actually managed to scare them off! But
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  • he just stood up awkwardly and looked down and said "No, sorry, Ma'am." And he and his friend literally ran away. I saw them
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  • headed towards the exit so I'm pretty sure they left the renfaire! My friend was telling our other friends
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  • about the story and misremembered it as me fully cussing them out, so I must have been a bit more scary then I meant to.
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  • Anyway I just thought that was a funny story you guys might enjoy, even if it is really small, and truly unintentional.
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