Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Kids Of Karens Describe Their Experiences


Man, with all the stories about Karens going off on customer service employees and generally depositing large amounts of toxic energy into an otherwise peaceful environment, we hardly ever here from their kids about how difficult it is to have them as parents. This thread peels back the curtain on what it's like to grow up with a Karen as your mom. It's no easy situation. 

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Text - I got used to embarrassment at a young age so that a pro I guess Reply 455 ...

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Text - S 1 Award Not only is this actually my mother's name, it accurately describes her personality. Growing up I didn't realize how self-centered she was. She was my mom and that's all I knew. As an adult I can't even get along with her. She's always got to be number one in the room. If she's not the center of attention and she's not catered to, there is an impending shit fit coming. She shuns blame for anything she does wrong. It's always someone else's fault. Looking back I understand why th

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Text - oyiboifeoma • 1d When i was young, I hated it. She would yell and throw fits in public when she didn't get her way. As an adult I think its made me way too easy going. I remember the anxiety and anger that she would exude. It was exhausting. So now I am careful with who I keep around in my life as to protect my energy. I try not to worry about things I cant control. And I have respect and empathy for people. Reply 865 ...

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Text - LilacSlumber • 1d When you're very young (0 to 5 yrs), you have no idea. Once you're old enough to realize it (7 to 10ish), you get super embarrassed. When you're around the age of going through puberty, you start to apologize to people for your mom or dad's behavior. Then, FINALLY, you are old enough to get away (14 to 18) and if you're lucky, you have a lot of excuses to not go places with them - practices, games, rehearsals, concerts, homework, a job.... and so on. When you're an adult

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Text - Swoon_June • 1d I grew up pretty poor. My mom was what I like to call Trailer Park Karen (we lived in a trailer). I remember we were in a KFC and she asked how much a bucket of chicken was. The girl told her and mom starts yelling about how that's ridiculous and she can do better at Albertsons and she stormed out. Reply 26

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Text - Salt_Air07 • 1d It was exhausting. I'm constantly worried that I'm either over or under reacting to something because I was never taught how to react to things appropriately. I dated a male Karen for 10 years and he would spiral out into these emotional outbursts for hours over fabricated events. I have a difficult time gauging what the appropriate reaction to something should be, and I'm constantly second guessing myself. Reply 24 ...

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Text - writtennred • 1d 7 Awards Any time we go out to eat, I always immediately excuse myself to the ladies room but instead find our server. I prepare them for what might happen and apologize profusely. Then go ahead and hand them a 20 dollar bill and tell them I will do my best to keep her contained. Edit: Thanks for the gold and love! In response to some comments, no she doesn't know that I do this. And she wouldn't care (or change) if she did. For the tirades I fail to prevent, I don't sit

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Text - krysty702 • 1d I almost never go out to eat with my mom. She likes to pretend like she is a kind and considerate person, especially with servers, because I was a server for 6 years.

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Text - VodkaMargarine • 1d The Germans have this word Fremdschämen which means that feeling of second hand embarrassment you get when you are quite visibly associated with someone embarrassing. Basically that. Reply 264 ...

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Text - UBootCaptain • 1d Embarrassing and kind of expensive when you leave a huge ass tip because of my parent not leaving one due to some arbitrary reason. Reply ...

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Text - Ozzod • 1d My mom wasnt the worst karen, but I think my lesst favorite thing was when she would try and put it on me to go complain or make a big deal out of something. Most of the time I just wouldnt, doesnt help that I am/ was always a pretty shy kid. Now whenever she has to deal with customer service I sometime end up taking the call over to figure it out and she is always like "wow how are you so good at dealing with them" and internally Im thinking, its called treating them with some

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Text - dranjrea • 1d I was 37 to when I was able to sit with mom through an entire restaurant meal without something being returned to the kitchen. If her food was perfectly prepared, she would complain about someone else's against that diner's protestations. It was exhausting. As a teenager, I started carrying a few extra dollars that l'd sneak to the server to try and not get my food spit in. Reply 8 ...

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Text - Compulsive-Gremlin • 1d My mom was a complete Karen. I used to carry cash with me to tip waitstaff because 95% she would leave extremely paltry tips if any tip at all. You tend to compensate as the child of an abusive narcissistic parent. I'd carry cash with me for tips. I'd always make sure I had another way home if she offered to drive. I never had to do anything like that with my dad but then he was sane. Reply 75 ...

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Text - ky_straight_bourbon • 1d I never quite understood why I didn't like my mother. She's a seemingly okay person, and people should like their parents. She showed us lots of love as kids. But I still find her awful to be around. I had a really great mentor once tell me that you can learn a lot about a person based on how they treat waitstaff. And suddenly I realized why l've never liked being around my mother. Reply 22 ...

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Text - ami2weird4u • 1d It's exhausting and embarrassing at the same time. hides face Reply ...

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Text - MyUsernamelsMeh • 1d Taught me to respect everyone, especially store employes Reply 4 ...

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Text - RonSwansonsOldMan • 1d My mom and grandma were both Karens. As a kid, going out to eat with them was embarrassing. The ice cream was too cold and the coffee was too hot. Reply 2 ...

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Shameless, Strange, And Funny Tinder Moments


You never know what you're going to find behind the next "right swipe" in the wild world of Tinder. Some people that use the app are actually able to strike up a reasonable conversation that gives way to a legitimate relationship on down the road. Other folks use the app to try out the best and worst of their pickup lines that they have on hand. The following collection of moments from Tinder have some wins, fails, and just generally shameless one-liners. 

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Text - ull 3 3G 14:45 1 54% Wanna see my belt made out of watches? Yesterday 14:28 Go on thenn Yesterday 14:56 Doesn't matter it's a waist of time Sent Today 14:45 Ooo see that joke would be so much better if you could spell waste Type a message... Send GIF

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Text - hine Chase 21 ane What's your name? Who's your daddy? Is he rich like me? Are you really rich? If you're asking if I have above 5 dollars in my bank account then the answer is yes. Stop me when I say a number too high 10$? Yeah l'd stop there.

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Text - .ull Verizon LTE 11:54 PM @ 1 64% Hailey O NOONLIGHT <> Want backup on every date? Connect Noonlight to your Tinder account. Right right Today 11:51 PM What's your favorite element NO WAY THAT WAS CUTE U for uranium Look im desperate for compliments okay Sent Type a message Send

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Product - Toshiba microwave YOU MATCHED WITH TOSHIBA MICROWAVE ON 10/4/20 mmmmmmmmmmMmmMmMmMMMM MMMMMmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm ВЕЕР

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Text - And I see you're a Marvel fan. What if I told you you're currently speaking to a superman? I would tell you that Superman is DC. Gesendet

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Food - Done Iti a Mateh! You and Bacon have ed each oter Send Message Bacon, 22 31s o A ... Koep Playing About Bacon RIm y youe a Ayouot Teal Your Friends iPod ? 8:38 PM Bacon Preheat your oven cause l'm going in raw

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Text - YOU MATCHED WITH LISSETTE ON 10/1/20 Hey Daniel Today 11:20 AM Hello Lissette, do you have a nickname? My family calls me Lissy, other then that I do not. Today 12:52 PM Nobody calls you listerine? Cause that smile is hella clean Today 1:16 PM Haha that's a good one Today 8:25 PM You do know that 9/10 dentists recommend giving me your number. The other one got his degree from a cereal box Sent

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Text - Rebecca YOU MATCHED WITH REBECCA ON 9/14/20 Any kinks? Today 7:35 PM Getting +7 hours of sleep, direct deposit pay checks, and ben & jerry's ice cream Sent

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Text - 8:20 1 Michael Omg if we got married we'd have the same name I can't wait for the family gatherings; everyone is going to hate us I have two friends named Taylor and it's so funny I'M OBSESSED WITH THIS GIPHY 1SCHITISCREEK Seriously! What's the story behind your name? Mine is simple; l'm named after my dad. My mom thought l'd be more likely to get a job if employers thought I was a man Your message 99 GIF

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Text - Miles Today 09:30 Hey wanna hear a funny way I've heard your name pronounced before? Today 10:53 Yeah, let's hear it Today 13:13 Kilometres Sent GIF Type a message...

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Box - Even though the box is clearly labeled and I can see what's in it, I'm still going to date it for 6 months. Red FLAGS LOT

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Text - ), 37 û Finance Executive e University of A Lives in 8 Straight ☺ 3 km away I have a corner office with a view of the entire city, i drive a 500k vehicle and I am paid to travel. For some reason my tinder dates are always upset when I tell them I'm a bus driver. II

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Blue - YOU MATCHED WITH HOPEANNE ON 11/8/15 Wow you are cute I hopeanne pray you will go out with me Nov 8, 2015, 11:13 PM Hahah good one Thank you. I could be your soul Nate Wow you're really full of them Not really That's all l've got Hope that was enough

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Text - Threw your two best lines out first? That's a bold strategy I subscribe to the Hail Mary school of thought on pickup lines Cards on the table Has it been successful for you so far? No Every other girl before you has been like "who is hopeanne? Is that a pun?"

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Text - Today 9:06 PM I hey Yo I respect you for messaging first Today 9:40 PM i respect you for respecting me Oh yeah Well i respect you for respecint me respecting you! that's a lot of respecting you're doing i respect that

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Text - sorry but youre absolutely gorgeous Why are you apologizing? honestly? bc it feels a little less creepy with the sorry out in front

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Text - Hann YOU MATCHED WITH HANN ON 4/12/2015 Hann are you single? I wouldn't be on here if I wasn't So one could then say you are Hann Solo YEAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Text - YOU MATCHED WITH KATIE ON 9/7/20 Hey! How'd the long weekend go Today 11:05 AM Looking through old matches and this opener was crap, lemme give it another go Hey! How'd the regular length weekend go?

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Belligerent Customer Won't Cooperate With Tech Support


Sometimes you're having a conversation with a human being that you otherwise thought was perfectly rational, and not prone to fits of blind and entirely irrational rage, and then they pull a fast one on you. This particular customer opted for being a waking nightmare. Fortunately, the tech support employee who fielded the situation kept their cool, and it all worked out in the end. 

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Text - r/talesfromtechsupport + Join u/KrazeeLadee2 • 256d "I'm not restarting my modem! l'd sooner drive the full 175 miles to your HQ to punch you!" Long Soooooo among the literally thousands of calls I've had in my 4 years in tech support for an ISP, this guy really took the cake. It was the apotheosis of all those calls. It was the most infuriating yet (in hindsight) hilarious call I'd ever had in my life. He came in on a fairly quiet Saturday morning, and the conversation started quite norm

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Text - C (Customer): "Yes, hello, this is [his name]. I just woke up to my wife and kids complaining there's no internet and the television isn't working either." Me: "Oof, that's quite inconvenient. I'm going to have to check where the issue might be and try and fix it." C: "Thank you." He gave me his postal code and house number, I confirmed his details and ran a scan on his address. There was absolutely no signal. So I needed to do a basic troubleshoot with him, first. Me: "Do you know where

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Text - Me: "Is the 'online' light on?" C: "No." Me: "Ok, your modem is not receiving any signal, then. I'm going to have to test if the problem is in the modem or the signal towards your house. For that, I need you to turn off your modem for about 30 seconds. Could you please do that?" C: "Umm, no?" Me: I'm sorry?" II ..... .. C: "That sort of thing is YOUR job. I'm not touching that modem." Me: "You only need to pull out the power cable, wait 30 seconds, and plug it back in." C: "Like I said, t

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Entitled People and Their Ludicrous Expectations


It's good to help someone out who needs it, but some asks become questionable very fast. There are potential employers who want to pay insultingly low wages, customers who demand absurd deals, and all kinds of entitled people with demanding expectations. It's absurd how bold entitled folks can get with their frustrating demands.

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Text - John Hardly a case 8 beers?? 3w Like Reply A Author Вer It's free, John. 3w Like Reply

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Text - ... Garage Sales 35m · A Looking for a CHEAP electric dryer in great shape. Must be able to deliver and take down to the basement for us. O Like Comment That's not how that works. LMFAO 22m Like Reply Excuse me! 16m Like Reply cheap, great shape, delivered and carried in your basement? Good luck with that but its not going to happen. 4m Like Reply

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Text - Thu, Oct 1, 12:01 AM Hello, I have made multiple sales with you. Can you place free items with my shipping to let me know that you all appreciate my service? Any gift will be appreciated. Thanks

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Text - Hey guys, I've just moved down from and noticed you're my new local club. I've spoken to the locals and they've said really good things about Empire Ol'm actually an up & coming Instagram model with 3000 followers and I would be willing to do one social media post promoting your club in return for a private booth, 10 frees & a bottle of Grey Goose. I think this would be a great opportunity for a club in the burbs, I don't normally give such a great deal so please keep this between us and

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Leg - 21 8 Woman O 95 miles away not interested unless you're trying to help me pay my bills! I want to build a connection too though. I'm a single mom and don't have time for any games so let's get straight to the point.

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Text - 2 d ago I would like to buy your Full Size 75lb Everlast Canvas Punching Bag for $40.00 2 d ago Lowest I can go is $50.00 I've already been offered $45.00 6h ago For get about it.i hate ppl like you. Went uou put some think stick with it. Learn that in life. 4 min ago I'm sorry you feel that way but I put it up for $60... you would still be getting $10 bucks off. 1 min ago If I sticked with my original offer you would have to pay $60.

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Text - 7:55 Job details Needs to hire 99 Freelancers Hello, We ARE HIRING 100+ OF GHOSTWRITERS AS WE PLAN TO DO 100's of videos for ALL topics from A to Z! (You must write with PASSION & PERSONALITY!) (If you do an EXCELLENT JOB, then we may be interested in more or bigger projects later on about your BEST topic/s.) We are Looking for Applicants Who Have ALL 3 Criterias: - TOPIC: YOUR #1 BEST AUTHENTIC & SKILLED TOPIC/AUTHENTIC TOPIC/SPECIALTY/NICHE EXPERTISE - PROOF: PROOF OF PASSION/KNOWLEDGE/

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Text - l TFW 9:01 PM © 89% Maybe: Meghan > Is your 65 inch still for sale Hi, yes it is. Would you be willing to deliver to westside I have a kid and I'm pregnant so l'd need it upstairs but I don't have any help here Can you give it for free. My kid broke my living room Tv No ma'am. Have a good night. Message Pay O CF GIF E Q W ERTY UIO P A S D FG H J KL

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Text - Alert! OP is a fucking scammer. He said these arts are free but when I asked him to do a custom artwork he was going to charge me 25.00 for a fucking sketch! This is a buy nothing group, I don't think he should be advertising here. 30 2h Like Reply Author dude... these sketches are free, if you asked me for custom work of course I am going to charge you 68 2h Like Reply

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Text - Today 9:17 PM Hey LYour wife hasn't cash apped me for Thursday yet, no rush just checking in. Right. Sorry was gonna ask u for discount on last lessor: didn't learn anything Sorry to hear that, is he practicing what I've been teaching in between lessons? He seems to be doing fine, besides he's only been playing a few weeks. Again I'm sorry, but I can't give you a discount because you don't think he's learning fast enough. I could give him an hour next time for the same price as 30min if y

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Text - Unneccesary rant: Tried to go to garage sales today. Most gone because people thought it would rain. Not the point. Anyways. So I follow signs and find one on Church Street. Decently big house. Pull up and this old lady had a bunch of boxes and shit in her garage so I rummaged for a bit. Found a nice piece of fabric I could decorate and turn into a scarf. A piece of fabric. I expected like a quarter. This dick was like $2. (It's a garage sale. To get rid of would donate to goodwill. Not a

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Text - 9.9K 2.1K Comments 4K Shares O Like Comment A Share As military spouses we are very upset with the Houston Texans. Why did you not give us free tickets or salute or thank us for our service? I think it's time to call the manager of your team and talk to them about your disrespect to our sacrifice and service as American heroes. We serve more than anyone ever. Time to turn off the Texan & NFL games and move out of America they don't ever care about us or give us anything for free Write a c

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