Karen INSULTS ME and then RUNS AWAY... so I CHASE HER DOWN - Reddit Podcast

and entitled Karen messes with the wrong person on the wrong day as she decides to call me selfish all because I took a spot at a table in a coffee shop but I decided that I was not going to take that sitting down so I followed her out of the coffee shop as she left and I gave her the exact same energy she gave me eventually putting this entitled Karen right back in her place and I've honestly never felt better about getting back at someone in my life here's what happened okay so this happened back in November out of the blue my healthy hardworking 41-year-old husband had a stroke we were just chatting one night and then suddenly our lives changed in the blink of an eye an ambulance was called and we spent a horrific night wondering whether my husband was coming home again he was put on the stroke Ward and for the first 2 days I was back and forward to the hospital constantly it is not close to my house so when I was unable to be there due to visiting hours or even him having some kind of test I would go to a coffee shop not far from the hospital but much closer to my house I also chose that place as I know the staff I work for myself so I would take my laptop or my book and just kill some time until I could go back to the hospital and the longest I was ever there was maybe an hour and a half well enter the entitled Karen of the story and her browbeaten husband I was trying to answer some emails and was letting people know what had happened when I heard it she said to me you are so selfish sitting there when other people are in the queue I look up not sure who she's talking to but apparently it was me now I know that people table hogging is annoying but for starters there were quite a few EMP tables around me and secondly there were people who had been there before I even got there now she didn't wait for me to reply and instead she just huffed her way out the door muttering about how I was selfish and she had seen me there yesterday now I don't think she expected me to follow her but that's exactly what I did I was tired I was worried about my husband and I was very mad that she didn't have the guts to say it to my face and stick around she picked the wrong time and the wrong woman to mess with I asked her to repeat what she said to my face and I said to her yes I would was sitting on my laptop but the staff knew I was there waiting to go back to the hospital as my husband just had a stroke and this coffee shop is close to the hospital for me in case there's an emergency and I still need to work so I'm doing what I needed to do and on top of that maybe you should just mind your own business or at least have the common decency to say it to my face and in hindsight I maybe should have not called her a geriatric old cow bag but that's exactly what I did she then responded by screaming at me and saying I'm only 53 but I responded by saying yikes you're only a little bit older than me man you must have had a hard life sorry about that when I said that she stormed off and went back to the coffee shop and my friend told me that she was a pain in the neck for harassing some of the students who came to work there and she always got to take away coffee but despite it all I was one of the first people to stand up to her and I think her big mistake was thinking that I would take it but she definitely messed up as one of the benefits of being a part of Gen X is that we just don't care anymore and she definitely should should have known better now I do feel bad about commenting on how she looked as I believe we all age gracefully but in my opinion she absolutely deserved everything else seriously what is wrong with people how can you possibly go into a coffee shop see some random woman sitting by a table on her laptop and think to yourself yes this is my chance to tell her off like the original poster literally did nothing to this entitled Karen but the entitled Karen still went out of her way to make a big scene and like try and take a shot at her like that's so rude and completely quite literally uncalled for like you're just sitting there answering your emails you didn't do anything to her but also it is incredible to me that the original poster is like oh you want to start stuff cool let's start this bonfire and then they literally follow them out of the coffee shop like that is crazy to me I definitely don't think I would have the gut to do that personally and I would just chalk that up as some weirdo who clearly is having a bad day but no the original poster was not having any of that their husband had a stroke they're stressed out they've got work they got to make it to the hospital like seriously they're at their wits and end and it's so funny because this entitled Karen got the same energy back that she gave and then suddenly she turns all red in the face and can't handle it anymore well if that's the case then don't start the fire in the first place this is all hilarious to me because it was completely avoidable and all this stupid Karen had to do was get her coffee and leave the store but instead she decided to pick a fight with the wrong person and in my opinion she got exactly what she deserved if you like Amma the jerk you're probably going to love Amma the genius check it out link Down Below in in the description also go to Mi thee jerk.com sssubmit if you would like to submit your own stories my mother keeps falling for different scams over and over again costing her thousands of dollars from her bank account and her retirement fund and I'm honestly just so sick of it so after this last incident where she gave away her bank information I have officially given up and have chosen to step away from my mom and refuse to involve myself in fixing her problems ever again and for the first time I honestly feel a peace with my decision here's what happened okay so for a bit of background my 68-year-old mother is losing her mind and she has been for a while now we knew she had been conversing with several people online for over a year most of which claimed to be famous men and all of which needed money for various things we had been telling her since December that she was being scammed tried involving DHR and the agency who helps protect seniors but all of it fell on deaf ears courts won't do anything without medical diagnosis neurologist appointments take months so we're just stuck trying to keep her from self-destructing until then at the end of February she finally admits that she needs help actually she called my brother and said that she was broke and needed to fix it but we're just going to say that she was asking for help per the bank her home was a few hours from going into foreclosure on the day that we got the call from her and her utilities were being turned off the very next week she was over $100,000 in credit card debt most of it from sending these men pictures of every single credit card she has she also gave them all her banking account information and sent at least $30,000 in cash via Bitcoin ATMs or prepaid gift cards I'm not sure I'll ever know the exact amount that she has spent on them but I do know that she owes about $7,000 in taxes this year from all the withdrawals that she made from her retirement which she freely admits she sent to those men she also still swears every one of them are actually all the celebrities they claim to be and still truly believes one of them is the love of her life my brother and I told her the only way we would help her is if she gave us power of attorney which he thankfully did we then caught up her house payments and reconnected the utilities I have been going through her bills as I pay all of them and trying to help her budget including finding her cheaper Internet TV and cell phone plans so she'll be able to pay her own bills going forward on her fixed income she has been beyond nasty to me every step of the way telling me what a disappointment I am and that she wishes I was never born there have been some terrible remarks about possible self harm if you know what I mean to which she laughed in my face and told the police she would never do anything that dramatic she calls me almost daily and tells me that she fell over only for myself or the ambulance to rush over and have her admit that she wasn't actually hurt but was hoping a trip to the ER would get her pain meds I took her phone created a new Apple ID and had it set so that she couldn't call or text anyone not saved in her contacts and she can't add people or numbers or applications without my approval it was the only thing short of changing her number that I could do to stop her contacting all these scammers I mean she adamantly refused to change the number because she's had that one for over 30 years but she has still been getting hundreds of text messages from six-digit numbers and I'm guessing because she responded to them in the past so they were able to get around the block I have told her a thousand times to not even open them she needs to delete them or just send them to junk fast forward and she had a hip replacement surgery this past week while in the hospital she received a text telling her that she want a free oxygen machine and that she need needed to call this number to claim her prize she texts me and tells me that she needs to add this number to her phone because it's a home health medical equipment company and she wants to talk to them about Life Alert so I add their number she calls and they tell her that she just needs to give them her bank account information to cover shipping and of course she just gives it to them then she calls me to brag about her winnings I call the same number and what do you know I'm also an instant winner if I give them my bank account information I press the number zero to speak with a person and now I've a free year of Direct TV I hit zero again and now I've won a free year of pest control from Terminex if I just give them my bank account information so it's a total scam that my mother has fallen for while laying in her hospital bed recovering from surgery it's almost like the last 2 months didn't happen like she has learned nothing from this whole experience she doesn't even need an oxygen machine but decided that since her parents had breathing issues at the end of their lives and because it was free this opportunity was too good to pass up in case she needs one later she tells me to just call them back and cancel but I'm sure the kind phone scammers will totally forget your bank account if you just ask them nicely beyond a shadow of a doubt she has been showing signs of progressive dementia and is at a moderate to moderately severe cognitive decline on all the staging models so I get it this is the new normal for her she no longer possesses the mental capacity to understand real from fake and she will continue to fall for stuff like this as long as she's alive and I just can't do anything to stop it I can just crawl along behind her and try to fix it while hoping she shows up to the neurologist in May so that I can get the courts to intervene she will always be in danger of herself and her own well-being with the added bonus of being awful to me every step of the way so I have to decide am I done trying to save her from herself I'm opening another new bank account for her tomorrow and I'm putting what little money she still has in it I have turned off all the automatic payments that have been coming out of my account and I will be turning off all the parental controls I had established on her elect ICS then I'm telling her good luck don't call me when you're on fire again and then I'm blocking her on my phone my brother and I believe she'll be in a mess again by the 4th of July but you know what that is her problem and not ours I have had a heart issue for 2 years now it's an inappropriate sinist techic cardia that isn't responding to medications both of my cardiologists have told me that stress is exacerbating my condition I've lost 25 lbs over the last 3 months which I'm also chalking up to stress I literally cannot explain the piece I feel in my soul tonight knowing that I have done everything I could for this woman and now I get to just be done tomorrow it's complicated and sad and frustrating because oh how I have tried to help her and I know how this will end but it's also so very calming to know that I am done I am completely free of this situation first of all I want to say this is really sad both with your heart condition and also what's happened to your mom like it really is not only incredibly frustrating to be treated the way you're being treated but also to watch your own mother fall apart of the seems like this like it really does seem like your mom is falling apart mentally and that really is not fair but more importantly it's not fair for you and your brother to try and fix this every step of the way I mean she is literally in the hospital recovering from a hip replacement and here she is once again falling for another scam like that overall is really sad so in my opinion it completely makes sense as to why you're taking a step away and I know if I was in your shoes i' probably would have done the exact same thing I'm under the assumption that my entitled friend is expecting me to treat her for her birthday but after she did absolutely nothing for my birthday I'm kind of at a point where I don't even want to show up for her stupid birthday party and at this point I kind of don't know what to do here's what happened okay for a bit of background I went out with my friends for my birthday back in February my one friend bought me lunch three beautiful gifts that mean so much to me and even a beautiful birthday cake I was so surprised and I really felt so special she even posted a lovely Instagram story about me and it was really the sweetest most meaning ful thing ever as for my other friend she attended my birthday celebration with me and my other friend we all met up for dinner and my other friend didn't get me a gift she didn't help pay for the cake or for the dinner now I'm not looking for anything and I'm sure that I sound very selfish but the thing is my friend is always spending so much money on her boyfriend like she dropped $2,500 on his Christmas and birthday gift and it's like no I'm not looking for anything like that but my friend goes from spending so much money on her boyfriend to getting herself in finan problems and constantly getting her car declined I'm so confused by her financial situation and to be honest I'm pretty hurt that she didn't even get me a gift I'm not looking for anything crazy but just like a token of appreciation would be nice so here's the thing my friend's birthday is in June and she is already beginning to plan for her birthday it seems the generous friend the one that gave me such a lovely gift and a cake won't be coming along because she just started a new job so it would be me my friend's brother and possibly her toxic boyfriend my friend is all already talking about going out for her birthday dinner she's already making plans and suggesting that we have to go out for her birthday and she's very excited and deep in the weeds and making these plans but I don't know how to tell her that I'm not covering her half or if she even expects me to cover her for her birthday for my birthday I really was not looking for anything expensive but I wish he at least got me a card or some kind of gift for like under 10 bucks I know she has money since she buys everything for her boyfriend and she's always spending money on any anything and everything for him and since my friend is not coming to the birthday I really just don't know what to do as it really feels like all of this is falling on me should I try to find a way of getting out of this birthday party or should I just go and not pay for her this is all so awkward and I'm honestly so confused on what to do next yeah I can understand why this is like a tricky situation because you're literally going to a friend's birthday party who has never acted like a friend towards you in the slightest and I'm right there with you if you're going to be showing up to my birthday party I'm not expecting literally anything thing it could be an Amazon digital gift card for all I care but like at least show up with something for the party like that's what the celebration is for isn't it like it doesn't make any sense why she showed up and didn't be like hey I just got you an Amazon gift card happy birthday or something along those lines like that really would have been easy so with that in mind I don't blame you for not wanting to go to this birthday so you definitely could go and get her like something really cheap like a gift card or some kind of card with like 10 bucks in it or something where it's like hey I'm giving you the same energy you gave me and then you just leave at that and I definitely think you're on the right track of saying no I'm not going to split anything with this lady and I'm only going to pay for myself and get her something simple but if you really did not want to go and you wanted to stay out of this I wouldn't blame you in the slightest I think any reasonable person would be like yeah it kind of makes sense why you wouldn't want to go and the best part about it is that you guys are all adults and you really can just say hey I'm not going to be able to make it but happy birthday and then just move about your life from there like she might still have a negative reaction if you do decide to go that route but like you know you don't have to go right like I hope you know that you really can skip out on this if you really just don't want to go you're definitely not being forced to go to this party and it really is not that much of a high-stake situation so hopefully this all works out for you in some kind of way because honestly the friend you're describing here doesn't really sound like a good friend and I really don't think you would be missing much if you did skip out on the party am I the jerk for not going to my stepdaughter's birthday all because they disinvited my son from attending because right now I am still very upset and at this point I seriously don't know what to do here's what happened my fiance is 33 years old and I am a 34-year-old female and we've been together for 5 years going on six I was there for him for his addiction recovery and raised his daughter while he was in jail and homeless and in rehab I have a son from a previous relationship who is 15 years old and we have a son together who's 2 years old this last weekend was his daughter's 13th birthday and the day before he messaged me to say that his daughter doesn't want my son at her birthday because her boyfriend is coming over for contacts my son and her boyfriend get along really well and she feels that she's just going to be left out on her birthday so I messaged my fiance and I said I would stop by and drop off her gift but I'm not going to be staying as my son was excited about seeing his sister on her birthday and he was also very sad that he wasn't invited anymore well my fiance then got angry stating that I was making a huge deal out of it saying to me that she's allowed to have whoever she wants at her birthday which by the way I completely agree with she has every right to do whatever she wants on her birthday but on that note I have just as much of a right to not show up all because my son was upset about being Uninvited that way he can know that I will always have his back his mom called me to find out what was happening and I told her what he had said well she told me that his daughter never said that she didn't want her brother there and that we must come to the birthday party but I said no because my son was already upset I didn't tell my son that my fiance was the person who uninvited him but he figured it out and asked me if it was my fiance and not his sister who didn't want him around I ended up taking my son to the movies and the arcade but when he saw his sister at the mall he decided he didn't want to stay any longer and we just straight up laughed so I really need to know am I the jerk for being upset about this whole situation because right now things are incredibly messy man that was seriously a plot twist I can't believe the fiance is acting that way and being like yeah no my daughter doesn't want you there but in reality it's the beyon that doesn't want the sun there like what is going on that is so disgusting and weird like why did he do that why would you do that to a 15-year-old kid and then you're going to lie and blame it on your daughter like that is so insane to me that is such a betrayal of trust the fact that this guy would go against your son for literally no good reason in my opinion is just so unacceptable and this is someone you're getting ready to marry like I'm seriously left speechless that this guy would try and throw your son under the bus and all without a solid reason why it just doesn't make any sense to me so no you are definitely not the jerk I would be very upset about this as well because in my opinion the way your fiance is acting is absolutely unacceptable and entitled jerk gets his car scratched by one of our cars after he Parks illegally near our property and I'm honestly still blown away by this guy's entitlement after he tried to take us to court just to demand full compensation here's what happened okay so I work at a car rental place that has a car wash next door they were owned by the same guy though and the car wash was essentially a side hustle with the bonus of being able to clean the rental cars as such we constantly drove in and out of the two lots the gap between the two driveways was just big enough to fit a car so it was a tight turn made even tighter if a car was parked there after discussing this with the city council they agreed to paint the curve between the two driveways yellow just to make it illegal to park there but as you can probably imagine people of course still park there one day a guy with one of those obnoxiously large Fords parked there and you know the type it's the kind where it takes up multiple parking spots at the mall the type of car that has an owner with a big ego and a very short temper on that day we had to clean a bus for a family on the way from the airport they were ahead of schedule so we had to move fast one of my colleagues did his best to navigate around the Ford but he couldn't do it and he scraped a huge gash into the panel above a tire now as I'm sure you can guess when the owner saw this he flipped out we tried telling him that he shouldn't have parked there and that it's illegal but he simply didn't care because according to him he has a big expensive car so he's allowed to park anywhere he wants and he said that he chose this spot so that he was away from other people thus reducing the risk of damage and obviously that didn't really work out for you did it buddy well this entitled jerk demanded compensation but we straight up refused so fast forward and this idiot actually took us to court but thankfully after all was said and done he lost the curb was yellow so he definitely shouldn't have parked there and as a result he was ruled completely at fault yeah that guy sounds like an obnoxious JK seriously the curb is yellow it's yellow for a reason that means you can't park there I seriously can't stand when people act like that and then try to turn around and be like oh I can't believe you like seriously buddy no I can't believe you just literally move your car anywhere else and you could have avoided getting a scratch on your car but clearly entitled jerks like this can't see logic because if he did he could have avoided all of this trouble in the first place when you subscribe make sure to hit the Bell to turn on notifications to finish listening to all the stories check out the playlist at the top 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Published: Wed May 08 2024