r/EntitledPeople Karen Granny KEEPS TAKING MY STUFF, I Get Revenge!

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that i kept belongings in that were important to me i had autographs signed art and awards i had earned over the years in those cubbyholes i came home from school to go to my room only to see that the table had been replaced with an enormous dresser confused and concerned for my belongings i went to confront my grandmother about where everything went this was the conversation that followed we've got entitled grandmother we've got me we've got oblivious grandfather who doesn't understand why i was so upset me hey grandma what happened to my table in my room grandma oh i took it out and put it out on the porch for a place to put my shoes i hope you don't mind ob i thought she was joking because why would anyone use a table as a shoe rack we already had several by the front door and i didn't think she was serious but i went out to the porch and sure enough there it was decorated with shoes potted plants and empty mason jars i then come back inside to ask where my belongings were and what she did with them me if you wanted my table you could have asked when i got home also where's my stuff that was in it at this point my entitled grandmother starts to get defensive and tries to avoid my questioning grandma i wasn't going to wait for you all day to come home i have a lot of work to do and you should feel grateful that i replaced your table with a desk yeah she thought that the dresser that she got me was a desk i looked at her still trying to decide if she was serious or not and she was i try to explain to her that a desk has leg room and doesn't have the drawer that a dresser has for you to put clothes in she wasn't hearing it however i wasn't either and continued to ask her where my belongings were until she finally gave in and told me grandma why do you care so much about those things it was only several awards and other crap i had to do something with them in order to move the table so i put them in a box while you were at school and moved them to storage me what the heck you took my stuff and put it in a box without telling me don't use that type of language in my house i'm going to smack the heck out of you if you use it again me i don't give a hoot if you smack me you took my crap without even letting me look through the box to see if i wanted to keep anything not long after my grandmother and i started arguing my grandfather comes into the room after hearing us arguing outside he had been on the phone with a client of his and as soon as the client hung up he came in to see what was going on oblivious grandpa op and entitled grandma what are you arguing about this time for context my grandmother and i never got along well and this only tipped the boat even more into the water me she took my table and crap that was inside it to use it as a shoe rack when she already has three of them by the front door grandpa op you shouldn't talk to your entitled grandmother like that i've noticed how disrespectful you've been getting around the house towards her and you need to straighten up your act upon hearing this entitled grandma tries to play the victim card and starts tearing up voice cracking and everything entitled grandma op why are you always so angry at me have i not done enough for you already what did i do to deserve this kind of treatment from you please tell me me don't pull that crap with me grandma you've been doing it every time i catch you doing something crappy just so you don't have to take responsibility my grandpa gets furious at this point with me he disregards the fact that his wife had stolen my belongings and starts going off at me grandpa op look what you've done you need to learn to respect your elders you've always been a good granddaughter but this is unacceptable i can't believe how you're displaying yourself right now this is my household and you are only 15. me 15 or not she entitled grandma stole stuff that was important to me how would you feel if i went into your room took your clothes and stuff out of it stuck it in a box while you were out of town and told you that i put it in a storage room and replaced your furniture with something else that serves no use to you grandma well i would feel grateful that someone would take their time to think of me and spend money on me grandpa see entitled grandma is thankful for things in her life why can't you b.o.p you need to learn how to be thankful for what others have done for you in life otherwise you won't get anywhere what do you think your boss would say if you spoke like this to him me i think he'd have some common sense to know that you shouldn't steal other people's stuff even if they aren't in the room i had ended up storming off and could hear grandpa and grandma talking about how rude i was the storage area wasn't too far from my house only down the road so i walked down there the next day and couldn't find the box my grandmother was talking about to this day every time i try to go and see if i can find the box i believe that my entitled grandmother threw it away and tried to come up with something that would get me to stop questioning her i've seen all your comments and i can understand why you suggested that i need to get over it however i will say while this is true i had important belongings of mine that were taken away without my knowledge the most important being my signed artwork i have done over the years and given to actors to sign while at conventions i don't think i can get over losing those what would you do if you were in this situation what would you say to your grandma and how would you act towards her please let me know in the comments entitled neighbor makes a huge mistake this was about 25 years ago so i was about 8 years old and we had just moved into a 150 year old house that was in need of major repairs my dad thinking ahead knew he would need a large garage slash workshop to really get started on the renovations properly on the edge of our yard was an ancient barn that was falling apart and needed to be torn down my dad figured this was the best place to build his new workshop so that was the plan we had met and were on good terms with all of the neighbors at that point when the plans for the new workshop were finished my parents went around to all the neighbors as a courtesy to show them the plans and get their blessing the neighbors whose property the current barn and new workshop would border i'll call them the peters we're concerned about the height the existing barn was 16 feet high and they asked if we could build it to only one story 12 feet max as to not block the sun in their yard sure no problem my parents agreed they wanted to go two stories for extra storage but just one wasn't a deal breaker so the old barn was torn down and the foundation laid for the new one during that time there was a falling out with the peters and my parents i'm not sure what happened but it turned nasty one day my brother and i were playing street hockey and mr peters came out yelling at us get off the road you have to earn your place in this town upon hearing this my mom had to physically restrain my dad from going over and beating him up eventually he cooled off and started on his plan the plans for one story went out the window soon the new garage that was only supposed to be one story gained a second in the blueprints if they were going to act like this with us kids my dad would build what he wanted as construction started the peters came over to ask why there were two stories being built and were told to go forget themselves we didn't hear from them again until the roof started to go on the bylaws of the township limited all-out structures to 24 feet high the peters called the township and then a building inspector claiming that the new garage was over 24 feet high if it was over height the entire thing would have to be torn down and rebuilt costing us tens of thousands of dollars i remember the peters standing there watching the inspector with smug looks on their faces two days later we got the final report back from the township inspector 23 feet 11 inches just as my dad had drawn up in his new plans he sent me up on the roof of the garage just plywood no singles yet with some spray paint and had me right 23 feet 11 inches height approved and two foot high neon orange letters across the entire roof facing their yard and house not only did the garage block all sunlight from reaching their yard but my dad waited until everything else was done before he shingled that side of the roof they had to stare at those neon orange letters for almost three years we didn't hear a peep from them for the next 10 years until they moved i want a baconator now so i used to work at a famous fast food chain it was my first job and i hated it fast food workers get so much crap from people i have recently moved over to the store next to the restaurant a gas station and i love it there my boyfriend and i went to the restaurant for lunch one day he used to work there too it's where we met we got our food and sat down at a table we used to always sit at and begin eating and chatting even taking some pictures when i feel a hard tap on my shoulder now i've read some stories on here and have worked in this place enough to know a karen when i see one so i breathed out a breath yes the karen's size and folds her arms across her chest i want a baconator my boyfriend stops eating and looks up i'm sorry but we don't work here i want to note that i was in blue jeans and an overly big blue and red wolf sweatshirt my boyfriend's and he was wearing blue jeans and a yellow t-shirt and a chevrolet hat she scowls and points at me yes you do i've seen you behind the counter now get me my baconator and a side of fries make that fresh no tomato no pickles i now recognize the lady as one that always had to fuss about everything and made my job 11 times harder i used to work here but i don't anymore please leave us alone we are trying to enjoy our lunch i turn around only to get slapped on the back of my head and i freeze give me my baconator i see my boyfriend tense out of the corner of my eye before he slowly turns around and stands to his full six foot four height towering over the lady get the heck away from us before i do something i really don't want to do his voice is cold as he glares down at her he is visibly shaking in rage i don't take being touched well especially hit even light taps can send me into a panic because of my past and he knows this the lady stares wide-eyed at him before scurrying over to the counter he sits down thinking it's over but i know this woman and she is not done yet i watch as the manager in charge one of my favorites love her comes over with a confused look i heard that you assaulted someone my boyfriend snorts and looks at her she assaulted us look at the cameras the manager's eyes slide over to me to which i nod she goes back behind the counter to look at the cameras and she soon comes out on the phone apparently she also assaulted the employee behind the counter by throwing a drink at him so the police were called i watched with satisfaction as my manager told her that she was banned and as she was escorted out none of us pressed charges just because we didn't want to deal with her anymore speaking of baconators what's your favorite fast food place i'm so hungry right now and i'd love to hear from you no i won't show you my id even though it'll take two seconds this was my first time meeting a karen and i thought i would share it i used to work for a big uk fashion retail brand and policy at the time was to ask the customer for a form of id to confirm that the name on the online order was the same on the id the reason for this was to ensure that the person collecting the parcel was the right person and also for security reasons due to certain customers having a credit account with a store anyway it begins we've got kevin the male customer and karen the female customer kevin hey there i'm here to pick up an order me yeah that's no problem can i take your reference number please sure no problem it's one two three four five six me that's great while that's searching in our system do you have a form of id on you i do is the driver's license okay me yeah that's perfect i look at his license and confirm his name to the name on the order i've confirmed the kevin's order and as i go to get it i notice karen waiting on the end of the till i see she has no clothing items in her hand so assume she's also collecting a parcel we use a zebra device so i'm able to collect more than one customer's order at a time and so begins my endeavor with karen me hello are you also collecting a parcel karen i am yeah me that's perfect do you have your reference number with you nope i used my credit account with the store she gets out her purse and takes out her store card and shows it to me i scan it and her order comes up now when someone comes in and collects an order with their credit account we were told to always ask for id as fraud could take place and this could ruin the customer's credit rating among other things i read her name off of the device i have me mrs karen oh yes that's me me okay do you have a form of id to confirm your identity no i was confused here because whenever someone picks up an order they always get a text or email to confirm it's in store and ready for pickup and in this text or email it always says please bring a form of id i say to her sorry no i don't want to me it's just to confirm that you are the right and correct person to pick up the parcel i don't care i don't want to show you my id i've shopped with this company for 30 years and not once have i been asked for an id i was a customer here when the store was still at its own location and they never asked me for an id me it can be anything even a bank card as long as it's got your name on it no i don't want to do i have to tell you again me okay sorry now i was fairly new at the time so was super confused and somewhat anxious as i wasn't too sure what to do another member of staff comes over and asks if i'm okay and i just tell her yeah and that i can sort it i go and get the two customer parcels and one thing we can do is ask the customer to confirm their postcode for us as it's printed onto the parcel although this should be the last method of customer confirmation as getting a postcode for something and their name is easy so i go back out onto the shop floor and back to the till point me can you confirm your postcode for me karen scoffs who him or me me standing right in front of her clearly speaking to her um his did that to make her wait longer so i hand the parcel over to the guy and he leaves me now can i have your postcode please ab1234c there you go bye so yeah that's it she was extremely rude and i honestly couldn't care if she hadn't been asked before i told her that it was policy and that she should have been asked for id plus it would have been so easy to take out her id it was in her open purse in her hand i found out after from my colleague that she called me pathetic and stupid while i was getting her parcel and that she was complaining about being asked for her id entitled mother lets her kid steal my blind cane so a bit of backstory i am a 28 year old woman who just recently went fully blind when i was a teenager i volunteered with my local youth crew to help rebuild mississippi after hurricane katrina and while down there i picked up a fungal parasite called histoplasmosis that over a decade migrated to my eyes and slowly caused blindness i've been totally blind for about a year now so i'm pretty new to it but i digress when i first went blind i barely left the house and was afraid to go out in public i felt like everyone was staring at me and in all honesty i barely knew what i was doing the transition had been difficult and i didn't have any support group to teach me one day my husband asks if i can take an uber down to the bank and deposit a rent check and i reluctantly agree while out he messages again and reminds me that we're out of a few crucial groceries there was a walmart grocery literally across the street from the bank so i figure everything in life is an experience and i'll have to learn how to shop alone eventually so why not everything was fine at first and i was only grabbing a few things so i didn't need a card i was using my cane and what little echolocation skills i had at the time to get around but was still bumping into things as we blind tend to do sometimes my cane suddenly hit something a bit softer and i figured maybe i had whacked someone's leg and i apologize cue entitled kid an entitled mother me shoot i'm sorry entitled mom hey you just hit my son me i'm so sorry ma'am i didn't see him there entitled mom begins yelling how could you not see him he's clearly right here now i'm fully blind so i don't wear sunglasses mostly because i can't afford a good uv blocking pair but also i'm not ever looking for pity or to play the part of a generic blind person i just want to be treated like a normal person but i do understand her confusion as blindness is a spectrum so i try to calmly explain me ma'am i'm blind i can't see anything let alone your son that's why i have to use the cane so i can get around without she cuts me off if you're blind why aren't you wearing big sunglasses now as a blind person i get a lot of stupid questions but i understand a lot of them are just people who don't know better so i try to happily answer as many as i can me those are really expensive around two hundred dollars for a good pair and i really don't need any inside you're not blind you're faking it here is where my blood starts to boil i can't think of any reason someone would want to pretend to be blind it's an actual heck and nothing upsets me more than when someone calls me a liar when i'm not just as i'm about to respond i feel a tug and before i blink i realize this little jerk spawn has snatched my 100 king from my hands for those of you who don't understand that's like if you're shopping and suddenly the power goes out and you can't see a single light without my cane i can barely move at all without crashing into anything my voice gets shaky as i begin to panic please give that back i really do need it you don't you liar my son deserves to play with this more than you i hear her shuffle away and my expensive cane cracking into metal displays and such as they leave i start crying and waving my arms in front of me to grab on to something anything and end up crashing and falling into a center aisle display making a loud scene without fail i somewhat curl into a ball and cry i'm alone in public in the dark and i had no idea what to do suddenly i feel a hand on my shoulder and a man's voice we'll call him awesome guy asks if i'm okay and tells me to stay right there i do but begin to at least sit up and listen this man must have been tall and built like a tank because his footsteps sounded like a giant and i felt a suction of wind when he took off maybe about 30 or 40 feet away i hear this loud bellowing like an angry lion and a loud crash then before i know it the man is back and helping me to my feet he takes my hand and puts my cane into my palm and helps me pick up the items i dropped when i fell into the display me wiping tears for my cheeks thank you thank you so much i didn't know how to handle that awesome guy don't worry about it some people are just monsters this guy restored my faith in humanity and even helped me finish shopping and helped me out of the store as we're leaving i can hear the familiar screeching of entitled mom something about awesome guy grabbing the cane and pulling it flinging her little jerk into a shopping cart i don't know if she was exaggerating or not but it would explain the crash i heard it's easy to feel alone in a world without sight but even through the sheer terror of being stripped of my cane at least i know now that there are people willing to stand up for me when i need it entitled parent comes in after closing gets caught stealing and complains about being a single mom closing this door reaching to lock the front door an entitled parent runs inside says she just needs a couple things for her kids okay we'll give her the benefit of the doubt continue closing duties notice her watching us and moving to hide behind end caps when she sees us look up got a bad feeling about her circle the store and see she has a full cart and is sweeping more out of the dairy case into it she is actually clearing whole shelves of things like cheese and yogurt into the cart she tries to get away when i approach her but the card is too heavy for her to push it fast i catch up with her and tell her the store is closed and she must go to the register now because we need to disinfect everything she goes to the self-checkout we see her make the scanning motion but not scanning the items and then putting them in a bag in her cart we call her out on this she feigns ignorance we make her scan it again we get attitude she gets done scanning we're pretty sure she phantom scanned more items but we were distracted doing closing work she has a big total over 200 she pulls out a payment method that is clearly noted in the checkout area we do not accept she starts to throw an entitled parent fit but she is put in her place about coming in after hours and knowing we don't take her payment method more attitude we get the manager on duty to try to help her between cash and debit and credit cards she gets her balance to just under 100 manager gives her the remaining balance and she asks so what i gotta pay that too manager tells her yes she eyes the door no way she can push the heavy cart fast enough to beat us to the door manager basically says that to her and i add yeah and she's locked in too remember we were locking up so she can't get out unless we unlock the doors with a key we can tell something is wrong she's too nervous i say she should just return the items until she's paid manager smiles and agrees starts ringing returns entitled parent is complaining we should just let her leave it doesn't take long to find out why she's so nervous quite a bit of her stuff won't ring up because it's not on the receipt she had tried refusing to hand over the paper receipt not knowing that the manager has it up on his computer screen of course none of the expensive baby slash kid stuff was rung in formula diapers wipes etc she is so busted she thinks she's going to jail but we know the cops won't come out unless someone is hurt but we talk about the cops we know while trying to get her total down just to wind her up more she is finally paid in full over 200 worth of items have to be returned to stock she paid for 100 tried to steal 100 and we returned 100 this jerk came into a closed store tried to steal 100 worth of merchandise and wanted to be let off the hook for paying what she kept i got the pleasure of walking her to the doors i made sure she went out the door furthest from her car while walking there she is complaining about how we treated her and saying she's a single mom that crap don't flush with me i say so you're home all day with the kids she said she is then i say next time come in earlier and by the way you'll be using a cashier from now on no more self-checkout for you her jaw dropped she went to say something else but i shut the door in her face and locked it again had to get back inside and put her stuff back in the cooler how do you get caught stealing and then complain the store takes the stuff off you entitlement entitled parents think i should give them thousands of dollars and they never even thank me my parents requested i come home during all of this mess which has been the biggest mistake of my life seriously it was an awful move and once i'm out of here i am never speaking to these people again i have a good amount of money coming in because i work my butt off and some projects are finally paying off when i first got here several weeks ago they started requesting i pay random bills my mom said that would be awesome and fake being happy when i know now she clearly expected to make bank off of me car insurance cell phone bills house payments etc i've been happily paying them not only have they not said thank you once which i wouldn't mind if they just showed me some sort of not negative emotion but they are constantly making me wait several days to pay these bills and being weirdly aggressive about it the logical next step is to not pay the bills right except when i said i wouldn't help if it bothered them my stepdad flipped crap and called me a freeloader so my taxes came and i decided to give my mom 400 because i have good money coming in i also ordered random odds and ends that i need slash one not only was i not told thank you for the four hundred dollars but now as my things come in every time something arrives in the mail they both get passive aggressive it doesn't matter if it's a nine dollar skin cream i might as well have lavished myself with gold by the way they overreact i also told my mom because i made under enough to get the twelve hundred dollars when it comes i'm going to give her five hundred dollars when i told her this she got weirdly passive aggressive about it again and i could tell that she wants the whole twelve hundred dollars i don't get it they make good money they both just got more than me back in taxes also does not help that they have done nothing but crap on me and ride me since i got here treating me like trash even recruiting my brother into it seriously they've made me feel lower than dirt i'm crying myself to sleep every night because of how they're treating me every day and just now my stepdad messaged me that i need to knock off the spending spree and grow up excuse me because i know they raised me but in my world if anyone happily gives you thousands in cash without complaint you at least be nice to them but with them they clearly want every penny i have and to treat me like trash i own a home i have a life i have a career i don't need to grow up i'm grown i would dip today if my state wasn't under a stay-at-home order and if i wasn't so worried about my mom who works with the public edit we live in a state where it's dirt cheap to live just to really put an emphasis on how crappy it is that my thousands haven't been enough money for them the money i've spent at one month here would pay someone's rent in this state for five months i've given them a lot i think i deserve a good job or a thank you for helping all i want is for them to show me some kind of love mom thought a new vacuum was more important than my college this took place a few years ago when i was still in college for my bachelor's degree for several years i waitressed slash cleaned houses and really pinched pennies putting any extra money into savings for college i didn't qualify for any assistance because my parents claimed me as a dependent and they made too much money but i am very lucky to not have student loans having saved enough from working to pay as i went the last year of my bachelor's degree i was hardly living at home i lived with my boyfriend most of the time helping with those expenses i also helped with things around the house particularly for my mom who lived alone paid all of my own bills like car insurance and such and at this point was buying all of my own food and toiletries i'm explaining all of this for background not at all to complain because i was happy to do so and as an adult who was able i felt it was my responsibility around world tax season and i approached my mom asking her if she could not claim me on her taxes this time considering everything stated above her and my dad took turns each year claiming my brother and i on their taxes as dependents i told her not being claimed would really help out with getting money for college to finish up my final year as the money i saved was pretty much depleted she agreed without any issues and i couldn't have been happier i don't remember specifics but i was having some issues with financial forms online and expressed my worries that i was having trouble figuring it out two days later and with help from a university counselor it was all good and well i don't even think a full week passed between our initial conversation and the conversation below and the deadline for taxes was still a good ways off i came to my mom's house let her know i'd gotten it figured out and would be submitting my paperwork she says oh i'm sorry i thought you said it wasn't going to work out confused at her apology i said i was having difficulties but i got some help and it's fine now but i didn't think it would work so i claimed you on my taxes and turned them in yesterday i was quiet for a minute she couldn't have followed up with me in those couple of days to confirm it wouldn't work out before filing it isn't like i kept her waiting for weeks okay whatever it can still be okay so i asked her if she could give me the money that she would get from claiming me since she wouldn't have been expecting it this time around anyway and it would really help me i pointed out how i pay for all my own things and don't really live at home anymore and that i've worked so hard well honey really i'm so tight on money right now i really could use the money i know i don't talk finances with you a whole lot but honestly this would help me i was dumbfounded and then quietly furious but ultimately thought i don't want my mom to struggle so it's okay i'll figure it out i tried really hard to not let it bother me until her tax money came in and she bought over 1 000 worth of small home appliances the most expensive being a vacuum cleaner when hers worked perfectly fine in fact she offered me her old one because it works perfectly fine i just wanted an upgrade in the end my dad and stepmom felt so bad for me in this situation they gave me a couple hundred dollars to put towards school which was a blessing i didn't expect but was so grateful for though it barely made a dent in college tuition basically that's where the story ends i never really talked to my mom anymore about it because she has done so much that's hurt me i try to pick my battles it was validation enough for me that the other people in my life saw it was wrong too gets called out by her name at the store this past sunday with a friend of mine we both were waiting in line to buy stuff and our register was pretty close to the customer service desk my friend is staring at the customer service desk and then nudges me to look woman is at customer service desk complaining she's going on and on about not being able to return the two packages of toilet paper that she had bought two months ago store policy was that they were not accepting returns for that item along with disinfecting wipes rubbing alcohol and other cleaning supplies so this woman looks like a classic karen in every single way right down to the frosted bobbed hair it truly was the perfect karen cud also in yoga pants so yeah on point so this discussion between the hapless store employee and karen is getting ugly store employee is no match for karen who is well versed in karen language and using the terms to get her way such as why is the store policy only applicable to those items and i buy stuff here all the time and have never seen that sign and i have a store credit card here and have been here for over 10 years i give you so much business and i am going to cancel my card if you don't allow me to return these items then karen being karen goes right for the jugular i need to speak to your manager right now my friend who is with me is a server at a pretty popular restaurant in the same city i'm a bartender but not at the same restaurant she knows the woman complaining my friend starts telling me that the woman complaining is her worst nightmare she would always come into the restaurant with her two kids and demand all sorts of special stuff for free then complain about not taking some type of coupon or membership discount card and the best part this woman's name really is karen so my friend yells over to her hey karen how are you to which the woman explodes how do you know my name is karen who the heck are you just mind your own business and stop acting like you know me don't call me by my name like you know me so a few of the other employees are now snickering to themselves including the cashier that is our cashier for our line who says to us seriously is her name really karen to which my friend tells her yes absolutely and she is a total 100 karen my friend then tells the cashier that this woman comes into her restaurant and pulls the same crap all the time and at least now she knows that it isn't just her that is the target of her missives we stick around to see if karen gets her way because well i insisted to see the outcome because i wanted karma to kick karen's butt yep karma kicked karen's bud in this case as the store refuses to return the toilet paper and recommended she donates it to charity or a shelter or a community group that provides necessities to those in need the manager even told karen that if she wanted to leave it at the store he would make sure it got to a group that needed it more than she did karen exploded at that point as she dragged the toilet paper back to her car total karma payback worth the wait to see my friend can't wait to see karen back after the restaurant reopens as she's planning on bringing a roll of toilet paper to the table along with the menu for karen as a fun new promotion for the restaurant reopening apparently not doing something that isn't your job is rude okay so i work in a bar a party of office workers from across the road came in one night most of them are okay one of them a woman who i'll call sarah from now on was pretty drunk at around 11 pm she asked me for a baked snack that was no longer sold i told you that we didn't have any confused she said but i was here a few months ago when you had them i explained that we stopped selling them again she says but you used to sell them again i explained that we don't sell them anymore completely serious she says can you make me one i couldn't believe the cheek of this lady incredulously i said make you one i'm a bartender not a cook and the kitchen's closed for the night the cook had left over an hour ago and even if by chance she was still hanging around there was no reason why she or i should go out of our way for this woman child refusing to relent sarah goes well can't you just defrost some i explained to her that the cook who had gone home an hour ago used to make these savory pastries from scratch there's nothing to defrost i told her that if she's really hungry the supermarket which is a five minute walk away sells the snack she's after and that they shut down at midnight sarah you're really rude me am i what have i possibly said or done that can be considered rude it's not what you said it's your demeanor me my demeanor what about my demeanor sarah you're not being very accommodating you're very cold you're not smiling me resisting the urge to call her a toxic jerk i'm not really a smiler well then maybe you shouldn't be working here i expect better than this my company it's not her company she's just an employee spends a lot of money here i don't like your attitude me other customers don't have a problem with me most of them actually find me hilarious i want to see your manager she actually said this me the manager is currently busy this wasn't a lie sarah what's your name me you don't need to know my name she kept on harassing me for my name but i wouldn't give it to her because i didn't want to plus i was enjoying watching her growing frustration i sent the security mana text telling him to not tell her my name i stayed stoic because i refused to give people like this the satisfaction of reacting when they can't get a rise out of you these people always get angry which is hilarious after a bit more bs playing the amateur shrink she said what happened to you that's made you like this something must have gone seriously wrong in your life to make you like this i held my tongue but my assessment of her was that she comes from a wealthy family and her parents spoil her she followed me around the place videoing me while ranting threatening to have me fired etc this made me angry but i didn't react or say anything karen wants me to work there but i don't our cast we've got myself we've got karen we've got the obese kid he's around 10 to 12. we've got the store clerk i live way out of town but work in town so i frequently go into stores before or after work while dressed in my work clothes since this saves me a two hour round trip to go home and change this will become important later last fall i was looking for a washing machine and found a really nice one marked down to less than half price i found a sales clerk who was helping a man and a lady and when he looked in my direction i indicated that i would like to purchase the washing machine when he was finished with his other customers and had a minute he nodded i went over to the washing machine to wait for him so i could keep first dibs on buying it a woman who will be known as karen with a very obese kid in tow came up to me and asked me for help no biggie this has happened to me before i smiled and told her that i don't work there she got irritated and told me she couldn't find anybody who worked there the sales clerk was maybe 10 feet away and that she wanted me to work there i said but i don't work here then she said but i need help with a dishwasher i told her that i know nothing about their dishwashers and don't even own a dishwasher and that she would need to ask someone who actually does work there she glared at me and was about to leave when she glanced at my shirt and gasped she was quiet for a few seconds but it was just an intake of air before i was treated to one of those famous karen at full volume in person she pointed to my shirt and said what do you mean you don't work here you do too work here and i want your help right now that's enough of your crap i looked at her calmly and said ma'am this pointing to the embroidery on my shirt says name of grocery store you are in name of hardware store i do not work here but she wasn't having any of it and let loose at me at full volume yelling about being a mother and having her kid with her and how i needed to stop messing around and help her because she has a kid poor kid looked embarrassed i actually felt sorry for him because he must have dealt with her nonsense every day karen stomped away yelling about making a complaint and then for some reason she turned around and came back to glare at me i told her again that i do not work there and that she would simply have to find someone who does work there to help her she kept complaining and telling her kid how he would have to wait since i refused to help her yelled at me about how she is a mother and her time is important and on and on after a few minutes she quieted down and stood between me and the dishwashers glaring at me i couldn't resist i had to give her my sweetest smile and said oh and when that clerk is finished with the people he's helping i'm next she let out an epic grabbed her kid by the arm and stomped off as soon as he saw that karen was gone the store clerk quit talking to the other customers who he had been halfway hiding behind made sure she was out of sight then seeing that it was now safe came over to help me the time that security prevented me from doing my job i used to work as an entertainment lighting electrician and console programmer one of my busiest times of year was working the new york fashion week both spring and fall it was a lot of organized chaos but i enjoyed my time there the most important place backstage is the hair and makeup stations in the dressing rooms rows of tables with mirrors and lights with power for the hairstylists and makeup artists for things like blow dryers and curling irons and courtesy power for the models for phones and such while we try to make sure that each station has at least two dedicated 20 amp circuits and variably someone will come in and plug their equipment into the same power strip as the workstation next to them and it will trip a breaker now runway shows are absolute chaos backstage models hairdressers makeup artists production assistants press designers it gets pretty crowded backstage security is understandably tight during this whole process but guards don't actually come in until the day of the show because we're already in the space long before the show actually starts i always try to introduce myself to the security guards so they know who i am usually wearing a radio and a tool belt is enough for most people to clue in who we are and if that fails the all access pass or wristband seals in but i always like to take the extra step and be prepared so one fine show day i get a frantic call on my radio from the lead production assistant distafiz there's no power at the hair and makeup stations now if it's actually just one station that's out or all of them it doesn't really make a difference even having one station out can be an emergency so i start making my way over on my way i encounter lead production assistant who looks very relieved to see me and motions for me to follow backstage is packed to the gills so she makes it to the dressing room entrance a little bit before i do as i'm about to go in i get stopped by security unfortunately it's not the same guy that was at the dressy rooms before the show when i was introducing myself so this guy doesn't know me security models only backstage me it's okay i'm on the tech team i show him my white wristband security nice try gold wristbands only backstage he grabs my arm and starts pulling me away from the dressing room entrance you need to go just then i get another call on my radio lead production assistant thistle fizz where are you i key my mic and respond i'm being escorted out by security at the moment something has now finally clicked in meatlug's head unfortunately for him he was too slow to respond lead production assistant comes storming out of the dressing room security what the heck are you doing he works here he's my electrician let him go security but who doesn't have a gold wristband gold is for dressing room only white is for all access now let go of him he let go of me apologized and i went about my business i don't disparage the man for trying to do his job but he probably should have been paying more attention when his boss was going over wristband colors for the day entitled kid fakes injury for three months to get attention okay so when i was in the fourth grade entitled kid harassed me she would never get out of my face always put me down and whenever i told her i don't like you or please leave me alone she would say your friend told you to say that and start yelling at me to not listen to her and that she was a fake friend fast forward to the fifth grade in elementary school we only got one class with the same classmates for a year and she wasn't in it i was happy until around a week after the first day of school she came in with a knee brace that you could find at walmart for 18 and crutches because she broke her knee at first it was believable she jumped onto a ball and broke it she came to school every day and got helped by everyone one time she made me drop my tray at lunch to carry hers every day she got 11 to 13 kids to go in the elevator with her because she was scared when she had shown no sign of claustrophobia whatsoever around a month later she told me in the elevator to 1. grow out my hair because i had a pixie cut because i looked like a boy and two that she only fractured her knee i googled how long it took for a knee fracture to heal and it said four to six weeks that's less than a month i told best friend that and soon everyone got fishy my elementary school had a top floor with half of the school in it and the bottom floor had the other half and it was a small school so info spread fast two months later is when nobody believed her there were rumors that they saw her walking fine without her crutches after she looked around for a second and others said that they saw her trying to damage her leg in the bathroom it grew crazy she started not letting me hang around my friends at recess because i got to see them all the time and she also made me play wrecking ball on the swing with her the game was that i was the wrecking ball and had to destroy the leg with a brace on it i was hesitant at first when i thought she's faking it so i did she didn't get affected at all three months later was when his skiing field trip was announced it was happening early in january and everyone was hyped we all basically ignored the fact that entitled kid was still in the brace she barely got any attention now and it was probably getting boring using crutches at school for three months so she just didn't one day and the next one she was using them again it was strange but we all just talked about how she was faking it behind her back it reached a day before winter break and she was still in the brace and using the crutches and was going painfully slow and purposefully dropping everything to get attention and she did everyone would just roll their eyes when she did that a day after the break ended was the skiing trip and surprise surprise entitled kid was out of her brace and not using crutches it annoyed me so much but i just ignored it around three weeks after the trip entitled mom arrived it was recess and i was climbing on this rope jungle gym thing when entitled mom started yelling the name of a kid climbing next to me he was one of entitled kids crushes she had 20. he obeyed the orders and he came down once he did she started screaming at him for not loving entitled kid for busting her knee and after that she went to another one and did the same thing that school was crap and all the teachers hated their jobs so they did absolutely nothing she's still an entitled kid to this day and i have many other stories to tell about her and other entitled kids from that school if you want karen yells at restaurant employees because she can't eat here with her family then tries to kick me out i witnessed my second wild karen encounter today so today my friends and i decided to go eat ramen at a restaurant in the city just me my friend and another friend restaurants closed down seats because of what's been going on so there are less seats available now this ramen restaurant is not very big so there are only a few seats available so here's the cast we've got entitled mom we've got me we've got my friend we've got the waiter and the manager so we're just minding our own business when this group of six walks into the restaurant there are only a few seats available so waiter informs them that they have to wait for the tables to clear up before they can be seated because seats are closed off for everyone's safety entitled mom um what do you mean i have to wait waiter because of what's going on we're only leaving a certain amount of seating open oh okay why don't you seat us there she says pointing to a table with a sign clearly stating closed waiter as i said they're closed because oh it's fine just seat us there we're not sick waiter i'm sorry i can't do that that's i'm sorry i'm not asking you to seat us there i'm telling you to so please do so now waiter if you ate 20 come on my angels are starving she says this as she points to her family consisting of toddlers whining about having to eat ramen waiter we can seat some of you over at the bar if you guys don't need to eat as a group without even thanking him she marches her family over to the bar and rips off the signs to make space for her kids waiter i'm sorry i can't have you do that entitled mom i can do whatever i want i am the customer waiter i'm sorry but if you can't respect our rules you must leave let me talk to your manager the waiter scoffs and goes to get the manager who is one of the chefs manager what seems to be the problem your rude waiter refused to let me sit at a table so i had to sit here manager i'm sorry but you can't sit here there are signs stating that these seats your kids are sitting on are closed i don't care i want to eat with my family they are starving manager i understand but if you can't respect these rules i'm gonna have to call the police no i am a loyal customer and have been for months and i deserve better service manager if you wait we can seat you over there a gestures to our table okay how long is the wait 20 minutes entitled mom gasps then walks over to us you guys gotta go me what you heard me leave you and your friends need to leave because you guys have been here too long me um we're not done yet don't talk back to your elders manager if you don't leave now i'm gonna call the police for harassing my customers realizing now that she can get in really big trouble she and her entitled family leave i ended up getting a meal on the house but still some people can be entitled during what's going on anyway hope you enjoyed edit since many have asked i think that karen was mainland chinese that speaks cantonese i can tell by her accent the dad was an expat so i don't know the dad had no idea what they were saying and just nodded this entire conversation was translated into english so i did my best but it's not perfect sometimes i had a hard time understanding her because of her heavy mainland chinese accent speaking of ramen what's your favorite flavor of ramen please let me know how an old rain jacket became my defense against an entitled mom this happened about two months ago to give some more preface a long time ago i got an old hand-me-down jacket from my uncle who happened to work in the prison system this jacket happened to have a doj federal bureau of prisons logo on it i've worn it many times and it's always garnered some interesting reactions from people i just so happened to be wearing this jacket for our encounter with the entitled mom now on to the story me and my fiance went out to grab a bite to eat on a saturday evening as we ordered and set at our table we decided to play with our nintendo switch which apparently is entitled mom bait while we waited for our food after a few minutes i had to go and use the bathroom a few minutes after i left according to my fiance some lady the entitled mom of the story came up to our table and had her kid the entitled kid sit down in my chair which prompted this exchange excuse me did you mind watching my kid there's no kids play area here and i saw that you had a switch for him to play entitled kid what games do you have on your switch do you have fortnite entitled mom starts walking away have fun fiance putting the switch inside her bag um ma'am i'm sorry but i didn't agree to watch your kid he's your responsibility also i don't trust people i don't know with my switch entitled kid but my mom said i can play with your switch entitled mom to my fiance hey now don't be like that it's hard being a single mom plus you obviously have the means to entertain my kid so why not help me out fiance like i said i'm not responsible for your kid i didn't even invite him to sit here please leave entitled mom now you listen to me i know the owner here and i will have you thrown out if you don't watch my kid as the entitled mom is yelling this i happen to be walking out of the bathroom towards the table where my fiance was as i'm walking up the entitled mom sees me coming and notices the doj logo on my jacket a smirk crossed her face as i got to the table entitled mom tells me now you look like someone in law enforcement this rude lady here is refusing to give my little angel her switch to play with after she promised to do so me cutting her off and with a stern voice is there a reason you're harassing my fiance and trying to take the switch i bought for her i watched as the entitled mom smirk gave way to a look that said oh crap she quickly grabbed her kid and made a beeline to her table the entitled mom didn't bother us afterwards outside of a few stolen glances we got our food ate it and left after finishing our meal i was glad i picked that day to wear my uncle's old raincoat i froze my psycho neighbor out of her apartment in college my two friends and i decided to find a place together off campus we found a beautiful three-bedroom house with surprisingly affordable rent the basement of the house was listed as a separate apartment but as it had a separate entrance and the indoor stairwell had been blocked off we weren't worried and the thermostat was upstairs then the neighbor moved in from upstairs we could hear everything this adult woman would call her mother and scream at her to pay for her cell phone bills and give her grocery money aka taco bell she would scream at whatever guy she was dating and one day she brought home three puppies to scream at too we were terrified of this woman and the noise was heck also we had been idiotic enough to sign a lease stating we were responsible for all utilities period meaning we were now financing her gas water and electric but with only two months left on the lease we thought we could just ride it out but then she started smoking constantly according to the landlord she had quit for good when she signed the lease but for good only lasted two days since it was winter the heat was running nearly 24 7 and the smoke was wafting up from the vents our apartment and all our belongings began to reek with smoke we contacted the landlord because we had signed for a non-smoking apartment he told us we lived in a state where you could technically call an apartment non-smoking even if it shared ventilation with a smoking department forget you leasing laws at this point my two roommates were heading out for a two-week vacation they were online students while i was residential leaving me alone in the apartment with the jerk smoker in the basement i couldn't sleep or eat because my idiotic stomach decided to react to all the second-hand smoke by aching and cramping constantly after three days i was a little insane i made a plan i checked the forecast lows in the 20s all week i borrowed a friend's ultra insulated sleeping bag i bought one of those ski masks with the holes for your eyes and mouth i got out my stocking cap my woolen socks and my down parka i bought tea hot cocoa and ramen and prepared to live off a diet of hot liquids and i turned off the heat day one she's screaming at her mother for forcing her to move into this frozen apartment day two she's screaming at her boyfriend because he won't let her move in with him day three she's screaming at the landlord about how she's freezing day four the landlord is at my door i greet him in full ski mask parka stocking cap array looking like i'm heading out to rob santa claus at the north pole he asks me if i don't find it a little chilly in the house i reply i had found all the cigarette smoke a little warm day five she's screaming about the jerks upstairs to anyone who will listen and i'm sitting upstairs clutching my car keys and my pepper spray with 911 typed into my phone she finally decides she's leaving and moving in with greg even though he just got out of prison and he lives in that creepy house in the woods with all those biting dogs day six she's gone i silently bless greg moral of the story there's a reason the rent seems too good to be true p.s for those wondering i did have a friend who worked plumbing stopped by to give me some advice about how low i could go before i burst the water pipes to heck and back actually ken i don't work here anymore or for you a friend of mine recently reminded me of this the absolute best time i ever had dealing with a karen in the world it happened about 30 years ago so i'm going strictly by memory here i also have no clue what the name for a male karen is so i'll call him ken i used to work for a chain convenience store and back in the late 80s it ran into financial trouble corporate decided that to cut costs they would sell off slash shut down all locations that didn't have a gas station attached this included my location once the stores were sold slash closed our positions would be eliminated and we'd be out of a job although i was only the assistant manager for our location i was effectively running things as corporate had decided to pull my manager off to a different location and the assistant would be good enough since the store was closing anyway now on to the story cast we've got head honcho guy from corporate in charge of selling the store slightly involved near the end we've got ken the entitled dude who bought our location and we've got me once chain announced they were going to be closing the doors it was no secret that we would be shutting down of course us employees were still expected to give good customer service that was usually no problem as we were in a good area and we had pretty decent customers they liked us we liked them but at the same time we had no flips to give for the occasional cairns it was nice being able to shut them down what were they gonna do fire us good times i wish i could remember specific instances but 30 years they all kind of run together now the most entitled of all though was ken turns out he had bought our location from chain and would be taking over in about a month and a half during that time i was working with head honchos guys from corporate doing things at the store level for the sale meanwhile ken came in a few times a week demanding that certain things be done as if he already owned the place he wanted us to change displays order specific products etc head honcho guys had already told me to ignore his demands so all of them were met with some variation of no ken i work for the chain not for you and this isn't your store yet which sent ken off in all his huffing glory yelling that i wouldn't be acting like that once he ran the place fast forward to the final day all the other employees had worked their last shifts and as acting manager i opened the store that morning had honcho guys arrived to go through whatever they needed and shortly before noon ken showed up kin and hit honcho's guys went into the back and once they came back out we closed the store in order to finalize everything head honcho guys and i cashed out the register for the last time and most importantly i turned over my key to the store once that was done something close to the following happened head honcho okay ken we're done it's all yours now they start packing up to leave me just making sure chain no longer owns this location ken is in charge now yes head honcho confirms so i step out from behind the counter of course ken starts yelling i think yelling was his default mode can where do you think you're going me home what does it look like ken you get back here and get your butt back behind that counter where it belongs me calmly no i don't work for you can what do you mean no i told you things would be different when i took over and now you have to do what i tell you to do me with a huge grin on my face you just don't get it do you ken looks confused you bought the store you bought the inventory but you did not buy the employees and you sure as heck didn't buy me so i'll say it one last time and try to get this through to whatever functional cells may be floating around in your empty head i don't work for you never have never will and since chain store number one two three four no longer exists i don't work there anymore either since i'm no longer needed here nod to head honcho guys i'm leaving ken starts sputtering and yelling incoherently realizing he now has nobody to work the register as i walk to the doors for my last time of course i can't help myself as i'm pushing the door open i turn around give ken my best customer service smile and a cheery have a nice day if i remember correctly the store didn't open again for a couple of days at least while ken tried to hire some employees but anyone from the neighborhood who had seen him treating us so badly before the sale wanted nothing to do with them and even once it reopened it didn't last long that's great mrs can i have my fish cakes back now i live in a city center near a marx and spencer for those unaware of what that is it's a fairly middle-class department store known for supplying overpriced clothing for middle-aged ladies pretty but not very functional homewares and posh food stuffs i don't shop there very often but their food is quite good so i sometimes swing by on my way home from work or on a weekend to treat myself to something tasty if you hit the sweet spot you can catch them when their yellow stickering produce goes out of date that day i like doing this because their ready meals are quite good and freezable so i can stock up quite cheaply and fill the freezer to discourage myself from ordering takeout this particular incident took place on a sunday afternoon which is always a good time for yellow stickers because the store will have been quieter through the day however the payoff on this is that it's a haven for old middle-aged ladies the twin set and pearl brigade they might think themselves posh but their elbows are razor sharp so there's a certain amount of risk involved going up against them for the crash and dense stuff so i'm cruising around the store perusing their wares in m s they don't put the stickered produce in one place it's also spread around the shelves as normal so i usually hit the reduced section first and then go for a wonder there was rich pickings salad vegetables which i picked up for lunch stuff through the week for work and then off i went in search of better things a few ready meals some meat a sandwich and some haddock fish cakes remember the fish cakes the fish cakes are important so i'm standing by a chiller minding my own business when i become aware of someone next to me no biggie it's a shop people stand too close i'm vaguely aware of an older well-dressed lady at my elbow but i don't pay much attention she nudges the hand basket over my arm so i step slightly away from her and carry on looking in the chiller a few seconds later there's another nudge and then another getting annoyed now i finally turn around and look at her she's standing there with my fish cakes in her hand already in her basket is a bag of salad and some tomatoes which she's taken from mine she looks me right in the eye and slowly carries on taking the fish cakes from my basket and places them into hers my face now must be a dictionary definition of what the heck me excuse me what do you think you're doing morag she looked like morock i'm sorry are these things not for sale me they were for sale they're now in my basket i start trying to reclaim my purchases and manage to get the salad before she steps back yes but if they're in your basket they must be for sale surely me i am buying them give them back please she's suddenly feigning being a confused old dear oh but i assume that if you work here you were just putting them round the store for people to buy at this point i give her the paddington stare i'm wearing a glasgow warriors rugby shirt blue denims and trainers i have no makeup on and my hair is stuck to the top of my head she could not possibly think i worked here unless she just stepped off the latest shuttle from mars me do i look like i work here well it's hard to tell shop workers all look the same do you work in another shop that must be it me reaching for my tomatoes no i don't i am shopping i do not work here i am buying these things now if you don't mind i point at the fish cakes she looks at me blankly me misses can i have my fish cakes back please oh yes oh of course it's a shame that my husband's favorites he loves them me taking them back yes well i like them too there's plenty around the corner full price if you want some at this point i walk away while she continues after me mumbling about being a poor pensioner but i just ignore her i spend the rest of my time shopping with my basket in front of my body and the final kicker as i go to pay she's at the dine in for 12 pounds chiller engaged in a slightly more agitated conversation with another shopper and an actual staff member apparently she tried to pull the same stunt with someone else who was less polite than i was i left them arguing over the last beef wellington with red wine sauce got kicked out of walmart for defending a cashier the year was 2014 in calgary alberta at the beginning of november the first major snowstorm had blown in and deposited a good amount of snow our company truck had blown a tire and for insurance purposes everyone in the truck myself included were not allowed to change it so we took it to our wonderful wally world to get the tire changed we waited patiently in the waiting area so we could get to work during this time an irate customer who shall be henceforth known as irate customer was tearing into the poor associate working behind the counter side note i had done this exact job when i was in university so this didn't help the conversation goes as follows customer what do you mean you don't have my tires associate i'm sorry sir we don't have any more in stock the bays are filled and our stock is gone this is bs i wanted those tires how could you sell all of them i'm sorry sir but we can't sell you something we don't have we will be restocked in a couple of days customer goes on an unholy rant on this poor associate for a good five minutes during this time i am just seething for how rude this guy is being and hoping he will calm down customer continues to look back at the door looking for support and then continues to berate this poor person now i am a very soft spoken individual i do not start confrontation unless required and at this point i had had enough i stood up and looked at the guy and said dude it's the first snowstorm of the year in canada why would you think there would be any tires left let alone you being able to get it right away and get them put on customer shot daggers at me and said do you work here are you his manager no shut up this doesn't concern you my co-worker who has 115 pounds of east coast fire gets right up into his face and says how can you be such a jerk to someone just trying to do their job is your life so bad that you need to boss other people around to make you feel better about yourself now i've never seen a mob mentality before but it's amazing what happens when someone will call someone out on their bs and how quickly a crowd will jump to defend someone they just need permission to act well after two to three minutes of screaming and shouting with this guy the store manager was called to deal with the issue the associate was questioned by the supervisor and other customers were filling them on the details i was within earshot of the store manager and customer and heard this little gem customer all the people are hating me because i'm not white they're all a bunch of jerks and liars store manager don't you dare play that card with me if i look through these security tapes will i see a bunch of people ganging up on you because of what you look like after all this was said and done the man was removed from the store the store manager came up to my co-workers and i and said i appreciate that you guys stuck up for my associates but because you instigated and elevated the issue i'm going to ask you to leave but i have a colleague down the street who operates a body shop take your truck there and he can get you in and out in about 30 minutes so that is the tail on the best way and reason i have ever been kicked out of a store i also hope it shows that if you see someone being rude to a customer stand up for those people they make minimum wage and should not have to suffer jerks who need a power trip girlfriend's entitled father ruins her birthday because everything wasn't his way so my girlfriend had a doctor's appointment that we my grandma and i took her to and it fell on her birthday so as we get there we found out we went to the wrong doctor's office so we had to turn around and go 20 minutes through traffic we get there and soon we left the office i surprised her by getting her burger king her favorite food we get back to her house about five to six minutes late when we get into her house and i help her with my daughter we were instantly being bombarded and screamed at by entitled father why are you five minutes late i try to explain to him why we were late due to traffic in other means entitled father still screaming says i don't want to hear your excuses boy why are you late my girlfriend is very upset about her being yelled at she starts crying and goes to her room my grandma tried to explain that it was beyond our control to why we are late a straight up tells her that she is lying and tells girlfriend that i can't be there for her birthday and she starts to cry more and plead to him that he needs to stop frustrated i storm out of the house and go sit in the car about five minutes later she calls me and said that i can stay we sit at the table and they bring out the cake sing happy birthday and start serving cake girlfriend is still very upset and still crying politely she declined the cake and got up and left the room for the rest of the night her stepmom leaves the room upset and entitled father follows after her 20 minutes later entitled father comes out tells me he is taking me home and we leave on the way home he asked me why girlfriend wasn't happy about the cake and that it made stepmom very upset and that she went out of her way to get it that she was crying about it i sit there very baffled about what i heard look at him and just say do you understand that you screamed at her on her birthday her day the day she should be respected of course she is going to cry and not want cake he starts to but she made her cry but i cut him off and say you ruined your daughter's birthday and you made her cry which made stepmom cry so it's your fault i put on my headphones and played music for the remainder of the car drive one month later he kicked her out if you all want more there's more no karen your kid cannot have my asthma medication cast we've got me we've got karen and hero bus driver i am a 34 year old dutch guy without a driver's license it sucks but dutch public transport kinda rocks so for almost two years now i've been using it to get to my job and in those two years i've never really had a bad experience that doesn't involve a late bus and rain until today that is because of what's going on bus schedules have been adjusted to once or twice per hour it is far from ideal but i understand why kids are not going to school so the bus company would lose money letting empty buses drive but when it came to the schedule i drew the short straw because if i want to go by bus from home to my work i would be traveling 90 minutes instead of 40 and i would arrive at work 30 minutes earlier than normal to me this is not an option so i decided to cycle to work halfway that way i cut 30 minutes out of the trip and i get to work at my normal time the one problem today is that i am asthmatic and it was quite windy out this morning so i get to the bus station this morning already struggling to breathe i quickly lock my bike and walk towards the terminal focusing on my breathing five minutes later the bus arrives i greet the driver and sit down a minute later our karen of the story enters the bus she takes a seat on the road next to mine and a few minutes later the bus driver starts the bus and off we go i still feel like i'm struggling for breath and while coughing i quickly get my inhaler and chamber out assemble it and start using it as i struggle to breathe it instantly works and i feel precious oxygen enter my lungs this peeks karen's attention what are you doing she asks taking my medication i have asthma and with this weather it was quite a struggle getting here i replied does it help with breathing she asks and i nod my head well yes she extended the e i have kids at home and if they get sick i want them to be able to breathe so give me that inhaler you can get a new one and she holds out her hand oh boy not going to happen lady i said in my most dry and mocking tone i need these meds i don't care give it here she says as she thrusts out her hand again my kids need it more i tell her no and put my medication in my backpack and try to put on my headset this is where karen goes full entitled parent and grabs my backpack and starts going through it luckily the hero bus driver was paying attention and we all lurch forward as he hits the brakes he stops the bus stands up and in his best drill instructor voice says lady give the man his backpack back now there was absolutely no doubt of the authority in his voice and the lady turns tomato red as she hands back the backpack i thought that was it oh boy i was wrong i'm not going to type this in caps but our hero yelled every word why on earth would you think that someone's asthma medication would help against the sickness you are gross lady get off the bus now the lady looks like a deer in the headlights but doesn't move get off now he yells again finally the lady got up and out of the bus i thanked our hero bus driver as he sits back down and we get on our way again as the bus drives off i saw the lady on her phone no assault police destruction of property so it could have been much worse still i wish i could tell this to karen too bad we weren't out of the city yet you disgusting jerk crazy entitled mother tries to justify stolen gifts this happened about six months ago when i was home from college one of my favorite things to do in the city i live in is to visit the aquarium where i can spend all day the jellyfish are my favorites but that's besides the point at the end of my trip i text our group chat and ask if anyone's wanting anything from the gift shop which they did my total was around 80 which i didn't mind spending on gifts i put them all into the bag i brought with me that day and set off for the train station to get back home before i got to my line i decided i'd stop in this little mall type area in the city which led to a train station so it wasn't too far out of the way i meander for a bit looking at the shops and restaurants before eventually settling for a blizzard it was that one with lots of chocolate fudge bits in it i can't remember the name and set my stuff down besides me i like to listen to music and watch videos while i sit and eat so i had my headphones on and the volume pretty loud so as i'm eating my delicious treat some little brat comes walking past and grabs my bag from the ground i was in a tall seat and the bag was on the ground with my back to it so i'll admit that much was my fault but here is where it gets interesting so i finish eating and go to grab my stuff realizing it's gone so i checked every place i stopped the bathroom different shops and all the food spots i visited even if it was to just look at a menu no sign of my bag so i start to panic what am i going to tell my friends i don't want to disappoint them after promising treasures from the big city just as i was about to give up i spotted next to the aforementioned brad eating with his family so i go over to them and the interaction goes like this me excuse me but that bag down there is mine thanks for finding it mom excuse me that is my son's bag leave it alone and stop trying to take it kid yeah back off jerk it's mine already some bad parenting has shown itself i don't mind cussing but this kid was like 12 or 13 and shouldn't be insulting strangers me well no that's my bag and i know it is it's got all my stuff in it mom i'm going to tell you one more time to leave us alone and stop harassing my son or i'll call the police great it's gonna be like this i thought to myself me to the mom you don't have to do that ma'am i'll take care of that and wave over a cop who had been watching the ordeal probably in case it got violent for some reason i'm a rather larger guy with an angry resting face so i understand i should mention that her husband stayed quiet the whole time probably not wanting a part in his wife's mess cop what seems to be the issue here before i could explain the mom pipes up hi yes this man is threatening us because he thinks my son's bag is his but i'm pretty sure he's just trying to steal it kinda strange that i'd be the one to call over the cop but whatever lady cop to me is that true he said with a bit of a sigh this probably wasn't his first encounter like this me no it's actually the opposite this kid stole my bag and now his mom is trying to defend him i doubt he even knows what's in the bag i was about to ask them to tell me but now that you're here officer maybe you can act as a mediator cop alright sure so i hand him the bag and ask him to look around in it after he does that i asked the kid to go first he doesn't get a single thing right other than my charger cop huh interesting sir i guess it's your turn i smile then i list off all the items i bought along with their price the receipt was still in there and i had just bought them so i was able to remember them accurately cop well sir it looks like you were right if you don't mind i'd like to chat with these folks by now i could see beads of sweat on the kid's head and the mother was getting furious then i turned to the kid me maybe don't steal other people's stuff next time jerk the mother was red in the face from anger and the kid was on the verge of tears cause now he had a cop getting ready to lecture him and his parents will probably ground him until he's 40. but i don't give a darn he stole my stuff anyways that's my story wish people did something to correct their little klepto's behavior rather than try to defend them because not everyone will take crap from an angry mom never assume what languages a person can or cannot speak so this is an old story for me happened back in 08 when i was a stock person at a big box all-purpose store including a grocery section i had a working knowledge of where pretty much everything was in the store because i was all over the place but the grocery department had its own stock team specifically so i wasn't as knowledgeable there now two things to note here i am of lebanese descent and i was working in south florida at the time for those that don't know south florida has a significant cuban population but not so much middle eastern folks i got confused for cuban all the time because i had darker skin tone similar to a lot of cuban folks i also speak fluent english arabic and french but i was born and raised in the midwest so my accent gives no indication that i might be of middle eastern heritage on this fine afternoon i was wheeling back an empty tub back to the stock room after having emptied out one department over walking through the main aisle next to grocery i hear an excuse me not rude but definitely not polite either i turned to find the arab equivalent of ikerin let's call her khadijah khadija is a 30-something looking woman wearing yoga pants and a tight shirt and a really fancy hijab and jewelry because that makes sense standing with her husband i grew up in a predominantly lebanese community in southeast michigan so i definitely know the type the conversation goes as follows me how can i help you miss kadija i'm looking for a specific item but i can't find it me oh i'm sorry i'm not as familiar with the grocery section so i'm not sure where that is let me grab one of my colleagues for you one moment i could see one of the other customer service guys in the grocery section so i radioed him to come over and help her out me he'll be with you shortly miss khadija thank you but i'm in a hurry i thought you worked here and knew your store me i'm sorry miss i don't really work in this section colleague is coming right down the aisle now khadijah to her husband in arabic they always get these stupid kids to work in these places but they don't know how to do their job this jerk doesn't know his head from his butt the husband gave khadija a look probably because he saw my expression turn from my customer service smile to a frown i had an internal debate about what to do next when her husband spoke husband in arabic stop talking i think he understood what you said khadijah in arabic of course he didn't he's an idiot he doesn't know his hands from his feet it's an arabic idiom doesn't translate the best me in arabic actually i understood every word you said i don't appreciate being called fat and stupid an older lady like you should know better than to insult people trying to help you worse you wear your hijab like a hypocrite pretending to be devout yet you abuse your perceived social lessers you should have some respect for yourself khadijah looked like she had been hit by a truck her olive skin turned ghost white and she sputtered at me you you speak arabic me and arabic obviously i do maybe next time you'll think before you insult people who help you when you think they can't understand khadijah grabbed her husband's arm and dragged him out of the store completely mortified i could hear her husband yelling at her in arabic that he warned her not to be a jerk all the time especially when she doesn't know who understands her i wasn't personally that offended but i won't deny it was satisfying to scare some sins into her a very wholesome i don't work here story after frustratingly trying to get the bulb that plugs the oil drain on my car as well as the oil filter i decided i should go out to get the supplies i needed to make my job easier changing the oil after picking up a quick dinner and the tools i needed to loosen everything i decided i might as well go shopping for what i needed since there was a store right across the street at first i grabbed my essentials amazingly everything was well in stock at the store and i decided to look through the liquor section to see if they carried my favorite craft beer and see what else they had while i was looking a man in his 80s henceforth known as man walked into the area man i can't find the toothpaste me well this is the liquor section man i know this is i think it's down 16 but i'm not sure at this point i realize he thinks i work at this store i am wearing a black tee black jeans and a stainless steel watch and necklace and the staff uniform is khakis and a black polo with a store logo on it i was about to tell the man that i couldn't help him because i was not an employee but i decided that i wasn't in a rush and if he didn't realize i was an employee he might really need the help me how about i help you find what you need man yes thank you i find the isle where i believe it is and i grab him a couple of things of toothpaste show him what is available and tell him the prices after he chooses what he wants we make our way to the cat food aisle we went through all the cans of cat food that were available more options than i thought existed he would pick up a can and ask me to read it i would tell him what it said and i would hold which cans he decided he wanted after about 10 minutes of this he has everything he needs and he mentions he had some coffee stored at a cashier and asked me to take him to the lady that was keeping it for him me oh i'm sorry sir i don't actually work here i just wanted to help you to make sure you could get what you needed and get out quickly so you weren't around so many people for a long time after he realizes what happened for the last 10 minutes we try to find the person who was holding on to his coffee but he decided to just visit a random cashier after this i kept looking through their amazing liquor selections that they had in the store checked out and went home to finish working on my car we did stay six feet apart at most times unless i was reading a label for him which would be brief and i don't always help out whoever thinks i work wherever i shop it happens often and i do help out most of the time but the place was busy and there were not a lot of workers so everyone was busy if someone needs help you don't have to be their personal shopper but it's always nice to help someone find what they're looking for a little kindness goes a long way stay healthy everyone family of karen's takes over my restaurant my grandparents immigrated to canada from italy in the 70s and opened up a restaurant when they passed away the restaurant went to my parents over the decades they grew and expanded it i've been working at the restaurant since i was 15. over time my parents got older and eventually retired becoming snow birds go to florida for the winners they left the restaurant to me about a few years ago but still retaining is small percent ownership as an additional revenue stream along with their savings and annuities soon as i gained control i pretty much modernized the old place remodeled the restaurant changed the logo reached out to local and national papers to put out ads invited food critics bloggers vloggers etc it was very slow at first and i began to worry that the loan i took out to do all this was the biggest mistake i had ever done and i ruined three generations of my family's business but eventually it began to work and a local semi-famous youtuber featured us in one of his videos and that was the catalyst for more people to come and review and eventually we were seeing 5 to 10 times the business we usually get even if it's a monday we became a hot spot for major events and it wasn't uncommon for celebrity to come on those nights i even arranged for special high-profile chefs to visit and cook for our guests costs a fortune so during the holidays we were beyond packed it got to the point where people would have had to make reservations in july to get a table in december this process took years to get to where we are now when it gets busy i don't just sit in the back office i'm on the floor doing whatever needed to be done even if that means i greet people busting tables or even mopping the floors other nights when we have high profile guests or events i'm in a blazer and am acting in charge though on one night a group of six women walk in five of them look like they're still in their early twenties and the head of the group looked like she was in her mid-20s best theory she was one of the other four girls older sister or possibly an older sorority sister to incoming college freshmen maybe i was greeting at the door as they were walking up queen b karen was telling the baby kierans on how this place is awesome food is amazing and there might even be celebrities here when she came up to me she told me she needed a table for six i replied of course can i get the name on the reservation she looked at me and said oh i didn't make one but it's okay the owner is a personal friend of mine he said he always has one or two tables that he keeps open for special guests and said we can have one of those tonight now generally this is true of many high-profile restaurants and lately i've been doing that as well but i had no clue who this woman was and she definitely never spoke to me about any of this i did get she was trying to get in without a reservation but she literally picked the worst person she could possibly talk to and try this i told her i'm sorry but we cannot seat anymore without a reservation as you can see we do not have any seats available i didn't want to go all out and say i'm the owner and we have never spoken before so i never promised you a thing because i didn't want to embarrass her in front of the other girls at first she then went on and said out loud to one of the other girls to take a picture of me she will speak to the owner and make sure i'm either cleaning the toilet or fired by the end of the week the other girls following her lead were like yeah kiss your minimum wage job goodbye i'm not sure if they were in on it with her or they honestly thought she knew the owner queen bee karen then went on and said look you can just give us a table or i can make life very difficult for you this is not worth losing your job constantly pointing just trying to put me down saying things like obviously you aren't anyone here because if you were you would know who i am and never even tried to tell me anything other than yes or of course constantly trying to belittle me and get that table at this point it was a long day for me and the way i saw it i had three options one tell her i'm the owner and just call her out on all of this two just give her the table and let it be three teach queen bee karen and her little minions a lesson i chose option three for various reasons including some personality flaws i am aware that i have but i like to think it was at least fifty percent really wanting to teach her a lesson i smiled at her said of course ma'am follow me please and i gave her one of the three tables we keep open in case a celebrity comes in it happens time to time i told her i apologize for everything and she is right it would be simpler to just give her the table i also told her that the first three rounds of drinks will be complimentary i set them down and personally served them as they were sitting down i told them we do need one of your credit cards and ids just to keep on file and we will give it back to you before you leave queen karen gave me her cards and told the baby karen minions that tonight was on her i took their orders and got them their free drinks and told them due to how busy we are tonight there might be a delay on the food all they were thinking of and cared about were their free rounds they ordered their three rounds and still no food they eventually called me and asked me to check on it the whole time giving me the world's most nasty attitudes since even before they ordered i told them i will check on it but also asked if they would like any more drinks they ordered two more rounds by the time the appetizers arrived at this point they're all drunk having done nothing but drink on an empty stomach most of the night and only having had salads after as more food arrives the more drinks are ordered what these girls never realized was they are at our vip table which alone costs a few thousand just to sit in but i didn't charge them for that what i did charge them was for all the super expensive drinks they had throughout the whole night except for the first three rounds in addition the table they were sitting in as mentioned was vip so the menus were a bit different for one they don't say prices on them trade secret and in addition it had certain higher end menu options such as white truffle black caviar dishes and specially imported west coast oysters among other things at one point in the night i was honestly rethinking what i was doing and thought i might be going too far with these poor girls they might not know any better but some things reassured me throughout all the night such as one of the baby karen's asking me if i felt like my life was worthless since all i ever became was a waiter also one of my other employees told me how they were discussing how to mess with me to the point that they can just do this whenever they want and i will know to always give them a table i also overheard them say he's cute but i would never date a waiter like that he is such a pushover there were a bunch of comments like that the whole night so i kept on with their life lesson by the end of the night each girl racked up a bill in the range of five to six hundred dollars per person when i handed queen karen the bill of four thousand two hundred thirty two dollars with tax and tip included of course i have never seen anyone sober up so quickly she went from laughing and giggling with her friends to nearly in tears she called me over instantly and asked if this was some kind of joke i took the bill looked it over and said oh yes i apologize i will get you the correct bill in a moment again she felt a complete sense of relief thinking she got someone else's bill called me an idiot and went on to talking to her friends to be fair i did make a mistake i did forget to count her eighth order of a dozen oysters that cost about 120 dollars per order so i gladly just went back and added it to the order when i went back to give her the correct bill she flipped out again going crazy i just asked if there is something on this bill that she didn't order she and the girls in shock go over every single line of the bill including the first few lines that show their original three rounds which say complimentary they then took out their phones and line by line went over everything for the 100th time adding everything up extremely rattled queen bee karen simply said one second i need to use the washroom part of me thought that she might just pull a dine and dash and leave the baby kierans with the bill but kinda low key i did in a way remind her we had her id and credit card without making it obvious i thought she was going to run out on the bill 10 minutes later she comes back with new makeup obviously she has been crying and makes up a whole story on how the food was awful the drinks were bad and so on demanding that as bare minimum i should cut the bill in half with the agreement the baby karen's will chip in even though she originally told them the knight would be on her then as if a light bulb went off in her head she again mentioned her relationship with the owner as if it were to give me additional incentive to cut the bill in half holding back a grin at this point i told her no just no i cannot change the bill she whips out her phone and shows me a series of texts with someone called my restaurant's name owner which pretty much i realized what she was doing in the bathroom just probably changed one of the other karen minion's contact name and deleted previous texts to start this new script i read them and clicked on contact info and told her that's not the owner's cell number her reply was he has multiple phones for business and stuff of course you don't know all his numbers i thought wow this girl thought of everything except i'm the actual owner i told her how about this if we call him and he says that it's okay to take 50 off the bill then i'll do it her reply was yelling and screaming and the whole time customers began to start looking and i knew okay it's time to end this i told her already in a less accommodating voice cut the crap little girl you don't know the owner you have never been here before and if you keep yelling i will call the police her demeanor changed and she was trying to defend herself the best she could my reply to her week comeback was my grandparents founded this restaurant my family has been running this place for generations i've worked here almost my entire life i am the one and only owner of this restaurant and i have never once seen you heard of you and i definitely never made a stranger i don't know and have never met before tonight any promises the mini cairns were just frozen and didn't even know how to react queen bee karen was in tears i said now i gave you the table you wanted one of our specially reserved tables for high-end clients which i didn't charge you for and i gave you three rounds of free drinks if you don't pay your bill i will call the cops and hand them your id in tears queen karen signed the bill and the mini cairns took out their purses to give her whatever cash they had which equaled to maybe a couple of hundred with the promise to pay her back more two days later a man walks into my restaurant fuming and asks one of my bartenders to speak to me i was in the back office for a bit working so he waited a good half an hour for me he was queen bee karen's father she was with him too keeping her head down i took them both to my office showed him highlights of the security cameras which were especially good quality of audio because they were in the vip which we have to keep good records off because we have had other unrelated incidents before so i showed him most of it their comments their orders their everything when all was said and done they stormed out with her and was screaming at her the whole time they were walking away haven't seen or heard from either of them since but the original bill i gave them the one that didn't count the 120 oysters is framed on my desk side note i didn't lose as much overhead on the table and three rounds as you might think the table was originally supposed to be empty so i didn't lose anything since i didn't expect to gain anything to begin with and the overhead for the food and other drinks more than covered the loss on the three free first rounds destroy our tree we'll destroy your driveway background our house is old it's really old older than the town heck it's older than the confederation the house was originally built by a merchant from the area like 200 years ago it's old with its age comes a very big property line and apart from a couple of adjustments here and there to account for infrastructure and housing development it's basically unchanged from 100 years ago it rarely ever comes up here but in any dispute relating to property lines the official town plan takes precedent and our property line crosses over into our neighbor's property this will be important later and now for the two major players in this tale our jerk neighbor who we will call lumpy he's just the worst he ran an illegal chop shop in his backyard and seemed to be deathly afraid of trees he also always took a two-week long vacation in summer and it was always at the end of july this part is also important later the other one is my dad at the time he was in government oversight but before that he was in the department of justice and his major responsibilities included training crown attorneys this included the attorneys general in the order dad was actually pretty low but the crown knew and respected him and they were keenly aware that dad knew the law inside and out if there was anything even remotely resembling a legal dispute dad was almost always in the right with his argument now we begin our tale the slide the line between our yard and lumpies was pretty clear our side was grass protestant lilies shrubs and trees his was a gravel driveway before the incident there was a large manitoba maple tree growing there it was very old but grew in such a way that it blocked just enough sunlight to have a pleasant level of light coming through the window we had no intentions of ever removing it maybe trim it a little if it got too close to the windows however some lower branches were sagging onto lumpy's driveway so he asked if we could cut down some of the lower branches so that his car wouldn't get damaged when he drove in and out it was a fair enough request and he did ask permission first so we told him to get a landscaper and a quote because we sure as heck weren't going to let lumpy do it and we're okay paying for that a couple days later we were all on a day trip somewhere and when we got back lumpy comes over and tells us not to worry about the landscaper because he took care of it red flags were waving at that statement so we went and checked the tree this jerk cut the entire tree down then to add insult to injury he painted the stump with some sort of weird grey stuff don't know what it was but it had to have been toxic because nothing ever grew on that stump again not even fungi so we're understandably upset but unfortunately there's nothing we can do about it because there's no proof so now we've got a stump that was once a beautiful tree a smug neighbor and apparently no course of action to take dad didn't accept that scenario and he had a plan as i said earlier dad knew the law inside and out so he began to plan things out he made a few phone calls to the town's civil architect a couple inspectors the local landscaper lumpy was going to get that quote from and a contractor he visited city hall and got a copy of the official town plan which remember is the final word on property lines he had everything arranged and now he began to wait like clockwork lumpy went on vacation and the plan was enacted over the course of two weeks we expanded we rebuilt our fence to new dimensions rearranged the shrubs dug up the gravel driveway and put fresh dirt and grass over it and planted a weeping willow in a spot where as it grew would always hang and shed into lumpy's yard with the expanded fence and shrubbery lumpy's driveway was a small strip of pavement maybe half a meter wide the fence placed an old dying maple and a hawthorn on our side but because of how the two trees grew most of it was on lumpy side the key point is that the placement of the trunk dictates whose property it's on so it's our tree that he can't touch no matter how annoying or destructive it is with the new dimensions the chop shop he was running was now on our side of the fence but because it was illegal it was just scrap metal as far as the law was concerned so we sold it to a local scrap yard by the time lumpy came back our yard had expanded almost three meters into his yard and waiting for him was dad the civil architect and a lawyer with a stack of documents outlining in full detail that what they did was 100 percent legal and there wasn't a thing he could do about it aftermath lumpy apparently tried to press charges something along the lines of trespassing or destruction of property or something ridiculous like that i had moved out of town at the time so i don't know for sure what happened but i'd like to think the judge just threw the case out like i said everything was above board and completely legal what i do know he did was tear up part of his lawn and put a new driveway he still had room for it but it also cut his lawn in half and he had to pay to have sidewalk adjusted into a ramp also because the town was paying attention now he had to have it done properly with like asphalt and stuff instead of gravel like before he's also apparently planning to move out and rent the property to others need a taxi not me guy i'm a musician i play in function in cover bands doing weddings partings and so on in bars hotels pretty much anywhere where people ask us really as long as they pay us and we consider we're likely to survive the experience as i'm out working late at night and usually in licensed premises i encounter a lot of drunk stupid entitled people along the way it's par for the course and they're usually not too much of a problem but there are always exceptions one evening some nights ago i was playing in a function room in north london there were two bands booked that night plus a dj ours was a late finish we were the final band on and our set began at midnight and ended at three in the morning we played there quite regularly so knew the score the gig itself went fine and everyone enjoyed themselves we finished our set and packed up our gear while the staff began to shoo the customers out and clear up the venue in preparation for closing as it was the middle of the night there were few if any buses or public transport running those who had not arrived in their cars had to find a taxi to take them home there was always a queue of taxis outside the front doors plus a scrum of people trying to get into them as there were never enough cars to go around there was no cue it was every man and woman for themselves the door staff did their best to try and keep order but it was a bit of a melee by the time we had packed away and were ready to load our kit into our vehicles most customers had left leaving the stragglers who had not managed to find a taxi i left my equipment by the door just inside the venue and went to fetch my car from the car park across the street as i play the base i had two large speaker cabinets this was before the days of compact lightweight base amplification two flight cases containing my instrument and amplifier another case full of cables and accessories plus a couple of lights and part of the pa system i drove a volvo estate about the only vehicle that would accommodate the amount of stuff i had to transport i parked outside the front door and went in to collect my stuff i wheeled the first of my speaker cabs out to find three people sitting in my car i opened the tailgate lifted the speaker into the vehicle and asked what they were doing there you're a taxi came the reply take us to harl's den sorry i replied i'm part of the band i need to load my equipment but would you get out of the car please don't give us that you're a taxi now take us to i walked around to the passenger door looked in and said listen mate take a look at my face bring any bells you've been looking at me up on that stage for the last three hours i'm in the band now get out of my car please don't lie you jerk europe realizing this was going nowhere i went to the rear of my car and retrieved the pickaxe handle i kept there for emergencies i went to the passenger door opened it and told my new friends to get out and waved my little friend at them for the last time i'm not a taxi now get out or you'll get this this had the desired effect they got out grumbling and went back to the front door to wait for a taxi i continued to load the car big good night to the door staff got in and started the engine as i did so one of the three ran to the car i quickly engaged the central locking he pulled on the door handle when it wouldn't open he wrapped his arms over the roof and around the windscreen on the passenger side shouting take us to harold's thing you jerk his friends headed towards the car so i engaged first gear and eased forward they stopped but our hero clung on kicking at the door and yelling i increased my speed and swerved from side to side in an effort to dislodge him he clung on still yelling he held on until i got to the end of the street but i managed to throw him off by taking the sharp bend at the end of the road at speed he fell in a heap in the road and lay there i didn't bother to stop to find out if he was all right customer drops milk jug proceeds to grab another and buys it without giving us a chance to clean the previous mess so like i said in my previous post i'm a closing cashier most days with a few days where i'm in the aisles helping throw freight here and there today was another cashier day and it was right after my day off the shift was going fine and all not that many rude customers a couple of times where i was pulled from the register to help move stuff the works then it happened enter kevin not his real name kevin seemed normal enough nothing weird about him he came to me with an arm full of items and asked where the milk was i pointed into the dairy section and he just kind of left his stuff on my conveyor belt and walked like he didn't have a bunch of items on my belt i think to myself okay a little weird but whatever he should be back soon five minutes and a couple customers later he finally comes up with another armful of things not including the milk me uh sir did you find the milk okay kevin oh darn it i got distracted hold on another five minutes go by and he finally gets a jug of milk the transaction goes like normal he pays and he gets ready to leave me did you want me to grab a cart for you sir that seems like a lot of stuff to carry kevin no i got it grabs everything but the milk which he saved for last i legit thought to myself the second before this happens i sure hope he doesn't drop it well boy let me tell you he drops it from his arms to the floor the jug crashed on both sides so even if the other cashier i had in front of me was plugging one hole the other would just be a milky waterfall we panic and toss it in the trash can and call for a wet cleanup now usually if someone damages an item in store that they already bought we'll replace it for them they already paid anyways however i was in so much shock from the sheer amount of milk that ended up on the floor on my point of sale station and even going into my co-workers point of sale so he ended up buying another jog so he goes to get it while i'm trying to get as much milk up as i possibly can without a mop until a courtesy clerk shows up and he goes into my line the one with the dairy flash flood that would make noah's ark blush so now he's got more of a mess since he's leaving boot prints everywhere in the front and he's bought another jug of milk i didn't care i just wanted him out of there so i could get this cleaned it took us about half an hour to get all of the milk out of wherever it all went to the manager saw all of this and she let me take my last 10 minutes early the only sort of ending i have to this story is that a couple days later i was in the aisles with new courtesy clerk that helped me clean it all up basically just helping set up spots to put the new products in and kevin's back he recognized me and immediately apologized i wasn't mad or anything adam it was just a whole sequence of events that kinda overwhelmed me at the time i said it was fine and i was glad to help him out and he went on his way so basically i'm gonna have flashbacks whenever i see a gallon of two percent in my fridge entitled mom treats me like an atm backstory allowed a friend of a friend who was down on her luck to room with me for two years so he did become close friends as she needed to get away from her horrible ex father of her son in hindsight the fact her boyfriend at the time would not spring for a place for her to move in with him should have been a red flag for me there's a whole other story regarding both the father and the boyfriends plural that i won't get into right now fast forward a couple of years stuff happened lost my job had to move back home literally across the country got rehired still kept in contact with her and since i could afford it 100 every couple of months to help her out wasn't hurting my finances while she was down on her luck she was back living with her mom and on government assistance for a while so it was infrequent enough that it didn't bother me but after a while i was getting tired of her begging me to borrow some cash realized i never did tally the total amount and was shocked to find out it was over twelve thousand dollars over eight years so i basically gave her an ultimatum early last year essentially i'm cutting you off at the end of this year 2019 you have a year to get your act together if you do great you don't need to rely on me anymore if you still need help then i'm just throwing money away into a black hole i thought i was helping you get back on your feet not letting you live off of me whatever the case come january 1st i'm not responding to any requests for money period things were cool the first half of the year but then the latter half is when things went south first it was more frequent requests for money like helping for the initial deposit of an apartment as her new job didn't pay her yet or groceries okay critical life stuff i can accept like she'll need a cell phone plan to handle email and such for job hunting but then it was like requesting five hundred dollars in the span of two weeks and small chunks of forty dollars here eighty dollars there then one time instead of asking first she'd just send a money request from her bank as if i was an atm and would just blindly send it along and if i didn't respond right away she'd spam my phone even though she knows i'd be busy working in meetings or commuting a portion of it is on the subway so i'd be offline for around 30 minutes but obviously she can't wait that long cue the phrase we've seen in this sub for a lot of entitled parents failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine then the parent parts there were incidents like asking me to pay for her kids medication because his dad forgot to pack it for his visitation why should i be paying for this not my kid shouldn't you be asking his dad no i'm not giving you 80 for a bus ticket for your son to visit you i know you miss him but i don't see it as a critical expense i'm sorry but maybe you should try deferring the visit till later when you're more financially stable i'm sure your 12 year old son will understand then the kicker this past christmas she had saved enough money to buy a nintendo switch not you know saved up the money to handle surprise expenses or pay me back not that i expected but went immediately towards a very expensive gift for her son the reason she was contacting me however was that her ex-boyfriend not the one from before i've lost count of which boyfriend probably number eight at this time had serious entitlement anger and mental issues broke into her apartment stole a bunch of stuff like the switch and pawned it thankfully the police were able to get him and i believe he's in jail now however she's still out of a present but instead of getting a cheaper present or asking around other friends and family to pitch in she contacts me first and asks for 200 to go towards the present obviously i declined i think she eventually settled on a gaming keyboard and mouse for him naturally she used the ruined christmas line on me which got me really upset her ex ruined it not me i don't really owe her anything she's not entitled to my money i'm not an atm at her beck and call so far in 2020 she still tried to borrow money but i've held true to not giving her anything also never having roommates ever again especially people with kids entitled sister wants to be given a lake house for free background my grandparents owned some nice land on a lakeshore about four hours away and decided to build a little vacation house on it they would spend every summer there at first sometimes bringing my two older sisters along the eldest entitled sister and cool sister entitled sister went for the whole summer a few times without cool sister i didn't go at this point in time because i was too young it is important to note that while initial ownership of the land and some of the construction costs were paid for by my grandparents it was really my dad that paid the rest of the bills taxes utilities lawn services etc which he saw as fair enough since they helped him start his business and he loved his parents as time went on and their health was declining they started going to the lake for much shorter spans of time i think i went once or twice with them on these shorter trips and would go with my parents on the rare occasion they would go up and fall and a few times for the fourth of july those fall trips were almost exclusively to do maintenance with a little fun on the side around this point in time grandpa passed away grandma would be around for a long time after that though she was always much healthier than he was when my sisters were old enough to drive and do their own thing an agreement was made between my dad and grandma that my sisters could go to the lake house whenever they wanted to on the occasion that every other trip they would bring grandma with them as she couldn't drive the trip herself cool sister held this bargain up for the few times she went i even got to join them for a couple of those trips and title sister not so much i think entitled sister brought grandma to the lake two maybe three times collectively with a lot more trips with her husband in between than could possibly equate to every other time eventually she just forgot the whole take grandma with you thing and started just going to the lake all the time her forgetting grandma got to the point that when she would come back after her trips to drop the keys off that she was always too busy to come in and say hi to grandma for a minute the rest of us saw this as majorly uncool grandma herself felt extremely betrayed by entitled sister because of that it's worth noting that when entitled sister was little she was most certainly my grandparents favorite they were always buying her things and taking her places and treating her like a princess that probably explains why entitled sister turned out the way she did at this point in time the lake house more so belonged to my dad than anyone even though he barely used it partially because he didn't have the time to go partially because he had too much pain physically to want to make a four hour trip one year for christmas entitled sister bought new sheets and comforters for the beds at the lake house and boxed them up and gifted them to my dad this essentially was a gift to herself though as at this point in time she was the almost exclusive user of the house it was seen for what it was everybody chalked up to her usual selfishness but didn't call her out on it my dad had strongly debated selling the lake house since only entitled sister was using it for anyone who knows what just owning a house costs in america he had good reason for wanting to take those bills off his desk but he decided against it as my grandma was still around and felt it would break her heart if he sold it possibly harming her then dwindling health entitled sister continued to use the house to her heart's content with rare trips in between from my parents and even rarer trips from cool sister my parents would bring grandma to the lake the few times they went since entitled sister couldn't be bothered to do so at this point in time i was able to drive but being single and not really having any friends who are outdoorsy i didn't really see the point in going there alone so i didn't go other than sometimes with my parents maintenance fell to my parents myself and cool sister that was mainly what those rare trips i was involved with revolved around entitlement gone wild not too long after this grandma passed away and left everything to dad since he was the one keeping everything paid for and fixed entitled sister continued to use the lake house as she had been doing albeit with even a little more entitlement now that she felt it belonged to her the rest of the immediate family went and cleaned up the house so it would present nicely for sales photos entitled sister flipped when she found out the house was going on the market stating oh yeah i guess dad is going to hawk the house and pocket the money to my mother at one point this sentiment quickly got back to my dad and my dad being kinder than i could have offered the house to entitled sister for free the plan was to gift it to her a certain amount every year for 10 to 15 years so she wouldn't be taxed on the exchange of the deed and that entitled sister's family would just take over the bills she didn't like this because she felt he was just gonna take it away from her at the last second even though there was no plausible reason he would want to do that especially at his age she also didn't like the six thousand dollar a year in property tax utilities lawn care etc saying that they couldn't afford it even though her family was taking something in the order of ten to twenty thousand dollars worth of vacations every year in addition to the numerous lake house trips it was also offered to become hers instantaneously which would cost her extra money but then she wouldn't be afraid of having it taken away this of course was also rejected so dad put it up for sale as he was tired of paying six thousand dollars a year for something he didn't use and barely anyone other than entitled sister used entitled sister aged about this and her 37 going on 13 way but that still didn't stop her from going to the lake all the time she said it would and it did at first but it didn't stay that way for very long the lake house sat on the market for years with periodic price drops as it was originally listed at an optimistic price by my dad and hopes that he might recover some of the sunk costs from over the years the offer of you can just half the lake house just pay the bills was floated to entitled sister at least two more times during this i believe she assumed the house would never sell and dad would eventually just give up enough time had passed that i found myself in a steady relationship with someone and finally felt i had a reason to go to the lake house since it was still in the family but it seemed that any desirable date and time i wanted to go entitled sister had already laid claim to it so even though i was busy all the time similar to my dad and had rare opportunities to go i had to schedule a round entitled sister who was able to go to the lake pretty much any time she felt like it her schedule was slash is immensely flexible because she didn't slash doesn't work her husband makes loads of money and pays for everything for her recently though out of nowhere some buyers found the lake house and the whole closing process began closing day was to be in less than a month my parents couldn't decide how to delicately give this news to entitled sister since they knew crap was going to hit the fan with her the decision was taken out of their hands when entitled sister came to my parents house and announced she was going to the lake house on xyz date that was a week after the closing date they were forced to tell her that it is sold and she started crying and sprinting back to her car it was as though she was she was five and just discovered that santa isn't real mind you at this point she was 42. a couple days later her husband came over to have a talk with my dad about the lake house entitled sister didn't join her husband in this just gave him a few talking points this presumably was because she was incapable of holding back her rage during the meeting and the conversation the deal of you guys can just have the house just take over the bills was offered yet again and rejected yet again for the same bs reason through further discussion it turned out that entitled sister and her husband felt my dad had enough money and that my dad was more than able to continue paying the bills on the lake house so it could stay in the family red keep getting used for free by entitled sister my dad with the apparent patience of a saint didn't flip out over such an unreasonable expectation just stated they were at an impasse and it was going to be sold entitled sister's husband then tried to bargain for entitled sister to go for one last weekend because entitled sister wants to at least say goodbye to grandma this is totally laughable since entitled sister couldn't be asked to take a minute out of her busy schedule to even say hi to the sweet old woman when she was alive i don't think entitled sister even gave her a phone call in all those years my dad didn't point out any of that though just stated that since the deal was so close he didn't want to do anything that might upset the buyers this was met with immense disappointment as now entitled sister's husband had to go home and feel her wrath when he delivered the news the end result the lake house was sold to a lovely older couple at a pretty sizable loss entitled sister is barely speaking to my parents now not a big change from normal really shocking i know despite my parents being far more accommodating than i would have been in their position at one point in the time since the sale she mentioned that she had spent over 300 on the bedding for the lake house that she wasn't going to get back since the new people kept the furniture this is of course forgetting the part where she gave the betting to my dad for christmas many years before i don't really know what her end game was did she expect my dad to keep paying the bills until he dies if so what then if she were to inherit the lake house at that time she would still have to pay the bills they just can't afford plus the exorbitant taxes for transferring something valuable the most likely scenario i can come up with is that she was assuming because i'm most likely to take over the reins in the coming years that i would take over the bills and let her keep using it tolerating her crap the same way my borderline saintly parents have pretty amusing considering she barely acknowledges slash has acknowledged that i even exist over the years that used to really bother me but this whole situation among other unnecessary confrontations has made me realize things were slash are better off that way karen at the movie theater i worked at a small movie theater that usually showed some alternative films there were several other activities in the building including choirs and theater groups but i worked for the cinema and did not keep a track of where and when the other activities were at the cinema we had a computer connected to the movie ticket booking and the cinema's email this computer had settings so we who worked there couldn't be on whatever pages we wanted important info this time i was working on a wednesday for the first time and had no idea what was happening in the building except what film i was going to show while i was sitting at the computer arranging small things karen shows up excuse me yes what can i help you with do you know where the international choir has its practice unfortunately no i only work for the cinema and have no knowledge over other activities don't be silly look it up on the computer for me i can't do that the computer only works with the programs we have for cinema and the booking so you can see all the bookings in the building no i can't i can only see the cinema bookings are you too important to help me or what me excuse me but i don't know how i can help you i don't know where the international choir has its practice where they start or who is responsible for them but i know we will be showing our movie tonight if you're interested karen storms off and i remain slightly irritated visitors to the evening's movie come and pay for their tickets enter the salon and sit down five minutes before i close the doors karen came back i couldn't find the choir so i'll take the cinema instead me sorry for not being able to help you sooner but fun you want to see the movie then i explained that it is free placement in the salon and what the tickets cost and that it's to a discount if you're over 65. do you think i'm old now too me surprised no this is information i provide to all customers you still think you're too important for me but i buy a ticket anyway me okay here's the prize wasn't it cheaper if you're over 65 it's cheaper i am over 65. then you will get the discount i write in the discount and print out her ticket and give it to her she snarls and goes back into the salon time goes on and afterwards i started the movie i can start putting away the candy and warm my lunch then karen comes out from the salon looking at me karen what did you get paid to eat me when the movie is on i can't do much else the computer is locked no more customers will come in and i'll be here until after the credits are done so yeah i'm having my dinner now the computer certainly works me no i can't prepare tomorrow's movies today because when the last movie of the day is started the screen locks for security reasons but can i help you with something because you're not in the salon watching your movie karen i didn't like it so i'll go now and i'll tell your boss how unpleasant you have been with me tonight she goes away and i eat up my dinner before i email my boss and tell him what had happened my boss replies by reminding me that i cannot use the computer after the last movie goes and ask if anything else happened during the evening not the best boss have more stories just about him i answer no and the rest of the time i spend on youtube on my private phone no sir i cannot valet your car i don't care if you're friends with the president of the company once upon a time i was a valet for a semi local hotel chain my hotel in particular had multiple floors of event space and no on-site garage therefore sometimes we would have 400 people attending an event and we could only park a handful of cars this night was one of those nights we had two large events which had already begun two hours ago and for some event people were still showing up in arrives our entitled man i'm busy opening a door for someone when he pulls up in our loading zone and stands outside his car talking to someone on the phone i walk over and he just holds out his hand with his keys and continues with the conversation me hi sorry but we're full for event parking him ugh then just leave it where it's at i'm late me unfortunately that's not a spot i can't certainly direct you to the nearest parking structure em oh what's one more car just park it me i'm sorry but we just can't accommodate any more vehicles it's a car it'll fit anywhere me i'm sorry but i really don't have room he angrily walks back to the car phone's still in hand then turns back towards me does it help that i'm friends with the president of your company no then i'm going to call him and tell him that this hotel can't even valet like they're supposed to this is unacceptable me okay and he huffs his way back to his car and speeds off into the sunset or around the block but whatever and i did not run into him the rest of the night which was nice because i thought for sure he would come back to scream at me he actually did call the president and told him how we couldn't valet him in which the president laughed at him and told him to arrive earlier why did you seat those people we were here first this happened at my first hostessing job years ago but it still makes my blood boil to this day it was a usual busy weekend and an elderly couple walks in with no reservation and i told them it's a 15 minute wait but luckily there's no one in front of them and they were peeved the restaurant is an open floor plan and you can see the entire dining room from the front door but i guess they couldn't see that well because obviously they couldn't tell how busy we were the elderly couple sat in the waiting area and waited while staring me down not even a few minutes later some people came in that are actually meeting a big party that's already half there and seated they just needed help finding their friends i showed them where their friends were and when i got back up to the host stand the old lady threw her hands up in the air and said what the heck and the old man went berserk why did you see those people we were here first i explained to him that they weren't a new table that their party already arrived 30 minutes ago and they're just the remaining guests left of that big party you would think that would be the end of his fit but since he knew he couldn't be mad at me because i was actually right he started going off about something else well you better do your job right then and seat us right now this is ridiculous i replied don't worry sir i know how my job works i'll seat you when there's actually something available and made them wait an extra 10 minutes on top of their 15 just to be petty but they literally didn't even notice i don't know why but this story still gets me raging entitled people ignore me and steal my groceries as i lay unconscious in the middle of the store i have a heart condition called ncs which essentially means that the nerve that controls dilation of my arteries can get triggered for no reason causing my blood pressure to plummet and me to black out for most people this either happens with a trigger such as blood or pain or they have a high enough normal blood pressure that if the nerve does get triggered they don't drop to a low enough blood pressure to fall unconscious long story short i usually can't walk for long periods of time without passing out so i typically order my groceries ahead of time online and pick them up to avoid putting myself in a dangerous situation however thanks to people panic buying at the start of this whole thing going on everyone and their brother were ordering groceries online to avoid contact and stores were out of everything on top of that so all online order slots either couldn't be filled or were taken up for two weeks into the future this meant that i had to walk around the store to find my groceries which is a lot harder than it sounds for someone who can drop without warning this day in particular i ended up having to try six different stores to find what i needed and by the time i got to the grocery store that had the bulk of the items i needed i was exhausted and slightly dizzy but i had to finish my shopping or there would be no food in the house thanks to everyone who was hoarding anyway i get about halfway through the store my cart piled up including the last of a few items and i feel the familiar feeling of my body giving out under me i was able to get to the ground and sit safely but i was losing consciousness quickly at least four people passed me while i sprawled out on the floor covering their faces and rushing away like they thought i was sick or something finally after what felt like an eternity a kind old lady approached me to ask if i was okay all i could do was pull my medical alert necklace from inside my jacket before everything faded away i don't remember much of what happened exactly but in the spurts that i was awake i remember an employee with a gallon of water trying to make me drink and then vaguely a paramedic showing up by the time i came to the employee asked if they could pull my card off to the side until i was done in the back of the ambulance i agreed knowing that as soon as i had more fluids in me i'd be back to normal in a matter of minutes 20 minutes in the back of an ambulance and a full bottle of water later and my blood pressure was back to normal my sister was on her way to help me get home safely and i was released to go check out my groceries when i came back into the store however my groceries were gone the same vultures that had passed me while i was helpless and nearly unconscious on the floor had found the cart the employees tucked away from me and picked through it all and taken whatever they wanted i was upset and too weak to reshop i left the whole hot mess of a situation empty-handed and had to go back again the next day because apparently people are entitled enough to pass up an unconscious person in the middle of the store to resume their panic buying as well as to steal from a card that was clearly set aside by employees entitled mom spent an hour shopping while her kids screamed the entire time then tried to exchange clothes from over a year ago so this happened a few years ago when i was working part-time at a clothing outlet let's just say that this company sells higher-end clothing and caters almost exclusively to karen's my life was heck for those two years god bless those who work there full time you are the real heroes cast we've got me we've got entitled mom the lady who has clearly never interacted with another human being we've got entitled kid her screaming one-year-old and we've got my poor co-worker let me start by saying this was a saturday shift in a crowded shopping mall and i was working a double to cover for a co-worker i had recently been promoted to shift lead so i was the manager on duty that day and was closing fast forward to the end of the day the day was insane and by the end of it both my co-worker and i were exhausted we were tidying up the store and taking care of all the go backs when i heard the door open it was 8 53 we close at 9. enter entitled mom an entitled kid typically if we have customers that come in that late it's to grab a gift card or something we do have the occasional shopper that comes right before clothes and stays a while but they are typically fairly quick when they realize that they are the only ones there holding us up not tonight the first thing i notice is that entitled kid is screaming like it's really loud i woke up to greet entitled mom over the sounds of her screaming offspring me good evening ma'am is there something that i can help you find today entitled mom no thanks just browsing the worst answer me okay well let me know if you need help with anything before i close the dressing rooms my little way of insinuating that it's late and i want to go home entitled mom well i'll definitely need a dressing room can you go ahead and start one for me me yelling at this point over the sound of entitled kids screaming sure thing entitled mom sorry about him he's had a long day haven't we all as i walk away i notice that entitled mom has a trash bag full of clothes underneath the stroller that she's carting around her screaming kid in odd but whatever maybe she has a goodwill donation for the next hour and a half this woman tries on every single article of clothing in the store per corporate policy we can't rush guests as they shop as long as they come in before close we tried everything turning off the music sweeping the floor closing the two out of three registers etc pretty much all the indicators that we are closed and to get out and yet she stayed and her kid screamed for an hour of it before he fell asleep at around 10 30 she's ready to check out i have co-workers start to ring her up so i can get closing started in the back and get us the heck out of here i'm in the stock room when i hear the screams i rush out and i find this lady screaming and co-worker who is one of the nicest people i've ever known is crying at this point me what seems to be the problem anything i can help with entitled mom yes you can fire this idiot because she's treating me like absolute garbage i don't think corporate will be very happy to hear how their employees are treating paying customers co-worker looks at me with tear-filled eyes me co-worker will you go to the back and finish the online orders for me i'll take care of entitled mom okay ma'am what can i help you with entitled mom well i was trying to get these clothes returned so i can put the credit towards my purchase entitled mom then takes the full garbage bag of clothes and dumps it out in front of me technically the clothes inside the bag were all from the store where i worked however they were all a year older or more clearly well-worn no tags me ma'am i'm so sorry but you cannot return these what why not well for one they don't have any tags you don't have a receipt and they have clearly been washed and worn by you for quite some time returns are typically recent purchases that don't quite fit well these don't fit me anymore so i would like to return them said in a very condescending tone me our return policy is 30 days and it can't be washed and you need a tag or receipt can't you just give me store credit no i cannot you can try resell shops if you want to but we aren't a thrift store these pieces aren't even in production anymore i'm not an idiot i know these clothes are from a while ago because i'm the one who bought them they don't fit me anymore because i was busy creating human life and now i need new clothes she gestures to her poor exhausted kid who at this point has woken up and began to scream again me ma'am i'm sorry but i still can't accept these as returns can i help you purchase the clothes you picked out today like heck you can't i have had a long day and deserve this i can't afford to buy these without returning my old clothes me then i don't know what i can do for you you can get me your manager me full of satisfaction i'm the manager on the floor tonight well then you are so done for i'm calling corporate to report you me here's their number call centers open tomorrow at 7 00 am entitled mom's mouth dropped pretty sure she didn't expect me to be so cavalier about getting reported but i did not give a single hoot at this point she was quiet for a moment and took a deep breath and asked if i could help her bag up her old clothes to take with her so she could give her screaming kid a snack i was pretty shocked at the abrupt mood change but whatever i'm exhausted and want to leave so bad i start bagging up her old clothes when she reached down to grab her kid's snack as i'm putting the clothes in the bag she reaches over the counter grabs the clothes she was going to purchase and then runs towards the door i just stand there because it's against our policy to stop people from shoplifting anyway and i've locked the doors to prevent other people from coming in she gets to the doors and violently yanks the handle back and forth trying to open them i calmly walk over let me out me sure thing i hold out my hands for the clothes she glares at me then wisely decides it's not worth it she shoves the clothes at me and turns away muttering at me as she does so i unlock the door and she leaves as if that encounter wasn't crazy enough she actually called corporate to complain after literally trying to shoplift from our store what a wild ride entitled jerk almost paralyzes my friend parents scream at principal and refuse to pay hospital bills today i have an amazing story for you by the way this story took place in a private school cast we've got me we've got entitled kid entitled mother entitled father the teacher and my friend background entitled kid is a jerk there is no doubt about it he's an arrogant jerk who thinks he can get away with anything and he pretty much can since whenever people call him out he calls his mommy and daddy who are friends with the principal we think they bribe him so he never gets in trouble all the teachers and students who know him hate him but since i'm in a private school what the principal says goes so no one can do anything about him luckily i changed schools this year as i got accepted into a gifted and sci-tech school so i'm finally done with him the actual story friend and i were in music class with the rest of our class including entitled kid we are unfortunate enough to have to sit next to entitled kid as all three of us play the saxophone and teacher seats us according to which instrument we play since entitled kid always sits on the end seat friend and i take turns next to entitled kid today was friend's turn entitled kid was completely ignoring class and was just spending his time annoying friend entitled kid would pull back friend's seat every time friend tried to sit down 20 minutes into class and friend had already caught entitled kid doing it five times and pulled his seat back into place so he could sit in it unfortunately friend didn't catch entitled kid the sixth time he tried this friend had just finished playing his solo and when he set back down entitled kid pulled his seat back yet again friend didn't notice so he ended up falling backwards however entitled kid didn't pull his chair back very far so friend actually ended up hitting his head against the sharp edge of the chair keep in mind these chairs are solid metal and friend hit his head right above the neck where the spinal cord was located friend is really hurt and down on the floor nobody noticed this until friend cried out in pain everyone looked over and saw him and entitled kid with a guilty look on his face for a second nobody moved then it was pandemonium i and another friend of mine rushed over to friend and started helping him some other kids ran out of the room to get the principal teacher just stood there with a shocked look on his face friend's mom ended up being called and friend was taken to the hospital where he was treated i don't know exactly what happened at the hospital because friend didn't want to talk about it afterwards and i didn't press him back at school things weren't looking good for entitled kid even though the principal usually didn't punish entitled kid when he did something wrong with so many eyewitnesses and with friend possibly being seriously hurt the principal had no choice but to suspend entitled kid for two weeks entitled kids parents were called and i and a few others were asked to stay to give a more detailed account of what had happened at this point you guys are probably wondering why this was posted in r entitled parents since there haven't been any yet well don't worry you're not going to be disappointed 15 minutes after entitled kids parents were called an expensive car came screeching into the parking lot way faster than the speed limit the driver and passenger doors were thrust open and out came entitled kids parents they were dressed in business suits an entitled mom had sunglasses on they stormed to the front entrance and threw open the doors yelling at him entitled father what have you done why is my kid suspended at the principal the principal explained why entitled father that's bs entitled kid is perfect and would never do that your witnesses are lying he pointed at me and the other witnesses how dare you trust them over my son principal sir please calm down even the teacher saw what happened entitled mom then fire the teacher he is a liar principal entitled kids parents please calm down we trusted you principal yelling now do not yell at me leave the premises now or i'll expel your son fine but you'll be hearing from our lawyer they left with entitled kid in tow and the principal collapsed in his seat and sighed in relief he told us to go back to class and he'd call us down again later he didn't say why but he was probably exhausted after that encounter this was the last i ever saw of either of them but the story wasn't over yet from this point forward everything said here is from friend's point of view and was told to me afterwards by friend this isn't the exact conversation but it's the gist of it friends total medical bills came to about five hundred dollars because although health care is free and they had insurance friend's mom also took friend to a naturopath and an acupuncturist friend and his mom met with entitled kid's parents in a coffee shop three days after the incident to settle outside of court as soon as friend's mom sat down to the table entitled kid's mom threw a 20 bill at friend's mom and said there you go that should cover it friend's mom told entitled mom that the total actually came to 500 not 20. bs said entitled father healthcare is free friend's mom told entitled parents that they had gone to a naturopath and an acupuncturist and then showed them the bills that's your problem if you decided to go to some fancy pants specialist that's your choice you pay for it replied entitled father friend's mom explained that friend had been almost paralyzed had damage done to his spinal cord so friend had needed to go to these specialists sure he was almost paralyzed snorted entitled father with a smirk nah i don't buy it i think you just wanted to take advantage of us paying and decided to go to some specialists because you think we can afford it guess what lady that won't work i have x-rays and a doctor's note saying i should go to these specialists said friend's mom showing him the note and x-rays if you don't pay i will take you to court i'll press charges against your son and have him go to juvie friend told me that this was when entitled mom and entitled father started taking his mom seriously shut up said entitled mom the money now said friend's mom fine here's the money you jerk he pulled out his wallet and chucked 500 at friend's mom he then continued yelling at them calling them stupid friend's mom took the money and walked away ignoring them and that's the end entitled kid ended up not coming back to school after this so i didn't see him or his parents again ex-boss called me to yell at me for not showing up to work some backstory and general info i am female with a somewhat unique name yes this is important i was 18 i'm 23 now when i got my first job at a western wear store and didn't even work there for a full year we sold mainly cowboy boots and did some clothes and accessories that went along with that general theme i loved working there and it was a pretty great first job there were two locations one in my town and one in the next state i stayed at one location in my town and my boss mostly stayed at the other location because she lived closer to it she also had an employee who would go in between stores as the boss needed it at first i thought my boss was a really cool lady however that opinion would soon change you see she wasn't good at running a business and didn't want to keep paying the expensive rent for the building we were currently using so she moved the store to an obscure location at the beginning of the summer she admitted that summers were the slowest season so in my opinion it was not smart to move locations then she would also avoid regular customers when they would come in to talk to her about their orders taking too long to arrive i also heard she was a home wrecker and the guy whose marriage she ruined would come into the store regularly needless to say she was a bad business lady who did whatever she wanted after she moved the store we started losing business she started scheduling less of us having maybe two employees working at once then she told me it wouldn't hurt my feelings if you looked for another job i remember that word for word looking back i realized that was her way of saying you should probably find another job soon we weren't getting scheduled at all she was running the store by herself and she kept saying maybe business will pick up next week and i'll need you then one day my mom came home and asked if my boss had moved again i said i didn't know then asked why she informed me that she drove by my work and it looked empty i told my friend and soon she drove by and told me that it was indeed completely deserted i officially didn't have a job anymore thankfully i was working at a bar in a few days a week so i had some kind of income i did find out that this woman still had her other store open so i was a little salty now the real story i was chilling at home a few months after i found out my boss had deserted us when i see that she is calling me i thought it was weird and answered the call started off very friendly and cheerful but then her jerk side came out the call went something like this me hello ex-boss hi op me yes hi this is your ex-boss how are you i'm all right how are you i'm good look i'm calling because you the jerkness you cannot keep calling out of work like this me completely confused excuse me what you keep calling out when you should be here working i have places i need to be an ex-co-worker cannot run the store alone me i have no idea what you're talking about oh you don't know what i'm talking about said in a mocking tone no ma'am i haven't worked for you in months she's silent for a few seconds then hangs up i sat there for a minute processing what had just happened i figured she must have a worker at the other store with the same name as me and she just called the wrong one but i have a very uncommon name so that is unlikely in my opinion and if it was a mistake why not just own up to it and apologize but instead like a scared middle schooler she hangs up it was in this moment i lost what little respect i had left for her i wish there was a better way of ending this but there isn't i never heard from her again i have looked up her other store and it turns out she eventually closed that one too and now she works at an airport that somewhat makes me happy part of me wants to open a store like hers and run it better than she did we'll see landlord lost his business over a 300 security deposit i rented a little house from a man who owned a painting business the power was off when we came to see the property but he assured us everything worked even put it in the contract the place was dirty and poorly maintained so we negotiated the security deposit down to three hundred dollars turned out the heat slash air didn't work along with the refrigerator and dishwasher i asked him to have someone look at them he cursed me up and down he called and left threatening voicemails he would show up unannounced and let himself in on one of the visits i showed him that the crawl space was flooded and was a breeding ground for thousands if not millions of roaches and mosquitoes that would come up through the floor fans there was absolutely no duck work even though he claimed the heat and air worked fine he accused me of causing the flood myself even though i showed him the source was a pipe that had rusted through he refused to address any problems and said if you don't like it then you can move you can't pay for a bargain and expect to live in the ritz this man was a terrible man in general once he hired someone off craigslist to cut down a tree in the rental property's yard the man worked literally all day for the agreed 150 cut up and hauled off the tree he came back that evening just standing in the yard i asked if i could help him he said he was waiting for the owner to get paid the owner kept replying saying he was on the way but never showed up our neighbor told us he had punched the previous renter in the face and refused to pay him for a day's work for his company he had bragged about renting to illegal immigrants and not having to do anything because they wouldn't sue we had a newborn baby so we called his bluff and agreed to find a new place to live we left the home in much better shape than we found it he said he would mail us the security deposit but never did he dodged my phone calls until one day he called to say you aren't getting it back you broke the contract when you left early so go forget yourself i was really upset because we were new parents and had very little money that 300 was a big deal to us and a drop in the bucket for this man he owned an upscale painting business and had 15 rental properties the next week i was online leaving negative reviews for his business when i clicked a link and noticed his website's domain had just lapsed i knew what i had to do i immediately bought it then created a home page with contact info for his biggest competitor i emailed him from his old domain asking him if he wanted to buy the website for 320 the cost of the security deposit plus the price i paid for the domain he was irate he started calling my work threatening to sue my employer he even contacted my parents and threatened to sue them he left a bunch of threatening voicemails for me saying he was going to beat me up and he knows where i live and he has my social security number i received emails from several review sites asking if i was trying to update the contact info for the business he must have used his old domain's email as his contact email i didn't want to get in trouble for impersonating his business so i did not respond the contact info was never changed i received a few emails from potential clients i called him and told him about the painting job requests i gave him the contact info for one of the clients to prove i wasn't just making it up i told him it was the last time i was going to do that for him and suggested he buy the website back in order to not miss out on any other jobs he told me he was taking me to court i told him i had recorded his threatening phone calls and saved all his texts and voicemails he said he was going to sue me for illegally recording him not illegal in my state i said i look forward to seeing you in court when i counter sue and press charges for harassing me and i hung up he called back and yelled at me for hanging up on him i said call me back when you can speak respectfully to me and hung up again we repeated this about five times each time he was more angry until the last time he spoke respectfully and explained he hadn't got a single job in months i suggested he focus more on creating a website to find business he lost it and yelled at me again six months passed and he still hadn't bought the website from me i get a call from him begging me to do the right thing and give him the website back i told him the current price was 350 dollars six months later i get another phone call i told him the current price is 380 eventually he texted me to say i went out of business i hope you're happy i responded i hear having a website really helps your business 380 dollars and it's yours he told me what a terrible person i am and said karma's a jerk i responded maybe if you stop trying to rip people off your karma wouldn't be so bad this was the last time i ever heard from him the major business listing sites confirmed his business did indeed close i renewed the domain for another two years just in case he was bluffing a few months later i drive by his office to see if he was still there it was empty with a for rent sign posted i never got that 300 back and spent money on domain registrations but it was totally worth it why i helped him and not you karen this happened two weeks ago i live in england in a decent sized town cast we've got me we've got karen we've got the store manager and the location is sainsbury local a small version of sainsbury's supermarket in england the story so my dad had asked me to send off some important mail and had asked me to go and do some shopping for some supplies for home i say okay grab the car keys and head off to the post office after which i leave my car parked in the post office parking whilst i walk over to the sainsbury local as it is only a two or three minute walk from the post office reusable shopping bag in hand i was wearing a blue hoodie with a pair of dark blue jeans a face mask and my everyday pair of grey shoes once i reached the sainsburys i was told to wait a little bit by the security guard to allow for some people to leave from the small shop in order to maintain distancing after a short wait i was let in i go to the fruit and vegetables where i begin to pick up the items i've been asked to pick up following this i move over to the milk section where i accidentally knock over a stack of chocolate eclairs i begin picking them up as it was my fault and i'm not a monster to let the staff of the store pick the items up when it's clearly my fault they have better things to do than to pick up things knocked over by the public i just want to take this moment to say thank you to all the frontline workers and all the effort they're putting in to help us all i finished putting the items back where they belong and proceed to the frozen good section which is where i hear an excuse me i turn around to see an elderly gentleman and his wife who politely asked me where the cereal was i told him where it was as i'm quite familiar with this store and have been most my life i said please follow me as i'm also going to the same aisle to pick up cereal for myself they thanked me and i moved on to some of the other items on my list such as bread so in the bakery section i was pondering which bread my dad wanted which is when i hear the dreaded throat clear my original thought process was that i was in the way so i moved out of the way i thought that was it and i was about to move on to another aisle when i hear another throat clear this time i turn around to an old middle-aged lady who was glaring daggers at me this is the conversation that occurred me can i help you miss karen i have been waiting for you for a while now who the heck do you think you are to ignore me do you know who i am me i'm sorry about that i was not ignoring you i simply did not realize you were there i i was cut off so you admit you were ignoring me no ma'am i was not she cuts me off again i don't care anyways go grab me some oatmeal you lazy good for nothing me realizing that she thinks i work there oh no ma'am i do not work here see my uniform is completely different from theirs sainsbury had a maroon colored jacket with a maroon top and bottom with orange lines on their seams with their name on a company logo badge on the top karen bs i saw you helping that elderly couple and then you were stalking the shelves just before that you definitely work here so get off your phone and go get my oatmeal me i was just putting those items back as i had accidentally knocked them over and as for the couple they asked me politely and did not know what went where admittedly i was starting to get upset now due to the way this lady was shouting constantly karen after using some colorful language finishing off with this gem you useless jerk you should be happy to get to work in these times get me your manager now i'm going to get you fired at this stage because she was shouting so loudly and it was a rather smallish store both the security guard and the manager walked over manager what seems to be the issue ma'am karen i want this useless good for nothing fired he was messing around on his phone whilst working and not helping me she said this while smirking at me with a face as if saying i've got you now manager takes a quick look at me firstly miss please calm down secondly this individual clearly does not work for us we have the uniform i mentioned before but he is wearing a blue hoodie that's clearly not part of the attire he is clearly a customer here can you kindly leave him alone and proceed with the rest of your shopping at this stage my anger was starting to dissipate but you could clearly see in the manager's face that he was starting to get annoyed at this lady manager can you refrain from such language in the store please if you continue this language i'm going to have to ask you to leave karen why do i have to leave he pointing at me is the one who didn't want to help me and now you are defending him more strong words were used towards me manager is now upset ma'am please proceed to check out with all your items and leave i can't have you talking to our customers like this if you do not comply i will have you removed by the security guard karen forget you and the store i'm leaving i'm never coming back forget all of you she throws the basket with all the items on the floor and proceeds to leave escorted out by the security guard manager are you okay he knows me as i frequent in this store so much me yeah i'm good thanks for sticking up for me that lady has a few screws loose manager chuckling yeah she does this is when we hear a very loud scream of what the heck from outside the store me manager and some employees go over to the source and see karen's car being ticketed as she had parked in a handicapped parking zone she was holding a yellow bag in her hand this was a parking ticket apparently during the time the lady was in the store a police officer had come over to grab some items and had seen her parking and ticketed her according to the elderly man who i had helped earlier he said he had apparently seen the whole ordeal go down the person who had ticketed her the elderly gentleman's son who was waiting in his car outside elderly gentleman chuckling guess karma's a jerk huh young lad elderly lady don't use such language jim hope you're all right though young lad we asked my son for a favor as he was nearby and as you had helped us earlier then you got treated so horribly by that woman good riddance some people these days me a bit surprised and puzzled you did that thank you so much the elderly couple then met with their son and they proceeded to leave the rest of the staff me and some onlookers then went on about our business manager op what things were you here for let me help you me oh you don't need to do that i'm almost done anyways the manager then gave me a good portion of the stuff i was buying for free which i was very grateful for after which i proceeded back home so karen what did you think of today's stories they were horrible horrible how dare you these were some of the best we've ever read oh shut up mr reddit it's ridiculous what people like myself have to go through dealing with stupid people like yourself and your subscribers look karen you can say whatever you want about me but don't you talk about my re-army re-army most of your viewers aren't even subscribed to your channel 70 if i'm correct well i can't argue with that that's true most most of my viewers don't actually subscribe for some reason it's because you're stupid mr reddit no i'm not alright guys let's prove karen wrong by making sure you're subscribed to the channel and turn on notifications they're not going to listen to you and if you'd like me or karen what to record a special message for you come visit me on fiverr link pinned in the comments below never and join as a channel member today and karen will give you a special shout out in the next video like heck i will

Channel: r/mr redder

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Length: 165min 58sec (9958 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 05 2020