I once has a Karen confront me about my son wearing ‘headphones’ on the bus and she could hear the music blaring and started banging on about how parents like me are the reason these teenagers are so disrespectful listening to loud music in a public space disturbing other people….my son is autistic and was wearing ear defenders to keep noise out with absolutely no sound coming out of them. I think about that almost everyday
Wow. Just... wow. What must it be like to want to take down others SO strongly that a person wil deliberately, shamelessly, eyeball to eyeball manufacture lies about your child to your face. How desperately does she need to feel aggrieved?
@Sheila Addy: Just infuriating and what can you do when you’re a good human being? You really need a soft-spoken polite reply that will destroy the “Karen” verbally. As the parent of a handicapped daughter I’ve been looking for one my whole life! I hope you can let this go, thinking about it constantly only hurts you….the old saying about drinking poison and hoping the other person dies! Stay well and remember, you are a great mother!
I was once on a train with a friend and another passenger from two rows away came over and asked my friend to turn down her headphones… I was reading my book beside my friend (totally undisturbed by the tiny sound from her headphones). My friend apologised and turned off her headphones but we were both so shocked that the woman had thought it was reasonable to interrupt our peace. In the end we chatted and laughed for the next hour of the journey so I would imagine the woman found that much more annoying than the tiny sound escaping the headphones.
My dad has THE best way of dealing with Karens : he just stares at them. Silently. And then goes on about his business. It's absolutely hilarious to see them being so baffled at the absence of response. I love it.
I've had so many people try and get me to rant with them, usually about slow lines. I give a glare and turn around and refuse to talk or look at them. They never know what to do with me and I don't have to argue. Then I'm extra nice to the person working there and tip extra if it's an option.
I like telling them “it’s not like I’m in a hurry or have a hot date”. Then I chat up the cashier by finding something to compliment them for or if they apologize for stuff that isn’t their fault I just say go with “it’s okay, I used to work retail (true)” and chat them up more! With smiles even. And I make sure that as I go to leave I make eye contact with the complainer and use my best Grinch smile.
A brief pause and stare followed by a mildly nonplussed “okay,” is my preferred method of dealing with Karens, rude people, and grown-ass adults behaving like children. It’s more effective than arguing because it gives them nothing to work with - technically you’re agreeing with them - but also silently communicates _You’re embarrassing yourself. I don’t know how to respond without calling attention to it and embarrassing you further, so I’m just going to agree and pretend it didn’t happen._ In other words, respond like they just did the verbal equivalent of farting in public. The social pressure makes them think twice about causing a scene. ETA: If you’re working in retail or customer service and _have_ to engage, I don’t recommend this approach because it may earn you a reprimand for being disrespectful or some other bullshit CYA corporate response. In those situations I find it better to express sympathy and put the blame on the company/corporate/people higher up the food chain while maintaining there’s nothing you can do. “I know, we’re really backed up but they won’t hire more people,” “It’s so stupid, masks don’t even work but they make us wear them,” etc. Basically the “Don’t blame me, I’m on your side,” approach. It doesn’t work in every situation, but it can shift a frustrating attack on you for doing your job to sympathy for being subject to The Man.
I was at a Victoria Secrets semi-annual bra sale (you know those can be a madhouse). This woman, and her awful 10 year old daughter, were annoying everyone. The daughter was pulling things off the rack and dropping them on the floor. She would climb on the displays, even after the employees told her to stop. Her mom, did nothing but stood there. While in line, my daughter, who was 2 years old and in her stroller, was getting tired. I was next in line and my hands were full of merchandise. I told her I will pick her up once outside. That calmed her down. The Karen said, smugly, "Isn't it funny how you need a license to drive a car but not to have children! Just pick her up!" Before I could say anything, all the women around me went off on her about how she's the last person to tell anyone about good parenting. It was hilarious to watch all these women, including the teen girls, tell her what a horrible mother she was. Pure entertainment! After I walked out of the store into the mall, I sat on the bench to put the bag under the stroller. The Karen walked up to me and started saying it was all my fault...blah blah. Once again, some of the other women walked out and tore into her again. Man, I wish I had recorded it! The next occurrence was a few years later. A woman was bottle feeding her newborn on a bench at the mall. This Karen started berating her for not breast feeding. She was calling her a neglectful mom and selfish. After a couple of minutes of nonstop yelling, the mother said, "I can't breastfeed. I have inverted nipples." The Karen said nothing and started to walk away. Bad move! All of the women who overheard her yelling tore into her. One woman said, "You just made her have to say something that's embarrassing for her because you are a nosy b**ch!" None of the women would let Karen get a word in edge wise. The poor mother kept saying she was sorry, but we told her she did nothing wrong. Some of the women invited her to lunch, and she went with them. Moral of the story: stay out of other people's business! 🙂
Isn't it awesome when you're vindicated..? all of those women are just golden as women and human beings just for standing up for their fellow woman. A Karen needs to be taken down for humiliating and obnoxious behavior.. anyone who is unnecessarily embarrassed in public or shamed is entitled to watch as this woman is completely put through what she just dealt out.
@@addie-eileenpaige6460 I had that problem when I first gave birth to my son, but with my NEXT baby.. WAY too much! Just thinking about nursing started me going! I'd have to change shirts about a thousand times a day.🤗
I'm from Portland and am sad that this Karen lives within, probably, the same city district as I do. I'm sure she was never an attorney, however, if she somehow was, she was probably disbarred within a year or two of practice and or does some crazy, drama filled field of law like family law. (My parents are both lawyers, I get to hear all about other attorneys that they think are incompetent)
I love my mum more than anything in the world. She's a very special kind of Karen. She's the rare good Karen. She uses her Karen powers to stand up for people. Good example is this one time a girl in Walmart was being mistreated for wearing a hijab by some other Karen for no reason whatsoever. My Mum ran up to her and reversed Karened her, got the manager involved and got the karen removed from the store. Afterwords my mum goes back to being her normal self and telks the girl her hijab was beautiful and that it made her look beautiful (and it did. It was this soft lavender color with little silver beads sown into it it realy brought out her eyes). I love my good Karen mum.
It would've taken everything I had to not laugh uncontrollably when she started banshee screaming. Because sometimes you just have to laugh or you'll end up screaming in the same way, but for a very different reasons. She needs professional cognitive therapy. I truly hope she gets it, ASAP.
I once had a Karen who started sobbing hysterically when I asked for her receipt to give HER a refund........saying I only cared about her money. Ma'am I am literally giving you YOUR money back
Ohh I feel this comment so much. I work retail, thankfully not in person but holy hell the book i could write. The things that ppl have said to me and demanded, it's just unreal. The service desk at Walmart was a wild ride, but now it's gotten worse dealing with ppl over the phone. It's very entertaining at times.
Last year I had a COVID Karen following me around the mall while I was doing some shopping because I yelled at her to put her damn mask on if she wanted to come into the shops that literally had on their storefronts the notice to deny service to people who refused to wear a mask. She tried to spit on me when I went into the pharmacy and told her that they provide free COVID shots to drop ins and she should take up the offer and get in line. She was harassing a store employee who was documenting the amount of people coming in and out of the store. If she had said to this employee that she forgot her mask at home but needed to do her shopping, she would have been given one. But she was an antimasker ranting about her rights.
@CrazyCat Lady amen amen amen. 🤣 I've been in customer service/retail since I was 15 and I'll be 39 three days. It's in my blood. Lol. I too used to cry, and some days I still feel them welling up but I choke them back. That nasty 5% are not worth it. I try to laugh at their ridiculousness. I have so many customers that want my direct line and that makes me feel so great. I've never been a big drinker, but I may start. 🤪 It takes special ppl to work retail for sure. We're our own breed.
Aww, the little boy at the pool saying "let's go home" makes my heart hurt. what could possess a person to want to harass a child's mother while they are having fun until the child does not even want to be there anymore? Until the child can no longer have fun at the pool cause mommy is stressed and the man is yelling at her and him. Honestly, if I were a mother, idk HOW I would react, but it wouldn't have gone well. This mother's self-control while getting yelled at by this old man about what kind of mother she is is phenomenal and I seriously respect that for the sake of her kid.
Yeah, my heart broke there. I once had a Karen talk really rudely to me, because we retrieved my sons ball that had fallen on a part of the lawn that wasn't open to walking on it in a public park. I apologised and explained, and then that bitch bent down and told my son he killed some ants by walking on that grass. The lawn that was getting neatly clipped by a tractor-style mower. I nearly lost it right there, but my son nearly cried, so I picked him up and told her I already apologised. She then told us not to do this again, or we would be banned. My son is afraid of going back there since then, which is a shame, because its a beautiful place. I usually teach my son to be polite and respectful of authority, but in this case I told him she was a mean woman, who can't ban us from anywhere, how would she remember our faces. Bitch.
I had an experience where I got yelled at by a guy at the flea market for picking up a guitar and then putting it back on the table, but it fell off the table, he accused me of throwing it on the table and tried to get my mom to pay for it and let's just say Mama bear claws came out. I was so upset, I started crying. I legitimately felt horrible. She was my witness, I didn't throw it, I was standing there trying to apologize because when it fell, it hit the ground and ended up getting scuffed and the guy jerked it out of my hands when I was trying to pick it up and put it back.
totally agree i love her calm and got upset that her child would rather leave one of their most funs places than stay because of that donkey butt wrinkly dooshbg. Teaches me alot 2stay calm cuz I turn into a hot head during unprovoked confrontation.
the worst part is I know exactly where that event took place. Its in an old folks community in So Cal, my grandparents live there. Hundreds of familys with little children go to that poop every day while visiting their family that live within the community. There are zero rules about diving or jumping into the pool. The only rules for the pool are no running close to the edge and no hanging on the rope that divides the shallow and deep ends. That man probably does this on a regular basis to families there, and that makes me so sad.
See, that pool looks huge, and really empty and he absolutely shouldn't be jumping into people and wetting and disturbing other swimmers (the woman admits her son was jumping non-stop the day before), but if it's big enough, he probably won't be doing that. I remember being a child, jumping and diving was half the fun!
That officer said he was a CIT officer. That’s a Crisis Intervention Team. They respond to persons in crisis, and are normally called in for persons with possible mental illness/crisis or other such afflictions. They actually handled that situation very well.
YES! Stop sending gun-toting trigger-happy cops and send *more social workers.* Give crazy/druggie people a "Baker Act", i.e., a 72-hour observation in a psych ward. See if getting the drugs out of their system and some inpatient counseling help their mental state.
A "BaZillion" Votes for your comment to come into VISION!!!! I too would love to see a video of Charlotte laughing at the WONDERFUL fans that send her ENCOURAGING emails!!! LoL
I love that those cops literally have their hands tucked their pockets and she is just filming evidence that they have done nothing. How dare they be so level headed and reasonable!
My favorite is how they just turned and said "have a nice day", "yep. we're done here" and walked away when she started screaming like a lunatic. That woman is certifiable and a menace. I hope she's in a straight jacket in a cozy facility away from causing disturbances on a daily basis. Because, yeah, I take it she's that type of frequent flyer.
I dealt, very briefly, with a racist Karen the other day. I was opening up my work, and a lady broke down in the middle of the road. I felt really bad when she asked a few people for help and they ignored her, and I was gonna go help her at least get her car to the side of the road. But then she started running her mouth, yelling, saying how the only person who would help her would be white, and all kinds of racial slurs. And I, as a white woman, ignored her and opened up my work. She kept going for like 5 more minutes, before I finally went outside to yell at her to shut up because she was making all of us look bad, and I somehow didn't expect her to get louder? But she did. Finally, this nice man pulled over, got her to calm down, helped her with her car, and wished her a good day. Again, she started screaming at people walking by and saying that she was right, and only a white person helped her, but then guy, with a smile, responded "Actually, I'm half Hispanic and half Japanese. But have a wonderful day, ma'am." And I thought it was so funny when she stfu and drove away without another word.
As a former goody-two-shoes with anxiety and perfectionist tendencies, I do feel many of the same initial impulses that lead Karens to act the way they do. The difference is that 1) I'm terrified of confrontation and 2) I've learned to distinguish my personal concerns and my personal space from the public at large and public space. So even if I find something annoying, I usually keep it to myself.
The child going “let’s go home!” Kills me! This man is literally getting mad at a child for having fun in the pool and this kid is probably scared and confused!
Honey you hit the nail on the head when you said “she is BORED”!! All Karens are bored and incredibly unhappy and have nothing better to do than stick their nose in other people’s business.
Absolutely. I live next to an entire apartment complex filled with oldass Karens and Ken's. These people have nothing better to do that try to make everyone else miserable. And the entitlement, ugh!!!
Omg, I thought the same. Maybe their own parents were just constantly argumentative and negative and the now grown adult child doesn’t know another way of interacting.
I can't say for all of them, but my grandma and some neighbours are like that. If they have enough interactions they don't try to search for a confrontation but the days they are bored... It's a bit sad when I think about it.
@@mariondesousa7718 True. I know I am a now-older person used to living in Brooklyn but now in the suburbs. However, there are sooo many chances to just interact with nice folks even on a superficial level IF you try, or even just stay open. For example, during covid, my then-BF commented how it would take me two hours to go grocery shopping. What would happen is we all basically had a party in the parking lot, where ppl were just sooo glad to be out and about we would start chatting while loading our cars up.
I had a weird conversation once. A friend of mine I knew for a long time was doing a joke about cancer, I laughed and one the people in the group said she was very offended and said it was not funny to joke about peoples with cancer. They were a HUGE blank and I said "but I found that funny and I have cancer". She started to argue that it could not be the case for everyone. And I had to explained to her, that most people at the hospital joke about everythings because we want to feel normal. Included us in the joke it's the best you can do. Also my friend was talking TO ME and she was not in the conversation (and talking to someone else), the world is not a safe place for your feeling. I understand being trigger by thing, but it's her problem. And the people who are offended are ALWAYS the persons without the things in question.
My cousins gf now wife first time I met her at my grandma's for my graduation party someone put the cancer card down for cards against humanity we all laughed even his brother because it's a game. This girl texted my aunt and whispered to my cousin and practically cried because her mother died of cancer when she was 5. Like they didn't tell me, sent my mother to give me a talking to for being rude. I didn't even know. Plus my grandfather had died of cancer at the time 2 years ago but fuck me right. I just don't like her bad impression she should have just pulled me aside I wasn't the only one that laughed but if she said hey I feel bad I'd be like sorry I didn't know.
@@dealwithit9772 sorry you had to deal with that BS. it's freakin cards against humanity! if you get offended by shit, DO NOT PLAY cards against humanity! it's right there in the name for crying out loud. she sounds like a real fun person! NOT.
I feel like many people cannot see the difference between a well-meant joke and a malicious joke, and just get offended or defensive for 'someone else's sake'. Although, there are definitely some people who might get hurt by jokes about death and serious diseases like this. But I would say it is not the patient themselves (as you said, it's kind of the opposite, we need to make light of a difficult situation, right?), but the people who are close to someone who is dying or has recently died.
I am disabled, and it annoys me when people get offended on my behalf, without even asking my opinion. Jokes about disability don’t offend me. Using incorrect words does not offend me. For example: in the USA, the word handicapped is in common usage, while here in the UK it is considered a slur. But I am not offended when Americans say handicapped. The rule of thumb is, that a person can say whatever words or jokes they like, as long as they do not mean me intentional harm. For example: if I am in my wheelchair, and someone asks me to “walk this way”, that is not offensive. So I can’t walk, big deal. If I am actually offended by something, I can be all offended by myself, I don’t need someone to do it for me. Obviously, it is different if someone is intentionally verbally assaulting me, in a case like that, assistance is very welcome. Bottom line: Intent is what matters, not the words used. When people become offended on my behalf, it takes away my freedom to be myself, and is much more of a hindrance and annoyance to me, than someone who is not PC. Treat me like a human being, not someone who can’t make their own decisions. That is just insulting. Consider being supportive rather than offended.
I don't agree with you. There is something called context that makes a huge difference. I will never tell a sensitive joke (related to serious sickness, religion, race, sexism, etc.), when there is someone I don't know well present (it seems that the offended person is no acquaintance to you). My friends know me enough to know when I'm malicious and when not and how I think about serious sickness, discrimination, etc., but I'm aware that not everybody know me enough to make that distinction. It is in poor taste to tell this type of jokes to people you don't know well. Another thing is that everybody experiences traumatic events of their lives (cancer, death, discrimination) in different ways. I have to say I'm happy that you can joke about that, but not everybody is like you. If everybody jokes in the hospital, you should probably keep those jokes for the hospital and for close friends and relatives. We are always communicating ourselves in these echo chambers called social media, where everybody things the same way, but the truth is that in the real world perceptions and experiences over the same events may vary depending on the person. Let me be clear that I don't think that you are mean or a bad person. I simply don't agree with you and I'm definitely happy that you can joke about your sickness. I really hope that if you still have cancer, you are getting better soon and if you have already overcome cancer, I would like to congratulate you and send you my best wishes to stay healthy and cancer free.
It never ceases to amaze me the number, and quality, of people that really don't know the difference between "public" and "private" property! I am always telling people "Just because people are welcome in a business, that does not make it public property!"
and even if something is public property, that does not give just anyone the right to be there at any time and not have any restrictions on that. there are entities that control access to properties. for example, the public library or city hall. sometimes they are closed and the doors are locked. It's public property right? shouldn't you have the right to go in there 24 hours a day? lol
At one place I lived, I had a detached garage on the back alley that I contracted with a local "street artist" (who had been sentenced to community service for unauthorized "street artisting") to paint it for me. I told him "No vulgarity or gang stuff, but other than that go for it." I happened to look out the back window at one point a couple hours later, to see a police car in the alley and a cop talking to the kid. I hurried out and asked "why are you keeping my contractor from finishing his job??" Turned out the Karen neighbor called the police on the kid. I ripped her AND the police officer a new one each; her for being a nosy hag and him for not even checking with me before he approached "my contractor.""
@@Meech817 Philando Castile wasn't under the same rock as you. One unjustified murder doesn't matter? It does to me. Go pitch your statistics to his survivors.
@@johncmitchell4941 I'm trying to find out where I said one, two, or even a hundred deaths don't matter. That is NOT what I said. It should NEVER happen, but to make it seem as anytime a black person is seen by the police, they get shot on sight is ridiculous and not ok. To imply that if i leave my house and come across a police officer that i won't make it home, isn't ok to me. To instill that fear into people, I don't agree with. No one, especially not me, has said it hasn't happened, or it doesn't matter when it does.
@@lilybelle568 It's def more common with older folk, and I have loathed it since the first time I heard it when I was a child. Every time I think I like a person, if that comes outta their mouth (or if they comment on facial distinctions randomly, like, "wow, what big lips that person has") internally I'm all, "ahhhhhh, so you're a racist.... good to know." and then I stop connecting with them. Sometimes I wish I had the energy to call them out on it, but I don't -they're so unconsciously entrenched in psycho judgment based on bullshit, I just don't think it would do any good. (And I have super limited energy, unfortunately.)
@Snippets I was a server at a small country cooking restaurant. I had a elderly white couple who I waited on weekly. They were both very quiet and stern, and the man was very intimidating. He didn't like most of the servers. For some reason, I felt the need to go above and beyond for this man and his family. I finally felt like I got his approval. He ended up being comfortable enough to ask me, "Where do the blacks come up with all these crazy names?" I was fucking floored when he asked me that. Then, he proceeded to say, "I'm not racist. I have a black refrigerator, but it quit working." I said,"correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't your ancestors force black slaves to do their work because they were either too lazy or didn't know how to do it themselves?" I was so caught off guard because their granddaughter was mixed, and she came in with them all of the time. Needless to say, I no longer work there. That took all of the energy I had that night.
I once worked at a bank and every year some really really old customers came in and wanted to 'check if all their money was still there' this was before the pandemic... They were so nice and didn't really seem to know how it really works so I got money out, counted everything out in front of them and they were happy. Of course that's not how you make sure that your money is still in your account, but: If you are nice even your most 'ridiculous' requests will be answered. Just don't be rude and DON'T be a Karen!
Oh, god and the mixed emotions just hearing it. XD I had a kneejerk kick into offence before bursting out laughing at that shit-eating grin. But it's true, though! Not because 'feminists' are going to find something to be offended about - anyone that takes a hardline stance for most things is going to be that way, the delivery of that line was just gold though.
The squawking that followed his remark reminded me of my parrot, when my cat jumps up next to his cage and gives him the death stare. Poor bird; he screams "NOT RIGHT NOW!" until I come get the cat away from him. Funny, because that phrase must be something I say a lot, because my bird says it in my Southern twangy accent any time he doesn't like something. 😂
The graffiti Kevin was in NC. The artist was legit and had been commissioned by the city. Kevin just made a fool of himself. The artist is Luke Buchanan and has a really cool story.
But that doesn’t excuse him being a jerk. He was rightly challenged by a concerned citizen and should have shown he was legit rather than be provocative.
@@Dalesmanable And here it is. So he was a Darren because he was JUST a regular person, not a person of authority. He had no right to go around asking random people for their "papers". The artist told him he was there with permission. Enough said
This is probably the most embarrassing thing I will ever admit to online, but my mother is a Karen. She once lost it at the Bell store because they didn't have the phone she wanted in blue. I was standing behind her, mortified, and just apologizing over and over to everyone while she ranted about there not being a blue phone. The phone she wanted wasn't even made in blue. It was awful and I felt so bad.
Ok this is actually hilarious, the guy complaining about the “graffiti” is so wrong. I saw the video and laughed out loud because I had literally been across the other side of the creek earlier that day with for a volunteer activity and seen him working on this project
The mural one actually happened to me, imagine painting a mural with a group of students and university professors in the main street of a capital city, and a gramps comes up and is like ”WhAt Is ThIs, Do YoU hAvE a LiScEnCe FoR tHiS”. Uhhh… duh, like ten different ones, what do you think we can just come over and paint a pretty picture anywhere we want to in the middle of the day? He argued with the professors for a few minutes, he was soooo against it, which is funny because the mural was always there to begin with, for over fifty years to be exact, we were just hired to repaint it, but he was convinced we were lying to him because he lives there and knows this street like the palm of his hand.
Our council actually paid an artist to do some art in public space. Some other council department actually thought it was graffiti and cleaned it up 🤦♀️ some artist spent so much time creating artwork for the public to enjoy only for some idiots to clean it up
I vaguely remember hearing the story behind the one with the woman who screamed at the cops. She was the ex wife of a guy who was a police officer or something and went back to his house for stuff and accused him of assault. It was something like that. But the lady also had multiple encounters with the police like this because she's constantly harassing her ex.
She's been arrested multiple times. She is bipolar with some other diagnoses. She bothers her ex and the cops all the time. She had a RUclips channel at one time but it was removed because of her erratic and abusive behavior. I can't remember her name, though.
I've noticed that most, if not all, Karens are beyond entitled bordering on mentally unsound. Especially, when confronted about their bs. Truly frightening people.
I think the one complaining about the water on the driveway is either going on a power trip or she's a control freak that is trying to control EVERYTHING around her. Little fact for you Barb: you can't control everything around you.
@Sarah Thomas I'm sure these people have jobs. Either way, you're allowed to make noise during the day. If it bugs her that much she can soundproof her house.
@@sarahthomas148 I totally agree with you. Mowing the lawn is a necessity. Being so noisy that it disrupts your neighbours is so disrespectful and entitled.
Me, if I was a cop: "So you're telling me that I could be arresting murderers, rapists, burglars, pedophiles, drug dealers or pimps but instead of that, here I am, because there's water on the floor?...Sometimes I hate my life."
The Karen near the end arguing with cops really made me laugh. I've been watching a lot of attorney youtube and one of the huge things is 'be courteous but stfu. Invoke your right to remain silent.'
The thing is, people like that don't think they need to actually know the legal stuff because their aim is just to scare and intimidate people into doing what they want.
Exactly! I once had a customer that after spending the night and having breakfast said she wanted her money back because our hotel was not good enough. And that I needed to do it or she would call the police, and she was a laywer, and worked in the parlament. Yeah... Could not care less.
@@margaridaferreira8029 Yup, checks out. My ideal response would be, "go ahead, and see how hard they laugh at you or get mad because you are wasting their time." The point isn't carrying out the threat; the point is the intimidation. Or they do carry out the threat because they have the narcissistic idea that the police / other authorities will always be on their side just because of who they are (which is a whole 'nother problem, but this isn't the place lol).
@@elizabethburns-gundel1052 exactly! And she knew that usually that tactic works because the room was paid by the taxi driver that she bullied the night before. Poor old man talked to me the night before, so I was already aware of that person in the hotel even before the check-out. They know that most people if you say you are an important person from the government, and you seem to be from "high class" will believe them and do as they say. She was unlucky I was the person at the front-desk that morning 😂
"Then call the cops Barb" - OMG, that made me laugh. The water is trespassing on her driveway? Wow. (But i also felt bad for her because i could hear her emotion from being harrassed so much.)
We had a Barb too, they are brutal. Police and city inspectors would be "anonymously" called for every little thing; except she'd also confront you about it, so it wasn't hard to put two & two together. (One call was because we hadn't mown our lawn in two weeks - because we were away on vacation. She can't see our yard without going to our neighbors to look over the fence. The city guy came the same day we came home and was not happy about being there.) Sadly, the only thing that got her off our back was casually letting her know that we had home videos with her dog in the background on the loose crapping on her neighbors lawn, and loudly noticing that she didn't have a legally required gate latch for a backyard with a pond in it. It helped us, but not anyone else. It felt gross to have to fight Karen with Karen.
We also had a Barb. But she was a stealth Barb--she’d write these long, threatening letters to all the neighbors for random stupid stuff. And she’d always include “ and my son is a doctor and he’ll have you arrested” 😂😂😂😂😂😂This woman could not get along with ANYBODY. She was so bad that the only job she could keep was working the graveyard shift in the far basement of the hospital doing transcription or something so she never had to interact with another human being.
Legend has it “Driveway Karen” is still in litigation with God for raining on her driveway and has put Thor on notice for his pesky Thunder and Lightning.
When you remember all those times your dads ex wife embarrassed us as kids by yelling at random people for things like “charging a late fee for returning a movie late to block buster” like she seriously was screaming at the man. Then you realize your stepmom was a Karen (haven’t seen her in 15 years so hopefully she’s lightened up) Lol I have lots of story’s , one timed she yelled at my little brother for not helping her carry out something to the car right as he offered to help her carry something out to the car. Bro- “do you want help carrying that” “DUH I want help carrying this , seriously take it” as she shoves it into his arms. He was 6 years old and it was a semi large box, he was just trying to be a sweet and helpful little guy. I was so angry I wanted to yell but I was 11 and terrified of her. Or the time she screamed at my BFF on the way to school “ So what are your grades ??? How shitty are you doing in school” In a angry condescending voice. And continue to yell at her about grades when actually my BFF had practically straight A’s and tried mentioning it but kept getting cut off “ I don’t want to hear excuses” Because she was yelling me about my Cs in a couple subjects she decides to attack my friend that she knows absolutely nothing about and honestly has no right to yell at a teen that is not hers. That was the day I moved out. Just the tip of the iceberg. It was embarrassing , my poor friend was terrified. Another sad story is When she found out her perfect straight A honors daughter was pregnant at 17. Picture this ….were in middle of California adventure, and my step sis avoiding roller coasters because you know… eventually my step mom was fed up SM- “ what your too cool for rides now” and of course not the time she wanted to tell her but she responds “no mom I’m pregnant “ SM- Screams “ your ruining your life because you couldn’t keep you Effin legs closed” (in the middle of the food court area while we’re in line to get lunch)SM- “you seriously just couldn’t wait to be a sl*t” (my step sister was a perfect child never did any wrong , just started seeing a guy and yea made a mistake, but already terrified and emotional to have a baby) then continued to use to yell foul , shaming words to her for 15 min … still in the food line. Poor sis was crying . Me my brother and my dad just standing there uncomfortable as everyone stares. Finally they went up to hotel room to talk. It was a whole scene. I understand it’s upsetting to find out your teen daughter is pregnant, but to scream the meaniest nastiest things to her in the middle of a theme park….. is just sad. Like it was really sad , I haven’t seen mean girls say that cruel of stuff to a girl before.
I was totally thinking the same thing about Australian Karen's lawnmower. My husband used to play the drums and out neighbors used to call the cops EVERY TIME he played. He played at 3 until 3:30 pm three days a week. When the cops showed up I said the exact same thing about their lawnmower, edge trimmer, and power washer. The cops told them to stop harassing us.
I am lucky that my neighbours are pretty laid back. We live in the countryside, so we only have our next door neighbours close to our farmhouse to worry about. However, I am a snare drummer for a Highland pipes and drums band, and I guess those drums sound like gunshots to people who aren't used to them. Neighbours in the farmhouse across the field called in a report to police saying that they heard gunshots and were worried that hunters were in the woods outside of hunting season. When they realised it was just me in the yard practicing with my new snare drum, they apologized. Didn't become Karens whatsoever. Our other drummer doesn't have nice neighbours at all. They yelled at him even when he was practicing on his drum pad.
"They're disturbing the peace," says Karen, standing at their front porch, not her own, disrupting the band who seems to live in a yard full of trees and tucked away. Yeah ma'am. They're disturbing the peace and elephants can jump. Right.
... or maybe this band is just really bad 😅😇 It's almost a general rule that the worse they play, the louder they are... Like "if we make the audience deaf, they may noy notice how much we suck"
@sassaff I loved that 'they're harrassing me' says the women not letting anyone else get a word in. The way she's saying it though....she sounds kinda confident, if ...big IF, they live in a gated community they do have a tenant board and there are some pretty strict rules within them.
To me it sounded like she was on the verge of crying? I mean, some people's voices just sound like that, but imagine getting so upset about a neighbor making noise during the DAYTIME you're going to cry (or pretend to cry)?
My sister is named Karen and even though I'm not a fan of the term (I'll just use the old one of female dog), we laugh that people actually have fear in their eyes when she says her name. She is probably the nicest person I know, and I told her they picked the wrong sisters name. 🤣
That poor baby trying to enjoy his day at the pool just being like "let's go home". He couldn't have been older than like 9 poor thing Also, the shit-eating grin on the news anchor guy was GOLD
lol, honestly, that pool kid was more mature than the old guy. The anchor man's joke was in poor taste but like come on, sister, if you act offended, he wins! XD The correct response to that joke was "oh honey it's adorable that you think yo're funny".
"I'm a lawyer" "What's your bar number" "I dont know that." And it was at that moment he knew she was full of shit.🤣🤣😂😂 EVERY lawyer knows their bar number because they have to put it on EVERYTHING.
Lawyers always tell you to not speak plead the 5th don’t self snitch etc etc. If a lawyer DID speak to the police it would be to sound sane and innocent and to ask if they’re under arrest etc.
throw back to the summer when my mom was watering the grass and the neighbors car got wet and started screaming about getting the car wet and my mom calmly replied “what about rain?” they just stumbled and walked away 😂😂
I lost my grandmother in 2017 and for awhile I rode the city bus around town while I figured out my next step and that pissed off a few Karens who whined to the drivers who'd known me for years that I was 'taking up valuable seating space'. One literally said 'I have no idea what your problem is, but that young lady just lost her grandmother and is figuring out her next step. Leave her alone for a change and go sit down and quit bitching!'
I used to be a lifeguard and there was a certain section of the pool that was for adults. One day there were people who were over the age requirement splashing snd having a good time and I was yelled at by a Kevin that it was illegal to be splashing in that section of the pool. I was like no, it isn’t. Only requirement is to be of a certain age which they are all older than. It’s went on for 15 minutes until the old guy told me he and his friends would never come back because of it. I just told him no problem, just means other people will get to enjoy the chairs and chaise lounges that they were always hoarding to prevent other people from using them. Dumbass was back the next day anyway
That reminded me of a Kevin that told me that if I did not do what he wanted he would never return to the hotel I worked. His face when I replied there were 3 other hotels in the same street was amazing
I got a fancy coffee the other day and there was a long hair waving out of the whipped cream on top. Super gross! But did I turn into a Karen? Heck no! I politely showed the employee the giant hair, and she made me a nice new coffee. And refunded my money, which I didn't expect. The poor girl was shaking; she probably expected me to go off like a bomb.
How you treat food service workers shows who you are as a person. How kind and patient you were with this barista was more than likely a breath of fresh air compared to how she treated in the past (based off the last line of your comment)
Exactly what they were expecting, and your politeness was very much appreciated, I'm sure. Plus, its just a hair. Of all the terrible things that can end up in someone's food, a fingernail, mold, bugs, bodily fluids; a hair is nothing. Thank you for being kind, and I wish more people dealt with things like that reasonably. Everyone has hair, it happens, it shouldnt happen often, but 🤷♀️
My grandmother was a Karen. Literally, her name was Karen. She was not a "Karen" Karen. She had the philosophy of live and let live. If she did not like something she would let you know, but she was really easy to get along with.
I remember when “water trespassing” incident happened with my uncle and he yelled “Sorry! Im gonna go fetch my staff to redirect the flow of water” and went into his house.
Can I just mention that in the clip about the guy getting mad at the kid for jumping in the pool, the two adults are arguing and continuing to do so rather than one of them walking away, and you can vaguely hear the kid in the background "Let's go home, Let's- Let's go home." The only one suggesting they WALK AWAY before it escalates. The few times when the kid is more mature than the parent, and just gets ignored. I relate to that.
My neighbor came over at 530am to say we were being too loud. My husband was listening to stuff with headphones on, sitting on the sofa. I hadn't even been home for many hours. And when I was home, there was hammering, electric saw, a screaming argument with adults, and the woman screaming at her children, who were running indoors and pounding the walls. But yeah, we're the problem 🙄 funny thing is, when my husband was helping the neighbors get out of their parking spot when we had a lot of snow, several people said they had never heard a woman yell at her kids so much.
I’m working at a hospital in the covid section, so I encounter karens everyday. This week we were out of exams and this woman started screaming ate me saying I was refusing to test her and she was going to tell the mayor. Another one was mad because she had two asthmatic kids and I “didn’t care about them” I just have to explain over and over “ma’am I can’t just make new exams come out of my butt”
@@yoyo762 demand is too high, no raw material available (even the private clinics were sold out), incompetent government, mediocre public health, irresponsible antivaxers…. take your pick
@@yoyo762 Tell me you don't work at a "medical place" without telling me... hospitals and various Healthcare facilities are and have been short staffed AND short supplied. Ever since ya know... covit
Thank you for all of the content that you've given us and the laughs that you have made me exude. Takes my mind off of depression even if only for a moment, going to get help soon much love ♥️
The problem is that you don't decrease your misery by inflicting it on someone else - unless that comes from the smug glow of self-satisfaction of validating your otherwise pointless existence.
My neighborhood has been flooded with Karens lately and I just had a conversation with my (cool) neighbor about it. He got a code complaint for having a basketball hoop on his property and I over heard two other Karens talking about how it was "unsafe for me as a woman to live alone and sit on my porch at night" and started debating calling the cops about it "for my safety". It's getting a bit out of hand.
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but there will always be something that offends feminists”…the smirk and just watching the world burn. 😂😂😂 I consider myself a feminist and that was hilarious cause it was said just to gas them up. It worked.
I had a crazy neighbor when I lived in Hawaii. I was walking home from the store with groceries, enjoying the beautiful sunny Hawaiian day, and she came out of her house to tell me I had no reason to be so happy and smiling all the time! What did I have to be happy about? How dare I? It was very strange. I loved living there and was happy most of the time because well, I was living in HAWAII! She and I had many weird convos over the years. She was a lonely angry cat lady too.
Tbh, I’m realizing the appropriate way to deal with a Karen/Kevin is the same way you deal with a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. State your boundaries of what’s acceptable and what isn’t, state the consequences if those boundaries aren’t respected, then follow through-often with total disengagement. “I understand you don’t want my kid to jump in the pool/have water run down the road/have my feet on the bench/not wear a mask. However, I have the right to use the pool/wash car/sit how I please/refuse service. You may accept that or move on. Perhaps I would consider compromise if you could engage with me respectfully-but I am no longer willing to carry on this conversation with you if you continue to behave in such a way.” End all interaction. Pretty sad when grown adults function at a level equal too or worse than an 18 month old baby.
My neighbor across from my apartment likes to bump his music out on his front porch loud enough that it rattles our windows, you can feel the vibrations sitting on the couch in my living room and in the walls, and keeps my 2 month old baby awake and freaking out. I finally asked him last week to turn it down a little- just enough that it doesn’t rattle the windows or vibrate my apartment, cuz I think that’s what scares my daughter and keeps her awake- and at first he was kind of a d*ck about it, but after he realized I wasn’t being a Karen about it, he apologized and turned it off. I kept telling him he can listen to his music, and that I was just asking him to turn it down a little, but he said it was ok and that he felt bad cuz he forgot we had a newborn. He hasn’t played his music outside since 😮 he even brought us some pie for Christmas. Thanks George 😊
Oh you don't want to get ME started on early Sunday mornings and seven unruly children UPSTAIRS over my damn head. Yet she complains when I drink my wine and play my Friday night jams!! Which by the way, I just purchasef a new bluetooth speaker today and I'm going to jam very very very LOUDLY tonight! Cheers To Us Both!🥂🎉
@@heart.9889 I haven't experienced it that early. Luckily, I live in a building without children now. (Also, I think I might be the neighborhood Karen, but I'm an introvert so I just silently judge people from inside my apartment.)
@@SonjaElizabethTeal Once in high school, I was staying over at a friend's and we watched a funny movie late at night. Her upstairs neighbor came down at 2 AM and screamed at us to be quiet. At 8 we woke up by her kids. But that's apparently ok... 🤦♀️😤
Charlotte, I gotta say... I have found myself going right down the rabbit hole with your videos, I cannot stop watching them. There's just... so much tea to drink down here, and I love it, lmao. I've been just clicking a playlist and watching them all for probably five days now. I CAN'T STOP!!! That means you're doing this all right. Keep it up, I'm hooked 😁😁😁
Just ignore those Karen's when they try to mess with you: don't speak to them, don't look at them, just do not interact in any way, but keep on minding your business. Karen's need whatever comes back from you like a tennis player needs someone on the other side of the court to keep the ball in the game. If you do not play the ball back, the game is over fast, they will just peter out.
The Karen at about 13 minutes and 50 seconds is a well-known Karen and there have been multiple videos on RUclips of her going off on everyone including the police the woman has some serious psychological problems and is well known in her area. The police show magnificent restraint for not tasing her.
I was baffled she uploaded her own footage of herself breaking the law and generally acting out. Mental healthcare or lack thereof is so complicated in the US. The police were amazing though.
I think it is what they really want so they can show the world how victimized they are, if you notice when they are on the phone reporting what is happening they always say the other person is in their face or won't stop doing whatever they are doing to them.
Sometimes it is better to walk away than to engage the immaturity of a person who is whining about something that is none of their business. I have very very deep respect for you Charlotte.
I put in headphones, turn on my fav song to loudest setting, and play a game on my phone, entirely ignoring the pest who wants to unload their crap on me. I've yet to have anyone lay hands on me for ignoring them, but Gods have mercy on the one who tries. The lady in the first video would have gotten my treatment plan of being ignored. LOL!
I love how people think that because a business serves the public that it’s a public space where they have the right to be and do what they want in. And the whole first amendment thing. It only shields people from government retribution. No one else has to give them a platform to speak or put up with their bs. More people need to stand up to these fools and call them out on their entitlement. Ok. Rant over. Thanks for all you do, Charlotte. My husband and I look forward to your videos every day.
When in the course of human history has the side that's doing the censoring and trying to shut people up, and marginalize a part of the community ever been on the right side of history?
The water on the driveway one reminds me of a story my mom told me from when my parents lived in California (before I was born). My mom was out watering her flowers (as much as she could during a drought) and their neighbor came over and complained about the water hose getting water in her yard!!! There's a freaking drought going on, wouldn't you want any water you could get on your grass??!!
As an Aussie living overseas - hearing that accent brings me a ridiculous amount of joy. Especially in such a dumb situation. Reminded of 'Kath and Kim', which is a great show people should watch
I LOVE Kath and Kim. When Americans tried to reproduce it, that was painful, but the Australian original is hysterical. I, myself, am an American, but I lived in Australia and I brought my Australian husband back with me. He still has the accent, so I'm good. :D
Hurt because I was yelled at for putting my foot up on a bench. I had ankle surgery. Unfair you can't assume what people have been through and why they have different needs
Ouch! I hope you are healing and not in pain! It's stupid to bitch at someone putting their feet on an outdoor, public bench. Birds crap on those things, so no one has an expectation of cleanliness!
@@LazyIRanch exactly. If I sit ANYWHERE out in public including at a dining area seat, I just assume I sat somewhere people put their feet, or where kids wiped their boogers. I just assume if out in public that life happens. 🤷
I think SOME of them have been brow beaten into being proper and mannerly and the fact that they worked so hard at things that don’t matter in reality as much as they thought, and they snap. Like they missed out on power trying to be a perfect xyz , and being a perfectly XYZ means nothing. That like wasted their lives almost. So by the time they are middle aged or older the reality sets in and they freaking snap. My own Karen moment was when a guy pushed a ref and got his way. He insisted it was a bad call and got in the unos face and pushed him a teeny bit and the ref relented. I coached the other team and had been taught my whole life not to make a peep and be kind and mannerly and respectful and things turn out in the end, and in reality that it’s actually seen as weak to be soft spoken and kind and polite and agreeable. That sweet manners thing is all a lie. So I snapped and started heckling the other coach . I would usually never do that, but it just hit me all the things I missed out on for me and my team and even promotions and my opportunities by trying to be so nice and polite respectful when that’s really NOT the way to get ahead and my life was basically a lie. I was actually Karen-esque for a while until I found the happy medium and now I’m in the middle Like most people . But I think that’s what’s going on with some of these older ladies. How we were raised was a lie . No one cares what we tried to do and what we thought was right when isn’t really how the world works. So they go overboard a b it with their anger about that and take it out on people. It’s not fair for the people they take it out on at all, it’s something they need to fix, but I really feel that’s what’s going on for some of the nitpicky older ones.
Face it, they have NOTHING else to do. Just how pathetic is it that they feel the absolute best use of their time is to complain about water on the driveway, or how somebody is sitting on a bench.
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I watch many of your videos but I'm really tired of the use of derogatory terms to get views.
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@@optimistic5778 Hi, Karen! :)
I once has a Karen confront me about my son wearing ‘headphones’ on the bus and she could hear the music blaring and started banging on about how parents like me are the reason these teenagers are so disrespectful listening to loud music in a public space disturbing other people….my son is autistic and was wearing ear defenders to keep noise out with absolutely no sound coming out of them. I think about that almost everyday
Wow. Just... wow. What must it be like to want to take down others SO strongly that a person wil deliberately, shamelessly, eyeball to eyeball manufacture lies about your child to your face. How desperately does she need to feel aggrieved?
I'm sorry you had to go through that. There are miserable people in this world that can't deal with their misery, so they take it out on others.
Oh.. myyy.... I got angry af just by reading this. Can't imagine what would I do to her if I was there 😡
@Sheila Addy: Just infuriating and what can you do when you’re a good human being? You really need a soft-spoken polite reply that will destroy the “Karen” verbally. As the parent of a handicapped daughter I’ve been looking for one my whole life! I hope you can let this go, thinking about it constantly only hurts you….the old saying about drinking poison and hoping the other person dies! Stay well and remember, you are a great mother!
I was once on a train with a friend and another passenger from two rows away came over and asked my friend to turn down her headphones… I was reading my book beside my friend (totally undisturbed by the tiny sound from her headphones). My friend apologised and turned off her headphones but we were both so shocked that the woman had thought it was reasonable to interrupt our peace. In the end we chatted and laughed for the next hour of the journey so I would imagine the woman found that much more annoying than the tiny sound escaping the headphones.
My dad has THE best way of dealing with Karens : he just stares at them. Silently. And then goes on about his business.
It's absolutely hilarious to see them being so baffled at the absence of response. I love it.
I've had so many people try and get me to rant with them, usually about slow lines. I give a glare and turn around and refuse to talk or look at them. They never know what to do with me and I don't have to argue. Then I'm extra nice to the person working there and tip extra if it's an option.
I like telling them “it’s not like I’m in a hurry or have a hot date”. Then I chat up the cashier by finding something to compliment them for or if they apologize for stuff that isn’t their fault I just say go with “it’s okay, I used to work retail (true)” and chat them up more! With smiles even. And I make sure that as I go to leave I make eye contact with the complainer and use my best Grinch smile.
A brief pause and stare followed by a mildly nonplussed “okay,” is my preferred method of dealing with Karens, rude people, and grown-ass adults behaving like children. It’s more effective than arguing because it gives them nothing to work with - technically you’re agreeing with them - but also silently communicates _You’re embarrassing yourself. I don’t know how to respond without calling attention to it and embarrassing you further, so I’m just going to agree and pretend it didn’t happen._ In other words, respond like they just did the verbal equivalent of farting in public. The social pressure makes them think twice about causing a scene.
ETA: If you’re working in retail or customer service and _have_ to engage, I don’t recommend this approach because it may earn you a reprimand for being disrespectful or some other bullshit CYA corporate response. In those situations I find it better to express sympathy and put the blame on the company/corporate/people higher up the food chain while maintaining there’s nothing you can do. “I know, we’re really backed up but they won’t hire more people,” “It’s so stupid, masks don’t even work but they make us wear them,” etc. Basically the “Don’t blame me, I’m on your side,” approach. It doesn’t work in every situation, but it can shift a frustrating attack on you for doing your job to sympathy for being subject to The Man.
Exactly. They are seeking attention so don’t give it to them.
I like that idea and will have to try it soon myself
I was at a Victoria Secrets semi-annual bra sale (you know those can be a madhouse). This woman, and her awful 10 year old daughter, were annoying everyone.
The daughter was pulling things off the rack and dropping them on the floor. She would climb on the displays, even after the employees told her to stop. Her mom, did nothing but stood there.
While in line, my daughter, who was 2 years old and in her stroller, was getting tired. I was next in line and my hands were full of merchandise. I told her I will pick her up once outside. That calmed her down.
The Karen said, smugly, "Isn't it funny how you need a license to drive a car but not to have children! Just pick her up!"
Before I could say anything, all the women around me went off on her about how she's the last person to tell anyone about good parenting. It was hilarious to watch all these women, including the teen girls, tell her what a horrible mother she was. Pure entertainment!
After I walked out of the store into the mall, I sat on the bench to put the bag under the stroller. The Karen walked up to me and started saying it was all my fault...blah blah. Once again, some of the other women walked out and tore into her again. Man, I wish I had recorded it!
The next occurrence was a few years later. A woman was bottle feeding her newborn on a bench at the mall. This Karen started berating her for not breast feeding. She was calling her a neglectful mom and selfish. After a couple of minutes of nonstop yelling, the mother said, "I can't breastfeed. I have inverted nipples."
The Karen said nothing and started to walk away. Bad move! All of the women who overheard her yelling tore into her. One woman said, "You just made her have to say something that's embarrassing for her because you are a nosy b**ch!" None of the women would let Karen get a word in edge wise.
The poor mother kept saying she was sorry, but we told her she did nothing wrong. Some of the women invited her to lunch, and she went with them.
Moral of the story: stay out of other people's business! 🙂
mannnnn i wish i was there for both of them. reading those stories made me shake with rage
I've known a couple women who couldn't breastfeed. One of my friends literally just didn't have a good milk supply for whatever reason.
Facts.
Isn't it awesome when you're vindicated..? all of those women are just golden as women and human beings just for standing up for their fellow woman. A Karen needs to be taken down for humiliating and obnoxious behavior.. anyone who is unnecessarily embarrassed in public or shamed is entitled to watch as this woman is completely put through what she just dealt out.
@@addie-eileenpaige6460 I had that problem when I first gave birth to my son, but with my NEXT baby.. WAY too much! Just thinking about nursing started me going! I'd have to change shirts about a thousand times a day.🤗
Karen: "I don't have erratic behavior!"
Also Karen: *screams like a banshee*
"I'm an ATTorneyY"
"What's your BAR number?"
"I DON'T F*^&*&( KNOW THATT"
Lol that woman needed psychological help, the police were absolutely correct 😂😂😂 ugh I hope she never reproduced
I'm from Portland and am sad that this Karen lives within, probably, the same city district as I do. I'm sure she was never an attorney, however, if she somehow was, she was probably disbarred within a year or two of practice and or does some crazy, drama filled field of law like family law. (My parents are both lawyers, I get to hear all about other attorneys that they think are incompetent)
You are insulting the Benshees now haha xD
So that was a real scream, legit thought she edited that in 😳
"Call the cops Barb!" Is my new favourite Karen catchphrase. 😂
I love it! These people need to get a purpose.
I love my mum more than anything in the world. She's a very special kind of Karen. She's the rare good Karen. She uses her Karen powers to stand up for people. Good example is this one time a girl in Walmart was being mistreated for wearing a hijab by some other Karen for no reason whatsoever. My Mum ran up to her and reversed Karened her, got the manager involved and got the karen removed from the store. Afterwords my mum goes back to being her normal self and telks the girl her hijab was beautiful and that it made her look beautiful (and it did. It was this soft lavender color with little silver beads sown into it it realy brought out her eyes). I love my good Karen mum.
Ok, that sounds awesome.
She's not a Karen... She's a TRUE CHADETTE.
A Karen using her powers for the greater good!! Love it !
Reverse Karened the Karen! I love that so much!
That’s a queen karina
Props to the police officers who are literally blank faced as the Karen screams like a banshee. Not even a wince. That's dedication.
That woman was very probably bypolar
It would've taken everything I had to not laugh uncontrollably when she started banshee screaming. Because sometimes you just have to laugh or you'll end up screaming in the same way, but for a very different reasons. She needs professional cognitive therapy. I truly hope she gets it, ASAP.
If it's Portland Oregon cops they see this kind of person many times a day so I think they're used to it 🤔😅
@@frepi She reminds me a lot of my mother so a lot more than just bipolar 😅 She invented a law degree so she's probably a compulsive liar as well.
thats white privilege frfr
I once had a Karen who started sobbing hysterically when I asked for her receipt to give HER a refund........saying I only cared about her money.
Ma'am I am literally giving you YOUR money back
Retail is a world of it's own 😂
Obviously SHE only cared about money if she wanted a refund in the first place 😂. At least if you follow her "logik".
Ohh I feel this comment so much. I work retail, thankfully not in person but holy hell the book i could write. The things that ppl have said to me and demanded, it's just unreal. The service desk at Walmart was a wild ride, but now it's gotten worse dealing with ppl over the phone. It's very entertaining at times.
Last year I had a COVID Karen following me around the mall while I was doing some shopping because I yelled at her to put her damn mask on if she wanted to come into the shops that literally had on their storefronts the notice to deny service to people who refused to wear a mask. She tried to spit on me when I went into the pharmacy and told her that they provide free COVID shots to drop ins and she should take up the offer and get in line.
She was harassing a store employee who was documenting the amount of people coming in and out of the store. If she had said to this employee that she forgot her mask at home but needed to do her shopping, she would have been given one. But she was an antimasker ranting about her rights.
@CrazyCat Lady amen amen amen. 🤣 I've been in customer service/retail since I was 15 and I'll be 39 three days. It's in my blood. Lol. I too used to cry, and some days I still feel them welling up but I choke them back. That nasty 5% are not worth it. I try to laugh at their ridiculousness. I have so many customers that want my direct line and that makes me feel so great. I've never been a big drinker, but I may start. 🤪 It takes special ppl to work retail for sure. We're our own breed.
The pool situation made me so sad. The little kid said let’s go home right before it cuts out.
“Call the cops, Barb.” Love it, 100% done.
She handled that WAY more calmly than I would have. Good for her 😅😅😅 I was ready to jump through my phone 😂
If it ain't Karen, it's usually Susan or Barbara/Barb 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Aww, the little boy at the pool saying "let's go home" makes my heart hurt. what could possess a person to want to harass a child's mother while they are having fun until the child does not even want to be there anymore? Until the child can no longer have fun at the pool cause mommy is stressed and the man is yelling at her and him. Honestly, if I were a mother, idk HOW I would react, but it wouldn't have gone well. This mother's self-control while getting yelled at by this old man about what kind of mother she is is phenomenal and I seriously respect that for the sake of her kid.
Yeah, my heart broke there. I once had a Karen talk really rudely to me, because we retrieved my sons ball that had fallen on a part of the lawn that wasn't open to walking on it in a public park. I apologised and explained, and then that bitch bent down and told my son he killed some ants by walking on that grass. The lawn that was getting neatly clipped by a tractor-style mower. I nearly lost it right there, but my son nearly cried, so I picked him up and told her I already apologised. She then told us not to do this again, or we would be banned. My son is afraid of going back there since then, which is a shame, because its a beautiful place.
I usually teach my son to be polite and respectful of authority, but in this case I told him she was a mean woman, who can't ban us from anywhere, how would she remember our faces. Bitch.
I had an experience where I got yelled at by a guy at the flea market for picking up a guitar and then putting it back on the table, but it fell off the table, he accused me of throwing it on the table and tried to get my mom to pay for it and let's just say Mama bear claws came out. I was so upset, I started crying. I legitimately felt horrible. She was my witness, I didn't throw it, I was standing there trying to apologize because when it fell, it hit the ground and ended up getting scuffed and the guy jerked it out of my hands when I was trying to pick it up and put it back.
totally agree i love her calm and got upset that her child would rather leave one of their most funs places than stay because of that donkey butt wrinkly dooshbg. Teaches me alot 2stay calm cuz I turn into a hot head during unprovoked confrontation.
the worst part is I know exactly where that event took place. Its in an old folks community in So Cal, my grandparents live there. Hundreds of familys with little children go to that poop every day while visiting their family that live within the community. There are zero rules about diving or jumping into the pool. The only rules for the pool are no running close to the edge and no hanging on the rope that divides the shallow and deep ends. That man probably does this on a regular basis to families there, and that makes me so sad.
See, that pool looks huge, and really empty and he absolutely shouldn't be jumping into people and wetting and disturbing other swimmers (the woman admits her son was jumping non-stop the day before), but if it's big enough, he probably won't be doing that. I remember being a child, jumping and diving was half the fun!
😂😂😂 about choked when she says "don't be swinging your Karen d1ck around"😂😂😂 oh that just made my day!!
New phrase I will use at McDonald’s towards Karen’s 😂
I love it when Karen's post their own videos as if THEY were the victims
Me to! Goes to show how oblivious they can be.
Yes! 😂. The entitlement is so gross 🤢
Me too like that lady swearing and screaming at the cops. Did she actually think anybody would take her side in that?
Hilarious, right? 😁
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😂😂😂😂🥂
That officer said he was a CIT officer. That’s a Crisis Intervention Team.
They respond to persons in crisis, and are normally called in for persons with possible mental illness/crisis or other such afflictions.
They actually handled that situation very well.
I have a family member that does this, and he loves it, its difficult, but he feels like he's helping those struggling.
YES! Stop sending gun-toting trigger-happy cops and send *more social workers.* Give crazy/druggie people a "Baker Act", i.e., a 72-hour observation in a psych ward. See if getting the drugs out of their system and some inpatient counseling help their mental state.
petition for charlotte to do a whole episode just on the ridiculous emails she gets from offended / triggered karens P L E A S E!!!
Where do I sign?
I'll sign!
I’d pay for this. Karen’s in the wild are somehow more stable than the ones who don’t think they can be called out
A "BaZillion" Votes for your comment to come into VISION!!!!
I too would love to see a video of Charlotte laughing at the WONDERFUL fans that send her ENCOURAGING emails!!! LoL
I love that those cops literally have their hands tucked their pockets and she is just filming evidence that they have done nothing. How dare they be so level headed and reasonable!
My favorite is how they just turned and said "have a nice day", "yep. we're done here" and walked away when she started screaming like a lunatic.
That woman is certifiable and a menace. I hope she's in a straight jacket in a cozy facility away from causing disturbances on a daily basis. Because, yeah, I take it she's that type of frequent flyer.
I dealt, very briefly, with a racist Karen the other day. I was opening up my work, and a lady broke down in the middle of the road. I felt really bad when she asked a few people for help and they ignored her, and I was gonna go help her at least get her car to the side of the road.
But then she started running her mouth, yelling, saying how the only person who would help her would be white, and all kinds of racial slurs. And I, as a white woman, ignored her and opened up my work.
She kept going for like 5 more minutes, before I finally went outside to yell at her to shut up because she was making all of us look bad, and I somehow didn't expect her to get louder? But she did.
Finally, this nice man pulled over, got her to calm down, helped her with her car, and wished her a good day.
Again, she started screaming at people walking by and saying that she was right, and only a white person helped her, but then guy, with a smile, responded "Actually, I'm half Hispanic and half Japanese. But have a wonderful day, ma'am."
And I thought it was so funny when she stfu and drove away without another word.
As a former goody-two-shoes with anxiety and perfectionist tendencies, I do feel many of the same initial impulses that lead Karens to act the way they do. The difference is that 1) I'm terrified of confrontation and 2) I've learned to distinguish my personal concerns and my personal space from the public at large and public space. So even if I find something annoying, I usually keep it to myself.
You know what's that called, minding your business! Everyone should practice this unless its an emergency.
How ever did you become a former??? I have such issues with all of that
The child going “let’s go home!” Kills me! This man is literally getting mad at a child for having fun in the pool and this kid is probably scared and confused!
Honey you hit the nail on the head when you said “she is BORED”!! All Karens are bored and incredibly unhappy and have nothing better to do than stick their nose in other people’s business.
And miserable. Got nothing better to do than to spread their misery.
Absolutely. I live next to an entire apartment complex filled with oldass Karens and Ken's. These people have nothing better to do that try to make everyone else miserable. And the entitlement, ugh!!!
I've often wondered if elderly folks get into confrontations just to have interactions
Omg, I thought the same. Maybe their own parents were just constantly argumentative and negative and the now grown adult child doesn’t know another way of interacting.
I can't say for all of them, but my grandma and some neighbours are like that. If they have enough interactions they don't try to search for a confrontation but the days they are bored... It's a bit sad when I think about it.
Or they don't have interactions with people because they're rude, cruel and plain aggressive and no-one wants to see them?
possible, or maybe they are just bullies that have aged badly
@@mariondesousa7718 True. I know I am a now-older person used to living in Brooklyn but now in the suburbs. However, there are sooo many chances to just interact with nice folks even on a superficial level IF you try, or even just stay open. For example, during covid, my then-BF commented how it would take me two hours to go grocery shopping. What would happen is we all basically had a party in the parking lot, where ppl were just sooo glad to be out and about we would start chatting while loading our cars up.
I had a weird conversation once. A friend of mine I knew for a long time was doing a joke about cancer, I laughed and one the people in the group said she was very offended and said it was not funny to joke about peoples with cancer.
They were a HUGE blank and I said "but I found that funny and I have cancer". She started to argue that it could not be the case for everyone. And I had to explained to her, that most people at the hospital joke about everythings because we want to feel normal. Included us in the joke it's the best you can do.
Also my friend was talking TO ME and she was not in the conversation (and talking to someone else), the world is not a safe place for your feeling. I understand being trigger by thing, but it's her problem.
And the people who are offended are ALWAYS the persons without the things in question.
My cousins gf now wife first time I met her at my grandma's for my graduation party someone put the cancer card down for cards against humanity we all laughed even his brother because it's a game. This girl texted my aunt and whispered to my cousin and practically cried because her mother died of cancer when she was 5. Like they didn't tell me, sent my mother to give me a talking to for being rude. I didn't even know. Plus my grandfather had died of cancer at the time 2 years ago but fuck me right. I just don't like her bad impression she should have just pulled me aside I wasn't the only one that laughed but if she said hey I feel bad I'd be like sorry I didn't know.
@@dealwithit9772 sorry you had to deal with that BS. it's freakin cards against humanity! if you get offended by shit, DO NOT PLAY cards against humanity! it's right there in the name for crying out loud. she sounds like a real fun person! NOT.
I feel like many people cannot see the difference between a well-meant joke and a malicious joke, and just get offended or defensive for 'someone else's sake'.
Although, there are definitely some people who might get hurt by jokes about death and serious diseases like this. But I would say it is not the patient themselves (as you said, it's kind of the opposite, we need to make light of a difficult situation, right?), but the people who are close to someone who is dying or has recently died.
I am disabled, and it annoys me when people get offended on my behalf, without even asking my opinion.
Jokes about disability don’t offend me. Using incorrect words does not offend me.
For example: in the USA, the word handicapped is in common usage, while here in the UK it is considered a slur. But I am not offended when Americans say handicapped.
The rule of thumb is, that a person can say whatever words or jokes they like, as long as they do not mean me intentional harm.
For example: if I am in my wheelchair, and someone asks me to “walk this way”, that is not offensive.
So I can’t walk, big deal. If I am actually offended by something, I can be all offended by myself, I don’t need someone to do it for me.
Obviously, it is different if someone is intentionally verbally assaulting me, in a case like that, assistance is very welcome.
Bottom line: Intent is what matters, not the words used.
When people become offended on my behalf, it takes away my freedom to be myself, and is much more of a hindrance and annoyance to me, than someone who is not PC.
Treat me like a human being, not someone who can’t make their own decisions. That is just insulting.
Consider being supportive rather than offended.
I don't agree with you. There is something called context that makes a huge difference. I will never tell a sensitive joke (related to serious sickness, religion, race, sexism, etc.), when there is someone I don't know well present (it seems that the offended person is no acquaintance to you). My friends know me enough to know when I'm malicious and when not and how I think about serious sickness, discrimination, etc., but I'm aware that not everybody know me enough to make that distinction.
It is in poor taste to tell this type of jokes to people you don't know well.
Another thing is that everybody experiences traumatic events of their lives (cancer, death, discrimination) in different ways. I have to say I'm happy that you can joke about that, but not everybody is like you. If everybody jokes in the hospital, you should probably keep those jokes for the hospital and for close friends and relatives.
We are always communicating ourselves in these echo chambers called social media, where everybody things the same way, but the truth is that in the real world perceptions and experiences over the same events may vary depending on the person.
Let me be clear that I don't think that you are mean or a bad person. I simply don't agree with you and I'm definitely happy that you can joke about your sickness.
I really hope that if you still have cancer, you are getting better soon and if you have already overcome cancer, I would like to congratulate you and send you my best wishes to stay healthy and cancer free.
It never ceases to amaze me the number, and quality, of people that really don't know the difference between "public" and "private" property! I am always telling people "Just because people are welcome in a business, that does not make it public property!"
and even if something is public property, that does not give just anyone the right to be there at any time and not have any restrictions on that. there are entities that control access to properties. for example, the public library or city hall. sometimes they are closed and the doors are locked. It's public property right? shouldn't you have the right to go in there 24 hours a day? lol
@@squaaaaak3178 Completely agree with you. Even the homeless people have trouble finding "public" places to sleep omg
I’m so mad that we didn’t get to see that guys face when he found out that they did, in fact, have permission to do their painting.
At one place I lived, I had a detached garage on the back alley that I contracted with a local "street artist" (who had been sentenced to community service for unauthorized "street artisting") to paint it for me. I told him "No vulgarity or gang stuff, but other than that go for it." I happened to look out the back window at one point a couple hours later, to see a police car in the alley and a cop talking to the kid. I hurried out and asked "why are you keeping my contractor from finishing his job??" Turned out the Karen neighbor called the police on the kid. I ripped her AND the police officer a new one each; her for being a nosy hag and him for not even checking with me before he approached "my contractor.""
When that Karen said to those cops, “…and you take down the blacks” I screamed “DON’T INVOLVE US IN THIS SH!T!!!!!” 😂🤣😂 love you Charlotte!! ♥️😍
We would have been shot on sight anyway.
@@AuroraCreator555 really? Thousands of people get pulled over or encounter cops EVERY SINGLE DAY, and are not shot "on sight" ridiculous.
@@Meech817 Philando Castile wasn't under the same rock as you. One unjustified murder doesn't matter? It does to me. Go pitch your statistics to his survivors.
@@Meech817 sounds like you're underplaying the brutality but I'll rest my case right here
@@johncmitchell4941 I'm trying to find out where I said one, two, or even a hundred deaths don't matter. That is NOT what I said. It should NEVER happen, but to make it seem as anytime a black person is seen by the police, they get shot on sight is ridiculous and not ok. To imply that if i leave my house and come across a police officer that i won't make it home, isn't ok to me. To instill that fear into people, I don't agree with. No one, especially not me, has said it hasn't happened, or it doesn't matter when it does.
As a black person, I always have this weird twitch when someone says "the blacks" KEEP US OUT YA MOUTH KAREN
Mind your business just mind your business
I'm not black and it bothers me... I cannot imagine how it would affect me if I were black!!
@Snippets Same, it bothers the shit out of me too. I live in Alabama, and I've encountered so many elderly white people who use that terminology.
@@lilybelle568
It's def more common with older folk, and I have loathed it since the first time I heard it when I was a child. Every time I think I like a person, if that comes outta their mouth (or if they comment on facial distinctions randomly, like, "wow, what big lips that person has") internally I'm all, "ahhhhhh, so you're a racist.... good to know." and then I stop connecting with them. Sometimes I wish I had the energy to call them out on it, but I don't -they're so unconsciously entrenched in psycho judgment based on bullshit, I just don't think it would do any good. (And I have super limited energy, unfortunately.)
@Snippets I was a server at a small country cooking restaurant. I had a elderly white couple who I waited on weekly. They were both very quiet and stern, and the man was very intimidating. He didn't like most of the servers. For some reason, I felt the need to go above and beyond for this man and his family. I finally felt like I got his approval. He ended up being comfortable enough to ask me, "Where do the blacks come up with all these crazy names?" I was fucking floored when he asked me that. Then, he proceeded to say, "I'm not racist. I have a black refrigerator, but it quit working." I said,"correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't your ancestors force black slaves to do their work because they were either too lazy or didn't know how to do it themselves?" I was so caught off guard because their granddaughter was mixed, and she came in with them all of the time. Needless to say, I no longer work there. That took all of the energy I had that night.
I once worked at a bank and every year some really really old customers came in and wanted to 'check if all their money was still there' this was before the pandemic... They were so nice and didn't really seem to know how it really works so I got money out, counted everything out in front of them and they were happy. Of course that's not how you make sure that your money is still in your account, but: If you are nice even your most 'ridiculous' requests will be answered. Just don't be rude and DON'T be a Karen!
That guy on the news knew exactly what he was doing. His evil grin once the chaos began was GOLD!
I'd do the exact same tbh lol!
That was classic. Triggering Karen in 3….2….1
Oh, god and the mixed emotions just hearing it. XD I had a kneejerk kick into offence before bursting out laughing at that shit-eating grin. But it's true, though! Not because 'feminists' are going to find something to be offended about - anyone that takes a hardline stance for most things is going to be that way, the delivery of that line was just gold though.
The squawking that followed his remark reminded me of my parrot, when my cat jumps up next to his cage and gives him the death stare. Poor bird; he screams "NOT RIGHT NOW!" until I come get the cat away from him.
Funny, because that phrase must be something I say a lot, because my bird says it in my Southern twangy accent any time he doesn't like something. 😂
Hilarious 😂
The graffiti Kevin was in NC. The artist was legit and had been commissioned by the city. Kevin just made a fool of himself. The artist is Luke Buchanan and has a really cool story.
Just looked it up, thank you for the backstory! I wonder how long he was stuck there arguing with that guy…lol.
They're called Darren's
But that doesn’t excuse him being a jerk. He was rightly challenged by a concerned citizen and should have shown he was legit rather than be provocative.
It looks like crap
@@Dalesmanable And here it is. So he was a Darren because he was JUST a regular person, not a person of authority. He had no right to go around asking random people for their "papers". The artist told him he was there with permission. Enough said
Oh I just love “they are here harassing me” when the Karen is on their porch.
This is probably the most embarrassing thing I will ever admit to online, but my mother is a Karen. She once lost it at the Bell store because they didn't have the phone she wanted in blue. I was standing behind her, mortified, and just apologizing over and over to everyone while she ranted about there not being a blue phone. The phone she wanted wasn't even made in blue. It was awful and I felt so bad.
With that behavior, I'm surprised you said Bell and not Apple. 😂😂😂😂
@@huntter900 Oh it was an iPhone, we just don't get them from Apple. Regardless of where it is though, it's awful every time 😂😭
I feel you, and sorry you had to experience that
"In 2022 let's all agree to collectively stop calling the police for stupid reasons."
That's like asking a karen to stop being a karen.
I mean there is going to be a CAREN act so.......:)
Ok this is actually hilarious, the guy complaining about the “graffiti” is so wrong. I saw the video and laughed out loud because I had literally been across the other side of the creek earlier that day with for a volunteer activity and seen him working on this project
The mural one actually happened to me, imagine painting a mural with a group of students and university professors in the main street of a capital city, and a gramps comes up and is like ”WhAt Is ThIs, Do YoU hAvE a LiScEnCe FoR tHiS”. Uhhh… duh, like ten different ones, what do you think we can just come over and paint a pretty picture anywhere we want to in the middle of the day? He argued with the professors for a few minutes, he was soooo against it, which is funny because the mural was always there to begin with, for over fifty years to be exact, we were just hired to repaint it, but he was convinced we were lying to him because he lives there and knows this street like the palm of his hand.
Our council actually paid an artist to do some art in public space. Some other council department actually thought it was graffiti and cleaned it up 🤦♀️ some artist spent so much time creating artwork for the public to enjoy only for some idiots to clean it up
Well in South America, i have seen it more and they are beautiful..
I vaguely remember hearing the story behind the one with the woman who screamed at the cops. She was the ex wife of a guy who was a police officer or something and went back to his house for stuff and accused him of assault. It was something like that. But the lady also had multiple encounters with the police like this because she's constantly harassing her ex.
So much tea 🍵
She's been arrested multiple times. She is bipolar with some other diagnoses. She bothers her ex and the cops all the time. She had a RUclips channel at one time but it was removed because of her erratic and abusive behavior. I can't remember her name, though.
omg I thought that scream was edited in
I've noticed that most, if not all, Karens are beyond entitled bordering on mentally unsound. Especially, when confronted about their bs. Truly frightening people.
@@zoeb-p5993 same!
I think the one complaining about the water on the driveway is either going on a power trip or she's a control freak that is trying to control EVERYTHING around her. Little fact for you Barb: you can't control everything around you.
The thing that makes a Karen isn't that the react to petty things, it's that they make every situation into a huge dramatic thing.
Very true. AKA Drama queens.
The last one did handle that situation perfectly. He took a vote that showed her she does not speak for the majority!
Yep and her expression when everyone called her Karen. Priceless.
Anybody else love how Karens posture ranges from an "uncomfortable schoolteacher" to "outraged and raging beast"
Boy, that Australian lady sounded like she was about to cry.
I thought so too! Hard to be rational when one is that emotional.
I assume she's been bombarded with constant noise from next door, day in, day out. I don't think she's a 'Karen' at all.
My voice does that when I get angry. People don't take me seriously then and think I am irrational, which I am not.
@Sarah Thomas I'm sure these people have jobs. Either way, you're allowed to make noise during the day. If it bugs her that much she can soundproof her house.
@@sarahthomas148 I totally agree with you. Mowing the lawn is a necessity. Being so noisy that it disrupts your neighbours is so disrespectful and entitled.
Me, if I was a cop: "So you're telling me that I could be arresting murderers, rapists, burglars, pedophiles, drug dealers or pimps but instead of that, here I am, because there's water on the floor?...Sometimes I hate my life."
Blame the Americas being colonized.
The Karen near the end arguing with cops really made me laugh. I've been watching a lot of attorney youtube and one of the huge things is 'be courteous but stfu. Invoke your right to remain silent.'
The thing is, people like that don't think they need to actually know the legal stuff because their aim is just to scare and intimidate people into doing what they want.
Exactly! I once had a customer that after spending the night and having breakfast said she wanted her money back because our hotel was not good enough. And that I needed to do it or she would call the police, and she was a laywer, and worked in the parlament. Yeah... Could not care less.
@@margaridaferreira8029 Yup, checks out. My ideal response would be, "go ahead, and see how hard they laugh at you or get mad because you are wasting their time." The point isn't carrying out the threat; the point is the intimidation. Or they do carry out the threat because they have the narcissistic idea that the police / other authorities will always be on their side just because of who they are (which is a whole 'nother problem, but this isn't the place lol).
@@elizabethburns-gundel1052 exactly! And she knew that usually that tactic works because the room was paid by the taxi driver that she bullied the night before. Poor old man talked to me the night before, so I was already aware of that person in the hotel even before the check-out. They know that most people if you say you are an important person from the government, and you seem to be from "high class" will believe them and do as they say. She was unlucky I was the person at the front-desk that morning 😂
"Then call the cops Barb" - OMG, that made me laugh. The water is trespassing on her driveway? Wow. (But i also felt bad for her because i could hear her emotion from being harrassed so much.)
We had a Barb too, they are brutal. Police and city inspectors would be "anonymously" called for every little thing; except she'd also confront you about it, so it wasn't hard to put two & two together. (One call was because we hadn't mown our lawn in two weeks - because we were away on vacation. She can't see our yard without going to our neighbors to look over the fence. The city guy came the same day we came home and was not happy about being there.) Sadly, the only thing that got her off our back was casually letting her know that we had home videos with her dog in the background on the loose crapping on her neighbors lawn, and loudly noticing that she didn't have a legally required gate latch for a backyard with a pond in it. It helped us, but not anyone else. It felt gross to have to fight Karen with Karen.
Maybe a Barb is an advanced Karen
I’ve had a barb once, it was absolute hell to live beside and she would harass us for no reason whatsoever every single day.
We also had a Barb. But she was a stealth Barb--she’d write these long, threatening letters to all the neighbors for random stupid stuff. And she’d always include “ and my son is a doctor and he’ll have you arrested” 😂😂😂😂😂😂This woman could not get along with ANYBODY. She was so bad that the only job she could keep was working the graveyard shift in the far basement of the hospital doing transcription or something so she never had to interact with another human being.
@@franziskadodl6601 Maybe Barb is a senior Karen who doesn't get out as much and has to focus all of their entitlement on neighbors lol.
I love how the water on the driveway Karen said that the water was “poison”. 😂
Any time someone says "I'm an attorney" I know it's gonna be good.
An attorney...OF LAW! 😆 🤣 😂 That's how you know she's definitely lying. Wtf kind of attorney is not "of law"? Lol
I loved it when she said that and the officer said, "What is your bar number?" "What?". He just smiled.
@@andrewstackpool4911 Yea every attorney I know has their bar number memorized.
Legend has it “Driveway Karen” is still in litigation with God for raining on her driveway and has put Thor on notice for his pesky Thunder and Lightning.
tbh I bet she blames her neighbour every time her driveway gets wet from the rain
I know it would’ve possibly landed me in a jail cell for assault, but if I have a hose in my hand and you decide to pester me, you’re getting soaked.
Absolutely brilliant 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
When you remember all those times your dads ex wife embarrassed us as kids by yelling at random people for things like “charging a late fee for returning a movie late to block buster” like she seriously was screaming at the man. Then you realize your stepmom was a Karen (haven’t seen her in 15 years so hopefully she’s lightened up)
Lol I have lots of story’s , one timed she yelled at my little brother for not helping her carry out something to the car right as he offered to help her carry something out to the car. Bro- “do you want help carrying that” “DUH I want help carrying this , seriously take it” as she shoves it into his arms. He was 6 years old and it was a semi large box, he was just trying to be a sweet and helpful little guy. I was so angry I wanted to yell but I was 11 and terrified of her.
Or the time she screamed at my BFF on the way to school “ So what are your grades ??? How shitty are you doing in school” In a angry condescending voice. And continue to yell at her about grades when actually my BFF had practically straight A’s and tried mentioning it but kept getting cut off “ I don’t want to hear excuses” Because she was yelling me about my Cs in a couple subjects she decides to attack my friend that she knows absolutely nothing about and honestly has no right to yell at a teen that is not hers. That was the day I moved out. Just the tip of the iceberg. It was embarrassing , my poor friend was terrified.
Another sad story is When she found out her perfect straight A honors daughter was pregnant at 17. Picture this ….were in middle of California adventure, and my step sis avoiding roller coasters because you know… eventually my step mom was fed up SM- “ what your too cool for rides now” and of course not the time she wanted to tell her but she responds “no mom I’m pregnant “ SM- Screams “ your ruining your life because you couldn’t keep you Effin legs closed” (in the middle of the food court area while we’re in line to get lunch)SM- “you seriously just couldn’t wait to be a sl*t” (my step sister was a perfect child never did any wrong , just started seeing a guy and yea made a mistake, but already terrified and emotional to have a baby) then continued to use to yell foul , shaming words to her for 15 min … still in the food line. Poor sis was crying . Me my brother and my dad just standing there uncomfortable as everyone stares. Finally they went up to hotel room to talk. It was a whole scene. I understand it’s upsetting to find out your teen daughter is pregnant, but to scream the meaniest nastiest things to her in the middle of a theme park….. is just sad. Like it was really sad , I haven’t seen mean girls say that cruel of stuff to a girl before.
Charlotte, your words do affect people. They make us laugh hysterically.
I was totally thinking the same thing about Australian Karen's lawnmower. My husband used to play the drums and out neighbors used to call the cops EVERY TIME he played. He played at 3 until 3:30 pm three days a week. When the cops showed up I said the exact same thing about their lawnmower, edge trimmer, and power washer. The cops told them to stop harassing us.
As a drummer ,we have to abid to ppls hours but we have to hear loud music and whatever the neighbours want at any hour !!
I hate noise. But your hubby is so reasonable!!
I am lucky that my neighbours are pretty laid back. We live in the countryside, so we only have our next door neighbours close to our farmhouse to worry about. However, I am a snare drummer for a Highland pipes and drums band, and I guess those drums sound like gunshots to people who aren't used to them. Neighbours in the farmhouse across the field called in a report to police saying that they heard gunshots and were worried that hunters were in the woods outside of hunting season. When they realised it was just me in the yard practicing with my new snare drum, they apologized. Didn't become Karens whatsoever. Our other drummer doesn't have nice neighbours at all. They yelled at him even when he was practicing on his drum pad.
I had a neighbor who was a drummer and my roommate and I would go outside and have a drink while we enjoyed the free show. People need to lighten up
The cops should have stayed and watched your husband with lighters in the air
I can guarantee you any decent lawyer has their Bar Number memorized, since they have to sign every legal document with it.
Yeah, I am a lawyer and when she said she was a lawyer, I immediately started cracking up. Like, why you lying?
Holy cow, the graffiti man...I was there for that interaction. I did call NPD to report a man who was harassing a city worker.
Thanks for that 👊
How did it go? I want to know if that dude Karen apologized.
Tell us what happened
I left bc I was out walking my dog.
Thank you for helping the city worker
"They're disturbing the peace," says Karen, standing at their front porch, not her own, disrupting the band who seems to live in a yard full of trees and tucked away.
Yeah ma'am. They're disturbing the peace and elephants can jump. Right.
... or maybe this band is just really bad 😅😇
It's almost a general rule that the worse they play, the louder they are...
Like "if we make the audience deaf, they may noy notice how much we suck"
@@nimeryaspawnbrd1049 How will they improve if Karens keep disturbing them? 😂
Is it me or when Charlotte freezes the screen “the Karen’s” shirt looks like it reads a lamer?
@sassaff I loved that 'they're harrassing me' says the women not letting anyone else get a word in. The way she's saying it though....she sounds kinda confident, if ...big IF, they live in a gated community they do have a tenant board and there are some pretty strict rules within them.
To me it sounded like she was on the verge of crying? I mean, some people's voices just sound like that, but imagine getting so upset about a neighbor making noise during the DAYTIME you're going to cry (or pretend to cry)?
My sister is named Karen and even though I'm not a fan of the term (I'll just use the old one of female dog), we laugh that people actually have fear in their eyes when she says her name. She is probably the nicest person I know, and I told her they picked the wrong sisters name. 🤣
That poor baby trying to enjoy his day at the pool just being like "let's go home". He couldn't have been older than like 9 poor thing
Also, the shit-eating grin on the news anchor guy was GOLD
lol, honestly, that pool kid was more mature than the old guy.
The anchor man's joke was in poor taste but like come on, sister, if you act offended, he wins! XD The correct response to that joke was "oh honey it's adorable that you think yo're funny".
I loved how the anchorman just sat there knowing exactly what he was starting. LOLLOLLOL.
@@headraline did you get offended by the news man?
"I'm a lawyer"
"What's your bar number"
"I dont know that."
And it was at that moment he knew she was full of shit.🤣🤣😂😂
EVERY lawyer knows their bar number because they have to put it on EVERYTHING.
The way she so carefully said, "I'm an attorney... of law." It left me wondering what other kinds of attorneys there are. LOL.
Thanks, I couldn't discern what he said :)
Fair point, but as someone who works for a company and doesn't appear in court, I really only use my bar number to renew stuff every year
I had a "lawyer" over the phone ask me what a bar number is. 🙄
Lawyers always tell you to not speak plead the 5th don’t self snitch etc etc. If a lawyer DID speak to the police it would be to sound sane and innocent and to ask if they’re under arrest etc.
throw back to the summer when my mom was watering the grass and the neighbors car got wet and started screaming about getting the car wet and my mom calmly replied “what about rain?” they just stumbled and walked away 😂😂
I died when Charlotte said “don’t swing you Karen 🍆 around” 🤣
and the spinning of the hand over her head! LOL
Yes! I’m glad I wasn’t drinking milk at the time.
Charlotte I am LIVING for this look. The hair, the lip color, and that shirt. Girl. FIRE 🔥
I lost my grandmother in 2017 and for awhile I rode the city bus around town while I figured out my next step and that pissed off a few Karens who whined to the drivers who'd known me for years that I was 'taking up valuable seating space'. One literally said 'I have no idea what your problem is, but that young lady just lost her grandmother and is figuring out her next step. Leave her alone for a change and go sit down and quit bitching!'
I used to be a lifeguard and there was a certain section of the pool that was for adults. One day there were people who were over the age requirement splashing snd having a good time and I was yelled at by a Kevin that it was illegal to be splashing in that section of the pool. I was like no, it isn’t. Only requirement is to be of a certain age which they are all older than. It’s went on for 15 minutes until the old guy told me he and his friends would never come back because of it. I just told him no problem, just means other people will get to enjoy the chairs and chaise lounges that they were always hoarding to prevent other people from using them. Dumbass was back the next day anyway
That reminded me of a Kevin that told me that if I did not do what he wanted he would never return to the hotel I worked. His face when I replied there were 3 other hotels in the same street was amazing
I got a fancy coffee the other day and there was a long hair waving out of the whipped cream on top. Super gross! But did I turn into a Karen? Heck no! I politely showed the employee the giant hair, and she made me a nice new coffee. And refunded my money, which I didn't expect. The poor girl was shaking; she probably expected me to go off like a bomb.
See thats so cool of you. Thank u for being a human that treats others as youd want 2b treated.
How you treat food service workers shows who you are as a person. How kind and patient you were with this barista was more than likely a breath of fresh air compared to how she treated in the past (based off the last line of your comment)
Exactly what they were expecting, and your politeness was very much appreciated, I'm sure. Plus, its just a hair. Of all the terrible things that can end up in someone's food, a fingernail, mold, bugs, bodily fluids; a hair is nothing. Thank you for being kind, and I wish more people dealt with things like that reasonably. Everyone has hair, it happens, it shouldnt happen often, but 🤷♀️
My grandmother was a Karen. Literally, her name was Karen. She was not a "Karen" Karen. She had the philosophy of live and let live. If she did not like something she would let you know, but she was really easy to get along with.
What terrifies me most, people like this filming THEMSELVES. Convinced they're in the right 100%. Wow.
I remember when “water trespassing” incident happened with my uncle and he yelled “Sorry! Im gonna go fetch my staff to redirect the flow of water” and went into his house.
🎖🏆🏅 - your uncle dropped these
Can I just mention that in the clip about the guy getting mad at the kid for jumping in the pool, the two adults are arguing and continuing to do so rather than one of them walking away, and you can vaguely hear the kid in the background "Let's go home, Let's- Let's go home." The only one suggesting they WALK AWAY before it escalates. The few times when the kid is more mature than the parent, and just gets ignored. I relate to that.
I had a neighbor call the cops because my roommate and I were laughing too loud at 6pm. We apparently interrupted a nap with her windows open
My neighbor came over at 530am to say we were being too loud. My husband was listening to stuff with headphones on, sitting on the sofa. I hadn't even been home for many hours. And when I was home, there was hammering, electric saw, a screaming argument with adults, and the woman screaming at her children, who were running indoors and pounding the walls. But yeah, we're the problem 🙄 funny thing is, when my husband was helping the neighbors get out of their parking spot when we had a lot of snow, several people said they had never heard a woman yell at her kids so much.
@@ashley_smith 5:30 am? That’s still in the middle of the night for me. 😉 In Germany you aren’t allowed to make noise before 7 am.
Oh my laws, wow.
@@claudiakarl7888 here we have to be quiet from 10pm until 8am, and I'm awake all night, so I'm quiet a lot lol
I’m working at a hospital in the covid section, so I encounter karens everyday. This week we were out of exams and this woman started screaming ate me saying I was refusing to test her and she was going to tell the mayor. Another one was mad because she had two asthmatic kids and I “didn’t care about them”
I just have to explain over and over “ma’am I can’t just make new exams come out of my butt”
How does a medical place "rune out of exams"????
@@yoyo762 demand is too high, no raw material available (even the private clinics were sold out), incompetent government, mediocre public health, irresponsible antivaxers…. take your pick
Really, dont you remember no toilet paper, bottled water hand sanitizer and the list goes on.......
@@yoyo762 Tell me you don't work at a "medical place" without telling me... hospitals and various Healthcare facilities are and have been short staffed AND short supplied. Ever since ya know... covit
Thank you for all of the content that you've given us and the laughs that you have made me exude.
Takes my mind off of depression even if only for a moment, going to get help soon much love ♥️
I can’t help but wonder how miserable people must be that they have to act like petulant children and inflict their misery onto others. SMH
They're not happy, so you can't be.
The problem is that you don't decrease your misery by inflicting it on someone else - unless that comes from the smug glow of self-satisfaction of validating your otherwise pointless existence.
@@AllyBubblesSpriggs I guess. LAWD help us!! 😂 Growing up we had busybodies but it seems like now-a-days there are coming out of the woodwork.
@@franl155 Exactly! It’s seems like most of these people have that air of smug self-importance.
This comment ROCKS!!!
CHEERS up you!🥂
My neighborhood has been flooded with Karens lately and I just had a conversation with my (cool) neighbor about it. He got a code complaint for having a basketball hoop on his property and I over heard two other Karens talking about how it was "unsafe for me as a woman to live alone and sit on my porch at night" and started debating calling the cops about it "for my safety". It's getting a bit out of hand.
People are losing their damn minds! Calling the cops because you live alone and enjoy your porch. lmao! Good luck with them!
Getting?
What the WHAT????!
wow, yes, people losing their minds
OMG
What's this 1800s
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but there will always be something that offends feminists”…the smirk and just watching the world burn. 😂😂😂 I consider myself a feminist and that was hilarious cause it was said just to gas them up. It worked.
People who are that easily triggered are probably the same ones who decided that the female M&Ms were overly sexualized.
Lmao. I was confused because I wasn't actually watching the video. I had to go back. Lmao. 😂
I was like. "Ohhhh...I see what he was doing." 😅
@@phaedrapage4217
Dude....I didn't even get that issue. It was dumb. THEY'RE FICTIONAL CHARACTER MASCOTS. 😂😅😂😂😂😂
Feminist approved.
You are literally one of my few daily watches. I really am grateful for the smiles and helping me feel more sane in these insane times.
Right!! She is so reliable with her postings lmfao I love her to death
Right!? Same. Can always count on Charlotte to bring incredible content, no matter the topic 😂
I had a crazy neighbor when I lived in Hawaii. I was walking home from the store with groceries, enjoying the beautiful sunny Hawaiian day, and she came out of her house to tell me I had no reason to be so happy and smiling all the time! What did I have to be happy about? How dare I? It was very strange. I loved living there and was happy most of the time because well, I was living in HAWAII! She and I had many weird convos over the years. She was a lonely angry cat lady too.
Great job @Blues! You absolutely did the right thing leaving, you couldn't have done better! Really proud.
Tbh, I’m realizing the appropriate way to deal with a Karen/Kevin is the same way you deal with a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. State your boundaries of what’s acceptable and what isn’t, state the consequences if those boundaries aren’t respected, then follow through-often with total disengagement.
“I understand you don’t want my kid to jump in the pool/have water run down the road/have my feet on the bench/not wear a mask. However, I have the right to use the pool/wash car/sit how I please/refuse service. You may accept that or move on. Perhaps I would consider compromise if you could engage with me respectfully-but I am no longer willing to carry on this conversation with you if you continue to behave in such a way.” End all interaction.
Pretty sad when grown adults function at a level equal too or worse than an 18 month old baby.
Exactly. It's like that old movie I don't remember the name of. The only way to win is not to play.
I’m in my 60’s and I feel embarrassed when these old folks try harassing people, it’s embarassing
I don't want to be them at 60
My neighbor across from my apartment likes to bump his music out on his front porch loud enough that it rattles our windows, you can feel the vibrations sitting on the couch in my living room and in the walls, and keeps my 2 month old baby awake and freaking out. I finally asked him last week to turn it down a little- just enough that it doesn’t rattle the windows or vibrate my apartment, cuz I think that’s what scares my daughter and keeps her awake- and at first he was kind of a d*ck about it, but after he realized I wasn’t being a Karen about it, he apologized and turned it off. I kept telling him he can listen to his music, and that I was just asking him to turn it down a little, but he said it was ok and that he felt bad cuz he forgot we had a newborn. He hasn’t played his music outside since 😮 he even brought us some pie for Christmas. Thanks George 😊
Karen: *follows you*
Also Karen: "Get away from me"
Still Karen: *continues following you*
Also still Karen: "Stop stalking me! Manager! Manager?!!"
Karen: Complains about loud music on a Friday night.
Also Karen: Lets her kids run amok, screaming at 8 AM on a Sunday.
Oh you don't want to get ME started on early Sunday mornings and seven unruly children UPSTAIRS over my damn head.
Yet she complains when I drink my wine and play my Friday night jams!! Which by the way, I just purchasef a new bluetooth speaker today and I'm going to jam very very very
LOUDLY tonight! Cheers To Us Both!🥂🎉
*6am
@@heart.9889 I haven't experienced it that early. Luckily, I live in a building without children now. (Also, I think I might be the neighborhood Karen, but I'm an introvert so I just silently judge people from inside my apartment.)
@@SonjaElizabethTeal Once in high school, I was staying over at a friend's and we watched a funny movie late at night. Her upstairs neighbor came down at 2 AM and screamed at us to be quiet. At 8 we woke up by her kids. But that's apparently ok... 🤦♀️😤
@@heart.9889 please play Rammstein for the Karen upstairs
Charlotte, I gotta say... I have found myself going right down the rabbit hole with your videos, I cannot stop watching them. There's just... so much tea to drink down here, and I love it, lmao. I've been just clicking a playlist and watching them all for probably five days now. I CAN'T STOP!!!
That means you're doing this all right. Keep it up, I'm hooked 😁😁😁
Just ignore those Karen's when they try to mess with you: don't speak to them, don't look at them, just do not interact in any way, but keep on minding your business. Karen's need whatever comes back from you like a tennis player needs someone on the other side of the court to keep the ball in the game. If you do not play the ball back, the game is over fast, they will just peter out.
The Karen at about 13 minutes and 50 seconds is a well-known Karen and there have been multiple videos on RUclips of her going off on everyone including the police the woman has some serious psychological problems and is well known in her area. The police show magnificent restraint for not tasing her.
Yeah, I’ve seen her other clips. She is crazy. The other one I seen, that one was seriously, disturbing.
Lol that’s sad and funny at the same time, I hope she gets help before the police lose their patience 😂
I was baffled she uploaded her own footage of herself breaking the law and generally acting out. Mental healthcare or lack thereof is so complicated in the US. The police were amazing though.
I loved "Whats your bar number?" 😉 Everyone's an attorney 😆
@@jenn8179 seems like everyone now days is an attorney and knows the law with their karenitcity. 😂😂
Charlotte's editors are absolutely on point. She's entertaining on her own, but they make her double as entertaining.
Charlotte has mastered the eyebrow better than every other influencer.
I KNOW right!? What's your secret Miss Dobre!?
Preach
Right!? Also, where is the video where she shows us how to get that fierce wing on her lids?? :D
Right!!
@@irenemaiden3204 Simple, brains beyond outer beauty. Cheers!
I always wonder why Karen's are so confident that they won't get their ass beat when approaching random people this way
I think it is what they really want so they can show the world how victimized they are, if you notice when they are on the phone reporting what is happening they always say the other person is in their face or won't stop doing whatever they are doing to them.
Cause there flight or fight response has just as much common sense as they do
The Karen's attitude towards the cops blows me away!
The Karen screaming at the police was my favorite. A real example of a Karen.
Sometimes it is better to walk away than to engage the immaturity of a person who is whining about something that is none of their business. I have very very deep respect for you Charlotte.
I put in headphones, turn on my fav song to loudest setting, and play a game on my phone, entirely ignoring the pest who wants to unload their crap on me. I've yet to have anyone lay hands on me for ignoring them, but Gods have mercy on the one who tries. The lady in the first video would have gotten my treatment plan of being ignored. LOL!
I love how people think that because a business serves the public that it’s a public space where they have the right to be and do what they want in. And the whole first amendment thing. It only shields people from government retribution. No one else has to give them a platform to speak or put up with their bs. More people need to stand up to these fools and call them out on their entitlement.
Ok. Rant over. Thanks for all you do, Charlotte. My husband and I look forward to your videos every day.
It's even funnier when people try to claim 1st amendment rights outside of the USA after absorbing social media 🙄
When in the course of human history has the side that's doing the censoring and trying to shut people up, and marginalize a part of the community ever been on the right side of history?
The water on the driveway one reminds me of a story my mom told me from when my parents lived in California (before I was born). My mom was out watering her flowers (as much as she could during a drought) and their neighbor came over and complained about the water hose getting water in her yard!!! There's a freaking drought going on, wouldn't you want any water you could get on your grass??!!
Love the use of the theme from Curb Your Enthusiasm. Also props to the stand-up comic for how he dealt with the Karen.
As an Aussie living overseas - hearing that accent brings me a ridiculous amount of joy. Especially in such a dumb situation.
Reminded of 'Kath and Kim', which is a great show people should watch
I LOVE Kath and Kim. When Americans tried to reproduce it, that was painful, but the Australian original is hysterical. I, myself, am an American, but I lived in Australia and I brought my Australian husband back with me. He still has the accent, so I'm good. :D
Yes, I like it..Yes it's nice, yes unyooooooosual
@@SaravanjaSteele they tried to recreate it in America, ohno
@@iratakeuchi3031 Exactly! LOL.
Hurt because I was yelled at for putting my foot up on a bench. I had ankle surgery. Unfair you can't assume what people have been through and why they have different needs
Ouch! I hope you are healing and not in pain! It's stupid to bitch at someone putting their feet on an outdoor, public bench. Birds crap on those things, so no one has an expectation of cleanliness!
@@LazyIRanch exactly. If I sit ANYWHERE out in public including at a dining area seat, I just assume I sat somewhere people put their feet, or where kids wiped their boogers. I just assume if out in public that life happens. 🤷
I just fell in love with that newscaster that put the music over the Karen that was just GREAT!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My guess is Karens need to feel important. There’s something missing in their personal lives so they attack the outside world.
Yes its a good description
I think SOME of them have been brow beaten into being proper and mannerly and the fact that they worked so hard at things that don’t matter in reality as much as they thought, and they snap. Like they missed out on power trying to be a perfect xyz , and being a perfectly XYZ means nothing. That like wasted their lives almost. So by the time they are middle aged or older the reality sets in and they freaking snap. My own Karen moment was when a guy pushed a ref and got his way. He insisted it was a bad call and got in the unos face and pushed him a teeny bit and the ref relented. I coached the other team and had been taught my whole life not to make a peep and be kind and mannerly and respectful and things turn out in the end, and in reality that it’s actually seen as weak to be soft spoken and kind and polite and agreeable. That sweet manners thing is all a lie. So I snapped and started heckling the other coach . I would usually never do that, but it just hit me all the things I missed out on for me and my team and even promotions and my opportunities by trying to be so nice and polite respectful when that’s really NOT the way to get ahead and my life was basically a lie. I was actually Karen-esque for a while until I found the happy medium and now I’m in the middle Like most people . But I think that’s what’s going on with some of these older ladies. How we were raised was a lie . No one cares what we tried to do and what we thought was right when isn’t really how the world works. So they go overboard a b it with their anger about that and take it out on people. It’s not fair for the people they take it out on at all, it’s something they need to fix, but I really feel that’s what’s going on for some of the nitpicky older ones.
Face it, they have NOTHING else to do. Just how pathetic is it that they feel the absolute best use of their time is to complain about water on the driveway, or how somebody is sitting on a bench.
There’s a great moment in Dr. Strange where Ancient Mai tells Strange, “it’s not about you.” People need to internalize that sh!t.
I loved the last guy just shutting that Karen down!!