I know right?? In my office, we bicker and push each other’s buttons like siblings all the time! Someone with an issue that stupid would never live it down. The second someone heard “sexy potatoes” that would become a running gag for months. Like she’d find potato people dressed and posed as strippers on her desk at least once a week…as gifts from other Christians in the office and someone would be playing Funk.
Story 2: "Eating too suggestively" is such a dumb complaint in this situation. Not to mention that Karen treating the whole thing like a personal attack. Look the peck away, what's your excuse? Not to mention that Karen was being racist and basically trying to bully everyone into following her demands. She might as well work somewhere else at this point
I guess the self-appointed potato style eating police would have had a problem with OP eating those long, thick-cut crinkled French fries which one normal holds by one end as one takes bites from the opposite end.
I would also like to see how she deals with the all-American lunch dish, the hot dog. I could see the whole office picnic degenerating (in her eyes) into an orgy.
My mom once insisted that the young woman living next door to us must be a prostitute because "people keep coming over." I reminded her that people do have friends. I don't know why she never thought of that!
One of the best meals I ever ate was at an Indian coworker's home. Her mother was in town and had made a huge pot of some kind of lentil stew for that night. I hope to have that again someday. But it was years ago and we're no longer in touch...
I ate a potato that way before, granted I was in the woods and forgot a fork, but It's no different in my opinion, well other than not having to wash a fork
When I eat plain baked potatoes, I eat them way as well. I would have told the owner, after Karen stormed me in the parking lot, get rid of her NOW, or you'll be talking to my lawyer. I'm Asian & I'm LGBTQ+. How do you think that is going to shake out in a court of law?
My second thought, after simply firing her, was to have her work at home. Sooner or later, there'll be a lawsuit against the company. Get rid of this liability! 🤨
Karen's getting a little hot around the collar thinking about all those scandalous root vegetables being lovingly devoured. She must think the Farmer's Almanac is a sinful digest of homegrown smut.
Potatoes shaped like cucumbers, perhaps. Long and thin enough to put in your mouth. The sort that Linda Lovelace might eat as a snack. 🤣 You have to have them in America, because OP regularly buys and cooks the things, and apparently eats the things a la Lovelace.
Story 1: Geez, that is such a bizarre series of olympic leaps of logic mixed with racism. As a result, Karen believes that the house is owned by black criminals and were out to get her. At least she is out of the picture
I'd have paid money to see Karen's face when seeing all those handguns pointed at her! This could have happened in Texas, or here in Florida. We take personal defense seriously! 😎👍
I live in Missouri you should never and I mean never bum rush strangers you might just be lookin down a barrel of a gun we a bunch of hunters that live away from the citiys
Story 2 - Another story where a boss tries to help a family member by getting them a job and it nearly turns into a lawsuit. If OP was eating their food loudly, eating with their mouth open, or even making loud noises like slurping and belching and wiping her mouth loudly then I can understand why Karen would complain but the way OP was describing how Karen was targeting them for eating potatoes was just stupid.
@@lancerevell5979 I agree. I understand wanting to help a struggling family member out but if that same family member has a history of causing trouble in their work place multiple times… I’m saying Hell No!
Story 1- I'm not into guns. With that said, I totally agree with op and her family. That crazy person was very fortunate that op and her fam had such restraint. I also think her landlord was waiting for a reasonable and usable way to get rid of her
IIUC, she was in jail. If she's super lucky, maybe she'll meet some people in there who'll help her understand the difference between a brothel and a college rental.
The odds are if she had been fired upon she would have found herself in the body bag heading for a pine box! I am from Missouri and we spend a lot of time at the range hitting the targets.
Re: Potatoes. Used to work in an office that had a cafeteria & outside tables available for use in good weather. Coworker would often MAKE mackerel sandwiches at her desk for lunch, stinking up 1/3 office for all her neighbors & everyone who had to walk by the rest of the afternoon. HR talked to her about eating in the appropriate areas & she made a stand of everyone else being able to snack/eat at their desks. Ironically, this was more than 30 years ago & her name was actually Karen. 🙄
Story 2, boss should have fired Karen for harassing her coworkers. His response to his wife should have been I agreed to hire her but it should be up to her to keep her job.
Story 2: I grew up in hardcore fundamentalist christianity (atheist now), and "eating in a sexy way" actually came up A LOT!! The girls at the church I was forced to go to were all told to constantly be hyperaware of ourselves so no one would accuse us of "being suggestive" and "bring shame on your family and your church". They'd literally stare at us constantly, watching for anything that could get us in trouble. It felt like they were competing for bonuses for who could catch the most "suggestive" or "bad" behaviour.
I was living in my first apartment during college at OU in Norman, Oklahoma. It was across the street from an older but well-kept neighborhood with mostly older residents. The woman in the house directly across from my quadruplex liked to spend a lot of time outdoors gardening or sitting on her porch, so she was often outside when my boyfriend or my uncle would pick me up to spend the night or a weekend. After about six months, my uncle pulled up to pick me up to go visit relatives for the weekend and as I approached his car with a suitcase, the old lady yelled out from her porch, “I know what you are! You are NOT a nice girl!” I was so stunned, I just got into the car and told my uncle, who cracked up. I later found out that the old woman was the mother of a professor in my major department and when I relayed the story to her, she laughed her ass off and said, “Yeah, that sounds like my mom. Sorry.” 😂
What the heck are "sexy " potatoes? I love when people say that they are special. I immediately say Yes but education isn't everything LOL. Y'all have a blessed day.
As an American (Polish heritage), I also eat potatoes that way on occasion. It is truly easier and faster when you just need food. I think it is no different than a giant potato wedge. However, now I am wondering about "unique" ways to eat them to rile the co-worker.
Unorthodox to whom? Its a cultural thing. People need to stop judging others for being who they are from their respective culture. No- it is NOT unorthodox. Is eating pizza considered unorthodox which is basically the same way as eating a potato.
Karen from the last story obviously thought that because her cousin was married to the boss she could get away with her sh*t, and I would’ve said that it was her mind that was in the gutter if she thought OP was eating her potatoes sexually and her watching you eat is very uncomfortable
In the first story, I honestly think that the Karen is a hysterical woman in the clinical sense. Things amplify and become dramatic in her mind. She is not able to hack it in society anymore.
I had a coworker who's family is Japanese, he taught me how to use the sticks and that Japanese food is way more than sushi. A Venezuelan coworker taught us about their food and now I'm trying food from Asturias, Spain. I always ask people from other places what's good to eat, because talking about food is the best way to start meeting another cultures
“Sexy potato” style is inappropriate… A potato should not be naked… it needs to be dressed up! I would recommend an appropriate outfit of salt, pepper, butter, sour cream, some fresh chives and minced bacon.
As someone outside the USA, carrying a gun on you (even owning a gun) is baffling So wild that all 5 people in that situation just pulled guns out of nowhere
For those who don't know: Dog whistles are phrases that don't appear racist on the surface, and in fact might even not be racist, but racists like using them as a way to communicate with other racists racist things. Sometimes they even use non-racist facts to "prove" racist points. So long story short, explain how things are dog whistles like OP did, and even explain what a dog whistle is. Guy might not even know.
I'm not really sure what to say about the first Karen, but she clearly does not like people, especially when a group of them get together. 😅 Apparently to her, when a group of people get together, they're either having $ex, about to commit a crime, or something else illegal.
They are lucky. She could have been carrying too and got off a few shots at them. I was always told you should only pull a gun when you were going to use it.
Story 1: At some point I would have accused that Karen of wanting to sleep with everyone in the house since she was so obsessed with "dirty" things happening in there. Because really if you're going to go around accusing like that without proof, you are making the statement that you are projecting something in the eyes of others.
Story 2: We're all missing the point here. There's a huge gap in the market for potato-based lingerie! "Hey! Need somewhere to hold your shirt-potatoes? Look no further than our luxury range of bras. Whether you've got a handful or a sack-full!" Or how about, "Gentleman! Are your eggs over a little TOO easy?" What?!? Am I taking this too far??? 🥔🥔
Last story- OMG! You two fellas should bring her up on sexual harassment! I mean, seriously. She has an issue if she thinks the way you eat a potato is sexually advertising... yeesh... she has a problem...
Story 1: I was born and grew up in rural Missouri, but moved to Minnesota 45 years ago. I loved Missouri when I was there, but can hardly believe what a whacked out, gun-worshiping place it's become since then. ("Back in my day", a lot of people hunted and farmers had shotguns, etc. to protect livestock, but people didn't tote firearms around every where!) Story 2: I'd never heard of eating potatoes that way, but it sounds interesting (and I don't mean that in in a provocative way).
Currently live in central Missouri. If the town being mentioned in story 1 is the one I think it is, there are definitely way too many guns there. Shootings in town are always mentioned on the news every few days.
I've heard the potato-eating story before (but without the update of Karen turning it into a religious war), and I have wondered if Karen has a different kind of relationship with potatoes than the rest of us do...
I had a coworker that complained that I brought a pizza box close to him when I was about to log in on my desktop. He sternly and immediately told me to remove it from anywhere near him. I obviously obliged but I still don't know what the reason was. Many people around this office area were perfectly fine with people bringing in food around him. I just wish I had known what triggered it, and I would happily avoided it. I tried asking him to correct my mistake but he just turned cold; "you should know!"
When I was much younger I worked a few harvest seasons on a potato farm. A freshly harvested and washed potato was a great snack. I ate them with my hands, and no one had any issues in any way. I hate to have seen Karen's reaction to OP eeting the mini cucumbers or bananas. or carrots.
The word mind your own business is what Karen needs to understand in both stories. OP has a harassment claim for court against Karen if she continues to harass him if that happens again in the second story as it seems Karen wants to control what people should eat what she wants not what they should eat and it's both bullying and harassment in many ways.
2. I have never tried curry... I've heard that it's spicy...? And I just had a disturbing thought.... maybe the Karen thinks of potatoes that way is because she imagines doing other things, in private, with HER longer veggies. Eww.
Ya know, normally I would suggest inviting the lady over for coffee. Maybe she just needs friends to occupy her time. But she sounds like she's one fry shy of a happy meal, and that could have adverse results. Good call.👍
Story 2; I was listening again to what OP was telling about Karen. About his friend who brought Indian food to work, that sometimes he brought some to share with others. I've never tried Indian food, but if I was in the office and he brought some in to share. I'd try it. And if I liked it, I'd probably ask for the recipe.
#2 reminds me of a scene from Canadian Bacon, a comedy film a few years ago: a parody of the mashed potato scene from Close Encounters, a woman is trying to build a mashed potato replica of the CN Tower in Toronto, when a black dude walks in. She asks, “what does this look like to you?” He answers, “dunno, never seen a white one that big before.”
I can't eat just potatoes. If I microwave a Potato, I need to cut it open, put on some sour cream and chives and maybe some bacon bits. But you do you, man. This reminds me about when Sigmund Freud, who said anything longer than it was wide was a Phallus symbol, was asked about his cigars and he replied "Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar." Sometimes, a Potato is just a Potato. Not to mention Pickles, hard boiled eggs, Bananas, burritos, Rice Balls, etc.
Story 2: so Karen gets the reward of being able to work from home while everyone else has to slog into the office because she’s distracted/disgusted by people food?
Last story, PLEASE tell me what the national food dish is in England? Spoiler here. Freaking CURRY. Yes I am an Yank, across the pond they actually accept EVERYONE equally.
Story 1 - OP should get that video and use it for a cease and desist letter warning the Karen that if she continues to spread lies and such about the house then legal action will be taken in the form of litigation.
The potato Karen: If I were in OP's shoes, I'd bring tacos. Or is that too sexy for her, too? Even better, curry tacos. A nice fusion of Mexican and Indian food? Yes, please! And I'd eat them in the craziest manner imaginable just to spite Karen. How someone eats their food is nobody's business but that of the person eating it!
First Story: Yea Karen won't be able to prove the reckless discharge of firearms call when 1) No 911 calls were being called in on multiple gun being fired 2) No bullets to prove the guns were fired as if shots were fired upon her then bullets would be lodge somewhere behind her or damaged property. These two point can easily prove Karen lied about getting shot at even without the RING cam footage. I didn't mention shell casing is because they are quite easy to conceal or dispose. Also trying to prove the gun was fired by magazine is useless as they just conceal or dispose of the empty magazine and reload their guns to make it look like they haven't being fired.
The office sexy foods karen is the spiritual twin of our newest county commissioner. She has spent her whole first term (up for re-election g-d help us)creating chaos over the disrespect (read lack of kowtowing) from the multi-term co-commissioners, even suing _them_ for 'creating a hostile work environment."
Last story - I know OP is trying to take it easy on his nice guy boss, but he needs to just file the damn discrimination suit and give boss a true reason to just get rid of Karen. If it means no new car, no designer bags, no vacations, etc., his wife will come down and fire her cousin herself. That woman is going to piss off the wrong person and end up injured or sued.
Story 2: Native Missourian here. Missourians are frequently armed; outside the two main cities (St. Louis & Kansas City) response time of law enforcement is frequently measured in double to triple digit minutes. In St. Louis, it's measured in hours. We're on our own for defense until assistance can respond. So yeah. We're an armed bunch.
I had a boss who complained about my Brussel sprouts at lunch (vegan so I eat weird foods). But it was a text book hostile work environment. 🙄 Glad I’m gone.
@@emilynelson5646 The boss thought they were weird. She didn’t like the smell. She also didn’t like how I breathed. 🙄It was a her problem, but she was the boss. Soooooo happy to be gone.
TIL According to USDA data, microwaving potatoes is the best way to retain its nutritional value, boiling potatoes causes the most nutrient loss, and frying adds fat and extra calories. None of the cooking methods destroy fiber. Still, potatoes are rich in key nutrients regardless of how they are cooked.
It's one thing to cut the food up for someone who can't handle big pieces of food, such as a small child. But unless it's that kind of situation, NEVER touch burgers, hot dogs, fried chicken, or pizza with a knife and fork! I will die on this culinary hill!
Story 2: So Karen managed to turn an office job into a remote one by...being a Karen?? Wow, IMHO the company really did her a huge favor. In fact, it almost sounds like Karen may have purposely acted like that to make her job fully remote. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't absolutely love to have a full time remote job without ever having to commute.
Eating baked potatoes with out salt, pepper, butter and sour cream may be a crime against your taste buds but it's definitely not sexual harassment. Mind your own business Karen!
Wow, the Karen in the 2nd story is absolutely ridiculous! Op is NOT responsible for the way Karen thinks 🙄 OP eating potatoes is not the problem, but Karen most definitely is!
