Lady Karen: I'm elderly and really need this scooter more than you do! Also Lady Karen: Fights so hard she needs two police officers to restrain her. So she is...too tired??
I was thinking the same, she needs the mobility aid so badly, yet there were needed so many officers to detain her. Wtf lady, decide if you are needing an aid or not.
At the grocery store where I shop, I literally saw a heavy woman launch herself out of one of the electric scooters and run down the aisle to claim the last package of toilet paper. I have also seen similar displays from other people with “disabilities”. I don’t need a scooter do I don’t use one, but I can understand why a person would initially think that OP didn’t really need it. But that doesn’t give the elderly lady the right to act like she did.
Story 4; OP needs to file suite against that store. No way did store security have a reason or right to ask he/she to give up the motorized cart to Old Karen. That's totally against the ADA regulations.
Incorrect. Most stores post that those carts are for disabled or elderly people. OP wasn't visibly disabled, so the security guard had no way of knowing she was disabled until she showed him her injuries. Had he of, then, continued demanding she give it up, you'd be correct. However, he did exactly as he should have in this situation.
@@scottkendrix6231 incorrect not all disabilities are visible! He should have believed op when she said she was disabled ore the fact that she said she had to get her own wheelchair there she doesn't have to show scars to prove she's disabled!
Story 1: Definitely NOT the AH. I would never walk into a new relationship and expect them to include my kids (if I had them) on the same level as their own kid(s) for things they had before I came along.
Yeah, I'm in my 50s and I own two homes that are worth a combined $1M+ thanks to owning them for a long time/gentrification. I would never marry someone who expected me to leave my homes to someone other than my kids. Frankly, why even bother getting married when it will only bring complications like this? I don't think I'd do it.
@@fdm2155 YES, exactly! She's known her fiance for only 2 years, and he gets mad about leaving a house that SHE paid for and specifically wants it to go to her daughter? Red flag warning there. I say keep the house till it goes to your daughter, and ditch the fiance. He's a gold digger
I agree the future husband should understand that this is the daughter’s legacy and do the right thing and insure it goes to her daughter. The idea that it should be split with two people who have no connection to that house is off base. Way off base. I’d tell him he could f*** right off
Yeah, well, when the quiet, chill guys lose their cool and starts cussing, the best thing to do is run for cover because something heavy is about to go down and you don't want any part of it.
@@Mercadian So now we reviewers go all alphanumeric when the more egregious Entitled set us off. Well, I do. Trust me, the deserved invective will be applied!
Story 4: First of all, OP couldn't stay standing since her leg was hurting her, second, the Security didn't believe OP until she showed them her stitches....What the heck is wrong with people today, it's obvious who really needed it more and the EB decided it would be herself.....
I'm disabled to a point and need to walk with a cane but when it comes to needing wheel chair or scooter to get around I wouldn't demand someone already on a device to get around to get off and let me have it ? I would find an empty scooter or wheelchair
@@stevebruyere3302 Agreed, I am disabled and have to use a Wheelchair all the time. Though, I don't think anyone would be dumb enough to try to pull me out of it and claim, "Oh, you are just faking it. I need your chair more than you do!"
The obnoxious security guard should have been charged with harassment, and his employer and the store's management should have been notified about the security guard's obnoxious behavior. It's possible that the guard, security company, and store could have been taken to court for damages. Being sued for thousands of dollars tends to get people's attention.
@@JadenYukifan28 Fellow full-time wheelchair user, and someone would be losing a limb if they tried that on me. If they want it so badly, I'll happily help them qualify by any means necessary...
I found someone's phone today and returned it to the owner. The owner wanted to bring a small reward. And I told them that doing a good deed is its own reward.
I work in a clinic and a separate patients lost their keys and a cellphone. Both were returned to the owners same day and before leaving their appointment. Seeing their relieved faces was reward for me.
You are a good person. Nearly 5 years ago, a young man found my phone and refused my offer of a $ reward with almost the exact same phrase. I still smile, years later, when I think about it.
Little bit of wholesome: was getting my own groceries when I saw a couple sitting in their car in the parking lot. The wife was looking sick. Husband asked me about money for food. I said I had spent last of my cash on my own. So I offered a ready made sandwich. He was thrilled, turns out the wife was sugar crashing. I’m just glad I had the sandwich, cuz it was an impulse buy. Very serendipitous there.
*Last Story:* As a cancer survivor, as well as having had an abscessed tooth, gall stone, and untyped pleurisy, I know pain so intense that death is a welcome release all too well. If that Karen was experiencing the amount of pain she claimed, she'd be immobile and begging for the Grim Reaper. Literally, the only thing a person can do when in that much agony is focus on not screaming, holding your breath, and willing the pain to subside (which doesn't really work). Unless you're on extremely powerful painkillers. And those would leave you too dopey to lie, just like sodium pentothal (anesthetic slash truth serum)
Then someone like Aunt Karen says you're just crying for attention 🙄. "Bellyaching" is what my mom always called it. I want to slap a witch! They don't know what pain is!
My sisters husband is like OPs aunt, No one has pain like him, A friend was hospitalised twice for an illness that caused severe pain and he was also suffering but worse, he constantly has illnesses that are far worse than anyone.
For Story #1. Talk to a Lawyer about the benefits of creating a trust. Put the title to the house and any other assets you want your daughter to have in the trust. The trust should have your daughter as the Beneficiary, problem solved.
@@anndownsouth5070 You only pay estate tax for amounts over a certain amount. Last time I checked it was about $12 million. Everything under that is tax free unless that person who died gave away a tone of money when they were alive since gift tax and estate tax share the same exclusion total.
Story 1 - Gotta go with OP on this one. I'm not a big fan of pre-nup agreements in general, but I think they're often necessary in second marriages, particularly if either or both spouses have children. Since OP paid for most of the house herself, I think it's fair enough that she leaves it to her own daughter. If her fiancé doesn't like it, she should dump him and find another boyfriend. Story 4 - Some people just need to shut up and mind their own business. 'Nuff said! Story 6 - Alas, some people are like that. They always have to be the sickest person in the room. Pathetic, isn't it?
Story 6: If I had an aunt willing to drop everything just to hang out, I would offer to lunch just to be in such genuinely caring company. She sounds great.
Story 5 reminded me of when this male Karen demanded me to give him my seat in the subway, even though there were plenty of other available seats. He didn't get it.
No, but it's their job to enforce policy at the location they are posted. That means ensuring people who need the scooters get the scooters. He was in a shit position in this situation, for sure. However, he was doing his job in trying to make sure the scooter policy, which most stores have posted that they are for disabled or elderly, is being followed. When he found out that op did, in fact, need the scooter, he sided with her.
Sounds like fiance is interested in marrying that VERY choice house. If the prenup is a deal breaker for him that says it all. He wants the house, not someone to love and marry.
Yeah, it makes no sense. Presumably the fiance will get to live cheaply in OP's home and even if he pays half the mortgage, it's gonna be a LOT less than a Bay area rent. That seems like benefit enough. Fiance is nuts to expect OP to give away 2/3 of her house to his kids. 😂
Wants the house and a babysitter. Set up a trust written by a lawyer familiar with CA laws. CA is a state that requires an equal split of community assets. Do not allow him to pay on the mortgage to get his foot in the door.
Let me guess, the aunt in the last story was born with glass bones and paper skin, every morning she breaks her legs, every afternoon she breaks her arms, and at night she lies awake in agony until her heart attacks put her to sleep.
Story 6: That's narcissism for ya. You could have cancer that most definitely can cause permanent damage, but apparently it's lesser to one's random disease. Icing on the cake is that Karen was lying too. She's so focused on having attention on her that she would lie.
With people like her, I have a strategy formulated just in case I run into them. I deal with migraines, not fun. One of the things that possibly can trigger a migraine is stress or the like for some people. "Sir/Lady, I deal with migraine headaches, and *YOU* are a migraine waiting to happen. So can it already so we can bloody eat, old hag/man." Would I be lying? No, I have a vested interest to put a stop to it immediately. If I had a cancer scare, I'd certainly want to know that information, too. That lady deserves whatever grief is available to be dispensed upon her. PS - Why do I always throw in 'bloody'? Am I secretly from across the pond and never knew it? The world may never know.
Announce to this particular Karen that you are getting suicidal feelings and see if she tries to one up on that one. Seriously though, she needs to at least see a shrink and see if this is a case of hypochondria or just narcistic BS. The former should at least deserve some sympathy if she accepts treatment for it but if its the later she should just be blocked and ignored.
I had my leg run over by a garbage truck and my leg was broken but my company get me a riding scooter that wold prop up my leg. The amount of dirty looks I got from people even in a bright yellow cast was astonishing
Waiting for test results is the worst. Once you know what you have, you can get a plan of action started. Over Christmas break just before my student teaching began, I got a serious chest cold. It turned out that the x-rays showed some spots. My older, married, moved out sister's friend worked in the x-ray department. She proceeded to tell my sister my results. Just my parents and I knew about it bc we didn't want to worry anyone until we knew what it was. How did I know that my sister found out? She called me the day we were waiting on the phone call about the results of the lung biopsy. And she told me that she let EVERYONE IN HER CHURCH KNOW ABOUT IT so that they could pray for me. I don't go to that church bc I know those hypocrites way too well. Then my sister got mad when I told her that she was tying up the phone bc I was waiting for the call from the Dr. This was WAY before cell phones. After I hung up I told my mom what she said. Less than 5 minutes later, she called back and my mom answered it. Mom told her to shut up and don't call here again until MOM calls HER with the results. Luckily it wasn't cancer. It was a curable condition. My mom also worked at the hospital, and she reamed the friend a new one. But what mentally destroyed me was when I started my student teaching and was given a tour of the school. It seems that the kindergarten teacher had a bad chest cold over Christmas too. But it turned out to be Stage 3 lung cancer. She was only 3 years older than me. I never found out what happened to her but was told that she'd be out the following school year too. Waiting for test results suck.
The wait is terrible. What was worse for me was seeing my wife’s face when we were told I had cancer. Did your sister get in trouble for violating HIPAA or was this before?
Story 4 - Oh I'd have loved to have been a customer seeing that so I could tell her, "Being old doesn't mean you deserve things, it just means, in your case, that Death sucks at his job"
I've been a local church pastor for about 30 years. I tell this story (one of many) often both as a warning and as pure entertainment: The church/mosque/temple/synagogue on the street corner does not have any cash on hand. Ever! Please don't try to burglar a church, you'll just break windows, doors, and people's hearts. Every church I have ever served has had community resources. Some more than others. But we always had shelf stable food on hand (and sometimes diapers) to give out. One day, I am sitting in my study with a window that overlooks the parking lot (romantic view). This particular church is a bit off the downtown area and on top of a hill. The driveway into the parking lot is a long, curved road. So, I am sitting there, alone in the locked church, pretending to study for my Sunday sermon. I see a lady walk up the long drive and across the parking lot toward the church. As she gets near, I greet her at the door. She gives me a sob story I have heard a thousand times. She wants cash. I know that there is no cash in the church and no cash in my wallet. I apologize to her and say, "I can give you all the groceries you want. But I don't have any cash." She screams at me, turns around, and curses me all the way down the hill toward the street. Jesus is free, but he doesn't pay for freebasing.
I was once eating a lunch salad in my work truck when a guy came up demanding money. I carry none. He then demands my salad. When I refuse he kicks my door denting it. I opened the door to jump out and pound the guy when the police come racing up. Throwing him to the ground they cuff him and take him to jail. Cop said he saw everything and didn’t want me going to jail too.
Story #4 I can relate to … I’m recently disabled and I have my own electric motorized wheelchair and I’m also on the bit heavier side and don’t look like I need the chair but because of Covid, I cannot walk anymore. Well I’ve already run into people saying the same thing “I’m just lazy” “I don’t look disabled” “I need that chair more than you” even had one person call my wheelchair the stores chair (highly unlikely as it cost me over $20K) … it’s like a magnet for entitledpeople … it’s ridiculous
Same. I’ve been needing a wheelchair for years and recently got one (finally) since the rheumatoid arthritis in my back flares up after a few minutes of standing. Honestly while I’m so happy to finally have the freedom to go where I want, when I want, I’m also so scared of running into Karens like this! I already had people be weird about my cane and walker before.
1st story: Daughter should DEFINITELY get the house Fiance doesn't have THAT much skin in the game 2nd story: See, this is why it is SO damned hard to be nice to people, they always want more Tales of the Fluff: In my home town, there was a "homeless man" begging on the side of the road who, at the end of the day, drove off in a late model Mercedes 4th story: I would've done the same as Fluff 5th story: I hate these "disability police" stories "I'm old and tired/my child is tired and need that wheelchair more than you do" "You don't LOOK/are too happy to be disabled, you don't deserve that wheelchair/parking space" FU lady, who are you to decide who does or does not deserve something 6th story: Don't you just LOVE karen lawyers 7th story: Is this considered Nightingale syndrome or something?
In my old neighborhood there was a guy who stood in front of the Dunkin Donuts begging every day... unless it was very hot or very cold or raining 🤣 He was clearly disabled - probably on disability/social security. He stood out there for hours except for when the weather was uncomfortable. This went on for YEARS. I never gave him anything but that didn't stop him from begging.
All I was thinking when I heard him tell her she had to get out was “fire him!” It’s not his job to tell if someone needs the scooter and if If someone is using it and not obviously injured or disabled you can’t just assume they aren’t. He should have told the old lady if she needs one he will find one for her but that OP was using it so they can’t just make her get out of it.
@@scottkendrix6231 by telling someone to get off that wheelchair when they clearly had it 1st and need it. What he should of done was tell the old woman its 1st come 1st serves and that the woman clearly needs it and to stop assaulting her. He probably looked at her like the old woman and only seen her size
She didn't clearly need it until she showed him her injuries. When it became known that she did need it, he was siding with op. Most stores that offer those scooters have it posted that they are for elderly or disabled customers. So, again, he was doing his job by trying to enforce store policy.
I am 17 and DISABLED that NEEDS a wheelchair but I can and do walk. its just less painless to use a wheelchair but for more easily to get around without it. Thankfully I never had someone call me lazy before
Story 1: Keep everything separate because the chances of this marriage lasting are next-to-nothing so .... Story 2: No good deed goes unpunished. Also story 2 (Flufftales) at least you didn't give him cash. Story 4: I'm 53, have a trashed back, rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis and other injuries. I use a cane to walk. I *need* a cart, but I will give up my cart for someone worse off than I am. Story 5: why would you be sitting there with your doors unlocked?
Fluff story: People know that people in general are more wiling to help an animal than another human being. I'm not surprised the guy used the dog to try to get someone to buy him food. If I see someone on the street that appears in need, I have no problems buying them food. However, I will never give them money.
As a paraplegic, I can definitely tell you that having a wheelchair isn't funny. It can be really bothersome lots of times. I luckily never had anybody try to take my chair but I've been accused of faking it before.
Every time a Karen or a entitled person starts to get into trouble and try to get get out of trouble they later find out that they dug there own grave way too deep that they are unavailable to get out
In Chicago '94 I was asked by a begger to give her a dollar for the El so she could get home, I gave her a token (at the time this was one ride) she had the audacity to say this is not what she wanted and asked for the cash. True story, Loren St. Clair
I once had a guy ask me for 10$, I told him "sorry I don't have any cash on me, just my debit card." And he said to me ANGRILY "WHAT THE F*CK Would I do with your debit card you f*cking [insert R WORD]!?" 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I’ll never understand why people would want to fight over an electric scooter. I felt so embarrassed when I had to use one at the store because my foot was in a cast. It just baffles me hearing these stories of people getting into physical fights over a dumb scooter.
Story 4 gets me mad. I had surgery almost 2 years ago, and I had serious complications in my abdomen and pelvis I was ashamed that I had to hobble around in a dress (it was too painful to wear pants for weeks), and I eventually resorted to the electric shopping cart after collapsing from pain while shopping. I was 26 at the time, and looked otherwise healthy. I felt so embarrassed, but because I was not “fat-looking”, people looked on with more sympathy, especially after someone saw blood on my dress-a stitch broke a little. It ended up being ok, but I hated the extra attention when shopping. The pain of not being able to get up and do things pissed me off to no end.
I hear these and question the state of humanity, and then something good happens that makes me think there's hope. A young man at the dollar store went the cashier, showed on his phone debit card app that he was only charged .37 cents instead of $37. He drove back (he was a truck driver) to show the mistake. The cashier thanked him profusely. I was so taken a back that I forgot one of my bags. The young man ran out and gave the bag.
I still have faith in humanity. There are lots of kindness abound, but unfortunately kindness does not generate clicks as good as unkindness. So sometimes our media consumption is truly detrimental to our worldview.
I went through a terrible cancer scare. I had a mammogram done and they thought I had a tumor but thankfully it was just dense breast tissue. At the same time they found out I might have thyroid cancer. Both were negative thank all that is holy but I feel for that girl. It's a long and very uncomfortable wait. I wish her all the luck and love. I am glad to hear that she has a great support system.
First, inheritance is first immediate family in this situation...not by marriage, not to mention the majority of things occurred prior to the relationship. Sounds like someone is looking for a gold digger's jackpot. They had no claim to it, weren't involved with the deceased person, so a hard not the AH. Concerning electric shopping carts belonging to the stores: I had an accident 18 years ago that messed up my foot badly. Five surgeries in 3 years badly. I've had a few see me get out of the store electric cart to reach something, and sit back down, and then come over and ask why am I using the cart if I can walk. I tell them, "I can walk/stand for 10 minutes or so at a time, but need to be able to sit/lean when the cramping starts, for a literal minute. If I did the shopping on foot, the foot would be so swollen it won't even lie flat on the floor, for several days...and shopping would take 4 times longer as well. Now, does that satisfy you, or do you wish to be ruder and more judgemental with another highly personal and inappropriate question from a complete stranger?"
Wheel chair story, that security guard needs a talkin' to at the very least. First story, prenup at a minimum and ensure Mom's will states daughter gets the house, as in takes ownership immediately. My MIL always stated her house was to be sold and proceeds divided among the kids (her 4, his 3 (second marriage)) and he knew/agreed to it. She passed first, but when he passed her children saw not one dime even though her kids did more for him than his kids did when MIL passed. I actually expected something like this to play out, tbh, since he brought so little to their relationship.
MORE TAILS OF FLUFF PLEASE that segment was literally everything i didn't know i needed! the pan in on the house, the music, the fire, lmfao Steve needs a bonus for that
@@natebernasconi omg that's so funny! i actually didn't notice that bc i listen to fluff with headphones on while doing chores so i just saw the animations from a few feet away 🤣 i also need glasses lmao. thanks for pointing that out bc that's hilarious
Last story. Jesus, that aunt is lucky she's a part of THAT family. There are plenty that would have given that woman actual medical problems, not just the pretend ones she claims to have.
Years ago I had a good enough job and I was financially well above water. I was on my way home via Hollywood Boulevard when a man asked me for a dollar so that he could go across the street and get a slice of pizza. He pointed across the street, and sure enough there's a pizza place, right next door to a liquor store. Hmm... So I offered the following, "Tell you what, let's go over there, and I'll buy you _two_ slices of pizza, plus a soft drink of your choice." As I predicted, he insisted all he needed was the dollar, at which point I wished him well, and continued walking to back to my place...
Last story: How can someone allow that kind of person anywhere near their kid is beyond me. Anyone would act this way, I would keep three neighborhood between them and my kids at all time. Who the hell need that kind of toxicity around?
Hey Fluff... That man did you wrong for pretending to need it for the dog, but please dont let it deter you from any possible help you give in the future. I was homeless with a dog in Las Vegas (I have a video playlist on my channel) and when asked, i always said i needed Pedigree. Please dont let that man make you think the homeless are bad people. They're just people having bad times... My doggo also has a channel of her own. That Dog Named Lotus. she was abandoned to me while I was homeless...
An old co-worker of mine gave a woman claiming she was diabetic and needed food as she didn’t have money and hadn’t eaten all day, $20. She told me about it and described her and I was like, she was lying. Sure enough my co-worker runs into later that day who gave her the same sob story. No money, hadn’t eaten all day. And my co-worker was pissed because $20 was like an hour an half of work and she was tricked
My sister had a story of a guy that would beg for money close to her job so she would see him regularly. She noticed that the days when the weather was it’s worst, were the days his kids would be standing with him.
Story 4: it's insane how hard it is to just use an electric cart when you genuinely need it. I used to be a really big girl, diagnosed obese. Now I'm just a little overweight after weight loss but even now I worry about using those scooters because I also happen to be young. But I have a physical disability that sometimes flares up badly and I also am dealing with a recent injury and when I went grocery shopping today (I had to, I wouldn't have a chance to go another time in time) I really could have used one but I was afraid of someone demanding I get off it because of my age or something. It's a lot of BS. Karens make the world suck.
I have a scooter story. I have a joint disorder so I can't stay on my feet very long. I'm also very big. I try to stay on my feet as much as I can. Well one day at our local WallyWorld I finally broke down and used one of those carts. This woman decided that I wasnt deserving enough to use the cart and actually followed me all over the store harassing me and trying to take the cart. Finally she went and got a manager who then kicked ME out of the store! Thing is she didnt even want the cart. She just walked off after. To this day I still refuse to use one of those carts for fear of another incident.
1st story: what did the dad contribute? You have a house that you've basically paid for alone. What is he leaving for the kids? No, OP, YOU ARE RIGHT. Dump this leach before he drains you.
The one about the EBT is illegal to purchase food that is not for your immediate household members. And the only time you need the pin is when you are purchasing food.
Op should NOT divide the house. It is something that both she and her daughter have planned on for 30 years. She should never let someone come in and change that. NTA. Op also needs to rethink the finance sharing. Maybe share enough to cover half the expenses, but keep the rest of your money separate and where you cannot access the rest. And if his kids want extras, he needs to take care of that, including savings for their college educations. It really sounds like he’s seeing op as a bank account, not a partner.
Several years ago I was living in a midsize city, and there was a woman I encountered several times who would say that she hadn't eaten in two days. She would also keep repeating "I want KFC." The first time I met her I was outside a Chinese restaurant so I asked her to come inside and I would buy her food. She yelled "No" and kept saying she wanted KFC. So I walked away. After that if she tried the same thing with me I'd just say "Yeah, I've heard your story" and walk away. And I had the pleasure of chasing her off the property of a gas station where I worked because she was giving the same sob story to a customer. The look of rage on her face when I walked up and told the customer that I've heard this same thing from her several times and it's always been two days since she's eaten. Then I told her "Off this property! NOW!" And she scurried away like the rat she is.
Years ago, I found someone's purse at Walmart. It had been left in a shopping cart. Took it into the store to see if anyone had called about it, they hadn't. Don't recall now how we were able to find her phone number, but she was called to let her know that I had it and would be bringing it to her. I could have left it at the lost and found at Walmart. But, I didn't want to take any chances on anything happening to the contents. I don't recall now if she insisted on giving me anything, but I didn't want anything. Didn't do it for a possible reward.
For the wheelchair story. I had an emergency surgery and went shopping immediately after I got out of the hospital to get my pain medication. I had to use an electric chair because it still hurt to walk as it was pretty soon after surgery to be out. I was about 19 at the time and my fiancé and my mom went to the store with me I’m case something like that happened. Luckily the only thing that happened was ugly looks from some people, no interactions though.
That last post reminds me of a co-worker doesn't matter what you're going though he has "had it worse." My husband was in a car accident and my co-worker was never in a car accident but he had to share a story of a family member he knew who was in a car accident. He is terribly insensitive and a total narcissist.
When the *"Will work for food"* signs began appearing in our town a number of years back, I happened to drive to the grocery with my 40-something daughter who was visiting that day. We passed a young person holding one of those signs, written on torn cardboard, and dear daughter, ever compassionate, exclaimed "Oh, that's SO SAD!" I knew she wanted me to stop & give out some $$, so I told her the truth. "Yes, it certainly is sad, & It was sad YESTERDAY, too, when there was a somewhat older person of a different gender, HOLDING THAT EXACT SAME PIECE OF CARDBOARD!" Coincidentally, just a few days later our local newspaper had looked into these particular "sad" folks - using an "underground reporter" - only to identify a group of about five unrelated people who sharing a very nice apartment just across the street from the grocer's. They took turns panhandling near the store, and apparently raked in *several hundreds of dollars EVERY DAY* - completely tax-free! (Nice job, if you can get it, right?) I shared that info with my daughter, of course. On a different day, as I drove into the parking lot at Costco, I couldn't help but notice a fresh-faced, somewhat Reubenesque (that means "well upholstered") young lady, standing at the entry with a somewhat different sign on cardboard. *_HERS_** read: "Pregnant and homeless. Need help!"* She blew it though. No one (including _moi)_ was going to stop and help a purportedly "homeless" young woman who displays lovely, long, "shining with sparkling cleanliness & health," blonde hair, who is wearing very new, very clean clothing, which is SO nicely taken care of that the first thing I noticed was the sharp crease in her freshly cleaned, light blue, slacks; those slacks had obviously been _VERY RECENTLY IRONED!_ She was no more "homeless" than 60+-year old I was, and she didn't have the look of a "pregnant" girl, just that of an overly-well-fed one. (Now _THAT_ I can relate to! Yeah, I know not all pregnancy is immediately visible, but I did have three of my own pregnancies, PLUS I'm now a retired RN, & she really just didn't come across as pregnant. I'd dare to put money on that, and I'm not a gambler!) Don't believe everything you read, Friends!
We have a Wally World here and a strip mall a few yards down the street. A guy in a wheelchair started hanging out everyday at the traffic light at WW. He had the "disabled veteran, please help" sign. I saw people giving him cash all the time. One day I was waiting at the light and saw a couple bees buzzing around him. He started swatting which attracted more bees. He jumped out of the wheelchair and left it behind, ran to the mall, got in a new car and drove away. I could hear people yelling and screaming at him. Way to go bees!
As a new mom and a wheelchair user, these stories really ease the stir-craziness. Why would I WANT to leave the house with Karens like these out there?
The last story is my mom... she's a hypochondriac... if u tell her I have a headache, she has a terrible headache... she will literally act like she can't wake up... u say u don't want to get up I'm leaving and she miraculously wakes up... she acts like she has a stroke, seizures heart attacks u name it she has it or had it or coming down with it... she goes to the hospital frequently and tell them it's her heart so that they can keep her... she won't come to families functions because she's "sick" and make it about her instead of the family function.. the thing is she knows that we know she faking
As someone who spent quite a few years homeless, people who do that kind of shit pisses me off. Because when you act like you're poor and need help when you don't or harass people for money endlessly, then people tend to think everyone who asks for help is trying to scam them and it makes it harder for people who are actually needing help and struggling to get by.
I had a relative who owned a Medical Dictionary. Except for the two worst venereal diseases, she had every medical condition described in the book. The disease of the week, but not enough weeks in the year…
1st story: Definitely Not the A Hole!! I would rethink marrying this guy. Married 20yrs maybe. Dating 2 years, not a chance! This is a snapshot of the future. Even with a prenuptial, he would take your daughter to court. Be wise my friend!!
The good people mind their own business while the bad ones are out there being a problem and announcing their presence. It's depressing if you think about it
My husband died 1 1/2 years ago. When I went back to work a few days later, a self absorbed coworker had just started divorce proceedings,came to me(after many others gave condolences) and told me she wished she was going through whit was going through instead of what she was going through. I was married 41 years and we were so in love. She had been having problems for awhile.
I had a moocher approach me, in a parking lot, with his sad story (New in town, truck needed for work got towed, no place to stay, nothing to eat, no money). I had a tiny bit of change....maybe $1.50. About a year later, that same guy approached me, in that same parking lot, with that exact same story. Umh, buddy, you were new to town, A YEAR AGO! If your truck is still impounded, you're better off buying a new one, at this point. He got about $1.50, in total, from me. And, the advice to "GET A REAL JOB!"
The parking spot story is an example of what I keep going on about when people just automatically say to press charges without knowing about any other context or hating on people that don’t want to press charges. I’m glad that OP had a witness, but that isn’t always the situation. It can be extremely frustrating when responding officers or DA’s office just don’t care, but sometimes their hands actually are tied by the likely realistic results of a lot of situations like this. It’s equally frustrating to be told to press charges by people that weren’t there and don’t know if trying to press charges would’ve fallen on deaf ears or just end up not being worth it for anyone involved.
Story 4, my nana has so many invisible issues, a knee implant, spine issues, shoulder issues, just alot. But she refuses to use electronic carts (even though she 100% needs to use them), because she is a bit on the heavy side and she has seen lazy people use them and she feels like she would be judged extremely hard for using one (she rarely goes shopping or do anything in public because of it), so whenever people get mad at people using one for any reason just pisses me off because its not their business and if they NEED to use one they can just wait until one is available.
Story 1: Joint. Custody. The house doesn't matter. They are not nor never will be her kids. She can't adopt them. She isn't even really raising them. Not the a-hole.
Story 4: The lady could have sued the shop and won for disability discrimination. The security CANNOT request someone give up the electric carts. In the eyes of the court it is accusing the woman of a crime and rather than go through a court battle and whatnot the store will settle and fire the security guard.
Last story. Before our parents passed away, we had a running joke about my sistercalways being sick with something. You couldn't get sick alone. Ever. Because she'd come down with whatever YOU had, but sooooo much worse! Examples would be when I got strep throat. She got it, too, but wouldn't go to the doc to get diagnosed and get antibiotics. She complained bitterly that she'd caught it from me until 8 pointed out that she lived over 10 miles away and hadn't been to the house in months. I would also tell her that I'm sure she was sicker than anyone had ever been and ever would be, but it was years before she figured out that I was being a smart a**. I once had bronchitis (an annual 3vent, maybe because I'm asthmatic so am prone to lung- related things). Of course, SHE caught bronchitis from me and was soon sick....until I told her I wasn't contagious so she couldn't have caught it from me. Within hours, she was miraculously healed.
The story of the person in the motorized cart reminds me of an injury I had to recover from. Or, rather, a flareup of an old injury. The original injury happened when I fell down a flight of 15 stairs to a concrete floor and did a significant amount of damage to my back, not to mention broke bones in my right ankle and dislocated the knee. Well, 2013, my lower back decided to remind me that it never recovered from that and I ended up bedridden for two and a half months. Eventually I had minor surgery to numb nerves and adjust the disc, but it took another several months to recover. And trust me, walking again after something like that HURTS! Anyhow, so I was using the motorized carts at the store - which I hate because they are SO damn slow - and this one b-word was following me through the store screaming at me how there was "nothing wrong with me" and how I "needed to give HER the cart because she was tired of walking and being on her feet all day, etc. Ignoring the fact that my crutches was wedged into the cart with me. She didn't stop her BS until a floor supervisor came up to see what all the screaming and swearing was about, not at my end, but SHE was making enough noise to wake the dead, screaming as if she thought I was hard of hearing or something. The man basically told her she either stopped following me around, and stopped her banshee howling, or he was going to have her removed from the store. She called HIM every name in the book, and when he was firm, she told him to F-Off and left the store. I mean yeesh, I was just going in for a few things. If she had just left me alone, I'd've been done in less than 30 minutes and she could've HAD the stupid motorized cart! I'm now back on my feet, and no longer have to use those things. But I figure if someone is using it, they likely actually NEED it, but I'm aware not everyone who uses them, needs them. But I dislike using them. WAY too slow for me.
Oh boy i had an entitled person (or i guess just a regular male karen) go off at me at work tonight :D So I work at a walmart that still has a jewelry counter. A guy came over asking me to take links out of his watch, to which i told him that I was told that we didn't do that anymore. He gets mad and tells me that someone else who works there removed a link from his watch just yesterday (I wasn't there yesterday so idk how true this was). He goes 0-100 kinda quick and asks for a manager, and I tell him that since it's so late (around 9 p.m.), there might not be very many managers in but customer service might be able to help him. He goes "I'm not going to customer service, that's your job!" so I oblige just to get away from him. They call the AP manager over and I go to tell the guy. He continues to go off at me about how I should just remove the links for him and how he wanted my full name etc. etc. until the AP guy eventually gets there. AP guy takes the links out while telling the dude that i was just following what i had been told. Dude finally leaves (he also had his kid with him; stellar parenting right there) and AP guy assures me that i didn't do anything wrong So yeah, wasn't planning on crying at work today, but here we are 🙃 Thanks, jewelry guy. I hope your watch never fits right no matter how many links you take out or put in :)
I've been in the opposite parking situation before. I was in a rather full parking lot looking for a spot when I saw a car pulling out. I stopped, giving them enough room, and turned my turn signal on and waited. They drove off, and as I was driving into the spot, I see a car coming around the corner, but don't think much of it. When I got out of my car, they started yelling at me and called me an a-hole. Best part, there was an open spot about 5 spots down 🙄
There need to be more "tales of the fluff" Story 5: I guess that the car doors were unlocked because OP was ready to get out of the car. If a crazy person like that approached my vehicle I would have locked my doors again just for that reason. There is no telling what unhinged people will do in situations like this one. I would also recommend dash cameras.
"So i noticed you had this much on your balance, you should get me stuff for finding it" You know extortion is illegal right? "Well, I'll just keep it then!" And thats theft.
Well it finally happened I met my first Karen the other day and when I said yeah okay Karen have fun with that she got super mad and asked how I knew her name I laughed and said well isn't it obvious you have the haircut and let me tell you everyone in line was laughing as well when I said that.
She said she had to call her sister to bring her wheelchair and he security guards response was thats fine, but you need to vacate this one now?! He needs to be fired!!
Professional Panhandlers... My town in Texas has a law that all panhandlers MUST have a city dispensed license. The cops pick them up, take them to the city office to apply for the license then return them to the corner they found them.
