Yesterday G13 rode her bike over to Safeway to pick up some baking supplies. She wore a backpack so she didn't have to carry a grocery bag in her hand on the ride home. In the baking aisle she was approached by a woman pushing a cart (clearly another shopper and not a store employee) who asked if she was shoplifting. She demanded my daughter open her backpack and show her the contents. Daughter told her to eff off (ok, not literally but along those lines) and walked away.
You hear about Karen anecdotes online, but hearing my daughter relay this story made me wonder: What exactly happened in the rearing or emotional development of women who do this to think it's acceptable behavior?
it is stupid.
Yesterday I was driving to Home Depot when I got stuck behind a car at a light. The light turned green but the car ahead didn’t move forward. It took me a couple of seconds to realize that the driver was a Caucasian woman who was jawing with an African American guy who was waitingfor a bus at the stop.
Since she was oblivious to traffic norms (green light, cars behind etc) am assuming she was the aggressor in the conversation.
Daughter: “Hi. I think you need to speak to the manager. I’ll wait right here while you call the cavalry, ok?”
As a friend once said, “Put the turd in the other guy’s pocket.”
Karen will have had her next move co-opted and your daughter can stand there smiling while a third party records all this an makes your daughter an Internet star.
Mind your own business Karen before you end up on your tubes
cart or one of the store’s baskets?
Karen is more entitled and vain, not so much a busybody.
You need to feel fairly entitled to think you have the authority to search someone's bag.