September 16, 2024 • 6 mins
The Morning Show talks about "Karens" waiting in line and causing drama for no reason.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Speaking of stupid and reckless. You go out into the world.
You just try to survive. You want to go, get
in line in a store and pay for your whatever
you bought. You want to go, and there's always someone
who rolls through and we call them Karen's and to
all of our friends named Karen, I apologize. So you
had I have a couple of calls on hold for us. Okay,
they had Karen weekends, but you started it right, maybe
(00:20):
what happened to you?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'll kick off the Karen Weekend. I was in Coals
and I had a return. I bought something. They sent
me the wrong thing. I'm like, okay, you gotta go
return it, no big deal. I go to Cole's. I'm
in the line and there's only one person working. And great, okay,
one person working the Cole's return line. Great, I'll wait
my time, my turn. This woman behind me, she like,
(00:44):
I just hear her huffing, you know. But before I
even turn around my mind I just really what she say.
So then she taps me on the shoulder. She goes, really,
are you waiting in life for returns? I'm like, yeah,
she goes, there's only one person. I go that's kind
of how it works here. I'm like, I don't know
what to tell you. So I turned back around. I
wait patiently for my turn. The person in front of
(01:05):
me finishes. I walk up there and I have the
box and I'm pulling up my phone with the receipt
and the woman that is handling the returns goes, okay,
do you have your receipt? And I'm about to show
her the phone and this this Karen behind me comes up,
pushes me aside and goes.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
He's tear on the box.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Your receipts on the box. And I'm like, oh my god,
I have my phone. Chill out, relax And I put
my hand up and I go relax. And she goes,
I'm just trying to help, oh god.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
God, you know what, and trying and trying to help
them make everything a million times worse.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
God like, chill out, I said, chill f out.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You should have you know what people need to I
don't know, you know me, I just try to be
quiet in back, walk out backwards.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I would notice on there there. I'm like, I had
I have to say something, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So a lot of people were texting in and including
mesh online nineteen.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Let's go talk to me. Hello, mesh Hi.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So Karen unloaded on you in the Starbucks parking lot
over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
What happened? Oh my god. I went to a Starbucks
on my up break and I got in the line,
and the line was out like from out of the
parking lot, and there was another parking lot to the right.
So there were these two cars park there. I thought
they were going to go into the parking lot on
the right, but it turns out they were waiting for
the Starbucks. So I accidentally cut them off. I didn't
(02:36):
realize this, but as I'm waiting there, this woman with
I swear to you, tork, blond hair and all comes
up and is shouting at me through my window and
just going off about the stuff. I rolled my window down.
Oh I don't know why, but I know I rolled
my window down, and I was just like, there are
kinder ways to go about telling somebody this, and for me,
(03:00):
I didn't realize that. I'm sorry, but like I would
have paid for her drink and everything if I had realized,
because I wouldn't have. I would never like accidentally, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Accidents, you know, accidents happened, did she So she was
just in your face, by the way, never ever roll
your window down.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
No, never, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah. Well so yeah, so I told her, you know,
there are nicer ways to go about telling people that.
She's like, iway was waiting for ten minutes, which there's
no way because I was waiting for like three. So
that was it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I know, And you know, you just wish it
didn't happen, and then you part of it feels kind
of okay, maybe I did cut them off, but accidents happened,
like she has She's never done that to someone by accident,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Please.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Anyway, she left, but at least it wasn't like those
videos you see now where people throw throw like iced
coffee out to drive through windows. All right, well, thank you.
One more we have Chandra online twenty. Hello Chandra, So
you had to connect with Karen and oh wow, what
happened to tell your story?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh this is a good one. Okay, this is a
good one. I pull I walk up to the the
checkout line and I hear this elder. She was an elder, Karen,
by the way, and I hear her. I hear her say,
I told you, I told you to do this, and
I was like, what he's and just looked at me.
We made eye contact. He looked at me, and I
just felt so bad for this young gentleman. She wanted
(04:27):
all her because she was old, she could only carry
so many things, so she was putting all her candy together,
which you're supposed to and she was like, no, I
want to do it myself. So she reached back behind
her and was doing herself. And the whole time she's
just being just rude to him, and I said don't.
And I just like kind of got my courage and
(04:48):
I'm like, I cannot that's that all you were being.
And she looked at me and she's like yeah, And
I said no, I said to you, I said, young.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Man, and and hold on, hold on, hold on, repeat.
What did you say to her about the young man
say that we broke up?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Go ahead you.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I said, you are being disrespectful. And she looked at
me and she's like yeah, because she thought I was
talking about him, and I said I am talking. I said,
I am talking about you, and then she like like,
oh you know, and I'm like, oh my god. So
I'm just like finished. I'm just like waiting waiting, waiting,
and she's just she wanted her ice cream in two
separate bags, and she's just being just a total Karen.
(05:29):
And I felt so bad. This guy. He wasn't even
say anything. He just he just looked like beaten me,
you know. And I'm like, oh my gosh. She left,
she did it all.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Did someone call someone else a bitch?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Though I did. I called her a bitch at the
end of the At the end of the she wanted
everything in separate bags. She wanted to send us falls
in a separate bag because it was for her.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Horses, okay, And I said, okay, this is just so.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I said, oh this is weird. So she left and
she's like, have a good day, and I said, you too.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh god, Danielle loves that one. Listen to Danielle. All right,
well look, thank you, Jondre.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Sorry that happened to you. You know what, that's the thing,
the people who are behind the counter, they get cramped
on all.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The time the time.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I believe me.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I remember working in McDonald's, Oh my gosh, and the
nastiness that I would have to deal with over like,
you know, a fish sandwich, something stupid, so stupid I'm like, really, guys,
come on, it's not that serious.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't know, but do you find yourselves online and
just going deep, deep, deep down the hole watching these videos? Yeah,
some of these awful people. I don't know, but I
feel like I turn it off and I can feel
my pulse racing. So I'm just like so mad.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And you would think that people would watch themselves back
and go, oh my gosh, I acted like that, but no,
A lot of them think.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Like, yeah, I was justified, and then they double down
talking about invasion of privacy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Ma'am, you are outside acting like a water buffalo.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Get out of here.
Speaking of stupid and reckless. You go out into the world.
You just try to survive. You want to go, get
in line in a store and pay for your whatever
you bought. You want to go, and there's always someone
who rolls through and we call them Karen's and to
all of our friends named Karen, I apologize. So you
had I have a couple of calls on hold for us. Okay,
they had Karen weekends, but you started it right, maybe
(00:20):
what happened to you?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'll kick off the Karen Weekend. I was in Coals
and I had a return. I bought something. They sent
me the wrong thing. I'm like, okay, you gotta go
return it, no big deal. I go to Cole's. I'm
in the line and there's only one person working. And great, okay,
one person working the Cole's return line. Great, I'll wait
my time, my turn. This woman behind me, she like,
(00:44):
I just hear her huffing, you know. But before I
even turn around my mind I just really what she say.
So then she taps me on the shoulder. She goes, really,
are you waiting in life for returns? I'm like, yeah,
she goes, there's only one person. I go that's kind
of how it works here. I'm like, I don't know
what to tell you. So I turned back around. I
wait patiently for my turn. The person in front of
(01:05):
me finishes. I walk up there and I have the
box and I'm pulling up my phone with the receipt
and the woman that is handling the returns goes, okay,
do you have your receipt? And I'm about to show
her the phone and this this Karen behind me comes up,
pushes me aside and goes.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
He's tear on the box.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Your receipts on the box. And I'm like, oh my god,
I have my phone. Chill out, relax And I put
my hand up and I go relax. And she goes,
I'm just trying to help, oh god.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
God, you know what, and trying and trying to help
them make everything a million times worse.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
God like, chill out, I said, chill f out.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You should have you know what people need to I
don't know, you know me, I just try to be
quiet in back, walk out backwards.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I would notice on there there. I'm like, I had
I have to say something, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So a lot of people were texting in and including
mesh online nineteen.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Let's go talk to me. Hello, mesh Hi.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So Karen unloaded on you in the Starbucks parking lot
over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
What happened? Oh my god. I went to a Starbucks
on my up break and I got in the line,
and the line was out like from out of the
parking lot, and there was another parking lot to the right.
So there were these two cars park there. I thought
they were going to go into the parking lot on
the right, but it turns out they were waiting for
the Starbucks. So I accidentally cut them off. I didn't
(02:36):
realize this, but as I'm waiting there, this woman with
I swear to you, tork, blond hair and all comes
up and is shouting at me through my window and
just going off about the stuff. I rolled my window down.
Oh I don't know why, but I know I rolled
my window down, and I was just like, there are
kinder ways to go about telling somebody this, and for me,
(03:00):
I didn't realize that. I'm sorry, but like I would
have paid for her drink and everything if I had realized,
because I wouldn't have. I would never like accidentally, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Accidents, you know, accidents happened, did she So she was
just in your face, by the way, never ever roll
your window down.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
No, never, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah. Well so yeah, so I told her, you know,
there are nicer ways to go about telling people that.
She's like, iway was waiting for ten minutes, which there's
no way because I was waiting for like three. So
that was it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, I know, And you know, you just wish it
didn't happen, and then you part of it feels kind
of okay, maybe I did cut them off, but accidents happened,
like she has She's never done that to someone by accident,
you know.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Please.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Anyway, she left, but at least it wasn't like those
videos you see now where people throw throw like iced
coffee out to drive through windows. All right, well, thank you.
One more we have Chandra online twenty. Hello Chandra, So
you had to connect with Karen and oh wow, what
happened to tell your story?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh this is a good one. Okay, this is a
good one. I pull I walk up to the the
checkout line and I hear this elder. She was an elder, Karen,
by the way, and I hear her. I hear her say,
I told you, I told you to do this, and
I was like, what he's and just looked at me.
We made eye contact. He looked at me, and I
just felt so bad for this young gentleman. She wanted
(04:27):
all her because she was old, she could only carry
so many things, so she was putting all her candy together,
which you're supposed to and she was like, no, I
want to do it myself. So she reached back behind
her and was doing herself. And the whole time she's
just being just rude to him, and I said don't.
And I just like kind of got my courage and
(04:48):
I'm like, I cannot that's that all you were being.
And she looked at me and she's like yeah, And
I said no, I said to you, I said, young.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Man, and and hold on, hold on, hold on, repeat.
What did you say to her about the young man
say that we broke up?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Go ahead you.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I said, you are being disrespectful. And she looked at
me and she's like yeah, because she thought I was
talking about him, and I said I am talking. I said,
I am talking about you, and then she like like,
oh you know, and I'm like, oh my god. So
I'm just like finished. I'm just like waiting waiting, waiting,
and she's just she wanted her ice cream in two
separate bags, and she's just being just a total Karen.
(05:29):
And I felt so bad. This guy. He wasn't even
say anything. He just he just looked like beaten me,
you know. And I'm like, oh my gosh. She left,
she did it all.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Did someone call someone else a bitch?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Though I did. I called her a bitch at the
end of the At the end of the she wanted
everything in separate bags. She wanted to send us falls
in a separate bag because it was for her.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Horses, okay, And I said, okay, this is just so.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I said, oh this is weird. So she left and
she's like, have a good day, and I said, you too.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh god, Danielle loves that one. Listen to Danielle. All right,
well look, thank you, Jondre.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Sorry that happened to you. You know what, that's the thing,
the people who are behind the counter, they get cramped
on all.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The time the time.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I believe me.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I remember working in McDonald's, Oh my gosh, and the
nastiness that I would have to deal with over like,
you know, a fish sandwich, something stupid, so stupid I'm like, really, guys,
come on, it's not that serious.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I don't know, but do you find yourselves online and
just going deep, deep, deep down the hole watching these videos? Yeah,
some of these awful people. I don't know, but I
feel like I turn it off and I can feel
my pulse racing. So I'm just like so mad.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
And you would think that people would watch themselves back
and go, oh my gosh, I acted like that, but no,
A lot of them think.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Like, yeah, I was justified, and then they double down
talking about invasion of privacy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Ma'am, you are outside acting like a water buffalo.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Get out of here.
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