Karen comes into our store AFTER CLOSING and REFUSES to LEAVE
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🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | An entitled Karen walks into our store at the last possible second, as she then walks down every |
| 0:05.2 | single aisle of our grocery store, taking as much time as possible in shopping for her items. |
| 0:10.2 | And despite the fact that she was shopping after hours when we were literally closed, |
| 0:14.2 | she still refused to hurry up, demanding that we keep the store open until she is finished shopping. |
| 0:19.2 | And I've truly never been more annoyed by |
| 0:21.1 | anybody in my life. Here's what happened. Okay, so I was working at a grocery store, and this was |
| 0:25.9 | some years ago. I was working the late closing shift from 4 p.m. to 11 o'clock p.m. And our store |
| 0:31.6 | closes at 11. At around 10.50 p.m., a lady with a typical Karen haircut, as well as some purple |
| 0:37.2 | hair color, walks into the |
| 0:38.6 | store and grabs a shopping card and walks into the opposite end of the store with the meat |
| 0:42.5 | fridges and the freezers. I start the closing routine and I don't think much of it. The time hits 11, |
| 0:47.3 | and I finish my routines, and this lady is still standing there in the exact same spot. So I go |
| 0:52.5 | to her to tell her the store is closed, |
| 0:54.4 | but before I even get a single word in, she says to me, I know the store is closed. I know you want to go home. I've worked in a store before, you know. And I tried responding back to her, but she said to me, listen, I've worked in a store before. You always let the customer finish shopping. And then she started rambling incomprehensively. The time then hits five past 11 and she finally starts moving, |
| 1:14.3 | but she was swirred. the customer finish shopping and then she started rambling incomprehensively. The time then hits |
| 1:11.5 | five past 11 and she finally starts moving, but she was swerving between freezers and not grabbing |
| 1:16.8 | anything. On the way to the cash register, she suddenly takes a sharp right turn to look at something. |
| 1:21.8 | And the entire time she is rambling to me about something. But at this point, I was spacing out |
| 1:26.3 | and just following her to make sure that |
| 1:28.0 | she leaves the store. Finally, at 1112, she makes it to the register and my colleague scans her items. |
| 1:33.9 | Then she realizes she forgot something and is about to go grab it. But before she does, I say to her, |
| 1:38.7 | oh, don't worry, I'll grab it for you. So I ran off to grab it before she would. I then |
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