An entitled Karen gets hurt because she doesn't listen, okay, so I'm going back to work

because it's finally opening back up after the virus and that made me remember this story.

Some of the moments of this are a little fuzzy and I was running on three hours of sleep that day.

I work at a popular thrift store in Canada. When I was on maternity leave with my little one,

I had to go into my store to buy some more baby clothes as he was just getting way too big for

his younger clothing. I hate buying brand new unless it's on sale, so I was browsing some of the

household aisles hoping to add to my collection of weird and pretty pottery that I had started

one on leave when I hear a smash at the other end. I look at my watch and realized that most of

the employees who would deal with this problem were on lunch. So the policy is, if something made

out of glass breaks, one employee would stand at the break point to stop customers from stepping

on it and the other would go get a broom to clean the mess. Most times, the people who rolled the

product were on the floor to deal with it, but cash was in charge of that when the break came.

Since no one was around, I decided, what the heck, I'm not in a hurry in the baby sleeping on

the cart, so I stood there and my mother-in-law, who was with me at the time, went to tell the cash

register about the break. Most customers were my regulars who knew I worked there and just had a

baby. Some of them even stood there out of the glass to gush about how cute my little man is.

Then this one lady who looked like a Karen comes near and I tell her, excuse me ma'am,

I'll have to ask you to go down the other aisle and come back to this one once the mess is cleaned

up. She scoffed at me, looking at me up and down. And then started walking on the glass.

To be fair, the clothing policy at the time was all black and I was wearing bright colors

and a long flowing skirt. They have since gone rid of the all black policy than goodness as a

hay wearing dark colors, so I calmly said to the lady, please stop walking ma'am, this glass could

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