Entitled Karen makes a fool of herself after she usurps single mom's first-class plane seats
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: It's almost astounding how some people think they are entitled to anything and everything they lay their eyes on. In this case, a woman recounted a surreal airplane incident in which a Karen said she "deserved" first-class seats she hadn't paid for.
Taking to Reddit's 'Am I The A**hole' forum, the OP [original poster] said she was traveling with her child from the US to her home country and had booked first-class seats for both. After boarding the plane, however, she found the Karen and her kid occupying the seats. When asked to move, she refused to budge and pretended she didn't understand English. Flight attendants were called as the scene escalated. But as the old proverb goes, all's well that ends well.
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The OP (u/alex_moreno794) recounted her experience on a Reddit thread, 'Entitled Karen tried to steal my first-class seats':
For a little context here, I was traveling with my kiddo from the States to my home country, which takes around 8 hours with connections, so I booked first-class seats for both of us. When we boarded it turned out a Karen, around 40ish, and her kid were in our seats. I politely told her so, but she ignored me. As we were the last to board, I had to call the flight attendant and let her know that, because we were soon to take off. She came and Karen just repeated in Spanish "lo siento no entiendo", over and over again ("I'm sorry I don't understand") and the flight attendant felt frustrated as she explained the situation to her in Spanish, yet it was obvious Spanish wasn't her first language and yet Karen pretended she didn't understand. But here comes the funny part, I am a Spanish speaker.
This is when things became a lot more interesting:
So I grinned and told her in Spanish that she was in our seats and had to move to their seats. She then got red-faced and told me how she is a single mother and how I should respect my elders (all in Spanish of course), and how I should go with my brother (actually my son) to the regular seats because she deserved to have the first-class ones. I told her she was not my elder I'm 27 and she was 40ish, and I don't give a f**k about her being a single mother, she could pay for them as I did being a single parent as well. Anyways, Karen had the pleasure to have me as her translator telling her to go back to their seats or they would be escorted out of the plane. In the end, she went back to their seats and told me in English how my kind have ruined the States. I just laughed at them and told her to enjoy their seats.
Fellow Redditors celebrated the happy ending and denounced the audacity of the Karen on board. "Why does she deserve 1st class if she didn't pay for it?" one asked. "Cause she sat there first, oBvIouSLy," another responded with sarcasm, adding, "I do love it when people try to get away with sh*t by speaking a different language, then get their world rocked when another human on Earth speaks that same language." Someone else asked, "Your kind have ruined the states ????? What single bi-lingual mother isn’t that what Karen also was." To which OP responded, "I think she meant my nationality as I'm not American as she is."
Another comment read, "I just can’t imagine you paying extra money to get that extra special seat and you’re just gonna randomly give it up so some stupid b*tch who thinks she deserves it more than your do - who didn’t pay for it. I’ve done customer-facing jobs for the past 20 years and I’m so not amused with people anymore, and actually, I’m so tired of their sh*t." OP agreed, writing, "Yes, she was delusional, I mean my tickets and my son's were at least 4x the regular price, I wouldn't give them up." "Flawless victory! Or, si prefieres, 'victoria impecable' LOL," yet another quipped.
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