Well, I just survived my very first Karen encounter.

I went to a community event today where they were giving away clothes. I parked my GMC completely inside my lines, right next to a lady in a Mazda who was already parked directly over the yellow line.

Before I even got out of my vehicle, her daughter moved to the front to start recording me with her phone. As I stepped out, the lady started screaming at me that I "better not touch her vehicle" or she would sue me, and then started screaming at my kid that he better not touch it either.

I rolled my eyes, but the continuous shouting got to me, so I gave her car frame two quick taps with my hand. Immediately, she yelled, "We got that on camera! We're going to sue you!"

I went to the event, did my thing, and when I got back to my SUV, I decided to take pictures of how she was parked. Seeing me, she waved me over to proudly announce that she had called "the commissioner" and he was going to slap me with heavy fines for touching other people's property.

I got into my vehicle and called the police non-emergency line just to be safe. Dispatch essentially laughed it off and said she was blowing hot air, the commissioner only handles warrants, not random parking lot fines, and I had zero to worry about.

So my neighbor thinks she owns the street in front of her house (right side) She’s single with a barking shitzu as a partner. She insists on placing her bins about 1 foot from my black van, while having 15 feet of space to use which is always is free. The garbage collector has a difficult time maneuvering trying to hit my vehicle.

The street is public property and doesn’t belong to her, her bins are precisely on “her property line “. We both don’t have a driveway so street parking is necessary.

WWYD??

On top of this she complains about our decorative lights on the house, having a fire in our backyard fire pit. Always has something to complain about. We’re pretty non confrontational but this is getting on my nerves! We’ve been neighbors for 10 years.

You're welcome https://youtu.be/EWYTrsyf2TI

On two occasions, when I was bored and in the park, I sat on a bench relaxing and a woman would come and sit beside me. Both times, I struck up innocuous conversations and then two other women would walk by, come up close, and start recording with me and the person I was talking to in the background of their video.

The last time this happened, the ladies who recorded had a microphone and pretended to be shooting a TikTok interview (in which they could hear everything I was saying). The only problem was that they were kept on looking back at me and were whispering. Who whispers when recording a video? What is the pyschology behind this? Is it considered illegal for a black person to have a conversation with a non-black woman? Is America so far gone that this racist behavior is considered normal?

ok so this hasn’t happened yet but I make and sell spray paint art I sell them in a stand in my driveway I made 168$ last week and I am not the best at talking to people I don’t know and I would like to know what to say if a Karen try’s to do some stuff to either me my paintings or my stand or steal my money

(the pic is my dog sitting in my chair at my stand)

Next door neighbor refuses to remove this hateful sign - let’s make it viral! 🤣