Karen demanded that I give her son my drink – she got an unpleasant surprise when I did
A MAN has revealed how he gave his beloved ‘Karen’ mother the surprise of his life after she demanded he share his drink with her.
The festival-goer was thoroughly enjoying himself when his mother came up to him and demanded his bottle of coke.
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The man shared his story on social media, explaining that he was at a street festival in his city with his friends when the incident occurred.
He wrote: “Entry was free so they tend to be more strict about people bringing their own food and drink in order to make more profit from selling drinks.
“A friend of mine lives near where the festival was, so we delivered our drinks to him and picked them up again during the festival.
“Since I didn’t think it was such a great idea to walk around with a bottle of whiskey, I mixed it in a 1 liter Coca-Cola Vanilla bottle with just enough soda to make it look real and headed out onto the festival grounds.”
While he was enjoying the festival, he got a tap on his shoulder and thought someone was trying to overtake him. That moved him.
He added: “I continue walking and suddenly I feel a hand grab my shoulder and try to pull me back. I turn around and see a typical Karen.”
Karen is a slang term typically used for a white, middle-class woman who is perceived as spoiled or excessively demanding.
The man said she asked him where he got his bottle of coke, while she… son was in desperate need of it.
He said he had brought it with him from home, whereupon the mother insisted he give her son a sip.
He knew full well that there was alcohol in his bottle and didn’t want to tell her. He thought a guard would hear it, so he told her that they sold it at a stall nearby and that she should get it herself.
However, that was not enough for the mother, because her son absolutely wanted vanilla-flavored cola.
He continued: “Meanwhile, the child starts screaming that he is thirsty and wants ‘THE’, and his mother starts staring at me demandingly.”
He decided that honesty was the best policy and clearly told the mother that there was whiskey in it and that he could not give it to her son.
But she wouldn’t take it, he continued: “She started screaming and saying, ‘You’re lying! You made that up so you wouldn’t have to share it with my baby! Now give it to me!’
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As I shrug and turn in an attempt to disappear into the crowd, the boy grabs the bottle with both hands, yanks it out of my hand and runs towards it, accompanied by his mother.
“I follow them and see them just in time to see the boy take a few big gulps from the bottle, after which he almost immediately begins to vomit violently.
“I figure it would be best for me not to investigate the now vomit-covered bottle of Jack and Coke any further, so I decide to go over to my mates and mix another one. As I pass, I toss his mother an ‘I told you so’ and head into the crowd.”
But it didn’t stop there. The mother was furious and accused him of poisoning her son. She tried to beat him until a guard came by.
The man wrote: “I said I didn’t and that I was going to get drunk myself, to be honest. They thought it was coke, didn’t believe me when I told them it was booze and grabbed the bottle from me. What you see here is just the result of the kid taking a drink before I could stop him.”
Luckily, a bystander saw what happened and confirmed it to the guard, who then let the man enjoy the rest of the festival.
People were astonished by the story that was told Reddit and the actions of the spoiled mother.
Someone wrote: “I can never fathom this level of entitlement: asking for other people’s s**t. No, fuck off and buy your own, you can’t find what you’re looking for?”
Another commented: “But seriously, why do parents insist on sharing food and drinks? So many diseases can be passed on this way (I’m not saying you have any), but come on…”
“And that’s how you do it: let the damn kid learn the hard way instead of coddling him,” wrote a third.
Meanwhile, a fourth said: “They got what they deserved.”
“I wouldn’t even share a drink with my own husband/kids let alone a random stranger. Disgusting,” claimed a fifth.
Someone else added: “What kind of psychotic person approaches a stranger and demands their child take a sip of their soda?”
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