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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,881 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:07 PM Jul 2020

Costco Karen' Goes Viral After She Throws Temper Tantrum From Being Asked to Wear Face Mask

Another day, another Karen causing mayhem and disrupting the lives of innocent bystanders.

This latest Karen fiasco comes out of a Costco store where one woman decided to stage a sit-in protest after refusing to wear a face mask.

A video of the incident shows the woman throwing a 3-year-old style temper tantrum before plopping on the ground in dissent. “I just need you to put that on for now while you’re in the building. That’s all,” an employee is heard telling the woman, referring to the face mask already dangling from her ear. “Just temporarily while you’re in here, and then you can take it right back off.”

“I will not,” the woman responds to the Costco employee, before going on to say the mask requirement is “your problem.”


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Costco has had a mask policy for a while now. If one doesn't like it they shouldn't shop there.
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Costco Karen' Goes Viral After She Throws Temper Tantrum From Being Asked to Wear Face Mask (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
these older white Americans are just losing their shit SiliconValley_Dem Jul 2020 #1
most of them seem to be younger than her JI7 Jul 2020 #13
I wonder if colic is a symptom Midnightwalk Jul 2020 #2
I like the way everyone else just ignored her 2naSalit Jul 2020 #3
No fool like an old fool. brush Jul 2020 #4
I ran into a Costco Karen not long ago. MontanaMama Jul 2020 #5
They are going to have a real medical issue dawg day Jul 2020 #14
With the poor secret service charged with MontanaMama Jul 2020 #16
no socks , no, shoes ,no shirt , no mask. no service . we refuse to service anyone . period. AllaN01Bear Jul 2020 #6
My mom taught me to pick my battles. cayugafalls Jul 2020 #7
Exactly! TexasBushwhacker Jul 2020 #10
The store employee did a really go job of Phoenix61 Jul 2020 #8
What an absolute moron... Freedomofspeech Jul 2020 #9
The kicker is that she said was not even a Costco member! csziggy Jul 2020 #11
It sounded to me like she was one but didn't want to be one anymore MissB Jul 2020 #15
Maybe that was it - the sound quality was terrible csziggy Jul 2020 #17
Yes! I think they were happy to process the end of her MissB Jul 2020 #18
To small minds, the most trivial thing is a major issue...perhaps it's the only thing they're Karadeniz Jul 2020 #12
In NM there is now a $100 fine for not wearing a mask womanofthehills Jul 2020 #19

2naSalit

(86,515 posts)
3. I like the way everyone else just ignored her
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:17 PM
Jul 2020

though I would have liked to see some people ridiculing her for being a petulant child.

MontanaMama

(23,302 posts)
5. I ran into a Costco Karen not long ago.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:20 PM
Jul 2020

I kept crossing paths with her and her friend Chad throughout the store. I avoided them the best I could because they were not wearing masks...she was a loud talker and kept squawking about her “breathing problem” so all could hear her. There was lots of eye rolling and distancing reactions from other shoppers. When I got to the check out, there they were in line ahead of me...of course. The cashier told me I could move my cart forward and begin unloading...I responded that I would wait until Karen and Chad had cleared the area. Karen looked at me and said “what did you call me?” I said “ I called you Karen because you’re acting like one”...she took a couple steps toward me and I dialed 911 on my phone and showed it to her...I told her that “one more step closer and I will hit send”. My masked husband said “she’ll do it...I wouldn’t test her”. Karen backed the hell up and left with her friend. When they cleared the area, the cashier was laughing her ass off. I asked about these two not wearing masks...she replied that that’s the new angle for these tRump humpers...they feign a medical issue so they don’t have to wear masks. She said she sees a lot of it, unfortunately. However, Karen did not win that day.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
14. They are going to have a real medical issue
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:49 PM
Jul 2020

Called Covid they keep this up.

They should ask Donnie Jr, now driving his infected girlfriend across the country.

cayugafalls

(5,639 posts)
7. My mom taught me to pick my battles.
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:23 PM
Jul 2020

This just seems silly to me, all these people willing to be videoed while being so stupid.

I just don't get the fact that this is the hill they choose to die on.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,165 posts)
10. Exactly!
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:30 PM
Jul 2020

This is just a silly thing to get upset about. Do they go into restaurants without shoes or shirts? Businesses can require that we have to wear tinfoil hats to shop there if they want.

csziggy

(34,135 posts)
11. The kicker is that she said was not even a Costco member!
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:30 PM
Jul 2020

At that point the employee should have kicked her the hell out of the store. Not only is the idiot refusing to comply with the rules of the PRIVATE business on their property, she isn't a member. If I were the manager of that store, I would refuse her membership and ban her for life.

My husband and I are Costco members and went to our local one a couple of weeks ago. We both wore masks but did see a couple probably in their 30s wandering around without masks. Afterwards I wished I had found a Costco employee and asked them to do something about them.

MissB

(15,805 posts)
15. It sounded to me like she was one but didn't want to be one anymore
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:51 PM
Jul 2020

And that’s what they were trying to take care of for her since she wasn’t going through with her refund.

csziggy

(34,135 posts)
17. Maybe that was it - the sound quality was terrible
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:55 PM
Jul 2020

I'd say, "OK, we'll cancel your membership but you cannot ever join a Costco again." Let her go to Sam's Club.

MissB

(15,805 posts)
18. Yes! I think they were happy to process the end of her
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:56 PM
Jul 2020

membership

If only she’d put on a mask.

She’s a damned toddler.

Karadeniz

(22,492 posts)
12. To small minds, the most trivial thing is a major issue...perhaps it's the only thing they're
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 09:35 PM
Jul 2020

Capable of comprehending.

womanofthehills

(8,690 posts)
19. In NM there is now a $100 fine for not wearing a mask
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 10:06 PM
Jul 2020

And a store can be fined for not enforcing this. So I go into Pet’s Mart and the checker has her mask around her neck. I asked her to please put it on before she checks me out. She thows me a dirty look and the manager,wearing a mask, runs behind the register and checks me out pushing her out of the way.

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