934

Karen’s would probably chill if they grew up in my neighborhood. Some guy cut a friend of mine off on the freeway and flipped him off, he came up to their car at the next light and beat through his windshield with his fists, yanked him out through the hole and proceeded to beat the crap out of him. Went on to make a damn fine marine infantry soldier. I was in the car saying, this seems excessive.

935

That lady sounds either drunk or off her meds. WoW, she walks up to someone in their car?

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936

Karenism

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937

Check this out. My father grew up in a rough neighborhood. An X gang member, yeah they had gangs back then too. He was a brute so to speak. He didn’t want to hear anything unless it was important.

Our next door neighbor, the house directly to our left, had a guy keep complaining about me. I was around 7 or 8. Kept telling my mother I was either stepping on his lawn, making too much noise, what have you. I walked up my stairs with my glass jar that contained a newly captured spider. My father grabbed it and threw it inside my neighbors garage. Baiting the neighbor.

Neighbor walks up the steps and rings the bell. My father opens the door in the living room, then opens the door to the outside, then proceeds to punch the man straight through the screen door. That was Thanksgiving day with the entire family there.

938

Wowsers! I don’t encourage hitting anyone, but that’s an amazing story. Question is, did your nosey neighbor keep bitching about you?

939

You guys are equating smoking in a non smoking restaurant with complaining about walking on a lawn.

And asking someone to stop smoking at a table next to you with punching your neighbor in the face after you threw a glass jar in his garage.

You all sound like a bunch of pushovers.

940

That’s a crazy story! Not sure how that relates to asking someone to stop smoking in a non-smoking restaurant. But really funny story.

The flaw in your dad’s thinking though is, of all things you described, throwing a glass into your neighbor’s garage is kind of worth mentioning to the neighbor, right? I wouldn’t just take it if a neighbor smashed a glass jar on my property on purpose.

But still, funny story.

941

You are equating smoking with wearing a mask.

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Of course not. That guy was a talker. He expected, like many do, to have a civil conversation. He was dealing with someone that settled disputes with his fists.

I saw my father taken away in cuffs three times by the age of 8. At least 3 times.

943

So if your neighbor smashed a glass jar in your garage, you wouldn’t say anything to them about it?

944

And a fundamental principle of Karenism is that they feel entitled about something they are not entitled to.

You guys are acting like the guy smoking in the non-smoking restaurant has a right to do that.

945

Because they are equivalent. Smoke from your mouth is similar to virus from your mouth.

A store having a no smoking policy is similar to a store having a mandatory mask policy.

946

Only in Hannityland could the notion that you might ask someone to stop smoking in a nonsmoking restaurant garner such scorn and derision.

947

We lived in Maplewood at the time, bordering Irvington. Houses are somewhat close together. It’s easy to step on your property and there’s at the same time. The point is, the guy never did anything worth getting attacked.

My father had no flaw in thinking. He had already had enough. He threw the glass jar to bait the man to the house. Of course when it comes to the law, I’m the one that threw the jar.

948

Jeez…you should write a book. that sounds crazy.

What was his profession? Is he still alive? Did he settle down later in life?

949

No they are not equivalent unless you think smoking is the same thing as breathing. You want everyone to live their live like they are infected. Most people are not going to do that.

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950

Yeah, but my point is, bithcing about you stepping on his lawn is stupid and him being a cranky ■■■■■■■■ You could certainly see a person with your dads temperament punching him if he was complaining about nothing.

But smashing a jar in his garage…I mean, that’s not nothing right? I’m assuming it smashed - you didn’t say that, I guess I did. But you know, that’s worth a mention, don’t you think?

951

Do you feel there are people who won’t destroy you because you looked at them “wrong”.

There are people in your neighborhood who will gut you like a fish over a word.

You never know what somebody else is dealing with or what will make them snap.

952

Not to him.

Can we not say the same about Mask Karens?

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953

I mean it this way -

Stores impose no smoking mandates because smoke from other people’s mouths effect eh health and comfort of other people in the store, right?

Stores impose mandatory mask mandates because breath from people’s mouths could potentially effect the health of other people in the store.

In that way, they are similar.