My first "Karen in the wild" experience....

So I’m standing in line at the Ace hardware near my house, waiting to pay for my bag of nuts and bolts. It’s fairly busy and I’m the second person in one of three lines. I know the gal running the till, Amanda, as I’m a very regular customer there.

As I’m standing there I glance up and she catches my eye, subtly nodding to my right. I glance over and see a middle aged, high maintenance looking gal giving me a world class stink eye.

I had NO idea what I did to ruin her day, but I’d soon find out... Now I’m wearing my standard warm weather, day off uniform, consisting of a black T shirt with a snarky saying and Levi’s. I’m carrying my Sig 365 in right appendix which tends to print slightly as I twist and move. I realize this happens in summer weight clothes and I simply don’t care.

So I glance over at her and smile, giving a slight nod. She opens up with a very loud “ is that a GUN?!?” And proceeds to rant at me for the better part of 30-40 seconds about how “people like me should be locked up” and how “we’re the ones responsible for all the violence in the world today” finally resorting to calling me a “piece of shit Trump voter” all the while people are looking on with expressions ranging from amusement to disgust.

I let her rant until she ran out of breath (or indignation) and stopped to catch her breath. I replied, “first off, I didn’t vote for him and second, it’s an insulin pump” The look on her face was akin to someone who just got caught punching kittens. The color drained from her face, her eyes got big and she started to stutter out an apology...

It was at this point that the gal behind her leaned up next to her, patted her on the shoulder and said “nice job Karen” The crowd of maybe eight or nine people erupted in laughter and she turned and retreated to the safety of the lawn care section, mumbling that she forgot something.

As the laughter dies out and I get up to the register, Amanda says “insulin pump huh?” I smile and say completely deadpan "lifesaving device" We laughed, I paid and went on my way.