So ‘Karen’ videos are hot in the streets these days. Basically these are videos where people video tape other people getting bent out of shape about stupid stuff. Typically the person taking video is calm and under control, while the ‘Karen’ is flying off of the handle about something or other.
Now, traditionally, I’d say 99.99% of the time, I’m on the side of the person taking the video. And that’s because the person that is melting down is being overly dramatic about a nothing burger of a situation.
Well, this case is the .01%. I’m a lifelong bowler. My dad managed a bowling alley in Sheboygan, I bowled as a kid, I bowled in college, I bowled as an adult, I bowl, I bowl, I bowl. And because of that, I know 1,000% what happened to precede this woman’s meltdown. The person taking this video, let’s call him, ‘Chad,’ was likely on the adjacent lane next to ‘Karen’ and her family. Well, the rules of bowling dictate, that you wait for the person next you to bowl, before you step on the approach and throw your own ball. You don’t set up shop, you don’t just run up there all nimbly bimbly and throw your rock, you wait for the person to your right or left to complete their turn, then you go. There is NOTHING worse than getting set to throw a ball, and out of the corner of your eye, you see someone running up to the lane next to you. It would be like talking in someone’s back-swing in golf. There are certain things you just don’t do. Or as our friend Walt once said so eloquently:
Preach.
Now it’s annoying enough if it happens once or twice, but I’ve seen this type of explosion before. This guy was doing this all afternoon. So I could not be more firmly on Karen’s side in this particular instance. The guy taping this is clearly in the wrong and if he got thrown into jail for 90 days I wouldn’t poo poo it.
PS: What a horrible time in the world to be named Karen. Almost as bad as being named ‘Mike’ when that Geico camel commercial came out.
