A few weeks ago, my friends and I traveled to Austin for the TCU v UT game(Horns Down). We were expecting a weekend full of booze, fun, and good vibes. Who would’ve thought that the city where people only move to if they are: too poor to stay in California or want to live in a tent under a bridge would give any normal person a bad experience?

I went in expecting A LOT from this city, and honestly, it’s fucking trash. There are some cool trendy spots around town but in reality this whole city is being carried by 2 streets that have bars on them and 6th street is honestly trash as well so this entire city is carried by Rainey Street. Rainey Street is awesome. It’s a street with a bunch of bars that were upgraded from foreclosed homes. Gentrification? Well that couldn’t possibly be happening in the same place I saw “Fuck You Capitalism” spray painted on the side of several buildings? The irony and hypocrisy is staggering. The BEST STREET in this city that wants to become a socialist utopia is literally the product of them building a giant apartment building and pricing out the homeowners so they could make a bunch of bars.

One nice thing I will say about Austin, is that the so-called “normal people” who live there were all extremely nice and gracious.Every interaction I had with strangers seemed to be positive, with the exception of one Ginger Haley Joel Osment looking ass Uber Driver. I ordered an uber X, even though it said it only allowed 3 passengers and we had 4. I wasn’t sure, but the last guy let us have 4 so I didn’t expect it to be much of an issue. BOY WAS I WRONG!

So our Uber pulls up and we begin to climb in, say our hellos, when I see this guy count how many people are getting in and go “No!NO! NO! get out get out!” I think this guy is freaking out a bit and I say ” Is 4 not gonna work?” as I crawl out of his vehicle as he asked me to do. He screams back “NO 4 isn’t gonna work Can you FUCKING READ?” I understood where the guy was coming from and because I’m not an asshole who makes others feel uncomfortable for my own convenience, I told all my friends we’d call another one and it’s no big deal. Situation over right? Nope

Jelly Belly Shitty Titty Ginger Dick felt attacked and powerless to do anything in this situation that was already over. And what do people from Austin do when they have no power? They pull out their phones and start videotaping you!

I was immediately confused when the guy started videotaping me. “Dude, why are you filming us, we did what you asked right away we aren’t in your car or near you. “You broke the rules asshole I’m reporting you to Uber.” At this point, I’m completely shocked that this person who I thought I was being polite to just seconds earlier is now being this much of a fucking cunt to me. I ask him to stop videotaping and we’ll just fuck off, he refuses and starts narrating the video, saying we refused to get out of his car and that we broke the rules.

After about 30 seconds with a camera in my face, eventually, I just see red. I start fucking spouting off on this guy like Dennis Reynolds raging on a prospective car buyer.

Telling him he’s a douchebag and basically shitting on him for being such a social misfit he can’t deal with a confrontation(which he created out of thin air) without his phone in between his face and the person he’s confronting.

As I’m screaming obscenities at him he says “Oh wow, that’ll get you kicked off the platform for sure.” Eventually we realize this whole thing is useless and walk away from his car, but as he turns around in a parking lot about 40 yards away, we can see this mother fucker still filming us, so we continue to stream profanity down the street at this low life until he drives away.

This experience really fucked the rest of my weekend, as I can’t remember the last time I had as much blind rage as when that camera had been in my face. This actually made me start thinking, Am I a Karen? I immediately snapped out of it because that guy was clearly the asshole. But then I realized that maybe we need to start taking those Karen videos with more of a grain of salt. You truly do not understand rage until you’ve minorly inconvenienced someone and they’ve stuck a phone in your face calling you a terrorist or racist or whatever the fuck.

When you don’t believe you’ve done anything wrong in that scenario, being accused by some random fuckstick with a cell phone is infuriating, and I think some of the embarrassing reactions we see in those videos are the result of the same shit I felt. Doesn’t mean that some of these old white ladies aren’t being bitches and don’t sometimes deserve it. But next time you see an edited video labeling a woman a “Karen” maybe take it with a grain of salt and understand the context, because you don’t know how much that will set you off until it happens to you.

Shoutout to all the wrongfully accused Karens out there. I stand with you.

P.S. I wasn’t kicked off Uber, got my money refunded, and reported that mother fucker for not having “proper COVID protocols”. So fuck off you fat redheaded piece of human dog shit.