Have you ever had an awkward social interaction that just won’t quit? You are among your people, then.

Read how one Redditor dealt with the oddest customer interaction they’ve had to date, and how it ended up being the cosmic retribution the staff had been seeking all along.

Read all the details below.

Rude customer gets karma

Here’s a story about karma that happened about last week.

Backstory, I’m a cashier at a supermarket and was checking out a lady. M = Me, CW = Co-Worker, and L = Lady.

Enter: Lady. And boy, does she already have big feelings…

Lady is putting her stuff onto the belt.

M: “Hi, how are you?”

Lady just stares at me and storms off.

The staff notices, but they keep their cool…

M: “Uhh, okay then.” to my CW on the register next to me.

Lady comes back 30 seconds later and slams a 24 pack of water onto the belt.

L: “I’m not paying full price for this!”

So, the OP asks a very reasonable question.

M: “Do you have a store card?”

L: Now, yelling and looking through her purse, “No, just put one in, I don’t have time for this!”

M: “Miss, I can’t put one in for you; you would have to get your-“

But the Lady? Livid.

L: “This is freaking ridiculous. I’m late for work, and I need to get out of here.”

CW: “You’d need to get your own store card; we aren’t allowed to give out one.”

Lady stares at my Co-Worker and starts mumbling random stuff.

And then, the OP has more news to break…

M: “So do you want to get the water, you’d need to get three for the sale price anyway…”

L: “No, whatever, I need to get out of her.e”

She pays and storms off.

Not even a minute goes by, and she’s back.

Oh, yes, she is back — in full swing.

L: To my Co-Worker and I, “Do you have a problem?”

CW: “Miss, no one talks to me like that.”

L: “I highly doubt that.” Then, proceeds to chuckle to herself.

And then, a pivot from the Lady.

L: “Did I leave my bananas here?”

M: “Nope.”

She storms off yet again. Finally, the rudest customer I’ve ever dealt with is gone.

Nope. Five minutes later she’s back.

She starts talking to my Co-Worker, Manager, and Cart Guy as I’m checking out customers.

But now, the Lady has major drama…

Someone stole her phone while she came back into the store asking if “We had a problem.”

She just left it in an empty cart.

And, it ended up disrupting her whole day.

She spent the next TWO hours in the store, walking around trying to find her phone.

No luck.

Karma played out right in front of me. This lady treated us like we were pieces of dirt, and next thing we know someone stole her phone.

So much for being in a rush.

So, was this Lady out of line for her behavior? What does Reddit think was really going on? Let’s check out the comments below to see what everyone’s thinking…

Redditors gave kudos to the “retail gods” for this one.

Others knew this was a common pattern with her.

People also found the irony in her avoiding the store card sign-up when she spent all that time looking for her phone.

And some even shared their tricks of the trade for finicky customers.

This woman should’ve been nicer and signed up for the store card — she’d probably still have her phone!

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