Had my first encounter with a Karen tonight. Here’s how it went. (A little preface. Masks are not required in my state yet which is the main reason why this whole thing went down.)
I am the captain of the color guard/flags at my high school along with another girl. Tonight was our first home football game, which means our first color guard performance. Masks were required when walking around the game, but not when sitting and watching. And where the guard was going to perform was where the cheerleaders were, wearing no masks. I told the girls on my team that they did not have to wear their masks since we did not have matching masks BUT LEFT THE OPTION OPEN FOR IF THEY WANTED TO OR NEEDED TO OR HAD TO WEAR THEM. Never once did I force someone to take their mask off. We go out at half time everyone without their masks on, do our routines, come back, and pack up to leave for the night. One girl’s mother comes up to me. At first I thought she was going to tell me that we did good tonight and that she was happy. I WAS WRONG. Not a second sooner than I came into earshot of her, she began to yell at me in front of the entire student section at the game. Telling me I have no authority to force her daughter take off her mask, and that I was disgusting for allowing it to happen. I was legit yelled at in front of my whole school for something I did not do, by a parent on my team. This girl has been nothing but frustrating as I already have to go through her mother for every single thing which will prove difficult if I am now a disgusting human being for having her daughter take off her mask when it was an option to do so. Never once did I force her to remove her mask for a performance, and never once did this girl tell me she had to keep her mask on. Instead of taking the blame herself, to made a story where I was the villain for forcing her to take her mask off when she had the option, the mind, and the knowledge to keep it on because her parents wanted to.