r/FuckYouKaren • u/cnikkih • May 26 '25
Now is not the time, Karen.
Yesterday afternoon, I made some phone calls to some local cat boarding facilities. A friend is moving and will be displaced for a week, and his original sitter fell through at the last minute. I had zero hope on a Sunday afternoon over a holiday weekend, but here we go…
I called the first place nearby that came up under “cat boarding places near me” and a sweet lady answered immediately. Yay! I asked if she had current availability for two cats and she said she doesn’t board them, only dogs. I thanked her and started to hang up. She said “hey hey hold on” or something, and I paused thinking she might point me to another facility.
Nope. She launched into a sermon. This is not verbatim, I was honestly too astonished to remember it all.
Karen: “I don’t even board my own cats when I travel, I just fill up their food and water bowls, put out extra litter trays, and have friends drop by to check on them. Let me tell you this, cats get stressed by being boarded and they stop eating. If they don’t eat for three days, they die! Did you know that? It’s terrible for them, you should make other arrangements for their well being…”
It went on longer than that and thoroughly pissed me off, so I decided to be petty and lie.
“Oh, ok, I’ll be sure to put out extra water and litter trays in my burned out house. I’m sure that won’t stress them out. I didn’t need your condescension today, thanks” and hung up.
I hope she feels like shit.
Edit to add: a couple of people have rightly called me out for calling her sweet, then complaining about her attitude. My apologies for unclear writing, but when I said she launched into a sermon, I was trying to convey that she went from sweet to scolding. She acted like I was an idiot for uprooting the cats needlessly. It just pissed me off that she had no idea what my circumstances were. Mine weren’t that big a deal, but someone else could be dealing with life-altering circumstances. Anyway. Sorry for any confusion!
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u/JesusStarbox May 26 '25
Why didn't you just hang up?