As I was reading this I was thinking the same thing. It's super rude to throw a bunch of your stuff on a seat and assume no one will take it. I had this issue a lot when I used to take my son to swim. I would take him alone and then we would have to wait for a change room while partnered parents would either put their stuff in a room to reserve it or have the dad wait in there with the door closed while the mom went and got the kid. It was brutal. So the point the swim-center put up signs trying to stop people from doing this. That being said I wouldn't throw someones stuff outside of the change room and just go in, I am not that confrontational. :D

Its not just there… its rude in the US too. If this was the other way around people in the comments would have been cheering the elderly woman on as long as she used the name “Karen” to describe the antagonist.

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Another reason to not visit Belgium. They're as rude as Poirot.

I dunno, I got vibes of a decent person pushed to their limits, and even then all she did was disable her give-a-f**k mechanism. It's not like she went out of her way, she just sit back and let her kids do all the work.

Imagine not bowing to some entitled idiot stealing your seats. The audacity, the rudeness, the total lack of good manners should be rewarded. And next you're the one who is asking why everyone is so inconsiderate and so incredibly self centered and what happened to common courtesy.

for all u kno one of her kids was in the game. but anyways the point is her stuff was there marking their seats and she even said that she got the front seats so her 4 young kids didnt disturb anyone by running back and forth which i think is very considerate. the karen pushed all of her belongings aside not caring about another persons belongings and paid the price. she also made sure her kids didnt bother the elderly woman so she isnt a karen in my eyes. her stuff was thrown off onto the ground and her reason for wanting those seats is legit. i see no problem in wat she did.

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100% agree. And now she's posting her story on the internet so everyone can see how righteous she was. An adult would have just sat elsewhere, not escalated the situation. You know those stories of people getting into fights in the stupidest of places? This is the beginning of one of those. The only reason it didn't end that way here was the other party didn't continue to escalate. News flash: everybody thinks they're right. Surely the "Karen" here thought they were entitled to sit there for whatever reason (disabled parents / priority seating / no other seats left) - no matter what the excuse, they had convinced themselves it was valid.