Karens spar at a restaurant after after one overhears the other's loud phone conversation: 'I could hear everything'

The only thing that can ruin a restaurant meal more than bad food is the presence of an unruly customer. Sometimes, they are clearly lonely and enjoy eavesdropping and inserting themselves into your dinner conversations. When this happens, you tend to indulge them with a few polite exchanges, only to realize that you are going to have to endure this for the next 45 minutes (at least) because you are simply too simply polite to ask them to leave you alone. Other times, your meal is interrupted by a conflict or loud patron nearby and you just can't hear yourself think.

In this scenario, an entitled Karen propped her phone up in a fancy restaurant and spoke to her friend loudly on speaker phone for the total duration of a nearby couple's meal. What this woman did not realize was that this Redditor was not the type to avoid a confrontation. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about a bartender whose one week notice became zero weeks notice.