Texas liquor store worker says golf course’s ‘typical Karen’ demanded 200 liquor bottles. So, he crafts a revenge that turns her into a ‘ripe tomato’

Retail workers often share stories of customers whose poor planning becomes the store’s emergency. A Texas liquor store worker claims a golf course representative demanded roughly 200 mini vodka bottles for an event already underway, according to a post on Reddit by u/JarrellHornyDude in r/MaliciousCompliance. The worker says the order apparently took more than two hours to ring up and stamp by hand.

The store mostly serves retail customers, but it occasionally processes wholesale orders for local bars and restaurants. The golf course reportedly placed one of those orders for 50 mL vodka bottles on the day of its event. However, the request was apparently far larger than anything the shop could fill, as it is a retail store rather than a warehouse.

In Texas, liquor sold to businesses like bars needs a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) tax stamp. The liquor store worker said the mini bottles usually come in 12-packs that need only one stamp per pack, and the store reportedly had just three on hand. Staff apparently tried calling the customer four times and got no answer.

The golf course rep apparently wanted it fast, so the worker went slow

About an hour later, the customer who placed the order reportedly arrived, unhappy that the store could not fill the order. She allegedly refused to call the golf course’s actual wholesale representative, claiming she had no time as the event had already started. Instead, she apparently loaded a cart with every mini vodka bottle on the shelves and asked to bill the wholesale account.

When the worker explained that each bottle would need its own tax stamp to be legal, the representative reportedly became aggressive. According to the worker, she accused the store of trying to dodge good customer service and asked how the district manager would react. The liquor store worker then took the order personally while the assistant manager covered the floor.

The worker claims they deliberately grabbed a computer without a scanner and typed in every barcode by hand, skipping quantity keys entirely. Ringing up roughly 200 bottles reportedly took 2 hours hour and 30 minutes, meanwhile the representative apparently kept insisting there had to be a faster way, but the worked allegedly claimed he was the only one available to help her.

The liquor store worker said they placed each sticker directly over the logo on the label, as a mentor had told them that was the correct way to follow TABC law. By the time she left, the representative apparently looked like a ripe tomato, the worker wrote.

The district manager reportedly called shortly after and praised the liquor store worker for following TABC rules to the letter. Some commenters questioned the customer’s logic, saying, “What kind of idiot puts in any large catering order the very day they need it?” Another said, “It’s beautiful when the law requires you to inconvenience annoying, pushy people who think the universe revolves around them!”