Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

That Virtual Scavenger Hunt I registerer for, back in May, never materialized.

The organizers promised a whole lot, starting with — 10 clues to solve that will lead to 10 destinations … we'll also have someone available via standard text messaging to guide you through each clue if you need help … upon completion of the Virtual Challenge, we'll send you Cool Around the World Medal, Cool Around the World Shirt, Tin of Cookies.

I should have been suspicious that registration was only $38.95, and not an organization I was familiar with, but I went ahead, registered, then waited and waited and waited for the packet to arrive.

The participation date of June 12 has now come and gone, and though I did receive those cookies, nothing else has materialized. So, basically, I paid $38.95 for a tin of cookies I can’t even eat.

With no response from the organizers as to what and why, I’m marking this one as lesson learned, fool me once. I won't be falling for participating in anything coming in with this organization's name on it again.

Speaking of liars with pants on fire … by now you’ve read about, or at heard about the meltdown of the Karen in the New Jersey Short Hills Mall’s Victoria Secret.

I learned a new phrase from reading comments on Twitter — “weaponized tears”.

1. She created a problem 2. She demanded staff “handle” Black victim 3. She played victim while controlling the narrative, escalating the scene at appropriate times 4. Called cops who coddled her, as she knew they would.

Twitter isn’t buying the mental illness excuse. Someone did some digging on her, found and posted a Cedar Grove newspaper article in which she was highlighted, entitled “Emotional Roller Coaster: Parenting — When Home Away from Home is Best”.

Apparently Karen has a brother with GI Issues, wears a colostomy bag and, indicated in the article, that the brother sometimes gets aggressive.

It's looking like Karen is mirroring her brother, for whatever reasons, in that she is also claiming, on her dating profile, to have GI Issues, that she wears a colostomy bag and, in the video, is literally imitating her disabled brother.

Looking at how fake she’s coming across, starting/stopping, looking for support, I believe it — that she’s imitating what she’s seen her brother do.

I don’t know anything about colostomy, and I’m hoping not to offend any reader with the condition requiring a bag, but I’m genuinely curious, because she’s wearing pretty tight shorts. Would a bag not show? And, with all that rolling around, kicking, would it not burst?

At any rate, can you imagine how this would have ended had the victim not pushed “record”?

As for what set Karen off, the victim asked Karen to step back six feet.

Then I wake up this morning to Walmart Karen in Moreno Valley, on the phone, calling the police, while following a Black man she’s accused of stealing her son’s phone.

Twitter users are great at sleuthing. They’ve already uncovered her name and place of employment.

Had she simply said, "Oh My God. I am so sorry" for humiliating him, it would be over. Instead, once she learned she was wrong, she told him to "Go F yourself" and now she has to deal with the tsunami coming for her.

I expect we’ll be seeing a tearful insincere apology any day soon now.

This stuff continuing to happen, and no one stepping up for the victim in public, seeming to side with the aggressor when it's a Black person involved, is so depressing, so demoralizing.

It brings up flashbacks to when I myself have been profiled.

We need to catch a break.