SO YOUR WIFE WAS IN A “KAREN” VIDEO

The following letter was in the “Dear Prudence” column in Slate magazine:
“My wife was in a very stressful situation about a month ago when she was at a park in our hometown. After trying to balance a full-time job while caring for our three children for four months, she honestly just kind of lost it. She snapped. My wife is now the subject of a “Karen” video that made the rounds last month in our town. She was, and still is, horrified by her behavior. She is seeking counseling for both the “snap” and the underlying thoughts and attitudes that came out in the video. In the meantime, how do we get back our normal life? Many folks around town are understandably freezing us out, and some of my kids’ friends’ parents are refusing play dates. This is only adding to the loneliness and isolation our family had already been feeling because of the pandemic. I hate to see my kids suffering because of my wife’s unconscionable actions. Short of moving to a new town, what can we do to rebuild the relationships that used to keep us grounded in this awful time?”
* “Dear Husband: Help out with the kids around the freakin’ house!”
* I find handing out cash payments can go a long way in making people forget things.
* The answer: Provoke some other woman into a “Karen” situation, film it, post it, and everybody will forget about your Karen video.
* Wait – they’re not going to give us a link to the video? Sheesh!
* Remember when we used to worry about the “surveillance state”? Turns out it’s us.
* Relax. Another couple months, doctors will declare this “Karen Emotional Escalation Syndrome” and two weeks later there’ll be a pill for it.
* PHONE TOPIC: What would you do to fix this?