A viral TikTok video left numerous viewers baffled by one man’s attempt to talk a young woman out of her place in line for an electric car charging station by alleging that he was in line first but then left and came back.
The video, posted by TikTok user Desi Alexandria, shows the minor dispute between her and a young man that happened in a shopping plaza.
The man approaches Alexandria’s vehicle to try to explain that he was waiting in a line for a charging station in the plaza but left his place to check another charger that he discovered didn’t work.
By that time, Alexandria had driven up to wait in line for the first station.
“Hi, I’ve been waiting for this,” the man states once Alexandria rolls down her driver’s side window.
“I was in line. You weren’t in line?” Alexandria asks.
“I was in line, yes. I went to the charging station over there, and it wasn’t working, so I pulled over here, and I was waiting,” the man responds. “I’ve been waiting ahead of you.”
“You moved your feet, and you lost your seat, sir,” Alexandria plainly retorts. “How was I supposed to know you were in line?”
The male driver tells her where he was waiting and Alexandria replies that she was focused on getting in line for the charger and didn’t see him.
As Alexandria continues to hold her ground, the unnamed driver resorts to accusations.
“I was literally just sitting over here,” he says in an elevated tone.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t see you sir,” Alexandria responds.
“I feel like that’s a lie,” he says.
“I feel like I’m finna charge. You gotta get away from my car,” says Alexandria as she begins to close out the back and forth.
“Like, I don’t understand why you’re being difficult right now.”
“You gotta take that up with somebody else, sorry,” Alexandria says, rolling up her window and effectively ending the discussion.
The brief clip captioned “My first Karen!! The entitlement is crazy,” drew nearly 8 million views on TikTok. Of the nearly 27,000 comments, many agreed with Alexandria’s position to reject the man’s request to take her place in line due to the fact he got out of line to check a different charging station.
“Did he just say he went to another pump? He thought he could just come back and be in the same spot in line?” one commenter questioned.
“If you went to another charging station, you weren’t in line,” someone else wrote.
“Just OMG, the audacity,” another comment said.
Others were tickled by her use of the popular phrase, “Move your feet, lose your seat.” The National Library of Medicine says it’s a colloquial expression “used as a justification when a person steals another’s seat if they stand up or walk away from it.”
Others were pleased with Alexandria’s demeanor. Noting her demure and polite responses.
“I love your attitude,” wrote on commenter. “You handled that so smoothly,” added another.
Alexandria clarified to commenters that the shopping plaza had six charging stations. She also posted a second video showing another part of the encounter with the man in the parking lot of the plaza and thanked viewers for their support.
