Attending prom is a major high school milestone that embodies high stakes for many teenagers.
Getting their crush to be their date or choosing the perfect outfit can cause spikes in anxiety in the lead-up to a night high schoolers will look back on forever.
While the anticipation is exciting, it can also bring about the worst in people—particularly from the parents.
A dress shop owner knows a thing or two about the latter after having an unpleasant encounter with an entitled customer.
TikToker Kasia–a.k.a. @bridalinfluencerkasia–posted a video relaying her negative experience and captioned it with:
"Bullies have no place here. Let me explain… I apologize in advance."
Kasia explained it was Presidents' Day, where her shop is busy with students off from school shopping with their moms looking for a prom dress.
While most of the customers are generally kind, Kasia said there's always a handful that make one question about what life choices were made that made them so mean.
She said there was one mom who's been calling Kasia "non-stop," accusing her of selling a desired prom dress to another customer instead of her daughter.
Kasia recalled the daughter had visited the store in December and expressed interested in a certain "gorgeous" dress, which Kasia had ordered five of to be sold in her shop.
She noted that she has regular clients from all over the U.S., but particularly from the Midwestern states. Kasia also explained how she makes a note of which high school her interested customers are from to make sure duplicate dresses aren't sold to the same school "out of common courtesy."
The daughter didn't buy the dress when she stopped by the shop in December since prom was still a ways off—however, she never came back to buy the dress she wanted.
Recently, another customer visited Kasia's store and fell in love with the same dress that the daughter liked. She ended up purchasing that dress, which left Kasia with one dress left, but in a size 2.
The mother of the teen who tried on a size 10 of the dress she wanted back in December called and inquired about the availability of the dress.
When Kasia informed her that the size 10 dress had already been sold, the mother demanded to know to whom it was sold, to which Kasia informed her she couldn't say.
Some schools are very strict about the "no same dress" policy. They even create a Facebook group to keep track of what dresses students have purchased, while other schools could care less about which students buy what dresses.
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It turns out the student who recently bought the dress posted a photo of it on the school's Facebook thread.
Kasia said the situation turned into a "mean girls" thing when she found out that the girl who missed out on buying the dress when she had the chance was a cheerleader for the high school, while the girl who bought the dress was a girl who wasn't.
However, it wasn't the daughter who had a tantrum over the conflict. It was her mom, according to Kasia.
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The mom then claimed to have bought the dress from another retailer and then harassed the girl after allegedly finding out on her own that she had purchased the contentious gown at Kasia's shop.
Things escalated when the angry mom had the audacity to tell Kasia to take the dress back from the girl she had already sold it to, even though the girl fairly bought the dress first.
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"Absolutely, freaking not," said Kasia. "And here's the thing. Even if I was to be shady, I won't do it for you because this girl acted on it, she fell in love with it, and she had her moment, and she bought it from me."
"So I guarantee my clients that exclusivity."
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Kasia called out the mom, asking if she would call major retailers like Macy's, or even Amazon, to force them to reclaim the merchandise they've already sold to customers.
"I don't know how this 'mean girl' stuff started, but I'm getting ready to call the police and file a police report for harassment," Kasia said.
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The mom called back a sixth time and threatened to get the daughter's dad involved, to which Kasia wondered, "And what are you going to do, sir?"
Getting visibly more upset, Kasia pleaded for customers to stop trying to make her despise what she loves to do, which is interacting with kind customers who are excited to find dresses for their upcoming engagements.
"Why is this suddenly my problem? You cannot do this to people. Can we all have some sense? There are so many other dresses," she went on, addressing her entitled aggressor.
Kasia said she plans to contact authorities if the mom calls again. She also noted that the girl who rightfully purchased the dress deserved police protection since was also being subjected to the mom's wrath with endless phone calls and harassment, leading to her getting her car and house egged...over a prom dress.
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"You guys, get real, it's not that serious. I know prom ... I'm all about prom being a rite of passage," she said and stressed that she wants everyone to wear a "really beautiful dress and feel amazing in it."
She added:
"If adults are bullying adults, then why are we surprised this is happening in high school? You guys are raising kids this way."
Kasia endeavored to protect the client who bought the dress after being harassed and hoped she would have the best prom night ever in the dress she owns, fair and square.
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At the end of the clip, after having gotten worked up emotionally, Kasia apologized for her rant.
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She explained that she was speaking from a place of having been bullied herself back in school, "So it hit home today."
Kasia also said her son also experienced similar treatment in school "back in the day" and was hoping he would never have to go through it again.
"I have a hard time with bullies, and I'm sorry for losing it," she said, but maintained that she does not tolerate bullies.
"Let that be known. I won't stand for it."
The mom apparently has stopped calling, and Kasia said she hopes to never hear from the woman again.
Good riddance.
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