March 19, 2026 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm welcome to stuff I Never told you, production by
Heart Radio, and welcome to another edition of Happy Hour.
As always, if you choose to drink or whatever you're
choosing to do, please do so responsibly.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Samantha, what are you up to?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So my voice is still not back if you're listening
to this in real time, we had to pause recording,
but my voice is still doing this. So trying to
remedy that. I am drinking some throat coat tea with
my citrone. We'll see how this works.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yes, I'm on my go to red one.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It has been the there's a lot of seasonal changes.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The weather is all over the place right now. But
I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I'm I'm feeling nice and yesterday I got a lot
of stuff done, which.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Makes me feel I feel really good about myself.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But this episode is kind of a rambly one, and
it does sort of relate to the first Happy Hour
I ever did.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Dead Inside even though I sound so, I was like, oh,
I feel good.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So last Friday, it was a Friday, the thirteenth, and
it was my quarantinniversary, which I'm a weirdo that celebrates
that every year and I have a tradition around it,
and also Saint Patrick's Day I now associate with vaccines
because that's when I got my vaccine. I got it
(01:55):
on Saint Patrick's Day. And in the picture I'm wearing
like my Saint Patrick's Day shirt. But I had this
whole plan and I was going to get the food
that I always get for Quarantine University, and I was
just so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I was going to watch the movies, which I did do.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And before I get into this story, I just want
to say everything is fine. Okay, everything's fine. But my
sleep schedule has been all over the place. I've said
that recently. I will wake up at three am and
get up, not like just try to go back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'll just get up.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And in some days occasionally I do sleep until like
nine thirty. And so on Friday thirteenth, March thirteenth, I
slept until nine thirty. It's pretty rare, but it does happen.
And I woke up and I had like thirty messages
on my phone, which, as you know, is a terrifying circumstance.
(02:58):
And it turns out that the Lovely neighborhood cat that
I want to adopt was hit by a car. Oh no, yes,
he is fine. Like I said, it's okay. But there
were all of these messages on our group, like our
(03:20):
apartment group chat, and because somebody's phone for some reason,
it sends me like an extra text when they emoji anything.
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It was just a lot of text, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Scrolling through this drama trying to because the cat. I've
learned a lot about this cat. Okay, First of all,
his name is Blue and he's gone through two owners
on the street. But I guess he's just a neighborhood cat.
(03:59):
But everybody was trying to figure out, like what do
we do the cat is hurt. We need to know
from the past owners what they're gonna do or if
they're still the owner. And somebody in the apartment building,
a very kind person took the cat to the vet
and did what the past owner said to do. I'm
(04:22):
hesitating on this and I'm going to get into this.
This is why I want to talk about it. But
I guess that they kind of relinquished ownership when this happened,
so they were the owner at the point, but now
it seems they're like, nope, but not my responsibility anyway.
(04:44):
So the person took the cat in. The cat went
through all these procedures, but I think because of the cost,
the owner didn't want to do certain things. So cat
comes back to our apartment where he currently is living
(05:06):
and healing. But this is where I was kind of
got interesting because two things happened. One is that our
group chat kind of spiraled into a debate about pet ownership.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yes, about like.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Because the person who took the cat to the vet
was expressing rightfully, so I think anger that the owner
was refusing to pay up and kind of was like,
now it's it's your cat now. And then my landlord
(05:48):
came in and he was like, let's publicly shame them.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And then.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The person who brought the cat in was like, no,
I do not want to be a part of the
public shaming.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Right my landlord he does not mess around with that stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I one time somebody accidentally messed with the door and
he sent out a message to all of us that said,
if I ever find out who that is, we will
not come back from that.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I was like, oh my gosh, what he's intense.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But it goes back to I did an episode about
him Forever. It was another happy hour where I was saying, like,
men don't get it, because I feel like a lot
of times he just says these things, and I'm like,
do you not realize, like you're your grown up man
and I'm a young woman and you're like barging into
my apartment, Like I don't I don't think. But anyway,
(06:45):
she it was a woman who took in the cat.
She was very like, do not involve me in this
public because she'll know it's me because they've been in contact.
But she was also saying she did and blame the
person who hit the cat because the person who hit
the cat got out of the car. And she said,
(07:05):
and I've thought this too, because this is how my
cat died. You know, if you have a cat that's
just wandering around on a busy street, it's it's a risk.
It's a risk. And even like I don't drive my
car off and but every time I did, I would
look under and like make sure anyway, there's there's now
(07:26):
a go fund me for the cat, and uh, it's
posted all on the all all along the street, and
I've seen people scanning for it, and I donated to it,
and people have donated a lot of them. Really, yes, yes,
And I didn't realize gofund me took that big of
a cut.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I knew they took a cut, but.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Wow, how much it was like a third or maybe
a little bit more than a third.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Wow, relly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But anyway, there's a GoFundMe for this cat and it's
going well. But he's gonna have to have his tail amputated.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Oh no, yes, I know, I know, but the cat
is as well cared for.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We're getting updates like every day I had a picture,
were saying yesterday, looks good, looks healthy. Another reason I
wanted to talk about this, this long ramble and why
it relates to the first half hour did dead inside is.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That my apartment building.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
When I first moved in, I was very active about, like,
let me meet my neighbors and stuff. But it's a
very a lot of people move in and out very quickly,
and so over time I just kind of stopped and
I was like, well, it could be gone in a month,
which did happen with Chris, who I did not like,
so I was glad to see him go. But but
(09:02):
I just stopped doing it, and now there's this group
chat and I don't know anybody in the group chat.
It's that one person and I because I slept late
that day, I missed the whole thing and everybody had
already jumped in and been like, I'll.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Do this and I'll save the cat. What do you need?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And then I'm like the jerk who didn't say anything.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
But you actually love this cat.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I know I love the cat. I love the cat,
but it gets worse, Samantha. Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I my friend Katie comes over frequently. She somehow got
involved in this situation before I did.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But yes, it's complicated. I don't want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It, but no, my friend has involved her so more
than I had at that point. But it also felt
weird because I was like, am I too late to
jump in? And you know, what do I do? Because
I had to work and all this stuff. And so
(10:11):
I did officially enter the chat yesterday where I was
like I've seen these gofund me things and they're working, yay,
and now I'm in there. But I just feel like
everybody was thinking that one girl who never introduces herself
doesn't even care about this cat.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Which is funny because you would have taken in the cat.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I would have taken in the cat.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But now now I realized the cat pretty much lived
here anyway. And I had suspected and I said, I
knew there at least two people in the building that
were caring for the cat, but I didn't know that
our landlord was cool with it, because when I moved in,
he said no pets. So I was trying to be
like chill and not alert anyone to the situation. But
(10:59):
the landlord is very invested in this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
He loves, Oh my god, because he likes.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
To like argue with the neighbors a lot he does.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
He does.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
He asked me to move my car back into its spot, uh,
because that way no one can block the driveway.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now he seems to care about the cat a lot.
Actually nice.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That cat is really lovable. I met at once and
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I love the cat too, But I feel bad about
that that I didn't even know it was like our
apartment cat.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I had my suspicions you invited him in, I did.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
He loves my I have like a welcome matt that
has like really fuzzy, like it's really fuzzy, and he
loves to just get on it and roll on it.
I'm like, oh, there you go. So I just opened
the door and there he is.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So I was worried that he'd get trapped in the
apartment building. Whenever I would do laundry and he would
come in, I was very worried he would get in
the There's like a fenced off area where my landlord
keeps all of his stuff, and I was worried he'd
get in that area because I don't know the code
to get in there.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And then I can't even till the cat's out.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't want him to be trapped in the laundry room. Yeah,
but it was just it's just been a whole one
of those kind of funny Again. I'm very happy the
cat is okay, but it's been one of those funny
like things that have been stressing me out far beyond
what I think probably should have. Yeah, because I'm like,
(12:40):
oh my god, I needed to get in this group chat.
They think I'm horrible.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
So is this girl going to keep the cat? Now?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't know, I do so she's actually not the
one caring for the cat. Oh no, she's you know
who's caring for the cat is the guy who's always outside.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
No, yes, yes, that's his buddy, as he says, and
he looks like he's taking good care of him.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
This is another character in my life and my apartment listeners.
It's just a guy who's always outside, and I have
truthfully tried to avoid him, mostly because this is another
thing when you live in a small apartment, like I
don't always want to have the like sometimes I'm like,
I've got to go. We can't have a conversation right now.
(13:28):
But anyway, he's caring for the cat. But the woman
who took the cat in, she she was saying, I
don't think he should be an outdoor cat anymore. So
I don't know what's gonna happen from that. I'm sure
I will get more updates, but that was her point
of view. And now she's living right below me, right,
(13:57):
I keep saying. She it's a he I learned right
in the apartment blow me. So I just think it's interesting.
It's kind of funny these text exchanges. And then it
made me feel kind of a guilt about like, I
don't know my neighbors that well, And then I was like,
how guilty should I feel about that? Because they do
move out a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And the pandemic really did change me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
To bring it full circle to quarantine universary, I have
become someone.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Who's like, oh God, please, I don't want any small
dog right now. I just need to get my mail,
all right? And I know it's terrible. I should they
sound like lovely people.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
No, I think because not everyone thinks like you.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Not everyone is as kind as you, and not everyone measures.
When I lived on the West Side in a quadplex,
I made sure to get to know everybody when I
first moved in, and we had a great relationship. I
feel like every now and then we would like there
would be things that would go a little too far,
like people were a little too comfortable, but at the
(15:09):
same time we also they were pretty good about respecting
boundaries me too. Then I moved out and other people
moved in, and people who lived there try to keep
up that type of relationship.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
They were not the same people. The expectations were odd.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
The expectations was like, you could drive me four hours
away because you're nice to me. If you don't, you're
being mean to me, you're not as nice as you said,
and you're just kind of like, oh, there's a boundary here,
and not everybody knows these boundaries, and so it's really
hard to see because sometimes it's wonderful. Right now, My
neighbors are wonderful. They do ask favors now and again
happened today and it was fine, but they rarely do
(15:46):
and they're really grateful and they never want to step
on toes. But I could actually see like when you
start doing too much, then the expectations go higher and
you're like, no, now I'm trapped, Like how do I
tell them.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I can't do this all the time. It's a.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It is, it is, And I know, like one of
the big conversations, which I really appreciate, is you know,
right now, with everything going on, you should know your
neighbors and you should know your community and stuff like that.
So I think that's one of the reasons that really
stuck with me. But then I was like, well, I
do kind of know them. I It's just I.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Mean, you're on a text thread.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I am, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Right, and there is somebody there is somebody in the
thread that did not respond at all.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
So maybe they don't like the gat.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Maybe they don't live there anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
That's also the other thing is we have like so
many text threads of the apartment because people move out
all the time that I'm like, which one.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Is the one?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm not sure that's bad? Yeah, yeah, So I'm not
going to blame this random person. They might not live here.
That's when you're like, I no longer live here. Please
take me after this. Oh anyway, if listeners have any
thoughts about this, because I have been feeling some kind
(17:08):
of guilt about it. My friend Katie, who I mentioned,
is very close with one of her neighbors, and I
feel like I'm more mostly acquaintances with a couple of them.
And like you said, maybe that's just how we mesh
and how it works. Maybe it's nothing I need to
feel guilty about, but I do because she, I mean,
(17:28):
she just updated me about her neighbor today.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Am I will I can tell you about this cat?
Is what I can.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Say, kat leans you together.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The cat did bring us together. I have to say,
he has brought the whole neighborhood together. I don't want
to give away the mount but there's a lot of
money that has been raised.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
For this cult and now people don't jump on and
just give them money.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And then I got like a a generic thank you
email from gofund me, but it was from the person
in my building, and I was.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Like, do you write this?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Do you know I live in the building or is
this just a generic thing that you wrote for everybody?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I always get thank you I want to do go
fund me, so that must have been specific.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, they definitely don't know who I am, and I
thought they would because they know my name and they
know how to spell it. Anyway, that's that's a whole
different topic of the Like it wasn't performative because I
love the cat, but like wanting people to make sure
you know they know you.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Don't right right?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, yeah, I see, I really care, I do.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I do. So that is an update on my apartment
building and my beloved neighborhood cat. Yes, yes, yes, and
I'm sure I'll have another update soon because the money
the amount has been met, so wow, yes, yes, yes, yes. Anyway, listeners,
(18:58):
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Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm welcome to stuff I Never told you, production by
Heart Radio, and welcome to another edition of Happy Hour.
As always, if you choose to drink or whatever you're
choosing to do, please do so responsibly.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Samantha, what are you up to?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So my voice is still not back if you're listening
to this in real time, we had to pause recording,
but my voice is still doing this. So trying to
remedy that. I am drinking some throat coat tea with
my citrone. We'll see how this works.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yes, I'm on my go to red one.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It has been the there's a lot of seasonal changes.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
The weather is all over the place right now. But
I'm feeling good.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I'm I'm feeling nice and yesterday I got a lot
of stuff done, which.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Makes me feel I feel really good about myself.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
But this episode is kind of a rambly one, and
it does sort of relate to the first Happy Hour
I ever did.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Dead Inside even though I sound so, I was like, oh,
I feel good.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So last Friday, it was a Friday, the thirteenth, and
it was my quarantinniversary, which I'm a weirdo that celebrates
that every year and I have a tradition around it,
and also Saint Patrick's Day I now associate with vaccines
because that's when I got my vaccine. I got it
(01:55):
on Saint Patrick's Day. And in the picture I'm wearing
like my Saint Patrick's Day shirt. But I had this
whole plan and I was going to get the food
that I always get for Quarantine University, and I was
just so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I was going to watch the movies, which I did do.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
And before I get into this story, I just want
to say everything is fine. Okay, everything's fine. But my
sleep schedule has been all over the place. I've said
that recently. I will wake up at three am and
get up, not like just try to go back to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'll just get up.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And in some days occasionally I do sleep until like
nine thirty. And so on Friday thirteenth, March thirteenth, I
slept until nine thirty. It's pretty rare, but it does happen.
And I woke up and I had like thirty messages
on my phone, which, as you know, is a terrifying circumstance.
(02:58):
And it turns out that the Lovely neighborhood cat that
I want to adopt was hit by a car. Oh no, yes,
he is fine. Like I said, it's okay. But there
were all of these messages on our group, like our
(03:20):
apartment group chat, and because somebody's phone for some reason,
it sends me like an extra text when they emoji anything.
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It was just a lot of text, and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Scrolling through this drama trying to because the cat. I've
learned a lot about this cat. Okay, First of all,
his name is Blue and he's gone through two owners
on the street. But I guess he's just a neighborhood cat.
(03:59):
But everybody was trying to figure out, like what do
we do the cat is hurt. We need to know
from the past owners what they're gonna do or if
they're still the owner. And somebody in the apartment building,
a very kind person took the cat to the vet
and did what the past owner said to do. I'm
(04:22):
hesitating on this and I'm going to get into this.
This is why I want to talk about it. But
I guess that they kind of relinquished ownership when this happened,
so they were the owner at the point, but now
it seems they're like, nope, but not my responsibility anyway.
(04:44):
So the person took the cat in. The cat went
through all these procedures, but I think because of the cost,
the owner didn't want to do certain things. So cat
comes back to our apartment where he currently is living
(05:06):
and healing. But this is where I was kind of
got interesting because two things happened. One is that our
group chat kind of spiraled into a debate about pet ownership.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yes, about like.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Because the person who took the cat to the vet
was expressing rightfully, so I think anger that the owner
was refusing to pay up and kind of was like,
now it's it's your cat now. And then my landlord
(05:48):
came in and he was like, let's publicly shame them.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
And then.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The person who brought the cat in was like, no,
I do not want to be a part of the
public shaming.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Right my landlord he does not mess around with that stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I one time somebody accidentally messed with the door and
he sent out a message to all of us that said,
if I ever find out who that is, we will
not come back from that.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And I was like, oh my gosh, what he's intense.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But it goes back to I did an episode about
him Forever. It was another happy hour where I was saying, like,
men don't get it, because I feel like a lot
of times he just says these things, and I'm like,
do you not realize, like you're your grown up man
and I'm a young woman and you're like barging into
my apartment, Like I don't I don't think. But anyway,
(06:45):
she it was a woman who took in the cat.
She was very like, do not involve me in this
public because she'll know it's me because they've been in contact.
But she was also saying she did and blame the
person who hit the cat because the person who hit
the cat got out of the car. And she said,
(07:05):
and I've thought this too, because this is how my
cat died. You know, if you have a cat that's
just wandering around on a busy street, it's it's a risk.
It's a risk. And even like I don't drive my
car off and but every time I did, I would
look under and like make sure anyway, there's there's now
(07:26):
a go fund me for the cat, and uh, it's
posted all on the all all along the street, and
I've seen people scanning for it, and I donated to it,
and people have donated a lot of them. Really, yes, yes,
And I didn't realize gofund me took that big of
a cut.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I knew they took a cut, but.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Wow, how much it was like a third or maybe
a little bit more than a third.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Wow, relly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But anyway, there's a GoFundMe for this cat and it's
going well. But he's gonna have to have his tail amputated.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Oh no, yes, I know, I know, but the cat
is as well cared for.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We're getting updates like every day I had a picture,
were saying yesterday, looks good, looks healthy. Another reason I
wanted to talk about this, this long ramble and why
it relates to the first half hour did dead inside is.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That my apartment building.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
When I first moved in, I was very active about, like,
let me meet my neighbors and stuff. But it's a
very a lot of people move in and out very quickly,
and so over time I just kind of stopped and
I was like, well, it could be gone in a month,
which did happen with Chris, who I did not like,
so I was glad to see him go. But but
(09:02):
I just stopped doing it, and now there's this group
chat and I don't know anybody in the group chat.
It's that one person and I because I slept late
that day, I missed the whole thing and everybody had
already jumped in and been like, I'll.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Do this and I'll save the cat. What do you need?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
And then I'm like the jerk who didn't say anything.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
But you actually love this cat.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I know I love the cat. I love the cat,
but it gets worse, Samantha. Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I my friend Katie comes over frequently. She somehow got
involved in this situation before I did.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But yes, it's complicated. I don't want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It, but no, my friend has involved her so more
than I had at that point. But it also felt
weird because I was like, am I too late to
jump in? And you know, what do I do? Because
I had to work and all this stuff. And so
(10:11):
I did officially enter the chat yesterday where I was
like I've seen these gofund me things and they're working, yay,
and now I'm in there. But I just feel like
everybody was thinking that one girl who never introduces herself
doesn't even care about this cat.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Which is funny because you would have taken in the cat.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I would have taken in the cat.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But now now I realized the cat pretty much lived
here anyway. And I had suspected and I said, I
knew there at least two people in the building that
were caring for the cat, but I didn't know that
our landlord was cool with it, because when I moved in,
he said no pets. So I was trying to be
like chill and not alert anyone to the situation. But
(10:59):
the landlord is very invested in this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
He loves, Oh my god, because he likes.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
To like argue with the neighbors a lot he does.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
He does.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
He asked me to move my car back into its spot, uh,
because that way no one can block the driveway.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Now he seems to care about the cat a lot.
Actually nice.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That cat is really lovable. I met at once and
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I love the cat too, But I feel bad about
that that I didn't even know it was like our
apartment cat.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I had my suspicions you invited him in, I did.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
He loves my I have like a welcome matt that
has like really fuzzy, like it's really fuzzy, and he
loves to just get on it and roll on it.
I'm like, oh, there you go. So I just opened
the door and there he is.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
So I was worried that he'd get trapped in the
apartment building. Whenever I would do laundry and he would
come in, I was very worried he would get in
the There's like a fenced off area where my landlord
keeps all of his stuff, and I was worried he'd
get in that area because I don't know the code
to get in there.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And then I can't even till the cat's out.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I don't want him to be trapped in the laundry room. Yeah,
but it was just it's just been a whole one
of those kind of funny Again. I'm very happy the
cat is okay, but it's been one of those funny
like things that have been stressing me out far beyond
what I think probably should have. Yeah, because I'm like,
(12:40):
oh my god, I needed to get in this group chat.
They think I'm horrible.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
So is this girl going to keep the cat? Now?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't know, I do so she's actually not the
one caring for the cat. Oh no, she's you know
who's caring for the cat is the guy who's always outside.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
No, yes, yes, that's his buddy, as he says, and
he looks like he's taking good care of him.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
This is another character in my life and my apartment listeners.
It's just a guy who's always outside, and I have
truthfully tried to avoid him, mostly because this is another
thing when you live in a small apartment, like I
don't always want to have the like sometimes I'm like,
I've got to go. We can't have a conversation right now.
(13:28):
But anyway, he's caring for the cat. But the woman
who took the cat in, she she was saying, I
don't think he should be an outdoor cat anymore. So
I don't know what's gonna happen from that. I'm sure
I will get more updates, but that was her point
of view. And now she's living right below me, right,
(13:57):
I keep saying. She it's a he I learned right
in the apartment blow me. So I just think it's interesting.
It's kind of funny these text exchanges. And then it
made me feel kind of a guilt about like, I
don't know my neighbors that well, And then I was like,
how guilty should I feel about that? Because they do
move out a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And the pandemic really did change me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
To bring it full circle to quarantine universary, I have
become someone.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Who's like, oh God, please, I don't want any small
dog right now. I just need to get my mail,
all right? And I know it's terrible. I should they
sound like lovely people.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
No, I think because not everyone thinks like you.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Not everyone is as kind as you, and not everyone measures.
When I lived on the West Side in a quadplex,
I made sure to get to know everybody when I
first moved in, and we had a great relationship. I
feel like every now and then we would like there
would be things that would go a little too far,
like people were a little too comfortable, but at the
(15:09):
same time we also they were pretty good about respecting
boundaries me too. Then I moved out and other people
moved in, and people who lived there try to keep
up that type of relationship.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
They were not the same people. The expectations were odd.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
The expectations was like, you could drive me four hours
away because you're nice to me. If you don't, you're
being mean to me, you're not as nice as you said,
and you're just kind of like, oh, there's a boundary here,
and not everybody knows these boundaries, and so it's really
hard to see because sometimes it's wonderful. Right now, My
neighbors are wonderful. They do ask favors now and again
happened today and it was fine, but they rarely do
(15:46):
and they're really grateful and they never want to step
on toes. But I could actually see like when you
start doing too much, then the expectations go higher and
you're like, no, now I'm trapped, Like how do I
tell them.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I can't do this all the time. It's a.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
It is, it is, And I know, like one of
the big conversations, which I really appreciate, is you know,
right now, with everything going on, you should know your
neighbors and you should know your community and stuff like that.
So I think that's one of the reasons that really
stuck with me. But then I was like, well, I
do kind of know them. I It's just I.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Mean, you're on a text thread.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I am, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Right, and there is somebody there is somebody in the
thread that did not respond at all.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
So maybe they don't like the gat.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Maybe they don't live there anymore.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
That's also the other thing is we have like so
many text threads of the apartment because people move out
all the time that I'm like, which one.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Is the one?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm not sure that's bad? Yeah, yeah, So I'm not
going to blame this random person. They might not live here.
That's when you're like, I no longer live here. Please
take me after this. Oh anyway, if listeners have any
thoughts about this, because I have been feeling some kind
(17:08):
of guilt about it. My friend Katie, who I mentioned,
is very close with one of her neighbors, and I
feel like I'm more mostly acquaintances with a couple of them.
And like you said, maybe that's just how we mesh
and how it works. Maybe it's nothing I need to
feel guilty about, but I do because she, I mean,
(17:28):
she just updated me about her neighbor today.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Am I will I can tell you about this cat?
Is what I can.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Say, kat leans you together.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The cat did bring us together. I have to say,
he has brought the whole neighborhood together. I don't want
to give away the mount but there's a lot of
money that has been raised.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
For this cult and now people don't jump on and
just give them money.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
And then I got like a a generic thank you
email from gofund me, but it was from the person
in my building, and I was.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Like, do you write this?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Do you know I live in the building or is
this just a generic thing that you wrote for everybody?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I always get thank you I want to do go
fund me, so that must have been specific.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, they definitely don't know who I am, and I
thought they would because they know my name and they
know how to spell it. Anyway, that's that's a whole
different topic of the Like it wasn't performative because I
love the cat, but like wanting people to make sure
you know they know you.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Don't right right?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, yeah, I see, I really care, I do.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I do. So that is an update on my apartment
building and my beloved neighborhood cat. Yes, yes, yes, and
I'm sure I'll have another update soon because the money
the amount has been met, so wow, yes, yes, yes, yes. Anyway, listeners,
(18:58):
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(19:20):
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