February 11, 2025 • 55 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I need to tell my landlord I'm moving out. But
she's my stepmom my twenty four female. Stepmom sixty two
female has been in my life since I was fourteen.
She met my dad fifty four male in twenty twelve
and they started dating. Stepmom was married to another man
at the time, but it was mostly a marriage of convenience.
He bought her a new house, paid off her two
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family homes, bought her four cars, did any remodeling slash
upkeep at her home, and fixed anything that broke. He
passed in twenty twenty. She and my dad then went
on to Mary in twenty twenty one. Since I was
living with my dad at the time, they gave me
the option to move into my stepmom's house with them.
I couldn't afford to live on my own at that
point in my life, so I was super grateful and
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felt blessed. Not long after, things went down a hill.
I always do?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Is that always doing? Reddit?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
By the way, this comes from Anxious Seal sixty sixty
four on the Okay Storytime subured it so I was
paying to inhabit the home. A small portion of rent
quote unquote paid off house as well as the utilities.
I wasn't mad about paying to live there. I expected
it and was still appreciative. However, my stepmom started treating
me like an on call cook and made and again,
(01:10):
oh he is paying rent. I was to not only
cook and clean, but she nitpicked everything and it was
never good enough. I also worked full time. My step
mom doesn't work, and my dad works part time, so
sometimes after working a full day at work, I'd have
to come home to cook and clean. I was exhausted
and quickly becoming burnt out. After many arguments in which
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it was my parents versus me, where I was constantly
gas lit, I ended up having a small breakdown. My
birth mother was abusive, so it was a triggering situation
for me, and I moved out to some apartments. Our
relationship improved when I was no longer under her roof.
Oh with the step mom, okay, which I think is
a good I think that's the current situation. She moved out, Yeah,
(01:55):
which I think is the best solution here, because it is.
It's not especially if you're paying rent to them. It's
not fair for them to treat you like the maid
slash cook.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, especially if like you never agreed. Yeah, you never
heard that take on that responsibility.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Eight months later, the ceiling in my apartment collapsed due
to a leak from the upstairs neighbor after being ignored slash,
not taken seriously by maintenance for months.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh there was mold.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And asbestos everywhere. The apartment stunk. The ac had went out.
I was there with my two kittens, ugh and concern
for our health and safety. So I planned to break
the lease and move. This is where my stepmom comes
back in.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So this was the apartment. Oh I see. I was like,
what happened with the mold? But the ceiling collapsed. That
was mold, which in that case they absolutely should have proved.
Your landlord should have provided you with another place to
live while I was being fixed. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, that seems right. One of her.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Family homes, three bedroom, one bath, also located in the
worst part of town, was empty, and she offered to
rent it to me for three fifty a month.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm with that.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Sheep, three bedrooms, one bath, since were family. I walked
through the house. It was disgusting. Oh, that's previous tenant
was her cousin, who was not only a smoker, but
elderly and on fixed income, so we never cleaned and
couldn't afford to have someone clean the home. It reeked
of sig smoke, walls, floors, appliances were yellow due to
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nicotine staining. There were roaches everywhere. Also, I agreed to
move in since it was cheap rent and I needed
somewhere to go. But before I could, she informed me
I would be paying five fifty a month as opposed
to the three fifty. She just switch it up, you
can switch it up. I would be responsible Mingming says,
three bedroom, one bath, and a demon in the cabinet.
I would be responsible for the cleaning of the home.
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My apartment knew I was leaving and I didn't have
any other options, so I accepted. I spent so much
of my own money to clean the home and bomb
slash spray for pests. It took me nearly a year
to be completely rid of roaches and get things clean
enough to where my skin wouldn't crawl.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh my god, I mean with that much effort and
that much money, I feel like you could have just
found another place.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, Honestly, this home was also built in the fifties
and probably hasn't seen any sort of remodel since the seventies.
No big deal, just figured I'd mentioned this isn't the
nicest home and it's in a terrible part of town.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Two years.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I've been here for two years now. We've never wrote
up or signed an official lease, but I pay her
on the first of every month and act as a tenant.
The rent has gone up twice. I understand this economy
is not fit for anything inexpensive, but I felt scammed
as this is my family.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes, increased that standard. She's like, Mom, I'm your daughter.
What do you Mom?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I thought you wanted roommates. In the past six months,
I have been accused of stealing money. I have had
to house people slush pets at her will with no
compensation or heads up. And just recently, the AC went
out and I paid for the repair since she was
not present at the time of the repair. When I
sent her a cop give the bill and called to
ask if it would be deductive from rent, she lost
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it on me and basically said, as a landlord in Tennessee,
I am not required to have functioning AC in my rental,
no matter how hot it is. Was I upset about
covering the repair. I was heard how she was treating me.
I'm her family and she couldn't care less if I'm
living in her ninety degree house with my cats. A
few days later, she was charged one hundred and twenty
five dollars by her home insurance as a deductible for
the repair, and she sent it to me upset she
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had to pay for it paid for what the repair
for the home insurance and informed me she would be
canceling her home owners insurance and if something broke or
went wrong, we just have to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Move out. Literally, you have to get out of there.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I took this as I'd have to deal with it now.
I found an apartment in a nicer part of town
that is closer to my job for only two hundred
dollars more than she charges me a month.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I am truly grateful for the opportunity to live in
this home and rent from her, but I'm ready for
our relationship to be just mother daughter again. This land
one more tenant relationship does nothing but stress me out
and make me feel like I'm constantly on eggshells or
in survival mode because if I don't comply with what
she wants. This is her home, and she can rip
the rug out from under me, she said at one point,
if I was still in his home when she passed,
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she would leave it to me. But honestly, I think
by peace of mind is more important.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Absolutely, do you want that house?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah? Do you even want that house?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's gross. I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Much more I can take being in this position. I
just don't know how to tell her I'm leaving without
her being upset. All my friends are saying to give
her no notice and simply tell her once I'm gone.
But I have a big heart, and I worry about
others feelings and I don't want her feeling blindsided and betrayed.
But she's she does not care about you.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, I think if you want a relationship with her,
and it seems like it does want a relationship, it
does she don't.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I guess in that last part, I don't I.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Want a mother daughter relationship. Now, if you want a
mother daughter relationship, take the higher road and just tell her, like.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Hey, I'm moving out, but like make sure you have
that place all in order. Yeah, like that you have
the such strategy. But we would never blindside or betray
you if you join us live every WEEKDA have three
impst on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook. Just at her profile
and there is a little bit left. But I yeah,
I think I think maybe I don't know what's like
(07:15):
the normal normal thirty days in advance or something.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think, well, I think roughly like.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
A month in advance. Just say, hey, I have this
place that I'm going to be moving into. I wanted
to let you know.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Actually legally it depends on the contract, but there's no.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
There's no contract.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So this question just the question of like what would
feel like courtesy to your yeah parent that you want
to have a relationship with.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, any advice on how to approach the situation and
how I should tell her I'm leaving again, no lead
slash contract. I've been here two years with mail bills
coming to this house, so technically I don't owe her
a notice, but I don't want it backfiring if I
leave and spring it on her. And just so torn,
any advice is appreciated.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm confused why you're torn, Like, is, why is is
it a mean or a bad thing? Yeah, to move
to a different location.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You're literally just moving out you again, signed literally no lease,
people move if you want to do the easiest thing.
It's just like thirty days in advance.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, that's what Eleanna is saying. A contract is generally
month to month with the lease.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, so I think that's that's what you do.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
My roommate came out of the bathroom with my mom.
She was, you know, she was helping him urinate or something.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I was gonna say she was helping him with the plumbing. No, like,
that's that's as excuse.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He's like pipe. I Mail twenty two am in Atlanta
from a higher study in medicine. I'm staying in the
rent with one of my seniors when my mom, female
forty one, came unexpectedly to give me a surprise on
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my birthday. So I am a surprise on your all right.
I was glad as it was a holiday that day,
so me, mom, and my roommate Mail twenty five went
around the city and had a great day. However, her
flight back for home got delayed by more than six hours,
and Mom discusses it with dad over and decided to
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stay with us and catch the flight the next day.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
No, no, there's a dad in the picture.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But but in our room. It was only one single bed,
and since the trip of mom and her stay was unplanned,
she slept with me. By the way, this comes from
you okay gap six eighty four on the r okay
storytime subreddit. So quite normal till right here, right, Yeah,
we're chilling. We're chilling, We're good. Wrong, Yes, it was still.
(09:45):
I woke up at around five in the morning. My
mom had a habit of getting up early in the morning,
taking bath and doing our housework right in the morning. However,
being in the hostel, especially on holidays, we friends were
habitual to getting up late, so I was not surprised
to find my mom missing from the bed, assuming that
she may be in the bathroom roaming outside for a change.
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But my roommate was also missing from his bed.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, no, make it stop.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
As I was wondering where he might be, Mom came
from the bathroom having only a towel wrapped around her body,
and it was a bit surprised to see me away.
I was about to ask her if she had seen
my roommate when he suddenly appeared from behind her from
the bathroom and.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He said, call me baba.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
He was also in his towel only.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Why, dude, I'm upset, says Lol.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Roommate upgrades a step down.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It seems like also they don't live in the same room.
The roommate in op right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, this is wild. I mean, how do you excuse that?
How you were like, she took a shower and then
I came in, but then the water was it working?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I thought I was helping her?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Sorry, When I asked her about it, she said that
the shower was broke and was water was not turning off,
so he was just trying to help.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I bet he was.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, I bet he was helping a lot. I didn't
talk much about it, but I still can't believe that
it was shower only. She was fixing the shower ahead
and needed to give him head. It's too far. I
hadn't talked much about it, but I still can't believe
that it was shower only. It was update number one.
(11:34):
Derty says, in a towel. In a towel, Yeah, you
don't want to get me. You don't want to get
all wet helping with the water, so you put on
a towel. Exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Everyone was in a towel.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Everyone was fine. Update number one. I confronted my mom
about her relationship with my roommate. I know that people
are going to judge me wrong after reading this post,
but I did not understand what I was trying to
do and what happened. Everyone is asking me to confront
my mom, so I confronted her a few hours ago.
Here is my mom's confrontation. Are you ready for her?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Do you think that she's gonna lie or do you
think that she's gonna come come clean?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I think she's gonna lie, all right, phew. I looked
around the house to see where my mom might be
and was relieved to see that she was lying on
the couch. She looked tired and had a T shirt
and trousers on. She was awake when I went to her.
What was that? Why are you doing all this crap
with that guy? Do you think I'm a fool? I
immediately spoke as I saw her, I am sorry the
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dialogue on this. I am sorry. She replied, a hint
of sadness in her voice. I'm sorry, I'm sorry my son.
I told her that he's like my age, he's my housemate.
There was a hint of anger sadness in hers and
a hint of anger. And me and Mom then talked
for an hour in that couch. We talked about a
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number of things. She talked about how she was depressed
and spicy sleep, frustrated. I was shocked when she told
me that she and my father barely ever had spicy sleep.
She told me about how she longed for some romance
and love in her life. Then she talked about Pete.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Pete, who she just met like yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Pete, it's a new fan love. She talked about how
sweet and understanding Pete was. I could sense that they
had both grown really close to each other in the
last twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It wasn't longer. Am I mistaken?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I don't know how long was it? This is so yeah,
why is she.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Telling him everything? She's like your father and I don't
sleep together anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, let me tell you about our sleep history.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Let me teach who some twenty one, twenty five, twenty five.
He loves me like a man.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
He kisses the nape.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Of my neck, sweetly caresses it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He teaches me, he treats me like a woman and
a queen. A queen all right. She then surprised me
by asking me for permission to spend time with him. No,
she reasoned with me during our conversation, telling me that
she would anyway only be in at Lantern for one
day and she wanted at least this short time here
to be pleasant. No, bro, no, your mom's just like
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so unapologetically, like, actually, I don't have spicy sleep with
your dad, and I want to have spicy sleep with
your roommate. May can't you give that to me? I
want my stay here to be pleasant.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
She's like, Oki, my dad cheatth on your father?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is that all right with you? Can you sign on
the dotted line with this pen? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Thank you very much? Yo ya, this is sad. She's like,
I'll bribe you with money if you don't tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
This is wild. Not only are you she's like caught
red handed sitting on your father, but she's like, is
it cool if I cheat on your father? Yeah? Ming
Ming says. All the hints makes me think the story
is fake. Eloe, Yeah, I don't know what he was
trying to do with the hint. It's like she had
as send this in her voice. I had a hint
to bango, okay. I was a bit taken aback by
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her bluntness. She promised me that she would never do
anything like this in India and will be faithful to
my dad in India. You to nervousness. I told her
then that I didn't care about what she did in
her personal life and she was free to do whatever
she liked. I told her that I just wanted her
to be happy. It was hard for me to talk
directly about Pete with her. I didn't know how to
approach it. The whole thing was awkward and embarrassing from me.
(15:15):
You seem like quite quick to just like throw your dad.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, I wonder why you don't want to tell your dad.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Update number two. Later in the day, I got a
call from Pete. He asked me for lunch. During lunch,
she confessed that he had developed feeling for my mom
since her last visit, and they were talking since her
last visit.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So they have this is a there's a plot occasions.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
He started to tell me how he really cared about
my mom and how he genuinely had feelings for her.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's like me and your mom have been talking and.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Me and your mom have gotten it going on.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
We love each other.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It was hard for me to listen to Pete over lunch.
I was embarrassed, a bit angry, and a part of
me felt humiliated, but throughout the conversation I remained calm.
Since he was behaving in such a mature manner and
was being so respectful, I thought that the least I
could do was also be respectful. I also believed Pete.
He had never lied to me about anything, and we
had become friends over the past few months. I had
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no reason not to believe him. I did lunch with
him by telling him what I had told my mom before,
that what she did in her life was none of
my business. I told him that I was cool with him.
It kind of is your business.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Again, Yeah, I mean, like, it's your mom and your roommate, so.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You have every right to be angry, and then also
that your mom is just openly cheating on your father.
After that lunch, everything changed. Pete and Mom now just
didn't care whether I watched them or what I thought
about their relationship. They didn't try to hide that they
were really into each other. They would hold hands and
now it seemed that they were in love. But she
never gave me the impression that Pete and her were
having spicy sleep, but it was obvious that they were
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pissing and at least feeling each other up. When I
was not around, I could see the uncontrollable lust in
Pete's eyes. He get it Mom. Even though there was
significant age gap between them, I could tell he found
her very attractive. Mom, too, seemed to be really into Pete.
I could never have thought that one day I would
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see my own mom with another man, and that too
a white man like Pete. I could never have imagined
my Indian mother with a white lover. It was all
just so tab What.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
What a segue?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
If you want to hear about more taboos consistently every
single day, you could join us YouTube live here on YouTube, here,
on Facebook, on Twitch, on TikTok every week day at
three pm. Just have our probes tab it. My mom
still kept in touch with my father on the phone.
Once I saw her talk to him on the phone
and Pete was right there sitting next to her listening
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to their conversation in the living room. Of course, no
one in India, including my father, had any idea about
what was going on here in Atlanta between Pete and
my mom.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
But are you just gonna like, I don't know, I'm confused.
Are you just gonna let that keep going? Like you're
not gonna be like mom, you need to tell dad
or I will nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And the fact that you're like, they're just like going
at it, They're just like touching each other, fingling each
other up in front of you and just have no
regard that this is such a wild situation for you,
and you're just like, you.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Know, I'm not it.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'ment with ming ming. This sounds like smutplot. I don't
know if this is real.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's pretty much says go after Pete's mom.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Honestly, and eye for an eye in this situation, and
eye for an eye it works. Yeah, Yeah, this is crazy. Man,
Oh man, I don't do you guys believe this is true.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Dad's room reeks so bad it's probably a health hazard.
How do we convince him to clean up? Hey, all,
my sixty one male dad sleeps in his own room downstairs.
Ever since my mom, sixty three female, caught him cheating.
That's another story.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I want to read that story.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, and the state of his room has declined in
the almost twenty years since that event. Oh twenty years.
You're still living with your mom for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, like maybe it was like a like a generation
like we don't divorce type situation, but we're just gonna
co inhabit date. That's great, goabdate.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The exposition to my problem is rather long, but a
fun read, so if you'd like to skip, just search
for the next paragraph. He always neglected personal hygiene, but
it wasn't always as rancid as it's come to be.
By the way, this comes from JCJC on the Okay
storytime separed it. So it was two thousand and eight
when he was exiled to the room, and I remember
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him bringing the family couch in there to use for sleeping.
I suppose we figured he would get a mattress eventually
to replace the couch. But that same couch is still
in there today twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Okay, it's not twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That couch was probably bought in two thousand, twenty four
years later. What twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh, couch was probably bought in two thousand and eight
when he moved into It was two.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Thousand and eight when he exiled to that room. But
they're saying the couch has been there.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh, okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's older than a lot of my friends, and he's
sleeping on it. It's never been washed since he brought
it into the cave, not once. Granted, he he isn't
sleeping directly on the couch raw. He's got some sheets,
but they aren't fitted couch sheets. They're bed sheets.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
He's like, they're not raw, dog in it.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, he's not just touching the couch. I just know
those sheets are slipping off the couch regularly, and the
couch being is unearthed, getting a fresh new layer of
oil and grime from the day's activities. I'm actually baffled
that his back still works, since that couch isn't really
that comfy. I wonder if he's forgotten the pleasure of
how a bed feels to lie on.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You don't remember.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's like I've forgotten the soft caress of my bed. Anyway,
he told me today he washes his sheets about every eight.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Weeks two months.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
No, that's nasty. However, knowing him, he's definitely shaving a
few weeks off that estimate, so it doesn't sound as bad.
Last time I looked at his pillow, it add reddish
brown stains blood and carried a yellow hue oil. He
has eggzma and can be prone to little sores bleeding,
I suppose, but I think sleeping on something NERGYL would
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enjoy isn't a great situation when you have skin issues. Also,
it doesn't help that when he gets home he fries
food in a bunch of butter with garlic and onion
and brings that into his room ew and lets it rot.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
A Why what does that mean? What do you mean
you're letting it rot?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Like, of course, the two most pungent ingredients are his favorite,
and I love garlic and onion myself, But man, just
bring the dishes up after you're done, for goodness sake.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
But his guy's living like the bachelor life.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I think he only sometimes showers in the morning. Really
adds to the ambiance of it all. I know a
lot of people shower in the morning, but I think
that doesn't work well for him when he comes home
from work all sweaty. My mom showers in the morning
as well, but her room is not accessible and she's
overall much more hygienic. I am a morning shower.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm you do two? I do two showers, one or
the first one in the morning, I clean with soap,
and at night I just wet my body because it
helps me go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I do morning shower unless I've done some sort of
physical activity, like after I go climbing, I'll just do
a little soap soap because I got a lot chocolm. Anyway,
moving on from the couch, the rest of the room
is declining as well. The floor as this dark green
carpet that gets vacuum maybe twice a year, usually by
my mom. By the way, Oh funny story, I saw
brown patties.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
On the floor there.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It was docky that was stepped on so many times
due to it existing there for so long. My dog
is potty trained, so I'm not sure why he pooped
in there. Perhaps the stench suggested he was allowed to
do his business from there, And to be fair, my
dad will pee in cups, seeing as it's just too
increate to stand up and walk about fifteen feet to
the bathroom down stairs. Why is he still living there
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if he's not even like it doesn't seem like him
and the mom are still married.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Could you imagine the smell? Dude, Oh, hiss and cups?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I don't blame my dog for mistaking the room for
a bathroom. Honestly, I do worry about mold hiding in
that room, though. Yeah, I think you have to get
your dad to therapy. Yeah, what's going very quickly. It's
like the fact that this has been going on for twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Years essential sign of depression if they're living in Yes,
absolutely and urine.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
My dad is a side gig working on people's fish tanks,
and naturally he set up one in his room. It
was a cute saltwater tank with some live coral and clownfish.
Over time, algae obstructed the view until the glass was
completely dark green. I hope they didn't suffer long. No
pet deserves to be neglected immediately after being acquired, but
I can't imagine his neglect would extend further if this
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tank had any sort of lenk. He absolutely would ignore
a leak if he managed to even notice. First of all,
to avoid doing any labor at home when he gets
time to relax. The real kicker to this is when
my brother's girlfriend gave us her old but still totally
nice mattress for my dad to replace the couch with,
and it's been rotting in the garage for at least
two months now, not even shielded with a plastic cover.
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At first, his excuse was that his room was too
full of randomly stored items of everyone, so it became
my mom and I's responsibility to move that stuff out
so that it was room for a bed. His excuse
today was that he didn't have any time. I get it,
time is not abundant, but my dude, you sit in
your room for at least three or four hours a day,
watching TV, on your phone or napping like truly, I
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think the solution like you need to somehow get him
some help.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
This is not this is a mental health crisis. I agree. Yeah,
this is not an issue of cleanliness, is not an
issue like hygiene. This is like something something something wrong. Yeah,
something's going wrong. Yes, And I can't imagine that your
dad shows up to his room like this and doesn't
show up to the rest of his life and the
rest of his relationships, including you, with the same amount
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of whatever is happening there.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I think there is a level of dirtiness that you know,
sometimes people are dirty, sometimes you have different standard of cleansliness.
But at this point it's gotten to this is.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, if there's poop on the floor, this is urine
in cups, if there's food rotting, something's going on. I
want to hear more context on, like what your guys related,
because I can't imagine him having any positive relationships in
his life if his room is like this. And I'm
not saying that is an insult. I'm saying no, it's
just like getting possible to have that for him.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, Mom, and I took a lot of stuff out
of your room as well to help you, but I'm
not touching that couch.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
If we took that cotch outside and burned it, I
think the oil would make it burn for eight magical days.
But he's not bothered by any of us, at least
not to my knowledge. He's seemingly not embarrassed either, but
I sure am when I bring home friends. One friend
even took a picture of the vacant room like it
was some not geo haabitat.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's like, wow, does they walk by?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's kind of rude. But the level of stank it
had rose into since yesterday is but prompted me to
write this. It's so sour and pungent. I can smell
it clearly at the top of the stairs and even
faintly in the kitchen when he came home, as odor
filled most of the upstairs up quickly, and with my
room across from his downstairs, my little sanctuary is being
a sort from the old essence of my father. He
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told me the catletter is to blame. No, it's not
the cat LITTERI honestly, did you think about the catletterer?
Did you take out the gallery?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It seems like it could be the.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
It's absolutely a human derived stench. So tell me Reddit
if there is something we can do. I'm not aware
of any mental illness he suffers from. Perhaps there is
one that he'll never go to the doctor's for a
diagnosis or go on medicine to treat it. We have
helped him clean his room to an extent, but that
should not be our responsibility for a grown man who
has previously held a janitorial position cleaning bathrooms for others,
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but comes home and neglects his own. By the way,
we would never neglect you if you join us live
every week toad three pmpst on YouTube, Facebook and TikTok.
Just tap her profile. But there is a little bit left.
I forgot to mention there's no windows in his room
to vent out the smell. Also, I know I made
jokes about the smell in the state of his room,
but I truly am worried and care about his well being.
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Otherwise I wouldn't be here seeking help. All people deserve
a clean place to sleep. He has no Sanctuary's auburn man.
I don't think he cares much what my mom and
I have to say. How can we break through and
convince him to clean regularly? Is this just his personality
or could there be an underlying cause? I think there
absolutely is an underlying cause. Oops.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Sorry, I don't think it's a personality trait to just
neglect yourself. I think that you know that stems from
I mean, if you're treating your room like that, I
can't imagine how you treat yourself internally.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, I just bought new expensive furniture and started a
war with a Karen.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Sometimes you got a battle to.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Get what you want, Ain't that right?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Sist?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Buckle up, it's a long one. So three and a
half years ago, my husband and I bought furniture from
a national chain we'll call Robert's Discount Furniture. We spent
well over four grand for two seats of couches, two chairs,
one automan, and one love seat. We also got their
oof pe Oof warranty valid for five years after every purchase.
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Every time we have called, it's a big hassle to
get any type of service. First, they delivered the wrong
piece for upstairs set. We ordered a sleeper sofa with
a chase lounge that matches the chair and attoman. Instead
of the sleeper sofa, we received a connecting part for
a sectional. I called their customer service no service line
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to request and exchange for the right part. Now, at
that point, I had worked in call center customer service
for over twenty six years at a different company. They
know how it goes.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
OBI is like, I know how it's supposed to go,
and that's not what I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
It's not working.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
When I keep pressing zero, they'd already have their chase lounge.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Trust me, I know good customer service and I know
how to speak the lingo. This was not good, by
the way. This comes from Lee roxy Mommy on the
r slash ok storytime subreddit. So I spoke to an
associate with an unusual ethnic name. Don't remember the exact name,
but let's call him Alvira. One, he threw my sales
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Assosia under the bus, saying she ordered the wrong part.
I assured him she did not. I was looking at
the invoice that described the correct part. Two. He said
he did not have the right part in stock, so
he was just going to send me a credit so
I could order a different item. I told him I
didn't want a different item. I wanted the part I
ordered that match the rest of the furniture I had.
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We went around and around that same circle for twenty
minutes until I had enough and hung up on him.
I made the trip back to the store. Our original
salesperson called. Ironically, she spoke to the same ethnic name, Elvirez.
He tried to give her the same spiel. Though she
sounded professional about it, her expressions told me she thought
he was as much as an idiot as I did.
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She did finally convince him to send the right part,
and three months later we had the complete set.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
He took some battling, but eventually you got it easy.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Over the three and a half years, we had the
recliner break on the downstairs couch and need to be
replaced twice, and the back of the jar fell off
and needed to be replaced. Always it was a hassle,
and always we had to fight to get the warranty honored.
Most recently, four months ago, the back fell off my
husband's side of the couch. He called for a warranty
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service and they asked for photos to be sent reasonably enough,
my company requires that too. He took several photos from
different angles and sent them to the email address they supplied.
Weeks go by, no response.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
It's probably Alvirs.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Again.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
After several more weeks go by, I called to follow up.
They said they were still waiting for photos. My husband
sent them a third time and c seed me on
the same email. I received the email just fine, So
I sent the photos as well. More weeks go by,
still no response. Can you sue?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I don't know if you can sue? But what specifically
are they waiting.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
For the back of their couch fell off?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, so they're waiting for a replacement on that because
they have a fire warranty. I don't know if you
I don't know. That is incredibly annoying, But I don't
know if you like, maybe.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Maybe just to cover all my bases. I took a
NOO set of photos with my laptop and sent them
from that device directly to the warranty company to be fair.
Shortly after we went on vacation for a week, we
came back, I visited the store at location again, spoke
with the same sales associate and she got her manager involved.
They emailed me my photos to their warranty liaison and
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at least got the warranty people to call us back
and schedule a technician to come out. That person took
one look at the couch and said it could not
be fixed.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
What it took months for you? Just say, I'm sorry, kid,
Do it fixed?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
That?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
H too bad? That looks like a you problem.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
He called the warranty hotline, gave his employee number and
said he could not fix it, then gave the phone
to my husband to arrange a replacement to be sent out,
and he left. That was a bad move. Hubby has
no patient for fools. The warranty is so she had
tried to say it was a mechanical defect and that
coverage expired after one year. So basically we were screwed.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
But we freaking know it's a five year warranty.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, no, Op knows how this goes. She can't lie
to us, can't this is the this is you literally
cannot lit.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
She's literally a customer service expert aficionado.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yes, my husband started cursing at him, so I took
over at this point in three weeks. I have done
customer service for that same other company for thirty years.
Let me tell you, when you cuss at a customer service,
they stopped listening to you. I was respectful but firm
that they were going to honor their oof p oof warranty.
It was either going to be fixed or replaced, and
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their own technician already said it could not be fixed.
After ten minutes of going around and around with him,
I said those immortal Karen words. I need to speak
to your manager, and there it is. Op was the
Karen all along.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
We didn't realize you were the hulk.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
She was the whole concerning You had.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
The Karen and SiGe you every step of the way.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
He put me on hold for seven minutes, came back
and said he was still waiting for a manager. After
being hold for another five minutes, he came back and
said his manager approved replacing the couch. It is scheduled
to be exchanged this Saturday. I'll believe it when I
see it. Yeah. One year later, you'll get the couch
and it'll be like, oh, actually, your warrants he expired today.
We can't give you the couch.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Oh sorry, you're gonna have to pay for that couch.
I remember the actually sending another like Chase.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
He's like, ah, this is not what I wanted.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Please just send me.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
The couch, please, I just want the couch.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Come on, that's it.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Edit not in any way at all. I only said
it was an ethnic name to explain why I remember
it so well when the sales associate was speaking to
the same customer, no service associate days later. In fact,
to those who only picked up on that part of
the story, I would ask you to examine your own opinions.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
He's like, I'm not You are rest at it too.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Y'all got some funny ideas about what it means to be.
Perhaps you need to look up the definition of that term. Here,
I will do it for you. A person who is
prejudiced against people on the basis of their membership in
a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is
a majority or marginalized. Never in the story or in
real life did I despair or have any presidents against
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him due to his right.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Plot A to the story is like I'm trying to
get a couch, and plot B's like, I'm not, guys, please.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Attitude is just her saying that she's not relevant. All right?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
So she's not right, guys, she's not.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
We've read it in the comments.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
She gave us a definition.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
She can she can't be.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
All right, we have an update. Is she gonna get
the couch?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I don't think so?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You think I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I don't think she's gonna get this couch. I think
she's tried so hard that like the universe can't give
it to her.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Now understandable, you know. Yeah? Also, why still deal with
this company?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Can?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Well? What can you do against a big company that
promised you all these things that you put four g's into?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Mm hmmmmmmm.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Updated Saturday came and Saturday went. No replacement couch, not,
of course not. My husband did show me a text
that came late on Friday saying they had a glitch
in their system and would not be able to make
the appointment. It was going on five months now to
get this latest issue resolved. Patience is really running thin.
Do you even have patience at this point?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah, I don't believe that you have anymore, which is
like fair, You're just like waiting, no patience, You're just waiting.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
They did finally bring a replacement, but no surprise to anyone,
they brought the less expensive love seat for the set,
not the couch. I specifically stated it was the couch
that broke and corrected the customer no service rep when
he repeated back the work order. It still came wrong.
And we will never come wrong. If you join us
live every weekday at three PMPSD, just taper profile tabs.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I think I would give up, which is probably what
they want, just to get no.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
But then they'd win.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, and then they win, And that's why OP can't
give up. Yeah, but Op has a lot more stamina
than me, because I think after I'm trying to return
a lot of stuff right now, Like I just have
a lot of returns to make, really, and it's been months.
It's been months. Like I bought something for my Halloween
costume that I never used. I bought something from Target
that I never used.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
I return stuff and it's just so much work. I
think that's how you get you know that. It was
like Amazon's like you can try and return it.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Okay, actually fun thing.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So I had to return something on Amazon and I did, like,
like I finally literally it's been a month. Finally did
like the return thing, and it was like, you don't
actually have to return this, We'll just refund you.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
That happened too with something amazing.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I don't need the thing. It's a bucket.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Apparently they don't need it either.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
With the something else here too. Yeah, We're always trying
to return stuff guys, so we can get out of it.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah. Sometimes sometimes you're good money.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Fortunately, the parts are irrechangeable, so my husband had them
take the backs off the new love seat and installed
on the broken couch. We are back in business. But
should not have taken almost six months to resolve this
issue and repeated contacts to get them to honor their warranty.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
It should have.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But ain't that the way the world works?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Ain't that how the world spins around the.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Sun and keeps on turning and your couch never comes Try?
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Well, I'll see that story, so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
You next time.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
My local Chinese restaurant wanted to close, our town refused
to let them.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
We need our wantunt, we need our orange chicken.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah. This is entitled people on the large Scale, and
it's two hilarious not to share. I live in a
small town population seven thousand roughly, and everyone is currently
divided over a Chinese restaurant. So my hometown, it's been
in the local news and Australia's national news. That's how
crazy people are getting.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
By the way, this comes from game NERD ninety three
on the ok Storytime Separateday, so I'm going to try
to keep the short back. In May of this year,
a local Chinese restaurant owner informed the local club he
was renting kitchen space from that he wanted to retire,
gave them his resignation, stating his last operating day would
be the end of June. Q The local Karens and
Kevin's in mass One local who will call Big Kevin,
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another local will call Mega Karen, and they decided they
were going to protest against the closing and force the
club to keep the restaurant open.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I wonder what these people look like I don't.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Know, but I do think it's really funny as that
owner to be like so good yeah that everyone.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
I was like, no, can't do this to us.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
This poor man has been running the restaurant for thirty
years without break. I just wanted to retire peacefully. But no,
Mega Karen started a petition, while Big Karen organized a protest.
Now our third major player in this year, we shall
call the Wicked Witch. The Wicked Witch working in the
Shadows starts leaking to the local paper that said restaurant
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owner is being forced out by the club, false allegation.
The club gives their first an only statement about the situation,
stating that the restaurant owner retired and even produced his
retirement paperwork for proof. At this point, the National News
comes into it and does an interview with restaurant owner,
who states on the news he wants to retire.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Let the guy retire.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Guys, I'm coming here on the news to say I
just want to rest please. You would think that would
be the end of it, but no, Mega Karen gets
twelve hundred or so signatures on her petition, which he
adds to the club. The club's lawyer calls it invalid
due to over nine hundred of the signatures not being
filled in properly signature plus printed name plus club membership
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number or phone number needed by each person to make
it valid, or same person sign multiple petition slots. So
Mega Karen starts a new petition which only gets seventy
four signature.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I see. Oh, so they probably just like pulled names
from Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
They would just make it fake and thing. Meanwhile, Big
Kevin organizes a protest he doesn't show up for, nor
does anyone else. The club then hosts a meeting for
all club members, members of the general public, and the
club's board to discuss what is going on, but again
for all the complaints, no one shows up. Now Mega
Karen and Big Kevin are demanding that a new meeting
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be held, the club's general manager be fired, and the
club's board be disbanded and a new board elected. These
people are very they love their Chinese food.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
A lot, and with this all happening, I think the
Wicked Witch has like something she can win out of
this plotting.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah. The Wicked Witch then once again goes to the
newspaper with the statement from the restaurant owner. The restaurant
has now been closed for over a month, and states
that now the club has renovated the restaurant and as
plans to start a new restaurant, they the old restaurant
would considered renting the space again. Before you question why
the space wasn't renovated before this point, it was part
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of the Chinese restaurant's agreement that they would maintain and
renovate the space as they saw fit, as stated by
the club in their public statement, and she tells the
paper that the whole reason the Chinese restaurant left wasn't
because they wanted to retire, but because the rent increased
from the two hundred and eighty five dollars a week
they have paid for twenty eight years to three hundred
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and eighty five dollars a week last year and then
four hundred and eighty five dollars a week this year
for restaurant space, when other local restaurants are paying twenty
five hundred dollars a week plus for the same or
smaller places. So Big, Kevin Megacaren and a ton of
other locals were all shocked at the cost of rent,
which they are now all saying should have been kept
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at the two hundred and eighty five dollars to encourage
the restaurant to stay, even though it meant likely closing
the club since they were struggling to afford running costs.
So basically, now they find out that the club. It
was an increasing rent for the Chinese restaurant, but it
seems like it was considerably less than any other club
was doing, Like other clubs were doing twenty five hundred,
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where whereas this club was like four hundred.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah, got it, got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
The club even broke down their running costs to show
the members and locals how expensive it is to keep
the place open. But still not good enough. I can't
with this town anymore.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
And there are some relevant comments.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Do you come out of retirement and say I will
work Tuesdays and Thursdays for you people, you guys, and
increase them out the prices? Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
If you guys will pay me double the amount, I'll
come back. You.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
You you take what you know, like you kind of
work off of this fervor for your food and you
take advantage of it.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Yeah yeah yeah, And the biggest supporters. You can do
a subscription that pays for the or thing, and then
you don't even have to worry about monthly thing. You
just worry about keeping everything else up. You know what
you do, you get you get a karate junior.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Oh well, I was gonna say, you uh.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Padawan a su chef.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, yeah, you become a mentor and train someone into
becoming the new Chinese restaurant. That's not what I was say,
but I was like, my idea was you become a
personal chef m just one day a week. You send
them over like for double the amount that they would
have had Toby at the restaurant. You send them over
some food.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
There we go. If you're free to it, if you're if.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
You're if you have free town, or you train someone
relevant comments Sasame snapped me in half, says, so many
people craving for a succulent Chinese meal, it seems. Opie
says there is a second Chinese restaurant in town, which
makes this even funnier.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Probably not as good, though that is good.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Opie shares a link to the news report of the situation,
The National News story Opie describing what the club is
to non Aussies. A club is basically a fancy establishment
which usually has a huge large rooms for events like funerals,
birthday parties, et cetera, a few bars for buying drinks,
gambling area, and a restaurant. It's basically where you go
for a formal night out. It's a huge thing.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
Yeah, idea, what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Oh okay, it's ilub like.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
All of my club. It's just like a yeah, it's
kind of what they explained. But there's like you can
go get food and sometimes. Yeah, it's just a kind
of a community place. But both my grandparents were part
of a club. Wow, Slash one is still part of
the club. The club couldn't do anything to keep him
from leaving. And there is another update. So our Big Kevin,
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if you remember from the original post, had organized a protest.
He didn't show up to. Well, ladies, gentlemen, and them's.
He has now organized a meeting for October thirty first
for all paying members of the club. Taken directly from
the posters around town and his Facebook post. This meeting
is to discuss the removal of the president and board
of directors and elect an interim board to move forward
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with plans to reinstate Danny's kitchen to catering.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Mmm, I think the Wicked Witch is going to be
reinstated as something.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
I think she's Yeah, she's gonna get back in there.
I can't with these people. Honestly, when this meeting takes place,
the new restaurant will be open in the club, all
cards on the table. I do have a job in
the new kitchen, so I'll be the first to admit
I could be looking at this with bias. However, the
owner of Danny's did retire, and I don't think a
vote overturns retirement. If they got enough votes, then I
suppose an offer could be made him, but he can't
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be forced back. Yeah, and we would never force you
to join us live every weekday at three PMPSD on YouTube,
but we would love you too.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Just top our profile and if you don't, we might
as well force you, and.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Then we'll force you. I also found out that the
owner tried to train multiple people to take over, but
every time the same people complaining now putting complaints to
the club about the quality of the food. Oh my god,
the guy's like I tried, I tried to find someone else.
You guys hated them all, So I'm just no way
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to please these people. Honestly, the club's general manager is
hoping that once the new restaurant opens, people will enjoy
the food and move on from Danny's. But for now,
I will update you again either on the night of
the thirty first or on the first of November, of
what happens with this meeting, and that is the end
of that story.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
If Karen stopped paying my parents' rent, so we victored her, you.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Don't pay, you know. Stay backstory.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
My parents used to own a house on big land.
When my older siblings went away for college, the house
felt too big for our needs, so my parents decided
to sell the house, but not all the land. They
built a smaller house on the part of the land
they didn't sell. A few years after, we moved to
a city two hours away and kept the house as
a place go to during the summer. My parents decided
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to rent the house as it was well located and
had a really nice view. Renting meant that they could
use the money towards the mortgage and Texas. By the way,
this comes from Alana on the r slash Okay storytime subreddit.
So enters our Karen.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
And she always comes.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Karen and her boyfriend rented the place so she could
be closer to her work. From the start, my dad
made it clear the place was for rent and my
parents planned on living in that house after retiring. At
that time, both of them planned to work for at
least another twenty plus years, So you got that twenty years.
That's a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
They would of course notify Karen and events when they
wanted to take the house back, so she would have
plenty of time to find a new place. In return,
they asked that she notified them in advance should she
wish to move out, so they could find a new renter.
The least also stated that my parents would have some
of their things in a locked storage in the basement
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as well as in a shed on the property, and
that they would always call Karen before dropping by to
get some things out of storage, which was in the
basement and connected to by the garage, so they wouldn't
even diserb Karen. So they would notify them in advancement. Yeah,
let them not. For a few years, Karen was an
okay renter. She paid the rent through a check each month.
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She smoked inside and did not take care of the land,
but my dad didn't make a fuss about it. Real
trouble started around twelve years. Every few months, Karen checks
would bounce.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Back honestly, really quick. For trouble to start after twelve
years with one renter.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Like she was chilled for twelve years. I've never a
lease that long.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yeah, well, I don't even know if that they probably was,
like yeah, they were unit renewed every year.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
But like for I don't know, I'm pretty good deal,
Pretty good to bounce back here.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:09):
Yeah, but the smoking inside and not take care of the.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Land, no, not great.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
But also I mean do we necessarily take care like
I don't know if it's necessary to smoking some no, no, no,
but like the land, like that's not our job.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
Oh yeah yeah yeah, agreed.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Yeah, Like I feel like usually land stuff, especially if
it's like a big like a lot of land, that
would be up to the landlord to take care of.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
True.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
True.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
My dad would call her to ask about it. Karen
would profusely apologize and rectify the situation. Then it became
every other month until it was every month. Finally my
dad had enough and called her about the lease and
the rent. During the call, Karen argued that since she
had been paying rent for the past twelve years, their
house was now hers.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
I don't think that's how that works.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
Of course, that's how it works.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
My dad was shocked since that came out of nowhere.
We tried to explain to her that she was renting
the place like the hair had agreed on since the beginning.
Karen went on an itch fit about how she had
paid so much over the years and she was the
only one living there and taking care of the place,
which she was not at all, Therefore it should be hers.
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She threatened to take my dad to court. Bring it.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Bring it.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
They probably got a lot of money if they have
two houses.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
Two houses running one out. Dude, all the money that
got from your rent, they're just going to put towards
a lawyer. Yeah, that was all extra money for this situation.
Now where I live, there are many laws which protects
the renter, and it can be a real itch to
deal with when you have a nasty renter. My dad
hired a lawyer to make sure everything was in order.
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After a meeting with Karen where the lawyer was present,
she realized she didn't have much of a case, since
all the PaperWorks concerning the house was in my dad's
name and the original lease clearly stated that it was
a rental. My dad offered her to stop renting should
she wish to after the whole debacle, but she wanted
to stay in the house. It made her sign a
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new lease where it stated again that this was a
rental and should she not pay or cause trouble again,
my dad would give her the shortest possible notice of
eviction allowed by the law. Karen is still renting the
house after almost twenty years. My parents are not close
to retiring yet. Do hope it won't turn into a
crap show when they decide to take it back? The
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house and we have an edits long edits any thoughts.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Man, it's just see, I feel like they'll be fine.
It might take you know, it might take some time,
but I think they have all the legal stuff in order.
Speaker 3 (50:41):
Facts. I feel like we're good renters, Yeah, I think so.
As a renter, I feel like I'm as a renter.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
I feel like we're doing great job.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
We're pretty great.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Honestly, I feel like as renters they should.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
Lower a rent. Oh honestly, dang ye, because we're so good.
So we're so good. We're just such good, right, every
time we pay on time, we should get like, yeah,
three dollars dollars off every time.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
Edit.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
The question why did your dad let her sign a
new lease comes up a lot in the comments. I
will say what I answered throughout the comments. I don't
have the slightest clue why he would do that. As
I was a kid much younger when this happened, I
wasn't kept in the loop much. It was also not
the reaction I would expect my dad to have, since
he is respectful to others and expects the same in return.
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I do know the legal actions he took when she
threatened to take him to court did protect himself and
many future problems that might arise. I do appreciate all
the concerns and the advice, although I do think my
dad had a good reason to keep her as a
tenant from hell after everything that went down.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
Now we got an update, man man oh man, So
what was the lease change?
Speaker 3 (51:46):
I don't know. It sounds like OPE wasn't in the
loop with all the lease changes. I believe he probably
wrote in a new lease saying, hey, as a reminder
and also putting in their new like you will get
the shortest eviction notice. If this happened again, he probably
replaced that gotcha Yeah, up dirt you. Since the beginning,
there was a mutual agreement between Karen and my parents
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that they would both give a six months notice before
she moved out or my parents would like to take
back the house. Last week of June, my dad received
a phone call from a representative of Karen. Due to
financial circumstances, she was giving a month's notice before moving out.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
It was the six month thing in the least. Oh yeah,
I'm assuming it was. My parents were surprised by the
short notice, but didn't really mind it as they were
looking forward to taking back the place.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
I guess it's better than just like her staying there.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Yeah, they might lose some money, but at least they
it's it's available, then she's gone.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Last week July, Karen was set to move out, but
she asked for a week extension as she couldn't find
anybody to help her move. My parents agreed. She was
now set to move out by August to fourth, with
the car all loaded up the essentials dinnerware and cutlery,
small furniture. We left for our first trip to the house.
The plan was to look at the state of the place,
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clean up a little bit, and take measurements for remodeling.
My parents are planning. As we get to the place,
we noticed a small sign in the driveway to advertise
for a garage cell at the house. We figured she
forgot to take it down. We were wrong. As we
get to the house, we can see boxes and furniture
through the windows queue to the shocked pikachuu phace as
she answered the door. Turns out she had a moved
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yet and meant to call my dad and let them know,
but of course she never did. She clearly didn't expect
us to drop by so soon after her supposed moving day.
My parents were both extremely pissed, but they gave her
an additional week and expectations of payment for the weeks
she overstayed. August eighteenth, my parents received the confirmation that
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she left the week she was supposed to. They had
a neighbor drop by to make sure her things were
really gone, but we didn't have time to make the
trip until a week after. We found the place in
much better shape than we expected. Of course, the place
is not in a perfect condition, as it clearly has
the wear and tear of a place that has been
lived than for years. It still needs a good cleanup,
some fresh paint in most parts of the room, and
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a lot of work on the land. There's also plans
of remodeling a bit to make an additional room on
the first floor so my parents don't have to go
up the stairs all the time, and you could join
us all the time. We go live on YouTube every
weekday at three PMPSD.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
Just tap our profile, have it. This is good, This
is good.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
I think everything's working out.
Speaker 3 (54:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
I mean you really only had to deal with the
problems for a couple months out of twelve years with
this renter. I think that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
Not too bad. We've seen worse. Yeah, Oh my gosh,
way worse. Turning a new leaf over. So this ends
this whole chapter. My parents got the summer House back
years before they expected, and although the renter was difficult
until the end, she mostly went away without all the
trouble we had expected. My parents are happy to take
back the place and are looking forward to all the
projects they have for it. They have been there almost
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every week to clean out and sort through the things
we had sorted there. My dad did a fresh coat
of paint in some of the rooms, and they are
looking for furniture. My brother went once and started to
clear some of the things of the trees and get
back the awesome view we used to have from the kitchen.
My dad bought an old lawn tractor to help with
the yard work and is excited like a little boy
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with a new shining toy. We'd like to get the
place cleaned and ready to hopefully spend Christmas camping there,
as we most likely won't have a lot of furniture
there yet. So that was good, every right, everything was great?
End well, yeah, exactly cool. That wasn't too bad, No,
I need to tell my landlord I'm moving out. But
she's my stepmom my twenty four female. Stepmom sixty two
female has been in my life since I was fourteen.
She met my dad fifty four male in twenty twelve
and they started dating. Stepmom was married to another man
at the time, but it was mostly a marriage of convenience.
He bought her a new house, paid off her two
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family homes, bought her four cars, did any remodeling slash
upkeep at her home, and fixed anything that broke. He
passed in twenty twenty. She and my dad then went
on to Mary in twenty twenty one. Since I was
living with my dad at the time, they gave me
the option to move into my stepmom's house with them.
I couldn't afford to live on my own at that
point in my life, so I was super grateful and
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felt blessed. Not long after, things went down a hill.
I always do?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Is that always doing? Reddit?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
By the way, this comes from Anxious Seal sixty sixty
four on the Okay Storytime subured it so I was
paying to inhabit the home. A small portion of rent
quote unquote paid off house as well as the utilities.
I wasn't mad about paying to live there. I expected
it and was still appreciative. However, my stepmom started treating
me like an on call cook and made and again,
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oh he is paying rent. I was to not only
cook and clean, but she nitpicked everything and it was
never good enough. I also worked full time. My step
mom doesn't work, and my dad works part time, so
sometimes after working a full day at work, I'd have
to come home to cook and clean. I was exhausted
and quickly becoming burnt out. After many arguments in which
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it was my parents versus me, where I was constantly
gas lit, I ended up having a small breakdown. My
birth mother was abusive, so it was a triggering situation
for me, and I moved out to some apartments. Our
relationship improved when I was no longer under her roof.
Oh with the step mom, okay, which I think is
a good I think that's the current situation. She moved out, Yeah,
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which I think is the best solution here, because it is.
It's not especially if you're paying rent to them. It's
not fair for them to treat you like the maid
slash cook.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, especially if like you never agreed. Yeah, you never
heard that take on that responsibility.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Eight months later, the ceiling in my apartment collapsed due
to a leak from the upstairs neighbor after being ignored slash,
not taken seriously by maintenance for months.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh there was mold.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And asbestos everywhere. The apartment stunk. The ac had went out.
I was there with my two kittens, ugh and concern
for our health and safety. So I planned to break
the lease and move. This is where my stepmom comes
back in.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So this was the apartment. Oh I see. I was like,
what happened with the mold? But the ceiling collapsed. That
was mold, which in that case they absolutely should have proved.
Your landlord should have provided you with another place to
live while I was being fixed. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, that seems right. One of her.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Family homes, three bedroom, one bath, also located in the
worst part of town, was empty, and she offered to
rent it to me for three fifty a month.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm with that.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Sheep, three bedrooms, one bath, since were family. I walked
through the house. It was disgusting. Oh, that's previous tenant
was her cousin, who was not only a smoker, but
elderly and on fixed income, so we never cleaned and
couldn't afford to have someone clean the home. It reeked
of sig smoke, walls, floors, appliances were yellow due to
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nicotine staining. There were roaches everywhere. Also, I agreed to
move in since it was cheap rent and I needed
somewhere to go. But before I could, she informed me
I would be paying five fifty a month as opposed
to the three fifty. She just switch it up, you
can switch it up. I would be responsible Mingming says,
three bedroom, one bath, and a demon in the cabinet.
I would be responsible for the cleaning of the home.
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My apartment knew I was leaving and I didn't have
any other options, so I accepted. I spent so much
of my own money to clean the home and bomb
slash spray for pests. It took me nearly a year
to be completely rid of roaches and get things clean
enough to where my skin wouldn't crawl.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh my god, I mean with that much effort and
that much money, I feel like you could have just
found another place.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, Honestly, this home was also built in the fifties
and probably hasn't seen any sort of remodel since the seventies.
No big deal, just figured I'd mentioned this isn't the
nicest home and it's in a terrible part of town.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Two years.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I've been here for two years now. We've never wrote
up or signed an official lease, but I pay her
on the first of every month and act as a tenant.
The rent has gone up twice. I understand this economy
is not fit for anything inexpensive, but I felt scammed
as this is my family.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes, increased that standard. She's like, Mom, I'm your daughter.
What do you Mom?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I thought you wanted roommates. In the past six months,
I have been accused of stealing money. I have had
to house people slush pets at her will with no
compensation or heads up. And just recently, the AC went
out and I paid for the repair since she was
not present at the time of the repair. When I
sent her a cop give the bill and called to
ask if it would be deductive from rent, she lost
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it on me and basically said, as a landlord in Tennessee,
I am not required to have functioning AC in my rental,
no matter how hot it is. Was I upset about
covering the repair. I was heard how she was treating me.
I'm her family and she couldn't care less if I'm
living in her ninety degree house with my cats. A
few days later, she was charged one hundred and twenty
five dollars by her home insurance as a deductible for
the repair, and she sent it to me upset she
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had to pay for it paid for what the repair
for the home insurance and informed me she would be
canceling her home owners insurance and if something broke or
went wrong, we just have to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Move out. Literally, you have to get out of there.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I took this as I'd have to deal with it now.
I found an apartment in a nicer part of town
that is closer to my job for only two hundred
dollars more than she charges me a month.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I am truly grateful for the opportunity to live in
this home and rent from her, but I'm ready for
our relationship to be just mother daughter again. This land
one more tenant relationship does nothing but stress me out
and make me feel like I'm constantly on eggshells or
in survival mode because if I don't comply with what
she wants. This is her home, and she can rip
the rug out from under me, she said at one point,
if I was still in his home when she passed,
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she would leave it to me. But honestly, I think
by peace of mind is more important.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Absolutely, do you want that house?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah? Do you even want that house?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
It's gross. I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Much more I can take being in this position. I
just don't know how to tell her I'm leaving without
her being upset. All my friends are saying to give
her no notice and simply tell her once I'm gone.
But I have a big heart, and I worry about
others feelings and I don't want her feeling blindsided and betrayed.
But she's she does not care about you.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, I think if you want a relationship with her,
and it seems like it does want a relationship, it
does she don't.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I guess in that last part, I don't I.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Want a mother daughter relationship. Now, if you want a
mother daughter relationship, take the higher road and just tell her, like.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Hey, I'm moving out, but like make sure you have
that place all in order. Yeah, like that you have
the such strategy. But we would never blindside or betray
you if you join us live every WEEKDA have three
impst on YouTube, TikTok and Facebook. Just at her profile
and there is a little bit left. But I yeah,
I think I think maybe I don't know what's like
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the normal normal thirty days in advance or something.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think, well, I think roughly like.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
A month in advance. Just say, hey, I have this
place that I'm going to be moving into. I wanted
to let you know.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Actually legally it depends on the contract, but there's no.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
There's no contract.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So this question just the question of like what would
feel like courtesy to your yeah parent that you want
to have a relationship with.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, any advice on how to approach the situation and
how I should tell her I'm leaving again, no lead
slash contract. I've been here two years with mail bills
coming to this house, so technically I don't owe her
a notice, but I don't want it backfiring if I
leave and spring it on her. And just so torn,
any advice is appreciated.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm confused why you're torn, Like, is, why is is
it a mean or a bad thing? Yeah, to move
to a different location.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You're literally just moving out you again, signed literally no lease,
people move if you want to do the easiest thing.
It's just like thirty days in advance.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, that's what Eleanna is saying. A contract is generally
month to month with the lease.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, so I think that's that's what you do.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
My roommate came out of the bathroom with my mom.
She was, you know, she was helping him urinate or something.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I was gonna say she was helping him with the plumbing. No, like,
that's that's as excuse.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He's like pipe. I Mail twenty two am in Atlanta
from a higher study in medicine. I'm staying in the
rent with one of my seniors when my mom, female
forty one, came unexpectedly to give me a surprise on
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my birthday. So I am a surprise on your all right.
I was glad as it was a holiday that day,
so me, mom, and my roommate Mail twenty five went
around the city and had a great day. However, her
flight back for home got delayed by more than six hours,
and Mom discusses it with dad over and decided to
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stay with us and catch the flight the next day.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
No, no, there's a dad in the picture.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But but in our room. It was only one single bed,
and since the trip of mom and her stay was unplanned,
she slept with me. By the way, this comes from
you okay gap six eighty four on the r okay
storytime subreddit. So quite normal till right here, right, Yeah,
we're chilling. We're chilling, We're good. Wrong, Yes, it was still.
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I woke up at around five in the morning. My
mom had a habit of getting up early in the morning,
taking bath and doing our housework right in the morning. However,
being in the hostel, especially on holidays, we friends were
habitual to getting up late, so I was not surprised
to find my mom missing from the bed, assuming that
she may be in the bathroom roaming outside for a change.
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But my roommate was also missing from his bed.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, no, make it stop.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
As I was wondering where he might be, Mom came
from the bathroom having only a towel wrapped around her body,
and it was a bit surprised to see me away.
I was about to ask her if she had seen
my roommate when he suddenly appeared from behind her from
the bathroom and.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He said, call me baba.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
He was also in his towel only.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Why, dude, I'm upset, says Lol.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Roommate upgrades a step down.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It seems like also they don't live in the same room.
The roommate in op right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Okay, this is wild. I mean, how do you excuse that?
How you were like, she took a shower and then
I came in, but then the water was it working?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I thought I was helping her?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Sorry, When I asked her about it, she said that
the shower was broke and was water was not turning off,
so he was just trying to help.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I bet he was.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, I bet he was helping a lot. I didn't
talk much about it, but I still can't believe that
it was shower only. She was fixing the shower ahead
and needed to give him head. It's too far. I
hadn't talked much about it, but I still can't believe
that it was shower only. It was update number one.
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Derty says, in a towel. In a towel, Yeah, you
don't want to get me. You don't want to get
all wet helping with the water, so you put on
a towel. Exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Everyone was in a towel.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Everyone was fine. Update number one. I confronted my mom
about her relationship with my roommate. I know that people
are going to judge me wrong after reading this post,
but I did not understand what I was trying to
do and what happened. Everyone is asking me to confront
my mom, so I confronted her a few hours ago.
Here is my mom's confrontation. Are you ready for her?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Do you think that she's gonna lie or do you
think that she's gonna come come clean?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I think she's gonna lie, all right, phew. I looked
around the house to see where my mom might be
and was relieved to see that she was lying on
the couch. She looked tired and had a T shirt
and trousers on. She was awake when I went to her.
What was that? Why are you doing all this crap
with that guy? Do you think I'm a fool? I
immediately spoke as I saw her, I am sorry the
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dialogue on this. I am sorry. She replied, a hint
of sadness in her voice. I'm sorry, I'm sorry my son.
I told her that he's like my age, he's my housemate.
There was a hint of anger sadness in hers and
a hint of anger. And me and Mom then talked
for an hour in that couch. We talked about a
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number of things. She talked about how she was depressed
and spicy sleep, frustrated. I was shocked when she told
me that she and my father barely ever had spicy sleep.
She told me about how she longed for some romance
and love in her life. Then she talked about Pete.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Pete, who she just met like yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Pete, it's a new fan love. She talked about how
sweet and understanding Pete was. I could sense that they
had both grown really close to each other in the
last twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It wasn't longer. Am I mistaken?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I don't know how long was it? This is so yeah,
why is she.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Telling him everything? She's like your father and I don't
sleep together anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, let me tell you about our sleep history.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Let me teach who some twenty one, twenty five, twenty five.
He loves me like a man.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
He kisses the nape.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Of my neck, sweetly caresses it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He teaches me, he treats me like a woman and
a queen. A queen all right. She then surprised me
by asking me for permission to spend time with him. No,
she reasoned with me during our conversation, telling me that
she would anyway only be in at Lantern for one
day and she wanted at least this short time here
to be pleasant. No, bro, no, your mom's just like
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so unapologetically, like, actually, I don't have spicy sleep with
your dad, and I want to have spicy sleep with
your roommate. May can't you give that to me? I
want my stay here to be pleasant.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
She's like, Oki, my dad cheatth on your father?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Is that all right with you? Can you sign on
the dotted line with this pen? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Thank you very much? Yo ya, this is sad. She's like,
I'll bribe you with money if you don't tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
This is wild. Not only are you she's like caught
red handed sitting on your father, but she's like, is
it cool if I cheat on your father? Yeah? Ming
Ming says. All the hints makes me think the story
is fake. Eloe, Yeah, I don't know what he was
trying to do with the hint. It's like she had
as send this in her voice. I had a hint
to bango, okay. I was a bit taken aback by
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her bluntness. She promised me that she would never do
anything like this in India and will be faithful to
my dad in India. You to nervousness. I told her
then that I didn't care about what she did in
her personal life and she was free to do whatever
she liked. I told her that I just wanted her
to be happy. It was hard for me to talk
directly about Pete with her. I didn't know how to
approach it. The whole thing was awkward and embarrassing from me.
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You seem like quite quick to just like throw your dad.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, I wonder why you don't want to tell your dad.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Update number two. Later in the day, I got a
call from Pete. He asked me for lunch. During lunch,
she confessed that he had developed feeling for my mom
since her last visit, and they were talking since her
last visit.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So they have this is a there's a plot occasions.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
He started to tell me how he really cared about
my mom and how he genuinely had feelings for her.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's like me and your mom have been talking and.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Me and your mom have gotten it going on.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
We love each other.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
It was hard for me to listen to Pete over lunch.
I was embarrassed, a bit angry, and a part of
me felt humiliated, but throughout the conversation I remained calm.
Since he was behaving in such a mature manner and
was being so respectful, I thought that the least I
could do was also be respectful. I also believed Pete.
He had never lied to me about anything, and we
had become friends over the past few months. I had
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no reason not to believe him. I did lunch with
him by telling him what I had told my mom before,
that what she did in her life was none of
my business. I told him that I was cool with him.
It kind of is your business.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Again, Yeah, I mean, like, it's your mom and your roommate, so.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
You have every right to be angry, and then also
that your mom is just openly cheating on your father.
After that lunch, everything changed. Pete and Mom now just
didn't care whether I watched them or what I thought
about their relationship. They didn't try to hide that they
were really into each other. They would hold hands and
now it seemed that they were in love. But she
never gave me the impression that Pete and her were
having spicy sleep, but it was obvious that they were
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pissing and at least feeling each other up. When I
was not around, I could see the uncontrollable lust in
Pete's eyes. He get it Mom. Even though there was
significant age gap between them, I could tell he found
her very attractive. Mom, too, seemed to be really into Pete.
I could never have thought that one day I would
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see my own mom with another man, and that too
a white man like Pete. I could never have imagined
my Indian mother with a white lover. It was all
just so tab What.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
What a segue?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
If you want to hear about more taboos consistently every
single day, you could join us YouTube live here on YouTube, here,
on Facebook, on Twitch, on TikTok every week day at
three pm. Just have our probes tab it. My mom
still kept in touch with my father on the phone.
Once I saw her talk to him on the phone
and Pete was right there sitting next to her listening
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to their conversation in the living room. Of course, no
one in India, including my father, had any idea about
what was going on here in Atlanta between Pete and
my mom.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
But are you just gonna like, I don't know, I'm confused.
Are you just gonna let that keep going? Like you're
not gonna be like mom, you need to tell dad
or I will nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And the fact that you're like, they're just like going
at it, They're just like touching each other, fingling each
other up in front of you and just have no
regard that this is such a wild situation for you,
and you're just like, you.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Know, I'm not it.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'ment with ming ming. This sounds like smutplot. I don't
know if this is real.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's pretty much says go after Pete's mom.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Honestly, and eye for an eye in this situation, and
eye for an eye it works. Yeah, Yeah, this is crazy. Man,
Oh man, I don't do you guys believe this is true.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Dad's room reeks so bad it's probably a health hazard.
How do we convince him to clean up? Hey, all,
my sixty one male dad sleeps in his own room downstairs.
Ever since my mom, sixty three female, caught him cheating.
That's another story.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I want to read that story.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yeah, and the state of his room has declined in
the almost twenty years since that event. Oh twenty years.
You're still living with your mom for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, like maybe it was like a like a generation
like we don't divorce type situation, but we're just gonna
co inhabit date. That's great, goabdate.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The exposition to my problem is rather long, but a
fun read, so if you'd like to skip, just search
for the next paragraph. He always neglected personal hygiene, but
it wasn't always as rancid as it's come to be.
By the way, this comes from JCJC on the Okay
storytime separed it. So it was two thousand and eight
when he was exiled to the room, and I remember
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him bringing the family couch in there to use for sleeping.
I suppose we figured he would get a mattress eventually
to replace the couch. But that same couch is still
in there today twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Okay, it's not twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
That couch was probably bought in two thousand, twenty four
years later. What twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Oh, couch was probably bought in two thousand and eight
when he moved into It was two.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Thousand and eight when he exiled to that room. But
they're saying the couch has been there.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh, okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's older than a lot of my friends, and he's
sleeping on it. It's never been washed since he brought
it into the cave, not once. Granted, he he isn't
sleeping directly on the couch raw. He's got some sheets,
but they aren't fitted couch sheets. They're bed sheets.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
He's like, they're not raw, dog in it.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, he's not just touching the couch. I just know
those sheets are slipping off the couch regularly, and the
couch being is unearthed, getting a fresh new layer of
oil and grime from the day's activities. I'm actually baffled
that his back still works, since that couch isn't really
that comfy. I wonder if he's forgotten the pleasure of
how a bed feels to lie on.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You don't remember.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's like I've forgotten the soft caress of my bed. Anyway,
he told me today he washes his sheets about every eight.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Weeks two months.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
No, that's nasty. However, knowing him, he's definitely shaving a
few weeks off that estimate, so it doesn't sound as bad.
Last time I looked at his pillow, it add reddish
brown stains blood and carried a yellow hue oil. He
has eggzma and can be prone to little sores bleeding,
I suppose, but I think sleeping on something NERGYL would
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enjoy isn't a great situation when you have skin issues. Also,
it doesn't help that when he gets home he fries
food in a bunch of butter with garlic and onion
and brings that into his room ew and lets it rot.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
A Why what does that mean? What do you mean
you're letting it rot?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Like, of course, the two most pungent ingredients are his favorite,
and I love garlic and onion myself, But man, just
bring the dishes up after you're done, for goodness sake.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
But his guy's living like the bachelor life.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I think he only sometimes showers in the morning. Really
adds to the ambiance of it all. I know a
lot of people shower in the morning, but I think
that doesn't work well for him when he comes home
from work all sweaty. My mom showers in the morning
as well, but her room is not accessible and she's
overall much more hygienic. I am a morning shower.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm you do two? I do two showers, one or
the first one in the morning, I clean with soap,
and at night I just wet my body because it
helps me go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I do morning shower unless I've done some sort of
physical activity, like after I go climbing, I'll just do
a little soap soap because I got a lot chocolm. Anyway,
moving on from the couch, the rest of the room
is declining as well. The floor as this dark green
carpet that gets vacuum maybe twice a year, usually by
my mom. By the way, Oh funny story, I saw
brown patties.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
On the floor there.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It was docky that was stepped on so many times
due to it existing there for so long. My dog
is potty trained, so I'm not sure why he pooped
in there. Perhaps the stench suggested he was allowed to
do his business from there, And to be fair, my
dad will pee in cups, seeing as it's just too
increate to stand up and walk about fifteen feet to
the bathroom down stairs. Why is he still living there
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if he's not even like it doesn't seem like him
and the mom are still married.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Could you imagine the smell? Dude, Oh, hiss and cups?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I don't blame my dog for mistaking the room for
a bathroom. Honestly, I do worry about mold hiding in
that room, though. Yeah, I think you have to get
your dad to therapy. Yeah, what's going very quickly. It's
like the fact that this has been going on for twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Years essential sign of depression if they're living in Yes,
absolutely and urine.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
My dad is a side gig working on people's fish tanks,
and naturally he set up one in his room. It
was a cute saltwater tank with some live coral and clownfish.
Over time, algae obstructed the view until the glass was
completely dark green. I hope they didn't suffer long. No
pet deserves to be neglected immediately after being acquired, but
I can't imagine his neglect would extend further if this
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tank had any sort of lenk. He absolutely would ignore
a leak if he managed to even notice. First of all,
to avoid doing any labor at home when he gets
time to relax. The real kicker to this is when
my brother's girlfriend gave us her old but still totally
nice mattress for my dad to replace the couch with,
and it's been rotting in the garage for at least
two months now, not even shielded with a plastic cover.
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At first, his excuse was that his room was too
full of randomly stored items of everyone, so it became
my mom and I's responsibility to move that stuff out
so that it was room for a bed. His excuse
today was that he didn't have any time. I get it,
time is not abundant, but my dude, you sit in
your room for at least three or four hours a day,
watching TV, on your phone or napping like truly, I
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think the solution like you need to somehow get him
some help.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
This is not this is a mental health crisis. I agree. Yeah,
this is not an issue of cleanliness, is not an
issue like hygiene. This is like something something something wrong. Yeah,
something's going wrong. Yes, And I can't imagine that your
dad shows up to his room like this and doesn't
show up to the rest of his life and the
rest of his relationships, including you, with the same amount
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of whatever is happening there.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I think there is a level of dirtiness that you know,
sometimes people are dirty, sometimes you have different standard of cleansliness.
But at this point it's gotten to this is.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, if there's poop on the floor, this is urine
in cups, if there's food rotting, something's going on. I
want to hear more context on, like what your guys related,
because I can't imagine him having any positive relationships in
his life if his room is like this. And I'm
not saying that is an insult. I'm saying no, it's
just like getting possible to have that for him.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, Mom, and I took a lot of stuff out
of your room as well to help you, but I'm
not touching that couch.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
If we took that cotch outside and burned it, I
think the oil would make it burn for eight magical days.
But he's not bothered by any of us, at least
not to my knowledge. He's seemingly not embarrassed either, but
I sure am when I bring home friends. One friend
even took a picture of the vacant room like it
was some not geo haabitat.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It's like, wow, does they walk by?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's kind of rude. But the level of stank it
had rose into since yesterday is but prompted me to
write this. It's so sour and pungent. I can smell
it clearly at the top of the stairs and even
faintly in the kitchen when he came home, as odor
filled most of the upstairs up quickly, and with my
room across from his downstairs, my little sanctuary is being
a sort from the old essence of my father. He
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told me the catletter is to blame. No, it's not
the cat LITTERI honestly, did you think about the catletterer?
Did you take out the gallery?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
It seems like it could be the.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
It's absolutely a human derived stench. So tell me Reddit
if there is something we can do. I'm not aware
of any mental illness he suffers from. Perhaps there is
one that he'll never go to the doctor's for a
diagnosis or go on medicine to treat it. We have
helped him clean his room to an extent, but that
should not be our responsibility for a grown man who
has previously held a janitorial position cleaning bathrooms for others,
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but comes home and neglects his own. By the way,
we would never neglect you if you join us live
every week toad three pmpst on YouTube, Facebook and TikTok.
Just tap her profile. But there is a little bit left.
I forgot to mention there's no windows in his room
to vent out the smell. Also, I know I made
jokes about the smell in the state of his room,
but I truly am worried and care about his well being.
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Otherwise I wouldn't be here seeking help. All people deserve
a clean place to sleep. He has no Sanctuary's auburn man.
I don't think he cares much what my mom and
I have to say. How can we break through and
convince him to clean regularly? Is this just his personality
or could there be an underlying cause? I think there
absolutely is an underlying cause. Oops.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Sorry, I don't think it's a personality trait to just
neglect yourself. I think that you know that stems from
I mean, if you're treating your room like that, I
can't imagine how you treat yourself internally.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, I just bought new expensive furniture and started a
war with a Karen.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Sometimes you got a battle to.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Get what you want, Ain't that right?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Sist?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Buckle up, it's a long one. So three and a
half years ago, my husband and I bought furniture from
a national chain we'll call Robert's Discount Furniture. We spent
well over four grand for two seats of couches, two chairs,
one automan, and one love seat. We also got their
oof pe Oof warranty valid for five years after every purchase.
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Every time we have called, it's a big hassle to
get any type of service. First, they delivered the wrong
piece for upstairs set. We ordered a sleeper sofa with
a chase lounge that matches the chair and attoman. Instead
of the sleeper sofa, we received a connecting part for
a sectional. I called their customer service no service line
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to request and exchange for the right part. Now, at
that point, I had worked in call center customer service
for over twenty six years at a different company. They
know how it goes.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
OBI is like, I know how it's supposed to go,
and that's not what I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
It's not working.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
When I keep pressing zero, they'd already have their chase lounge.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Trust me, I know good customer service and I know
how to speak the lingo. This was not good, by
the way. This comes from Lee roxy Mommy on the
r slash ok storytime subreddit. So I spoke to an
associate with an unusual ethnic name. Don't remember the exact name,
but let's call him Alvira. One, he threw my sales
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Assosia under the bus, saying she ordered the wrong part.
I assured him she did not. I was looking at
the invoice that described the correct part. Two. He said
he did not have the right part in stock, so
he was just going to send me a credit so
I could order a different item. I told him I
didn't want a different item. I wanted the part I
ordered that match the rest of the furniture I had.
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We went around and around that same circle for twenty
minutes until I had enough and hung up on him.
I made the trip back to the store. Our original
salesperson called. Ironically, she spoke to the same ethnic name, Elvirez.
He tried to give her the same spiel. Though she
sounded professional about it, her expressions told me she thought
he was as much as an idiot as I did.
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She did finally convince him to send the right part,
and three months later we had the complete set.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
He took some battling, but eventually you got it easy.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Over the three and a half years, we had the
recliner break on the downstairs couch and need to be
replaced twice, and the back of the jar fell off
and needed to be replaced. Always it was a hassle,
and always we had to fight to get the warranty honored.
Most recently, four months ago, the back fell off my
husband's side of the couch. He called for a warranty
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service and they asked for photos to be sent reasonably enough,
my company requires that too. He took several photos from
different angles and sent them to the email address they supplied.
Weeks go by, no response.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
It's probably Alvirs.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Again.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
After several more weeks go by, I called to follow up.
They said they were still waiting for photos. My husband
sent them a third time and c seed me on
the same email. I received the email just fine, So
I sent the photos as well. More weeks go by,
still no response. Can you sue?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I don't know if you can sue? But what specifically
are they waiting.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
For the back of their couch fell off?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, so they're waiting for a replacement on that because
they have a fire warranty. I don't know if you
I don't know. That is incredibly annoying, But I don't
know if you like, maybe.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Maybe just to cover all my bases. I took a
NOO set of photos with my laptop and sent them
from that device directly to the warranty company to be fair.
Shortly after we went on vacation for a week, we
came back, I visited the store at location again, spoke
with the same sales associate and she got her manager involved.
They emailed me my photos to their warranty liaison and
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at least got the warranty people to call us back
and schedule a technician to come out. That person took
one look at the couch and said it could not
be fixed.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
What it took months for you? Just say, I'm sorry, kid,
Do it fixed?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
That?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
H too bad? That looks like a you problem.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
He called the warranty hotline, gave his employee number and
said he could not fix it, then gave the phone
to my husband to arrange a replacement to be sent out,
and he left. That was a bad move. Hubby has
no patient for fools. The warranty is so she had
tried to say it was a mechanical defect and that
coverage expired after one year. So basically we were screwed.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
But we freaking know it's a five year warranty.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, no, Op knows how this goes. She can't lie
to us, can't this is the this is you literally
cannot lit.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
She's literally a customer service expert aficionado.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yes, my husband started cursing at him, so I took
over at this point in three weeks. I have done
customer service for that same other company for thirty years.
Let me tell you, when you cuss at a customer service,
they stopped listening to you. I was respectful but firm
that they were going to honor their oof p oof warranty.
It was either going to be fixed or replaced, and
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their own technician already said it could not be fixed.
After ten minutes of going around and around with him,
I said those immortal Karen words. I need to speak
to your manager, and there it is. Op was the
Karen all along.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
We didn't realize you were the hulk.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
She was the whole concerning You had.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
The Karen and SiGe you every step of the way.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
He put me on hold for seven minutes, came back
and said he was still waiting for a manager. After
being hold for another five minutes, he came back and
said his manager approved replacing the couch. It is scheduled
to be exchanged this Saturday. I'll believe it when I
see it. Yeah. One year later, you'll get the couch
and it'll be like, oh, actually, your warrants he expired today.
We can't give you the couch.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Oh sorry, you're gonna have to pay for that couch.
I remember the actually sending another like Chase.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
He's like, ah, this is not what I wanted.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Please just send me.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
The couch, please, I just want the couch.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Come on, that's it.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Edit not in any way at all. I only said
it was an ethnic name to explain why I remember
it so well when the sales associate was speaking to
the same customer, no service associate days later. In fact,
to those who only picked up on that part of
the story, I would ask you to examine your own opinions.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
He's like, I'm not You are rest at it too.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Y'all got some funny ideas about what it means to be.
Perhaps you need to look up the definition of that term. Here,
I will do it for you. A person who is
prejudiced against people on the basis of their membership in
a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is
a majority or marginalized. Never in the story or in
real life did I despair or have any presidents against
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him due to his right.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Plot A to the story is like I'm trying to
get a couch, and plot B's like, I'm not, guys, please.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Attitude is just her saying that she's not relevant. All right?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
So she's not right, guys, she's not.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
We've read it in the comments.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
She gave us a definition.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
She can she can't be.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
All right, we have an update. Is she gonna get
the couch?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
I don't think so?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You think I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I don't think she's gonna get this couch. I think
she's tried so hard that like the universe can't give
it to her.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Now understandable, you know. Yeah? Also, why still deal with
this company?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Can?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Well? What can you do against a big company that
promised you all these things that you put four g's into?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Mm hmmmmmmm.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Updated Saturday came and Saturday went. No replacement couch, not,
of course not. My husband did show me a text
that came late on Friday saying they had a glitch
in their system and would not be able to make
the appointment. It was going on five months now to
get this latest issue resolved. Patience is really running thin.
Do you even have patience at this point?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah, I don't believe that you have anymore, which is
like fair, You're just like waiting, no patience, You're just waiting.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
They did finally bring a replacement, but no surprise to anyone,
they brought the less expensive love seat for the set,
not the couch. I specifically stated it was the couch
that broke and corrected the customer no service rep when
he repeated back the work order. It still came wrong.
And we will never come wrong. If you join us
live every weekday at three PMPSD, just taper profile tabs.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I think I would give up, which is probably what
they want, just to get no.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
But then they'd win.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, and then they win, And that's why OP can't
give up. Yeah, but Op has a lot more stamina
than me, because I think after I'm trying to return
a lot of stuff right now, Like I just have
a lot of returns to make, really, and it's been months.
It's been months. Like I bought something for my Halloween
costume that I never used. I bought something from Target
that I never used.
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think that's how you get you know that. It was
like Amazon's like you can try and return it.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Okay, actually fun thing.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So I had to return something on Amazon and I did, like,
like I finally literally it's been a month. Finally did
like the return thing, and it was like, you don't
actually have to return this, We'll just refund you.
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Speaker 3 (36:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I don't need the thing. It's a bucket.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Apparently they don't need it either.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
With the something else here too. Yeah, We're always trying
to return stuff guys, so we can get out of it.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah. Sometimes sometimes you're good money.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Fortunately, the parts are irrechangeable, so my husband had them
take the backs off the new love seat and installed
on the broken couch. We are back in business. But
should not have taken almost six months to resolve this
issue and repeated contacts to get them to honor their warranty.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
It should have.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But ain't that the way the world works?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Ain't that how the world spins around the.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Sun and keeps on turning and your couch never comes Try?
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Well, I'll see that story, so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
You next time.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
My local Chinese restaurant wanted to close, our town refused
to let them.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
We need our wantunt, we need our orange chicken.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah. This is entitled people on the large Scale, and
it's two hilarious not to share. I live in a
small town population seven thousand roughly, and everyone is currently
divided over a Chinese restaurant. So my hometown, it's been
in the local news and Australia's national news. That's how
crazy people are getting.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
By the way, this comes from game NERD ninety three
on the ok Storytime Separateday, so I'm going to try
to keep the short back. In May of this year,
a local Chinese restaurant owner informed the local club he
was renting kitchen space from that he wanted to retire,
gave them his resignation, stating his last operating day would
be the end of June. Q The local Karens and
Kevin's in mass One local who will call Big Kevin,
(38:17):
another local will call Mega Karen, and they decided they
were going to protest against the closing and force the
club to keep the restaurant open.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I wonder what these people look like I don't.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Know, but I do think it's really funny as that
owner to be like so good yeah that everyone.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
I was like, no, can't do this to us.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
This poor man has been running the restaurant for thirty
years without break. I just wanted to retire peacefully. But no,
Mega Karen started a petition, while Big Karen organized a protest.
Now our third major player in this year, we shall
call the Wicked Witch. The Wicked Witch working in the
Shadows starts leaking to the local paper that said restaurant
(38:55):
owner is being forced out by the club, false allegation.
The club gives their first an only statement about the situation,
stating that the restaurant owner retired and even produced his
retirement paperwork for proof. At this point, the National News
comes into it and does an interview with restaurant owner,
who states on the news he wants to retire.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Let the guy retire.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Guys, I'm coming here on the news to say I
just want to rest please. You would think that would
be the end of it, but no, Mega Karen gets
twelve hundred or so signatures on her petition, which he
adds to the club. The club's lawyer calls it invalid
due to over nine hundred of the signatures not being
filled in properly signature plus printed name plus club membership
(39:41):
number or phone number needed by each person to make
it valid, or same person sign multiple petition slots. So
Mega Karen starts a new petition which only gets seventy
four signature.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I see. Oh, so they probably just like pulled names
from Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
They would just make it fake and thing. Meanwhile, Big
Kevin organizes a protest he doesn't show up for, nor
does anyone else. The club then hosts a meeting for
all club members, members of the general public, and the
club's board to discuss what is going on, but again
for all the complaints, no one shows up. Now Mega
Karen and Big Kevin are demanding that a new meeting
(40:20):
be held, the club's general manager be fired, and the
club's board be disbanded and a new board elected. These
people are very they love their Chinese food.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
A lot, and with this all happening, I think the
Wicked Witch has like something she can win out of
this plotting.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah. The Wicked Witch then once again goes to the
newspaper with the statement from the restaurant owner. The restaurant
has now been closed for over a month, and states
that now the club has renovated the restaurant and as
plans to start a new restaurant, they the old restaurant
would considered renting the space again. Before you question why
the space wasn't renovated before this point, it was part
(40:58):
of the Chinese restaurant's agreement that they would maintain and
renovate the space as they saw fit, as stated by
the club in their public statement, and she tells the
paper that the whole reason the Chinese restaurant left wasn't
because they wanted to retire, but because the rent increased
from the two hundred and eighty five dollars a week
they have paid for twenty eight years to three hundred
(41:18):
and eighty five dollars a week last year and then
four hundred and eighty five dollars a week this year
for restaurant space, when other local restaurants are paying twenty
five hundred dollars a week plus for the same or
smaller places. So Big, Kevin Megacaren and a ton of
other locals were all shocked at the cost of rent,
which they are now all saying should have been kept
(41:39):
at the two hundred and eighty five dollars to encourage
the restaurant to stay, even though it meant likely closing
the club since they were struggling to afford running costs.
So basically, now they find out that the club. It
was an increasing rent for the Chinese restaurant, but it
seems like it was considerably less than any other club
was doing, Like other clubs were doing twenty five hundred,
(41:59):
where whereas this club was like four hundred.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Yeah, got it, got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
The club even broke down their running costs to show
the members and locals how expensive it is to keep
the place open. But still not good enough. I can't
with this town anymore.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
And there are some relevant comments.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Do you come out of retirement and say I will
work Tuesdays and Thursdays for you people, you guys, and
increase them out the prices? Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
If you guys will pay me double the amount, I'll
come back. You.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
You you take what you know, like you kind of
work off of this fervor for your food and you
take advantage of it.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Yeah yeah yeah, And the biggest supporters. You can do
a subscription that pays for the or thing, and then
you don't even have to worry about monthly thing. You
just worry about keeping everything else up. You know what
you do, you get you get a karate junior.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Oh well, I was gonna say, you uh.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Padawan a su chef.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, yeah, you become a mentor and train someone into
becoming the new Chinese restaurant. That's not what I was say,
but I was like, my idea was you become a
personal chef m just one day a week. You send
them over like for double the amount that they would
have had Toby at the restaurant. You send them over
some food.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
There we go. If you're free to it, if you're if.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
You're if you have free town, or you train someone
relevant comments Sasame snapped me in half, says, so many
people craving for a succulent Chinese meal, it seems. Opie
says there is a second Chinese restaurant in town, which
makes this even funnier.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Probably not as good, though that is good.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Opie shares a link to the news report of the situation,
The National News story Opie describing what the club is
to non Aussies. A club is basically a fancy establishment
which usually has a huge large rooms for events like funerals,
birthday parties, et cetera, a few bars for buying drinks,
gambling area, and a restaurant. It's basically where you go
for a formal night out. It's a huge thing.
Speaker 3 (43:48):
Yeah, idea, what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Oh okay, it's ilub like.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
All of my club. It's just like a yeah, it's
kind of what they explained. But there's like you can
go get food and sometimes. Yeah, it's just a kind
of a community place. But both my grandparents were part
of a club. Wow, Slash one is still part of
the club. The club couldn't do anything to keep him
from leaving. And there is another update. So our Big Kevin,
(44:14):
if you remember from the original post, had organized a protest.
He didn't show up to. Well, ladies, gentlemen, and them's.
He has now organized a meeting for October thirty first
for all paying members of the club. Taken directly from
the posters around town and his Facebook post. This meeting
is to discuss the removal of the president and board
of directors and elect an interim board to move forward
(44:37):
with plans to reinstate Danny's kitchen to catering.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Mmm, I think the Wicked Witch is going to be
reinstated as something.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
I think she's Yeah, she's gonna get back in there.
I can't with these people. Honestly, when this meeting takes place,
the new restaurant will be open in the club, all
cards on the table. I do have a job in
the new kitchen, so I'll be the first to admit
I could be looking at this with bias. However, the
owner of Danny's did retire, and I don't think a
vote overturns retirement. If they got enough votes, then I
suppose an offer could be made him, but he can't
(45:06):
be forced back. Yeah, and we would never force you
to join us live every weekday at three PMPSD on YouTube,
but we would love you too.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Just top our profile and if you don't, we might
as well force you, and.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Then we'll force you. I also found out that the
owner tried to train multiple people to take over, but
every time the same people complaining now putting complaints to
the club about the quality of the food. Oh my god,
the guy's like I tried, I tried to find someone else.
You guys hated them all, So I'm just no way
(45:37):
to please these people. Honestly, the club's general manager is
hoping that once the new restaurant opens, people will enjoy
the food and move on from Danny's. But for now,
I will update you again either on the night of
the thirty first or on the first of November, of
what happens with this meeting, and that is the end
of that story.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
If Karen stopped paying my parents' rent, so we victored her, you.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Don't pay, you know. Stay backstory.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
My parents used to own a house on big land.
When my older siblings went away for college, the house
felt too big for our needs, so my parents decided
to sell the house, but not all the land. They
built a smaller house on the part of the land
they didn't sell. A few years after, we moved to
a city two hours away and kept the house as
a place go to during the summer. My parents decided
(46:21):
to rent the house as it was well located and
had a really nice view. Renting meant that they could
use the money towards the mortgage and Texas. By the way,
this comes from Alana on the r slash Okay storytime subreddit.
So enters our Karen.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
And she always comes.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Karen and her boyfriend rented the place so she could
be closer to her work. From the start, my dad
made it clear the place was for rent and my
parents planned on living in that house after retiring. At
that time, both of them planned to work for at
least another twenty plus years, So you got that twenty years.
That's a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
They would of course notify Karen and events when they
wanted to take the house back, so she would have
plenty of time to find a new place. In return,
they asked that she notified them in advance should she
wish to move out, so they could find a new renter.
The least also stated that my parents would have some
of their things in a locked storage in the basement
(47:16):
as well as in a shed on the property, and
that they would always call Karen before dropping by to
get some things out of storage, which was in the
basement and connected to by the garage, so they wouldn't
even diserb Karen. So they would notify them in advancement. Yeah,
let them not. For a few years, Karen was an
okay renter. She paid the rent through a check each month.
(47:36):
She smoked inside and did not take care of the land,
but my dad didn't make a fuss about it. Real
trouble started around twelve years. Every few months, Karen checks
would bounce.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Back honestly, really quick. For trouble to start after twelve
years with one renter.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Like she was chilled for twelve years. I've never a
lease that long.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yeah, well, I don't even know if that they probably was,
like yeah, they were unit renewed every year.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
But like for I don't know, I'm pretty good deal,
Pretty good to bounce back here.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:09):
Yeah, but the smoking inside and not take care of the.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Land, no, not great.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
But also I mean do we necessarily take care like
I don't know if it's necessary to smoking some no, no, no,
but like the land, like that's not our job.
Speaker 3 (48:21):
Oh yeah yeah yeah, agreed.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Yeah, Like I feel like usually land stuff, especially if
it's like a big like a lot of land, that
would be up to the landlord to take care of.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
True.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
True.
Speaker 3 (48:31):
My dad would call her to ask about it. Karen
would profusely apologize and rectify the situation. Then it became
every other month until it was every month. Finally my
dad had enough and called her about the lease and
the rent. During the call, Karen argued that since she
had been paying rent for the past twelve years, their
house was now hers.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
I don't think that's how that works.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
Of course, that's how it works.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
My dad was shocked since that came out of nowhere.
We tried to explain to her that she was renting
the place like the hair had agreed on since the beginning.
Karen went on an itch fit about how she had
paid so much over the years and she was the
only one living there and taking care of the place,
which she was not at all, Therefore it should be hers.
(49:17):
She threatened to take my dad to court. Bring it.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Bring it.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
They probably got a lot of money if they have
two houses.
Speaker 3 (49:25):
Two houses running one out. Dude, all the money that
got from your rent, they're just going to put towards
a lawyer. Yeah, that was all extra money for this situation.
Now where I live, there are many laws which protects
the renter, and it can be a real itch to
deal with when you have a nasty renter. My dad
hired a lawyer to make sure everything was in order.
(49:45):
After a meeting with Karen where the lawyer was present,
she realized she didn't have much of a case, since
all the PaperWorks concerning the house was in my dad's
name and the original lease clearly stated that it was
a rental. My dad offered her to stop renting should
she wish to after the whole debacle, but she wanted
to stay in the house. It made her sign a
(50:07):
new lease where it stated again that this was a
rental and should she not pay or cause trouble again,
my dad would give her the shortest possible notice of
eviction allowed by the law. Karen is still renting the
house after almost twenty years. My parents are not close
to retiring yet. Do hope it won't turn into a
crap show when they decide to take it back? The
(50:28):
house and we have an edits long edits any thoughts.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Man, it's just see, I feel like they'll be fine.
It might take you know, it might take some time,
but I think they have all the legal stuff in order.
Speaker 3 (50:41):
Facts. I feel like we're good renters, Yeah, I think so.
As a renter, I feel like I'm as a renter.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
I feel like we're doing great job.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
We're pretty great.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Honestly, I feel like as renters they should.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
Lower a rent. Oh honestly, dang ye, because we're so good.
So we're so good. We're just such good, right, every
time we pay on time, we should get like, yeah,
three dollars dollars off every time.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
Edit.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
The question why did your dad let her sign a
new lease comes up a lot in the comments. I
will say what I answered throughout the comments. I don't
have the slightest clue why he would do that. As
I was a kid much younger when this happened, I
wasn't kept in the loop much. It was also not
the reaction I would expect my dad to have, since
he is respectful to others and expects the same in return.
(51:23):
I do know the legal actions he took when she
threatened to take him to court did protect himself and
many future problems that might arise. I do appreciate all
the concerns and the advice, although I do think my
dad had a good reason to keep her as a
tenant from hell after everything that went down.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
Now we got an update, man man oh man, So
what was the lease change?
Speaker 3 (51:46):
I don't know. It sounds like OPE wasn't in the
loop with all the lease changes. I believe he probably
wrote in a new lease saying, hey, as a reminder
and also putting in their new like you will get
the shortest eviction notice. If this happened again, he probably
replaced that gotcha Yeah, up dirt you. Since the beginning,
there was a mutual agreement between Karen and my parents
(52:07):
that they would both give a six months notice before
she moved out or my parents would like to take
back the house. Last week of June, my dad received
a phone call from a representative of Karen. Due to
financial circumstances, she was giving a month's notice before moving out.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
It was the six month thing in the least. Oh yeah,
I'm assuming it was. My parents were surprised by the
short notice, but didn't really mind it as they were
looking forward to taking back the place.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
I guess it's better than just like her staying there.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Yeah, they might lose some money, but at least they
it's it's available, then she's gone.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Last week July, Karen was set to move out, but
she asked for a week extension as she couldn't find
anybody to help her move. My parents agreed. She was
now set to move out by August to fourth, with
the car all loaded up the essentials dinnerware and cutlery,
small furniture. We left for our first trip to the house.
The plan was to look at the state of the place,
(53:01):
clean up a little bit, and take measurements for remodeling.
My parents are planning. As we get to the place,
we noticed a small sign in the driveway to advertise
for a garage cell at the house. We figured she
forgot to take it down. We were wrong. As we
get to the house, we can see boxes and furniture
through the windows queue to the shocked pikachuu phace as
she answered the door. Turns out she had a moved
(53:22):
yet and meant to call my dad and let them know,
but of course she never did. She clearly didn't expect
us to drop by so soon after her supposed moving day.
My parents were both extremely pissed, but they gave her
an additional week and expectations of payment for the weeks
she overstayed. August eighteenth, my parents received the confirmation that
(53:42):
she left the week she was supposed to. They had
a neighbor drop by to make sure her things were
really gone, but we didn't have time to make the
trip until a week after. We found the place in
much better shape than we expected. Of course, the place
is not in a perfect condition, as it clearly has
the wear and tear of a place that has been
lived than for years. It still needs a good cleanup,
some fresh paint in most parts of the room, and
(54:04):
a lot of work on the land. There's also plans
of remodeling a bit to make an additional room on
the first floor so my parents don't have to go
up the stairs all the time, and you could join
us all the time. We go live on YouTube every
weekday at three PMPSD.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
Just tap our profile, have it. This is good, This
is good.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
I think everything's working out.
Speaker 3 (54:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
I mean you really only had to deal with the
problems for a couple months out of twelve years with
this renter. I think that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (54:31):
Not too bad. We've seen worse. Yeah, Oh my gosh,
way worse. Turning a new leaf over. So this ends
this whole chapter. My parents got the summer House back
years before they expected, and although the renter was difficult
until the end, she mostly went away without all the
trouble we had expected. My parents are happy to take
back the place and are looking forward to all the
projects they have for it. They have been there almost
(54:52):
every week to clean out and sort through the things
we had sorted there. My dad did a fresh coat
of paint in some of the rooms, and they are
looking for furniture. My brother went once and started to
clear some of the things of the trees and get
back the awesome view we used to have from the kitchen.
My dad bought an old lawn tractor to help with
the yard work and is excited like a little boy
(55:13):
with a new shining toy. We'd like to get the
place cleaned and ready to hopefully spend Christmas camping there,
as we most likely won't have a lot of furniture
there yet. So that was good, every right, everything was great?
End well, yeah, exactly cool. That wasn't too bad, No,
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