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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
My brother's girlfriend is harassing my family, so I'm pressing charges.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Press those charges, so.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Trier warning mention of miscarriage. The people in this situation
of mine, aside from myself are my husband Mark thirty five,
my brothers Owen twenty nine, Jack twenty eight, Kyle twenty seven,
Rob twenty seven, and Finn twenty six. This is too
many people, white.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Boy money, Oh what Bud.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Along with my best friend Margo thirty two, Owen's fiance
Trish twenty nine, Kyle's partner wrote twenty eight in Finn's
new serious girlfriend Annie twenty three. By the way, this
comes from Exciting Muffin ninety twenty nine on the r
slash Okay story Time supread it so for aditional context.
I was the parentified sister and basically raise my brothers.
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I helped them learn how to cook and clean, help
them with homework, took them to extracurriculars, helped them figure
out scholarships, trade school colleges, and basically made them into
the men they are today. My brothers are very aware
of the situation that I was having to take on
parental duties and thus do not treat me like one.
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I am their sister and they treat me as such,
which of course means having a few crazy sibling traditions,
which is where my situation stems from. I thirty female,
just had my birthday pass. I think it's just there.
The birthday has passed, not a birthday pass. I could
do whatever I want. It's my birthday. I can light
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a car on fire because it's my birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
As my birthday is coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That means I can commit armed robbery. That means I
can avoid the.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Draft our birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Mark decided to help Owen organize a celebration dinner since
everybody had something to celebrate. Owen just engaged, trash Jack
got a huge pay raise, Kyle started an online shop,
Rob bought his first house it's a motor home, and
Finn just started his first serious relationship. So Owen organized
a huge dinner party at a pretty fancy place with
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my brothers and husband, each planning to split the tab
with Margo and omit me since it was technically my
birthday and thus I shouldn't pay because you got a
birthday pass when he got a birthday pass, you do
not pay.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You don't gotta pay.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You don't gotta pay. That's one thing I know. Fast
forward to the dinner and we're seated in the back
due to having so many people because it's a party
and everybody is having a great time laughing and sharing
more information about their life. When Margo has an old
video pop up on her film memories. It's a video
of a birthday dinner when I was a teen, and
it showed my brothers giving me my birthday bruises. Like
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what two four, five, takes seven eight? You made it?
Heard of the concept of a birthday old one twos? Well,
basically it's the same concept. However, due to my bathers
being massive hulks of meat and me being more no
more than five foot one, they opt to flick me instead,
so I'll get a tiny bruise instead of looking like
I was jumped. Rob decides to start with the birthday
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bruises tradition, each of my brothers opting to flick me
six times. This way, I get an even thirty flicks,
with Margo and Mark even giving me two for good luck.
Did it look strange? Probably, but we already stood out
in the restaurant since we had so many people, and
it's not like we made a big show. I simply
went around the table to each of my brothers to
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get my flicks. Trition and Rob were laughing, well aware
of the familial situation, and it was all good fun.
But I did notice Annie. Yeah, who's Annie?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Annie? I believe his stepsister?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Uh? Annie?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Or like someone's girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, Kyle's partner Roe? Yeah, oh, so there's Row and Rob. Annie.
Annie is the serious girlfriend?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, serious girlfriend? Or sorry, not sister, I meant to
say sister in law? Uh yes, not quite yet, not quite.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
A new serious girlfriend? H yes, now its Annie didn't
really seem to be comfortable. Who's Annie Benn's new serious girlfriend? Yep?
So when she went to the bathroom, I decided to
check on her old habits pass away hard. I didn't
approach her until she was washing her hands and asked
her if everything was okay, and she simply sneered and
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said we were embarrassing and low cloud.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Oh who made you the queen of the world.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, all right, turn your no, I didn't know you
were so on fun know you were you were Queen Elizabeth,
I know, missed honestly, like, yeah, she is very much
a Queen Elizabeth, but Queen Elizabeth now not Queen Elizabeth
like one. Yeah, the dead one. That's how That's how
much you are the life of the party. You're just dead.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
When you killed the party.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You killed that party, just like.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
We were there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We were there, we were there. We didn't do it,
didn't I told her, I didn't understand the attitude that
tonight was meant to be happy and we were just
being ourselves. To be completely honest, My words were along
the lines of this is who we are. We're siblings,
we hit each other, it's not that deep. She once
again sneered and said, well, this is a place where
it's not okay to be yourselves with a mocking tone.
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She then stormed out of the bathroom. So I returned
to the table. She was sulky the rest of the dinner,
and when the bill came, he tried to drag Fin off.
She kind of sucks. That behavior sucks.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Is she trying to make it so Finn doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Pay I think so. I think so.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
That's also really weird. We already know he gets a
birthday pass.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Forth they pass birthday pass. Finn doesn't get a birthday pass.
Certainly not Annie, huh, certainly not Annie. Well not. This
started a little quarrel with my other brothers, who all
agreed beforehand to split the bill. Annie stepped in and
said I could pay for them, since white trash makes
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do oh also really quick, really quick to say that
phrase in front of a bunch of people that you
don't really know.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And also a bunch of people that you all know
each other well that yes, but also a bunch of
people that you would just accuse of being like kind
of violent and like.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, You're like like if you yeah, then
you're about to have that violence all brought down on you.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That is a wild thing to say. I mean, at
least she has the confidence to speak her mind. Like
that's the silver lining I'm seeing here. But uh, don't
do that. Don't do that. Annie is trying to fight,
that is true, tay Daisha Powell. This started to fight
with Margo, who threw wine on her and said, what
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white trash you got it.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
See That's what I'm saying. If you, if you call
someone white trash.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Expect them to act like white trash, which I guess
is what Margo did. I tried to take control, but
Annie was already trying to get on Margo, which is
I don't know, Annie, kind of a crashy thing to do.
Row and Trish took her outside and the rest of
us settled the bill and apologized for the Sturman's two staff.
When we left, we saw Annie swinging at Trish, with
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Roe trying to get in between. I immediately stepped in
and told Annie to leave. You need to leave that
until she apologizes that she wasn't allowed at any family
gatherings and told Finn that if she ever tries anything,
to call us immediately. Finn said that would be a
problem and broke up with her right then and there,
telling her to call.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
A cab nice.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Boom fairly come spurs woo if anyone did that to you,
boom done done instantly, Yeah, instantly. I break up with
you right then and there.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
See I wouldn't be thrown hands because I'm a pacifist.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, and subjector what the record show? The record show
before there was a draft. You know what, I'm gonna
also say, I am also a conscientious objector.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, I mean you are.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I am. What Have I ever thrown hands?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I don't think you ever have.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, I've wrestled.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, but that was like part of the that was
that was like that was like professional professionally.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
No, I did. I did have to. I did break
up a few I used force to break up a
few fights in Australia. Whoa who I had to rip
one of my friends off of this guy who was
kind of being really creepy and laying hands on one
of the girls in our group. Yeah, yikes.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well, anyway, Sam's a conscience.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I have a conscient dejector. I only used force to
end force. I don't think that that's what I think.
That's war. Actually, I.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Never used That is literally what the government says ever
everywhere I think.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, he was apparently very upset to be called white
trash and didn't like how she talked to me. He
also later said she looks like she would accuse me
of something and that she apparently has done that to
her ex Ooh that is not a good look, my friend.
The problem I'm currently dealing with is Annie's social circle,
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and he comes from a pretty affluent part of our community,
like went to a private school and had a personal
chef and nanny, kind of rich herd. A bunch of
her wealthy friends have tried to defame me, sending emails
to my boss and coworkers. I told them to reply
that they would be forwarding the email to me, and
I will sue for intimidation and defamation if she coninued
to do so to me or any of my family members.
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The emails haven't bothered most of my coworkers, but I
have a select dozen that already didn't like me and
now are using this to make my work life. Hell,
why does Annie suck so more? Ruch so so much?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Anny, yu suck so much?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Uh yeah, this is a little whack. It's a little wack.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, yeah, it's just like so funny that Annie, the person.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Who like is like, oh, I'm so classy. He's doing
the least class.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
She's getting into physical fights, She's this is not what
I would define is classy.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, harassment. Ain't classy girl?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Classy?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Classy? Assy?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, but I wasn't gonna sing.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Is that of swear?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Sassy. Oh hmm, yeah, they s was silent. Well, I've
already spoken to my bosses about it, and they are
monitoring those coworker emails to assure Annie isn't sending anything.
Margo told me I should go ahead with my threat
the next time someone gets an email and file defamation
charges along with intimidation and emotional damages. The thing is
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is Annie is twenty three, she's barely out of school,
and this will wreck her life. Okay, maybe she.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Needs I'm sorry. I'm not getting into fiscal flights at
twenty three.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So yeah, twenty three is old enough to know better.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, she's got to learn the day, so barely out
of school, yeah, two years.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I know she's attempting to wreck mind, but I can't
help but feel like taking her to court is excessive?
Am I being too nice? Would I be the A
hole if I fall through and press charges? What do
we think Sophia is op the a hole for falling
through and pressing charges?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
The thing is that I think you would only be
the ale if you lied about things, exaggerated things, and
then she went to court and went to jail for that.
The if she goes there is no you know, there's
no right now, we don't know for certain that she
would go you know, have a record or anything. Yeah,
and we'd go press charges. And if she does get
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a record or if anything changes, that written.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Most like her actions have your actions. I do think that. So,
like we've read stories. I think there was a story
about like a thirteen year old who stole this guy's bike,
and then you remember that story and then the guy
was like super vindictive and he's like, yeah, I'm making
sure this kid goes to jail.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And I remember I said that seems intense for a
thirteen year old and everyone got mad at me.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, but I feel like, like, yes, you know, make
sure the kid has consequences. But I don't know if
they necessarily need to be super intense. What this person
is doing is it's consistent.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That she would get jail time.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I don't know if she would get jail time, but
it's consistent. It's consistent harassment.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, it's not like she threw like attached to you
in the parking lot one time or anything like the
thing that she did first and then stopped. Yeah, she
is continuous continue to go after you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, I think it would be one thing if it's
like you set one email and he's like, I'm getting
the police on you. But this is, this is, this
is too much and it's effected. I mean, it's affecting
Opie's mental health and potentially a career.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, this is this is And also she totally ruined
your birthday, so.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That's yeah not cool. And you know, I mean, even
if you were to go overboard, you have a birthday pass.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You have a birthday pass.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I don't think you use yet cannot cannot do anything,
do anything. So in conclusion, Opie, you are not the ahole.
I think if she's continue doing this, I think you
should probably do something about it, because I agree, doesn't
she have other stuff to do?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Like doesn't she have like work?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, or like a life.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I don't know you have a hobby.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
But a Reddit said not the a hole and we
got some relevant comments, so ope. On Annie being around
family and how Opie's brothers are well off, Opie says,
I think it's because she never has really been around
the family. Finn has his own business and makes pretty
good money for his age. He actually helped Kyle set
up his shop and offer to co sign Rob's loan
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for the motor home. Rob is too stubborn to take it,
though not many people would guess he's from a humble
beginning since he already paid off his condo and owns
his cars, So all other people see, including Annie, are
his money line pockets instead of a boy who could
barely pass algebra. I love a come up story and
convert to one says you're not going to wreck her life.
You're going to rattle her chain, shake up her status quo.
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Who knows, maybe it'll make her into an actual person.
I say, let fly, not the a hole we got.
An update? I agree, I agree, I agree, so update who. Firstly,
I want to thank everybody in my prior post. I
the tendency to overthink, and it makes decisions like this
incredibly hard. A lot has happened in the past ten days,
so I'll just give the events an order of happening.
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Two days after my post went up, Margo's car got egged.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Annie. What are you doing Annie? In this economy?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And this, yeahs this economy bucket piece.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I bought six eggs and he were six dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Actually, yes, that's insane. Yes, eggs are are white, round
gold that's too many dollars for eggs, and you're just
throwing about the car. I mean, she is well off,
she's got she's throwing an organic eggs, eggs, got chicken money,
got that chicken money. She and two of her neighbors
caught the perpetrators on camera, and two of Annie's flying
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monkeys which I am now calling them because someone in
the og post call them that, and I laughed so
hard at the accuracy, were taken into custody. And boy
were these girls rats. They sold out Annie in a heartbeat.
I almost pity the poor girl until I came out
of work and found the words you deserved your miscarriage
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spray painted on my bar hood. Annie.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
That's just fool, fool harassment. Annie.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Did you not learn your lesson?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Annie? You are not okay?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Are you okay? And information? I suffered at miscarriage at
the beginning of the year after one of my students
I work in a behavioral school punted me down the
stair wall. I had been trying to help another teacher
and there was a security guard also present, but the
kid punted my shin and nobody caught me in time.
I was six months along while it happened and suffered
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it while at work. It was a whole scene with ambulance,
adam and staff just for staff. Meanwhile, I was bleeding
and crying. I was giving PTO for two weeks. By
the time I returned to work, everybody knew. I got
plenty of soft looks. Everybody made my food and tried
to make me feel better, even the ladies who didn't
like me. I was just thankful summer vacation was coming up.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Did that get just expelled?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, I think it's a behavioral school. I believe. So
it's like kids basically that are their thing is just
kicking people downstairs. Oh, doom in on me, don't look
at me. But I believe that. I believe that is
what those kind of schools are. But yeah, oh it's
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so heartbreaking, so heartbreaking. Annie is using that like she's
using that as fool.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Wow, you monster, and I oh keep saying like, oh.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, yeah, you're twenty three, you are old enough. You
were old enough. I took photos of the vandalism and
presented it to my boss since the paint was still wet,
which means there should be camera evidence. Annie is dude,
Annie's about to actually get some jail time. Like I
think this is I mean, this is this is this
is enough, right, I mean this is Yeah. They told
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me to sit tight and they would take care of it.
After thirty minutes, my boss, one of the coworkers like me,
and two security officers came back. Turns out the coworker
who didn't like me had fed Annie that information and
was promptly fired on the spot after being forced to
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apologize to me.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Props.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh, I mean I just oh, yeah, which you know
this does not happen. Ah, double trouble. Annie, You're getting
it next. You're getting what You're getting it next. Also
really quick. What's Annie's home life? Like why is she
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acting out?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I feel like she's this rich girl and her parents
never look cared.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Oh that's so sad. I feel like, if you're rich,
you should just spend more time with your kids, Like
why do you have kids?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I was rich, I like spending all of my time.
I would I would delegate all my tasks and I
just like do all my hobbies.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And I would I would just look at that kid,
and then I would make the kid believe in magic
like my dad. My dad would like do magic tricks
then yeah, if you really, if you really believe, yeah, dude,
I and I would. I would teach my kid piano
and horseback and chess and chess and be going hike. Yeah,
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and we're going on. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
One of one of Angie's friends is like, the babies,
what's up, let's go on? And I see you guys too,
You're looking cute. Thanks. Thanks, I've been hitting my head
with a keyboard trying to fix the upstairs competer all day.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Really defined her curls.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I had, like, thanks, Yeah, you can tell you can
see some keys in there. Angie has a friend that's
a babysitter for like a rich family, and the rich
family has like two babysitters. It's her and another woman
and the and the woman like the mom doesn't even work.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me because I'm like,
I would understand if you had a really busy job,
but like, if I what does she do all day?
I would want to be like spending as much time
as possible with my kids if I had the money
to do so.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, I feel like, yeah, the point of having money
and having kids. He used to see how you can
spend more time with your kids.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Yeah, and you had a friend that also worked with
like rich people, right me. Oh no, Sam, Remember you
told me a crazy story that they did, but didn't
she babysit riche people kids?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Uh, which which story are you the fifteen year olds?
Oh no, that was that was a that was a
family friend. Family friends like they come from like a
so my my ex girlfriend, my ex girlfriend's family friend
came from like one of the like the biggest uh,
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like their family owned one of the biggest skincare companies
and uh and they're yeah, that's that's where that story
comes from.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Got it?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh yeah, they So I didn't know if there was
like a similar vibe, but they're like, oh, I was
just hire all these babysitters to watch my kids and
I don't have the parents.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah. Well back to Annie, Back to Annie, are you okay?
They also had security look through the parking lot footage
and got the license plate on Annie's car screeching out
of the parking lot with her tossing a can of
spray paint out the window and denting another car in the.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Process for littering too, littering, double vandalism.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yoicks police were called in the spray can was taken
as evidence. I was advised to get a lawyer and
press charges. Let's go. At this point, I decided to
talk to a lawyer. So I looked at lawyers when
I got home and consulted one the next day via
virtual con Via virtual consultation, he offered to do the
case pro bono as he had a bone to pick
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with Annie's mother. Not my business at hell, but WHOA
was that story crazier than mine. We drafted all evidence
into a compiled document and went through with pressing the
charges for the damage to my car, as well as
intimidation and emotional distress. Let me tell y'all, I was
expecting there to be a blowout when this happened. But
Karma ate her up. Annie is about to get her
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come uppets.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Annie watched Go girl, Let's go.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Apparently Annie has more than just what he did to me.
Coworker who's car she dent when she threw out the
spray can was pressing charges. Marco was also pressing charges
for emotional distress. Also turns out she has been going
after my brothers, sending her flying monkeys. They were review
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bombing Kyle shop. They slashed three tires on Rob's mobile home.
She had even been sending complaints to Owen's boss through
customer service lines, and she had stolen Jack's fence around
his house. Who's the s Steel's offense? The amounting charges
finally caught Daddy's attention because he had everybody who was
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pressing charges come to one of his properties to talk
it out. One of his properties, one of his properties
they about to get paid.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Whoa she's been looking for dundee'shoo.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Man. He had paid her bail and was keeping her
in close proximity to assure he didn't get into any
more mischief. Margo said she'd be bringing her lawyer, and
everybody else did the same. So it was actually pretty
funny watching Annie's face as we all pulled up with
our lawyers, with the exception of Finn, who was just
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coming as a character witness and had a file of
evidence all on his own. He'd been pasting him in,
blackmailing him, and was ready to feed these absolutely dang
danging evidences to the pack of lawyers who were attending.
It's worth to note that I had not gotten to
the spray paint removed, so when Annie's father saw it.
You could see the boiling quiet rage in his clayre
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Annie's father WHI old dub. Hunter also had his lawyer present.
The sit down lasted two days, with all the lawyers
going over the different charges and appropriate ways to punish them.
My coworker was simply paid out with some extra financial
conversation and a few coupons from Hunter's businesses. Jack was
returned to his fence and Hunter paid to have it reinstalled, repainted,
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and for a ten year warranty. Jack still stayed as
emotional support since Mark was away on business. All the
false reviews were removed from Kyle's shop and Hunter paid
for any lost revenue. That talk was done between Hunter
and Kyle in private, so I don't know how much
was paid. I feel like it should be like, you know,
two three times what was lost?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I mean also, he's still.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Honestly, Annie feels a little crafty.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Hunter also contacted Owen's boss, who apparently they went to
school with, and set and set the record straight. Hunter
also decided to pay for Trician Owen's honeymoon as excess compensation.
That just left Margo Robin I. The lawyers US three
and Hunter agreed to culminate the charges into one case,
and Hunter was able to wrangle the district attorney to
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come and strike a plea deal. I can't say much
about that case since it's ongoing, but just know Annie
will be paying for her crimes. Hunter offered to get
me a new car. I had been driving the same
car for ten years, and I told him I'd settle
for a used one. Why dude, get.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Your bag, girl, dude, why why are we not trying
to get our money. If someone says I'll buy a
new car for you and their daughter crash your car
and you know stressed that car one.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Hundred made of us, saying I didn't raise my daughter
like this, This is all her mother. Like wow, this
woman might must be a demon if even her own
husband throws her under the bus like that. So Hunter
is taking me car shopping. WiFi is apparently pissed that
Hunter isn't covering for their little princess and Annie is
getting her just desserts. Funny how money is indeed a
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very powerful thing, as Hunter even got the case to
be moved to a priority list and thus proceedings will
be sped up top everything off. Hunter said all the
payouts will be coming out of Annie's incredace nice. I
feel like OPI I don't know why Op. He didn't
take the bag. You know what she is? Mm hmm
he was he a Minster but like but like I
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feel like she should have been advocating for more of
a back. You know. It's like she's like, oh, no, no, no,
I just I'd like, just get me a used car, like,
get a freaking I don't know, like what what's what's
a nice car? A Mayback, a BM A BMW, A
a Prius A yeah, a Prius, but one of the
new sleek ones. What's a good card Riley?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
A Ferrari, Dude, a Ferrari, Lamborghini.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, but I don't know. I feel like, oh, he
doesn't want to.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
She might get like a Ford Bronco.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh, dude, Ford Bronco. Bo Broncos are sick, like a
nineteen sixties Ford Bronco. Yeah, and he has to pay
for the maintenance break down.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
If I had the opportunity to get the like any
car that I wanted, I think it's dev patel Uh.
He bought this like old old car, like really beautiful
vintage car. Yeah, got found a guy to retro fit
it to become an electric car for like thirty five
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thousand dollars or something.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's pretty cool. I feel like every car guy would
be like if you heard, If Christian heard that, he
would be like, you're ruining the car.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, but I don't care.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
But I don't care. Yeah, a Lincoln Nautilus, a Porsh Yeah, guys,
what is your dream car? Safe? Flower says, I laughed.
A Prius Freezes were a good car, which is why
he was okay with giving out so much excess compensation
and god Annie's face. I wish I could have photographed it.
I have no issues updating once the proceedings are finished.
I will make sure to keep a spare tab open
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just so I don't lose the throwaway. It seems to
be pretty happy ending for me. I didn't expect it
to be solved in under ten days. But Hunter is
a very nice man. Maybe the gen Z's shouldn't eat
this rich guy. He's a good one. He even invited
Mark Tristan row out for drinks to discuss compensation for
the scene at dinner two Right now, I'm just relaxing
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on my sofa. Well Mark makes popcorn. We're about to
binge some cartoons. We like spending our sundays like that.
Glad I was able to update you all. Thank you
for your words of encouragement. I will be back one
last time after the corporateceedings, and maybe another if my
Lord gives me permission to tell his story about Annie's mom.
And if we haven't Edito, we haven't edit. I see
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a lot of people misinterpreting how these charges are being processed,
and this is mostly in part to my poor wordings.
So allow me to clarify. Annie has a record, but
Hunter always bailed her out. The cops advised me to
lawyer up and press charges because Annie has a history
of doing things like this and getting away with it.
The process is still long and the cops stay collect evidence.
It was due to Annie's familial name that makes things
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a lot quicker. Hunter is a tycoon of sorts with
many of his affiliations paying for Annie's lifestyle, is a
lot of fingers, a lot of pies, and thus holds
a lot of power in her town. The sit down
was to minimize Annie's criminal charges to see what would
be worth going to court for or not. This is
why Owen, my co worker, Kyle, and Jack got paid out. However,
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the charges from Rob, Margot and I are still being processed.
The DA was called after the sit down. As I
said in a comment, it is not in common for
Laura's to sit with a perpetrator to find common ground.
We all had to sign documents of the sit down
stating what was done and what was accomplished from there.
I don't have any idea as I haven't heard from
my laury about court dates. It will still take months
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for charges to go through and for us to go
to court, even on the priority list. If there's any confusion,
please comment and I'll try to clear things up. And
we got some relevant comments OPA not leading a lawyer
to press charges against Annie OPI respond note I was
advised to lawyer up due to Annie's familial reputation, and
Hunter actually had the DA come once all our cases
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has been compiled and organized. So like I mean, if
Hunter had not been so awesome and giving and like
chill about this, he could have poured a bunch of
money into his lawyers and probably made it very difficult
for OP or anyone to get there to get their back,
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so you kind of need a lawyer for that. Yeah. Yeah,
he wanted to minimize Annie's criminal charges, hence the sit down,
to which he paid out. My coworker, Kile Owen, and
Jack and we all had to sign documents about the
sit down and what we got out of it, which
will be used in the court case as to prevent
us from pursuing heftier sums. It isn't uncommon for lawyers
to consult victims and perpetrators to try to find common ground.
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This is what the sit down was, and that is
where that story ends. But we got another story for
you coming right up.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'm glad Annie got her. I'm glad Annie got her
come up and aimed.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Too, and everyone else got what they deserved in terms
of retribution.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, retribution. Hey, it's Sam. We get back to the stories.
But here's three minutes of ads from our sponsors.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
My uncle tried to on up me the day my
dad passed, but I got my revenge.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Gheit that revenge and trigger warning.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Parent death from cancer. I twenty six female lost my
father fifty two male permanently cancer two and a half
years ago. I took time off from school to help
my mom provide his end of life care at home.
It was agonizing. We didn't sleep for eight days, but
I am at peace knowing that I did everything I
possibly could to honor my father and support my mother.
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By the way, this comes from Economy set sixty three
eighty three and if you want to submit your own stories,
good our slash okay story to him, separate it Coolso
everyone loved my dad. He was funny, the life of
the party, and everyone said he looked like a particularly famous,
attractive celebrity. He was the youngest of three but had
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a very patriarchal role in his Italian family, so it
really changed the family dynamic when he passed. He and
his older sister, Jill fifty five female, were Irish twins
born with twelve months within twelve months of each other,
and behave like twins in a lot of ways. His
older brother, Jack fifty eight male, is a different story.
I've always felt that he was a little resentful towards
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my dad. He's a one upper and can't let anyone
have a story or thought more interesting than one of
his own. Doesn't sound pleasant to be round bull I
once said that I was having a rough day because
I had to bathe all three of my dogs by myself,
and his response was, well, you've never had to be
at the cat, so you have a dazy Every conversation
(32:20):
with sound way harder. Now. Jack can also be wholesome.
He loves his family, regularly drives hours from where he
lives to spend the weekend visiting and helping out his mother,
my grandmother, and even offers to help my mom with
any manual tasks my dad would have been responsible for.
He and I are the two fantasy loving nerds in
a family of jocks. He sends me book recommendations and
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checks in every few months. I love my uncle, but
his insecurities have led to some personality traits that can
sometimes make surface interaction with him difficult. When my dad
was declining, he took me on a drive and we
talked about all of the things he was going to miss,
one of which WHI was my wedding. He told me
that a few months prior to my boyfriend Ben then
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twenty five Mail now twenty seven Mail, had asked for
his blessing to marry me. Without my knowledge, Ben and
I had been talking about getting engaged, but had previously
agreed to wait until I finished grad school. But faced
with the reality that my dad would never live to
walk me down the aisle, I asked Ben if he
would consider getting engaged earlier so that my dad would
at least get to celebrate that with us.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh, that's so heartbreaking and cute at the same time.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
He agreed, and we ended up getting engaged twenty days
before my dad passed away. Ah. My mom and I
did not sleep in the eight days leading to his passing.
We had to watch him twenty four seven, providing pain medication,
water back massages to relieve the pain of what we
would later learn was tumors, breaking his ribs, and trying
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to soak up every last moment of his life. Three
nights before he passed away, I got a text from Jack.
He and Jill had checked in a few times, but
we're respecting my dad's wishes. No one else see him
in the state. The text was not a check in.
It was a picture of Jack's oldest son, Charlie twenty
eight male and his girlfriend Kate, with a new ring
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on their finger. Very tone deaf, very tone deaf.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
What in the days before in the days.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Before your brother and your niece's father.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Is about to pass I mean, I guess like maybe
maybe they were thinking, oh, like he would want to
know about this moment before he passes away. Maybe maybe
that was like the in the same way that uh
uh op he wanted him to know about the gradu
the engagement before he passed. Maybe it was like a
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maybe it was something like that.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The caption read, Charlie, couldn't let you be the only
one engaged in the family.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Hmmm, that changes things.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I was taken aback. First of all, I'm caring for
my passing away father. I don't have the emotional capacity
to get excited about a cousin getting engaged right now. Second,
why phrase it like that? Is now really the time
to tell me I'm not allowed to have anything special?
And finally, wow, way to let me know how emotionally
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disconnected my cousin is from the current family tragedy.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Uugh that is yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah, in hindsight, I'm not upset about Charlie and Kate
getting engaged when they did. I know Kate wanted a
professional photographer aout the proposal, and it's very possible it
was a plan that just couldn't be moved. But Jack
announcing it to me in that way in the middle
of something so devastating, was incredibly tone deaf. He could
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have very easily waited to bring it up. I did
not respond to the text. This is where any grace
I've afforded. Jack sharply declines. The morning my dad passed
away was the worst day of my life.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Oh, man, I put, I ses, I I just know that,
h it's Jack right. If Jack pulls anything today that
that day I mean, which I feel like, is going
to happen. Oh, I mean, how how are you that
toned down?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
My mom was inconsolable, so all the phone calls to
the doctor, the hospice, nurse, the funeral home, his siblings,
and worst of all, my little brother. He's in the
military and couldn't eve until the celebration of life fell
to me. We allowed his mom and siblings to come
say goodbye while we waited for the funeral home to
come collect his body. During that time, I read aloud
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the obituary my mom and I have been writing in
the notes app on her phone. Jack had to step
out for a moment to breathe which was understandable, so
I handed him the phone to read by himself. When
he got back, instead of reading for content, he proudly announced,
I found a typo.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Okay, you know what. Maybe he's just really really wants
it to be grammatically correct.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
My mom broke out of her near cataton Cataitania, Catatonia, Catatonia,
cataton Catatonia, broke out of being near Catatonic to tell
him off and stormed out of the room. He followed her,
but instead of apologizing, said, well, at my defense, I
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thought he wrote.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
It well, so you wanted to hurt Op's feelings.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I wasn't there for that conversation. I was right next
to Jill when she said she was glad my mom
called Jack on his BS.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I mean again, like maybe maybe Jack doesn't just or
doesn't read emotional cues.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Well, I think it's pretty clear though.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, maybe he's not trying to. Maybe he's just he's
just you know, yeah, yeah, AM's pond says some people
grieve differently, unfortunately, some people turn to jokes. Maybe he's
trying to make jokes or he's trying to, uh, he's trying,
like he's trying to make sense. Of this not maybe
he's not maybe he's not trying to be maybe maybe
he's not trying to be annoying. He's just he just is.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Eventually everyone left my mom and me alone to process.
She called her sister and I called benover to the
house to comfort me. Somewhere in there, I edited and
posted my dad's obituary on Facebook with all the details
of his celebration of life.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Did you correct the typo jokes?
Speaker 3 (38:34):
On Jack? There were multiple typos he missed, so no, Ah, Well,
it's almost like that's what happens when your first draft
is written on your phone. I roll. Later that evening,
I got a text from Jill. We live in a
small town, and as people were finding out about my dad,
they were reaching out to Jill so as not to
bother my mom and me. Jill told me that she
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was directing people who wanted to bring us food to
bring it to her house. We're a five minute walk
away and stay for a drink. In my dad's honor.
It was turning into a small local wake. He wanted
my mom and me to know it was happening, but
put no pressure on us to join if we didn't
feel ready. We decided to go, but my mom was
still on the phone with her sister, so Ben and
I arrived first. It was really good to see so
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many people who loved my dad. I was so beyond
tired by that point that it took the edge off
of reality, so I was even able to talk and
laugh without crying. All of the food people had brought
was set out potluck style, which was great because there
was no way we'd be able to fit it all
in Mom's freezer. As Ben and I were loading up
her plates, there came Jack. Maybe he thought it would
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be a good distraction. Maybe it's because he hadn't seen
Ben yet, But the first thing Jack said to us
was not to resh you guys, but Charlie and Kate
already have a venue. Like it was a race and
we were losing.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Maybe he just needs a win, you know, I mean
again there in the middle of this week. Yeah, And
he's like, oh, by the way, I know you got
like something going on over here, but like you should
really think about this wedding because we're going to beat
you and then you're gonna be a.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Louther a louth.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
And he's like, yeah, yeah, man, how is this guy?
I just don't understand how he's like, is he doing
this on purpose? Like he must be doing this on purpose? Right?
Oh yeah, I mean he's.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Doing it on purpose to an extent, at least he's
saying these things on purpose.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
All of his life, he's been the lesser cousin, the
lesser family member, and for once in his life, the
golden cousin is falling from his throne and he thinks, oh,
I should read for time post instead of reading for
the room.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Oh okay, Riley, Okay, I so beyond shocked. There are
so many things I wanted to say. We've always wanted
a long engagement. When was I supposed to a wedding
plan in the three weeks leading up to my dad's passing,
What the F is wrong with you? But I was
so exhausted and grief stricken that no words came. Luckily, Jill,
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who I hadn't even noticed come inside, immediately jumped in, Jack,
it's not a competition. This is not a competition, and Ben,
bless him, smiled and came right back with And even
if it was, going first is a disadvantage because it's
so much easier to one up.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Mm hmmm, We're gonna blow your wedding out of the water.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Jack's face fell and he left the room. I would
love to say it ended there, but in all of
the grief and trauma processing, my anger at the things
Jack said to me only festered. As I began wedding planning.
There was a part of me that couldn't stop thinking
about what Ben said. If I wanted, I really could
one up Charlie and Kate's wedding, but I held myself
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back because it felt wrong to direct anger from my
uncle at my cousin. And then I found out what
Charlie said at my dad's celebration. My closest cousin is
Jill's daughter Tess. Apparently at the celebration, Charlie heard that
my mom was upset at Jack for the things he said,
and Charlie told tests, I don't get why she's mad
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when my parents gave them all that money. The money
he's referring to is from when the doctors told my
parents that my dad only had a few months left.
My grandmother, Jill, and Jack all decided to split the
price to charter a private jet to send my parents, brother,
and me on one final family vacation. To my dad's
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favorite place in the world. It was incredibly expensive, but
they insisted as my dad was not physically well enough
to fly commercially, so this was the only way we
could do it. Wow, my parents paid for everything. Once
we reached our destination, the family was thanked profusely, and
we bought them all meaningful gifts. This place is known
for its butterfly museum, and my dad would bring me
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a new preserved butterfly display every time he visited, so
we brought back one for each of them. It's worth
noting that Jack called to tell me his wife would
never hang something like that in her house and regifted it.
That's fine, No one is obligated to like something they
didn't ask for. But why did Jack feel the need
to tell me she'd done so so? Apparently, in Charlie's mind,
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writing a check grants you permissioned to be an ale
to two women who have just become a widow and
a half and half orphaned, noted half orphaned.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
I've ever heard of that word term before.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Maybe Charlie didn't know exactly.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Sorry enough full rough, full rough.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Maybe Charlie didn't know exactly what his dad said, but
that's an interesting attitude to have, even without all the details.
Then mom was the only person not granted a plus
one to Charlie and Kate's wedding. Oh wait, wait, well,
OPHI's mom who just lost her husband, was not granted
a plus one like a.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I mean, I don't know if that. If they were
having a small wedding, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Because of attendance restrictions either.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
I really tried to be Devil's advocate here and that
op just be like nope.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
There were multiple families with children there. Apparently they talked
to Jack and other family members about it and decided
that as a widow, it was more appropriate for her
to go alone. That was the last straw.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Wouldn't you go with a friend or something?
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Yeah, but they didn't want her to.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
So asest thing to do when someone's like life partner
passes away, to just isolate.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Them, Yeah, just like don't talk to them ever now.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, don't talk to them, don't let them have friends around. No,
of course I thought, yeah, that would be it would
be too much.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
So as Charlie and Kate's wedding approached, my mom and
I started taking notes there save the day didn't have
their names on it. The limitation was black with clear
relief faunt so it was completely eligible unless you held
it up to the light at an angle. In their
engagement photos, they tried to do that a leaf stair
instead of smiling, but they just looked angry or uncomfortable
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in most of them. Their wedding website had one poorly
written paragraph about the night they met at a bar.
I didn't say anything to anyone about it. I wasn't
trying to be mean, but anytime they did something that
just seemed underthought or underplanned, I made note of it.
They got married between Christmas and New Year's another negative
in my opinion, that's everyone's break time. A little over
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a year after my dad's passing, when we got to
the venue, there was a massive eight x ten photo
of my dad holding Charlie as a toddler next to
the card table. They did not have a close relationship.
Charlie literally got engaged while he was dying, so its
presence felt like they were capitalizing on grief in a
way they weren't entitled to. We weren't warned it would
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be there, and my mom and I both had to
excuse ourselves to cry out the surprise, anger, and unbidden
wave of grief. We stayed for a bit after dinner,
but left as soon as it felt appropriate. I don't
ever intend to see anything mean about their wedding. I mean, girl,
I fail, you're all here. I think you might might
be saying something.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
I think. I think we're I think we're getting to
that point.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
My mom and I are both perfectionist maximalists, and I
can honestly say that nothing we plan would be different
if we weren't partially motivated with spite. But I get
a petty amount of pleasure knowing that my wedding is
going to outshine theirs in every way. Here is a
complete list of upgrades my wedding has in comparison to
Charlie and Kates. Our invitations are legible, get wrecked. Everyone
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I'm married gets a plus.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
One boom, more fun people to mingle with.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
Our wedding website has a short history of our relationship,
of our whole relationship, not just a paragraph about the
night we met.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
I don't know if everyone's going to read that, but
still cute.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
They had three sprigs of eucalyptus on their table as decor.
We have full floral arrangements.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
A little more bobacious. The floral arrangement, the better the wedding.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Their venue had awful acoustics. Ours is meant for live music.
They had a DJ who never let a song go
past its first chorus. We had a ten piece band.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
They had a candy bar. We had a fire pit
with a s'mores direct buyer is speaking of bars. Their
two bartenders could not keep up with demands, so we're
having four. As was always planned, there will be a
small memorial table for my dad with a photo of
the two of us nestled in some flowers and a
candle burning all night. It will separate. It will be
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separate from the card table so as not to force
everyone to visit it if it would make them uncomfortable.
We'll be warning the family it's there. Yes, I recognize
that we're privileged to have some of these things, particularly
the budget for a band, but again, I never planned
to say anything about it. I'm not trying to flaunt
wealth or status. Kate's parents are in roughly the same
financial place as my mom, nor have I made my
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wedding about them in any way. By the way, I'm
gonna make this about us because you can listen to
all episodes of stories just like this. Just go to Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, or iHeartRadio and search a pocas story time.
But there is a little bit left to the story.
Do you have any final thoughts?
Speaker 1 (48:11):
I mean, it sounds like whether or not this guy
is being an intentional a hole or an unintentional a hole,
his actions are hurting the people around him, and so
I feel like at a certain point, regardless of intention,
you just have to put some distance for your own sanity,
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and it feels like op is starting to do that.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
I agree, Andy, Yeah, it just seems like your cousin
and Jack not not not behaving well at all, and
just enjoy that you had a great wedding. Yeah, or
are having a great wedding.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
I guess agreed.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
Queen Procrastinations has never had a s'more.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
That's crazy. Fix that right now. You can get a
gram cracker.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Just get a gram cracker, a marshmallow and some chocolate
and put the marshmallow over and over. You can do
in the microwave too.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yeah, it was fun. That was fun. But you could
put an open flame like on the stove.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
That's true. Yeah, that's true. That's your homework.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Yeah, homework.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
But there is a little bit left to story. I'm
marrying a person who loves, protects and supports me, surrounded
by people who do the same. In our wedding is
so many little touches particular to our relationship and personalities.
This isn't really a petty revenge. If anything is a dare.
If Jack tries to say anything, I have a laundry
list of ways to shut him down in a way.
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I just couldn't back then, because, after all, going first
is a disadvantage because it's so much easier to wanna.
The wedding is in October. I'll post an update if
anything goes down, and that is the end of that story.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Hates jeanyo og host Here we're gonna get back to
the stories.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
But here's a quick three minute break of Aspimer sponsors.
I think op taking the distance that she needs is
a good idea. I don't know if I would put so.
I feel like Ope's putting a little bit too you
much energy into this one up idea, which I don't
think is a good idea for your No, you are
your one upping.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Yeah, yeah, I know it would be like you are
You did give us like an itemized list of one up, and.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
I think, like, don't, don't focus on that. Just focus
on getting the space you need for this person and
focus on having a great wedding. It is probably gonna
be amazing, but you don't need to compare it to
anything else. It's just going to be amazing that it is.
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My brother's girlfriend is harassing my family, so I'm pressing charges.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Press those charges, so.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Trier warning mention of miscarriage. The people in this situation
of mine, aside from myself are my husband Mark thirty five,
my brothers Owen twenty nine, Jack twenty eight, Kyle twenty seven,
Rob twenty seven, and Finn twenty six. This is too
many people, white.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Boy money, Oh what Bud.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Along with my best friend Margo thirty two, Owen's fiance
Trish twenty nine, Kyle's partner wrote twenty eight in Finn's
new serious girlfriend Annie twenty three. By the way, this
comes from Exciting Muffin ninety twenty nine on the r
slash Okay story Time supread it so for aditional context.
I was the parentified sister and basically raise my brothers.
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I helped them learn how to cook and clean, help
them with homework, took them to extracurriculars, helped them figure
out scholarships, trade school colleges, and basically made them into
the men they are today. My brothers are very aware
of the situation that I was having to take on
parental duties and thus do not treat me like one.
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I am their sister and they treat me as such,
which of course means having a few crazy sibling traditions,
which is where my situation stems from. I thirty female,
just had my birthday pass. I think it's just there.
The birthday has passed, not a birthday pass. I could
do whatever I want. It's my birthday. I can light
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a car on fire because it's my birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
As my birthday is coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That means I can commit armed robbery. That means I
can avoid the.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Draft our birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Mark decided to help Owen organize a celebration dinner since
everybody had something to celebrate. Owen just engaged, trash Jack
got a huge pay raise, Kyle started an online shop,
Rob bought his first house it's a motor home, and
Finn just started his first serious relationship. So Owen organized
a huge dinner party at a pretty fancy place with
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my brothers and husband, each planning to split the tab
with Margo and omit me since it was technically my
birthday and thus I shouldn't pay because you got a
birthday pass when he got a birthday pass, you do
not pay.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You don't gotta pay.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You don't gotta pay. That's one thing I know. Fast
forward to the dinner and we're seated in the back
due to having so many people because it's a party
and everybody is having a great time laughing and sharing
more information about their life. When Margo has an old
video pop up on her film memories. It's a video
of a birthday dinner when I was a teen, and
it showed my brothers giving me my birthday bruises. Like
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what two four, five, takes seven eight? You made it?
Heard of the concept of a birthday old one twos? Well,
basically it's the same concept. However, due to my bathers
being massive hulks of meat and me being more no
more than five foot one, they opt to flick me instead,
so I'll get a tiny bruise instead of looking like
I was jumped. Rob decides to start with the birthday
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bruises tradition, each of my brothers opting to flick me
six times. This way, I get an even thirty flicks,
with Margo and Mark even giving me two for good luck.
Did it look strange? Probably, but we already stood out
in the restaurant since we had so many people, and
it's not like we made a big show. I simply
went around the table to each of my brothers to
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get my flicks. Trition and Rob were laughing, well aware
of the familial situation, and it was all good fun.
But I did notice Annie. Yeah, who's Annie?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Annie? I believe his stepsister?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Uh? Annie?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Or like someone's girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, Kyle's partner Roe? Yeah, oh, so there's Row and Rob. Annie.
Annie is the serious girlfriend?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, serious girlfriend? Or sorry, not sister, I meant to
say sister in law? Uh yes, not quite yet, not quite.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
A new serious girlfriend? H yes, now its Annie didn't
really seem to be comfortable. Who's Annie Benn's new serious girlfriend? Yep?
So when she went to the bathroom, I decided to
check on her old habits pass away hard. I didn't
approach her until she was washing her hands and asked
her if everything was okay, and she simply sneered and
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said we were embarrassing and low cloud.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Oh who made you the queen of the world.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, all right, turn your no, I didn't know you
were so on fun know you were you were Queen Elizabeth,
I know, missed honestly, like, yeah, she is very much
a Queen Elizabeth, but Queen Elizabeth now not Queen Elizabeth
like one. Yeah, the dead one. That's how That's how
much you are the life of the party. You're just dead.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
When you killed the party.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
You killed that party, just like.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
We were there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We were there, we were there. We didn't do it,
didn't I told her, I didn't understand the attitude that
tonight was meant to be happy and we were just
being ourselves. To be completely honest, My words were along
the lines of this is who we are. We're siblings,
we hit each other, it's not that deep. She once
again sneered and said, well, this is a place where
it's not okay to be yourselves with a mocking tone.
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She then stormed out of the bathroom. So I returned
to the table. She was sulky the rest of the dinner,
and when the bill came, he tried to drag Fin off.
She kind of sucks. That behavior sucks.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Is she trying to make it so Finn doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Pay I think so. I think so.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
That's also really weird. We already know he gets a
birthday pass.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Forth they pass birthday pass. Finn doesn't get a birthday pass.
Certainly not Annie, huh, certainly not Annie. Well not. This
started a little quarrel with my other brothers, who all
agreed beforehand to split the bill. Annie stepped in and
said I could pay for them, since white trash makes
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do oh also really quick, really quick to say that
phrase in front of a bunch of people that you
don't really know.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And also a bunch of people that you all know
each other well that yes, but also a bunch of
people that you would just accuse of being like kind
of violent and like.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, You're like like if you yeah, then
you're about to have that violence all brought down on you.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
That is a wild thing to say. I mean, at
least she has the confidence to speak her mind. Like
that's the silver lining I'm seeing here. But uh, don't
do that. Don't do that. Annie is trying to fight,
that is true, tay Daisha Powell. This started to fight
with Margo, who threw wine on her and said, what
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white trash you got it.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
See That's what I'm saying. If you, if you call
someone white trash.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Expect them to act like white trash, which I guess
is what Margo did. I tried to take control, but
Annie was already trying to get on Margo, which is
I don't know, Annie, kind of a crashy thing to do.
Row and Trish took her outside and the rest of
us settled the bill and apologized for the Sturman's two staff.
When we left, we saw Annie swinging at Trish, with
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Roe trying to get in between. I immediately stepped in
and told Annie to leave. You need to leave that
until she apologizes that she wasn't allowed at any family
gatherings and told Finn that if she ever tries anything,
to call us immediately. Finn said that would be a
problem and broke up with her right then and there,
telling her to call.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
A cab nice.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Boom fairly come spurs woo if anyone did that to you,
boom done done instantly, Yeah, instantly. I break up with
you right then and there.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
See I wouldn't be thrown hands because I'm a pacifist.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, and subjector what the record show? The record show
before there was a draft. You know what, I'm gonna
also say, I am also a conscientious objector.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, I mean you are.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I am. What Have I ever thrown hands?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I don't think you ever have.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
No, I've wrestled.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, but that was like part of the that was
that was like that was like professional professionally.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
No, I did. I did have to. I did break
up a few I used force to break up a
few fights in Australia. Whoa who I had to rip
one of my friends off of this guy who was
kind of being really creepy and laying hands on one
of the girls in our group. Yeah, yikes.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Well, anyway, Sam's a conscience.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I have a conscient dejector. I only used force to
end force. I don't think that that's what I think.
That's war. Actually, I.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Never used That is literally what the government says ever
everywhere I think.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, he was apparently very upset to be called white
trash and didn't like how she talked to me. He
also later said she looks like she would accuse me
of something and that she apparently has done that to
her ex Ooh that is not a good look, my friend.
The problem I'm currently dealing with is Annie's social circle,
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and he comes from a pretty affluent part of our community,
like went to a private school and had a personal
chef and nanny, kind of rich herd. A bunch of
her wealthy friends have tried to defame me, sending emails
to my boss and coworkers. I told them to reply
that they would be forwarding the email to me, and
I will sue for intimidation and defamation if she coninued
to do so to me or any of my family members.
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The emails haven't bothered most of my coworkers, but I
have a select dozen that already didn't like me and
now are using this to make my work life. Hell,
why does Annie suck so more? Ruch so so much?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Anny, yu suck so much?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Uh yeah, this is a little whack. It's a little wack.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, yeah, it's just like so funny that Annie, the person.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Who like is like, oh, I'm so classy. He's doing
the least class.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
She's getting into physical fights, She's this is not what
I would define is classy.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, harassment. Ain't classy girl?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Classy?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Classy? Assy?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, but I wasn't gonna sing.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Is that of swear?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Sassy. Oh hmm, yeah, they s was silent. Well, I've
already spoken to my bosses about it, and they are
monitoring those coworker emails to assure Annie isn't sending anything.
Margo told me I should go ahead with my threat
the next time someone gets an email and file defamation
charges along with intimidation and emotional damages. The thing is
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is Annie is twenty three, she's barely out of school,
and this will wreck her life. Okay, maybe she.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Needs I'm sorry. I'm not getting into fiscal flights at
twenty three.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So yeah, twenty three is old enough to know better.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, she's got to learn the day, so barely out
of school, yeah, two years.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I know she's attempting to wreck mind, but I can't
help but feel like taking her to court is excessive?
Am I being too nice? Would I be the A
hole if I fall through and press charges? What do
we think Sophia is op the a hole for falling
through and pressing charges?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
The thing is that I think you would only be
the ale if you lied about things, exaggerated things, and
then she went to court and went to jail for that.
The if she goes there is no you know, there's
no right now, we don't know for certain that she
would go you know, have a record or anything. Yeah,
and we'd go press charges. And if she does get
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a record or if anything changes, that written.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Most like her actions have your actions. I do think that. So,
like we've read stories. I think there was a story
about like a thirteen year old who stole this guy's bike,
and then you remember that story and then the guy
was like super vindictive and he's like, yeah, I'm making
sure this kid goes to jail.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And I remember I said that seems intense for a
thirteen year old and everyone got mad at me.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, but I feel like, like, yes, you know, make
sure the kid has consequences. But I don't know if
they necessarily need to be super intense. What this person
is doing is it's consistent.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That she would get jail time.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I don't know if she would get jail time, but
it's consistent. It's consistent harassment.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, it's not like she threw like attached to you
in the parking lot one time or anything like the
thing that she did first and then stopped. Yeah, she
is continuous continue to go after you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, I think it would be one thing if it's
like you set one email and he's like, I'm getting
the police on you. But this is, this is, this
is too much and it's effected. I mean, it's affecting
Opie's mental health and potentially a career.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, this is this is And also she totally ruined
your birthday, so.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That's yeah not cool. And you know, I mean, even
if you were to go overboard, you have a birthday pass.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
You have a birthday pass.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I don't think you use yet cannot cannot do anything,
do anything. So in conclusion, Opie, you are not the ahole.
I think if she's continue doing this, I think you
should probably do something about it, because I agree, doesn't
she have other stuff to do?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Like doesn't she have like work?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, or like a life.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I don't know you have a hobby.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
But a Reddit said not the a hole and we
got some relevant comments, so ope. On Annie being around
family and how Opie's brothers are well off, Opie says,
I think it's because she never has really been around
the family. Finn has his own business and makes pretty
good money for his age. He actually helped Kyle set
up his shop and offer to co sign Rob's loan
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for the motor home. Rob is too stubborn to take it,
though not many people would guess he's from a humble
beginning since he already paid off his condo and owns
his cars, So all other people see, including Annie, are
his money line pockets instead of a boy who could
barely pass algebra. I love a come up story and
convert to one says you're not going to wreck her life.
You're going to rattle her chain, shake up her status quo.
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Who knows, maybe it'll make her into an actual person.
I say, let fly, not the a hole we got.
An update? I agree, I agree, I agree, so update who. Firstly,
I want to thank everybody in my prior post. I
the tendency to overthink, and it makes decisions like this
incredibly hard. A lot has happened in the past ten days,
so I'll just give the events an order of happening.
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Two days after my post went up, Margo's car got egged.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Annie. What are you doing Annie? In this economy?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And this, yeahs this economy bucket piece.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I bought six eggs and he were six dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Actually, yes, that's insane. Yes, eggs are are white, round
gold that's too many dollars for eggs, and you're just
throwing about the car. I mean, she is well off,
she's got she's throwing an organic eggs, eggs, got chicken money,
got that chicken money. She and two of her neighbors
caught the perpetrators on camera, and two of Annie's flying
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monkeys which I am now calling them because someone in
the og post call them that, and I laughed so
hard at the accuracy, were taken into custody. And boy
were these girls rats. They sold out Annie in a heartbeat.
I almost pity the poor girl until I came out
of work and found the words you deserved your miscarriage
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spray painted on my bar hood. Annie.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
That's just fool, fool harassment. Annie.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Did you not learn your lesson?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Annie? You are not okay?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Are you okay? And information? I suffered at miscarriage at
the beginning of the year after one of my students
I work in a behavioral school punted me down the
stair wall. I had been trying to help another teacher
and there was a security guard also present, but the
kid punted my shin and nobody caught me in time.
I was six months along while it happened and suffered
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it while at work. It was a whole scene with ambulance,
adam and staff just for staff. Meanwhile, I was bleeding
and crying. I was giving PTO for two weeks. By
the time I returned to work, everybody knew. I got
plenty of soft looks. Everybody made my food and tried
to make me feel better, even the ladies who didn't
like me. I was just thankful summer vacation was coming up.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Did that get just expelled?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Well, I think it's a behavioral school. I believe. So
it's like kids basically that are their thing is just
kicking people downstairs. Oh, doom in on me, don't look
at me. But I believe that. I believe that is
what those kind of schools are. But yeah, oh it's
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so heartbreaking, so heartbreaking. Annie is using that like she's
using that as fool.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Wow, you monster, and I oh keep saying like, oh.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, yeah, you're twenty three, you are old enough. You
were old enough. I took photos of the vandalism and
presented it to my boss since the paint was still wet,
which means there should be camera evidence. Annie is dude,
Annie's about to actually get some jail time. Like I
think this is I mean, this is this is this
is enough, right, I mean this is Yeah. They told
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me to sit tight and they would take care of it.
After thirty minutes, my boss, one of the coworkers like me,
and two security officers came back. Turns out the coworker
who didn't like me had fed Annie that information and
was promptly fired on the spot after being forced to
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apologize to me.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Props.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh, I mean I just oh, yeah, which you know
this does not happen. Ah, double trouble. Annie, You're getting
it next. You're getting what You're getting it next. Also
really quick. What's Annie's home life? Like why is she
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acting out?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I feel like she's this rich girl and her parents
never look cared.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Oh that's so sad. I feel like, if you're rich,
you should just spend more time with your kids, Like
why do you have kids?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I was rich, I like spending all of my time.
I would I would delegate all my tasks and I
just like do all my hobbies.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And I would I would just look at that kid,
and then I would make the kid believe in magic
like my dad. My dad would like do magic tricks
then yeah, if you really, if you really believe, yeah, dude,
I and I would. I would teach my kid piano
and horseback and chess and chess and be going hike. Yeah,
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and we're going on. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
One of one of Angie's friends is like, the babies,
what's up, let's go on? And I see you guys too,
You're looking cute. Thanks. Thanks, I've been hitting my head
with a keyboard trying to fix the upstairs competer all day.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Really defined her curls.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I had, like, thanks, Yeah, you can tell you can
see some keys in there. Angie has a friend that's
a babysitter for like a rich family, and the rich
family has like two babysitters. It's her and another woman
and the and the woman like the mom doesn't even work.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me because I'm like,
I would understand if you had a really busy job,
but like, if I what does she do all day?
I would want to be like spending as much time
as possible with my kids if I had the money
to do so.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, I feel like, yeah, the point of having money
and having kids. He used to see how you can
spend more time with your kids.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Yeah, and you had a friend that also worked with
like rich people, right me. Oh no, Sam, Remember you
told me a crazy story that they did, but didn't
she babysit riche people kids?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Uh, which which story are you the fifteen year olds?
Oh no, that was that was a that was a
family friend. Family friends like they come from like a
so my my ex girlfriend, my ex girlfriend's family friend
came from like one of the like the biggest uh,
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like their family owned one of the biggest skincare companies
and uh and they're yeah, that's that's where that story
comes from.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Got it?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh yeah, they So I didn't know if there was
like a similar vibe, but they're like, oh, I was
just hire all these babysitters to watch my kids and
I don't have the parents.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah. Well back to Annie, Back to Annie, are you okay?
They also had security look through the parking lot footage
and got the license plate on Annie's car screeching out
of the parking lot with her tossing a can of
spray paint out the window and denting another car in the.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Process for littering too, littering, double vandalism.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yoicks police were called in the spray can was taken
as evidence. I was advised to get a lawyer and
press charges. Let's go. At this point, I decided to
talk to a lawyer. So I looked at lawyers when
I got home and consulted one the next day via
virtual con Via virtual consultation, he offered to do the
case pro bono as he had a bone to pick
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with Annie's mother. Not my business at hell, but WHOA
was that story crazier than mine. We drafted all evidence
into a compiled document and went through with pressing the
charges for the damage to my car, as well as
intimidation and emotional distress. Let me tell y'all, I was
expecting there to be a blowout when this happened. But
Karma ate her up. Annie is about to get her
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come uppets.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Annie watched Go girl, Let's go.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Apparently Annie has more than just what he did to me.
Coworker who's car she dent when she threw out the
spray can was pressing charges. Marco was also pressing charges
for emotional distress. Also turns out she has been going
after my brothers, sending her flying monkeys. They were review
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bombing Kyle shop. They slashed three tires on Rob's mobile home.
She had even been sending complaints to Owen's boss through
customer service lines, and she had stolen Jack's fence around
his house. Who's the s Steel's offense? The amounting charges
finally caught Daddy's attention because he had everybody who was
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pressing charges come to one of his properties to talk
it out. One of his properties, one of his properties
they about to get paid.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Whoa she's been looking for dundee'shoo.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Man. He had paid her bail and was keeping her
in close proximity to assure he didn't get into any
more mischief. Margo said she'd be bringing her lawyer, and
everybody else did the same. So it was actually pretty
funny watching Annie's face as we all pulled up with
our lawyers, with the exception of Finn, who was just
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coming as a character witness and had a file of
evidence all on his own. He'd been pasting him in,
blackmailing him, and was ready to feed these absolutely dang
danging evidences to the pack of lawyers who were attending.
It's worth to note that I had not gotten to
the spray paint removed, so when Annie's father saw it.
You could see the boiling quiet rage in his clayre
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Annie's father WHI old dub. Hunter also had his lawyer present.
The sit down lasted two days, with all the lawyers
going over the different charges and appropriate ways to punish them.
My coworker was simply paid out with some extra financial
conversation and a few coupons from Hunter's businesses. Jack was
returned to his fence and Hunter paid to have it reinstalled, repainted,
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and for a ten year warranty. Jack still stayed as
emotional support since Mark was away on business. All the
false reviews were removed from Kyle's shop and Hunter paid
for any lost revenue. That talk was done between Hunter
and Kyle in private, so I don't know how much
was paid. I feel like it should be like, you know,
two three times what was lost?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I mean also, he's still.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Honestly, Annie feels a little crafty.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Hunter also contacted Owen's boss, who apparently they went to
school with, and set and set the record straight. Hunter
also decided to pay for Trician Owen's honeymoon as excess compensation.
That just left Margo Robin I. The lawyers US three
and Hunter agreed to culminate the charges into one case,
and Hunter was able to wrangle the district attorney to
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come and strike a plea deal. I can't say much
about that case since it's ongoing, but just know Annie
will be paying for her crimes. Hunter offered to get
me a new car. I had been driving the same
car for ten years, and I told him I'd settle
for a used one. Why dude, get.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Your bag, girl, dude, why why are we not trying
to get our money. If someone says I'll buy a
new car for you and their daughter crash your car
and you know stressed that car one.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Hundred made of us, saying I didn't raise my daughter
like this, This is all her mother. Like wow, this
woman might must be a demon if even her own
husband throws her under the bus like that. So Hunter
is taking me car shopping. WiFi is apparently pissed that
Hunter isn't covering for their little princess and Annie is
getting her just desserts. Funny how money is indeed a
(25:38):
very powerful thing, as Hunter even got the case to
be moved to a priority list and thus proceedings will
be sped up top everything off. Hunter said all the
payouts will be coming out of Annie's incredace nice. I
feel like OPI I don't know why Op. He didn't
take the bag. You know what she is? Mm hmm
he was he a Minster but like but like I
(26:00):
feel like she should have been advocating for more of
a back. You know. It's like she's like, oh, no, no, no,
I just I'd like, just get me a used car, like,
get a freaking I don't know, like what what's what's
a nice car? A Mayback, a BM A BMW, A
a Prius A yeah, a Prius, but one of the
new sleek ones. What's a good card Riley?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
A Ferrari, Dude, a Ferrari, Lamborghini.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, but I don't know. I feel like, oh, he
doesn't want to.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
She might get like a Ford Bronco.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh, dude, Ford Bronco. Bo Broncos are sick, like a
nineteen sixties Ford Bronco. Yeah, and he has to pay
for the maintenance break down.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
If I had the opportunity to get the like any
car that I wanted, I think it's dev patel Uh.
He bought this like old old car, like really beautiful
vintage car. Yeah, got found a guy to retro fit
it to become an electric car for like thirty five
(27:00):
thousand dollars or something.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's pretty cool. I feel like every car guy would
be like if you heard, If Christian heard that, he
would be like, you're ruining the car.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, but I don't care.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
But I don't care. Yeah, a Lincoln Nautilus, a Porsh Yeah, guys,
what is your dream car? Safe? Flower says, I laughed.
A Prius Freezes were a good car, which is why
he was okay with giving out so much excess compensation
and god Annie's face. I wish I could have photographed it.
I have no issues updating once the proceedings are finished.
I will make sure to keep a spare tab open
(27:32):
just so I don't lose the throwaway. It seems to
be pretty happy ending for me. I didn't expect it
to be solved in under ten days. But Hunter is
a very nice man. Maybe the gen Z's shouldn't eat
this rich guy. He's a good one. He even invited
Mark Tristan row out for drinks to discuss compensation for
the scene at dinner two Right now, I'm just relaxing
(27:52):
on my sofa. Well Mark makes popcorn. We're about to
binge some cartoons. We like spending our sundays like that.
Glad I was able to update you all. Thank you
for your words of encouragement. I will be back one
last time after the corporateceedings, and maybe another if my
Lord gives me permission to tell his story about Annie's mom.
And if we haven't Edito, we haven't edit. I see
(28:14):
a lot of people misinterpreting how these charges are being processed,
and this is mostly in part to my poor wordings.
So allow me to clarify. Annie has a record, but
Hunter always bailed her out. The cops advised me to
lawyer up and press charges because Annie has a history
of doing things like this and getting away with it.
The process is still long and the cops stay collect evidence.
It was due to Annie's familial name that makes things
(28:34):
a lot quicker. Hunter is a tycoon of sorts with
many of his affiliations paying for Annie's lifestyle, is a
lot of fingers, a lot of pies, and thus holds
a lot of power in her town. The sit down
was to minimize Annie's criminal charges to see what would
be worth going to court for or not. This is
why Owen, my co worker, Kyle, and Jack got paid out. However,
(28:55):
the charges from Rob, Margot and I are still being processed.
The DA was called after the sit down. As I
said in a comment, it is not in common for
Laura's to sit with a perpetrator to find common ground.
We all had to sign documents of the sit down
stating what was done and what was accomplished from there.
I don't have any idea as I haven't heard from
my laury about court dates. It will still take months
(29:16):
for charges to go through and for us to go
to court, even on the priority list. If there's any confusion,
please comment and I'll try to clear things up. And
we got some relevant comments OPA not leading a lawyer
to press charges against Annie OPI respond note I was
advised to lawyer up due to Annie's familial reputation, and
Hunter actually had the DA come once all our cases
(29:37):
has been compiled and organized. So like I mean, if
Hunter had not been so awesome and giving and like
chill about this, he could have poured a bunch of
money into his lawyers and probably made it very difficult
for OP or anyone to get there to get their back,
(29:59):
so you kind of need a lawyer for that. Yeah. Yeah,
he wanted to minimize Annie's criminal charges, hence the sit down,
to which he paid out. My coworker, Kile Owen, and
Jack and we all had to sign documents about the
sit down and what we got out of it, which
will be used in the court case as to prevent
us from pursuing heftier sums. It isn't uncommon for lawyers
to consult victims and perpetrators to try to find common ground.
(30:20):
This is what the sit down was, and that is
where that story ends. But we got another story for
you coming right up.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I'm glad Annie got her. I'm glad Annie got her
come up and aimed.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Too, and everyone else got what they deserved in terms
of retribution.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, retribution. Hey, it's Sam. We get back to the stories.
But here's three minutes of ads from our sponsors.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
My uncle tried to on up me the day my
dad passed, but I got my revenge.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Gheit that revenge and trigger warning.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Parent death from cancer. I twenty six female lost my
father fifty two male permanently cancer two and a half
years ago. I took time off from school to help
my mom provide his end of life care at home.
It was agonizing. We didn't sleep for eight days, but
I am at peace knowing that I did everything I
possibly could to honor my father and support my mother.
(31:16):
By the way, this comes from Economy set sixty three
eighty three and if you want to submit your own stories,
good our slash okay story to him, separate it Coolso
everyone loved my dad. He was funny, the life of
the party, and everyone said he looked like a particularly famous,
attractive celebrity. He was the youngest of three but had
(31:37):
a very patriarchal role in his Italian family, so it
really changed the family dynamic when he passed. He and
his older sister, Jill fifty five female, were Irish twins
born with twelve months within twelve months of each other,
and behave like twins in a lot of ways. His
older brother, Jack fifty eight male, is a different story.
I've always felt that he was a little resentful towards
(31:59):
my dad. He's a one upper and can't let anyone
have a story or thought more interesting than one of
his own. Doesn't sound pleasant to be round bull I
once said that I was having a rough day because
I had to bathe all three of my dogs by myself,
and his response was, well, you've never had to be
at the cat, so you have a dazy Every conversation
(32:20):
with sound way harder. Now. Jack can also be wholesome.
He loves his family, regularly drives hours from where he
lives to spend the weekend visiting and helping out his mother,
my grandmother, and even offers to help my mom with
any manual tasks my dad would have been responsible for.
He and I are the two fantasy loving nerds in
a family of jocks. He sends me book recommendations and
(32:43):
checks in every few months. I love my uncle, but
his insecurities have led to some personality traits that can
sometimes make surface interaction with him difficult. When my dad
was declining, he took me on a drive and we
talked about all of the things he was going to miss,
one of which WHI was my wedding. He told me
that a few months prior to my boyfriend Ben then
(33:04):
twenty five Mail now twenty seven Mail, had asked for
his blessing to marry me. Without my knowledge, Ben and
I had been talking about getting engaged, but had previously
agreed to wait until I finished grad school. But faced
with the reality that my dad would never live to
walk me down the aisle, I asked Ben if he
would consider getting engaged earlier so that my dad would
at least get to celebrate that with us.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh, that's so heartbreaking and cute at the same time.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
He agreed, and we ended up getting engaged twenty days
before my dad passed away. Ah. My mom and I
did not sleep in the eight days leading to his passing.
We had to watch him twenty four seven, providing pain medication,
water back massages to relieve the pain of what we
would later learn was tumors, breaking his ribs, and trying
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to soak up every last moment of his life. Three
nights before he passed away, I got a text from Jack.
He and Jill had checked in a few times, but
we're respecting my dad's wishes. No one else see him
in the state. The text was not a check in.
It was a picture of Jack's oldest son, Charlie twenty
eight male and his girlfriend Kate, with a new ring
(34:11):
on their finger. Very tone deaf, very tone deaf.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
What in the days before in the days.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Before your brother and your niece's father.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Is about to pass I mean, I guess like maybe
maybe they were thinking, oh, like he would want to
know about this moment before he passes away. Maybe maybe
that was like the in the same way that uh
uh op he wanted him to know about the gradu
the engagement before he passed. Maybe it was like a
(34:47):
maybe it was something like that.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The caption read, Charlie, couldn't let you be the only
one engaged in the family.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Hmmm, that changes things.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I was taken aback. First of all, I'm caring for
my passing away father. I don't have the emotional capacity
to get excited about a cousin getting engaged right now. Second,
why phrase it like that? Is now really the time
to tell me I'm not allowed to have anything special?
And finally, wow, way to let me know how emotionally
(35:23):
disconnected my cousin is from the current family tragedy.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Uugh that is yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yeah, in hindsight, I'm not upset about Charlie and Kate
getting engaged when they did. I know Kate wanted a
professional photographer aout the proposal, and it's very possible it
was a plan that just couldn't be moved. But Jack
announcing it to me in that way in the middle
of something so devastating, was incredibly tone deaf. He could
(35:49):
have very easily waited to bring it up. I did
not respond to the text. This is where any grace
I've afforded. Jack sharply declines. The morning my dad passed
away was the worst day of my life.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Oh, man, I put, I ses, I I just know that,
h it's Jack right. If Jack pulls anything today that
that day I mean, which I feel like, is going
to happen. Oh, I mean, how how are you that
toned down?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
My mom was inconsolable, so all the phone calls to
the doctor, the hospice, nurse, the funeral home, his siblings,
and worst of all, my little brother. He's in the
military and couldn't eve until the celebration of life fell
to me. We allowed his mom and siblings to come
say goodbye while we waited for the funeral home to
come collect his body. During that time, I read aloud
(36:43):
the obituary my mom and I have been writing in
the notes app on her phone. Jack had to step
out for a moment to breathe which was understandable, so
I handed him the phone to read by himself. When
he got back, instead of reading for content, he proudly announced,
I found a typo.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Okay, you know what. Maybe he's just really really wants
it to be grammatically correct.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
My mom broke out of her near cataton Cataitania, Catatonia, Catatonia,
cataton Catatonia, broke out of being near Catatonic to tell
him off and stormed out of the room. He followed her,
but instead of apologizing, said, well, at my defense, I
(37:29):
thought he wrote.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
It well, so you wanted to hurt Op's feelings.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I wasn't there for that conversation. I was right next
to Jill when she said she was glad my mom
called Jack on his BS.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I mean again, like maybe maybe Jack doesn't just or
doesn't read emotional cues.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Well, I think it's pretty clear though.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, maybe he's not trying to. Maybe he's just he's
just you know, yeah, yeah, AM's pond says some people
grieve differently, unfortunately, some people turn to jokes. Maybe he's
trying to make jokes or he's trying to, uh, he's trying,
like he's trying to make sense. Of this not maybe
he's not maybe he's not trying to be maybe maybe
he's not trying to be annoying. He's just he just is.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Eventually everyone left my mom and me alone to process.
She called her sister and I called benover to the
house to comfort me. Somewhere in there, I edited and
posted my dad's obituary on Facebook with all the details
of his celebration of life.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Did you correct the typo jokes?
Speaker 3 (38:34):
On Jack? There were multiple typos he missed, so no, Ah, Well,
it's almost like that's what happens when your first draft
is written on your phone. I roll. Later that evening,
I got a text from Jill. We live in a
small town, and as people were finding out about my dad,
they were reaching out to Jill so as not to
bother my mom and me. Jill told me that she
(38:57):
was directing people who wanted to bring us food to
bring it to her house. We're a five minute walk
away and stay for a drink. In my dad's honor.
It was turning into a small local wake. He wanted
my mom and me to know it was happening, but
put no pressure on us to join if we didn't
feel ready. We decided to go, but my mom was
still on the phone with her sister, so Ben and
I arrived first. It was really good to see so
(39:20):
many people who loved my dad. I was so beyond
tired by that point that it took the edge off
of reality, so I was even able to talk and
laugh without crying. All of the food people had brought
was set out potluck style, which was great because there
was no way we'd be able to fit it all
in Mom's freezer. As Ben and I were loading up
her plates, there came Jack. Maybe he thought it would
(39:43):
be a good distraction. Maybe it's because he hadn't seen
Ben yet, But the first thing Jack said to us
was not to resh you guys, but Charlie and Kate
already have a venue. Like it was a race and
we were losing.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Maybe he just needs a win, you know, I mean
again there in the middle of this week. Yeah, And
he's like, oh, by the way, I know you got
like something going on over here, but like you should
really think about this wedding because we're going to beat
you and then you're gonna be a.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Louther a louth.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
And he's like, yeah, yeah, man, how is this guy?
I just don't understand how he's like, is he doing
this on purpose? Like he must be doing this on purpose? Right?
Oh yeah, I mean he's.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Doing it on purpose to an extent, at least he's
saying these things on purpose.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
All of his life, he's been the lesser cousin, the
lesser family member, and for once in his life, the
golden cousin is falling from his throne and he thinks, oh,
I should read for time post instead of reading for
the room.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Oh okay, Riley, Okay, I so beyond shocked. There are
so many things I wanted to say. We've always wanted
a long engagement. When was I supposed to a wedding
plan in the three weeks leading up to my dad's passing,
What the F is wrong with you? But I was
so exhausted and grief stricken that no words came. Luckily, Jill,
(41:19):
who I hadn't even noticed come inside, immediately jumped in, Jack,
it's not a competition. This is not a competition, and Ben,
bless him, smiled and came right back with And even
if it was, going first is a disadvantage because it's
so much easier to one up.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Mm hmmm, We're gonna blow your wedding out of the water.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Jack's face fell and he left the room. I would
love to say it ended there, but in all of
the grief and trauma processing, my anger at the things
Jack said to me only festered. As I began wedding planning.
There was a part of me that couldn't stop thinking
about what Ben said. If I wanted, I really could
one up Charlie and Kate's wedding, but I held myself
(42:00):
back because it felt wrong to direct anger from my
uncle at my cousin. And then I found out what
Charlie said at my dad's celebration. My closest cousin is
Jill's daughter Tess. Apparently at the celebration, Charlie heard that
my mom was upset at Jack for the things he said,
and Charlie told tests, I don't get why she's mad
(42:21):
when my parents gave them all that money. The money
he's referring to is from when the doctors told my
parents that my dad only had a few months left.
My grandmother, Jill, and Jack all decided to split the
price to charter a private jet to send my parents, brother,
and me on one final family vacation. To my dad's
(42:41):
favorite place in the world. It was incredibly expensive, but
they insisted as my dad was not physically well enough
to fly commercially, so this was the only way we
could do it. Wow, my parents paid for everything. Once
we reached our destination, the family was thanked profusely, and
we bought them all meaningful gifts. This place is known
for its butterfly museum, and my dad would bring me
(43:03):
a new preserved butterfly display every time he visited, so
we brought back one for each of them. It's worth
noting that Jack called to tell me his wife would
never hang something like that in her house and regifted it.
That's fine, No one is obligated to like something they
didn't ask for. But why did Jack feel the need
to tell me she'd done so so? Apparently, in Charlie's mind,
(43:23):
writing a check grants you permissioned to be an ale
to two women who have just become a widow and
a half and half orphaned, noted half orphaned.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
I've ever heard of that word term before.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Maybe Charlie didn't know exactly.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Sorry enough full rough, full rough.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Maybe Charlie didn't know exactly what his dad said, but
that's an interesting attitude to have, even without all the details.
Then mom was the only person not granted a plus
one to Charlie and Kate's wedding. Oh wait, wait, well,
OPHI's mom who just lost her husband, was not granted
a plus one like a.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
I mean, I don't know if that. If they were
having a small wedding, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Because of attendance restrictions either.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
I really tried to be Devil's advocate here and that
op just be like nope.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
There were multiple families with children there. Apparently they talked
to Jack and other family members about it and decided
that as a widow, it was more appropriate for her
to go alone. That was the last straw.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Wouldn't you go with a friend or something?
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Yeah, but they didn't want her to.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
So asest thing to do when someone's like life partner
passes away, to just isolate.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Them, Yeah, just like don't talk to them ever now.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, don't talk to them, don't let them have friends around. No,
of course I thought, yeah, that would be it would
be too much.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
So as Charlie and Kate's wedding approached, my mom and
I started taking notes there save the day didn't have
their names on it. The limitation was black with clear
relief faunt so it was completely eligible unless you held
it up to the light at an angle. In their
engagement photos, they tried to do that a leaf stair
instead of smiling, but they just looked angry or uncomfortable
(45:05):
in most of them. Their wedding website had one poorly
written paragraph about the night they met at a bar.
I didn't say anything to anyone about it. I wasn't
trying to be mean, but anytime they did something that
just seemed underthought or underplanned, I made note of it.
They got married between Christmas and New Year's another negative
in my opinion, that's everyone's break time. A little over
(45:28):
a year after my dad's passing, when we got to
the venue, there was a massive eight x ten photo
of my dad holding Charlie as a toddler next to
the card table. They did not have a close relationship.
Charlie literally got engaged while he was dying, so its
presence felt like they were capitalizing on grief in a
way they weren't entitled to. We weren't warned it would
(45:49):
be there, and my mom and I both had to
excuse ourselves to cry out the surprise, anger, and unbidden
wave of grief. We stayed for a bit after dinner,
but left as soon as it felt appropriate. I don't
ever intend to see anything mean about their wedding. I mean, girl,
I fail, you're all here. I think you might might
be saying something.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
I think. I think we're I think we're getting to
that point.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
My mom and I are both perfectionist maximalists, and I
can honestly say that nothing we plan would be different
if we weren't partially motivated with spite. But I get
a petty amount of pleasure knowing that my wedding is
going to outshine theirs in every way. Here is a
complete list of upgrades my wedding has in comparison to
Charlie and Kates. Our invitations are legible, get wrecked. Everyone
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I'm married gets a plus.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
One boom, more fun people to mingle with.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
Our wedding website has a short history of our relationship,
of our whole relationship, not just a paragraph about the
night we met.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
I don't know if everyone's going to read that, but
still cute.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
They had three sprigs of eucalyptus on their table as decor.
We have full floral arrangements.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
A little more bobacious. The floral arrangement, the better the wedding.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
Their venue had awful acoustics. Ours is meant for live music.
They had a DJ who never let a song go
past its first chorus. We had a ten piece band.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
They had a candy bar. We had a fire pit
with a s'mores direct buyer is speaking of bars. Their
two bartenders could not keep up with demands, so we're
having four. As was always planned, there will be a
small memorial table for my dad with a photo of
the two of us nestled in some flowers and a
candle burning all night. It will separate. It will be
(47:31):
separate from the card table so as not to force
everyone to visit it if it would make them uncomfortable.
We'll be warning the family it's there. Yes, I recognize
that we're privileged to have some of these things, particularly
the budget for a band, but again, I never planned
to say anything about it. I'm not trying to flaunt
wealth or status. Kate's parents are in roughly the same
financial place as my mom, nor have I made my
(47:53):
wedding about them in any way. By the way, I'm
gonna make this about us because you can listen to
all episodes of stories just like this. Just go to Spotify,
Apple Podcasts, or iHeartRadio and search a pocas story time.
But there is a little bit left to the story.
Do you have any final thoughts?
Speaker 1 (48:11):
I mean, it sounds like whether or not this guy
is being an intentional a hole or an unintentional a hole,
his actions are hurting the people around him, and so
I feel like at a certain point, regardless of intention,
you just have to put some distance for your own sanity,
(48:33):
and it feels like op is starting to do that.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
I agree, Andy, Yeah, it just seems like your cousin
and Jack not not not behaving well at all, and
just enjoy that you had a great wedding. Yeah, or
are having a great wedding.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
I guess agreed.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
Queen Procrastinations has never had a s'more.
Speaker 1 (48:51):
That's crazy. Fix that right now. You can get a
gram cracker.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Just get a gram cracker, a marshmallow and some chocolate
and put the marshmallow over and over. You can do
in the microwave too.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Yeah, it was fun. That was fun. But you could
put an open flame like on the stove.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
That's true. Yeah, that's true. That's your homework.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Yeah, homework.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
But there is a little bit left to story. I'm
marrying a person who loves, protects and supports me, surrounded
by people who do the same. In our wedding is
so many little touches particular to our relationship and personalities.
This isn't really a petty revenge. If anything is a dare.
If Jack tries to say anything, I have a laundry
list of ways to shut him down in a way.
(49:34):
I just couldn't back then, because, after all, going first
is a disadvantage because it's so much easier to wanna.
The wedding is in October. I'll post an update if
anything goes down, and that is the end of that story.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Hates jeanyo og host Here we're gonna get back to
the stories.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
But here's a quick three minute break of Aspimer sponsors.
I think op taking the distance that she needs is
a good idea. I don't know if I would put so.
I feel like Ope's putting a little bit too you
much energy into this one up idea, which I don't
think is a good idea for your No, you are
your one upping.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Yeah, yeah, I know it would be like you are
You did give us like an itemized list of one up, and.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
I think, like, don't, don't focus on that. Just focus
on getting the space you need for this person and
focus on having a great wedding. It is probably gonna
be amazing, but you don't need to compare it to
anything else. It's just going to be amazing that it is.
But I am going to thieve away into the night
because we got to end this episode. So if you
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Speaker 3 (50:36):
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In 1997, actress Kristin Davis’ life was forever changed when she took on the role of Charlotte York in Sex and the City. As we watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships in NYC, the show helped push once unacceptable conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. Now, Kristin Davis wants to connect with you, the fans, and share untold stories and all the behind the scenes. Together, with Kristin and special guests, what will begin with Sex and the City will evolve into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. "Are you a Charlotte?" is much more than just rewatching this beloved show, it brings the past and the present together as we talk with heart, humor and of course some optimism.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com