MINI: Who Did You Sit Next To?

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, this is.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast. Who did you sit next to? Now?
It might be someone famous, it might be someone of
no or it might be Rio's story, which he said
to me just now when he gave me the top
line of what it is, he went, I've actually got
clammy hands, and all I know is the headline here went,

(00:42):
Oh my god, that sounds horrendous. You're trapped next to
that person.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
The hands are clambing.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh god, this is some story. Who did you sit
next to?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, I'm flying back to Sydney. I take my seat.
I'm looking down the aisle. Blood runs cold. A ghost
from COVID pat has emerged an X from a from
my perspective, a very odd, obvious COVID situationship. At no
point had there been any discussions of exclusivity or anything

(01:16):
like that. That didn't seem to matter as the relationship
disintegrated and didn't end on great turn.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Do you just by random? What are yours? You're next
to an ex I see her like a COVID one one.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
It was COVID was for single people.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
In COVID. It was a hardy exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
And you're just looking for you know, everyone was looking
for companionship. But came out of COVID and there were
robust discussions and people were upset. And I still claim
I'm innocent. She would not see it the same way.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
So she had a different operation that it was the
start something, or it was a relationship. She she thought
it was can you be honest, what's this a string
of encounters on an individual express It.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Was a string of encounters. We'd only ever been to
each other's houses. It was COVID, We'd never actually been
on a proper date. So for me, I thought that
was that had set the tone of the relationship. It
was just some hanging.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Out transactional transactional.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yes, Yes, it was not seen the same way and
that the d it ended up badly then, yes, And
that was the last time that I'd seen them. And
then I said, like that coffee, I was like it
is I'm looking I'm looking out the plane window like
trying to rotate my head so no facial features can
be can be seen, So I'm steering out the window,

(02:39):
staring at the window, and you and part of you
you just know, you're like, oh, this is my karma, Like.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
This this happening. They're not just on the plane, they'd
be in the seat next.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yes, they're there for a reason. She sits down. I like,
sheish look over and I go to start like, okay,
you just got to go into this, I was like,
and then she clocks me. She must have clocked me earlier,
but she looked straight at me, headphones on, looked straight ahead,
d Christian. We did not say a word for the
entire flight. I'm sitting there and I've seen there completely.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's actually loud of the deafening.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
It was the longest flight of my life, and it
was shorter than that it was, and I couldn't I
couldn't go to the toilet because then I have to
start another sort of I need to engage her again,
and then that can start a whole thing. So I'm
just sitting there like the toilet, but just staring just
straight like eyes like those horses have those just staring

(03:36):
completely still.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I still imagine if it was a longer flying you
need to go like a four or five hour excuse me,
excuse me? Are they saying nothing? Then the show was
she on the aisle.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
No, I was on the window. She was in the middle,
and there was middle.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
And elbow. You folded into your turtled up.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Water. She was next to you. Literally, Christian, literally a terrible,
terrible breakup that you weren't even aware it was a
proper breakup.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh my word, that's hell. Whatever when he.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Got off though, whatever, when he got just left in silence.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, you just didn't worry, okay. The Christian O'Connell Show
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