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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Have I ever been left waiting by the phone? It's
the Fred Show. Hey, Sanna, good morning, Welcome to the show.
How are you I'm doing dead? How are y'all doing doing? Okay,
what's going on with is doing? Rob? On waiting by
the phone? Tell us how you met? About any dates
you've been on? And then what's happening now?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
So I met Rob on the dating apps, and you know,
I thought he was super cute and y'all, I was
excited that we matched, and so we we talked for
a bit and then he finally asked me to go
out for dreams and he didn't have any suggestions on

(00:43):
a police so you know, I had a spot in mind,
and so anyway, I just thought we were having a
great time. And towards the end of the night, I
went to the bathroom and when I came back out,
he was gone, okay, like gon like he wasn't like
he literally like left okay.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
So you don't make get through a whole date. I mean,
this wasn't like you went on a date and said, oh,
you know the whole thing. I want to see you again.
I'm going to ask you out again. And then he
ghosted like this dude ditched you on the first day.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
What like he ghosted in person, like in irm. Yeah,
so I try to text and call, but he didn't answer,
and I'm like completely left in the dark.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
So he didn't leave and then send you a note
about it. He didn't text you later and say hey,
I'm sorry, I had to go, you know, pooh or something.
I don't know what he had to do like this.
This dude didn't have any kind of like bodily emergency
or otherwise. He just left and he's just missing.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, and that's cricket because.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
We've heard it before over the years on waiting where
people have you know, various things happen and it's like
I can't do this here, or you know, like it's
this is not a good situation and they got to go.
But then at least they say like something or we
call him and they say, oh my gosh, I'm so
embarrassed with this is what happened. But in this case,
I mean, this dude just he just bailed. So let's go. Yeah, no, no,

(02:07):
and that at all I could. So let's play a song.
We'll come back in two minutes. I'm going to uh,
we're gonna call Rob. You'll be on the phone. We're
gonna ask these questions for you, and you know, hopefully
we can figure out what's going on, straighten it out,
set you guys up on another date and pay for that.
All right, I'd be great, Thank you. Let's find out
what's up? Part two of Waiting by the phone after
ho this year. Well, by the way, we'll be at

(02:28):
our Heheart Radio Music Festival two weeks away. Jason, we
got a trip right nine to ten. Nod your head yet, yes,
make it happen. If we don't, we do now nine
to ten and Part two of Waiting by the phone
at two minutes. Fred Show, Oh shere the Fred Show.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
He is on.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Good morning, Thanks for having us on the radio and
the iHeart app anytime. Search for The Fred Show on demand. Hey, Shannon,
let's call this dude Rob. You met on the apps.
You went on a date, you thought the date was
going well, you went to the bathroom, he came back.
This dude's gone and no word from him at all. No, Hey,
I had to go home. Hey, I forgot to take
my medicine. Hey, my cat is hungry. I don't know

(03:03):
it like nothing is just missing correct. Well, let's see
if we can get him on the phone and figure
out what's going on. Good luck, Shannon, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
This is Rob. Yeah, Hey Rob, good morning man. My
name is Fred. I'm calling from the Fred's Show, the
Morning radio Show. I do have to tell you that
we are on the radio right now. I would need
your permission to continue with the call. Can we chat
for just a second?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, Well, thank you very much for calling on behalf
of a woman who says she met you on the
dating apps and you went on a date recently. Her
name is Shannon. Do you remember Shannon?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I hope, Yeah, I remember Shannon.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, So what happened? Because she called us and said
that she enjoyed meeting you, and I guess was having
a good time on the date. I went to the bathroom,
she said, she came back and you were gone, and
you didn't text her and tell her why you didn't
tell anyone? You didn't tell the survey don't even know.
You didn't say if there was an emergency, and you
haven't reached out a responded since why did you leave

(04:04):
the day so abruptly?

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah? Okay, I mean Shannah was Shannon was dope. Char
was cool. We met online, Uh, gonna go get drinks.
Didn't really know where to go, so I let her
take the place. Thank the Lord, I let her take
that place because we get there and everything's going fine,
Like everything's going fine up until this point, but as

(04:27):
soon as we get hit there, I didn't know if
I was crazy or what, but there was some weird,
weird ass tension between her and the partender and she
was getting like really weirdly touchy and flirty that I didn't.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
There was something in a time that I was like,
I don't I don't trust this. I don't really know
what this is. So she got to go to the
bathroom and I just caid. So I went up to
the bartender. I was like, hey, Vanda, man, like, what's up?
What's going on? Truly, I got no I got no
stake in the game right now. And he lat it out.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
There that him and Shannon that that to X, Shannon
to X and way she was trying to make her jealous.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
So she invites me. She says, I will pick the place.
You go to this place. She picks the place where
her ex boyfriend works and has to serve you drinks,
and so basically you're just a pawn in this whole thing.
Not to say she didn't like you or find you attractive,
but I mean, I suppose you could be complimented that
she believes that your presence would make him jealous. But
essentially that's why she picked the place, not because they
had like the best margarita. It's because this dude is

(05:34):
working there and she wanted to upset him. Yep, I
like that. Eaither let me bring Shannon in. I forgot
to mention that Shannon is here? Shannon, what are you doing?
Why would you do that?

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Okay, Well, first of all, my ex is not the
reason I picked that bar, Like, oh, I had no
idea he's work there.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Okay, well they have. They have the best taping style
pizza there. Some people call it just pizza. But why well,
then why would you picked up You could pick up
thousand other places. You don't have to pick a place
where your ex works.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
I just love I love that spot.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's literally one of my favorite places. And I haven't
been there in a while, and so I didn't realize
like he was still going to be there, like bartending
and look you know, Rob, I didn't tell you what
was going on because I didn't want to make you
feel weird.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
You know, like, I, what do you think happened to
your actually like drafted to the war or something like
where do you think he wins? Like, I mean that's
when he was What are the odds? What are the odds?
I mean, I just I think that you could have
picked any other place.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, I mean I guess I was like taking a rest,
but I it had been a while, and I know
that he kind of like bounced around out a lot
of bars, So you know, I.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Just figured that. So you're saying it was an ounce.
You're saying that it wasn't on purpose. You're saying that
it just still happened that he would maybe he was
going to be there, maybe he wasn't, but you weren't
thinking about it that way. That's your Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, And I was trying to mediate a very like
awkward situation.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
That you created by taking a new date to a
place where your ex works. But Kiki's got a look
on her face. I mean you always have a look
on your face like something smells during he's waiting by
the phone, give her another shot.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
It was a small misstep.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
You're excusing me.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, she did not mean to do that. She didn't
know her ex was still going to be in the
same place she left him. It's not her fucking what. Yeah,
you look on your face once because at first I
was like, girl, this is a wild move, this is petty.
You were trying to be funny. But she's she explained that,
she said it was a little accident.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
This was not an accident, So why not leave? Why
not go to find a different place? When you find
out that he's working there? Yeah, they walk in there like, well,
this would be weird for the new guy, So like,
let's go somewhere else, because I, oh, my gosh, you
slipped my mind that I used to sleep with works here.
It's gainfully employed by this establishment. We can't even go
next door, right, it's just inconvenience.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Dream we had we had you know, we were in
the middle of drinking and like, you.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Know, we already had we put in our order.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Like I it would have made a scene, and I
just wasn't trying.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
To make a scene.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
So he was just making up that.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
You guys were like making eyes at each other and
you were more touchy with him.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Every time you took a glance. He was observing that
before he knew the story, right, so he got was
going on that. He wanted to say something.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
But what I Okay, Like, maybe there were eyes because
we recognized each other obviously, but I wasn't touchy. He's
behind a bar, He's like observing drinks would be touchy.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
My question was I couldn't reach over the.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Bar like that.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
That doesn't make sense touch with the date. Right after
after you went to the bathroom, you come back, dude's gone.
Did you stay at the bar with your ex boyfriend?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, I just said good to see you when I left.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
See. I'm a little bit mixed though, because I feel
like I wouldn't like it either. But I don't think
and Rob, I'm not saying you did anything wrong because
you're probably like I don't want any part of this mess.
But at the same time, I might be like cool
and then some ass back down and then just you know,
I mean, clearly I was a ploy, so I would

(09:14):
like start making out with her or something, I start
trying to make the guy jealousy. No, I mean there's
two ways to look at it. You can get up
and storm out, which is what he's head, which I mean,
you know, hey, look, trust me, you don't necessarily want
to meddle in someone's effort to make someone else jealous,
because that means there's still feelings in communication or whatever.
That part I get. The other part of me is like,
what's that thing he'd never let you do? Because now

(09:35):
I want to do it? Fredie sliding on the wall,
you know, I mean, I might just up a little
bit and start to try and make this guy jealous.
Am I get in on the game a little bit?
I mean, I guess there's two ways of looking at it.
I don't and Rob you just weren't having it. You
were like, I just don't want any part of this.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
No, it's it's just not for me in sure to
go the other way.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
I don't know, man, It's like I've dated the situation
before into old I need to keep doing that.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, I probably would have left too, But there's another
way of looking at it. You could flex. I guess
as well, But it doesn't matter. That's Shannon. You've got
to be more thoughtful than that. If you're saying it
was an accident, you got to be more thoughtful than that.
But uh, okay, but here's look at me, like with
all these flip side devil's advocate arms, I guess you
also could reclaim your spot. But if it was his

(10:23):
spot because he worked there and then you hung out
there because of him, then it was never your spot
to begin with, and you should probably let the ex
have his piece. So the more I work through this,
the more I think there's really no reason to be
taking dates there, right. Work it through. I'm working it through. Yeah,
I'm working it through. I'm thinking out loud. I'm thinking, Okay, Jaron,
look here, I loved her till she was seventeen. Okay

(10:45):
a minute, all right, Look, so Ron, you're not interested,
I mean, let's say we'll go to a different place.
We'll pick up spot where her none of her ex's work.
How about that, and we'll pay for it.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
I appreciate it, but I'm gonna still back down and
say no, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
My gut tells me there's still something going on. There's
still some medaling going on here, Shannon. Do you harbor
feelings for this man still?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I mean, even after this traumatizing event, yes, I.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
For him. I mean I met your ex. Do you
want tender. Yeah, do you have still have feelings for
your ax?

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh for my ex? No? No, I really just like I'm.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Trying to move on, and like it was so stupid.
It honestly was so dumb. Like I feel so good,
I'm sorry that I suggested going there, and like I'm
never going there again.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Until the next day, right with a good looking I
don't know, until he works again.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Right.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
The wind part is it was like Chili, there's a
bunch of locations they could have gone to one. They
had to go to that, right, can't pass on that
presidential marquita. I mean, I know they take a different
when you know, man, he really does something sweet and sour.
I'll tell you what. It's different. It's different. It's different.
All right, guys, Look, it's not gonna work out. Rob,

(12:06):
thanks for answering. Good luck to you, Shannon, good luck
to you as well.

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