Radio Blogs: Fred's Third Wheeling!

Fred is third wheeling internationally! He is going to Toronto with his neighbors this weekend.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, they talk better than they say.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Tell me about.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
These are the radio blogs on the Fred Show. All right,
it's like we're writing in our diaries, except we say
them aloud. We call them blogs. I haven't done in
a while, so I'm gonna do a blog, dear blog.
I have these neighbors, very very nice people. Then down
the hall from me. They're around my age. I think
we're the same age, really, same birth gear. Why do
I know this? Because well, because I have all their

(00:24):
passport info. Why do I have that? Because we're going
on a trip, the three of us together tomorrow and Sunday.
We're going back. We're going back to the sixth We're
going to Toronto. So I meet this guy in the
hallway a couple of years ago because I know, I
know what. I already know what you're thinking. You have
looks at your faces like there's something nefarious going on.

(00:44):
There's a spirit in your eye like I'm being included
as a third That's what. That's what. That's what I
could read. I can read see. I know you guys
so well. I don't even we can sit here and
telepathically do this show, and I know what you're thinking.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
That thing we were talking about off the.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, well might be so married. Couple very nice people.
I meet this guy a few years ago. They moved
in and he's walking down the hall with a bunch
of like pilot books. Can you learning how to fly? Oh?
And so I was like, hey, so we start talking
or whatever. I'm becoming a pilot. So we became friends
this way, and every now and again we go places.

(01:20):
Well I shouldn't even say that. I think we've gone
like two places. But anyway, I am the third wheel
on this trip, right because he's a pilot and he
has a plane. I got a little Putt putt plane,
and we like to go places and whatever. But it's
a little strange. I keep having to tell them, like
if you guys want to go off and do whatever
you want to do, like as I don't need to

(01:41):
third wheel this whole twenty four hours, right, like we're
friends and whatever. But I don't know if maybe they're hoping,
like can the dude just bring somebody to make it even,
you know, but I'm not just going to bring somebody.
When you're not seeing anyone and there's really no one
on the horizon, you don't really ask someone to leave
the country with you, Like, I'm not gonna. I mean,
what would be a worse impression on my friends if

(02:02):
I get on a dating app and go, hey, you
want to go to Canada this weekend? Like probably not
a great idea. I feel like that's where things go awry,
you know, like I'm with a stranger in a hotel
room in a foreign country, and what if we don't
get along or something. So I just do my thing
and go along with them. But I will be honest,
it's a little strange for me. I feel like I'm

(02:23):
intruding on their thing. I don't think they see it
that way. I don't. But this has been the story
of my life is I'm always the third wheel because
most of my friends are married and I'm not. And
I don't typically bring people around my friends or family
unless it's really serious that it very rarely is, which
means I'm always the third wheel. They're together all the time.
I mean you know this. I've crashed my parents Valentine's dinners,

(02:46):
I've crashed birthdays, I've all kinds of things of my parents,
and they're like, look, for thirty some years, we've been
together every day, all the time. You can come to this.
I'm sure they feel the same way. They don't see
it as weird as I do, but I think it's weird. Now.
You guys think it's a swinging situation and it's not. Okay,
it's not. They've never made any pass with me whatsoever.

(03:07):
But what a perfect opportunity in another country. What does
that have to do it? It's gonna be romantic. I
can see the United States Toronto. It's not even that exotic.
Yeah they are. They are lovely people and it's not
like that.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
They're not your type.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Don't do that because it's because if they if they
hear this, they're gonna wind up feeling rejected without ever
you know what I'm saying. They want to They don't.
They want nothing to do with me sexually.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
But you're turning them down.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
But hey, guys, sorry, But then what do you say
to that? I'd be very What do you say now?
Would you you're open to it? Say no that I'm
saying I don't find my friends attractive. If I say yes,
it's like this guy's predator. He's taking us to Canada

(04:08):
to do.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
What I'm hearing is there's a chance, Yes.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
It would if they wanted it, don't put me in
this position. They're lovely people. I don't think they have
any interest in that, and I don't have any interest
in that. It would certainly make the neighborhood pot look
a little weird. But I keep saying to them, I'm like, guys, like,
I know, it's it's they like the flying stuff. I
like the flying stuff. They're they're relatively new, you know,

(04:33):
because I think, you know, he's really into it. So
she's into it with him, you know what I mean.
So like they're always going places, They're always you know,
it's like, you know, this is, like I said, the
ability to like jump in the thing and go to
wherever in the wherever travers City or Detroit or Milwaukee

(04:54):
or Raleigh or wherever the hell you want to you know,
the West POMBI, wherever you want to go. Is it
kind of a new freedom things. So they're into it.
So then it's like, well let's do this and there
so's we have this like camaraderie.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, it's a bonding moment. Are you taking sexy underwear
right more than you usually pack? The first of my
fully man skipped at all times. You never know you
just never know right when in the moment's right. Okay,
I'm not going to get caught up. God, I'll tell
you that right now. Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
I love being the third wheel though in all seriousness,
like I love these people, just it's my trip and
they just uninvited me. They're home right now. Going this
guy is such a more like being. I like it
third wheel syndrome. It is an insecurity, if you want
to call it that, that I have had for a
very long time now because there are no longer in

(05:46):
my in my realm, there are no longer single people
like I no longer have the single buddy I can
call and say, hey, come along, because it's like, oh,
let me get this cleared, and we got soccer practice
and t ball and I don't know, maybe next month
yor in six months we can do it or whatever.
And then I don't have I'm not seeing anyone with
the regularity that it's like, come to come with us.

(06:06):
And so rather than just bring somebody and make it
awkward for them, I just don't. I typically just go
I show it by myself.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
As a single person. I've learned that the couples don't care.
No seriously, they do not care.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
They want it.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I used to be on their dates everything, we'd be
at the movie theaters. I'm in between them sharing.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
They do not care because they spend all this time together.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
You're putting it on yourself.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
And I get like why you might feel that way.
But like believe when I say, like, a.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Couple will tell you if they want to be alone,
and they will make that time.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Right. They're well aware what this is, you know, so
like they could just say no and.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Stop you keep showing them your sexy underwear.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Right and they kick guys getting one hotel room or
two it's a connecting room, okay, case of emergency. Now
we're saying it. Actually, what's funny is now we're saying
two separate hotel They just texted me. They just texted me.

(07:07):
Can you would you mind saying at the Hilton down
the road. This complete total separation. Wow, this is I
sure hope they're asleep,