June 3, 2025 • 18 mins
Ever woken up in a dog crate? Given your dad's number to random guys at a bar? Locked your partner out naked in a hotel hallway? Welcome to the world of "gremlin stories", those moments when our worst, most unfiltered selves take the wheel.
Though battling illness for this milestone 10th episode, I couldn't resist sharing these listener confessions that had me cackling despite my lack of energy. From the anonymous heartbroken listener who drunk-dialed her ex at 3 AM after discovering his engagement announcement, to a deliciously petty revenge at a bachelor party where she falsely claimed her ex had never satisfied her (cue the collective gasps). These stories remind us that sometimes our most embarrassing moments become our funniest memories.
The chaos continues with a post-Memorial Day festival confusion that led to sleeping in a storage place, a girl accidentally giving her father's phone number to persistent bar suitors, and a listener's full demon-mode emergence that resulted in her boyfriend seeking refuge in the hallway wearing nothing but his birthday suit. I even share my own gremlin moment from a cruise where I accidentally locked my boyfriend out of our cabin.
These stories connect us through shared vulnerability, the recognition that we all have moments where our inner gremlins break free. What embarrassing, cringe-worthy stories are you hiding? Share your own gremlin tales by emailing emilytogremilypod@gmail.com or connecting on Instagram and TikTok @emilytogremilypod. And if this collection of chaos made you laugh, please rate the podcast 5 stars wherever you listen!
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
hey guys, emily, emily to gremily, here again,
we're doing a solo episode againbecause I got sick and we don't
want to infect anyone else.
Um, it's been a horrible week.
I almost didn't even record anepisode because I was feeling so
shitty, so down and out.
But this is my 10th episode.
(00:35):
My podcast is officially doubledigits, so I couldn't not do an
episode.
Unfortunately, it's not goingto have the energy that I would
normally like it to have, butthat's okay, I'm going to
persevere and get it going.
So with that, if you're watching, the drink of the week is a
(00:57):
smoothie.
She is an orange smoothie andit's because I need the
nutrients and the vitamins.
I again have been struggling sobad this week, but it's a
recipe that I got from myfavorite TikToker in the whole
world.
I love her so much PaigeSheffield Now.
She used to be Paige McDonald,but now she's Paige Sheffield.
(01:18):
But this is heranti-inflammatory smoothie.
It's mango, pineapple, carrotjuice, turmeric, black pepper to
activate the turmeric lemonjuice I know I'm oh ginger, and
then I added coconut water aswell.
She also does do beet juice.
I just didn't have that.
(01:39):
So that's what I'm drinking.
Hopefully I will get better.
I feel like you can also tellmy health by the way my nails
look, and in my sickness I justpicked off all my nails.
If you're watching, I'm back tohaving my baby hands.
So the next time you see me, Iwill have my nails done.
I will have my hair done,because I just took an
(02:01):
everything shower.
I feel much better clean, happy, but my hair's wet.
I have no nails.
I probably look like absoluteshit, but I got to do this, so
let's get it going.
I put it out on social media andI asked you guys.
I did a poll, I said what kindof content are you looking for?
(02:22):
And I gave the options.
I said do you want gremlinstories?
Do you want life and loveadvice?
Do you want?
What was the other one?
Oh, more guest episodes orsomething else.
Dm me 60% of you said gremlinstories.
So that's what we're doing.
This episode it's nothing butgremlin stories, which kind of
made my job easier this week,considering I am having issues.
(02:45):
So I was able to just pull thegremlin stories and go with them
.
All I got to do is just read.
So even that, though, might bea little challenging, we might
take a few breaks so I can getmy life together with that.
All right, the first gremlinstory is anonymous.
This is probably the mostembarrassing moment of my life,
(03:07):
so this needs to stay anonymous.
The love of my life had brokenup with me after two and a half
years and I was absolutelydevastated.
Almost immediately afterwardshe began dating his co-worker,
who he had told me quote not toworry about.
They are just friends.
Insert eye roll here.
They always say that.
(03:27):
Anyway, about a year later, I'mscrolling on Instagram and see
his sister posted a pic of himwith his now fiance at their
engagement party.
I had no idea he proposed toher and maybe in the back of my
mind I had hoped we would oneday find our way back to each
other.
I was absolutely heartbroken.
(03:48):
I told my roommate about it andshe comforted me and suggested
we postmates some alcohol to theapartment and drink our
troubles away.
That's always the best solution.
Thus began our binge night.
After finishing three bottlesof wine and two boxes of tissues
, I decided we needed tequila.
(04:09):
The rest of the night becamefuzzy and now I'm back in my
bedroom on the phone calling myex.
Mind you, it is now 3 am.
He didn't answer, but thatdidn't stop me from calling many
times and leaving manyvoicemails telling him off and
crying about how bad he had hurtme.
(04:32):
The next afternoon I woke upfeeling worse than I did the
night before, with a text on myphone from him saying, quote I'm
sorry you're hurt, but I'vemoved on, and so should you.
By the way, his sister blockedme, which is probably for the
best.
Oh, my goodness, I'm so sorrygirl.
(04:52):
So I picked this one because Ididn't have a story to.
Actually, with most of these, Idon't have a story with them, I
just grabbed them because Ithought they were funny.
But this one, I wanted to tellyou that that's okay and I think
, even though he's an asshole, Ido think he's right.
I feel like now you have yourclosure, you can move on with
your life and you can find yourperson.
(05:13):
You said that he was the loveof your life.
Obviously he's not, because ifhe was, he wouldn't have treated
you like that.
So you haven't found the loveof your life just yet, but you
will, and when you are able tomove on from this guy and heal,
you'll be able to find youractual person.
Unfortunately, this is just asad story, but that's okay.
(05:40):
We all do embarrassing thingsand you know, like we say before
, we hope they get the life thatthey deserve, and that's what
will happen with him.
He'll get the life he deserves,and so will you.
You deserve happiness.
You deserve your love and yourperson, so you will find the
love of your life.
He wasn't it, so ditch him.
(06:00):
She can have him right.
Okay.
This next one is Samantha.
Samantha says I'm taking thisback to 2013.
I'm the maid of honor in mybest friend's wedding and her
groom's best man, my ex.
See, my friend and I had metthem both together in a bar a
few years back.
They made it.
We didn't.
The breakup wasn't too horrible, no cheating.
(06:23):
We just ended up clashing toomuch Very much oil and water.
So we were able to be aroundeach other without too much
issue, at least for the sake ofour friends.
Now I don't know why, but thebride and groom decided to have
a joint bachelor bacheloretteparty in Nashville.
We each have our own activitiesfor the most part, but also
(06:43):
have group activities.
One of the group activities wasplaying drinking games,
including Never have I Ever thequestion gets asked never have I
ever had an orgasm.
I'm already deep with mywhiskey and something came over
me and I looked my ex dead inthe eye and said never, it was a
(07:05):
total lie, but I felt likebeing mean.
The whole party erupted with oh.
My ex was pissed, but it mademe laugh.
So all is well that ends well.
Bye, samantha.
Samantha, I fucking love this.
I fucking love you.
Fuck.
Yeah, you know what, if youguys make each other mad anyway,
(07:27):
might as well just fucking addit on, but I love that.
You know now he's gonnaprobably question his existence
and time be.
Oh wait, this was 12 years ago,eh, whatever, I'm sure he still
thinks about it, though guysnever get over something like
that.
They're always like harping onit and worried about it, and you
know, if you have to take himdown a peg or two, oh well, all
right, all right.
(07:47):
This next one is from Lucy.
Lucy says this happened thispast Saturday for Memorial
Weekend.
Our town has a big festival forMemorial Weekend.
I think of it as a mini Fourthof July.
My roommate and I went walkingthrough and met up with a few
friends and just enjoyed the day.
At night we went to ourfavorite bar, which is down the
(08:09):
street from our house.
I don't remember leaving thebar.
But when I woke up I was forsure in my living room but in
our big dog, crate.
My roommate has a huge GermanShepherd that she is crate
training and in my drunken stateI decided to switch places with
the dog.
Luckily, the door wasn't closedand I was able to slip out.
(08:30):
It was a good day.
Thanks for reading, lucy.
Like I said, I don't have astory for any of these.
I just grabbed them becausethey were funny and I love that.
Yeah, that's a good one.
So I figured the dog issleeping outside the crate like
watching you sleep in the crate,which is funny as hell.
(08:51):
And it was super recent.
We just did it, we just had it.
So I love that for you Allright.
This next one is from MadisonMadison says.
During my freshman year ofcollege I was kind of scared to
go out and drink, but myroommate convinced me to go out
with her after her uncle made mea convincing fake ID.
I know it's illegal, blah, blahblah.
(09:12):
So we go to the local bar wherethey card, but not super well,
just for my own peace of mind.
We get in and I start to getexcited.
I wasn't a big drinker so Iwasn't sure what to order.
I ended up just going with theflow and getting drinks along
with my friends at their pace.
Big mistake I was white girl,wasted by 11 pm, but I was
(09:37):
feeling myself and even though Iwas messy, I was having a great
time.
I think the boys thought that Iwas an easy target because,
like your friend said before,men are trash, thank you.
So I was getting hit on leftand right.
I obviously wasn't going to gohome with any of them, but they
were a little relentless.
(09:57):
So I started giving out a fakenumber saying text me and we
would hook up sometime.
I didn't think too much aboutthe number I was saying.
The following day I didn't thinktoo much about the number I was
saying.
The following day I received acall from my dad asking what was
going on and if I was okay.
Confused, I said yes and askedwhy Turned out.
My drunk brain decided to tellall these boys my dad's phone
(10:21):
number.
I have no idea why.
I tried to make up some lameexcuse as to why they would be
texting him.
That didn't involve illegaldrinking, but I don't think he
bought it, madison.
Okay, I have a couple thingswith this the uncle making the
fake ID.
What kind of family is this?
If I would have asked my uncleto make me a fake ID, he would
(10:42):
have told me to scram.
So I'm assuming that this is anuncle.
That is like very close in age,like an age gap between the
mother, father and the uncle,because that's weird and wild.
But giving out a fake numberthat's your dad's, that's insane
.
I used to give out fake numbers,um, but I stopped doing it.
(11:08):
I mean, I haven't done it in along time, but I stopped doing
it because I got nervous thatthe guys were going to ask me to
repeat the number back andobviously I was just throwing
numbers out of my mouth.
So I was like, so then whenthey would ask, I would just
straight up say no, which islike we should be able to reject
(11:28):
a guy if we don't want to talkto them further, like just, you
know, thank you for the smallconversation and the drink and
toodaloo.
I don't know why we're soafraid to say no, goodbye.
That's because men are scary,because men can be trash.
That's why, good God, come on,men do better.
Not all men, but you know, youget what I'm trying to say Okay.
(11:51):
This last one is Marcella.
She says this is a story frommy early 20s.
For reference, I am now 36 withtwo kids.
I was away with my boyfriend ona trip to Miami.
We are from Orlando.
We had been partying anddrinking for the past two days
and that night went clubbing andwent back to the hotel room to
(12:12):
get freaky After doing the deed.
We were just laying there nakedand he made some little comment
.
I can't remember what he said,but I just saw red.
I came flying at him with mychancla and started screaming at
him, telling him to get out.
He panicked, asking what waswrong, and I just kept screaming
(12:33):
at him, with him dodgingeverything I threw.
He ran out of the room nakedand I locked him out.
All of the anger must haveexhausted me, because I passed
out and woke up a couple hourslater to a knock at the door.
I opened it and it was himasking to come back, this time
(12:54):
with a towel around his waist.
I let him in and asked him whathe's been doing.
He said the neighbor guys heardthe shouting and came to peek
and then gave him a towel to sitin and he had been sitting
outside the door.
This entire time I felt bad andapologized.
I don't think I became agremlin, but a full on demon.
(13:16):
I no longer drink or party forthat exact reason.
Marciela oh my God, that poorguy.
I do wonder what he said,though, because depending on
what he said, I either will orwill not feel bad for him.
Depending on what he said, Ieither will or will not feel bad
for him.
This is the only story I kindof have a story for, but it
wasn't like bad.
(13:41):
So a few years ago, my boyfriendand I went on a cruise to
Mexico, and it was supposed tobe a cruise from Los Angeles to
Ensenada and then Cabo.
Unfortunately, there was ahurricane that hit the Cabo so
we couldn't go, which was thewhole point of us wanting to go
on the cruise, because we hadjust been to Ensenada.
So it was an extra day at sea,and then, on top of it, we're
(14:02):
like we're not going to get offat Ensenada because we were
never planning on it.
So we just basically spent likefive days on this ship.
We got the full inclusive drinkpackage, which means we drank
our body weight in Tito's, andwe had a great time, but the
last night I wasn't feeling wellbecause you know it'd been five
(14:24):
days of just binge drinking andwe were at the casino and he
was like playing and kind ofwinning, and I was just like
like I need to like go back tothe room.
I don't feel good, but you stayhere.
I stumble my butt all the way tothe room, I make it, I get in
the room and I fall asleep.
And by fall asleep I mean Ipass out, like clothes on laying
(14:47):
cross, like diagonal on the bed, pass out.
And that was that.
I didn't really think much ofit.
I wake up the next morning andor he wakes me up the next
morning because we have to packand like get ready to, you know,
disembark.
And he's like do you know whatyou did last night?
And I was like oh God, no,what'd I do?
Thinking like I remembered thewhole night, and he's like you
(15:07):
locked me out.
I and he's like you locked meout.
I was like what do you mean?
I locked you out like youdidn't have your key and he's
like no, I had my key, but youput the latch on the door so I
couldn't get in.
Like it was like having a chainon the door and I was like, oh
my god, so like would you do?
And he said he had to, like hewas knocking, knocking, knocking
.
But then it was getting lateand he's like, oh great, I'm
(15:28):
gonna piss off like all theneighbors.
So he had to go to like theconcierge and tell them what
happened.
And then someone walked with.
He had to prove who he wasfirst, because you know safety,
but he had to.
They walked him to the room andthey used this little like
contraption thing to go underthe door and undo the lot, the
latch, and then he was able toget in, which also is scary
(15:52):
because, like what, if, likesome nefarious person who works
for the cruise line wanted touse that?
But I digress anyway.
So he was able to get back inthe room but he was like you
were knocked the fuck outbecause I was like pounding on
the door.
He's like even like the guycame in like to let me in and
he's like you didn't even hearus talking and laughing.
(16:13):
He's like, and yeah, he's like,it was crazy.
He's like, and then I had tomove you, like, flop you over to
your side, because you werefully across the bed.
It was insane, but I have.
I have locked someone out before, but I didn't, it wasn't a
fight.
I didn't, it wasn't a fight.
I didn't do it on purpose, itwas just I was drunk and I guess
(16:38):
I didn't really think about it.
I just locked it.
You know, I just wanted to, youknow, not get killed or
anything.
So, yeah, that's what happened.
So again, sorry, babe, butyou're fine, you made it in,
you're good.
Okay, guys, that's the end ofthe Gremlin stories.
A short one, but I almostdidn't do it because I am
struggling.
(16:58):
I feel like you can hear it inmy voice that I'm down and out.
But yeah, next week I'll becoming back, looking my best and
have nails on, so you don'thave to look at my bib hands,
because my hands look way toosmall without nails, which I
probably shouldn't point out,because now you guys are going
to look at that.
All right, so if you want tosend in any gremlin stories, you
(17:21):
can email me, or gremlinstories, or if you want advice
on anything, you can email thepodcast.
It is emily2gramilypod atgmailcom.
Make sure to give me a followon Instagram and TikTok it is
emily2gramilypod and then makesure to rate this podcast five
stars wherever you're listeningApple Podcasts, spotify,
(17:45):
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what else we got, I don't evenknow.
Castro Overcast.
All the ones, all the ones,wherever you're listening.
Give me a five star and yeah,that's the episode.
Again, I'll be back next weekand it'll be a much better
episode.
I promise this was a disaster.
(18:06):
I'm going to drink myanti-inflammatory drink.
Get better.
And yeah, cheersies, bye.
hey guys, emily, emily to gremily, here again,
we're doing a solo episode againbecause I got sick and we don't
want to infect anyone else.
Um, it's been a horrible week.
I almost didn't even record anepisode because I was feeling so
shitty, so down and out.
But this is my 10th episode.
(00:35):
My podcast is officially doubledigits, so I couldn't not do an
episode.
Unfortunately, it's not goingto have the energy that I would
normally like it to have, butthat's okay, I'm going to
persevere and get it going.
So with that, if you're watching, the drink of the week is a
(00:57):
smoothie.
She is an orange smoothie andit's because I need the
nutrients and the vitamins.
I again have been struggling sobad this week, but it's a
recipe that I got from myfavorite TikToker in the whole
world.
I love her so much PaigeSheffield Now.
She used to be Paige McDonald,but now she's Paige Sheffield.
(01:18):
But this is heranti-inflammatory smoothie.
It's mango, pineapple, carrotjuice, turmeric, black pepper to
activate the turmeric lemonjuice I know I'm oh ginger, and
then I added coconut water aswell.
She also does do beet juice.
I just didn't have that.
(01:39):
So that's what I'm drinking.
Hopefully I will get better.
I feel like you can also tellmy health by the way my nails
look, and in my sickness I justpicked off all my nails.
If you're watching, I'm back tohaving my baby hands.
So the next time you see me, Iwill have my nails done.
I will have my hair done,because I just took an
(02:01):
everything shower.
I feel much better clean, happy, but my hair's wet.
I have no nails.
I probably look like absoluteshit, but I got to do this, so
let's get it going.
I put it out on social media andI asked you guys.
I did a poll, I said what kindof content are you looking for?
(02:22):
And I gave the options.
I said do you want gremlinstories?
Do you want life and loveadvice?
Do you want?
What was the other one?
Oh, more guest episodes orsomething else.
Dm me 60% of you said gremlinstories.
So that's what we're doing.
This episode it's nothing butgremlin stories, which kind of
made my job easier this week,considering I am having issues.
(02:45):
So I was able to just pull thegremlin stories and go with them
.
All I got to do is just read.
So even that, though, might bea little challenging, we might
take a few breaks so I can getmy life together with that.
All right, the first gremlinstory is anonymous.
This is probably the mostembarrassing moment of my life,
(03:07):
so this needs to stay anonymous.
The love of my life had brokenup with me after two and a half
years and I was absolutelydevastated.
Almost immediately afterwardshe began dating his co-worker,
who he had told me quote not toworry about.
They are just friends.
Insert eye roll here.
They always say that.
(03:27):
Anyway, about a year later, I'mscrolling on Instagram and see
his sister posted a pic of himwith his now fiance at their
engagement party.
I had no idea he proposed toher and maybe in the back of my
mind I had hoped we would oneday find our way back to each
other.
I was absolutely heartbroken.
(03:48):
I told my roommate about it andshe comforted me and suggested
we postmates some alcohol to theapartment and drink our
troubles away.
That's always the best solution.
Thus began our binge night.
After finishing three bottlesof wine and two boxes of tissues
, I decided we needed tequila.
(04:09):
The rest of the night becamefuzzy and now I'm back in my
bedroom on the phone calling myex.
Mind you, it is now 3 am.
He didn't answer, but thatdidn't stop me from calling many
times and leaving manyvoicemails telling him off and
crying about how bad he had hurtme.
(04:32):
The next afternoon I woke upfeeling worse than I did the
night before, with a text on myphone from him saying, quote I'm
sorry you're hurt, but I'vemoved on, and so should you.
By the way, his sister blockedme, which is probably for the
best.
Oh, my goodness, I'm so sorrygirl.
(04:52):
So I picked this one because Ididn't have a story to.
Actually, with most of these, Idon't have a story with them, I
just grabbed them because Ithought they were funny.
But this one, I wanted to tellyou that that's okay and I think
, even though he's an asshole, Ido think he's right.
I feel like now you have yourclosure, you can move on with
your life and you can find yourperson.
(05:13):
You said that he was the loveof your life.
Obviously he's not, because ifhe was, he wouldn't have treated
you like that.
So you haven't found the loveof your life just yet, but you
will, and when you are able tomove on from this guy and heal,
you'll be able to find youractual person.
Unfortunately, this is just asad story, but that's okay.
(05:40):
We all do embarrassing thingsand you know, like we say before
, we hope they get the life thatthey deserve, and that's what
will happen with him.
He'll get the life he deserves,and so will you.
You deserve happiness.
You deserve your love and yourperson, so you will find the
love of your life.
He wasn't it, so ditch him.
(06:00):
She can have him right.
Okay.
This next one is Samantha.
Samantha says I'm taking thisback to 2013.
I'm the maid of honor in mybest friend's wedding and her
groom's best man, my ex.
See, my friend and I had metthem both together in a bar a
few years back.
They made it.
We didn't.
The breakup wasn't too horrible, no cheating.
(06:23):
We just ended up clashing toomuch Very much oil and water.
So we were able to be aroundeach other without too much
issue, at least for the sake ofour friends.
Now I don't know why, but thebride and groom decided to have
a joint bachelor bacheloretteparty in Nashville.
We each have our own activitiesfor the most part, but also
(06:43):
have group activities.
One of the group activities wasplaying drinking games,
including Never have I Ever thequestion gets asked never have I
ever had an orgasm.
I'm already deep with mywhiskey and something came over
me and I looked my ex dead inthe eye and said never, it was a
(07:05):
total lie, but I felt likebeing mean.
The whole party erupted with oh.
My ex was pissed, but it mademe laugh.
So all is well that ends well.
Bye, samantha.
Samantha, I fucking love this.
I fucking love you.
Fuck.
Yeah, you know what, if youguys make each other mad anyway,
(07:27):
might as well just fucking addit on, but I love that.
You know now he's gonnaprobably question his existence
and time be.
Oh wait, this was 12 years ago,eh, whatever, I'm sure he still
thinks about it, though guysnever get over something like
that.
They're always like harping onit and worried about it, and you
know, if you have to take himdown a peg or two, oh well, all
right, all right.
(07:47):
This next one is from Lucy.
Lucy says this happened thispast Saturday for Memorial
Weekend.
Our town has a big festival forMemorial Weekend.
I think of it as a mini Fourthof July.
My roommate and I went walkingthrough and met up with a few
friends and just enjoyed the day.
At night we went to ourfavorite bar, which is down the
(08:09):
street from our house.
I don't remember leaving thebar.
But when I woke up I was forsure in my living room but in
our big dog, crate.
My roommate has a huge GermanShepherd that she is crate
training and in my drunken stateI decided to switch places with
the dog.
Luckily, the door wasn't closedand I was able to slip out.
(08:30):
It was a good day.
Thanks for reading, lucy.
Like I said, I don't have astory for any of these.
I just grabbed them becausethey were funny and I love that.
Yeah, that's a good one.
So I figured the dog issleeping outside the crate like
watching you sleep in the crate,which is funny as hell.
(08:51):
And it was super recent.
We just did it, we just had it.
So I love that for you Allright.
This next one is from MadisonMadison says.
During my freshman year ofcollege I was kind of scared to
go out and drink, but myroommate convinced me to go out
with her after her uncle made mea convincing fake ID.
I know it's illegal, blah, blahblah.
(09:12):
So we go to the local bar wherethey card, but not super well,
just for my own peace of mind.
We get in and I start to getexcited.
I wasn't a big drinker so Iwasn't sure what to order.
I ended up just going with theflow and getting drinks along
with my friends at their pace.
Big mistake I was white girl,wasted by 11 pm, but I was
(09:37):
feeling myself and even though Iwas messy, I was having a great
time.
I think the boys thought that Iwas an easy target because,
like your friend said before,men are trash, thank you.
So I was getting hit on leftand right.
I obviously wasn't going to gohome with any of them, but they
were a little relentless.
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So I started giving out a fakenumber saying text me and we
would hook up sometime.
I didn't think too much aboutthe number I was saying.
The following day I didn't thinktoo much about the number I was
saying.
The following day I received acall from my dad asking what was
going on and if I was okay.
Confused, I said yes and askedwhy Turned out.
My drunk brain decided to tellall these boys my dad's phone
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number.
I have no idea why.
I tried to make up some lameexcuse as to why they would be
texting him.
That didn't involve illegaldrinking, but I don't think he
bought it, madison.
Okay, I have a couple thingswith this the uncle making the
fake ID.
What kind of family is this?
If I would have asked my uncleto make me a fake ID, he would
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have told me to scram.
So I'm assuming that this is anuncle.
That is like very close in age,like an age gap between the
mother, father and the uncle,because that's weird and wild.
But giving out a fake numberthat's your dad's, that's insane
.
I used to give out fake numbers,um, but I stopped doing it.
(11:08):
I mean, I haven't done it in along time, but I stopped doing
it because I got nervous thatthe guys were going to ask me to
repeat the number back andobviously I was just throwing
numbers out of my mouth.
So I was like, so then whenthey would ask, I would just
straight up say no, which islike we should be able to reject
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a guy if we don't want to talkto them further, like just, you
know, thank you for the smallconversation and the drink and
toodaloo.
I don't know why we're soafraid to say no, goodbye.
That's because men are scary,because men can be trash.
That's why, good God, come on,men do better.
Not all men, but you know, youget what I'm trying to say Okay.
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This last one is Marcella.
She says this is a story frommy early 20s.
For reference, I am now 36 withtwo kids.
I was away with my boyfriend ona trip to Miami.
We are from Orlando.
We had been partying anddrinking for the past two days
and that night went clubbing andwent back to the hotel room to
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get freaky After doing the deed.
We were just laying there nakedand he made some little comment
.
I can't remember what he said,but I just saw red.
I came flying at him with mychancla and started screaming at
him, telling him to get out.
He panicked, asking what waswrong, and I just kept screaming
(12:33):
at him, with him dodgingeverything I threw.
He ran out of the room nakedand I locked him out.
All of the anger must haveexhausted me, because I passed
out and woke up a couple hourslater to a knock at the door.
I opened it and it was himasking to come back, this time
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with a towel around his waist.
I let him in and asked him whathe's been doing.
He said the neighbor guys heardthe shouting and came to peek
and then gave him a towel to sitin and he had been sitting
outside the door.
This entire time I felt bad andapologized.
I don't think I became agremlin, but a full on demon.
(13:16):
I no longer drink or party forthat exact reason.
Marciela oh my God, that poorguy.
I do wonder what he said,though, because depending on
what he said, I either will orwill not feel bad for him.
Depending on what he said, Ieither will or will not feel bad
for him.
This is the only story I kindof have a story for, but it
wasn't like bad.
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So a few years ago, my boyfriendand I went on a cruise to
Mexico, and it was supposed tobe a cruise from Los Angeles to
Ensenada and then Cabo.
Unfortunately, there was ahurricane that hit the Cabo so
we couldn't go, which was thewhole point of us wanting to go
on the cruise, because we hadjust been to Ensenada.
So it was an extra day at sea,and then, on top of it, we're
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like we're not going to get offat Ensenada because we were
never planning on it.
So we just basically spent likefive days on this ship.
We got the full inclusive drinkpackage, which means we drank
our body weight in Tito's, andwe had a great time, but the
last night I wasn't feeling wellbecause you know it'd been five
(14:24):
days of just binge drinking andwe were at the casino and he
was like playing and kind ofwinning, and I was just like
like I need to like go back tothe room.
I don't feel good, but you stayhere.
I stumble my butt all the way tothe room, I make it, I get in
the room and I fall asleep.
And by fall asleep I mean Ipass out, like clothes on laying
(14:47):
cross, like diagonal on the bed, pass out.
And that was that.
I didn't really think much ofit.
I wake up the next morning andor he wakes me up the next
morning because we have to packand like get ready to, you know,
disembark.
And he's like do you know whatyou did last night?
And I was like oh God, no,what'd I do?
Thinking like I remembered thewhole night, and he's like you
(15:07):
locked me out.
I and he's like you locked meout.
I was like what do you mean?
I locked you out like youdidn't have your key and he's
like no, I had my key, but youput the latch on the door so I
couldn't get in.
Like it was like having a chainon the door and I was like, oh
my god, so like would you do?
And he said he had to, like hewas knocking, knocking, knocking
.
But then it was getting lateand he's like, oh great, I'm
(15:28):
gonna piss off like all theneighbors.
So he had to go to like theconcierge and tell them what
happened.
And then someone walked with.
He had to prove who he wasfirst, because you know safety,
but he had to.
They walked him to the room andthey used this little like
contraption thing to go underthe door and undo the lot, the
latch, and then he was able toget in, which also is scary
(15:52):
because, like what, if, likesome nefarious person who works
for the cruise line wanted touse that?
But I digress anyway.
So he was able to get back inthe room but he was like you
were knocked the fuck outbecause I was like pounding on
the door.
He's like even like the guycame in like to let me in and
he's like you didn't even hearus talking and laughing.
(16:13):
He's like, and yeah, he's like,it was crazy.
He's like, and then I had tomove you, like, flop you over to
your side, because you werefully across the bed.
It was insane, but I have.
I have locked someone out before, but I didn't, it wasn't a
fight.
I didn't, it wasn't a fight.
I didn't do it on purpose, itwas just I was drunk and I guess
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I didn't really think about it.
I just locked it.
You know, I just wanted to, youknow, not get killed or
anything.
So, yeah, that's what happened.
So again, sorry, babe, butyou're fine, you made it in,
you're good.
Okay, guys, that's the end ofthe Gremlin stories.
A short one, but I almostdidn't do it because I am
struggling.
(16:58):
I feel like you can hear it inmy voice that I'm down and out.
But yeah, next week I'll becoming back, looking my best and
have nails on, so you don'thave to look at my bib hands,
because my hands look way toosmall without nails, which I
probably shouldn't point out,because now you guys are going
to look at that.
All right, so if you want tosend in any gremlin stories, you
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can email me, or gremlinstories, or if you want advice
on anything, you can email thepodcast.
It is emily2gramilypod atgmailcom.
Make sure to give me a followon Instagram and TikTok it is
emily2gramilypod and then makesure to rate this podcast five
stars wherever you're listeningApple Podcasts, spotify,
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iheartradio, listen Notes,podcast Index, pocket Casts,
what else we got, I don't evenknow.
Castro Overcast.
All the ones, all the ones,wherever you're listening.
Give me a five star and yeah,that's the episode.
Again, I'll be back next weekand it'll be a much better
episode.
I promise this was a disaster.
(18:06):
I'm going to drink myanti-inflammatory drink.
Get better.
And yeah, cheersies, bye.
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