What do a crystal-worshipping neighbor, a fake cancer scam, and a secret simp husband have in common? They're all fighting unseen battles, some hilariously petty, others heartbreakingly real.
In this week’s episode of Yapping Schnauzers, Erika and Edgar unpack some of Reddit’s wildest drama, including:
- 🌱 A neighbor who believes WiFi is harming her succulents
- 🔉 A partner who can’t stop interrupting loud enthusiasm
- 💬 Heart-melting stories of how introverts found love
Whether you’re into malicious compliance, AITA dilemmas, or wholesome romance, this episode has a little something for everyone. Tune in for laughs, empathy, and pure unfiltered internet energy.
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Links to threads read:
- Entitled Neighbor Demands I Stop Using My Own WiFi Because It’s Distracting Her Plants
- AITA for exposing my sister's fake cancer to our parents after she refused to come clean herself?
- My husband made a fake TikTok account to defend me from momfluencer bullies
- Boss said no overtime under any circumstances. So I left mid-emergency
- WIBTA if I told my sister she smells?
- AITA for asking my partner to stop telling me to “lower your volume”?
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Intro (00:00):
Yapping!
Erika (00:02):
Hello, this is Erika
Edgar (00:03):
and Edgar
Erika (00:05):
and we are the Yapping Snougers. We entertain you with
the app worthy stories we findaround the web. Today's theme is
On Scene Battles.
Edgar (00:15):
And the first story is titled, Entitled Neighbors
Demand I Stop Using My Own WifiBecause It's Distracting Her
Plants. Yes, you read thatcorrectly. I live in a townhouse
complex with paper thin wallsand a whole bunch of colorful
personalities. One of them is myneighbor, a woman in her late
50s who wears tie dye every day,insists she has a telepathic
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connection with crystals, andonce told me my aura was too
digital. I'm usually sitting outfront on my phone with my
computer relaxing.
I suppose that's why she feelsI'm too digital, but her latest
stunt truly took the cake. Lastweek, she knocked on my door
holding a small potted plant inone hand and a printout of what
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looked like a hand drawn diagramof her WiFi signal in the other.
She told me we need to talkabout my router. I was confused.
She then explained that my WiFiwas disrupting the vibrational
energy of her succulents.
She pointed to the drawing,which honestly looked like a sad
jellyfish, and instead thesignal beamed directly through
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our shared walls and bombardedher plants non stop. According
to her, the plants werespiritually wilting because they
dot the Wi Fi with sunlight, butit wasn't. The best part? Her
plants were in a dark hallwaywith no natural lights. She
claimed they had been fine untilI got a new modem and then gave
me two options.
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Either turn off my wifi everynight between 10PM and 6AM,
apparently the plant's resthours, or let her share my wifi
and move the router into herunit so she could regulate the
signal properly. I laughedbecause I thought she was
joking. She wasn't. She stormedoff as I was laughing at her.
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I'm still currently waiting tosee what comes out of this.
Erika (02:06):
I think this is ridiculous. I think she's just
trying to get free wifi.
Edgar (02:10):
I think so too. Like, why does she need someone else's
router modem, like, in herhouse?
Erika (02:17):
It makes no sense. And the wifi signal is killing their
plants because they thought itwas the sun. I don't even
understand.
Edgar (02:25):
She's either crazy or a liar. Either way, bad neighbor.
Bad neighbor vibes.
Erika (02:32):
Yeah, I would stay away from that woman. She seems a
little bit out there.
Edgar (02:36):
Exactly. And what about the other neighbors?
Erika (02:39):
The clerical ones?
Edgar (02:40):
No, I mean like, she was like, to OP, you have a digital
aura, but everyone else withtheir phones or their computers.
So I imagine there has to beother neighbors. And why doesn't
she pass to them?
Erika (02:55):
Yeah, I don't get that.
Edgar (02:57):
Why OP?
Erika (02:59):
Probably because she seems nice.
Edgar (03:01):
I don't know.
Erika (03:03):
I don't know, I just, I think she just needs help. What
type of sane person would saythis to a person, say this or
mention this or even come upwith this logic?
Edgar (03:16):
Yes, especially kind of dumb.
Erika (03:20):
Yeah, don't get it. The top comment is, Let her share my
WiFi and move the router intoher unit. Bingo. Yeah, that's
not gonna happen. So, lady has aplan for getting free wifi.
She has to regulate the signalproperly.
Edgar (03:37):
Oh, I agree. Yeah, as soon as she said, Oh, let me
have the wifi then or let mecontrol it, like I knew it was
just like a bunch of BS.
Erika (03:45):
Yeah, there was just no way.
Edgar (03:47):
Mhmm. She really thought she could fool like anybody with
that.
Erika (03:52):
Yeah, I don't even get it, like.
Edgar (03:56):
Then did she have the audacity to be like mad at OP?
Erika (03:59):
I know, she stormed off. Like, she was like insulted. No.
Absolutely not. She just, Imean, she said she's waiting to
see what comes out of this, buthopefully nothing because it's
gonna, out there.
Edgar (04:16):
So final verdict on OP, if she's like the asshole in
this situation. No, absolutelynot. Yeah, same here. I think
she's acting as anyone, anynormal person would if someone
said that my plants
Erika (04:29):
make you to shut off your Wi I know, I thought she was
joking too until she said shewas serious.
Edgar (04:34):
They're usually serious when they say something
ridiculous like that.
Erika (04:37):
I guess. All right, so the next story is, Am I the
Asshole for exposing my sister'sfake cancer to her parents after
she refused to come cleanherself? I, 34 female, just
found out that my sister, 31female, who has been telling my
whole family that she has cancerfor the last eight months, has
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been lying. She shaved her head,said she was doing chemo, and
had her parents move in to helpher through treatment. I started
to have doubts when, besidesalso staying out late relatively
frequently, she would never letanyone attend appointments with
her.
And she clearly had way too muchenergy for someone going through
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aggressive chemotherapy. Lastweek I ran into the office
manager of my sister'soncologist at a coffee shop
small town. I casually mentionedmy sister and the office manager
was confused. She had no ideawho I was talking about. I did
some digging through doctors andspoke to my sister about what I
learned and she broke down andspilled her guts.
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It turns out she fabricated thewhole story because she was over
her head with debt and wasn'table to afford her apartment
anymore. The cancer story gotour parents to move in and she
could then stop paying herbills. I was furious and told
her that she had twenty fourhours to tell her parents the
truth or I would. She asked menot to tell them because it
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would ruin her relationship withthem. She did not tell them, so
yesterday I took everything toour parents.
Our parents are heartbroken. Mysister's acting like I had no
right to out her and she didn'teven say this to her parents.
She was gonna stage a miraculousrecovery next month. She said I
ruined her life and that myfamily should be trying to
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defend each other rather thanexpose each other.
Edgar (06:27):
Bro. Like she literally ruined like three people's
lives. Her own life and thenboth her parents.
Erika (06:33):
And her sister. So four.
Edgar (06:37):
Did she ruin OP's life?
Erika (06:38):
Because she had to, she had to be the one to tell her
parents.
Edgar (06:42):
Oh, I guess so, yeah. But it's more like, I don't think
OP's life is directly ruined.Like, of course, she has now a
bad relationship with hersister, but I mean, all this
stems from OP's sister'sdecision to lie to them about
something so serious.
Erika (06:56):
Yeah, I mean, also if I had thought my sister had
chemotherapy, I would be verysad in trying to support
Edgar (07:03):
her. So
Erika (07:05):
I think she just, she just played with everybody's
emotions and that wasn't right.
Edgar (07:10):
I know. And then, I think the shaving her own head part
was pretty crazy too. Like, shewent really deep for this.
Erika (07:16):
Yeah. I mean, she had a lot of debt, so she was trying
to do whatever she could. Maybenext
Edgar (07:24):
time don't be in debt.
Erika (07:26):
It's easier said than done, but yes, I would say
definitely try not to do. Oh mygod, that's insane though. Just
the fact that she just liedthrough her teeth and just had
the audacity to day after daymake your parents sad and make
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them pay for everything becauseyou couldn't afford it is insane
to me.
Edgar (07:49):
And also so she can like, I guess, have a grief over her
head. It was crazy.
Erika (07:55):
Just tell the truth. Just say, you know, mom and dad, am
in debt. Can you help me out? Iknow I'm irresponsible. I mean,
if they don't help you then, youknow, the consequences of your
actions.
Edgar (08:05):
Exactly. And I feel like, they seem like very supportive
parents.
Erika (08:09):
Yeah.
Edgar (08:10):
So, I imagine even if she just went clean in the first
place, they would have helpedher out.
Erika (08:16):
Exactly.
Edgar (08:17):
And then like trying to finish this off by saying, Oh,
miraculously recovered from myaggressive cancer. No way she
was going do that. She just madethat up. It's just going make
her OP feel bad.
Erika (08:29):
Yeah. There was just no way. Cancer doesn't just go away
one day after another. It'sridiculous. And it is
frustrating for people thatactually have cancer for
somebody to just flat out lielike that.
So the top comment is not theasshole for telling them, but
you were a tiny bit of anasshole for not demanding that
she tell your parentsimmediately. Like fifteen
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minutes of finding out. Twentyfour hours is too long to be
deceived into thinking yourchild is dying.
Edgar (08:58):
Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Like every, I don't know how
long this was going on, for likeevery minute the parents thought
their child was dying slowly infront of them before torture for
them.
Erika (09:09):
Yeah, like the emotional tremble and emotional scarring
this is is insane. No parentwants to outlive their children.
So, yeah, I definitely thinkshe's the asshole and she should
have come clean as soon as hersister found out. There was just
no waiting.
Edgar (09:29):
Mhmm. Do you find a verdict?
Erika (09:32):
I would say, yeah, the sister's an asshole. And she's
the one that OP is not. Sheshould have. She did the right
thing by telling her parents.
Edgar (09:41):
Yeah, agree. OP is in the clear, but yeah. Her sister has
some questions to answer. Thenext story is titled, My Husband
Made a Fake TikTok Account toDefend Me from Momfluencer's
Belize. So, I'm a new mom, 26female, and I make small
lifestyle videos on TikTok.
Mostly stuff like postpartumoutfit ideas, baby meal preps,
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etc. Nothing wild, but of courseI get the occasional mean
comment. A couple weeks agosomeone commented, Why would you
dress like that when you're amother now? Try looking less
like a teen and more like awife. I brushed it off until I
got curious about a user whokept clapping back at these
haters.
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This mysterious account. Thismystery account was defending me
so hard in the comments and evenreferenced stuff like our
daughter's name which I hadn'tshared online. Last night I
finally asked my husband if heknew anything about it. His face
went red. Turns out he made awhole figure count under a
pseudonym just to defend me fromthose sad, bitter women because
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he hated how much they got outof my skin.
He said you already made aperson and kept her alive for
eight months while being funny,hot, and kind. You don't need
strangers tearing you down ontop of that. Raiders, I am
crying. I married a simp and Ilove him. Hot take: Simps are
supreme husband material.
Erika (11:09):
Aw, that's so cute. I thought it would be nice to,
after the cancer one, to haveone that's kinda sweet and cute.
I think that people that havethis type of relationship last
forever. And then top commentis, it's so sweet reading about
spouses that actually like eachother for a change.
Edgar (11:31):
Yeah, because I feel like most stuff you read in Reddit
and like the internet ingeneral, which is mostly
negative, but it's just becauseit's the kind of thing that
attracts attention.
Erika (11:40):
Exactly.
Edgar (11:41):
All the haters get all the attention, which is why I'm
a hater online. Oh my gosh.
Erika (11:47):
I think this is super cute and I'm glad he did it
behind her back, which is thebest thing. Because it was a
little nice surprise. Alright,so the next story is, Boss said
no overtime under anycircumstances, so I left mid
emergency. A couple months agoour manager sent out a Stern
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company wide email saying therewould be no overtime, no
exceptions. Even things ranbehind or if clients were in a
panic mode.
Okay, got it boss. Fast forwardlast Friday, a major client's
account completely tanked due toa glitch and it was all hands on
deck. My shift ended at 5PM andaround 04:50AM I reminded my
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boss about the no overtimepolicy. He chuckled nervously
and said, Well, this is a bitdifferent. Just stay until it's
fixed.
I smiled, showed him the emailhe sent and said, Sorry, I love
to help, but I really don't wantto violate company policy. I
logged out at five, grabbed mythings and left while the rest
of the team stayed until 8PMcleaning up the mess. Monday
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morning, we got another email.Overtime requests may now be
approved on a case by casebasis. What do you think?
You think he's an asshole fordoing that?
Edgar (13:03):
I wouldn't say OP is an asshole for that because your
work shouldn't really dictateyour entire life and making so
much concessions for it is notthe best thing either.
Erika (13:16):
Exactly. I mean, if the policy is not to do overtime,
then why are you asking me tobreak that policy? And you just
leave.
Edgar (13:25):
Exactly. Yeah. You have only like the time that you're
required to work and that's it.
Erika (13:29):
Yeah, so you're telling me that I should stay home, I
mean stay here, work and not getpaid.
Edgar (13:33):
Exactly, yeah.
Erika (13:34):
So that's not okay either.
Edgar (13:36):
Yeah, jobs like, at least recently, like a lot of jobs and
a lot of corporations are,they're just trying to find more
and more ways to squeeze moretime and just more effort out of
everybody and they don't care,they can hire you at any moment.
Erika (13:49):
Yeah, they just literally replace you, like it's no big
deal. So, why do you want tosacrifice your life for a
company like that or a corporatelike that?
Edgar (13:59):
Exactly. And the manager being angry about it, he's
probably being used even morethan an OP is and he's still
clinging onto his job like that.
Erika (14:10):
Yeah. I mean, the top comment is, Same conversations
with my boss, absolutely noovertime. We don't have enough
people to get the job done intime allotted. Why don't you
plan better? I did, but I wasdenied two extra bodies I
needed.
So, you need to tell me which isgoing to piss you off the least.
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Leaving unfinished, not doingtraining, or overtime. You
recall. I don't know about thecomment. Was that okay?
Edgar (14:38):
Well, the comment, yeah, I think what they're trying to
say is a lot of times your jobdemands you. Like when you have
a project based job, they wouldbe like, Hey, you have one to
two months to do this, and we'regiving you this much resources.
How long do you think this ispossible? And then usually in
the first few meetings, you willmake your best guesstimates and
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ask if you can have more time ormore resources, which is better
to determine more headcount,which is just more people to
manage just so they can do someof the tasks. And yeah, I guess
he's just saying, Oh, so if Idon't get the resources I need
to finish this on time, then youhave to figure out what do we
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need to do to compromise so wecan't get something out on time.
Erika (15:28):
I mean, that's a hard call, but then again, you
shouldn't be squished thin. Youshouldn't be squished thin to
the point that you can't do yourjob.
Edgar (15:36):
But yeah, it still happens.
Erika (15:38):
I know. Yeah, I mean definitely.
Edgar (15:43):
I feel like everyone should be on the same boat when
they're in a company like that.Everyone's job sucks. So I think
people should be moreempathetic, some people just
like, you know how to get, youknow, they get really pissy when
they're in a boss sort ofposition.
Erika (16:02):
Yeah, yeah, agree. But I mean that's what you see. So
your boss's boss and anotherboss. Yeah. So it's always, you
know, the higher ups that alwayspush everybody down the line.
Exactly. So it's not necessarilyyour boss, it's the boss's
boss's boss.
Edgar (16:20):
I remember, yeah, at Google, I had like, between me
and the CEO of Google, was like15 bosses, wasn't really like
that.
Erika (16:28):
Oh, from the latter? Yeah. From up there? Damn,
that's a lot of people.
Edgar (16:31):
That's a lot of people I don't know and don't care about.
Erika (16:35):
Yeah, I know you remember telling me that you didn't
really like Google to a point. Ithink you really were excited
about it at the beginning andyou loved learning there and you
grew, but. It
Edgar (16:46):
just, yeah, after some point it just gets a little bit
slow and it's like not much youcan really do without stepping
on someone's toes.
Erika (16:54):
Yeah, it's just one of those things where you have to,
I guess, pick your battles. Yougot your experiences and you got
to, you know, obviously yourresume amazing after working in
Google, so working somewhereelse would be easier for you
too.
Edgar (17:08):
The next story is titled, Would I be the Asshole if I told
my sister she smells? My youngersister has struggled with body
odor for years. It's somethingeveryone in my family has
noticed, but no one addressesdirectly. My parents
occasionally hint that sheshould shower or they give her
new soaps. I'm not sure if sherealizes this, but the odor is
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strong enough that her entireroom smells and my mom has to
use a special detergent just toget the scent out of her
clothes.
At first, I assumed it was apuberty phrase, as she was in
middle school when it started,but I just got back from college
and unfortunately it's still amajor issue, maybe even worse. I
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know she deals with anxiety anddepression and it's likely this
is a hygiene issue tied to hermental illness. I understand
that struggle and really don'twant to come across as mean or
judgmental. The reason I'mthinking about this now is that
she's leaving for college soonand will be living in a dorm
with roommates. I'm genuinelyworried that people won't be
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kind about it or that she willhave a hard time socially
because of the smell.
I'd rather she hears from me,someone who cares, than from a
roommate or stranger in a cruelor embarrassing way. But at the
same time, I don't want to hurther feelings or damage her self
esteem since it is already verylow. So, would I be the asshole
if I gently told her the truth?I just want to help her, not
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shame her. I say just make herself esteem lower at this point.
Because the smell thing, like,that gets something like a lot
of people's nerves and peoplelike say a lot of things behind
their back. So it's best to sayit like before she goes to
college and before she gets likethat reputation that follows
her.
Erika (18:55):
Yeah.
Edgar (18:56):
Even like, you just keep it out in the open at that
point. And it's like, yeah, yousmell. Open the window. Open the
window. Yeah.
And for maybe like a few weeks,like before the college, just
like work on the small things,like get her detergent, teach
her how to clean herself better,I guess.
Erika (19:16):
Oh, give her tips. Like, I would definitely talk to her.
I would just be very carefulwith the wording just because
you also don't wanna kick herwhile she is down type of And
just give her advice on how toclean or exfoliate her body, and
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showering every day is a greatthing. Lotion and hydrating,
maybe not too much steps becauseshe might feel overwhelmed, but
a shower with the African netthing that we bought earlier
that we thought was really good,I love it. And she can use that
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and scrub her body with.
And hopefully it gets better.But I think it's better for her
to say something because noteverybody's gonna be nice about
it like she was mentioning.
Edgar (20:08):
Yeah. Imagine she's like, she doesn't know she smells, she
goes to college, everyone avoidsher and then she like hears
something like during theweekend or like just passively
from her roommates or roommates'friends, then she will have like
no one to like really supporther at that point.
Erika (20:22):
Yeah. I I
Edgar (20:23):
don't think OP has to be like too tiptoeing because like,
it's just like, she stinks andyou just gotta let her know
that. It's a good exercise inletting her know that the world
is a little more they're notgoing to always hold her or kick
gloves.
Erika (20:38):
Well, mean, she struggles with depression and stuff like
that. So it's hard, you justdon't say somebody you stink
when you're in depression. Youknow, it's just one of those
things where she does have to becareful with her wording, at
least that's me.
Edgar (20:54):
Imagine she doesn't say anything then, because that's
the most careful you could bewith wording, you just don't say
anything.
Erika (20:58):
No, she should, but she should just be careful of what
she says. I mean, I'm justsaying that it's important to be
truthful and I think everybodynot saying anything to her
actually caused her harm becauseI imagine she stinks now and she
has a body odor right now and soshe's going to school and nobody
wants to be next to her or theysmell her or make faces at her
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or they want to be her friendsbecause she has an odor already.
So that's why she maybe also hasa low self esteem because she
has no friends. So, you know,this could be one thing where
she has to be truthful about it,but I wouldn't just go up to her
face and be like, You stink.Like, that's not how you should
treat this.
You stinky. No, definitely not.But the top comment is, not the
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asshole, but how you say itmatters more than anything. This
is one of those conversationsthat could either help her or
scar her. So it's all aboutdelivery.
Right now she's probably eithernose blind to it or too ashamed
to confront it. Depression canmake basic hygiene feel
impossible. If you barrel inwith you stink, it'll crush her.
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But if you frame it as I loveyou and I don't want the world
to be shitty to you oversomething fixable, it might land
better. Maybe try, Hey, Inoticed your room clothes have a
stronger smell lately and I knowmental health can make showers
feel like climbing a mountain,but I'm worried your dorm mates
might be dicks about it.
Want to brainstorm solutionstogether, maybe a different soap
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or laundry routine. And I thinkthat's a better way to say that.
You're still telling her thatshe has a body order, but you're
not telling her you stink likethat, like, you know, just
different. I think that's a goodway. I really like that comment.
Edgar (22:44):
Don't know. It just seems like very passive aggressive a
little bit. Like she's just kindof tiptoeing over the issue.
Erika (22:50):
But she's telling her that she has a body order and
Edgar (22:53):
is No, she gives her an out, in that comment. She's
like, Oh, the room in theclothes smell lately. Then OP's
sister can easily just say, Oh,maybe I just need to clean that
better and not herself. You haveto go out loud and just say that
you have another issue, everyonenotices, and we give you a lot
of soaps and other cleaningstuff in the hopes that you'll
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get the hint. Like for thisentire time they've been giving
her hints that she smells andnow that an issue is actually
going come up because she's notdoing anything about it, it's
like now would be the time to bemore serious or more real, you
know?
Don't talk down to her becauseit's like, oh, you're going to
hurt her feelings because she'slike a child and she won't be
able to handle it.
Erika (23:38):
I mean I wouldn't say extreme but you're just not
considering her feelings.
Edgar (23:43):
I ain't considering her feelings.
Erika (23:45):
No you're not.
Edgar (23:46):
Down the road it would be a lot worse if she doesn't get
like the full truth you know.
Erika (23:51):
She is telling her the truth.
Edgar (23:52):
No, she's saying, oh.
Erika (23:54):
She literally said
Edgar (23:55):
She gave her a light version of the truth.
Erika (23:59):
No, I think how she said it was perfectly. And if she
doesn't get it, then she'll tryagain and be more direct. But I
think this is a good way tostart because just going off the
bat and saying you stink andneed to shower is just not okay.
At least for me.
Edgar (24:15):
Also, smelling is not okay.
Erika (24:18):
You can't even smell. You're always with allergies and
you can't smell anything.
Edgar (24:21):
God bless.
Erika (24:25):
Whatever. I smell good. Like roses.
Edgar (24:28):
Roses. You smell like the beans. What? Our dogs.
Erika (24:32):
The beans, oh my god.
Edgar (24:34):
You know how, like, people have, like, smells to
their houses?
Erika (24:36):
Yeah.
Edgar (24:37):
Yeah. I wonder how ours smelled like because I'm pretty
sure our noseblend to it.
Erika (24:41):
Well, we all are. Well, I mean, usually I like to mop and
vacuum every day and clean thecounter, it smells really nice
in But having three dogs ishard.
Edgar (24:51):
Yeah, I feel like it does smell like dog probably. At the
very least.
Erika (24:56):
Yeah, but that's why I like to vacuum and mop every day
because it helps with the smelland put a little bit of scented
candle, which by the way,marbled melts is the best.
Edgar (25:06):
Yeah, it smells like Paulina's candles and doggy.
Which is the worst smellactually. I love living here.
Erika (25:13):
It smells good, I don't know what you're talking about.
But I think, yeah, talking abouteverybody's house smell,
everybody has. I know Jean has ahouse smell when she comes in
and I'm like, I know that'sBetty. You know what I mean?
Edgar (25:26):
Yeah, don't know their house
Erika (25:28):
smell to Yeah, it's okay, but I know. And then Paulina has
a house smell too. Likeeverybody has a house smell and
it's not bad know, it's justSome people
Edgar (25:37):
have stronger stronger house smells than others.
Erika (25:39):
Well, yes. But maybe, you know, when they don't shower or
they don't clean, you know? Butmy family's pretty clean, so.
Edgar (25:47):
Yeah, so what's the final verdict?
Erika (25:50):
I would say she is not that asshole. I think she's
trying to help her out andtrying to avoid further scarring
with other people and maybe likejust helping her not to be
excluded from a lot, especiallyin college. Because college is
when you go out and you meetpeople, make friends, get new
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experiences and then with hersmelling like that she's never
really gonna have that.
Edgar (26:19):
Yeah, yeah. She wouldn't be the asshole in helping her
sister out.
Erika (26:24):
Yeah, exactly. The next story is, Am I the asshole for
asking my partner to stoptelling me to lower your volume?
Sometimes when I get excitedabout topic, I naturally start
speaking louder than usual. Notshouting, just louder than
normal conversation level. Thething is, I don't realize I'm
doing it in the moment.
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When this happens, my partnerwill often interrupt me mid
sentence and ask me to lower myvolume. I don't think they mean
in a rude way and I understandthat they probably just want the
conversation to stay at acomfortable volume. That's fair.
But every time it happens, Ifeel demoralized and a little
self conscious. I lose myenthusiasm and no longer feel
like talking about the thing Iwas excited about.
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Even if they don't mean itharshly, it feels dismissive and
discouraging. I try to explainhow it makes me feel, but they
still keep interrupting me. Am Ithe asshole for wanting them to
stop interrupting me like that?Or do I need to accept that I
should keep my volume in check,even if it's hard because I
don't always realize when I'mdoing it?
Edgar (27:25):
Moral of the story, never be excited about things. That's
not the But seriousness, I thinkshe shouldn't really have to
care about, like, her volume.Like, whenever I get excited, I
do talk really loud as well,like louder than usual. So I get
it.
Erika (27:42):
Yes, yes, you really do.
Edgar (27:44):
Yes, I guess I'm excited.
Erika (27:46):
You do. And then like the whole okay, maybe because you
don't care, but like it'suncomfortable for me, especially
like it's for example, if you'rein the hospital and you have
your voice in volume and there'speople, sick people around you.
Edgar (28:04):
Want them to get the good energy that I'm giving off of
being excited about my life, myhealthy life. You're so
Erika (28:11):
terrible. It's uncomfortable because it's been
so many situations where you'reliterally like, I love that you
get excited, I'm happy. I feelyour energy and also feel
excited for you.
Edgar (28:29):
Do you?
Erika (28:31):
I do. But like your volume.
Edgar (28:34):
What about my volume?
Erika (28:35):
Your volume is insane. Like a whole friggin' next door
neighbor could hear
Edgar (28:40):
you. Good. They can be a part of the conversation if they
want.
Erika (28:47):
Okay. Clearly you don't care but, you know, I just feel
like depending on where you are,you really need to have an
indoor voice.
Edgar (28:59):
A lion does not entertain the thoughts of other people who
I don't know how the sayinggoes.
Erika (29:06):
Exactly. No, shut it.
Edgar (29:08):
And it's just me yapping.
Erika (29:11):
You are yapping? Okay, so the top comment is not the
asshole. My family and I teaseeach other about something like
this all the time. We call itself awareness rule. Basically,
now that you know that when
Edgar (29:26):
We got an unfun rule?
Erika (29:28):
Basically, now that you know when you get excited, you
talk too loud, you can be moreaware of it and then try to keep
your volume lower. Take a breathwhen you feel yourself getting
too excited or we even practicevolume control by being silly
with it and whisper yourexciting things. I struggle with
crazy migraines sometimes andall I have to do is tell my
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family lower your volume just abit and they do so. They know I
love them and they know I wantto hear and enjoy what they're
saying. So they lower theirvoices so I can listen and
partake.
One family member in particularwas more sensitive to this at
first and felt as you do now. Ihad a conversation with them
along with the lines I love you,I know you get excited, and I
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love your excitement to partakein your excitement too. I would
like your volume to lower just abit. I think the most important
thing to remember about thisspecific scenario is that you're
not being told to shut up or tobe quiet. Your partner probably
just wants the conversation at anormal tone where the volume
isn't a distraction to yourexcitement.
As someone who has been asked tolower my volume, asked someone
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to lower theirs, it's neverabout getting the person to stop
talking. It's always aboutmaking sure I can stay in the
conversation at a comfortablelevel, meaning I can listen and
partake in it longer.Unfortunately, you might have to
learn how to be less sensitiveabout it. Focus on the fact that
your partner clearly cares aboutwhat you're saying and often try
to actively and comfortablylisten to what you're talking
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about. I hope this helped alittle.
It's kind of a ramble.
Edgar (30:59):
Yeah, they were rambling. I found that So, in short, they
have an unfun role. Don't gettoo excited. No. Don't be too
loud.
Be mindful. Basically everythingunfun that you could be. Never
show your personality.
Erika (31:16):
That is I would
Edgar (31:17):
not be in that family and I wouldn't want to be related or
friends with anyone in thatcircle.
Erika (31:24):
I'd be telling you to calm that one. I would be like.
Edgar (31:28):
Yeah, and then I'd be like.
Erika (31:30):
Don't even say nah, I just make a gesture of my hand
going down.
Edgar (31:34):
I used it to fan my excitement.
Erika (31:39):
Sometimes you'd be extra though. I'd be like,
Edgar (31:42):
I'd be fighting battles with my social awareness and I
lose.
Erika (31:50):
Oh my gosh. The point is that I'm glad that she
understands that it's not thatthey don't want to listen, but
it's that she's a little bit toosensitive about it. I hope
eventually she works on it sothat way everybody can be
excited just as her. Yeah,that's pretty much it.
Edgar (32:11):
So final verdict?
Erika (32:12):
I wouldn't say that you're the asshole. OP is the
one that said, she's the onethat tells the partner to lower
the boys.
Edgar (32:21):
I would say OP is the asshole.
Erika (32:23):
Would say no because Very
Edgar (32:24):
kind of be a fun place. In a fun zone.
Erika (32:31):
Agree. You're group of people. No, no, no. I think OP
is trying her best and she wantsto be excited just like her
partner, but sometimes
Edgar (32:40):
She wants to be on fun.
Erika (32:42):
No, sometimes
Edgar (32:43):
She can't handle herself.
Erika (32:44):
No, sometimes it's just not appropriate or she can't
really understand why the volumeis so high. Like when you're
talking to somebody, you don'twant them to be like, like
really loud on you when you'retrying to be happy and excited
about it too. So I completelyunderstand.
Edgar (33:04):
I don't actually. It sounds like an alien by every
social show in this planet.
Erika (33:09):
That's because you're the one doing it, not the one that's
happening too.
Edgar (33:13):
I can't help it, I'm living my life. I really can't.
So, we're on to our next seminew segment, where we read and
react to much shorter Redditstories back to back. So, doing
this Rapid Files style with thefirst story- Oh, by the way, the
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main thread is titled IntrovertMen, How Did You Get Your
Partner? So, this is all aboutintroverts and how they are
still able to survive and carryon their legacy to their
children, unfortunately.
So, the first little comment. Iasked the coworker out. She
turned me down. So, I asked herif she knew anyone. She said
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she'd work on it.
Six weeks later, she set me upwith my now wife of forty one
years.
Erika (34:02):
Oh, ain't that cute? That coworker
Edgar (34:04):
went
through
Erika (34:03):
just
Edgar (34:04):
asked her permission. Not permission, I guess she asked
her to scout him.
Erika (34:08):
Yeah, she went through. She felt, she did good.
Edgar (34:12):
Mhmm, yeah. I've heard that's an effective strategy for
finding like a partner becauselike
Erika (34:17):
Setting up?
Edgar (34:18):
He's like asking someone who rejected you. Politely
enough, at least.
Erika (34:22):
Yeah, definitely. Alright, the second story is, at
work after school, she used todo things to intentionally annoy
me to the point where I'd getangry about it. We even argue
sometimes until one day we wereforced to work together by our
manager. Then I realized she wasgoing out of her way to tap me
on the shoulder or grab me bythe forearm when she needed to
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ask me something. So out ofannoyance, I everytolically
asked her if she liked touchingme.
To my surprise, she blushed. Andat that moment, it was as if
everything clicked. I thought weweren't getting along but the
whole time she was just tryingto get my attention by any means
necessary. So I just asked herfor her number. The rest was
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history.
Fast forward, we have three kidstogether. We'll be celebrating
14 of marriage next February andnineteen years of being together
this November.
Edgar (35:15):
See, this backs up my theory of her death. If you're
being bullied by a person of theopposite sex, they probably have
a crush on you.
Erika (35:26):
Really?
Edgar (35:26):
Yeah. I used to hear that a lot when I was like a kid.
He's like, oh, why are you beingso mean to him? Do have a crush
on him? Yeah.
And I don't know. I think somethere was some truth in that. I
wasn't really a part of any ofthose dramas because I was five
years old and didn't care.
Erika (35:43):
But didn't you ever have like a girl being mean to you,
ever?
Edgar (35:47):
I like to say maybe one, but I don't know. I don't
remember them now. I was nevermean.
Erika (35:55):
Yeah, I had a few kids being mean to me.
Edgar (35:59):
Did you beat them up? No. Just You should've.
Erika (36:04):
I was just like, why are they being mean to me?
Edgar (36:08):
Apparently you had an anger issue when you were
little. I was surprised youdidn't like curb stomp them all.
I kicked
Erika (36:15):
them in the ball. Nah, I was just caught off guard
because there would be justlittle things they would be mean
to me about. I just didn't getit. Like, there was this one, oh
my gosh. Yeah.
Oh my god, this is the one Iremember in high school. So I
was like, you know, in my APclasses, I was a good girl,
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whatever. And this kid, he wasalways mean to me, always. I
didn't understand why, obviouslynow I get it. However, I was in
the library and then I was verygullible back then.
Edgar (36:47):
Gullible?
Erika (36:48):
Yes. It's that this
Edgar (36:49):
Still gullible.
Erika (36:50):
It's No, I'm not, you think I am. Anyways, so I was in
the library and he was like,Yeah, so this book is free, you
can take it. You don't even haveto check it out, like this table
right here. I was like, Are yousure? Because I don't see
anything here.
He's like, Yeah, yeah, I know,because I have one right here.
And I was like, okay. So put itin my backpack and then
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obviously you need to check itout from the library. So it
beeped. And so the guy was like,she has it, it's her.
And she was like, no shedoesn't, let me see your
backpack.
Edgar (37:28):
Bro.
Erika (37:29):
So they stopped the visitor's backpack and I was, I
just walked out the library
Edgar (37:34):
like nothing. I'm okay.
Erika (37:37):
But it was me, I had to book that in check out. So it
backfired obviously, but therewas just one of the many stories
that I don't know, boys were somean to me.
Edgar (37:48):
I'm gonna try that in a t shirt, Max. Stop playing. But
Erika (37:55):
yes, I can relate to that.
Edgar (37:58):
Okay,
Erika (38:00):
so the next story.
Edgar (38:03):
Yeah, so the next story is pretty sure it was a
conspiracy, at least half thepeople we worked with at the
time. Around Christmas, I wastold by a manager I won a raffle
for two free games of bowlingwhile she was standing nearby.
So, surprised of all time.Another coworker looked at the
two of us and said, Hey, you twoshould go out together. Loud
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enough for everyone nearby tohear.
I looked at her and simply said,Want to? She said, Sure. We'll
be married, Durchenius, comeNovember. So the most nonchalant
kind of engagement I've everheard of. For real.
She's like, You want to getmarried? Yeah. It will probably
sound like Squidward actually,no matter think about it.
Erika (38:45):
Well, mean, the whole freaking job was like, they
should, they'll be goodtogether.
Edgar (38:50):
I feel like a lot of like, you go to a club or school
or like in work, if like theysee like you have like some
chemistry with someone, theyusually try to like have you
around them more often than not.Thank For whatever reason. I
know lot of teachers, they likehaving students that they want
to mash together or sittogether, or sit close enough to
each other so they can interact.Really? Yeah, it's apparently a
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thing they do.
Erika (39:12):
Oh, didn't know that. Interesting.
Edgar (39:15):
They think it's not funny, but they like playing
matchmaker because what else areyou going do as a public
teacher?
Erika (39:23):
That's interesting. Never thought about that at all. All
right, so the last one isanswering for my introvert
husband. He took his daughterout to go shopping at the mall,
walked into the store I wasworking in. His daughter walked
off with his grandmother and Iasked him if he needed any help.
His mouth opened but no wordscame out. It was a little
awkward and a little funny.Eventually the words came out
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and he left. I remember tellingmy coworker, If I ever saw that
hot dad again, I was gonna gethis number. Within the same
hour, he returned to the storeto buy a beanie.
I insisted I ring him up so Icould ask for his number. I saw
his wrist and got excited. Hehad an aurobus tattooed like a
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bracelet. I had actually hadplanned to get an auroboros
tattooed as a bracelet too. So Ibroke the ice and told him he
stole my idea.
He was so shocked that I evenknew what it was and then asked
for my number. He calledimmediately after. When he tells
the story, he mentions afterleaving the first time that a
song started playing in the malland it was like a push for him
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to go back to me. But he wasembarrassed about his shoes,
which to this day I don'tremember them, so he ran and
bought a brand new pair of Vansbefore returning to my store. I
took a while into our dating torealize that we actually crossed
paths a few months prior at anightclub.
I was super dressed up, makeupall done, looking like a mean
goth girl. He was leaned upagainst the back door sipping on
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a beer. We had locked eyes andhe rolled his eyes at me. Only
reason we didn't speak sooner isbecause he first saw me and
looked mean. And the second timeI was dressed like a hobo in
comparison.
So I came off less scary, Iguess. Been together nine years
so far and have five kidstogether.
Edgar (41:10):
Hello.
Erika (41:14):
Isn't that cute?
Edgar (41:15):
I mean, a little bit indifferent, but I mean, the
five kids in nine years, like,do they not have any hobbies? Do
they not have anything better todo?
Erika (41:25):
Some people just wanna have kids.
Edgar (41:27):
And now they have mean goth kids.
Erika (41:30):
But that, I think that's a cute story. What are
Edgar (41:32):
bad taste in tattoos?
Erika (41:34):
I don't even know what that is. How does it even look
like?
Edgar (41:36):
I'll show you a picture. It's a
Erika (41:39):
Oh. Yeah, Oh, that's very cool.
Edgar (41:42):
Yeah, orbarrels are a mythological animal. It's like a
snake that's like bitingthemselves, and typically they
look like infinity signs or acircle. Yeah. So think of like a
snake biting itself. So that'show it looks like.
Yeah. For those who don't know.
Erika (41:56):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. I mean, I think it's a cute
story.
Edgar (42:01):
So
Erika (42:02):
that's all the stories we have today. Thank you for tuning
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Edgar (42:18):
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goodies we're planning in thenear future.
Erika (42:46):
Thank you. Bye.
Yapping!
Erika (00:02):
Hello, this is Erika
Edgar (00:03):
and Edgar
Erika (00:05):
and we are the Yapping Snougers. We entertain you with
the app worthy stories we findaround the web. Today's theme is
On Scene Battles.
Edgar (00:15):
And the first story is titled, Entitled Neighbors
Demand I Stop Using My Own WifiBecause It's Distracting Her
Plants. Yes, you read thatcorrectly. I live in a townhouse
complex with paper thin wallsand a whole bunch of colorful
personalities. One of them is myneighbor, a woman in her late
50s who wears tie dye every day,insists she has a telepathic
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connection with crystals, andonce told me my aura was too
digital. I'm usually sitting outfront on my phone with my
computer relaxing.
I suppose that's why she feelsI'm too digital, but her latest
stunt truly took the cake. Lastweek, she knocked on my door
holding a small potted plant inone hand and a printout of what
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looked like a hand drawn diagramof her WiFi signal in the other.
She told me we need to talkabout my router. I was confused.
She then explained that my WiFiwas disrupting the vibrational
energy of her succulents.
She pointed to the drawing,which honestly looked like a sad
jellyfish, and instead thesignal beamed directly through
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our shared walls and bombardedher plants non stop. According
to her, the plants werespiritually wilting because they
dot the Wi Fi with sunlight, butit wasn't. The best part? Her
plants were in a dark hallwaywith no natural lights. She
claimed they had been fine untilI got a new modem and then gave
me two options.
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Either turn off my wifi everynight between 10PM and 6AM,
apparently the plant's resthours, or let her share my wifi
and move the router into herunit so she could regulate the
signal properly. I laughedbecause I thought she was
joking. She wasn't. She stormedoff as I was laughing at her.
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I'm still currently waiting tosee what comes out of this.
Erika (02:06):
I think this is ridiculous. I think she's just
trying to get free wifi.
Edgar (02:10):
I think so too. Like, why does she need someone else's
router modem, like, in herhouse?
Erika (02:17):
It makes no sense. And the wifi signal is killing their
plants because they thought itwas the sun. I don't even
understand.
Edgar (02:25):
She's either crazy or a liar. Either way, bad neighbor.
Bad neighbor vibes.
Erika (02:32):
Yeah, I would stay away from that woman. She seems a
little bit out there.
Edgar (02:36):
Exactly. And what about the other neighbors?
Erika (02:39):
The clerical ones?
Edgar (02:40):
No, I mean like, she was like, to OP, you have a digital
aura, but everyone else withtheir phones or their computers.
So I imagine there has to beother neighbors. And why doesn't
she pass to them?
Erika (02:55):
Yeah, I don't get that.
Edgar (02:57):
Why OP?
Erika (02:59):
Probably because she seems nice.
Edgar (03:01):
I don't know.
Erika (03:03):
I don't know, I just, I think she just needs help. What
type of sane person would saythis to a person, say this or
mention this or even come upwith this logic?
Edgar (03:16):
Yes, especially kind of dumb.
Erika (03:20):
Yeah, don't get it. The top comment is, Let her share my
WiFi and move the router intoher unit. Bingo. Yeah, that's
not gonna happen. So, lady has aplan for getting free wifi.
She has to regulate the signalproperly.
Edgar (03:37):
Oh, I agree. Yeah, as soon as she said, Oh, let me
have the wifi then or let mecontrol it, like I knew it was
just like a bunch of BS.
Erika (03:45):
Yeah, there was just no way.
Edgar (03:47):
Mhmm. She really thought she could fool like anybody with
that.
Erika (03:52):
Yeah, I don't even get it, like.
Edgar (03:56):
Then did she have the audacity to be like mad at OP?
Erika (03:59):
I know, she stormed off. Like, she was like insulted. No.
Absolutely not. She just, Imean, she said she's waiting to
see what comes out of this, buthopefully nothing because it's
gonna, out there.
Edgar (04:16):
So final verdict on OP, if she's like the asshole in
this situation. No, absolutelynot. Yeah, same here. I think
she's acting as anyone, anynormal person would if someone
said that my plants
Erika (04:29):
make you to shut off your Wi I know, I thought she was
joking too until she said shewas serious.
Edgar (04:34):
They're usually serious when they say something
ridiculous like that.
Erika (04:37):
I guess. All right, so the next story is, Am I the
Asshole for exposing my sister'sfake cancer to her parents after
she refused to come cleanherself? I, 34 female, just
found out that my sister, 31female, who has been telling my
whole family that she has cancerfor the last eight months, has
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been lying. She shaved her head,said she was doing chemo, and
had her parents move in to helpher through treatment. I started
to have doubts when, besidesalso staying out late relatively
frequently, she would never letanyone attend appointments with
her.
And she clearly had way too muchenergy for someone going through
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aggressive chemotherapy. Lastweek I ran into the office
manager of my sister'soncologist at a coffee shop
small town. I casually mentionedmy sister and the office manager
was confused. She had no ideawho I was talking about. I did
some digging through doctors andspoke to my sister about what I
learned and she broke down andspilled her guts.
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It turns out she fabricated thewhole story because she was over
her head with debt and wasn'table to afford her apartment
anymore. The cancer story gotour parents to move in and she
could then stop paying herbills. I was furious and told
her that she had twenty fourhours to tell her parents the
truth or I would. She asked menot to tell them because it
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would ruin her relationship withthem. She did not tell them, so
yesterday I took everything toour parents.
Our parents are heartbroken. Mysister's acting like I had no
right to out her and she didn'teven say this to her parents.
She was gonna stage a miraculousrecovery next month. She said I
ruined her life and that myfamily should be trying to
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defend each other rather thanexpose each other.
Edgar (06:27):
Bro. Like she literally ruined like three people's
lives. Her own life and thenboth her parents.
Erika (06:33):
And her sister. So four.
Edgar (06:37):
Did she ruin OP's life?
Erika (06:38):
Because she had to, she had to be the one to tell her
parents.
Edgar (06:42):
Oh, I guess so, yeah. But it's more like, I don't think
OP's life is directly ruined.Like, of course, she has now a
bad relationship with hersister, but I mean, all this
stems from OP's sister'sdecision to lie to them about
something so serious.
Erika (06:56):
Yeah, I mean, also if I had thought my sister had
chemotherapy, I would be verysad in trying to support
Edgar (07:03):
her. So
Erika (07:05):
I think she just, she just played with everybody's
emotions and that wasn't right.
Edgar (07:10):
I know. And then, I think the shaving her own head part
was pretty crazy too. Like, shewent really deep for this.
Erika (07:16):
Yeah. I mean, she had a lot of debt, so she was trying
to do whatever she could. Maybenext
Edgar (07:24):
time don't be in debt.
Erika (07:26):
It's easier said than done, but yes, I would say
definitely try not to do. Oh mygod, that's insane though. Just
the fact that she just liedthrough her teeth and just had
the audacity to day after daymake your parents sad and make
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them pay for everything becauseyou couldn't afford it is insane
to me.
Edgar (07:49):
And also so she can like, I guess, have a grief over her
head. It was crazy.
Erika (07:55):
Just tell the truth. Just say, you know, mom and dad, am
in debt. Can you help me out? Iknow I'm irresponsible. I mean,
if they don't help you then, youknow, the consequences of your
actions.
Edgar (08:05):
Exactly. And I feel like, they seem like very supportive
parents.
Erika (08:09):
Yeah.
Edgar (08:10):
So, I imagine even if she just went clean in the first
place, they would have helpedher out.
Erika (08:16):
Exactly.
Edgar (08:17):
And then like trying to finish this off by saying, Oh,
miraculously recovered from myaggressive cancer. No way she
was going do that. She just madethat up. It's just going make
her OP feel bad.
Erika (08:29):
Yeah. There was just no way. Cancer doesn't just go away
one day after another. It'sridiculous. And it is
frustrating for people thatactually have cancer for
somebody to just flat out lielike that.
So the top comment is not theasshole for telling them, but
you were a tiny bit of anasshole for not demanding that
she tell your parentsimmediately. Like fifteen
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minutes of finding out. Twentyfour hours is too long to be
deceived into thinking yourchild is dying.
Edgar (08:58):
Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Like every, I don't know how
long this was going on, for likeevery minute the parents thought
their child was dying slowly infront of them before torture for
them.
Erika (09:09):
Yeah, like the emotional tremble and emotional scarring
this is is insane. No parentwants to outlive their children.
So, yeah, I definitely thinkshe's the asshole and she should
have come clean as soon as hersister found out. There was just
no waiting.
Edgar (09:29):
Mhmm. Do you find a verdict?
Erika (09:32):
I would say, yeah, the sister's an asshole. And she's
the one that OP is not. Sheshould have. She did the right
thing by telling her parents.
Edgar (09:41):
Yeah, agree. OP is in the clear, but yeah. Her sister has
some questions to answer. Thenext story is titled, My Husband
Made a Fake TikTok Account toDefend Me from Momfluencer's
Belize. So, I'm a new mom, 26female, and I make small
lifestyle videos on TikTok.
Mostly stuff like postpartumoutfit ideas, baby meal preps,
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etc. Nothing wild, but of courseI get the occasional mean
comment. A couple weeks agosomeone commented, Why would you
dress like that when you're amother now? Try looking less
like a teen and more like awife. I brushed it off until I
got curious about a user whokept clapping back at these
haters.
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This mysterious account. Thismystery account was defending me
so hard in the comments and evenreferenced stuff like our
daughter's name which I hadn'tshared online. Last night I
finally asked my husband if heknew anything about it. His face
went red. Turns out he made awhole figure count under a
pseudonym just to defend me fromthose sad, bitter women because
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he hated how much they got outof my skin.
He said you already made aperson and kept her alive for
eight months while being funny,hot, and kind. You don't need
strangers tearing you down ontop of that. Raiders, I am
crying. I married a simp and Ilove him. Hot take: Simps are
supreme husband material.
Erika (11:09):
Aw, that's so cute. I thought it would be nice to,
after the cancer one, to haveone that's kinda sweet and cute.
I think that people that havethis type of relationship last
forever. And then top commentis, it's so sweet reading about
spouses that actually like eachother for a change.
Edgar (11:31):
Yeah, because I feel like most stuff you read in Reddit
and like the internet ingeneral, which is mostly
negative, but it's just becauseit's the kind of thing that
attracts attention.
Erika (11:40):
Exactly.
Edgar (11:41):
All the haters get all the attention, which is why I'm
a hater online. Oh my gosh.
Erika (11:47):
I think this is super cute and I'm glad he did it
behind her back, which is thebest thing. Because it was a
little nice surprise. Alright,so the next story is, Boss said
no overtime under anycircumstances, so I left mid
emergency. A couple months agoour manager sent out a Stern
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company wide email saying therewould be no overtime, no
exceptions. Even things ranbehind or if clients were in a
panic mode.
Okay, got it boss. Fast forwardlast Friday, a major client's
account completely tanked due toa glitch and it was all hands on
deck. My shift ended at 5PM andaround 04:50AM I reminded my
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boss about the no overtimepolicy. He chuckled nervously
and said, Well, this is a bitdifferent. Just stay until it's
fixed.
I smiled, showed him the emailhe sent and said, Sorry, I love
to help, but I really don't wantto violate company policy. I
logged out at five, grabbed mythings and left while the rest
of the team stayed until 8PMcleaning up the mess. Monday
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morning, we got another email.Overtime requests may now be
approved on a case by casebasis. What do you think?
You think he's an asshole fordoing that?
Edgar (13:03):
I wouldn't say OP is an asshole for that because your
work shouldn't really dictateyour entire life and making so
much concessions for it is notthe best thing either.
Erika (13:16):
Exactly. I mean, if the policy is not to do overtime,
then why are you asking me tobreak that policy? And you just
leave.
Edgar (13:25):
Exactly. Yeah. You have only like the time that you're
required to work and that's it.
Erika (13:29):
Yeah, so you're telling me that I should stay home, I
mean stay here, work and not getpaid.
Edgar (13:33):
Exactly, yeah.
Erika (13:34):
So that's not okay either.
Edgar (13:36):
Yeah, jobs like, at least recently, like a lot of jobs and
a lot of corporations are,they're just trying to find more
and more ways to squeeze moretime and just more effort out of
everybody and they don't care,they can hire you at any moment.
Erika (13:49):
Yeah, they just literally replace you, like it's no big
deal. So, why do you want tosacrifice your life for a
company like that or a corporatelike that?
Edgar (13:59):
Exactly. And the manager being angry about it, he's
probably being used even morethan an OP is and he's still
clinging onto his job like that.
Erika (14:10):
Yeah. I mean, the top comment is, Same conversations
with my boss, absolutely noovertime. We don't have enough
people to get the job done intime allotted. Why don't you
plan better? I did, but I wasdenied two extra bodies I
needed.
So, you need to tell me which isgoing to piss you off the least.
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Leaving unfinished, not doingtraining, or overtime. You
recall. I don't know about thecomment. Was that okay?
Edgar (14:38):
Well, the comment, yeah, I think what they're trying to
say is a lot of times your jobdemands you. Like when you have
a project based job, they wouldbe like, Hey, you have one to
two months to do this, and we'regiving you this much resources.
How long do you think this ispossible? And then usually in
the first few meetings, you willmake your best guesstimates and
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ask if you can have more time ormore resources, which is better
to determine more headcount,which is just more people to
manage just so they can do someof the tasks. And yeah, I guess
he's just saying, Oh, so if Idon't get the resources I need
to finish this on time, then youhave to figure out what do we
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need to do to compromise so wecan't get something out on time.
Erika (15:28):
I mean, that's a hard call, but then again, you
shouldn't be squished thin. Youshouldn't be squished thin to
the point that you can't do yourjob.
Edgar (15:36):
But yeah, it still happens.
Erika (15:38):
I know. Yeah, I mean definitely.
Edgar (15:43):
I feel like everyone should be on the same boat when
they're in a company like that.Everyone's job sucks. So I think
people should be moreempathetic, some people just
like, you know how to get, youknow, they get really pissy when
they're in a boss sort ofposition.
Erika (16:02):
Yeah, yeah, agree. But I mean that's what you see. So
your boss's boss and anotherboss. Yeah. So it's always, you
know, the higher ups that alwayspush everybody down the line.
Exactly. So it's not necessarilyyour boss, it's the boss's
boss's boss.
Edgar (16:20):
I remember, yeah, at Google, I had like, between me
and the CEO of Google, was like15 bosses, wasn't really like
that.
Erika (16:28):
Oh, from the latter? Yeah. From up there? Damn,
that's a lot of people.
Edgar (16:31):
That's a lot of people I don't know and don't care about.
Erika (16:35):
Yeah, I know you remember telling me that you didn't
really like Google to a point. Ithink you really were excited
about it at the beginning andyou loved learning there and you
grew, but. It
Edgar (16:46):
just, yeah, after some point it just gets a little bit
slow and it's like not much youcan really do without stepping
on someone's toes.
Erika (16:54):
Yeah, it's just one of those things where you have to,
I guess, pick your battles. Yougot your experiences and you got
to, you know, obviously yourresume amazing after working in
Google, so working somewhereelse would be easier for you
too.
Edgar (17:08):
The next story is titled, Would I be the Asshole if I told
my sister she smells? My youngersister has struggled with body
odor for years. It's somethingeveryone in my family has
noticed, but no one addressesdirectly. My parents
occasionally hint that sheshould shower or they give her
new soaps. I'm not sure if sherealizes this, but the odor is
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strong enough that her entireroom smells and my mom has to
use a special detergent just toget the scent out of her
clothes.
At first, I assumed it was apuberty phrase, as she was in
middle school when it started,but I just got back from college
and unfortunately it's still amajor issue, maybe even worse. I
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know she deals with anxiety anddepression and it's likely this
is a hygiene issue tied to hermental illness. I understand
that struggle and really don'twant to come across as mean or
judgmental. The reason I'mthinking about this now is that
she's leaving for college soonand will be living in a dorm
with roommates. I'm genuinelyworried that people won't be
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kind about it or that she willhave a hard time socially
because of the smell.
I'd rather she hears from me,someone who cares, than from a
roommate or stranger in a cruelor embarrassing way. But at the
same time, I don't want to hurther feelings or damage her self
esteem since it is already verylow. So, would I be the asshole
if I gently told her the truth?I just want to help her, not
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shame her. I say just make herself esteem lower at this point.
Because the smell thing, like,that gets something like a lot
of people's nerves and peoplelike say a lot of things behind
their back. So it's best to sayit like before she goes to
college and before she gets likethat reputation that follows
her.
Erika (18:55):
Yeah.
Edgar (18:56):
Even like, you just keep it out in the open at that
point. And it's like, yeah, yousmell. Open the window. Open the
window. Yeah.
And for maybe like a few weeks,like before the college, just
like work on the small things,like get her detergent, teach
her how to clean herself better,I guess.
Erika (19:16):
Oh, give her tips. Like, I would definitely talk to her.
I would just be very carefulwith the wording just because
you also don't wanna kick herwhile she is down type of And
just give her advice on how toclean or exfoliate her body, and
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showering every day is a greatthing. Lotion and hydrating,
maybe not too much steps becauseshe might feel overwhelmed, but
a shower with the African netthing that we bought earlier
that we thought was really good,I love it. And she can use that
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and scrub her body with.
And hopefully it gets better.But I think it's better for her
to say something because noteverybody's gonna be nice about
it like she was mentioning.
Edgar (20:08):
Yeah. Imagine she's like, she doesn't know she smells, she
goes to college, everyone avoidsher and then she like hears
something like during theweekend or like just passively
from her roommates or roommates'friends, then she will have like
no one to like really supporther at that point.
Erika (20:22):
Yeah. I I
Edgar (20:23):
don't think OP has to be like too tiptoeing because like,
it's just like, she stinks andyou just gotta let her know
that. It's a good exercise inletting her know that the world
is a little more they're notgoing to always hold her or kick
gloves.
Erika (20:38):
Well, mean, she struggles with depression and stuff like
that. So it's hard, you justdon't say somebody you stink
when you're in depression. Youknow, it's just one of those
things where she does have to becareful with her wording, at
least that's me.
Edgar (20:54):
Imagine she doesn't say anything then, because that's
the most careful you could bewith wording, you just don't say
anything.
Erika (20:58):
No, she should, but she should just be careful of what
she says. I mean, I'm justsaying that it's important to be
truthful and I think everybodynot saying anything to her
actually caused her harm becauseI imagine she stinks now and she
has a body odor right now and soshe's going to school and nobody
wants to be next to her or theysmell her or make faces at her
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or they want to be her friendsbecause she has an odor already.
So that's why she maybe also hasa low self esteem because she
has no friends. So, you know,this could be one thing where
she has to be truthful about it,but I wouldn't just go up to her
face and be like, You stink.Like, that's not how you should
treat this.
You stinky. No, definitely not.But the top comment is, not the
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asshole, but how you say itmatters more than anything. This
is one of those conversationsthat could either help her or
scar her. So it's all aboutdelivery.
Right now she's probably eithernose blind to it or too ashamed
to confront it. Depression canmake basic hygiene feel
impossible. If you barrel inwith you stink, it'll crush her.
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But if you frame it as I loveyou and I don't want the world
to be shitty to you oversomething fixable, it might land
better. Maybe try, Hey, Inoticed your room clothes have a
stronger smell lately and I knowmental health can make showers
feel like climbing a mountain,but I'm worried your dorm mates
might be dicks about it.
Want to brainstorm solutionstogether, maybe a different soap
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or laundry routine. And I thinkthat's a better way to say that.
You're still telling her thatshe has a body order, but you're
not telling her you stink likethat, like, you know, just
different. I think that's a goodway. I really like that comment.
Edgar (22:44):
Don't know. It just seems like very passive aggressive a
little bit. Like she's just kindof tiptoeing over the issue.
Erika (22:50):
But she's telling her that she has a body order and
Edgar (22:53):
is No, she gives her an out, in that comment. She's
like, Oh, the room in theclothes smell lately. Then OP's
sister can easily just say, Oh,maybe I just need to clean that
better and not herself. You haveto go out loud and just say that
you have another issue, everyonenotices, and we give you a lot
of soaps and other cleaningstuff in the hopes that you'll
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get the hint. Like for thisentire time they've been giving
her hints that she smells andnow that an issue is actually
going come up because she's notdoing anything about it, it's
like now would be the time to bemore serious or more real, you
know?
Don't talk down to her becauseit's like, oh, you're going to
hurt her feelings because she'slike a child and she won't be
able to handle it.
Erika (23:38):
I mean I wouldn't say extreme but you're just not
considering her feelings.
Edgar (23:43):
I ain't considering her feelings.
Erika (23:45):
No you're not.
Edgar (23:46):
Down the road it would be a lot worse if she doesn't get
like the full truth you know.
Erika (23:51):
She is telling her the truth.
Edgar (23:52):
No, she's saying, oh.
Erika (23:54):
She literally said
Edgar (23:55):
She gave her a light version of the truth.
Erika (23:59):
No, I think how she said it was perfectly. And if she
doesn't get it, then she'll tryagain and be more direct. But I
think this is a good way tostart because just going off the
bat and saying you stink andneed to shower is just not okay.
At least for me.
Edgar (24:15):
Also, smelling is not okay.
Erika (24:18):
You can't even smell. You're always with allergies and
you can't smell anything.
Edgar (24:21):
God bless.
Erika (24:25):
Whatever. I smell good. Like roses.
Edgar (24:28):
Roses. You smell like the beans. What? Our dogs.
Erika (24:32):
The beans, oh my god.
Edgar (24:34):
You know how, like, people have, like, smells to
their houses?
Erika (24:36):
Yeah.
Edgar (24:37):
Yeah. I wonder how ours smelled like because I'm pretty
sure our noseblend to it.
Erika (24:41):
Well, we all are. Well, I mean, usually I like to mop and
vacuum every day and clean thecounter, it smells really nice
in But having three dogs ishard.
Edgar (24:51):
Yeah, I feel like it does smell like dog probably. At the
very least.
Erika (24:56):
Yeah, but that's why I like to vacuum and mop every day
because it helps with the smelland put a little bit of scented
candle, which by the way,marbled melts is the best.
Edgar (25:06):
Yeah, it smells like Paulina's candles and doggy.
Which is the worst smellactually. I love living here.
Erika (25:13):
It smells good, I don't know what you're talking about.
But I think, yeah, talking abouteverybody's house smell,
everybody has. I know Jean has ahouse smell when she comes in
and I'm like, I know that'sBetty. You know what I mean?
Edgar (25:26):
Yeah, don't know their house
Erika (25:28):
smell to Yeah, it's okay, but I know. And then Paulina has
a house smell too. Likeeverybody has a house smell and
it's not bad know, it's justSome people
Edgar (25:37):
have stronger stronger house smells than others.
Erika (25:39):
Well, yes. But maybe, you know, when they don't shower or
they don't clean, you know? Butmy family's pretty clean, so.
Edgar (25:47):
Yeah, so what's the final verdict?
Erika (25:50):
I would say she is not that asshole. I think she's
trying to help her out andtrying to avoid further scarring
with other people and maybe likejust helping her not to be
excluded from a lot, especiallyin college. Because college is
when you go out and you meetpeople, make friends, get new
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experiences and then with hersmelling like that she's never
really gonna have that.
Edgar (26:19):
Yeah, yeah. She wouldn't be the asshole in helping her
sister out.
Erika (26:24):
Yeah, exactly. The next story is, Am I the asshole for
asking my partner to stoptelling me to lower your volume?
Sometimes when I get excitedabout topic, I naturally start
speaking louder than usual. Notshouting, just louder than
normal conversation level. Thething is, I don't realize I'm
doing it in the moment.
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When this happens, my partnerwill often interrupt me mid
sentence and ask me to lower myvolume. I don't think they mean
in a rude way and I understandthat they probably just want the
conversation to stay at acomfortable volume. That's fair.
But every time it happens, Ifeel demoralized and a little
self conscious. I lose myenthusiasm and no longer feel
like talking about the thing Iwas excited about.
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Even if they don't mean itharshly, it feels dismissive and
discouraging. I try to explainhow it makes me feel, but they
still keep interrupting me. Am Ithe asshole for wanting them to
stop interrupting me like that?Or do I need to accept that I
should keep my volume in check,even if it's hard because I
don't always realize when I'mdoing it?
Edgar (27:25):
Moral of the story, never be excited about things. That's
not the But seriousness, I thinkshe shouldn't really have to
care about, like, her volume.Like, whenever I get excited, I
do talk really loud as well,like louder than usual. So I get
it.
Erika (27:42):
Yes, yes, you really do.
Edgar (27:44):
Yes, I guess I'm excited.
Erika (27:46):
You do. And then like the whole okay, maybe because you
don't care, but like it'suncomfortable for me, especially
like it's for example, if you'rein the hospital and you have
your voice in volume and there'speople, sick people around you.
Edgar (28:04):
Want them to get the good energy that I'm giving off of
being excited about my life, myhealthy life. You're so
Erika (28:11):
terrible. It's uncomfortable because it's been
so many situations where you'reliterally like, I love that you
get excited, I'm happy. I feelyour energy and also feel
excited for you.
Edgar (28:29):
Do you?
Erika (28:31):
I do. But like your volume.
Edgar (28:34):
What about my volume?
Erika (28:35):
Your volume is insane. Like a whole friggin' next door
neighbor could hear
Edgar (28:40):
you. Good. They can be a part of the conversation if they
want.
Erika (28:47):
Okay. Clearly you don't care but, you know, I just feel
like depending on where you are,you really need to have an
indoor voice.
Edgar (28:59):
A lion does not entertain the thoughts of other people who
I don't know how the sayinggoes.
Erika (29:06):
Exactly. No, shut it.
Edgar (29:08):
And it's just me yapping.
Erika (29:11):
You are yapping? Okay, so the top comment is not the
asshole. My family and I teaseeach other about something like
this all the time. We call itself awareness rule. Basically,
now that you know that when
Edgar (29:26):
We got an unfun rule?
Erika (29:28):
Basically, now that you know when you get excited, you
talk too loud, you can be moreaware of it and then try to keep
your volume lower. Take a breathwhen you feel yourself getting
too excited or we even practicevolume control by being silly
with it and whisper yourexciting things. I struggle with
crazy migraines sometimes andall I have to do is tell my
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family lower your volume just abit and they do so. They know I
love them and they know I wantto hear and enjoy what they're
saying. So they lower theirvoices so I can listen and
partake.
One family member in particularwas more sensitive to this at
first and felt as you do now. Ihad a conversation with them
along with the lines I love you,I know you get excited, and I
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love your excitement to partakein your excitement too. I would
like your volume to lower just abit. I think the most important
thing to remember about thisspecific scenario is that you're
not being told to shut up or tobe quiet. Your partner probably
just wants the conversation at anormal tone where the volume
isn't a distraction to yourexcitement.
As someone who has been asked tolower my volume, asked someone
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to lower theirs, it's neverabout getting the person to stop
talking. It's always aboutmaking sure I can stay in the
conversation at a comfortablelevel, meaning I can listen and
partake in it longer.Unfortunately, you might have to
learn how to be less sensitiveabout it. Focus on the fact that
your partner clearly cares aboutwhat you're saying and often try
to actively and comfortablylisten to what you're talking
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about. I hope this helped alittle.
It's kind of a ramble.
Edgar (30:59):
Yeah, they were rambling. I found that So, in short, they
have an unfun role. Don't gettoo excited. No. Don't be too
loud.
Be mindful. Basically everythingunfun that you could be. Never
show your personality.
Erika (31:16):
That is I would
Edgar (31:17):
not be in that family and I wouldn't want to be related or
friends with anyone in thatcircle.
Erika (31:24):
I'd be telling you to calm that one. I would be like.
Edgar (31:28):
Yeah, and then I'd be like.
Erika (31:30):
Don't even say nah, I just make a gesture of my hand
going down.
Edgar (31:34):
I used it to fan my excitement.
Erika (31:39):
Sometimes you'd be extra though. I'd be like,
Edgar (31:42):
I'd be fighting battles with my social awareness and I
lose.
Erika (31:50):
Oh my gosh. The point is that I'm glad that she
understands that it's not thatthey don't want to listen, but
it's that she's a little bit toosensitive about it. I hope
eventually she works on it sothat way everybody can be
excited just as her. Yeah,that's pretty much it.
Edgar (32:11):
So final verdict?
Erika (32:12):
I wouldn't say that you're the asshole. OP is the
one that said, she's the onethat tells the partner to lower
the boys.
Edgar (32:21):
I would say OP is the asshole.
Erika (32:23):
Would say no because Very
Edgar (32:24):
kind of be a fun place. In a fun zone.
Erika (32:31):
Agree. You're group of people. No, no, no. I think OP
is trying her best and she wantsto be excited just like her
partner, but sometimes
Edgar (32:40):
She wants to be on fun.
Erika (32:42):
No, sometimes
Edgar (32:43):
She can't handle herself.
Erika (32:44):
No, sometimes it's just not appropriate or she can't
really understand why the volumeis so high. Like when you're
talking to somebody, you don'twant them to be like, like
really loud on you when you'retrying to be happy and excited
about it too. So I completelyunderstand.
Edgar (33:04):
I don't actually. It sounds like an alien by every
social show in this planet.
Erika (33:09):
That's because you're the one doing it, not the one that's
happening too.
Edgar (33:13):
I can't help it, I'm living my life. I really can't.
So, we're on to our next seminew segment, where we read and
react to much shorter Redditstories back to back. So, doing
this Rapid Files style with thefirst story- Oh, by the way, the
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main thread is titled IntrovertMen, How Did You Get Your
Partner? So, this is all aboutintroverts and how they are
still able to survive and carryon their legacy to their
children, unfortunately.
So, the first little comment. Iasked the coworker out. She
turned me down. So, I asked herif she knew anyone. She said
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she'd work on it.
Six weeks later, she set me upwith my now wife of forty one
years.
Erika (34:02):
Oh, ain't that cute? That coworker
Edgar (34:04):
went
through
Erika (34:03):
just
Edgar (34:04):
asked her permission. Not permission, I guess she asked
her to scout him.
Erika (34:08):
Yeah, she went through. She felt, she did good.
Edgar (34:12):
Mhmm, yeah. I've heard that's an effective strategy for
finding like a partner becauselike
Erika (34:17):
Setting up?
Edgar (34:18):
He's like asking someone who rejected you. Politely
enough, at least.
Erika (34:22):
Yeah, definitely. Alright, the second story is, at
work after school, she used todo things to intentionally annoy
me to the point where I'd getangry about it. We even argue
sometimes until one day we wereforced to work together by our
manager. Then I realized she wasgoing out of her way to tap me
on the shoulder or grab me bythe forearm when she needed to
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ask me something. So out ofannoyance, I everytolically
asked her if she liked touchingme.
To my surprise, she blushed. Andat that moment, it was as if
everything clicked. I thought weweren't getting along but the
whole time she was just tryingto get my attention by any means
necessary. So I just asked herfor her number. The rest was
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history.
Fast forward, we have three kidstogether. We'll be celebrating
14 of marriage next February andnineteen years of being together
this November.
Edgar (35:15):
See, this backs up my theory of her death. If you're
being bullied by a person of theopposite sex, they probably have
a crush on you.
Erika (35:26):
Really?
Edgar (35:26):
Yeah. I used to hear that a lot when I was like a kid.
He's like, oh, why are you beingso mean to him? Do have a crush
on him? Yeah.
And I don't know. I think somethere was some truth in that. I
wasn't really a part of any ofthose dramas because I was five
years old and didn't care.
Erika (35:43):
But didn't you ever have like a girl being mean to you,
ever?
Edgar (35:47):
I like to say maybe one, but I don't know. I don't
remember them now. I was nevermean.
Erika (35:55):
Yeah, I had a few kids being mean to me.
Edgar (35:59):
Did you beat them up? No. Just You should've.
Erika (36:04):
I was just like, why are they being mean to me?
Edgar (36:08):
Apparently you had an anger issue when you were
little. I was surprised youdidn't like curb stomp them all.
I kicked
Erika (36:15):
them in the ball. Nah, I was just caught off guard
because there would be justlittle things they would be mean
to me about. I just didn't getit. Like, there was this one, oh
my gosh. Yeah.
Oh my god, this is the one Iremember in high school. So I
was like, you know, in my APclasses, I was a good girl,
(36:35):
whatever. And this kid, he wasalways mean to me, always. I
didn't understand why, obviouslynow I get it. However, I was in
the library and then I was verygullible back then.
Edgar (36:47):
Gullible?
Erika (36:48):
Yes. It's that this
Edgar (36:49):
Still gullible.
Erika (36:50):
It's No, I'm not, you think I am. Anyways, so I was in
the library and he was like,Yeah, so this book is free, you
can take it. You don't even haveto check it out, like this table
right here. I was like, Are yousure? Because I don't see
anything here.
He's like, Yeah, yeah, I know,because I have one right here.
And I was like, okay. So put itin my backpack and then
(37:16):
obviously you need to check itout from the library. So it
beeped. And so the guy was like,she has it, it's her.
And she was like, no shedoesn't, let me see your
backpack.
Edgar (37:28):
Bro.
Erika (37:29):
So they stopped the visitor's backpack and I was, I
just walked out the library
Edgar (37:34):
like nothing. I'm okay.
Erika (37:37):
But it was me, I had to book that in check out. So it
backfired obviously, but therewas just one of the many stories
that I don't know, boys were somean to me.
Edgar (37:48):
I'm gonna try that in a t shirt, Max. Stop playing. But
Erika (37:55):
yes, I can relate to that.
Edgar (37:58):
Okay,
Erika (38:00):
so the next story.
Edgar (38:03):
Yeah, so the next story is pretty sure it was a
conspiracy, at least half thepeople we worked with at the
time. Around Christmas, I wastold by a manager I won a raffle
for two free games of bowlingwhile she was standing nearby.
So, surprised of all time.Another coworker looked at the
two of us and said, Hey, you twoshould go out together. Loud
(38:25):
enough for everyone nearby tohear.
I looked at her and simply said,Want to? She said, Sure. We'll
be married, Durchenius, comeNovember. So the most nonchalant
kind of engagement I've everheard of. For real.
She's like, You want to getmarried? Yeah. It will probably
sound like Squidward actually,no matter think about it.
Erika (38:45):
Well, mean, the whole freaking job was like, they
should, they'll be goodtogether.
Edgar (38:50):
I feel like a lot of like, you go to a club or school
or like in work, if like theysee like you have like some
chemistry with someone, theyusually try to like have you
around them more often than not.Thank For whatever reason. I
know lot of teachers, they likehaving students that they want
to mash together or sittogether, or sit close enough to
each other so they can interact.Really? Yeah, it's apparently a
(39:11):
thing they do.
Erika (39:12):
Oh, didn't know that. Interesting.
Edgar (39:15):
They think it's not funny, but they like playing
matchmaker because what else areyou going do as a public
teacher?
Erika (39:23):
That's interesting. Never thought about that at all. All
right, so the last one isanswering for my introvert
husband. He took his daughterout to go shopping at the mall,
walked into the store I wasworking in. His daughter walked
off with his grandmother and Iasked him if he needed any help.
His mouth opened but no wordscame out. It was a little
awkward and a little funny.Eventually the words came out
(39:45):
and he left. I remember tellingmy coworker, If I ever saw that
hot dad again, I was gonna gethis number. Within the same
hour, he returned to the storeto buy a beanie.
I insisted I ring him up so Icould ask for his number. I saw
his wrist and got excited. Hehad an aurobus tattooed like a
(40:07):
bracelet. I had actually hadplanned to get an auroboros
tattooed as a bracelet too. So Ibroke the ice and told him he
stole my idea.
He was so shocked that I evenknew what it was and then asked
for my number. He calledimmediately after. When he tells
the story, he mentions afterleaving the first time that a
song started playing in the malland it was like a push for him
(40:30):
to go back to me. But he wasembarrassed about his shoes,
which to this day I don'tremember them, so he ran and
bought a brand new pair of Vansbefore returning to my store. I
took a while into our dating torealize that we actually crossed
paths a few months prior at anightclub.
I was super dressed up, makeupall done, looking like a mean
goth girl. He was leaned upagainst the back door sipping on
(40:52):
a beer. We had locked eyes andhe rolled his eyes at me. Only
reason we didn't speak sooner isbecause he first saw me and
looked mean. And the second timeI was dressed like a hobo in
comparison.
So I came off less scary, Iguess. Been together nine years
so far and have five kidstogether.
Edgar (41:10):
Hello.
Erika (41:14):
Isn't that cute?
Edgar (41:15):
I mean, a little bit indifferent, but I mean, the
five kids in nine years, like,do they not have any hobbies? Do
they not have anything better todo?
Erika (41:25):
Some people just wanna have kids.
Edgar (41:27):
And now they have mean goth kids.
Erika (41:30):
But that, I think that's a cute story. What are
Edgar (41:32):
bad taste in tattoos?
Erika (41:34):
I don't even know what that is. How does it even look
like?
Edgar (41:36):
I'll show you a picture. It's a
Erika (41:39):
Oh. Yeah, Oh, that's very cool.
Edgar (41:42):
Yeah, orbarrels are a mythological animal. It's like a
snake that's like bitingthemselves, and typically they
look like infinity signs or acircle. Yeah. So think of like a
snake biting itself. So that'show it looks like.
Yeah. For those who don't know.
Erika (41:56):
Yeah, that's pretty cool. I mean, I think it's a cute
story.
Edgar (42:01):
So
Erika (42:02):
that's all the stories we have today. Thank you for tuning
in this week's episode. Checkout our website,
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Edgar (42:18):
Also, have a Facebook group called AITA
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so you can share M. I. Diascoposts you like or share your own
stories for us all to judge. Wemay even read a few posts in one
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Finally, we have a mailing listthat you can find on our
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goodies we're planning in thenear future.
Erika (42:46):
Thank you. Bye.
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