Karen STEALS From My Garage... ENDS UP GETTING ARRESTED! - Reddit Podcast Stories

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, mister Redder here, welcome back to another episode
of Reddit podcast Stories. Our first story we'll be reading today,
Karen keeps stealing from my garage, so I got her arrested.
After that, am I the jerk for not watching my
nephew during a flight delay?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
And after that?

Speaker 1 (00:16):
The customer is always right right now. For every thumbs up,
this video gets one, Karen does not get to steal
from her neighbor's garage. But they have so many cool
tools over there, so please smash that like button and
subscribe and turn on notifications for new stories from Reddit
every single day. Karen keeps stealing from my garage, so

(00:36):
I got her arrested. So this story started about a
year ago when I noticed some of my gardening tools
were missing from my garage. At first, I thought I
must have misplaced them, but after looking around the garage
a bit more, I realized that they were actually gone.
I asked my wife if she had moved them somewhere else,
but she had no idea what I was talking about.
That's when I knew something was fishy. A few days later,

(00:59):
I caught my neighbor, who will call Karen red handed.
I had been working in my garden. When I heard
some wrestling in the garage, I went to investigate, and
there she was rummaging through my tool collection. When I
asked her what she was doing, she just smiled sheepishly
and said, oh, I was just borrowing a shovel. I
didn't think you'd mind, to be honest. At first, I

(01:21):
didn't really mind that she was using my tools. After all,
we were neighbors and it seemed like a small thing
to get worked up about. But then it started happening
more and more frequently. Every time I turned my back,
Karen would sneak into my garage and take whatever she wanted.
It got to the point where I couldn't find my
tools when I needed them, and it was becoming a
huge inconvenience having to ask her over and over again

(01:43):
to give me back whatever she had taken. I tried
talking to Karen about it several times, but she always
just apologized and said she wouldn't do it again. Of course,
a few days later I would catch her in the
act once again. It was starting to feel like a
game of cat and mouse. That's when I decided enough
was enough. I knew I needed to take matters into
my own hands or she would never stop. I couldn't

(02:05):
just let Karen keep taking advantage of me like this,
so I decided to put up some security cameras in
my garage to catch her in the act. I'll never
forget the feeling of satisfaction I had when I reviewed
the footage for the first time. There was Karen sneaking
into my garage like she owned the place, taking whatever
she pleased. I couldn't believe she had been so brazen
about it. But even with the evidence right in front

(02:27):
of me, I was still hesitant to take legal action.
I'm very non confrontational and didn't want to make things
awkward with my neighbor and her family. But then one
day I went to use my tools and I realized
that not only were they missing, but Karen had also
taken my pressure washer. Darn thing cost about three hundred dollars.
That was the last straw. I called the police and

(02:47):
filed a report, providing them with the footage from my
camera as evidence. The whole process was surprisingly straightforward, and
I felt a sense of relief knowing that I had
finally put an end to Karen's stealing. Of course, Karen
was less than pleased with the outcome. She pleaded with
me to drop the charges, saying that she had just
been borrowing the tools and didn't mean any harm. But

(03:08):
I wasn't buying it. I had given her plenty of
chances to do the right thing, and she had chosen
to ignore them time and time again. In the end,
Karen was arrested, charged with theft, and had to return
all of my tools that she had borrowed. She has
a court date coming up next week, and I'm hoping
she'll face some serious punishment for stealing so much of
my stuff. I may have lost a neighbor, but at

(03:29):
least I got my tools back. Neighbors like this are
the worst. I had a neighbor at my old house
who used to swipe anything he could get his hands on,
decorative plants, bird houses, tools, anything. Eventually we all found
out that he had a compulsive stealing disorder. His sister
claimed that he didn't even know what he was doing
or why he was doing it. It was such a

(03:50):
relief when we moved and I didn't have to deal
with mister sticky fingers anymore. Am I the jerk for
not watching my nephew during a flight delay. Ray twenty
five female, and I twenty three female, grew up in
New York City. Our parents own a vacation home. When
I moved out, they decided to move there permanently. They've
only been back once since. I recently decided to visit them.

(04:12):
Mom and Ray were talking and my plans came up.
She called and asked why I didn't tell her I
was planning to go to Cali. I said it had
nothing to do with her, so why would I have
to tell her anything? She said it made no sense
for us to do separate trips when we could just
go together. I said, she's acting extremely entitled to something
she had no part in, and I'm not obligated to

(04:32):
include her in every plan I make. She said she
just wants our parents to meet her son. I said,
he's like five months. You've had plenty of time to
take him if it was important. Then she cried to mom.
Ma said it was a good idea. I said, if
Ray cared so much, she would have planned to see
them on her own. She told me she really needs this.
I told Ray, if she comes, she can't ask me

(04:55):
for Jack. I'm not helping with her kid. Act like
I'm not even there, she agreed. The day came and
our connecting flight was delayed, so we had to stay
the night. I was trying to fall asleep. She asked
me if I was really going to sleep.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I was annoyed. I said, if you.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Leave me alone. Later, she asked me to wash the baby.
I said, just hold him and go to sleep. She
was scared someone would snatch him while she slept. I said,
she sounds crazy and no one wants her kid. She
said she was exhausted and had been drinking energy drinks
all night, but she was crashing and tried to put
him in my arms again. I said, this is exactly

(05:34):
why you should have just stayed at home. I told
you from the jump, I'm not doing crap. You already
forced your way here. Now you're just going to have
to figure it out. She said, seriously, I'm exhausted. I
can barely even keep my eyes open. I said, then
go to sleep and close my eyes. She knew what
the terms were. We made it there, but later Mom

(05:55):
asked if she really raised me to be so cold
towards my sister. She told me she had broken down
and had a mental meltdown. I said, I love my sister,
but she should grow up and stop being so dramatic
about a situation she put herself in. She said it
wouldn't have hurt me to help her, even just a little.
I told her I didn't help her make the baby
and she should have known something could go wrong when traveling.

(06:18):
We got back a week ago and haven't spoken to
each other at all, but she texted me today how
hurt she was, and she feels like I don't care
about her or my nephew at all. I told her
she knew what she was getting into when she begged
to come and imposed on my trip. She said she
thought I would have changed my mind when I realized
we would have to sleep in the airport, and that
she would have done it for me. I said, your kid,

(06:41):
your responsibility. I might be willing to just apologize to
shut her up if people say I am the jerk.
You're not obligated to include your sister and your travel plans,
although I do think that in theory it sounds like
a nice idea to visit your parents together. Nothing wrong
with the little family get together. In reality, though, you
said it's terribly cold, like your mother said, do you

(07:02):
hate your sister? What about your nephew? You sound like
you do. It wouldn't hurt you to be a tiny
bit helpful, especially in extenuating circumstances.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
What's your problem?

Speaker 1 (07:12):
If that's how you were going to act, your answer
should have been a hard no. When your sister asked
to tag along. Had she known that's how you were
going to act, I'm certain she wouldn't have asked. You
took a great opportunity to spend quality time with your
sister and her sweet baby, and you wasted it.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
You're the cherk.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
You can be technically correct and still be morally wrong.
Everyone sucks here, your sister for latching onto your trip
and forcing you into the situation in the first place,
and you for the absolute callousness with which you regard
your sister and your nephew. In extenuating circumstances, like a
flight delay, all it needs is a little give and
take to make everyone's experience a lot easier.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
I would never wish for anyone to have you as
a relative.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
You seem to treat relationships as purely rules based zero
sum games.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
What an awful way to live.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Let's hope you never find yourself in a situation where
you need someone else's help, not the jerk to recap.
Ray purposefully waited until you planned a trip to take
hers so she could use you for a babysitter. Wanted
you to stay awake and watch her kid so she
could sleep. Went back on her word not to force
you to babysit. Cry to mommy when you didn't let

(08:21):
yourself be manipulated. Ray sounds more childish and exhausting to
deal with than her toddler. You're the one who deserves
an apology. Geez, count on Reddit parenting posts to take
the human out of humanity. I'll agree that Ray forced
herself on the trip, but outside of that, it's not
like she asked her to babysit so she could go
out for dinner. There were extenuating circumstances. These Reddit people

(08:44):
really love saying extenuating, don't they? That led to her
asking for help. You cannot fall asleep while holding a
five month old infant. You cannot leave a five month
old on the floor while you sleep, because they could
be stolen. She was asking her sister to hold her
baby for an hour. She wouldn't accidentally pass out and
accidentally drop them. Let's not pretend she was asking to
go out to the bars. Customer is always right, right.

(09:09):
So I work as a minimum wage cashier at a
discount store. I see a lot of people in a day,
especially people who know how to do my job better
than me due to their lack of experience and profound
understanding that my job is the easiest.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
In the world.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Now, I always shut that crap down and the classic
corporate happy public service employee way. Well, actually it makes
it a little easier this way, but thank you so
much for helping. Like I'm talking a toddler down from
an upcoming tantrum, but I don't leave room for arguing.
It's almost like I'm playing a character. Honestly, it works
for me. But I never just let someone do something stupid,

(09:45):
like letting them walk out with a bag too heavy
without double bagging it, or letting them leave putting their
receipt in the bag if it looks like they might
want to return it. But not today. It's Saturday, so
it's busy all day. As I would finally get a
minute to get my other work done, someone would come up,
taking forever to consider the impulse buys while I'm stuck

(10:05):
waiting for them at the register, getting nothing done. This
woman did that, but twice she got up there, pondered
for a minute, got a line behind her, decided to
go look at something else. I'm stuck with this line
till just before she gets back and ponders again before
finally getting to me. She's your average looking middle aged
soccer mom. But already she's getting on my nerves. But hey,

(10:27):
it's Saturday. Every customer gets on my nerves, so whatever.
She's got a lot of larger but lightweight items with
some smaller items like bags of candy and socks. So
I'm getting half of it in one large bag, half
of it in another large bag. So I go to
get the second bag, handing her the first one, when
she goes, no, I don't want a lot of bags.

(10:47):
You can fit the rest in there. It's fine. You
should ask before getting more bags. It's your job to
do things how the customers want and asking otherwise. You
should just know to do one bag if you can.
It's way.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
I only want one.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Bag, And I thought to myself, Wow, it sounds like
she's never done retail a day in her life.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
She must know what she's doing.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now. It's also worth noting she had a few heavier items,
not many, but a few. There were glass jars of
sauces with lots of pigment and staining properties. It's also
worth mentioning that she was getting some chips that came
in bags with pointy sharper edges that eat bags for breakfast.
The bag gets too heavy and they press into the
sides at any angle, and that bag is toast. It's

(11:31):
also worth mentioning she was getting several white clothes made
of very sustainable material, nice clothes. She said they were
for an important party she had to go to that night.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Bragging.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Normally I would double bag, which would keep the sharp
corners in check.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
But she was right.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
She only wanted one bag, so that must be all
she needs. So I get the glass jars in with
the clothes nestled in there, nicely spaced out to where
they wouldn't hit each other, with clothes in between them,
and the bags on top spread around the top so
it was easier to lift the bag just like she wanted.
That darn bag was already looking like it would bust
wide open at any second when she took it from

(12:08):
the counter. Luckily, a line hadn't formed behind her yet,
just someone looking at the impulse buys, so I couldn't
really step away, But nothing to do but watch where
I had a clear view of the parking lot. I
watched as she struggled out of the two front doors,
no automatic got a quarter of the way to her
car when the bag busts, glass and sauce everywhere. Sad

(12:30):
she had like fifteen dollars worth about five jars, She
struggled to force them back into the bag, hoping she
could at least pile them in her arms with the
bag holding it together, trying not to cut herself on
the glass which she had wrapped up.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
It broke some more.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
She tried to salvage it and balance it back off, failed,
gave up, grabbed as much of an armful as she could,
had to take like five trips. Her blouse and pants ruined. Huh,
maybe after over a year and a half of cashiering
nearly every day, I know what I'm doing. Shocker, You
don't really know what you're doing because your pride and

(13:05):
arrogance prevent you from learning how to properly deal with people.
You failed as a bagger to pack her things up
securely and prevent what happened. You allowed this ignorant, foolish
person to dictate to you how you would do your work.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
You wimped out.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
A true professional would have known how to handle this
customer to ensure she made it to her car safely,
with her purchases intact.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Op Yes, and I normally do that, but not today. Today.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
I decided she won herself a stupid prize, so she
got her way. Am I the jerk for refusing to
help my family without evidence of a written, emailed or
texted agreement. My family likes to assume I'll do whatever
they want. I got to call at work once asking
why I wasn't at the airport to pick up my
brother in law. Apparently they asked me to pick them

(13:52):
up a few months ago. I asked them if they
could provide me with an email or text where they
told me the date, time or flight number. Nope, that
was the last straw. My mom and dad gave me
crap and tried to make me pay for his uber.
So I sent my entire family an EMIL followed up
by a text. I would not be doing anything for
any of them unless they had written confirmation that I

(14:13):
had agreed to do so. My dad has been awesome
about it. He had to have cataract surgery last week.
We spoke about it a month ago. He then followed
up with an email with the time, date and location
of the appointment. He also asked me to confirm that
I had agreed to take him and pick him up
easy peasy. The rest of them have been a pain
in the bud. My mom asked me if I could

(14:34):
watch her and my stepdad's dogs while they were out
of town. I said yes, just send me the information
about your trip at least a month in advance so
I can make sure to rearrange my plans.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
I got no further information.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Last weekend, my boyfriend wanted to go to banf so
we went. My mom called me on Thursday to ask
where I was. I told her that I was in
band It became a huge deal because she was leaving
Friday morning.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oops.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
I told her that I hadn't made any arrangements for
the dogs since she never told me when she needed
them watched. She said I was being a jerk and
that it had slipped her mind. I told her I
would be back on Monday night. And that she could
kinnel them or leave them with my sister until then
she said not to bother. She ended up just leaving
them with my sister. My sister's upset with me, so

(15:21):
I forwarded her a screenshot of the text where I
agreed to watch the dogs as long as I got
the requested information. I told her I would cut my
trip short immediately if she could get my mom to
show me. When she sent me the information, I got
a call from my mother telling me I was being
difficult and that if I agree to do something, I
need to follow through. I could provide dozens of examples

(15:42):
of my family asking me for a favor and then
giving me all the information I.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Need to do it. But I could easily show you
half a.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Dozen times where they either claim that I agreed to
do something but cannot provide proof, or where they expect
me to change my plans last minute because they forgot
to tell me everything I needed to know. I'm not
going to change. If my seventy six year old dad
can bend his neck to tell me everything I need
to know to help him out, so can everyone else.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Not the jerk.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
If your family wants a favor, from you. Then they
need to give you all the information you need to
follow through. I think that your solution is reasonable. Not
the jerk, but start insisting on having all the details
before saying yes or no?

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Mom, can you watch my dogs?

Speaker 1 (16:24):
You send me all the details and I'll check my
schedule and let you know. Why don't you start acting
like a human and give us a room. It's not
my fault you book through a third party like an idiot.
A family comes in late that night, probably around eleven
thirty pm. Mom, dad, and their two kids, probably around
five or six. Nothing out of the ordinary. They booked

(16:45):
a prepaid, non refundable reservation through a third party, ugh whatever.
Checked them in and they went up to their room.
They had booked a suite, which is a queen bed
in a pull out sofa bed. Twenty minutes later, they
all come back down with their craft and say that
that's not the type.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Of room they booked. They booked a room with two
queen beds.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
I said, sorry, that's what came through on the reservation,
and I can't change anything on a prepaid, non refundable reservation.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
They'd have to take it up with a company. They
had booked it through.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
The lady said she needed two beds. I'm supposed to
have two beds two. There are four people here. Use
your common sense. Why would you put four people in
a room that only has one bed.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Ma'am, that's not how it works.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I didn't make your reservation, I didn't pick the room type,
and I can't change anything. You booked through a third party,
So you need to fix this with a third party.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
This isn't my fault. I need two beds.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
How are we all supposed to sleep in a room
with only one bed?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Well, it certainly isn't my fault.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
And the room does have two beds, a queen bed
and a pullout sofa bed. That doesn't count. We need
two beds. How do you suggest we all sleep in
a room with one bed and a sofa bed?

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Hm? Hm, that's up to you. I can even get
you rollaway bed if you want.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
That's not what I reserved. You'd have to take that
up with the OTA lady. There are seriously two beds
in the room. Have the kids sleep on the sofa bed?
They're kids, they don't care where they sleep, and they
had love getting to sleep on the sofa bed. It's
an adventure for them. Of course, the woman was upset
with me because why not, why not yell at the

(18:22):
front desk associated for a mess up that they didn't make.
The man showed me the confirmation email they got for
the room, and it confirmed that they booked a suite.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Surprise. Surprise.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Man calls the OTA rep and talks for a solid
half hour before coming back over to the desk and
telling me that the third party upgraded them from a
double queen room to a suite without notice. Nah, I
don't know what bs they're telling you, but your confirmation
email very clearly listed the room as a suite at
the time you made the reservation. More talking on the phone.

(18:53):
Kids are asleep in the lobby chairs, but no, they
can't sleep anywhere other than an actual bed. Mom is
huffing and rolling her eyes and pacing. Dude is on
the phone trying to get the room changed. OTA has
already called me twice and asked me to change their
room type, even though I literally can't. What's up with
OTAs always asking me to do their job. Shaking my

(19:13):
darn head. You made the reservation, you fix it. I
can't do anything from here. Third party doesn't want to
do anything. They're getting more money from a sweep than
from a double room, and apparently don't want to give
it up. I'd already told the man that his best
bet was to make a reservation on the spot and
deal with a third party. Later on, I was on
audit shift, so I was just chilling and doing my

(19:35):
work while these people sat in my lobby.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Hey, not my problem.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
At one point I heard the lady say that she
was never using that OTA again, she was using another
OTA in the future instead.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Bruh, how about.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
You don't book with an OTA at all and save
us all the trouble. It's been over an hour. I
don't care. It's not like I have to waste my
time sitting on the phone trying to fix a mistake
I didn't make. It's their time, not mine. The man
is still on the phone, but the lady storms up
to the desk and says, we've been sitting here.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
For over an hour.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
My kids are exhausted. Mistakes get made, things get messed
up sometimes, but sooner or later you'll have to act
like a human. So why don't you start acting like
a human and give us a room?

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Ma'am.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'm sorry, you're so upset about this. I can give
you a roll away bed and that's it. If you
don't want it, you're welcome to leave and find another
place to stay. And they took the roll away bed.
I brought it up to their room and they had
me push it inside. Whatever the kids were sleeping.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
The room was dark.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
And this lady starts telling me that she doesn't want
to leave a bad review because I was so polite,
but she would if my manager didn't discount the price
or refund her jerk leave a bad review.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Then I don't give a.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Hoot all that, and still she doesn't understand how an
OTA works. I'm shocked at the amount of people who
use OTAs without knowing how they work. Edit. Wow, this
is drawn in a lot of fans of OTAs. Didn't
I know so many of you lurked here waiting to
kiss Ota whenever someone mentions them. If you want to
defend an OTA, go get a job at a hotel

(21:08):
and learn how they work. Added to my head hurts,
and I can't deal with all the ignorant jerks who
act like I can just break the contract between a
franchise owner and a third party company. I'm a front
desk agent. Neither I nor my managers have control over this,
and telling me that we do doesn't make it true.
If you don't work at a hotel, then shut up

(21:29):
with your uneducated opinions. Don't make accusations about things you
clearly don't understand. And to those who are telling me
to quit, yeah, not everyone is an entitled, rich jerk
whose mommy pays their bills. Some people don't have the
luxury to quit on the spot. I like my job,
but third parties suck, and so does anyone who defends them.

(21:49):
In short, go forget yourselves, because I'm not dealing with
any more bs OTA kissers and jerk superiority complex jerks will.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Be blocked and ignored.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Am I the jerk for saying yes to my boyfriend's proposal?
So basically, I'm twenty four non binary. My boyfriend fiance
is twenty five male. My sister is twenty six female,
and I don't know the ages of most of her friends,
but roughly the same age. Now, my sister and my
boyfriend slash fiance do not get along. Well, I don't
really know what happened. I think my sister is just

(22:22):
upset because she has issues with commitment and she dated
him in their high school. I went to a different
high school. Then she cheated on him and she was
upset that he broke up with her. I met him
in college and didn't know it was him. Now what
happened is last week, it was my sister's birthday. She
was always into stupidly lavish things, we both are, so
she threw a big birthday party at a venue in

(22:44):
the forest. Me and my boyfriend slash fiance, were both invited.
We've been dating for a few years and he's never
been invited to one of my sister's birthday parties before,
so we were both thrilled at this development. At the party,
my sister was busy opening all of her presents, then
eating cake, both of which we were there for. Afterward,
my sister started talking to her friends and the guests

(23:05):
started to explore the area.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
It was stunning.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Me and my boyfriend were a little bit away when
we found a little clearing. We were still pretty close
to the venue, but I think it was pretty private.
My boyfriend thought so too. He got down on one
knee and proposed he didn't have a ring. He had
one at home, though, but he had woven a ring
out of grass while we were walking. We are both
very fidgety, so he put that on my finger and

(23:29):
I said yes. Apparently it wasn't as private as I thought,
because when we got back to the venue after taking
a selfie and scheduling a post for a few hours
after the party was scheduled to end, I was bombarded
by a shower of congratulations. Turns out my sister's friend Lisa,
saw my boyfriend propose and then came back to the
venue and told everyone. I figured that I could show

(23:50):
them the ring and tell this story and then move
on from that and back to my sister. While I
was being congratulated, another girl, one of my sister's best friends,
came up to me to see the ring and told
me that, wow, he even skimped out on a ring.
He couldn't plan his own proposal or get you a
nice ring. I was upset because I wasn't even planning
to tell anyone. If someone noticed the ring, I would

(24:13):
tell them, but I wasn't going to announce it to
the world or do it in public where everyone could
see us. We left immediately afterwards, and my entire family
has been blowing up my phone, calling me an attention
seeking jerk and that I shouldn't have done that to
my sister. I'm worried I might be a jerk because
it was my sister's birthday, and if I said no,
maybe she wouldn't have been upset about my boyfriend proposing.

(24:35):
You're the jerk, but mostly your fiance is, especially since
he dated your sister in high school, even though we
don't know how serious, maybe her first it was her
birthday party. And also, sorry but you say you don't
know why they don't get along because they have a
pass together of them dating, and how I understand it
her cheating on him. You're the jerk. You're the jerk,

(24:57):
but mostly your boyfriend is one hundred percent. I can't
believe he thought it would be appropriate to propose at
your sister's event. I can't believe you didn't shut it
down due to the clear disrespect he's showing to your sister,
also to you. He's disrespecting you here too. Does it
not bother you that his proposal, which should have been
your moment, something just between the two of you, is

(25:18):
now intertwined with his ex girlfriend. It seems like he
did that on purpose. To me, you don't spontaneously propose
at your ex girlfriend's birthday party. That takes a great
deal of spite. It's beyond the realm of being accidentally clueless.
It looks like he used your moment, your proposal as
a way to say forget you to his ex girlfriend.
There's a lot of things you could have done here.

(25:39):
People have read it. Stop getting engaged at other people's
events unless you've explicitly spoken to the host of the
event and received enthusiastic consent.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
It's just tacky.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, your sister's friend sucks for telling people, but there
shouldn't have been anything to tell. Someone with social awareness
wouldn't have weaved an engagement ring out of grass to
propose to their ex girlfriend's sister at her own birthday party.
You're the jerk by proxy because yeah, he's the primary jerk,
but you should have known it wasn't an appropriate time
or place either. I'd say everyone sucks here, but your

(26:11):
sister's only presence in the story is the olive branch
she extended by inviting your boyfriend to come with you
in the first place. Am I the jerk for refusing
to change the litter box every day as it's a
waste of time.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
I'm thirty five.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Mail my girlfriend Abby, who's thirty two of six months,
has two cats. A week ago, she broke her leg
and arm while climbing a climbing wall. I offered to
help her with chores. We don't live together, and that
i'd stay with her while she can't do much. She
didn't want to accept, saying it's too much work, but
I insisted thought it would be a great trial run
to potentially living together in the future. We haven't talked

(26:47):
about that yet. Like I said, she has two cats.
Her cats don't go outside, and she has carpets in
her flat. She has three litter boxes. She instructed me
that they need to be scooped daily or wiped down
on the side with pet wipes, and she said carpets
need daily hoovering with cats. At first I didn't mind,
but it quickly got annoying. I tried talking to her

(27:08):
about this, suggesting that three litter boxes was too many,
that it can be cleaned every few days.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Et cetera.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I tried to get her to see that she was
being unreasonable and over the top. But she wouldn't budge,
always finding an excuse on why she needs to do
it that way. One day, I was about to scoop
the litter box and there was just one scoop. I
told her, that's ridiculous. It's just one scoop. It can
stay there until the next day. She asked if I
was at least going to hoover, and I said, no,

(27:35):
there's only some fur on the ground and a few
pieces of litter. It'll be fine until the next day.
She got annoyed with me. The next day she told
me that her mother was coming to stay with her
and that I had to leave, and she'd called me
later to chad. Honestly, I was upset and we argued,
and she called me a selfish jerk. She still hasn't
called me, and my mates think I should have waited

(27:55):
with changes until we were living together because she couldn't
dismiss my point of view. Then.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I kind of feel bad. I mean, she couldn't really
do it herself. Was I the jerk? Should I call.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
First and apologize? She still hasn't called me. Am I
the jerk?

Speaker 1 (28:11):
You're the jerk. As a cat owner, I'll explain something.
Cats really hate dirty cat boxes. If they get too dirty,
the cats will go somewhere else. And she's right about
scooping boxes multiple times a day. The longer you wait,
not only do the boxes get dirtier, but the scoopable
litter makes a larger clump, which wastes it. This also
tends to toss more dust into the air, which is

(28:33):
bad for everyone's breathing. Your response, I should have waited
until we live together. Then she couldn't dismiss my opinion.
That's world class jerk material right there. Her cats are
basically her kids. To be fair, this was an excellent
trial run. She learned you really don't want to care
for her cats her kids. So hopefully she dumped you
and you learned a valuable lesson. You don't want to

(28:54):
be with a woman who has cats hunt frogs on
our farm have fun in prison. This is another story
about Pops, my grandfather, and how he got some sweet
sweet revenge on squatters and poachers. This goes way back
to the nineties. To be exact, nineteen ninety eight. I
was ten years old. My farm back then was Pop's
family farm. It's way up north in Ontario. My farm

(29:18):
is not a small farm in the area. It's the
biggest plot of land. Not only that it has the
most workable farmland. There's about eighty acres of good workable
farmland that's including pastures, and another one hundred twenty acres
of dense forest and marshland. It's in northern Ontario. Back
in the nineties, Northern Ontario had a breakout of this
type of moth. They would spin silk high in the trees.

(29:41):
Really they caused no harm other than a nuisance, but
the government had the great idea to crop dust the
forests on Ontario, causing an ecological disaster. With the loss
of the moths and the chemicals in the water, A
type of frog was nearly wiped out. We called them
leopard frogs. They're green with these big black spots on them.
After that they were put on the endangered species list.

(30:04):
The back end of my property runs off into a
small marshland and into the lake, and back in the nineties,
Pops was having a problem with poachers. They were camping
in the back area, hunting out of season and eating
turtles out of the marsh and just messing up the property.
Back in the day. That forest was my playground. I
know that area like the back of my hand. But

(30:24):
unfortunately I had a run in with the poachers. So
of course I went out there with my Pops and
our local lawman, but they had packed up and were
gone before we got there. Unfortunately, they returned the week after.
Pops tried to find them with the lawman several times,
but with no luck. Now here's where all the information
from the start comes into play. Pops, as hard as

(30:45):
he tried, wanted them gone, but it wasn't working. Pops
was also a fisherman and his favorite bait were bones
other than the leopard frog, but because they made it
on the endangered species list, the use was outright band Pops,
being the response conzible fishermen and generally caring about the land,
figured oh well, now's the time to get two birds

(31:05):
with one stone. He approached the Canadian Fishery and Game
Wardens and through a lot of work, got in touch
with an ecological survey team who decided that our little
marsh was the perfect place for a spawning pool to
raise little leopard frogs. And that's what happened. The back
area where our marsh was fenced in and they started
bringing tadpoles to brood in our marsh. Not only that

(31:28):
the poacher's hunting ground happened to fall in the protected zone.
Once the work happened, it took a full year for
the poachers to return.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
But Pops had a weapon now his phone.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Once he could hear that familiar sound of shots going
off where no fires should be, made a single phone
call to the game warden. They had over a dozen
wardens up there in less than an hour, and the
poachers were caught. Not only were they caught with the
carcass of a bear and other animals, they were found
with buckets and buckets of our little leopard frogs. They
were caught, but not only did they hunt without a license,

(32:01):
they also posted an endangered species to be used as
an illegal bait. From what we learned through the locals,
they did two years in big time prison, all because
Pops cared about the little froggies. Oh yeah, Over five
million of the frogs were raised on that marsh over
ten years, being released throughout marshes and forests in Ontario.
You would have a hard time finding a leopard frog

(32:22):
across Ontario that was not somehow related to a frog
that came out of my little marsh And huge shout
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You won't believe what Karen does in that one.