December 8, 2025 • 32 mins
This week on the show: Jack has an awkward encounter with a listener at Texas Roadhouse, packages are delivered to the wrong recipients and an office Christmas party guide.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
If you're listening to the Jack and Nikki Show podcast
everywhere you get your podcasts and at WBQ dot com,
join Jack and Nicky live weekday mornings from six to
ten on one O two wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Remember when we were giving away tickets to Maroon five
with back to back Maroon five songs?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Remember?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I remember?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Okay? And when we also did Jonas Brothers tickets with
back to back Jonas Brothers songs, I remember, yeah, I
remember that. Okay. Good, that's good, because what I want
to do right now is back to back awkward restaurant stories.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'll tell one awkward story now, and then we'll play
a song, and then we'll come back and I'll tell
an even more awkward restaurant story. Yay, yea, all right,
very good. Let's begin with what happened at Texas Roadhouse
in Clarksburg on Saturday night. Oh no, I was there
enjoying a great meal at a reasonable price. Yeah, that's
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what people love about Texas Roadhouse. Get a lot of
food there, yes, yeah, good time. And so Jessica and
I are eating, and of course the place is packed,
and apparently everybody was having a birthday that night. Oh yeah, okay,
And we know this because of all of the yelling
of yee haul and the clapping and stuff. And I'm like,
for God's sake, is everybody having a birthday tonight? Can
(01:29):
I just can I finish a sentence without it being
interrupted by a song and dance number? All right? So
we're sitting there eating and and there are these two
women who were sitting pretty close to us, and we
go through the meal, and then when they get to
the end of their meal and they're getting ready to leave,
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one of these women she got up and she approached me.
She's looking right at me, she's making eye contact. Here
she comes and I'm thinking, well, I'm gonna get slapped,
And instead of slapping me, she came up as she
leaned in, and she's a very police, very nice woman,
and she said, hey, I don't want to interrupt your dinner,
but I just wanted to let you know that the
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favorite part of my mornings is fun with stragglers. And
I busted out laughing. She said, when you guys put
people on who call too late for the contests and
make fun of them, she said, that makes my day.
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I love fun with Stragglers was very sweet.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Now here's where it got awkward for some reason. And
I'm not even really clear on why I immediately stood
up and hugged her, and I think she was kind
of confused by it. Yeah, I was also a little confused. Afterward,
Jessica was confused, and I still am not sure why.
(02:56):
I was just overcome with emotion. Yeah, because I was
shocked that someone could actually enjoy this show. And also
it's the stuff that you don't anticipate, m you know,
because people were listening to this and you don't know
what their favorite part is. And something is silly to
us as Fun with Stragglers. That's just kind of just
(03:19):
a silly, little throwaway thing that we do on here
just for fun because people A. Yeah, I think you
know what I felt. I think what the reason I
got up and hugged her is because I felt like
I had gone to a priest and confessed my sins
and that I had been forgiven Because Fun with Stragglers
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always feels kind of mean.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's a little yeah, it does feel a little dirty.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It feels a little bit mean, you know, because these
people they're sweet and they call and they're trying to
win stuff, and you put them on the radio and
humiliate them. And now it is funny, but I've always
felt a little bit guilty about that. And so when
she was like, Hey, that's my favorite thing. I think
that's hilarious, I thought, yeah, craze, and I got a
just immediately hugged. If it's Jack and Nikky with back
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to back awkward restaurant stories, and remember when you hear
back to back awkward restaurant stories on the show, you
call in with your own awkward restaurant story a Triple
seven sixty six forty or Texas at three five six
y five one. This one's not just awkward, it's dysfunctional. Okay.
So our first awkward restaurant story was out of Clarksburg.
(04:29):
This one is out of Weston. I'm not going to
identify this restaurant because it involves the people who work there,
and I don't want to cause any trouble, gotcha, Okay,
but I think the story must be told.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Okay, because you already caused the trouble in person.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So I didn't cause it. I witnessed it. This time.
I saw it.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Now, I have long had a dream that I've said
on this show many times over the years, and that
dream is to see someone doing something crazy, like at
a restaurant or a store. Preferably that person is naked. Okay,
because we get these naked in the news stories all
the time where it's always some lunatic running around in
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a Walmart naked. He's in a restaurant naked, and I'm like,
that is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You just want to see naked people.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I get it in public places places being ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I just want to laugh and laugh and laugh until
they have to come and get me in an ambulance
because I can't breathe. That's what I want. And I
thought I was going to get that, and then it
didn't end well. But I was at this host and
Weston was by myself. This happened late last week. I
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stopped and I just went in to grab a bite,
and there was chaos right out of the gate. I
walked in and and the woman who's working the register
is yelling back and forth with the people who are
working in the kitchen. Oh boy, it's kind of aggressive.
There's some let's say, colorful language, okay, and then there
(05:58):
are some accusations that are flying around. Well you did this,
You're supposed to do that. Well blah blah, this isn't that.
So this woman at the register, I'm standing there, I'm
trying to order. She's too busy yelling at people. And
then she yells at some woman and says, hey, get
up here, I need you. I told you we got
to deal with Michael. Get up here. This woman comes
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up from the back and she has a mop, and
the woman working the register says, I think he's in
the in the dining area. The woman the mop's like,
are you sure he's over there? I don't know. That's
where I saw him. I think he I think he's
over there. Maybe he's he's he's lying down in one
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of the boots, or he might be in the floor.
He might be in the floor, I don't know. So
she's sending this woman to go look for an employee
who might be lying in the floor. Yeah, somewhere in
the dining area. And I'm thinking, well, okay, you have
my attention now. But then it got even better. The
woman with the with the mop turns the corner and
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I hear her yelling for him Michael, Michael and then
she said what I thought was Jack Pott just struck gold.
She says, this, Michael, you better have your pants on.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And I said to the woman working the register, am
I to understand that one of your employees is wandering
around in this restaurant with no pants on? And she
said well maybe, and.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I said, not even trying to deny.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
This is fantastic. And then the woman with the mop
eventually reappeared and I said, why did you find Michael?
Why why is he wearing pants? And she said, well,
I had to go in the bathroom looking for him,
and I thought maybe he'd taken his pants off in
the bathroom. The disappointment.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah. So I was like, so, there's no chance that
he's in here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Walking around without pants on.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
In the dining area, and she said there's not much
chance of not much chance, there's not much chance of that.
And then as she said that, there's this other kid
standing there and he's kind of grinning. And when I'm
saying there's there's no chance that, you know, Michael's not
here with no pants on and nobody's going to take
their pants off, she immediately turns around and puts her
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finger in that kid's face and goes, don't you dare
and he just kind of grinned, and I thought, what
is going on in this place?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Who are these people? Yeah, so I was close. I
was close.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh man, you're getting there, baby steps.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's a process.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I just I dream of a day.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
You have to experience these small things so that when
it does happen, you're not just like, oh my god,
this is it and.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You're going crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
You're like, no, now it's happening, and I can be
present in this moment.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, I have to remain calm and remember my training. Yes,
I'm going into the walmarts. I'm going into the fast
food restaurants. I'm all looking for some type of bizarre,
naked behavior, whether it's somebody who works there or a
member of the general public. Just just all I'm asking you,
just have a meltdown, Just do something crazy in front
of me. Studio lines are open eight eight eight seven
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seven seven sixty six forty call us Texas at that
number of textas at three five sixty five to one.
What have you ever experienced anything even approaching this? Have
you seen something odd, bizarre, hilarious in a restaurant and
a Walmart. I mean, wherever have you been fortunate enough
to witness some type of just hilarious absolute meltdown?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Oh man?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Because I can't see it, i'd at least tell me
about it.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, tell me a story, will you. Let's get some
final thoughts from you guys talking about some odd things
that you've seen people doing in public places. Sir, thanks
for holding here on the Jack and Niki Show, which
you got for us.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I used to work as a manager for a restaurant
called Cookout in Beckley, West Virginia, and every evening we'd
have the same homeless guy come in and I don't know,
I mean, obviously he was on some type of drugs,
but he'd come in and sit in the back corner
every night, so drunk, so wasted. The cops wouldn't make
him leave, but he took his pants off and just
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laid down the back booths. Every night.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Every night he take his pants off and lay down. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, he just made himself at home, got comfortable, and
I mean every now and then he would pee back there.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
But oh no, no, no, Now, what kind of reaction
did you get from your customers.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Well, it was like it was close to closing time
he came in, like when the dining room was closing
every night. I guess he had a schedule, you know,
he knew it, Tom he closed.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Okay, because I'm thinking, you know, either the customers are
outraged by this, or if he is on time, like
you said, every night, it's the same time word spreads
in the community. If people start going, hey, let's get
ready and go now and watch that guy take his
pants off at the restaurant.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, it'd be like a community attraction.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Sure, yeah, exactly, And then you know, it becomes a thing,
and then you guys start building some advertising around that.
Maybe you put them on some billboards. Right just with
a black bar. This rights itself. Yeah, of course, very good.
How long ago was this?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It's probably six or seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Okay, okay, all right, very good. Well, hey man, I
appreciate the call. Thanks so much for the story.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
A good one.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The Jack and Niki Show on WVQ.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's a special Jack and Nicky investigation packages sent to
the wrong house. It happens, and sometimes it's truly bizarre.
Nikki had this inter trending yesterday talking about a woman
who received human fingers in the mail, and apparently as
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of yesterday anyway, when you had the story, nobody really
knew where they were supposed to go.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, it was an ongoing investigation.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, yeah, they're trying to figure this out. So we
have her call to nine one one, because you know,
when you receive fingers in the mail, you you have
to make a phone call to try to get to
the bottom of it. And maybe you start with the
postal service. I mean, I guess you could start there.
(12:25):
Maybe you could try to look at the return address
and call them, or you can just go straight to
nine one one, which is what she did.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah, ma'am, we have kind of a weird situation. We
were expecting a delivery of urgent medication that was flown
in on like a Nashville Airport thing, and they delivered
two boxes. We opened one box and it turned out
to be human body parts for transplant. Like it's very medicinal.
We've called the delivery service to try to find out
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where it's supposed to go so that they can come
collective or if we need to like take it to
Nashville to one of the hospitals or something.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Now, unfortunately it ends right there. We don't have the
reaction from the nine one one operator, which, no, right,
why would you end it there? But they did. I
would love to know what the advice was. Yeah, for that,
he was probably, well, don't eat them, okay, don't I
know you're going to be tempted to toss them in
the microwave or you know, if you have a dog, Hey,
(13:24):
buddy wants some snausages. You know, don't do.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
That nice sauce, right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, So okay, not sure exactly where you go from there,
but I can only imagine how surprised you would be
by this. And also she said two boxes, and they
opened one box. Well, surely you're going to be curious
enough to open the other one now, right.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Even I don't know if i'd want to.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, well, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm curious and I want to know. But can I
handle that?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I mean, who knows that Maybe it's not fingers, and
maybe the other one is something that you can use
to make a roast or something for the family later,
you know, toss in some paris. Now you've got a
nice dinner, huh. I mean, who knows? You always try
to find shortcuts. We're all living busy lives. Let's use
this as a jumping off point here. While we're talking
about do you open the second box eight eight eight seven, seven,
(14:20):
seven sixty six forty calls or text us at that number?
You can also text us at three five six five one.
Let's start there. If you had two boxes arrive, one
of them you open and find some fingers in there?
Are you gonna go ahead and open the second box?
Because I'll tell you what I am. I'm definitely gonna
open it.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Okay. It depends on if you've already admitted to.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Not opening it yet, I think, because you're on a
nine to one one call, right or is this before
the nine one one call?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
This would be before okay, yeah, so you're going to
open it?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah? Yeah, I would be. I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
To come open it, yeah, because I mean it. I'm done.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Oh can you imagine? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So like if I've I wanted, yes, so if I
got fingers in one box, like I don't like okay.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, okay, Well again, studio and text lines are open.
This is the question. But also let's let's broaden this
out here. What kind of packages have you received over
the years that did not belong to you, that weren't
supposed to be for you. Did you open them? What
did you find? And?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And have you ever had a package you were expecting
to arrive at your house and it went somewhere else?
And what happened there? Did they open it? Was that
embarrassing and awkward for you? Because I'm going to tell
you I've been in the situation and this is a
story from several years ago, and some of you may
remember this, but I'm going to tell you an incredibly
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awkward situation I had. I was expecting a package and
so was my neighbor. The package just got switched. I
got theirs, they got mine. And let's just say that
what was inside it was quite shocking. All right, I'm
gonna leave it right there, little Cliffhanger. Okay, Now, if
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you're not familiar with this, I will get into the
details coming up in a few minutes. Because I had
to go to their house package in hand, being like.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Sorry, I opened this. This is very embarrassing. Or did
you just dump it and run?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
We'll get into it, all right. Eight eight eight seven
seven seven sixty six forty call us Texas at that
number three five sixty five to one. Let's just talk
about this package is going in the wrong places. Yours,
there's ours, mind, others go. Our investigation continues. It's the
story of a woman who received the wrong package. That
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package had some human fingers in it. She called nine
to one one to see it to do m h
She had a second package that she had not opened,
and so we said, well, would you open that second
package if the first one had some fingers in it?
And that's where we're going to start, and then we
kind of work our way out into packages that you
have received by a mistake or maybe people got your packages.
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Nikki Drake text line, Please all right, I have.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
To open it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
There's no choice.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Mm hmm, there is a choice. But okay, just like you,
you would open it too, Jack, Yeah, I'd.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Gotten open I mean if I yeah, if I if
I had two packages and found some fingers in one,
I would really need to know what's in the other one.
For starters, Do I need to refrigerate it? I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Refrigerate upon opening, right, Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, I know where to store this thing.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Another text here, I would open it.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm nosy for one, but two, how much worse could
it get?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Also? Info nine one one would need while you're on
the phone.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
M yeah, possibly, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
So my question is, though you open the first one
and it's fingers and you look at the address and everything,
it's not for you.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You got the wrong package. So the second one do you?
Don't you check the label first and you're like, oh,
this one's also not for me. If you open it,
aren't you then committing a crime?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That's a good question. That's a good question with the
caveat that if you're on the phone with nine one one, right,
and maybe they direct you to open it because you
found fingers in one and they need to know what's
in the second one, and they're trying to I don't
get somebody over there to collect these items, right, Okay,
I guess probably you'd legally be covered. But let's say
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you're not on the phone with nine to one one, right,
you get packages at your house. Let's just say you
receive any package at your house that is not addressed
to you. If you open that, is that illegal because
you can't go to a mailbox and pull something out
of it and open it that's illegal. You can't open
somebody else's mailbox and take there, that's illegal.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But if it's misdelivered, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
If it's misdelivered, I guess you could make the argument
that it was an honest mistake on your part because
it was delivered to you. Yes, if it's a single
package that hey, I just didn't see the person's name
on here. Now as you're saying, but if you have
two packages and the first.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
One that has fingers and then you're like, oh, I
should double check the second one.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Is this also addressed to this other person?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, I have to assume you have some wiggle room
if it's a single package delivered to you, and you
could make the argument, hey, it was delivered to my house.
I was expecting a package. I didn't bother to look
at the person's name. Yes, I hope you can make
that argument, because that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That's what I did.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, I've opened packages delivered to me and when it
didn't order this right, and then you look back at
the name and go, oh, I see yeah, okay, then
all right? Uh the uh. That's a great conversation between
two of America's greatest legal minds. I hope you guys
are taking not it's by the way, if you're an attorney,
feel free to let us know the answer. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Somebody else just commented here Frankenstein monster kit from Ikia.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
It's wonderful, Thank you so much, just.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
The first part, right, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
There's some other text here about things that have been misdelivered,
and this one is kind of on the gruesome ish side,
I guess, along with the kind of goes with the
fingers and the body parts.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
A family member died out of town. The ashes were
sent to the home with a toe.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
The jewelry was sent to the funeral home. There was
a packaging mix up. Oh it's a pretty big packaging
mix up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh man, can you imagine? Can you imagine? Was was
the toe buried in the ashes like a prize and
cereal box?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I mean, was it like that? I just have to wonder.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Somebody else had a delivery to their door. It was
somebody else's delivery. It was adult diapers and enemas. Oh god, yeah,
that's that would be awkward to have to return.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh boy, yeah, this is going to solve your constipation problem.
And uh oh, by the way, really solve it. You're
not going to be able to get to the toilet
and time. Go ahead and put this on, right, put
this on?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah, yeah, probably somebody prepping for some sort of procedure.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I'm sure I would.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Hope it does sound like that, doesn't Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Uh, this one's interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Uh. Several years ago, started getting packages directly from Chinese
chippers addressed in my name. It was super cheap jewelry.
Went on for a couple of weeks, dozens of more packages.
Finally was talking to my mom who was complaining about
all her packages were missing. She'd sent us birthday presents
direct from eBay and forgot to change the address. So
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she'd bought all the jewelry for ten cents plus shipping,
and but she just got scammed out of her.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh my god, that is hilarious. So they found out
that she was actually paying one to ten cents the jewelry. Yeah,
which they would have figured out eventually when their their
fingers and their wrists their next turned.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Green and fell off, and then they ended up in
a package on somebody else's doorstep.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
It's the.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
What are you seeing over there? N Ikey Drake.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Okay, I've got a news story and also a follow
up on the toe.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh, okay, great, great, Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
So we had the family member that died out of town.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The ashes were sent with a toe to the home
instead of the jewelry.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
There was a packaging mix up.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It was not in the ashes as a prize in
a cereal box, Jack Loger, Okay. At the time, the
toe was sent to positively identify the person because no
one was able to go id the body, so the
toe had identifying marks so that they could go identify
the toe.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Wow, that's really interesting to have a toe that's so
unique that your entire body can be identified just by
using the toe.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I wonder if it's like a tattoo or something.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Bite marks. I don't know. I'm just guessing. I don't know.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry for your loss text or I apologize.
I just yeah, I don't know. Maybe it was a tattoo.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Okay, Okay, a news story here, no body parts or
anything bad. But opening someone else's mail is how I
met my husband.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I was the only adult adult in my household, so
I was mindlessly opening mail and realized I opened my
neighbor's bank statement. I messaged him to apologize because I
had already opened it, and I put it in his
door to return it. He continued to message me afterwards,
and the rest is history.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, how nice.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Must have been a pretty nice bank statement.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You know, I wasn't going to say that. That just
makes me feel bad for him, Like he was objectionable
as a person, but he made money. Yeah, here's the
beauty of it. Eventually she was at it to that bankstape, right, Yeah,
she's like, I don't recognize this. Few years later I'm
on it. Oh hey, that's yeah, how about it? Yeah,
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well that's a lovely story. And I hope he's a nice,
attractive man with other qualities. All right, Nikey, please continue?
Saw one more pop in here. I didn't have time
to vent.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I have not had time to ventit either. Yeah, I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's about ordering Christmas presents for siblings.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh oh uh oh, you.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Want to go ahead and jump into it. Let's see
where it goes. You can always stop reading if it
gets it appropriate.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
When I was eighteen, I ordered Christmas presents for my
siblings and decided to open the package in front of
my mom.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
When I opened the box.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I was shocked to see to not see the Christmas presence,
but things I had never seen before in my life.
Turns out I received somebody's a adult adult items and
my mom had to tell me what I got in
the mail.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Your god, well, at least they were eighteen when it happened, right, Yeah,
you're eighteen, you can handle that. Yeah, you get it,
you get yeah, you're not eight because again there is
a learning curve, right, there's a Okay, well, thanks for that.
What a heartwarming tale. And by the way, this sets
up my story, yeah nicely. This is very similar to
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what happened to me. And I'll just put this in
a nutshell because I have told this story before. But
I was expecting a package, and I received a package,
and I didn't bother to look at the name on
the package because I was expecting a package. I said,
oh great, I've been waiting for this. So I tore
into it and it turned out that, like our text
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are here, it was an adult item that my neighbor
and his wife had ordered, and there it was in
my hand, and I had to take that to them
because you know what, am I gonna do. I'm not
gonna throw it away or act like I didn't see it.
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So I went to their house and knocked on the door,
and they came to the door and I said, hey,
I got your package, and they said, oh great, we
got your package. And okay, so just the switcheroo, and
they handed me my package unopened. It was sealed, and
(26:17):
I looked at that, and then I looked under my
arm and as I pulled their package out, we could
both see that I had been into their package. Yeah,
and I said, uh, well, I appreciate you not opening
my package. I'm afraid I can't extend the same courtesy
as you.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Like.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And they knew what was in it, of course, And
I mean you should have seen the look on their faces.
And they were horrified, and they were like, well, thanks
for opening it. I said, it was an honest mistake.
And then after that, we you know, we just we
kind of avoided each other for a while, and then
they just moved out of the neighborhood eventually.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Okay, yeah, oh man.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, they were so humiliated they moved away.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Did you question whether or not.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
It was just like the wrong item in your box,
or did you then check the address on top.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
As soon as you realized it wasn't you are pat
your items?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Well yeah, sure, I tore it open. I saw the item,
and then I closed the box up and looked at
the person's name on it was like, oh, I know
who this belongs to.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Was it like repaarable at all?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Where you could have taped it, retaped it.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It's like a like a raccoon had gotten into it.
If you have access to a calendar, I don't have
to tell you that Christmas will be here soon, and
that means holiday parties. Christmas parties if you will some
at the house, some at the office, and you don't
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want to make a mistake there. You don't want to
look like a jackass. You don't want to put your
job in jeopardy, you don't want to destroy your relationship
with coworkers. And that's why it's time for the jack
Nikki Guide to Holiday Christmas parties, the dues and do
not dos. Okay, Now, a lot of this you would
think would be common sense, but.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
As we know, common sense doesn't really exist.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Not very common sadly, So here are some things that
you should not do. This from the career experts. By
the way at resume dot io. Oh okay, which I'm
told exists. You should not drink too much well at
the office Christmas party. Sure, this is surprisingly common. I
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do know people who do this. They go to the
company Christmas party, just get totally blitzed.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Well, it's usually an open bar, right, Yeah, make a.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Total ass out of themselves. I mean, shouldn't you really
be on guard the most around the people you work with?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I would think, I maybe, yeah, right, I mean your family,
they're probably gonna forgive you for your shenanigans.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You look at it like, well, they have to, they're
related to me. Yeah, But the people you work with
and for are under no obligation to keep you around, right, right,
So you show up, make an ass out of yourself,
do something unsavory, you might lose your job.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I would be very careful about drinking at a company
Christmas party. You ever go to a company Christmas party
and drink?
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I mean yes, yeah, I went to a.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Company Christmas party that was at a vineyard, so there
was wine of plenty.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, and that my co worker's husband was the one
that ended up drinking too much before the party even started.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Before we even sat down to eat our meal.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Somehow my husband Dave convinced this guy to.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Do a cartwheel down the middle of the dining room
because he was like, oh, you can do.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I've been former.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Gymnast or a cheerleader or something. And Dave was like, we'll.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Prove it, and got this guy do a cartwheel down
the middle of the dining room where the dude crashed
into like a table and a tree and it was
pure chaos.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Well, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It was a wonderful time. And I love my husband
for it.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You know what, I think I love him for it too. Yes, yeah,
that's that's great. Oh yeah, we'll prove it. That's a
great thing to say to a drunk guy. Yes, all right,
back to our list. Here's something this kind of surprises me.
Something you should should not do. Not showing up is
something that you should not do.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
You should be there, well right, yeah, well sure, if
you are SVP, then yes.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Show up.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah. I was gonna say I disagree with that. I
don't think you have to go flirting with coworkers.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Right, that's probably against company policy.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Probably in the do not do category. Okay, these trust me,
These get funnier as we continue over sharing personal gossip.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I encourage that.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Come on, that's what everybody does that at office Christmas parties.
Everybody gets together and talks trash about other people in
the company.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I really like to listen to these stories.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Sure, yeah, yeah, all right, here we go showing up
with an uninvited guest. Oh, there's only so much food
and drink for everyone. Okay, this stuff's been measured out. Yes,
you can't. Can't bring uninvited guests, offering unfiltered opinions, unfiltered opinions,
unfiltered opinions, keep your trap shut, giving disruptive speeches.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Disruptive speeches, how great is that?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
I mean entertaining could also be useful to give a
lovely speech.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Towards the end of the party when you know you
want to escape. You know, that is a good way
to like. How about, well, he's going to be going
on for a while, I'm just going to leave.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
How about you get drunk and tell the boss what
you really think of his operation.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
In front of everybody. Please?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah, I think that's the way to go. And finally
we end with something that you should not do at
the office Christmas party. Are you ready, Nikki Drake.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
You know, let's do this the right way. If we're
going to do it, do it right.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Show me.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Inappropriate dancing inappropriate?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Oh god, how do we make that happen?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
How do you get Kyle Wiggs to inappropriately dance at
the Christmas party this year?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You know that's a really good question. Get him all
liquored up and bring Dave in and have Dave give
him a dare prove it.
If you're listening to the Jack and Nikki Show podcast
everywhere you get your podcasts and at WBQ dot com,
join Jack and Nicky live weekday mornings from six to
ten on one O two wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Remember when we were giving away tickets to Maroon five
with back to back Maroon five songs?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Remember?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I remember?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Okay? And when we also did Jonas Brothers tickets with
back to back Jonas Brothers songs, I remember, yeah, I
remember that. Okay. Good, that's good, because what I want
to do right now is back to back awkward restaurant stories.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Oh I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'll tell one awkward story now, and then we'll play
a song, and then we'll come back and I'll tell
an even more awkward restaurant story. Yay, yea, all right,
very good. Let's begin with what happened at Texas Roadhouse
in Clarksburg on Saturday night. Oh no, I was there
enjoying a great meal at a reasonable price. Yeah, that's
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what people love about Texas Roadhouse. Get a lot of
food there, yes, yeah, good time. And so Jessica and
I are eating, and of course the place is packed,
and apparently everybody was having a birthday that night. Oh yeah, okay,
And we know this because of all of the yelling
of yee haul and the clapping and stuff. And I'm like,
for God's sake, is everybody having a birthday tonight? Can
(01:29):
I just can I finish a sentence without it being
interrupted by a song and dance number? All right? So
we're sitting there eating and and there are these two
women who were sitting pretty close to us, and we
go through the meal, and then when they get to
the end of their meal and they're getting ready to leave,
(01:50):
one of these women she got up and she approached me.
She's looking right at me, she's making eye contact. Here
she comes and I'm thinking, well, I'm gonna get slapped,
And instead of slapping me, she came up as she
leaned in, and she's a very police, very nice woman,
and she said, hey, I don't want to interrupt your dinner,
but I just wanted to let you know that the
(02:10):
favorite part of my mornings is fun with stragglers. And
I busted out laughing. She said, when you guys put
people on who call too late for the contests and
make fun of them, she said, that makes my day.
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I love fun with Stragglers was very sweet.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Now here's where it got awkward for some reason. And
I'm not even really clear on why I immediately stood
up and hugged her, and I think she was kind
of confused by it. Yeah, I was also a little confused. Afterward,
Jessica was confused, and I still am not sure why.
(02:56):
I was just overcome with emotion. Yeah, because I was
shocked that someone could actually enjoy this show. And also
it's the stuff that you don't anticipate, m you know,
because people were listening to this and you don't know
what their favorite part is. And something is silly to
us as Fun with Stragglers. That's just kind of just
(03:19):
a silly, little throwaway thing that we do on here
just for fun because people A. Yeah, I think you
know what I felt. I think what the reason I
got up and hugged her is because I felt like
I had gone to a priest and confessed my sins
and that I had been forgiven Because Fun with Stragglers
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always feels kind of mean.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
It's a little yeah, it does feel a little dirty.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It feels a little bit mean, you know, because these
people they're sweet and they call and they're trying to
win stuff, and you put them on the radio and
humiliate them. And now it is funny, but I've always
felt a little bit guilty about that. And so when
she was like, Hey, that's my favorite thing. I think
that's hilarious, I thought, yeah, craze, and I got a
just immediately hugged. If it's Jack and Nikky with back
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to back awkward restaurant stories, and remember when you hear
back to back awkward restaurant stories on the show, you
call in with your own awkward restaurant story a Triple
seven sixty six forty or Texas at three five six
y five one. This one's not just awkward, it's dysfunctional. Okay.
So our first awkward restaurant story was out of Clarksburg.
(04:29):
This one is out of Weston. I'm not going to
identify this restaurant because it involves the people who work there,
and I don't want to cause any trouble, gotcha, Okay,
but I think the story must be told.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Okay, because you already caused the trouble in person.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So I didn't cause it. I witnessed it. This time.
I saw it.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Now, I have long had a dream that I've said
on this show many times over the years, and that
dream is to see someone doing something crazy, like at
a restaurant or a store. Preferably that person is naked. Okay,
because we get these naked in the news stories all
the time where it's always some lunatic running around in
(05:06):
a Walmart naked. He's in a restaurant naked, and I'm like,
that is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You just want to see naked people.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I get it in public places places being ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I just want to laugh and laugh and laugh until
they have to come and get me in an ambulance
because I can't breathe. That's what I want. And I
thought I was going to get that, and then it
didn't end well. But I was at this host and
Weston was by myself. This happened late last week. I
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stopped and I just went in to grab a bite,
and there was chaos right out of the gate. I
walked in and and the woman who's working the register
is yelling back and forth with the people who are
working in the kitchen. Oh boy, it's kind of aggressive.
There's some let's say, colorful language, okay, and then there
(05:58):
are some accusations that are flying around. Well you did this,
You're supposed to do that. Well blah blah, this isn't that.
So this woman at the register, I'm standing there, I'm
trying to order. She's too busy yelling at people. And
then she yells at some woman and says, hey, get
up here, I need you. I told you we got
to deal with Michael. Get up here. This woman comes
(06:18):
up from the back and she has a mop, and
the woman working the register says, I think he's in
the in the dining area. The woman the mop's like,
are you sure he's over there? I don't know. That's
where I saw him. I think he I think he's
over there. Maybe he's he's he's lying down in one
(06:38):
of the boots, or he might be in the floor.
He might be in the floor, I don't know. So
she's sending this woman to go look for an employee
who might be lying in the floor. Yeah, somewhere in
the dining area. And I'm thinking, well, okay, you have
my attention now. But then it got even better. The
woman with the with the mop turns the corner and
(06:59):
I hear her yelling for him Michael, Michael and then
she said what I thought was Jack Pott just struck gold.
She says, this, Michael, you better have your pants on.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And I said to the woman working the register, am
I to understand that one of your employees is wandering
around in this restaurant with no pants on? And she
said well maybe, and.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I said, not even trying to deny.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
This is fantastic. And then the woman with the mop
eventually reappeared and I said, why did you find Michael?
Why why is he wearing pants? And she said, well,
I had to go in the bathroom looking for him,
and I thought maybe he'd taken his pants off in
the bathroom. The disappointment.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah. So I was like, so, there's no chance that
he's in here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Walking around without pants on.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
In the dining area, and she said there's not much
chance of not much chance, there's not much chance of that.
And then as she said that, there's this other kid
standing there and he's kind of grinning. And when I'm
saying there's there's no chance that, you know, Michael's not
here with no pants on and nobody's going to take
their pants off, she immediately turns around and puts her
(08:18):
finger in that kid's face and goes, don't you dare
and he just kind of grinned, and I thought, what
is going on in this place?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Who are these people? Yeah, so I was close. I
was close.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh man, you're getting there, baby steps.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's a process.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I just I dream of a day.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
You have to experience these small things so that when
it does happen, you're not just like, oh my god,
this is it and.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You're going crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
You're like, no, now it's happening, and I can be
present in this moment.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, I have to remain calm and remember my training. Yes,
I'm going into the walmarts. I'm going into the fast
food restaurants. I'm all looking for some type of bizarre,
naked behavior, whether it's somebody who works there or a
member of the general public. Just just all I'm asking you,
just have a meltdown, Just do something crazy in front
of me. Studio lines are open eight eight eight seven
(09:14):
seven seven sixty six forty call us Texas at that
number of textas at three five sixty five to one.
What have you ever experienced anything even approaching this? Have
you seen something odd, bizarre, hilarious in a restaurant and
a Walmart. I mean, wherever have you been fortunate enough
to witness some type of just hilarious absolute meltdown?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Oh man?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Because I can't see it, i'd at least tell me
about it.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, tell me a story, will you. Let's get some
final thoughts from you guys talking about some odd things
that you've seen people doing in public places. Sir, thanks
for holding here on the Jack and Niki Show, which
you got for us.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I used to work as a manager for a restaurant
called Cookout in Beckley, West Virginia, and every evening we'd
have the same homeless guy come in and I don't know,
I mean, obviously he was on some type of drugs,
but he'd come in and sit in the back corner
every night, so drunk, so wasted. The cops wouldn't make
him leave, but he took his pants off and just
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laid down the back booths. Every night.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Every night he take his pants off and lay down. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, he just made himself at home, got comfortable, and
I mean every now and then he would pee back there.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
But oh no, no, no, Now, what kind of reaction
did you get from your customers.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Well, it was like it was close to closing time
he came in, like when the dining room was closing
every night. I guess he had a schedule, you know,
he knew it, Tom he closed.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Okay, because I'm thinking, you know, either the customers are
outraged by this, or if he is on time, like
you said, every night, it's the same time word spreads
in the community. If people start going, hey, let's get
ready and go now and watch that guy take his
pants off at the restaurant.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, it'd be like a community attraction.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Sure, yeah, exactly, And then you know, it becomes a thing,
and then you guys start building some advertising around that.
Maybe you put them on some billboards. Right just with
a black bar. This rights itself. Yeah, of course, very good.
How long ago was this?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It's probably six or seven years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Okay, okay, all right, very good. Well, hey man, I
appreciate the call. Thanks so much for the story.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
A good one.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The Jack and Niki Show on WVQ.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It's a special Jack and Nicky investigation packages sent to
the wrong house. It happens, and sometimes it's truly bizarre.
Nikki had this inter trending yesterday talking about a woman
who received human fingers in the mail, and apparently as
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of yesterday anyway, when you had the story, nobody really
knew where they were supposed to go.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, it was an ongoing investigation.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, yeah, they're trying to figure this out. So we
have her call to nine one one, because you know,
when you receive fingers in the mail, you you have
to make a phone call to try to get to
the bottom of it. And maybe you start with the
postal service. I mean, I guess you could start there.
(12:25):
Maybe you could try to look at the return address
and call them, or you can just go straight to
nine one one, which is what she did.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Yeah, ma'am, we have kind of a weird situation. We
were expecting a delivery of urgent medication that was flown
in on like a Nashville Airport thing, and they delivered
two boxes. We opened one box and it turned out
to be human body parts for transplant. Like it's very medicinal.
We've called the delivery service to try to find out
(12:57):
where it's supposed to go so that they can come
collective or if we need to like take it to
Nashville to one of the hospitals or something.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Now, unfortunately it ends right there. We don't have the
reaction from the nine one one operator, which, no, right,
why would you end it there? But they did. I
would love to know what the advice was. Yeah, for that,
he was probably, well, don't eat them, okay, don't I
know you're going to be tempted to toss them in
the microwave or you know, if you have a dog, Hey,
(13:24):
buddy wants some snausages. You know, don't do.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
That nice sauce, right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, So okay, not sure exactly where you go from there,
but I can only imagine how surprised you would be
by this. And also she said two boxes, and they
opened one box. Well, surely you're going to be curious
enough to open the other one now, right.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Even I don't know if i'd want to.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, well, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm curious and I want to know. But can I
handle that?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I mean, who knows that Maybe it's not fingers, and
maybe the other one is something that you can use
to make a roast or something for the family later,
you know, toss in some paris. Now you've got a
nice dinner, huh. I mean, who knows? You always try
to find shortcuts. We're all living busy lives. Let's use
this as a jumping off point here. While we're talking
about do you open the second box eight eight eight seven, seven,
(14:20):
seven sixty six forty calls or text us at that number?
You can also text us at three five six five one.
Let's start there. If you had two boxes arrive, one
of them you open and find some fingers in there?
Are you gonna go ahead and open the second box?
Because I'll tell you what I am. I'm definitely gonna
open it.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Okay. It depends on if you've already admitted to.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Not opening it yet, I think, because you're on a
nine to one one call, right or is this before
the nine one one call?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
This would be before okay, yeah, so you're going to
open it?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah? Yeah, I would be. I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
To come open it, yeah, because I mean it. I'm done.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Oh can you imagine? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
So like if I've I wanted, yes, so if I
got fingers in one box, like I don't like okay.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, okay, Well again, studio and text lines are open.
This is the question. But also let's let's broaden this
out here. What kind of packages have you received over
the years that did not belong to you, that weren't
supposed to be for you. Did you open them? What
did you find? And?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And have you ever had a package you were expecting
to arrive at your house and it went somewhere else?
And what happened there? Did they open it? Was that
embarrassing and awkward for you? Because I'm going to tell
you I've been in the situation and this is a
story from several years ago, and some of you may
remember this, but I'm going to tell you an incredibly
(15:53):
awkward situation I had. I was expecting a package and
so was my neighbor. The package just got switched. I
got theirs, they got mine. And let's just say that
what was inside it was quite shocking. All right, I'm
gonna leave it right there, little Cliffhanger. Okay, Now, if
(16:15):
you're not familiar with this, I will get into the
details coming up in a few minutes. Because I had
to go to their house package in hand, being like.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Sorry, I opened this. This is very embarrassing. Or did
you just dump it and run?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
We'll get into it, all right. Eight eight eight seven
seven seven sixty six forty call us Texas at that
number three five sixty five to one. Let's just talk
about this package is going in the wrong places. Yours,
there's ours, mind, others go. Our investigation continues. It's the
story of a woman who received the wrong package. That
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package had some human fingers in it. She called nine
to one one to see it to do m h
She had a second package that she had not opened,
and so we said, well, would you open that second
package if the first one had some fingers in it?
And that's where we're going to start, and then we
kind of work our way out into packages that you
have received by a mistake or maybe people got your packages.
(17:16):
Nikki Drake text line, Please all right, I have.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
To open it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
There's no choice.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Mm hmm, there is a choice. But okay, just like you,
you would open it too, Jack, Yeah, I'd.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Gotten open I mean if I yeah, if I if
I had two packages and found some fingers in one,
I would really need to know what's in the other one.
For starters, Do I need to refrigerate it? I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Refrigerate upon opening, right, Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, I know where to store this thing.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Another text here, I would open it.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm nosy for one, but two, how much worse could
it get?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Also? Info nine one one would need while you're on
the phone.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
M yeah, possibly, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
So my question is, though you open the first one
and it's fingers and you look at the address and everything,
it's not for you.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You got the wrong package. So the second one do you?
Don't you check the label first and you're like, oh,
this one's also not for me. If you open it,
aren't you then committing a crime?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
That's a good question. That's a good question with the
caveat that if you're on the phone with nine one one, right,
and maybe they direct you to open it because you
found fingers in one and they need to know what's
in the second one, and they're trying to I don't
get somebody over there to collect these items, right, Okay,
I guess probably you'd legally be covered. But let's say
(18:38):
you're not on the phone with nine to one one, right,
you get packages at your house. Let's just say you
receive any package at your house that is not addressed
to you. If you open that, is that illegal because
you can't go to a mailbox and pull something out
of it and open it that's illegal. You can't open
somebody else's mailbox and take there, that's illegal.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But if it's misdelivered, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
If it's misdelivered, I guess you could make the argument
that it was an honest mistake on your part because
it was delivered to you. Yes, if it's a single
package that hey, I just didn't see the person's name
on here. Now as you're saying, but if you have
two packages and the first.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
One that has fingers and then you're like, oh, I
should double check the second one.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Is this also addressed to this other person?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, I have to assume you have some wiggle room
if it's a single package delivered to you, and you
could make the argument, hey, it was delivered to my house.
I was expecting a package. I didn't bother to look
at the person's name. Yes, I hope you can make
that argument, because that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That's what I did.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, I've opened packages delivered to me and when it
didn't order this right, and then you look back at
the name and go, oh, I see yeah, okay, then
all right? Uh the uh. That's a great conversation between
two of America's greatest legal minds. I hope you guys
are taking not it's by the way, if you're an attorney,
feel free to let us know the answer. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Somebody else just commented here Frankenstein monster kit from Ikia.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
It's wonderful, Thank you so much, just.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
The first part, right, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
There's some other text here about things that have been misdelivered,
and this one is kind of on the gruesome ish side,
I guess, along with the kind of goes with the
fingers and the body parts.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
A family member died out of town. The ashes were
sent to the home with a toe.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
The jewelry was sent to the funeral home. There was
a packaging mix up. Oh it's a pretty big packaging
mix up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Oh man, can you imagine? Can you imagine? Was was
the toe buried in the ashes like a prize and
cereal box?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
No?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I mean, was it like that? I just have to wonder.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Somebody else had a delivery to their door. It was
somebody else's delivery. It was adult diapers and enemas. Oh god, yeah,
that's that would be awkward to have to return.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh boy, yeah, this is going to solve your constipation problem.
And uh oh, by the way, really solve it. You're
not going to be able to get to the toilet
and time. Go ahead and put this on, right, put
this on?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah, yeah, probably somebody prepping for some sort of procedure.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I'm sure I would.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Hope it does sound like that, doesn't Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Uh, this one's interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Uh. Several years ago, started getting packages directly from Chinese
chippers addressed in my name. It was super cheap jewelry.
Went on for a couple of weeks, dozens of more packages.
Finally was talking to my mom who was complaining about
all her packages were missing. She'd sent us birthday presents
direct from eBay and forgot to change the address. So
(21:49):
she'd bought all the jewelry for ten cents plus shipping,
and but she just got scammed out of her.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh my god, that is hilarious. So they found out
that she was actually paying one to ten cents the jewelry. Yeah,
which they would have figured out eventually when their their
fingers and their wrists their next turned.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Green and fell off, and then they ended up in
a package on somebody else's doorstep.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
It's the.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
What are you seeing over there? N Ikey Drake.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Okay, I've got a news story and also a follow
up on the toe.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Oh, okay, great, great, Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
So we had the family member that died out of town.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The ashes were sent with a toe to the home
instead of the jewelry.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
There was a packaging mix up.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It was not in the ashes as a prize in
a cereal box, Jack Loger, Okay. At the time, the
toe was sent to positively identify the person because no
one was able to go id the body, so the
toe had identifying marks so that they could go identify
the toe.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Wow, that's really interesting to have a toe that's so
unique that your entire body can be identified just by
using the toe.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I wonder if it's like a tattoo or something.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Bite marks. I don't know. I'm just guessing. I don't know.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry for your loss text or I apologize.
I just yeah, I don't know. Maybe it was a tattoo.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Okay, Okay, a news story here, no body parts or
anything bad. But opening someone else's mail is how I
met my husband.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I was the only adult adult in my household, so
I was mindlessly opening mail and realized I opened my
neighbor's bank statement. I messaged him to apologize because I
had already opened it, and I put it in his
door to return it. He continued to message me afterwards,
and the rest is history.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, how nice.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Must have been a pretty nice bank statement.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You know, I wasn't going to say that. That just
makes me feel bad for him, Like he was objectionable
as a person, but he made money. Yeah, here's the
beauty of it. Eventually she was at it to that bankstape, right, Yeah,
she's like, I don't recognize this. Few years later I'm
on it. Oh hey, that's yeah, how about it? Yeah,
(24:00):
well that's a lovely story. And I hope he's a nice,
attractive man with other qualities. All right, Nikey, please continue?
Saw one more pop in here. I didn't have time
to vent.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I have not had time to ventit either. Yeah, I'm
so sorry.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's about ordering Christmas presents for siblings.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh oh uh oh, you.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Want to go ahead and jump into it. Let's see
where it goes. You can always stop reading if it
gets it appropriate.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
When I was eighteen, I ordered Christmas presents for my
siblings and decided to open the package in front of
my mom.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
When I opened the box.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I was shocked to see to not see the Christmas presence,
but things I had never seen before in my life.
Turns out I received somebody's a adult adult items and
my mom had to tell me what I got in
the mail.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Your god, well, at least they were eighteen when it happened, right, Yeah,
you're eighteen, you can handle that. Yeah, you get it,
you get yeah, you're not eight because again there is
a learning curve, right, there's a Okay, well, thanks for that.
What a heartwarming tale. And by the way, this sets
up my story, yeah nicely. This is very similar to
(25:07):
what happened to me. And I'll just put this in
a nutshell because I have told this story before. But
I was expecting a package, and I received a package,
and I didn't bother to look at the name on
the package because I was expecting a package. I said,
oh great, I've been waiting for this. So I tore
into it and it turned out that, like our text
(25:30):
are here, it was an adult item that my neighbor
and his wife had ordered, and there it was in
my hand, and I had to take that to them
because you know what, am I gonna do. I'm not
gonna throw it away or act like I didn't see it.
(25:53):
So I went to their house and knocked on the door,
and they came to the door and I said, hey,
I got your package, and they said, oh great, we
got your package. And okay, so just the switcheroo, and
they handed me my package unopened. It was sealed, and
(26:17):
I looked at that, and then I looked under my
arm and as I pulled their package out, we could
both see that I had been into their package. Yeah,
and I said, uh, well, I appreciate you not opening
my package. I'm afraid I can't extend the same courtesy
as you.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Like.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And they knew what was in it, of course, And
I mean you should have seen the look on their faces.
And they were horrified, and they were like, well, thanks
for opening it. I said, it was an honest mistake.
And then after that, we you know, we just we
kind of avoided each other for a while, and then
they just moved out of the neighborhood eventually.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Okay, yeah, oh man.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, they were so humiliated they moved away.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Did you question whether or not.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
It was just like the wrong item in your box,
or did you then check the address on top.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
As soon as you realized it wasn't you are pat
your items?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Well yeah, sure, I tore it open. I saw the item,
and then I closed the box up and looked at
the person's name on it was like, oh, I know
who this belongs to.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Was it like repaarable at all?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Where you could have taped it, retaped it.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It's like a like a raccoon had gotten into it.
If you have access to a calendar, I don't have
to tell you that Christmas will be here soon, and
that means holiday parties. Christmas parties if you will some
at the house, some at the office, and you don't
(27:50):
want to make a mistake there. You don't want to
look like a jackass. You don't want to put your
job in jeopardy, you don't want to destroy your relationship
with coworkers. And that's why it's time for the jack
Nikki Guide to Holiday Christmas parties, the dues and do
not dos. Okay, Now, a lot of this you would
think would be common sense, but.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
As we know, common sense doesn't really exist.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Not very common sadly, So here are some things that
you should not do. This from the career experts. By
the way at resume dot io. Oh okay, which I'm
told exists. You should not drink too much well at
the office Christmas party. Sure, this is surprisingly common. I
(28:33):
do know people who do this. They go to the
company Christmas party, just get totally blitzed.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Well, it's usually an open bar, right, Yeah, make a.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Total ass out of themselves. I mean, shouldn't you really
be on guard the most around the people you work with?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
I would think, I maybe, yeah, right, I mean your family,
they're probably gonna forgive you for your shenanigans.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
You look at it like, well, they have to, they're
related to me. Yeah, But the people you work with
and for are under no obligation to keep you around, right, right,
So you show up, make an ass out of yourself,
do something unsavory, you might lose your job.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I would be very careful about drinking at a company
Christmas party. You ever go to a company Christmas party
and drink?
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I mean yes, yeah, I went to a.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Company Christmas party that was at a vineyard, so there
was wine of plenty.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Yeah, and that my co worker's husband was the one
that ended up drinking too much before the party even started.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Before we even sat down to eat our meal.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Somehow my husband Dave convinced this guy to.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Do a cartwheel down the middle of the dining room
because he was like, oh, you can do.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I've been former.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Gymnast or a cheerleader or something. And Dave was like, we'll.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Prove it, and got this guy do a cartwheel down
the middle of the dining room where the dude crashed
into like a table and a tree and it was
pure chaos.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Well, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It was a wonderful time. And I love my husband
for it.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You know what, I think I love him for it too. Yes, yeah,
that's that's great. Oh yeah, we'll prove it. That's a
great thing to say to a drunk guy. Yes, all right,
back to our list. Here's something this kind of surprises me.
Something you should should not do. Not showing up is
something that you should not do.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
You should be there, well right, yeah, well sure, if
you are SVP, then yes.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Show up.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah. I was gonna say I disagree with that. I
don't think you have to go flirting with coworkers.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Right, that's probably against company policy.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Probably in the do not do category. Okay, these trust me,
These get funnier as we continue over sharing personal gossip.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I encourage that.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Come on, that's what everybody does that at office Christmas parties.
Everybody gets together and talks trash about other people in
the company.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I really like to listen to these stories.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Sure, yeah, yeah, all right, here we go showing up
with an uninvited guest. Oh, there's only so much food
and drink for everyone. Okay, this stuff's been measured out. Yes,
you can't. Can't bring uninvited guests, offering unfiltered opinions, unfiltered opinions,
unfiltered opinions, keep your trap shut, giving disruptive speeches.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Disruptive speeches, how great is that?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
I mean entertaining could also be useful to give a
lovely speech.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Towards the end of the party when you know you
want to escape. You know, that is a good way
to like. How about, well, he's going to be going
on for a while, I'm just going to leave.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
How about you get drunk and tell the boss what
you really think of his operation.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
In front of everybody. Please?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah, I think that's the way to go. And finally
we end with something that you should not do at
the office Christmas party. Are you ready, Nikki Drake.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
You know, let's do this the right way. If we're
going to do it, do it right.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Show me.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Inappropriate dancing inappropriate?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Oh god, how do we make that happen?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
How do you get Kyle Wiggs to inappropriately dance at
the Christmas party this year?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You know that's a really good question. Get him all
liquored up and bring Dave in and have Dave give
him a dare prove it.
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