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I REFUSED to tell my friend how “cute” her baby is… she made me leave! -r/AITAH | Reddit Stories | EP3054 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 1: I refuse to tell my friend how cute her baby is.
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  Speaker 1: She made me leave.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like the baby's pretty ugly.
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  Speaker 1: My female 33, very good friend, female 36 called Priya,
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  Speaker 1: had a baby five months ago. This is her first child.
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  Speaker 1: I am openly child-free, and we talked a lot before
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  Speaker 1: she had the baby, especially about her own worries and
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  Speaker 1: fears about parenthood. Openly child-free.
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  Speaker 4: Openly child-free. It's like some people do have those secret
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  Speaker 4: kids that they don't tell you about, but this woman,
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  Speaker 4: she's open about the fact that she doesn't have any children.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard that. Since I've known her for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, I didn't want kids. We had some very
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  Speaker 1: deep discussions about the choice to have children and How
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the choice to have children doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 1: rational because it is emotionally and spiritually meaningful. These discussions
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  Speaker 1: helped her realize it was something she really wanted. The
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  Speaker 1: baby is now five months and I'm trying to be
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  Speaker 1: a good friend. She feels a lot of new mom
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  Speaker 1: guilt and worry and I have been helping her as
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  Speaker 1: she navigates her new role. I caveat this to say
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  Speaker 1: I have zero interest in children. And my relationship with
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  Speaker 1: my nibblings is fueled through my love of my siblings.
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  Speaker 1: Priya's baby is just a baby, and I love his mother. Okay, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you don't like kids. But she loves her nibblings.
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  Speaker 4: But she loves her nibblings.
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  Speaker 1: I don't find the baby cute. I can't even say
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  Speaker 1: whether or not he is or is not objectively cute
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  Speaker 1: because I don't find babies cute.
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  Speaker 5: All right. All right, you're a little psychotic.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, he's had a lot of stories about people not
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  Speaker 4: really liking kids and just not vibing with kids. Which
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  Speaker 4: is fine, but it just feels like it does speak
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  Speaker 4: to a very larger societal problem that people do not
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  Speaker 4: want children around and are like, I hate them and
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  Speaker 4: I cannot find any value in them.
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  Speaker 1: That's tough, because then if we do that, where are
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  Speaker 1: the people going to be?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Like, we're doing such a great job
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  Speaker 4: for this planet. I just go into my environmental tirades.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Claire.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Keon.
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  Speaker 1: And we're here to just read these stories goofily. And
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  Speaker 1: if you guys have anything you'd like to comment, please
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  Speaker 1: do that down below. And Opie says, Bria has been
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  Speaker 1: really happy when I hold the baby and help with
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  Speaker 1: the baby, but keeps mentioning how cute he is. Totally normal.
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  Speaker 1: I have offered comments such as, look at this little toes,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't believe how big he has grown when
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  Speaker 1: she mentions his cuteness. But three days ago, she was
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  Speaker 1: feeling a bit bad about parenthood and outright asked me
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  Speaker 1: if I find her baby cute.
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  Speaker 4: Don't ask a question like that. You kind of know
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  Speaker 4: if your baby is actually cute or not, and you're
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  Speaker 4: just wanting the validation. But how hard is it to
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  Speaker 4: lie to your friend and just go like, Super cute.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he looks just like you.
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  Speaker 1: This is where I think I was mean. I hesitated
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  Speaker 1: for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Let's act it out. You do it to me. Be
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  Speaker 4: crying and upset.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think my baby's cute?
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  Speaker 5: Nice weather we're having today, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: No. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I would just do the reverse. Like, do you think
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  Speaker 5: your baby's cute?
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  Speaker 4: Why do you need the validation of your baby being cute?
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  Speaker 5: Do you think I'm cute?
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't deliberate. I just kind of felt caught. I said,
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  Speaker 1: he has such expressive eyebrows.
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  Speaker 4: Babies don't really have eyebrows.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It is true. And she got
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  Speaker 1: really quiet. She then followed up with, so, you don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's cute? And I said, I don't think many
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  Speaker 1: people would say he isn't cute.
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  Speaker 5: LP, just lie.
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  Speaker 1: She said, yeah, and you're one of them. I, like
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  Speaker 1: an idiot, said, you know I don't find babies cute.
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  Speaker 1: Priya was really upset and said I didn't have to
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  Speaker 1: be an a-hole about it. She just asked me to leave,
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  Speaker 1: and we haven't spoken since, which is unusual. I feel
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  Speaker 1: so bad. I know it has been an adjustment for Priya,
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  Speaker 1: and I think maybe I should have just lied. Is
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  Speaker 1: it a silly white lie? I imagine early motherhood is
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  Speaker 1: hard and I could have had just placated her. I
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  Speaker 1: feel bad because of how little interest I have in
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  Speaker 1: the baby, even though Priya is so hopeful that I
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  Speaker 1: will have a relationship with him. So, am I the
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  Speaker 1: a-hole for not reassuring her that her baby is cute?
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. It's really not that hard. You just, oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know how you put on a face when you're
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  Speaker 1: around kids?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not like a lie detector is hooked up
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  Speaker 5: to you or anything like that. It's just, Do you
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  Speaker 5: think my baby's cute? And you know your friend's going
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  Speaker 5: through a lot of issues right now?
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  Speaker 1: The amount of emotions this woman's probably going through is
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  Speaker 1: too much, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: My body hasn't recovered. I'm not the woman I once was.
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  Speaker 3: And no one.
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  Speaker 4: Really talks about the lack of support from the greater community.
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  Speaker 5: Opie's like, honesty is the best policy, right?
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  Speaker 4: And your kid is ugly.
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  Speaker 1: Cherry on top.
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  Speaker 3: All you've done is brought.
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  Speaker 4: Into the world a Demon. I wouldn't say she's an a-hole. Like,
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  Speaker 4: a-hole is pretty far.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, this is your friend. If your friend couldn't tell
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  Speaker 1: you that your baby's cute, that's an a-hole.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be like, okay, we can't be friends anymore.
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  Speaker 4: But I'd be like, that hurts my feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Updates. Some commenters asked me to update and add the
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  Speaker 1: replies I have given to their questions. It is okay.
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  Speaker 1: I now know I was an a-hole. Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: she a midget. But I am leaving these comments here regardless.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people asked if there were times where
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  Speaker 1: it felt like she was trying to prove how great kids,
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  Speaker 1: or specifically her baby, are. And honestly, yes, there have
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  Speaker 1: definitely been. For example, Freya is brown, and I am
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  Speaker 1: brown and white, and so is her baby. She asked
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  Speaker 1: me to hold him and took some pictures, then sent
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  Speaker 1: them to me and said, you two look like you're related.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it so nice to see yourself in someone?
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, they're biracial. You're biracial. You're the same.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are the same. You guys are exactly the same.
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  Speaker 1: I feel that way every time I hold a white baby.
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  Speaker 4: This baby looks just like me.
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  Speaker 1: I think I said something noncommittal like, thanks for sending these.
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  Speaker 1: Another time she asked if I wanted to feed him.
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  Speaker 1: And when I said, that's okay. I am sure he
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  Speaker 1: will be happier with you. She gave him away to
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  Speaker 1: me anyway. And then said, I bet you haven't had
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  Speaker 1: such a warm feeling as feeding the baby. I have
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  Speaker 1: like nine nibblings. It isn't like I have never fed
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  Speaker 1: a baby before. Some people ask whether Priya might secretly
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  Speaker 1: want me to have kids too. I don't think she does.
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  Speaker 1: She commented a few weeks ago about how useful it
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  Speaker 1: is to have a child-free friend because I have more time.
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  Speaker 1: She had texted me for some help and I popped over.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a bit spontaneous. Others wanted to know
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  Speaker 1: more about the dynamic between us leading up to her
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  Speaker 1: having the baby. We had a long, deep conversation about
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  Speaker 1: her choice to have kids, and it was evident to
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  Speaker 1: me that her feelings about them were very different from mine.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, I just didn't want them, but it
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  Speaker 1: was so clear she wanted them and was just scared.
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  Speaker 1: The comparison made her accept she wanted children and said
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  Speaker 1: I was the one to make her see that. But
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  Speaker 1: when she gave birth, it has also felt like she
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  Speaker 1: wants me to be super involved in baby's life. In
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  Speaker 1: a way, I guess I didn't expect. She asked me
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  Speaker 1: to be his godmother. She saw that as accepting to
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  Speaker 1: adopt him if something happened to her and her husband.
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  Speaker 1: And I declined?
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  Speaker 5: You have every right to.
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  Speaker 4: She's asking. It's not telling. And I feel like OP
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  Speaker 4: has made it very clear, like, I do.
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  Speaker 1: Not want kids. Yeah, I don't understand why this friend's very...
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  Speaker 1: persistent on.
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  Speaker 4: This issue with this but i don't know so so
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  Speaker 4: she clearly doesn't have like siblings then or something because
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  Speaker 4: i feel like usually you would go to a sibling
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  Speaker 4: if your.
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  Speaker 5: Parents yeah or like a again.
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  Speaker 4: You can't say passed away or can you yeah you
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  Speaker 4: can say passed away if your parents pass away you'd
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  Speaker 4: usually go to like.
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  Speaker 1: A aunt or an uncle then yeah that's good.
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  Speaker 4: So she clearly doesn't have that big of a support
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  Speaker 4: network around her i.
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  Speaker 1: Know peace child free and is helping out a lot
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  Speaker 1: but that would.
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  Speaker 4: Be a huge life change. So I feel like it's
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  Speaker 4: okay for OP to say no, but it's okay that
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  Speaker 4: she asked.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, but her response, she was pretty upset about that
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  Speaker 1: and said she felt really hurt. I wouldn't put my
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  Speaker 1: principles aside for the sake of her baby. I have
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  Speaker 1: nine nibblings and none of my siblings have asked me
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  Speaker 1: to provide the same commitment. It honestly felt like a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a no win situation at the time. but
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  Speaker 1: I said I would be present to help her as
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  Speaker 1: much as she needed. She has also made consistent comments like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but you love baby even if you don't like babies.
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  Speaker 1: And I bet there's no better feeling than feeding baby.
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  Speaker 4: She's pushing it really hard.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Being a mom really changes like your identity. And she's
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  Speaker 4: probably like, Okay, but I love my baby so much,
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  Speaker 4: and I love you so much, so you have to
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  Speaker 4: love my baby so much, because now my baby is
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  Speaker 4: kind of an extension of me. So if you don't
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  Speaker 4: love my baby, then what does that say? Maybe you
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  Speaker 4: don't love me anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Just my thought.
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  Speaker 1: I change his nappy. I hold him while he sleeps
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  Speaker 1: so she can shower. I feed him. I run out
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  Speaker 1: to get nipple coolers late at night. I'll pack. What
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  Speaker 1: is that? What is a nipple cooler?
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  Speaker 4: Because it's like.
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  Speaker 5: Because the feeding and teething.
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  Speaker 4: Teething and biting. Sorry, I probably shouldn't be feeling myself
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  Speaker 4: up on camera.
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  Speaker 5: No, it's helpful.
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  Speaker 1: It's helpful. I didn't know where it would even go.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, it's just like a soothing.
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  Speaker 1: Are they like ice packs?
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  Speaker 4: There's like chopping.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I get it now. I'm trying really hard to be supportive,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like she wants me to love him like
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  Speaker 1: she does and thinks the baby alone will make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't happen immediately with my nine nibblings, whom
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  Speaker 1: I legitimately love. I don't think she wants me to
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  Speaker 1: have babies. A few weeks ago, she said something about
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: how great it is to have a child-free friend because
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  Speaker 1: I can pick up the slack because I have time.
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  Speaker 1: It's the second time she said that.
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  Speaker 4: She's bringing it up a lot. She's bringing a lot
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  Speaker 4: about the free childcare she's getting from it.
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  Speaker 1: So when she asked me in a really serious tone,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of froze. Felt like she was asking for
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  Speaker 1: the truth, not placating. And now that you have pointed
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  Speaker 1: it out, yeah, I think I just felt so pressured
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  Speaker 1: to be this extra parent slash auntie to baby, and
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  Speaker 1: I had not processed that yet. So thank you, I
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  Speaker 1: was the a-hole, and I also understand my actions better.
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  Speaker 1: A few people also asked me about the godmother situation specifically.
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  Speaker 1: She actually asked me to be the baby's godmother when
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  Speaker 1: he was about a month old, which to her, including
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  Speaker 1: adopting him if something happened to her and her husband.
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  Speaker 1: I declined for that reason. She has two siblings, and
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  Speaker 1: both their parents are alive.
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  Speaker 5: That's... Crazy, yeah. Maybe she doesn't have a good relationship, but... Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: Or she just really, really admires OP.
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  Speaker 3: It is kind of.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little bit of an honor to be so
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  Speaker 4: close with a friend that she's picking you over siblings.
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  Speaker 4: But you're allowed to decline it. Just because something's an
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  Speaker 4: honor doesn't mean you.
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  Speaker 1: Does something feel off, though?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Keon?
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  Speaker 5: I think you need to have a conversation with her.
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  Speaker 5: Be like, listen, I love you. I love your kid.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like kids. Like, just get that relationship....
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  Speaker 1: I think I have probably been more annoying child-free since then,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't fair on her or her child. The
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  Speaker 1: request felt like it came out of the blue, and
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  Speaker 1: she was upset I declined. People also ask how involved
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  Speaker 1: I've actually been with the baby. Admittedly, I am both
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  Speaker 1: child-free and not fond of babies. It isn't their fault.
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  Speaker 1: They are just babies doing their own thing, and there
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  Speaker 1: is nothing wrong with that. I have, however, spent quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit of time at their house. I brought and
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  Speaker 1: made meals, held him for 30 minutes while she showered,
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  Speaker 1: changed his nappies, fed him, sang to him, etc. I
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  Speaker 1: don't derive much joy from that, but he is a
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  Speaker 1: baby and needs those things, and Priah is my friend
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  Speaker 1: and needs those things. A month after he was born,
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  Speaker 1: Priah asked me to be his godmother. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: many godparents in Australia.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's why this is all backwards.
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  Speaker 5: It's all down under.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, that makes so much more sense. And why she
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  Speaker 1: was so straightforward and not wanting to lie.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think that's an Australian thing. Could be.
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  Speaker 1: I declined because she told me part of what that
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  Speaker 1: would be doing is adopting him if something happened to
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  Speaker 1: her and her husband. I think she wants me to
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  Speaker 1: like the baby, and I feel like I have been
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  Speaker 1: faking that for five months, which evidently, according to the comments,
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of thing to do. I think she
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: knows it's a bit of a performance, especially after how
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  Speaker 1: mean I was about the cuteness. And I don't know
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: how to make that authentic. Update two. So we got
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  Speaker 1: her side of the story. She knows she's the a-hole.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Can she bring it back?
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  Speaker 4: Can she bring it back?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, she can bring it back.
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  Speaker 1: And your friends. I think so. There were a few
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  Speaker 1: mixed reviews, but most people pointed out how rude I was.
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  Speaker 1: So this morning I sent her a message that said, Hey, Priya.
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  Speaker 1: I am so sorry about what I said yesterday. I
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have said I don't find babies cute because that
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  Speaker 1: made it sound like I think baby is ugly. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that at all. Baby has a beautiful smile
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: and he is a lovely baby. Let me know if
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: you need anything. I am pretty free after work. I
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: can drop that book off. Rhea has since messaged me
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: and said, Girl, I was mad, but I only asked
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  Speaker 1: that because... He looked like such a goblin in his
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: bath yesterday morning. I wanted the truth, but my dumb
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: body just gets so in my head about everything these days.
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  Speaker 1: Like I was mad when you confirmed that my chests
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: were uneven.
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  Speaker 4: Just more things coming out. Yeah, I said your baby
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  Speaker 4: was ugly, and I said you should probably get that
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  Speaker 4: taken care of.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone else lied to me, but they were. And
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  Speaker 1: I now have a better bra.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You could have left that out, Opie. See, baby, the
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  Speaker 1: goblin lord, but my goblin lord? Yeah, I'm so keen
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  Speaker 1: for the sequel. I hope it is as bad as
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: you say. You sent me a pic of the baby
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  Speaker 1: in his bath, and it was indeed a funny angle. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he looks a bit like a goblin. Confirmed.
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  Speaker 4: But all babies look a little bit like a goblin.
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  Speaker 5: I was going to say, have you seen, like, a
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  Speaker 5: newborn baby?
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  Speaker 1: He is a perfectly normal looking baby by all accounts,
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  Speaker 1: but the picture she sent made him look bulbous. I
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: was still rude and I accept responsibility for my rudeness.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I do not want to lose a friend over a
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: stupid boss boss. However, when we have a bit more
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: time together, I think I will talk to her about
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: relinquishing some of the baby's duties as it has been
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: quite time consuming. Thanks, everyone, for your honest opinions. I'm
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  Speaker 1: honorably glad you didn't give me the white line treatment.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. That's it with that crazy baby lady.
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  Speaker 7: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Like,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: the mom admitted, like, yeah, I'm losing a little bit
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: as a mom, and I'm just feeling a little emotional,
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: and is my baby ugly? And Whatever, you didn't mean
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: any harm. It's fine. And she was like, I could
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: have just lied. I should have just lied to you.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: But it seems like they have a close enough relationship
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: where it doesn't matter.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: I think she appreciates, truly, she knows OP is straight
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: up honest. Like, you saying my tatas are uneven? You
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: think my baby's a goblin?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Everyone else is lying to me.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Everyone else is lying through their teeth and I need
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: the truth. Tell me.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Tell me, is he ugly?
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: That's her holding him up by the neck.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: And he goes, gah. Gah. And that's the end of
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: this story. We're gonna go on to the next one.
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: I refuse to be friends with my brother-in-law's girlfriend.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Now they're all mad at me.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Why can't we be friends? I.
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: Females30, ended a very toxic friendship with someone I met
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: in college, Females30, by stepping back and no longer reaching
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: out to her about a year ago. The thing is,
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: she's my fiancé' s male 30 brother's male 30 girlfriend.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Do we really need this? Do you not understand this one?
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Let's see. She's my fiance.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: Okay. So me, fiance, brother's girlfriend.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: It's the same thing. It's the same thing that we
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: did last week.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Is it the same exact one?
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: In a sense, truly. So let's do this again. Do
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: you have it? Do you understand it?
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: It would be my husband's brother's girlfriend.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: If I put it in ways that Makes sense to me.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: And I think I got that last week where you
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: couldn't process it, but then I used you as a reference,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: and you went, how dare?
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it worked.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: How dare she?
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Worked out. Reframe it back to me. I'll understand it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I know everything about myself.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: That's so cool.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: I have not lived a day on this earth since
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: they met that I haven't regretted setting them up. Oh.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're your own problem. Yeah, you caused this.
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: She never reached out to me or followed up, but
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: would pout and sulk. and refused to acknowledge me when
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: we were in rooms together. When we were friends, she
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: would treat me badly under the guise that I didn't
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: reach out to her enough. I was the bad friend
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: who was hurting her, and she was the good friend
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: enduring my spotty texting habits.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: The horror!
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: Now, I am getting married in two months, my fiancé' s
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: brother was the best man, and he is now saying
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: he will not give a speech unless I sit down
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: and have a conversation with his girlfriend about how hurt
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: she was by my choice to step back from the friendship.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Boy, just stay out of it. That's her in your
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: ear right now.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Just stay out of it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Sorry, is this her wedding or my wedding?
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: He says I ghosted her and handled the ending of
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: the friendship in a cowardly way. When my fiance said
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: that his brother needs to treat me with respect in
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: their family and around the wedding, his response was that no,
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: because of how I acted ending the friendship with his girlfriend.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: That's two different things. Like, I get it. That's my
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: relationship with your girlfriend. But this is our wedding. If
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: you really can't get over it, shut up. Don't come.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Do not come.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I do not deserve respect.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: By the way, this comes from Situation Number 5505, and
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: if you want to submit your own stories, go to
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: the r slash ok story time subreddit.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I'm Savannah.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: I'm Keon.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: And we are here to give some good.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: Advice in a little goofy way, but we don't have
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: all the answers. We can only tell you what we
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: would do, so let us know what you would do
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: down in the comments. As OP says... I can't believe it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: say through and sorry for myself that these people are
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: so heck bent on controlling me for some reason we
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: are thinking of having someone else be the best man
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: I can't believe this is all happening two months out
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: from our wedding advice please and there is an update.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: I mean good on your husband to really like hey
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: shut up like this this is not this is not
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: your that's a whole different situation this is our wedding
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: we want you there but if this is gonna bother
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: you so much Don't come. Honestly, just don't come.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: It's like I didn't.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: None of this was to cause issues. And now you've
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: caused an issue. So, you know, if she can't get
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: over because I don't want to be friends with you,
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: It's like if I didn't.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: And I know this is probably going to happen in
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: my life one day where I don't pick one of
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: my friends to be a bridesmaids. And then it's going
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: to be the freaking end of the world. And I'm
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: going to be like, I it is so hard to
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: choose people. I'm not even choosing like a maid of
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: honor because I have two sisters. I'm not going to
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: choose between them. They will both be maid of honor.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: If I have a wedding, I don't know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Maid of honors.
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: I don't, I'm not choosing between them and I'm not like,
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: like it will be. And the thing is, it's so
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: hard to choose because I have great friends.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: But I'm just like, I don't know. It just depends
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: where I am in my life, I guess. I don't know.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: But I could only imagine like, If whoever I marry
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: does not have friends, it's going to be really hard
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: because I'm going to have so many.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: And then I'm going to be like, it's going to
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: be a little uneven, buddy.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And that's embarrassing for him.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: I feel like you could ask him the question of
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: what is this going to do? What is he trying
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: to prove? If we do have a conversation, I mean,
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: I don't want to be friends with her. That's respecting
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: my wishes. You know, I'm being an adult. I'm saying
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: what I want. That's my boundary. You know, I'll be cordial.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: She's still welcome to come. I mean, I don't know
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: if she's not invited to the wedding. I mean, if
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: she's not invited to the wedding, it's a little, like,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: maybe too much, but.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, if they had him as best man and then
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: didn't invite her specifically, that'd be an issue. I'd be like, okay,
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: you're the a-hole. Like, I know you don't like her, but,
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: you know, her husband, fiance, whatever they are, he's in it,
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: so you can't just, like, not have her there, you know?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: That's weird. But I also.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: But the thing is, they're not doing that, and she's
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: in his ear saying, okay, you can't be best man unless, like,
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: you fix this, blah, blah, blah, because she won't answer my...
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: You know, call, so you have to do it for me.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Me, me, me, me, me.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: And it's like, okay, calm down. None of this has
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: to do with you.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Update.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: For clarity, I can hear that the fade out was
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: painful for her. I did not ghost in the sense
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: that she never texted me or reached out in any way.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: In our friendship, the toxic behavior was that she would
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: exclude me from our shared friend group, criticize me constantly
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: about my clothes and hair, etc. And disrespect boundaries that
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: I drew. For example, she had asked to move in
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: with me after being asked by her roommates to leave
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: her apartment. And when I said no because we weren't
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: that close at the time and I was nervous about
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: the reason she was being kicked out of her apartment,
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: she stopped speaking to me for a year.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: This girl sounds like a headache. You go, why are
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: you being punted out? Your roommates decided to punt you out.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Why did they come up to that conclusion?
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: It's just... It's so annoying to have to try to
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: accommodate someone at your own wedding and someone who literally
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: you chose to step back from. And it's like, oh yeah,
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: now it's my wedding and I have to invite her.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: Let's just make up and everything's fine now. No, like
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: you are cordially invited to this wedding, but that is it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: You don't have to make it a.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: Big deal, but you're making it a huge deal for
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: no reason. And why would you want to be friends? Like,
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: obviously she stepped back for a reason. So why would
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: she want to like, I feel like she just wants
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: to start drama. Like, because they're not going to be
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: friends again.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: She's got main character syndrome, it seems like, or she's
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: never at fault.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: God, so annoying.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: When I brought these things up as being painful for me,
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: she would cite my not texting first enough as a
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: reason why her behavior is okay.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: So because I didn't text you enough, you can be
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: a witch to me. I wonder why I wanted to
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: step back. I think I'm going to have a sit
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: down and say that I understand the fade out was painful,
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: but I was taking care of myself the best way
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: I could, and me and my choices have.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: To be respected.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Nice. Yeah, truly. And guess what? That's the truth. Yeah.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: It's not like she's trying to lie and weasel her
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: way out of it. It's like, no, I just didn't
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: really like our friendship, so I stepped back from it.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: Sorry if that hurts you, but it just wasn't healthy
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: for me.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: The end.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, that bothers you? You don't like that?
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Sucks.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Issue.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Not an issue. Look at you people.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Update number two.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: I texted a group chat of the four of us
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: apologizing for stepping away in the manner I did and
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: saying I hear it was hurtful and my intention was
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: to give my ex-friend and I space to process our feelings,
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: but we need to be moving forward with respect towards
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: each other.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: They have not answered, but.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: I hope they see I really just want to move
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: on and for everyone to find peace around this.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Why did she text the group of friends?
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's a whole thing, but I think to just, sure,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: you know what? I'll just do my part and make
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: it so everyone shuts up. This is not OP extending
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: the olive branch. This is OP just throwing the olive
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: branch and running away. Okay, I did it. Bye.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Cool.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: I said my piece, and that's that. Great.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Which, truthfully, she didn't even, I don't know.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: I don't think she really needed to apologize. If someone
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: is not serving you, you have the right to set
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: a boundary and back away.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I've done it before.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: And it, yeah, it sucks for that person or it sucks,
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: you know, to feel that because obviously you don't want
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: to lose a friend. Nobody wants to lose friends. Everyone
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: wants to gain them. So like the fact that you're thinking,
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: oh yeah, I want this. I wanted to do this
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: and I wanted to hurt you.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Blah, blah, blah.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: No, it's just, you were so toxic that you made
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: me spiral all the time and I can't be around that.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: I don't know if that was something to just make
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: husbands or fiance's brothers shut up. I'm like, hey, this
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: is the proof. I did it. There you go. I
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: did my end of the shtick. I think that's fine.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: I don't think OP's still gonna be like, hey, we're
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: gonna be buddy buddies. I just did what I did
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: for this reason. Thank you. And that's the end of
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: this story. We're gonna go on to the next one.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I overshared about my husband at a party, and I
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: don't know how to tell him.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I overshared with him, too.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: I was at a bachelorette party last weekend with eight
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: other women of varying ages. 30 to 50 bracket. Many
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: glasses of wine and champagne were consumed. Silly games were
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: played of the typical bachelorette party kind. All of the
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: women in attendance had partners. The rules of one game
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: were that each woman would write down the size of
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: their husband's wiener on a piece of paper and put
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: it into a vase, totally anonymous, all in the name
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: of a dirty game between friends. The aim was that
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: the bride-to-be would pull out each piece of paper and
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: reveal what each one said. None of us were supposed
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: to react. We had to try and deduce which one
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: was hers. In hindsight, I realized I could and should
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: have lied and written any number. Nobody would have known.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: I wrote four inches. It was the only number smaller
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: than six that was written. And when the bride-to-be revealed it,
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: there were a couple of gasps followed by some giggles
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: that broke the silence.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I do feel like most of them probably lied. Like,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I feel like, no.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: Also, why would you know that? I don't think I've
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: ever measured my X's.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Never. I was like, oh, I want to
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: know what size.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Put a ruler next to it. How would I know?
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I just don't really care that much. I agree. If
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: you know how to use it, I'm into it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: I agree.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: How would I know?
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: I don't have a tape.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Measure on me.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: It's like, oh, wait, hold on.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Like, what?
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: No. That was the sound of my tape measure. You
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: haven't asked your partners before?
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah i have i have it i have not i
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: just like don't i don't know why i don't.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Know why do i need to know that you don't
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: use your thumb as.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: A you should start bringing the marker we've established wait
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: were you there when we stopped yeah okay okay.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah the white part was like three inches so this
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: is op yeah wait so that's about five inches this
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: is three and then oh maybe five No, we have not.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Wait, is there a ruler in here?
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: No.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: There's no rulers. There's no rulers to be had in
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: this house.
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: My face stayed frozen.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: By the way, this comes from Running Wild 1989, and
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: if you want to submit your own stories, go to
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: the r slash okay story time subreddit.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I'm Savannah.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: I'm Keon.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I'm Sophia. And we're here to give some good advice,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: maybe in a goofy way.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: But guess what? We don't have all the answers.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: We only tell you what we would do, so let
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: us know what you would do down in the comments.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: As Opie says.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: Later, when talking about the game, a friend told me
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: it was obviously my submission as it was written all
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: over my face. I'm mortified and guilt-ridden. I'm sure and
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: hope the friends will have forgotten the game by now,
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: but my mind isn't passing over the fact these women.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Know my husband.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: I'm in agony over whether to tell him what happened
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: or just leave it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Comments.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: LilRed170 says, Take this one to the grave. This commenter says, Yeah,
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: except all the husbands know now, too. Sharklaser85 says, Not
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: the ones with wives who lied.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: About the sizes they wrote down. Yeah, like, I don't know.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: I would put 20. You don't know. And you never gonna.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: That's like a world record.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: 20 centimeters. Update four days later.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: My last post was about revealing too much information during
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: a bachelorette party. Sensitive information about hubby, naively given while
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: under the influence during a party game. I sat my
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: wonderful husband down two nights ago to inform him, perhaps
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: against the better wishes of many who commented, but fear
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: of him hearing it. from one of our friends prompted
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: me into action. You think she's doing the right thing, or?
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's, because what if it did come
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: back from, A, one of the other girls in that bachelorette, like,
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: being a little snarky, or like, oh, what's up, tiny? Like,
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: can you imagine that? You're like, what are you talking about?
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Or like, one of the guys. I think it's best
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: to come from your partner and be like, hey, this happened. Sorry.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say anything because I'd be like, I really
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: don't think it's that big of a deal.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: And hopefully my friends aren't like idiots.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: It's just in the case if, yeah, but again, what
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: if your friends are wasted or like, because you're going
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: to be seeing them because it's a wedding. You're going
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: to be seeing these people. It's going to happen.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if my friend did that. Like if
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  Speaker 3: Going to say that. I'm just going to be like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: Because that's the thing. Some people aren't normal.
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  Speaker 7: He asked me if I verbally confirmed that the four
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  Speaker 3: I said no.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't fazed by it. He made a joke to me. Well,
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  Speaker 5: My best friend can't fit on amusement park rides anymore,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm dreading going back.
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  Speaker 5: I'm 21 female and have a childhood friend 22 female.
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  Speaker 5: We live near a big amusement park in our state,
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: and every summer since we were kids, we have gone
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  Speaker 5: to it together pretty often. Ever since we were teens,
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: she's been curvy plus size, and that's fine by me.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: But recently, she's put on a lot more weight. Again,
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  Speaker 5: I don't care about this at all. It means nothing
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  Speaker 5: to me. However, it's created an issue with going on
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  Speaker 5: the rides and attractions at the amusement park. We haven't
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: been to the park in around a year. Our first
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: time back was last week. When we were there, I
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: discovered that most of the rides we used to love
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: going on, she can no longer fit on them. Others
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: she can fit technically, but doesn't want to ride them
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: because the seatbelts feel too uncomfortable. There are very few
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: rides left that she can go on without an issue. Also,
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: We went on a ride recently where two people share
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: a bench type of seat. It was extremely uncomfortable because
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: there wasn't much room for me, and I felt like
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: I was being crushed most of the ride. It honestly
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  Speaker 5: felt unsafe. By the way, this comes from user CuriousCaroB154,
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• 33:06
  Speaker 3: I'm Savannah. I'm Sophia.
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  Speaker 5: And we're here to give good advice goofily. We don't
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  Speaker 5: have all the answers. We only know what we do.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: So let us know what you do in the comments
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: down below. Pretty, pretty, please. As Opie says, there's also
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: been an issue with her eating my food while we
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: are there. Okay. Okay.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Now she's crossed the line.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Like, for example, I will buy some popcorn or something
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: at the amusement park, and she'll buy her own stuff.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: Then she has to try mine. Usually she will eat
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: it all if I don't stop her. Opie, you have
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: to have a conversation with your friend.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: It sounds a bit like binge eating, maybe.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it sounds like those people who, like, Speaking of hate,
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: Opie says I may get hate for this part, but
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: she sometimes gets dirty looks or pointed at when we
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: are there together because people are judgmental.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: This makes me.
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: Sad for her and just uncomfortable overall.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: She's been asking if I want to go to the
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: amusement park.
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  Speaker 5: This weekend, And I really don't see the point because
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: we won't be able to go on most of the rides.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: I feel terrible though and don't know how to say
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: I don't want to go. Should I suggest some other activity?
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: I feel like she will get suspicious because I love
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: amusement parks and usually always wanted to go during past summers.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: I'm not entirely sure why she wants to go there
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  Speaker 5: so badly if most of the attractions do not work
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: for her anymore. Am I the a-hole?
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: No, I don't think you're the a-hole. I think you
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: can find something else to do. There's plenty of other
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: things you can do. that don't involve, you know, because
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: it's not just, you know, I know you don't want
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: to get the looks and whatnot. People are just going
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: to be judgmental anyway. That's going to be anywhere you go,
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: people are going to give, because that's what everyone does
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: at every second of every day.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: It's just like, oh, judge, judge, judge, you know, like.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Maybe she wants to do it because she wants to
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: do something with you, and like, that's sure, like, you
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: guys enjoy it, but I would bring it up and
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: be like, hey, last time we went, did you enjoy it?
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: Because we couldn't go on majority of the rides, and
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: You know, just we would be spending money. Why don't
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: we spend some money on like something else that we
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: could both enjoy and like, you know, maybe be more
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: fun because I would bring that up.
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: I would ask if she wanted to do like something else. Like,
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: you know, I don't know what else you guys would enjoy.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Like maybe like some mini golf or something. I don't know.
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: I don't know if like it's, I don't know. Like
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: something that doesn't involve like rides or trying to, I guess,
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: like figure into something that you clearly don't fit into,
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: you know, because it is it's hard to like explain
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: that and try to come to terms with that person
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: about it.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: That's a really hard conversation.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: We have an edit here. Opie says, Hi, I appreciate
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: all the comments. I have been asked a few questions repeatedly,
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: so I want to clarify. I was asked if she
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: can wait for me while I ride certain rides. I
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: brought this up once and she said she doesn't really
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: want to because that would be boring for her since
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: the lines are long and I totally understand where she's
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: coming from. Also, people are taking what I said about
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: stealing food and me shaming for her weight and eating habits.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: I want to say that ever since we were children,
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: she has had a habit of taking other people's food. Oh.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: And she was not overweight at that time. I mention
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: it because it is something she typically does at amusement parks.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: I've been told that it's not fair to say I
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: am uncomfortable when people stare at her or say mean things.
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: This has happened a couple times, mostly by groups of
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: kids and teens. That's awful. Do people want me to
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: be happy when my friend is getting this treatment? Yes,
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: it's more important how she feels, not me. But I'm
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: not her, and I can't speak for her. It seemed
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: to bother her too, though. And I once yelled at
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: the people who made comments to her, and she said
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: that she appreciated that, as she's much more reserved than
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: I am, so may not have been comfortable telling them
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: off herself. For those asking about why she still wants
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: to go to the park, there's two to three rides
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: she still goes on without much issue. She usually wants
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: to just repeat those ones when we go. I would
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: be okay to do this sometime since I like those rides,
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: but if we go every week, which is normal for
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: us in the past summers, this begins to feel like
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: a waste of money, and it's no longer as fun. Thanks,
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: and there is an update four days later.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's... That's so hard to have that conversation.
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: But as a friend, though, I feel like you can say,
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: you know, like, you know, I don't want this to
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: come off as, you know, attacking you or... you know,
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: judgmental or anything. This is coming from a place of
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: care and concern. Are you okay if we do something else?
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: You know, type of thing. Because I just feel like
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: this is, you know, maybe we've outgrown this.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Let's do a new tradition of some sort.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Truly.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: And maybe it's just like the tradition is continuing and
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: you guys do something that you enjoy. But I would
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: bring it up to her like, hey, do you enjoy
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: this as much as we used to? Do you want
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: to try something different?
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: And Cause she might also feel pressured. Maybe she doesn't
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: actually want to do it. She just is like, Oh,
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: this is, you know, our tradition. Of course we're going
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: to do it, blah, blah. I, you know, if you're
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: saying that maybe she doesn't actually enjoy it cause she
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: can't go on that many rides. And then plus like
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: people are judging her and whatever, like maybe it is
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: time to start a new tradition.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: So I don't think it would be a bad idea
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: to ask her to do something else. If she gets
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: defensive and be like, no, I want to do it
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: and be like, okay, real talk.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: And then you can explain yourself.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you guys are truly best friends, I think
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: you could be honest with your best friend and, you know,
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: and see what she thinks. Have that conversation. We have
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: an update. So, I chose to talk to my friend yesterday,
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: as today was the day she wanted to go to
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: the theme park. I did not bring up anything about weight,
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: but simply said that I was wondering if she felt
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: like we got our money's worth last time we went.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: She stated that it would have been nice to get
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: on more rides, but that she doesn't want to go
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: on any rides with an over-the-chest restraint. which is what
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: they have on most of the rides at our park,
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: because they're uncomfortable or do not close. I told her
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: I totally understood this, but that this really limits what
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: we can do while we're at the theme park and
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: that tickets are pretty expensive, especially since we are college students.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: She said she sees my point and said that she
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: is trying to save money too, so we decided that
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: instead of going to the theme park so often, we
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: used to go maybe three times a month, dang, we
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: are just going to go back in August See, that's good.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: Because then, you know, you don't, there's other things to
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: do besides like getting on the rides, just doing the rides.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: You know, when there's other events happening, then it's like, okay,
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: we have other things we could do. Perfect.
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: This guy is so smooth.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: He's a professional.
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  Speaker 5: I think this was perfect. I think you guys are
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: trying to do stuff together and maintain that friendship. I
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: think that was a great point. I think the money thing,
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: like I said earlier, is you're college students. We can
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: do other things that are fun that are free.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: Opie says... I directly asked her if she would be
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: offended if I went to the park with other friends.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: She said no, and that it makes sense for the
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: time being since it isn't the easiest activity for her
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: right now. She also commented on how she's gotten into
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: the habit of going with me every summer and wasn't
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: fully considering if this was actually worthwhile because she was
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: so used to it. I told her that there are
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: other theme parks I've heard of and that seem a
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: lot more accommodating and that maybe if she wants to
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: do a road trip one day, we could try another park.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: We made other plans for tonight. We're going to go
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: see a fun movie. Use your student discount. That's all.
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: We're still close friends. She isn't mad. And no, she
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: doesn't think I am fat phobic for suggesting another activity.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: Unlike some Redditors here. Thank you to everyone who was
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: kind for the support and for the good ideas. And
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: that's the end of that story.
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: So it all worked out in the end.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: I'm glad like this wasn't, you know, like a huge
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: talk where it ended a friendship or something. Because you
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: in no way whatsoever were trying to be judgmental or,
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: you know, attacking someone.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Towards her. So I'm glad that she understood.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: No, and I think she understood. She wanted to do
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: something that was traditional for you guys. It's a tradition.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: But you asked her and she agreed. Woo!
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: It worked out.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: No one's fatphobic. He was 104 in Tucson yesterday.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Except for those teens.
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: I do not miss those days. 104 and 107 in
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  Speaker 1: the groom told us we could leave.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: And they were planning for two.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I wasn't able to do the second evening myself. I
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: had made them aware of this from the start, but
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: sent a different photographer, one much more talented than me,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: if I'm being honest. We don't care. And the same
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: videographer from the night before. Okay. They were booked from eight.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this?
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: 615.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Why are they double digits?
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: They were booked from military time.
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: How do you even read this? 1815? 1815 is 615.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: They were booked from 1815 to 2115. And I told
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: them to stay until 2145 to make up the 30
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: minutes we had skipped the night before.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: So how we work is that none of my people
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: own their own gear and everything belongs to me. Therefore,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: after each shift, the shooters have to return the gear
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: to me. The wedding they were shooting was about a
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: 25 minute drive from my place. And the one I
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: was shooting was an hour drive. I was also booking
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: until 2200. 10 o'clock. I got home after 2300.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: 11 o'clock.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: And saw that they hadn't returned yet. All my other
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: teams started arriving shortly after me and returned their gear,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: but no sign of those two. This had me worried
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: as they were working the closest and were supposed to
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: finish before anyone else. I tried calling, but no answer
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: from either of them. Just before midnight, I got in
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: my car and went out to look for them. I'd
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: driven for about 10 minutes when I saw them passing
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: me from the opposite direction. I turned my car around
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: and drove home. I asked them what had happened. They
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: explained that they stayed until 2145 as ordered, but as
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: they were about to start packing up, the bride had
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: sent her maid of honor to request another hour. They
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: had explicitly said they will talk to me about it
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: afterwards and I could just add it to their invoice.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: They were also making my videographer do things that were
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: only reserved for our biggest package. What kind of things?
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: More importantly, though, apparently the couple had gone full entitled
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: people the second the event started yelling at my photographer
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: and just being completely rude. I have very low tolerance
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: for rude people, especially if they're German.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Especially what? Oh, if they're German. So true.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: I just added that.
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Next Saturday afternoon, I have a missed call from the
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: groom and then a voice note thanking me for my
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: team and then adding that they are leaving the country
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: in seven days. So they would appreciate it if I
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: can have their wedding photos and videos done before them.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: They also want all the raw materials on a hard drive.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: He made no mention of the overtime. I did videography
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: for weddings for a little bit. You don't get the
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: raw materials.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah. No.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: That is, that's not how we roll. It has to
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: be in the contract before. And then, like, getting it
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: 14 days after your wedding's done? You aren't going to
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: get it until, like, a month or two or three.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Also, why aren't you getting a file?
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: Or can the hard drive be sent in the mail?
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Why does it have to happen before you leave?
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: They probably don't have U.S. Postal Service from South Africa
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: to Germany.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: But things ship internationally.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: You know, you can ship things internationally.
• 49:05
  Speaker 8: No?
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, you can.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Not from South Africa.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: He's gaslighting. He's gaslighting.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: South Africa is a long ways from Germany.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: It's so long they don't ship.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: For sure. Exactly. They do that.
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: They do.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: It's just expensive. Yeah.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Fair.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: But why do we need a hard drive? Just get
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: a Dropbox.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you want us to give you a hard drive?
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: That's also very expensive nowadays.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: It's not 1990.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: What?
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: They don't know about link sharing? Like, what's happening?
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, oh, I see. I see.
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I was like, what are you talking about? Oh, 1990.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: I stared at his message, kind of dumbstruck as our
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: contract clearly stipulates that the waiting period for photos is
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: four weeks, eight weeks for video. His quotation also clearly
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: said no physical copies.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: No hard drives.
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: None of that.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: Was it contract in English? Because he speaks German. I
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: texted him back the next morning saying that there was
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: no way I was going to have everything done before January.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I did offer to give them the raws before they leave,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: but a hard drive would have to be added to
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: the invoice along with the overtime bill.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: To this, he replied that he would like to call
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: me to discuss our situation. I knew exactly what was coming,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: and I was dreading that phone call. You can also
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: say no, my friend.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: But we know OP isn't good at saying no.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: He doesn't know how to do that.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Come on. Tinder guy 11, come on. The phone call
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: happened later that afternoon. This story has already gone way
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: too long. So I'm going to skip most of it
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: and just cut the parts that made my blood boil.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: That's the best part. Stops cutting parts.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Dude, we're not even halfway through. I think you should. Oh, brother.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: The groom started by saying he was disappointed that I
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: couldn't have everything done before they left. Claiming. that all
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: their guests were asking how much longer the photos were
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: going to take. But he did say he understood. That's
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: so real, though.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: I am the person after the function that's like, where
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: are the photos?
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Where are the photos?
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: I need the photos.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: I told him I was glad he understood and offered
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: to give him the raws if he wished. But he'd
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: have to pay for an extra hard drive since I
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: had some in stock. He immediately pushed back, saying he
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: didn't want to pay for a hard drive. And ask
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: if I could just we transfer all the wrongs instead.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Guys, you're not going to believe this.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I told him no.
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: Let's freaking go.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: The groom started by saying he was disappointed that I
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: couldn't have everything done before they left. Claiming that all
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: their guests were asking how much longer the photos were
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: going to take. But he did say he understood. That's
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: so real, though.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: I am the person after the function that's like, where
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: are the photos?
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Where are the photos?
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: I need the photos.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I told him I was glad he understood and offered
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: to give him the raws if he wished. But he'd
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: have to pay for an extra hard drive since I
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: had some in stock. He immediately pushed back, saying he
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: didn't want to pay for a hard drive and asked
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: if I could just Wii transfer all the ROMs instead.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Guys, you're not going to believe this.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I told him no. That's freaking cool.
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: That's huge.
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: This is bigger than the Knicks winning.
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: Whoa.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: Going to make the New Yorkers mad.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: You will. They'll come after you. When he asked why,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: I explained it was over 100 gigs of materials, and
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: this is South Africa. We ain't got fiber optics around
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: here just laying around. With our internet speed, it'd take
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: about two years?
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: No.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Probably, if their megabits per second's under 10 upload speed.
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: He's like, two years? You'll see them when you have children.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: He then sheepishly asked if I thought they even needed
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: the raw materials. I told him no. Long, awkward pause.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Then he came at the overtime bill, claiming he didn't
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: understand why there was one. I told him because he
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: asked my people to stay an extra freaking hour. He
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: insisted that they stayed only 10 minutes longer and that
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: I owed him 30 minutes from the night before. I
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: reminded him that I had already taken the 30 minutes
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: into account. and they still stayed an hour after that
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: he flat out told me that wasn't true i offered
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: to send him the time stamps on the photos showing
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: when the first and last ones were taken he quickly
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: said no he didn't want them i said awesome he
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: then tried a different angle saying he had hired me
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: and got someone else i corrected him that he had
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: hired the company not me and reminded him that on
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: friday he He had even said I must enjoy my
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: wedding on Saturday. He always knew he wasn't getting me.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: He pivoted saying he wasn't happy with who I sent.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: When I asked him why, he had nothing solid. Just
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: said he didn't think he should be charged extra for them.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: I told him that's what we agreed upon. You already
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: got a third of this, dude. You got like a 66%
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: coupon off of this thing. He then started bargaining, asking
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: if I could offer him a better price on the overtime.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: I told him I was already offering him a better
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: price on overtime. He asked if this was the best
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: I could do. I told him if he took into
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: account the tip we never got, this was actually almost nothing.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: He played dumb, asking, what tip?
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, oh my gosh.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Saw that coming.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: I reminded him of the gentleman's agreement we made. He
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: said he didn't know what I meant, and I told
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: him that was the surprise of the century.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: That's why you need everything in writing.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. And that's why I need a record.
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: He then asked when he'd get the photos. I told
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: him January. But he needed to pay the rest of
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: his invoice first, including... The overtime.
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: He immediately tried to flip it on me, saying I
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: would send everything first and then they'd pay. I told
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: him no. The contract he signed stipulates that he will
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: receive nothing until all invoices have been settled.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: There we go.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: That's our story. He pushed back saying he didn't know
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: I would ever send photos. I shot back asking if
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: he had heard so many people tell him how great
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: our service is. He admitted, yeah, but I'm not very
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: happy with this.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm not happy with this.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: And demanded I send everything, and that they decided if
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: they wanted to pay. I told him flat out that
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: that wasn't happening. Dude, this guy is trying to get
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: your services for free. Yeah.
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: Mm-mm.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: That's wild.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: That's shady.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Really is. He then tried to play the victim, saying
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: I couldn't ask him to trust me like this. I
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: told him he was right. We could have trust one another,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and that I thought the simplest solution was That I
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: refund his deposit, delete his wedding, and we could be
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: done with each other because I heard enough.
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: I mean, I was thinking the photographer has the leg
• 56:51
  Speaker 8: up here because you have all the photos of their wedding.
• 56:54
  Speaker 8: And that's like precious material.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: Priceless.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: Priceless.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: He immediately tried to walk it back, saying he felt
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: he had offended me. I told him he hadn't. But
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: he was wasting my time, and I was done doing
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: favors for him. The only difference between him and our
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: other paid clients is that they all paid full price.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: He just said okay.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: For the biggest package.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: That's right. Biggest package.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: We don't know what size package this guy got.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: He got a package at a third of a price.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to say pretty small. Not something you'd remember.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Or you would remember because of how small it was.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: So true.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: He just said, okay. And I told him, great. I'd
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: wait for the money to show up in my account.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: And then I'd start the editing process. And then, unbelievingly,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: he asked me one more time if I could offer
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: him a better price on the overtime.
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: Bro, no.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: I just told him, have a nice Christmas. And I
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: hung up the phone. The next morning, the bride sent
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: me a text that they said they just paid the
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: outstanding balance and now wanted their photos. Because January is
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: a long time to wait. January was eight days away.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: It's now been three days and the money has yet
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: to show up in my account. But, you know, different countries,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: different things. It takes a minute. It takes a minute.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Side note. Something I forgot to mention in the original
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: post while I was busy at my wedding. About an
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: hour before my photographer's was meant to be at theirs,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: the bride texted me a list of family photos they needed.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: I forwarded it to my photographer, and just as she
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: was getting into her car to leave, at the wedding,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: the bride had started yelling at her for not having
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: a printout of the list. We live in a digital age.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the list is on.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: So the bride sucks, too.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: We just deserve each other. Yep, that's true. That's true. Update!
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: The a-holes did actually end up paying my surprise as
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: big as yours. However, turns out they did zero research
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: before hiring us and had no idea what our editing
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: style was.
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: Oh. God. Oh, boy.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: I completed their entire album, sent them a few previews,
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: and all I heard back was lighter. We want lighter.
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: What does that even mean?
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I obliged to make all the images lighter. This was
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: no quick task. I sent the lighter images, and again,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: I got a response that they want it even lighter.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: If I was to do that, the pictures would be overexposed.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: So they sent me some grotesquely edited images from their
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: previous wedding.
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, right.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Did I ever mention that this was their second wedding?
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: They said they wanted it to look just like that.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: One difference, though, the photos they sent were taken midday
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: on a beach with harsh lighting and clear skies. The
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: pics we took were taken late afternoon on a cloudy day.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I tried to explain to them that there was no
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: way these pictures were ever going to look the same.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: They accused me of lying. that the weather was different,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: and then forwarded me a pic of their ceremony area,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: completely empty, and obviously taken hours before my team even
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: got there. I eventually edited some pics in four different styles,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: two of which I will admit were really gross, but hey,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: want a picture to look the same as their midday
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: beach photos that goes to me for about 10 days
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: after that before finally picking one of the choices and
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: if you think that was the end of it then
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: you obviously haven't been paying attention make it end that's
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: what they want the photos to look like they are
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: now complaining that they don't like their effing facial expressions
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: during the ceremony and somehow expect me to fix this
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: telling me that they won't accept the pictures with them
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: looking stupid and fixing That is my responsibility. I'm just
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: AI this crap. I can't deal with it. I'm pissed off.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: I don't even know these people.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: I say just send the raws. Just send the raws over.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Just call it a day.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: I say give it to them raw.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: Give it to them raw. Take it.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: Golly, dude. Take it raw, man.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: Just like get.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: Stop dealing with these people.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: Honestly, what the heck?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: You're mad about your expressions? Well, those are the faces
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: you made.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: That's your fault.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: That's your fugly face.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, I have not replied to that absurd request, but
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: I'm currently planning on re-editing everything next week in the
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: style they decided on to do absolutely nothing about their
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: facial expressions because seriously, W2F and then just blocking them
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: on everything. I'll take a bad Facebook review above having
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: to suffer through another conversation with these effing wastes of humans. Whoa.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: That's the end of that story. Holy cow. People are crazy.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: I've also realized that when it comes to wedding stuff,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: the cheaper the people are whenever you're dealing with them,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: the tougher it's going to be working with them. That's
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: what I've realized.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Well, well, well. That's the end of that one. What'd
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: you think of that story, Miss Archer?
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: It was still unclear to me.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Like, okay, they still owed money.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: They still owed.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: They paid.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: They had paid it at this point.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Then I'm like, I'm not just take it and leave.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: I don't want to deal with you anymore.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're done. We're done.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't block them.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: I think in the contract they may have been like, oh,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: you get like a certain number of edits and revisions
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: and things like that. OP, just send them the raw footage, honestly.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: But it would take him two years to get it
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: to him.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 8: Okay. Once you're out of South Africa, you have a
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 8: little faster internet, then send it.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: We can call it a day.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: Honestly.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: Go our separate ways.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Get a hard drive and just put it out there.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Be like, we're done.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: We're done doing this.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: And that's the end of this story.