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She Just Met A Stranger At North Hills Coffee Shop Now Going On A Trip 1 Week Later · The Erica Show

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  Time g n O five. It is the Erica Show. America DeLong.
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  Thank you so much for listening, and we're becoming the Dilemma Show. Y'all.
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  Keep them coming, though. I love to hear from you Erica at
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  ge O five dot com. Today's has to do with meeting a new guy.
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  Now she's going on a trip. She said, Hey, Erica,
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  I need confirmation that I have not completely lost my mind, which you know,
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  if she starts with that, she already assumes that she's losing her mind
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  a little bit. I met a guy a week ago at Jubelah Coffee in
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  North Hills. He was behind me in line. We struck up a conversation.
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  I wasn't staying. I was getting my coffee to go, but we
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  exchanged numbers before I left. We were hitting it off with the vibe.
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  I'm twenty seven, he is thirty three. We've spoken on the phone a
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  few times since we met last weekend, and one of our longer conversations he
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  mentioned that he was going to Arizona, got an Airbnb to go hike.
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  He said I should go with him because he was going solo. Before I
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  could even think it through, my wild spirit said yes. And now I
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  feel like I've lost my mind because I'm going on a trip with a complete
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  stranger sting in an airbnb. My family is going to flip out. Have
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  I lost my mind? Crazy here? Nine one nine eight six to so
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  one o five to one. I mean, I'm kind of that free spirit
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  too. I would do things like that, do things like that on the
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  regular, but in today's world, to go and stay in the same place,
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  traveling by plane and meeting up with I don't know. I don't know.
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  I'd maybe need to know a little bit more details, or at least
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  go out there, but get a hotel and stay separately. Nine one nine
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  eight six so one oh five to one. Any advice for our listeners do
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  you want to five? Is tot they air kas show. What do you
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  think? She met the guy at the Jubila coffee shop in North Hills.
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  They exchange numbers. Next thing you know, it's only been a week now
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  she is flying to meet him out in Arizona and staying in the same airbnb
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  so they can go hiking. They're both lovers of hiking. Do you think
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  she's lost her mind? Is this a good idea? Nine one nine eight
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  six so one O five to one, Jill, what do you think?
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  No, I mean, I'm a little crazy too, But I personally would
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  I would need to talk to this person and FaceTime them and like go out
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  on more dates before we plan a trip. I would need like at least
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  a month with them. Yeah, I think if I was going and we're
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  both going at the same time and we meet up while we're there is one
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  thing. But I don't know if i'd stay in the same airbnb. Well,
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  yeah, like you don't know, you don't know what they're like yet,
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  Like it's kind of a lot, and then what if you're you're stuck
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  there if you don't like that? Right? You know what I mean?
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  See five? It is the Rika Show. You know, there's moments in
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  life where you're like, when I look back, I was safe and I'm
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  surprised we have a listener. She's like, am I crazy? She met
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  a guy, does not know much about him at all other than they met
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  briefly, exchanged numbers. She said they had a vibe. Now next thing
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  you know, they've spoken for maybe a couple of days and they're already planning
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  a trip to go hiking in Arizona. Her family is livid. They're like,
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  this is absurd, but she's still going nine to one, nine eight
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  six one, five to one. Do you think she should go? Katie?
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  Absolutely not. I Mean there's so much research you could do on someone
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  before putting yourself in that kind of situation. Nowadays, like you can look
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  online and stuff, and like, you just met him, everyone is awesome
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  in the beginning, and he could just be a complete man there. Even
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  if he's not a psycho, he could just be a disaster and then you're
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  tropped for a whole weekend with him. Okay, So have you ever because
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  when she said that, I was like, she's twenty seven. I could
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  totally see myself just saying like yolo, just going for it. But at
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  the same time, especially now as a mama, I'm like, all right,
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  where are you going? Who you going with? What's the address?
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  Like I have a lot of more precautions. Now. Have you ever in
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  your life just you just went out on a limb and met up with somebody.
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  Yeah, I did when I was in my twenties, and I can't
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  believe nothing worse happened. Like it's I was so lucky that nothing bad happened
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  to me. But yeah, there were plenty of times where I would go
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  off with a guy or a group of guys with you know, another girlfriend,
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  and go to someone's house, drive somewhere and just have some like be
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  experiencing life. But you know we could have got hacked into a bunch of
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  pieces or or something. You know, that's so true in today's world.
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  You have to be so careful. If my kids ever asked me when they
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  grow up, like, no, you can't. Nope, I g u
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  and I five. It is the air because show talking about that time you
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  took a chance you met a stranger. We had a listener who just met
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  this guy. She is already planning a trip to Arizona to go hiking with
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  this guy. They're staying together in an airbnb. Her family is livid,
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  but she's taking a chance. As I was talking to her, my husband
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  text me he said, you remember that time you put our whole family in
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  jeopardy. We went to Iceland on some kind of groupon deal that I found,
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  and I wanted to do some excursions. So one of the things I
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  say to do is always fly in like a little small plane or a helicopter,
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  so you can tour the volcanoes and see Iceland from above, like the
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  glaciers. I email somebody that didn't speak great had broken English. He spoke
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  Icelandic for the most part, which most people in Iceland do speak English.
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  So I got what he was saying to me v email. He said,
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  yeah, just show up to this location. Wasn't a tour company, company,
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  wasn't anything. I just show up to this little small airport, the
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  station right beside a volcano. Get in this man's plane, a four seater
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  plane, with my nine month old baby strapped to me in. My husband
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  and Boston was like, what are we doing? We could die? This
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  is horrible. I was like, yeah, it's fine. I was a
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  little nervous, but I was like, it's fine. It ended up being
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  an incredible experience. But you look back and you're thinking that was not safe,
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  and I cannot believe I did that. So when did you meet a
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  stranger and you just took a chance? Nine one nine eight six zero one
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  oh five to one.