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Taylor Swift Wedding Drama, President Trump's Billions, And Service Staff Love · You're Not Too Much

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  Multiple times recently.
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  Multiple times,
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  I have been thanked for doing something,
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  and it bothers me when people thank me for it.
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  They're not doing anything wrong.
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  They're certainly not doing anything wrong.
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  But they're thanking me for it because the number of people who don't do it
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  is so astronomical that the fact that we, by policy, do in fact do it makes
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  us the anomaly. And that is not okay at all. I want to be very clear about
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  this: it is not a flex to not be an asshole to service people. It's not.
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  It is the way you should behave.
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  Even if something is going wrong with the service that you are receiving,
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  the likelihood of it being the fault of the person who has to deliver
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  that information or receive that information is, like, nonexistent.
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  They are just there doing that job — a job that by and large probably sucks
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  because they have to deal with people like us. Like, even if the job itself
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  is fine, the people who are brought into their job are terrible, or
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  often terrible, or might be terrible.
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  And I say this because we've had two experiences lately where we went to
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  restaurants and something got messed up.
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  I don't know if anybody else has noticed this, and this might just be the area that
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  we live in, which is not super inhabited by things that are not, like, chains. And
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  there's very little new or interesting as far as restaurants in this area.
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  And, like, let's be honest, I cook about as often as I schedule
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  things on my own calendar.
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  Never.
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  So, like, sometimes it's just easier to go out to dinner.
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  And, like, sometimes I wanna sit at a table and have food that I don't care about with
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  an endless supply of fountain Coke, okay?
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  Sometimes that is what I want for dinner, and I will eat whatever is in front
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  of me that I paid for. Listen, I am a person who works really hard and who
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  is pretty good at making good decisions for myself, but I have zero self-control
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  when it comes to bread and butter.
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  If you bring me free bread and butter, I'm gonna become an animal.
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  I'm probably not gonna share it with anybody.
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  I'm gonna ration the butter so that I make sure I have enough.
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  I will go to the mediocrist of restaurants and pay for food if they have good bread.
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  If the bread is good, I don't care about anything else.
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  That probably explains how we end up in the places where we end up, 'cause
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  I'm like, "Ooh, they have good Coke and bread." My husband's like, "All the other
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  food's poisoned." I'm like, "That's fine." So, two instances recently where something
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  got screwed up with our meal, right?
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  We went to Chili's not that long ago — you know, the
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  high-quality eatery that is Chili's.
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  My husband ordered salmon.
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  Not sure that's the thing you should be ordering at Chili's, but
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  anyway, that's what he ordered.
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  And both times it came out so overcooked that the bottom skin was like a cracker.
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  Like, you could hit it against something and it wouldn't flex.
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  I don't know, somebody was having a bad night.
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  Whatever.
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  So the first time it came out and he was like, "I'm so sorry,
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  but I really can't eat this."
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  The server looked at it and she goes, "That's gross.
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  Yeah, let me have them fix that for you." And then they brought out another
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  one and it was exactly the same, and he was like, "I'm good on this." And
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  so the manager came over and was like, "Can I get you something else?" He
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  picked something else on the menu.
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  It wasn't a big deal.
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  They brought out the other food very quickly.
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  It was perfect.
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  He ate it.
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  He was perfectly happy.
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  The kids ate their food.
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  We were getting ready to finish up, and the server comes over and she's like,
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  "Just thank you for being cool about that." And I was like, "Well, cool
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  about what?" She was like, "Oh, just, like, a lot of people would've yelled.
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  You didn't yell, so I really appreciate that."
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  And we were like, "Did you cook the food?" And she was like, "No, but you
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  know, the server's usually the one." And I was like, "But did we end up eating?
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  Are, like, are we full?
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  We're good?
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  We got food?
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  You didn't steal money from us?" She was like, "Yeah." She's like, "A lot
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  of people don't think like that."
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  She's like, "I get yelled at a lot." And I was like, "I have so many bigger
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  things to worry about than whether this particular meal is perfect.
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  There's another meal tomorrow, maybe even tonight if I'm feeling feisty.
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  I do not have time or energy to get mad about this. You
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  brought food and we ate it.
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  We're good, we're good." And she's like, "I really appreciate that, 'cause I've
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  just gotten yelled at a lot tonight." And I was like, "I'm sorry about that,
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  'cause that should not be happening to you." I said, you know,
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  "Overcooked salmon is not a big deal.
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  I have bigger things to worry about." And my nine-year-old pipes in and says,
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  "Yeah, we have bigger fish to fry."
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  So I was really proud of that.
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  But also, this poor woman — she was so tired, and she'd had a good attitude the
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  whole time, and she was present the whole time, and she stayed on top of things the
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  whole time, and didn't argue, didn't… She just was doing her job.
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  She did a good job.
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  Like, are all servers great?
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  No.
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  But do I think that most people who are serving at a Chili's want to spend the
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  rest of their lives serving at a Chili's?
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  No.
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  I don't think that's, like, their chosen profession.
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  I just think that's the job they have.
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  And I'm not judging you if that is.
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  If that's what you wanna do, awesome.
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  If you're happy, awesome.
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  But do I think people wake up in the morning excited
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  to get yelled at over queso?
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  No.
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  I don't think her goal is to bring me 15 baskets of chips while
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  I tell her she's bad at everything.
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  Be nice to service people.
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  Why is this poor woman shell-shocked?
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  Because people yell at her all the time.
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  If the food is always bad, if the service is always bad — first off,
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  stop going to that restaurant. But second off, that's probably not
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  that individual person's fault.
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  There's another problem there.
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  And it's service people everywhere.
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  You're gonna call into a place, and somebody is gonna give you the information
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  that they were told to give you, that's on a script somewhere that is stupid and
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  doesn't make sense and is bureaucratic nonsense, and you're gonna have to get
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  around them to get what you want done.
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  But that is not that person's fault.
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  They are not empowered to fix that problem in the way you want them to
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  fix it, and that is not their fault.
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  Lots of people in this world are working shitty jobs for no money because
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  that's the job they can find right now, and they do not need that experience
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  compounded by you being a jackdonkey.
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  Don't be an asshole to service people.
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  And we are all service people at some point.
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  Every single one of us is a service person at some point. That was one of two.
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  The other one — actually, this one was the person's fault — but the other one we
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  went to this, like, pizza restaurant by our house. It kind of, like, thinks it's
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  hip and urban. It's just a pizza place.
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  Like, it's just a place where you can get, like, moderately expensive pizza.
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  The pizza's good.
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  The kids like it.
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  We get to sit outside.
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  We get to bring the dogs, whatever.
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  It's in a nice area.
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  So we pay a little… we overpay for pizza, basically.
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  So we went there, and I don't usually order my own pizza, but there's a type
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  of pizza that I really wanted that I would only get a small one of, and
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  my kids could have some of it, but they probably weren't gonna like it.
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  So I ordered a small pizza for myself, and then they really branched out
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  this time, and they got cheese pizza.
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  But they got their big pizza.
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  My kids actually are very adventurous eaters.
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  Pizza's, like, the only thing that they eat plain, but it makes
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  me laugh, 'cause every time they look at the menu and they're
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  like, "What should we get this time?"
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  And I'm like, "You're gonna get cheese pizza." They're like, "Yeah,
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  we're gonna get cheese pizza." So the big cheese pizza came out.
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  The appetizer came out.
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  They actually, I think, came out right around the same time, which was fine.
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  And then, like, my pizza didn't come out.
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  Well, I wasn't actually super hungry, so I really didn't care that much,
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  but, like, we were just like, "Does anybody know where my pizza is?
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  Do I get a pizza?
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  'Cause I ordered one.
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  'Cause if the answer's no, that's fine.
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  Just, like, can I get a heads-up on whether I get a…" The server
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  comes over after a little bit, and she's like, "You haven't gotten your pizza
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  yet?" And I said, "No." And she goes, "Oh.
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  All right, let me go check on that."
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  And then she comes back.
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  She comes back a couple minutes later and, like, verifies what was ordered, and I
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  was like, "Oh, she forgot to put it in."
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  So she went back, and she was like, "Okay, it's just gonna be, like, five more
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  minutes." And I was like, "You're cute.
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  You're cute.
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  I know what happened.
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  You're cute, but all right." So she brings it out, and she puts it down, and
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  my husband just, like, very nonchalantly said to her, like, "So what happened?
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  Did they get backed up or something?" And she looks at me and she goes,
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  "Nope, I totally forgot to put it in.
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  I forgot you ordered a second pizza.
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  I'm so sorry.
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  This one's totally on me." And he was like, "All right."
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  And I just said, "No problem.
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  It's fresh now.
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  Happy with it.
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  No problem." She walks away.
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  And my nine-year-old goes, "Why didn't you, like, tell her that wasn't okay?"
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  And I was like, "Because it was okay.
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  Because sometimes people forget things.
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  Because I don't remember your name half the time.
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  People forget things sometimes." And so she came back over later, and she
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  was like, "I'm so sorry about that.
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  Like, thank you for…" And again, same thing: "Thank you for being
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  cool about it." You could tell, as she was telling us she forgot it, that
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  she was, like, bracing for impact.
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  Like, she was waiting for somebody to be like, "Let me talk to your manager.
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  This is unacceptable.
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  This steaming hot pizza took seven extra minutes." She was just, like,
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  waiting to get yelled at, and she couldn't have been older than, like, 20.
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  Like, she probably wasn't even that old.
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  Like, she was so young. And so I just ate my pizza, and I actually, like, boxed
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  up most of it, 'cause by that point I was like, "I'm not even super hungry
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  anymore," 'cause we had appetizers.
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  So I just, like, boxed up most of it. No big deal.
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  And so she came over and she just, like, made some comment about how she was
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  waiting for a bad tip, basically.
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  And so we gave her, like, a really excellent tip.
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  My nine-year-old is learning, like, percentages and stuff, and so she looked
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  at it and she was like, "That's more than the other number," 'cause a lot of
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  bills now break down what the expected tip percentage is, to give you an idea.
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  Also to remind you that you should be tipping.
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  Tip your freaking servers.
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  And I said, "Yeah, that's not a problem." And she goes, "Why?" And I
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  was like, "If you screw up and you own it, like, you should get recognized
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  for that." She could've lied.
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  She could've lied and said it was the kitchen.
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  She could've lied and said, "Oh, they dropped it."
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  She could've done any number of things, and instead she came out here and, like,
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  faced us with her whole face and said, "Yeah, I screwed up." And you know what?
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  That's a good quality to have in a human, and she deserves to be rewarded for that.
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  And then my nine-year-old says, "Oh, so you'll give me more allowance if I
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  tell you when I did something wrong?"
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  And I was like, "No. That's not how that works. That's a little different."
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  Like, you should still tell me, but I'm not gonna pay you for it, 'cause you
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  weren't doing your job when you did it.
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  But it was just, like, these two humans — these two very nice, very, like, doing
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  their best humans. You can tell, just every day doing their best and waiting
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  to get yelled at over something that is going to be insignificant in four hours.
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  You're hungry now, you eat now, you will be hungry again in four hours.
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  This whole experience will be irrelevant in four hours, and you're
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  gonna get yelled at for that?
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  Stop being assholes to service people.
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  And if you're not an asshole to service people, thank you for your
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  service. I guarantee you, nine times out of 10 it's not their fault.
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  They are the unfortunate messenger in a string of things that has nothing
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  to do with them, and they take the brunt of your silly nonsense.
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  My theory about Taylor Swift's wedding is that Donald Trump has made $2
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  billion since he's been in office this term, and no one seems to care.
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  Why the fuck would I care about her wedding?
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  She made that money.
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  It's not like she stole it or got it through a crypto scam or
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  sold gold Trump phones to get it.
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  Whether you like her or not — and I don't, I don't have an opinion on her.
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  I really don't, I'm not a Swiftie.
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  I'm not super interested in what she does or her life. Jeff Bezos
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  got married last summer, and nobody cared, or very few people cared.
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  People were saying that she only donated $26 million before her wedding,
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  and that is such a small percentage of her net worth that it's embarrassing.
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  Before Jeff Bezos' wedding, he donated — quote-unquote "donated" — $3 million
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  to a couple of different charities in Venice, and it was literally
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  a bribe so they would leave him alone and let him have his wedding.
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  He didn't donate a bunch of money because Jeff Bezos is a nice guy.
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  He did it to get the government off his back so he could marry whoever.
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  So just, like, nobody cared that Jeff Bezos only gave $3 million.
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  Nobody cared that he probably handed it to a bunch of organized crime bosses
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  so they wouldn't mess with his gondolas.
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  Nobody cared.
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  But when it's a woman who has a lot of money and who might be a little bit
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  self-indulgent on her fucking wedding day, when she's allowed to be self-indulgent…
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  What day are you supposed to be self-indulgent if not
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  your fucking wedding day?
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  Sing your own songs at your wedding.
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  I'm not invited.
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  Why would I care?
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  Why would I care?
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  Anyway, Donald Trump still has made $2 billion in the last just over a year.
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  And also, they have not released the unredacted Epstein files,
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  which they were supposed to do last Friday and which they did not do.
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  So I do not give a shit about Taylor Swift's wedding.
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  Live and let live.
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  Give $26 million to charities.
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  I don't care if it's not a lot of money to her.
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  It is a lot of money to the charities that she gave it to.
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  Fuck everybody else.
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  Wait, like, you're gonna call your lawyers on your wedding day and stop
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  your wedding to call your lawyers and be like, "He's using my song"?
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  Like, not to mention the fact that she probably has lawyers who
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  are monitoring this stuff anyway and who just take care of it.
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  I bet she doesn't even have to intervene when somebody infringes on her copyright.
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  She just has people who take care of it.
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  Go yell at a wall.
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  Did you know that you can leave us love notes?
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  Okay.
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  It doesn't have to be love notes.
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  It can just be whatever you want.
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  We have a voicemail. People call us and talk about the recent
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  accomplishments. They brag on themselves.
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  They ask us small talk questions — some of the small talk questions
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  come directly from there.
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  So if you go to differentnotbrokenpodcast.com/voicemail, you
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  can quote-unquote call us and leave us a message of whatever is on your
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  brain, including the recent things that you've done that will knock
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  our socks off, or just questions that you might have that you want
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  answered about how to handle things, or
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  why things are the way they are.
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  Either way:
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  differentnotbrokenpodcast.com/voicemail.
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  We have a small talk from Priya in Oregon.
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  "Dear Small Talk, I've been the planner friend my entire life.
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  I organize dinners, send a calendar invite, et cetera, and for years
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  I told myself this was fine, that it was just how I showed love.
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  But last month, I didn't reach out to anyone for three weeks
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  just to see what would happen.
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  Two people texted.
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  Two out of 11 friends I regularly invest in.
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  I'm not devastated, more just recalibrating, but I genuinely don't know
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  how to go from being the person who holds a friend group together to being someone
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  who lets friendships be a little more mutual without burning everything down.
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  Has this ever happened to you?
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  How do you even start that conversation without sounding
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  like you're keeping score?"
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  I'm not the friend who reaches out a lot.
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  I also don't have one friend who is responsible for, like,
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  organizing all the things.
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  I tend to be the reason that my friend group gets together, 'cause we'll plan,
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  like, one big thing every so often.
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  And I guess I'm technically in charge of that, but only because, like, it
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  was my idea and I wanna do it and I have friends who come along for it.
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  I can't help from the perspective that I have experience being,
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  like, the glue, 'cause I'm…
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  I'm a good friend when you call me.
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  If you need something and you call me, I'm there.
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  I will get my shoveling gloves and show up without asking questions.
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  Or the question I will ask is, "Where do you need me?"
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  But I won't ask any other questions. Like, full no-questions-asked friend.
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  I am that friend, a hundred percent. I do, like, randomly text to check
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  in on people, but, like, you know.
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  I was an extra good friend when my mom was in the hospital,
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  'cause I had a long drive almost every day.
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  Twice a day.
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  And so I would think of people as I was driving home, or
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  driving there, and I would, like, tell the phone to text that person.
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  And so for, like, two weeks there recently, I looked like a really
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  good friend, 'cause I was all on top of the checking in on people.
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  But in general, like, I'm just elsewhere, and I'm very honest about that.
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  I will go a long time without talking to people I care a lot about, just because
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  there's not something happening with them that they need that attention immediately.
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  And so my brain is elsewhere.
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  And the reason I say that is, it is probably very likely that a lot
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  of your friends are like that too.
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  And that doesn't mean they don't love you and prioritize you and
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  want to actively be in your life.
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  But, like, there's a lot going on right now, and the general mental
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  load of existing is just a ton.
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  And so if you're a person who really only has the bandwidth to look at what's
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  in front of you and doesn't really have time to conjure up academic things like
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  dinners with friends — even though they're very important and you should do them —
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  I can understand how they would go a full month without engaging with you.
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  I have friends that I go way longer than that with, but when
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  we do talk, everything's great.
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  Like, it's like we didn't miss a minute. So I wouldn't consider it too much or too
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  concerning that after that short period of time, you only heard from two of them.
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  That sounds right to me.
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  There are people who reach out to me, and unless they're reaching out to me, I
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  probably don't talk to them very often.
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  Not because I don't want to.
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  I love them, I adore them. They are just not the one with the need
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  at that point, and I am focusing on the people with the need, and
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  there's always someone with a need.
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  That being said, if these are friends who you really want to spend time
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  with, or you really want to continue that friendship with, and that
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  friendship is important to you, then you should absolutely talk to them.
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  You could definitely say, like, "Hey.
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  I just wanna let you know that I've taken a step back from organizing things,
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  'cause the mental load of it was a lot.
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  I still wanna spend time with you.
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  I'll still do some things when there's events or activities
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  that are really important to me.
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  But, like, if we wanna hang out, just know that you might have to initiate,
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  because I'm not gonna do it, or I'm gonna do it less, and for that reason
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  I just want it on your brain that…
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  I'm probably not gonna text you and say, 'Drinks next Thursday.'
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  If you wanna go for drinks next Thursday, you probably are gonna have to text me."
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  Most people will be totally fine with that.
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  Some relationships are gonna peter out because you're not putting in the effort.
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  That's okay.
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  That's allowed to happen.
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  And some of them, once people get a notification that this isn't
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  something that you have the bandwidth for right now, they will totally
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  take ownership of it and maybe start doing a whole lot of other stuff.
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  I remember several years ago we did, like, a friends' weekend thing.
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  I didn't stay in the house with everybody the first night
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  because it was where I live.
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  And there was some other stuff going on, so I didn't stay
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  in the house with everybody.
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  But when I got there — or when everybody else got there, 'cause they drove in —
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  there was a smoke alarm going off, and I had been in planning mode
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  for this weekend for two months.
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  Like, it was constant logistics. Picking up people from the airport, figuring out
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  how people are gonna eat, planning a party, planning an event around the party,
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  getting family coordinated. Like, it was two solid months of just logistics. And
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  I had booked the house, and booking the house was, like, a whole thing.
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  It was, like, the third house we booked, because there was so much…
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  there was just nonsense with it.
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  With the booking there was a problem. I booked the house.
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  I coordinated everybody's travel.
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  I picked everybody up at the airport.
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  I found them ways to get to the house if they didn't have the
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  ability to get to the airport.
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  I did all of this stuff.
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  There was so much stuff.
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  I did all of it.
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  And then when everybody came in,
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  there was an issue at the house that they let me know about,
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  but I wasn't even at the house.
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  But what I heard was: there's an issue at the house, and I need to fix it.
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  I was in the middle of doing 10,000 things, and I just forgot
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  to fix the thing at the house.
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  I forgot to call the management company.
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  I just was busy.
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  It slipped my mind. And so the next morning I got there,
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  and one of our friends came downstairs and she was like, "Oh, they came by
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  and fixed the thing this morning."
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  And I didn't even say anything to her about it.
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  She was just like, "They came by and fixed the thing this morning."
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  And I went, "Did they know already? Because I didn't call them."
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  And she was like, "No.
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  I called them." And I went, "You called them."
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  And she was like, "Right.
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  So, I am a grown adult.
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  I can fix problems, and I didn't need you to do it.
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  You're okay.
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  You have other stuff going on.
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  I took care of it." And the confusion that I felt — I remember sitting
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  back and going, "Oh, that's right.
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  I'm not coordinating a birthday party for a bunch of hapless 10-year-olds.
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  This is a bunch of grownups who were able to figure out how to, like,
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  travel across the country to come here. And if there's an alarm beeping,
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  I can figure it out — they can also figure it out."
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  The point of that being: your friends are probably smart
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  people who just need a flag.
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  And if you give them a flag, they'll take it.
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  Or if there's an opportunity that they see, that there's something where they
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  actually can jump in, they probably will.
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  And if they only want your labor so that they can have fun on the backs of your labor,
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  then maybe it's time to let them go.
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  That's fine too.
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  Just let people do their jobs.
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  Let people do their jobs.
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  That's it.
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  Don't be an asshole.