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I gave my brother the PERFECT birthday gift… and his girlfriend got jealous! -r/AmITheAsshole | Reddit Stories | EP3047 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Keon.
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  Speaker 3: I gave my brother the perfect birthday gift, and his
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  Speaker 3: girlfriend got jealous.
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  Speaker 1: His girlfriend's the perfect gift.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I, 25 female, have a twin brother, 25 male.
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  Speaker 3: And growing up, our favorite pastime was building Legos together.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is the perfect story for me. Yes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a huge Lego guy.
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  Speaker 3: Our family couldn't afford it often, so the sets we
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  Speaker 3: had were treasured, and we'd always buy bags of loose
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  Speaker 3: bricks from charity shops whenever we saw them. That's so sweet.
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  Speaker 3: It was a major bonding time for us, making things together.
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  Speaker 3: And my brother claims that those days of playing with
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  Speaker 3: Legos is what inspired him to go on and become
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  Speaker 3: an architect.
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  Speaker 1: Truly.
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  Speaker 3: That's like a really, you know, when you get interviewed
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  Speaker 3: and they're like, what inspired you? And he's like, Legos.
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  Speaker 1: My buddy was like that. He's an architect, and he's like,
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  Speaker 1: growing up, he does love Legos growing up.
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  Speaker 3: It was our birthday on Friday, and we had a
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  Speaker 3: small thing with family. My boyfriend of three years, 27 male,
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  Speaker 3: was there, and so was my brother's girlfriend of two years,
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  Speaker 3: 24 female. During the gift exchange, we left each other's
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  Speaker 3: presents to last, as we always have, and opened our
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  Speaker 3: respective gifts. They were very nice and enjoyable, nothing to
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  Speaker 3: complain about on either side. When we exchanged gifts, however,
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  Speaker 3: it led to some laughs and delight on both sides.
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  Speaker 3: I got him the Neuschwanstein Castle Lego set and he
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  Speaker 3: got me the Notre Dame Lego set.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so y'all got money money. You guys got money
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  Speaker 1: money and space for these Legos.
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  Speaker 3: They've been saving up. The Notre Dame?
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  Speaker 1: It's funny that you bring it up because he's an architect.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because they actually have giant sets now for like adults.
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  Speaker 3: For big boys.
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  Speaker 1: Like me. And you, whoever's watching this. You understand.
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  Speaker 3: He clearly loved his gift and was going on about
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  Speaker 3: how excited he was to build it and how he'd
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  Speaker 3: be spending his next day off working on it. He
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  Speaker 3: showed a lot more enthusiasm for this than the watch
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  Speaker 3: his girlfriend got him, though he had clearly liked that too.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, this comes from Lego Birthday Gift, and
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  Speaker 3: if you want to submit your own stories, go to
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  Speaker 3: the r slash ok story time subreddit. I'm Sophia.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Keon.
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  Speaker 3: And we're here to give good advice goofily, but we
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  Speaker 3: don't have all the answers. We only know what we'd do.
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  Speaker 3: So let us know what you would do in the comments.
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  Speaker 3: And Opie says.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 3: What would you do?
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  Speaker 1: If this was me?
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  Speaker 3: This is you. You'd get the Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, you don't know me well enough.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know. They give you like Star Wars.
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  Speaker 1: The Millennium Falcon. The Millennium Falcon, $ 850. It's like right
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  Speaker 1: up there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to be jazzed.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, Dakota gets you the Millennium Falcon.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Falcon.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And Carly gets you a watch.
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  Speaker 1: I look at my girlfriend and go, you obviously don't
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  Speaker 1: know me. Why would I need a watch?
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  Speaker 4: That's so sad.
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  Speaker 1: Genuinely, she knows that I don't need a watch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you throw it in her face. You go, get
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  Speaker 3: out of here. Take your chair and go.
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  Speaker 1: Get this time out of my face.
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  Speaker 3: A hot new bombshell has left the villa.
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  Speaker 1: No, you know what you say? I don't have time
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  Speaker 1: for this.
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  Speaker 3: Since then, his girlfriend has reached out to me, insisting
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  Speaker 3: I try to show her up deliberately. By getting him
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  Speaker 3: a gift he'd like more and how she was trying
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  Speaker 3: to treat him like an adult with her gift. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I was encouraging him to be childish.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hate the player. Hate the game.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like she does not get her boyfriend. She
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  Speaker 3: also thinks we somehow planned this gift exchange as we
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  Speaker 3: both got Lego for each other. I had to tell her, no,
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  Speaker 3: it's just something we have always enjoyed together. And it's
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  Speaker 3: just natural that we do this. I also told her
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  Speaker 3: that I had no intention of showing her up, but
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  Speaker 3: that if she really wanted to win the day with gifts,
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  Speaker 3: she should have considered his interests and not worried about
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  Speaker 3: what seems appropriate for an adult.
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  Speaker 1: Mic drop. I'm sorry. Your boyfriend loves Lego. Like, there's
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  Speaker 1: no way he's hiding the fact that he likes Legos.
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  Speaker 4: He probably has a bunch of them.
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  Speaker 1: He probably has a bunch of them. And you go, childish,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't like those.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like you're a bummer. She then pivoted
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  Speaker 3: to the fact that she is his girlfriend. And I
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  Speaker 3: should have warned her I was getting an expensive gift.
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  Speaker 3: I pointed out my brother didn't warn my boyfriend. But
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  Speaker 3: she insists that doesn't matter. Why is she jealous of
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  Speaker 3: his sister?
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  Speaker 1: Also, it's not about the price of the gift. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I will say watch expensive. Also, that Lego set expensive, but...
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  Speaker 1: It's the thoughtfulness. It's the thoughtfulness.
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  Speaker 3: Was I in the wrong for not giving her warning
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  Speaker 3: and leading to her feeling shown up as a result?
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  Speaker 3: I have never felt the need to give warning when
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  Speaker 3: my brother dated, but maybe I should have? And there
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  Speaker 3: is an update.
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  Speaker 4: But what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: How do you not know what your partner wants as
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  Speaker 1: a gift?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, even more so, even if you didn't know,
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  Speaker 3: but like it's been two years, she should know. Even
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  Speaker 3: if you didn't know, why are you attacking his sister?
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  Speaker 1: Who got him a very wonderful gift.
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  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, they've been around.
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  Speaker 3: His sister's been around for as long as he's been alive.
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  Speaker 1: They're twins.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, they have a better relationship. Update. Many have recommended
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  Speaker 3: that I show the messages she sent me to my
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  Speaker 3: twin brother. I went round to his house today, it's
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  Speaker 3: his day off, and he wanted my help making a
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  Speaker 3: start on the set I got him. I'd have brought
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  Speaker 3: the set he got me so we could make them together,
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  Speaker 3: but since it lives at my place, it's not smart
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  Speaker 3: to try and move it back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Very smart, don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess maybe that's the Lego way.
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  Speaker 1: Stressful.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to come to mine on Saturday to help
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  Speaker 3: me make a start on it. While we were working
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  Speaker 3: on it together, I admitted to him that his girlfriend
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  Speaker 3: had messaged me and that I was concerned as she
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  Speaker 3: doesn't seem to like his hobby with Legos, seeing it
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  Speaker 3: as childish, and seems to find me as some kind
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  Speaker 3: of threat, which is weird and gross because, seriously, that's
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  Speaker 3: my twin.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen Game of Thrones.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, see, I was going to say, or on host
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  Speaker 3: high school. Or on high school.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. Host club.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. They're out there. It's weird.
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  Speaker 3: I also expressed worry that she may try to sabotage
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  Speaker 3: the things he likes just to make him grow up.
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  Speaker 3: He asked to see my phone and I passed it over.
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  Speaker 3: He read the messages in silence and was quiet for
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  Speaker 3: about a minute before saying, and I quote, oh, F no.
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  Speaker 3: And then he pulled out his phone and began to
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  Speaker 3: message her. He's just furiously typing.
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  Speaker 1: And now she's going to get more mad at you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. She's going to text you and say, why did
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  Speaker 3: you tell him that? That's so childish of you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When I asked what he was doing, he said he
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  Speaker 3: was sorting it.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's funny? If she did say that. I'd
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  Speaker 1: be like, we're twins. He's childish with Legos. I'm childish
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  Speaker 1: like this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We're just so childish. And when I tried to ask
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  Speaker 3: him to tell me what he meant by that, he
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  Speaker 3: just made noises to cut me off like he used
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  Speaker 3: to when we were kids. And he felt like annoying me.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, ah, ah, ah.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on.
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  Speaker 3: I managed to see the messages and he straight up
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  Speaker 3: just told her that he saw the messages she sent
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  Speaker 3: me and he wanted his key back.
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  Speaker 1: Dang.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 4: He broke up with her real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Over text, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's two years that he broke up with her
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  Speaker 3: over text because she.
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  Speaker 1: Was insecure about a lovely gift that you got him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think breakup is fair, but over text
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  Speaker 3: is crazy. And she had till 8 p.m. to drop
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  Speaker 3: it off and she was to put it through the
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  Speaker 3: letterbox and not bother trying to talk to her. This
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  Speaker 3: is a little dramatic.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was ready. No, let's be honest. I
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  Speaker 1: think he was ready.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, I've been waiting for something. I've been
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  Speaker 3: waiting for a reason to break up with this girl.
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  Speaker 3: If she didn't, he'd be having his locks changed. He
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  Speaker 3: then blocked her number.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, he's really just, all right.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I will never, I'm burning you.
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  Speaker 6: Done.
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  Speaker 3: You're done.
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  Speaker 1: Two hours? I mean, two years?
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  Speaker 3: I'll never see you again.
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  Speaker 1: Two years and just like that, done?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, she's gone.
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  Speaker 3: When I asked him if he was being a bit hasty,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe he should talk to her instead. He told
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  Speaker 3: me he could forgive a lot of things, and they
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  Speaker 3: could have even worked through her not liking his hobby,
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  Speaker 3: but no one talks to me like that, or makes
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  Speaker 3: gross implications like that to me. He then refused to
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  Speaker 3: talk further about her, insisting we keep building the set.
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  Speaker 3: I laughed about two hours ago and I'm just sitting
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  Speaker 3: laughing about this and a bit amused by this whole mess.
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  Speaker 3: My boyfriend can't stop laughing over this either and told
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  Speaker 3: me he was glad he never got on my brother's
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  Speaker 3: wrong side. Yeah, your brother will drop people immediately.
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  Speaker 1: He will scorch earth ASAP. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Is this what you would do? Carly gets you a watch.
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  Speaker 3: She accuses you of having an inappropriate relationship with Dakota.
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  Speaker 1: This is my daily routine.
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  Speaker 3: You're just too close to him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I wouldn't be that hasty.
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  Speaker 3: She's texting Dakota this.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. But even then, I don't think I would for
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  Speaker 1: two years, even a year with my partner, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: just drop them this quick. So maybe your brother just
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  Speaker 1: is one of those types of people. So that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Don't mess with him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Don't mess with him. Don't mess with his Lego collection.
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Edit, my brother let me know she did turn up
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  Speaker 3: to return his keys, but she didn't put them through
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  Speaker 3: the letterbox like he asked, at least not at first.
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  Speaker 3: She apparently stood knocking and shouting at the door for
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  Speaker 3: an hour before finally putting it through the letterbox, calling
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  Speaker 3: him all kinds of names through it as she did so.
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  Speaker 3: He was apparently just building his Lego as he did this,
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  Speaker 3: and kept turning his music up so it was clear
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  Speaker 3: he was home and ignoring her. On his way to work,
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  Speaker 3: he also dropped her keys in through her letterbox, so
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  Speaker 3: he wouldn't have to interact with her. I've asked him
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  Speaker 3: if this is being petty, and maybe he should have
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: talked to her. And he told me that yes, he
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  Speaker 3: is being petty, and if she wants to make him
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  Speaker 3: grow up, then he will be childish with her.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I mean, fair, but also, yeah, okay. This is concerning.
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  Speaker 1: Not helping the case?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: I've also blocked his now ex-girlfriend as she began to
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  Speaker 3: message me, blaming me for this mess and asking me
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  Speaker 3: what I did. So yeah, that's what happened. Thought you'd
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  Speaker 3: all like the additional information. And that is the end
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  Speaker 3: of that story. I do think that was very hasty,
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  Speaker 3: but I think he knows what he wants or doesn't want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he wants his sister and his Lego stuff.
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  Speaker 3: In a very appropriate way.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, why date someone who can't appreciate the things you like,
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  Speaker 1: the hobbies you enjoy? Unless they're really far-fetched. But even then,
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  Speaker 1: that should be a point of why you like them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's what they like.
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  Speaker 3: They're so passionate.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: go on to the next one.
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: My siblings disregarded our stepfather, so I uninvited them from
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  Speaker 2: my wedding.
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  Speaker 5: You're not my dad.
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  Speaker 7: There is me, 25 female, sister, 27 female, and brother,
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  Speaker 7: 28 male, involved here.
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  Speaker 2: We were raised together, and until 2019, we believed we
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: were a nuclear biological family. And then we found out
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: our dad wasn't our bio dad, which he even didn't
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: know about. And it turned out my older siblings shared
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: a bio dad, but I had a different one. We
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: were also first cousins because their bio and my bio
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: were brothers.
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  Speaker 7: Dad, okay, so it was with your uncle?
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  Speaker 5: Oh. This happened with Michael Jackson's family. I just want
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  Speaker 5: to say that.
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: Did it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Who was it, Jermaine? His wife and kids are
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: the same kids and baby mama of his other brother.
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: I've not kept up with the Jacksons well enough.
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  Speaker 5: I just found out this year.
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  Speaker 7: We always learn new things.
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  Speaker 2: Dad left our mom hurt, betrayed, and overall disgusted that
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: she had lied to him for two decades. I was
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: equally mad that she lied and hurt my dad. My
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: siblings were less willing to cut her off, but their
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: relationship strained majorly.
• 11:31
  Speaker 7: Dad moved in with.
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  Speaker 2: Me and my then-boyfriend, now fiancé. And then the vid happened.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, all three of us agreed he was
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: dad no matter what, and there was nothing that could
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: change that.
• 11:45
  Speaker 7: I meant it, but they didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm genuinely confused about who to be mad at right now.
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  Speaker 5: Who's the dad here?
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: Except for, I guess, the mom and the uncle. By
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: the way, this comes from ownlime7797. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: submit your own stories, go to the r slash ok
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: story time subreddit.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Dakota.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Rich F.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm Savannah.
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  Speaker 2: And we're here to give good advice googly, but we
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: don't have all the answers. We only know the things
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: we know, so let us know what you know in
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: the comments.
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  Speaker 7: And OP says.
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  Speaker 2: They found their bio father and mine by extension and
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: have decided that he is now real dad and our
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: dad is just stepdad. So your other two siblings also
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: had different fathers.
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: Mama had her fun.
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: Let her have fun.
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: My brother has even corrected his two little girls who
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: called dad grandpa into saying he's step grandpa and that's
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: what they call him while bio gets called grandpa. and
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: it broke my dad's heart, and he decided it was
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: too much for him to accept. This is after talks
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: between them, where he was essentially told to know his place,
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: stay in his lane, and demoted, with the clear message
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  Speaker 2: being nothing would change.
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  Speaker 6: Crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Is step-granddad a thing?
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  Speaker 7: I would think it would be easier to just be like,
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  Speaker 7: you have two grandfathers. That's it. You got two granddads.
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  Speaker 2: It's fine.
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  Speaker 5: Get two gifts.
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  Speaker 2: That's ice cold, dude. That guy raised you. It doesn't
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: matter that he's... What's the line of the... Guardians of
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  Speaker 2: the Galaxy or he's like, I ain't your father, but
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: I'm your daddy.
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  Speaker 3: Or something, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not your daddy, I'm your grandpa.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is maybe the most confusing in terms of
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  Speaker 2: whose father is whose story I've read.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is a dysfunctional family for sure. I might
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  Speaker 5: know these people.
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  Speaker 7: I am so pissed at them.
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  Speaker 2: They have tried to push me to meet my real
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: dad and have told me it's okay to go back
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: on what we said and Initially, they were invited to
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: my wedding, but with this whole mess, I told them
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: they were no longer welcome and I did not want
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: them to show up. They told me that just because
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  Speaker 2: they have a relationship with their real dad doesn't change
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  Speaker 2: things between us.
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  Speaker 7: I told them it does.
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  Speaker 2: That if dad isn't our real dad after everything he
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  Speaker 2: has done for us, then we're not real siblings because
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: technically we are half siblings and cousins. And that my
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: dad is still my dad 100% and biology is meaningless
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: That's true. I mean, you can't buy loyalty.
• 14:12
  Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, I'd be like, if you did, you're
• 14:15
  Speaker 7: hurting my dad. You're hurting our dad.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: So it was best for them not to come because
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: I no longer want them there.
• 14:24
  Speaker 7: What I said hurt them.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: My sister-in-law, who's married to my brother, told me I
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: was an a-hole for throwing half in their faces and
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: cutting them from my wedding like we haven't been siblings
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: our whole lives. That sounds eerily familiar to something else
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: that has happened in this story.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: A little pot calling the kettle black. No pun intended.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: I think that's almost more annoying to me because that's
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: our dad. But he can just be stepped on and
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: discarded like he's nothing.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: Am I the a-hole? That's the end of that story.
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: I don't think you are. I think really, though, like
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: you it would be better to have.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Them come because it gives some kind of opportunity for
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: something like they're in the same room. Like, oh, I
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, if it wasn't, I think the siblings are a-holes.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: I want to know why they think that way.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Like, what made them so, what made them immediately just switch?
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not like this other guy was in their
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: lives as, you know, dad or neighbor. Not even neighbor. Like,
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: he just left for milk and never came back.
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: They just lived a lie.
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Forever.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he could have still, he didn't even send child support.
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: Where's the back pay?
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Give that man his money back.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story. We're going to
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: go on to the next one.
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: My girlfriend made my niece a gift and my sister
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: gets straight back.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: Like to charity?
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: Allie, 22 female, and I, 23 male, have been dating
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: for about six months now.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Okay, new.
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: She is absolutely lovely.
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: One of those people that you can't help but like.
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: She has some social anxiety and often feels nervous in
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: new situations. And as such, and was really nervous to
• 16:03
  Speaker 8: meet my family for the first time this week. My
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: sister Kate, 36 female, and I have never really been close.
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: She was already in her teens when I was born.
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: Neither of our dads were in the picture, and she
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: always acted more like a mom to me, which I
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: will admit, I always resented.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: No dad in the picture? I know where this is going. Oh,
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: been there? No, my dad was actually there, but I
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: know people that have.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: You've seen it happen.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, I've seen it too many times.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: We get on fine now, though, and I absolutely adore
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: my niece, Lynn.
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: That's why I know where it's going.
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: You have to spell the name special.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: A little character.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: Kay is a legal.
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: Professional and very concerned about her appearance, not necessarily in
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: a superficial way, but she and Lynn always look top notch.
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: This week, Lynn turned five, and my family got together
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: for dinner to celebrate. And, of course, she wore her
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: Red Hills. Oh, Lynn?
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Lynn?
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: No, I'm just adding that. I'm seeing Red Hills, Gucci.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Okay, Red Bottoms.
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: That's what they're called, oh my God.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: Yes, you're right, you're right. I was trying to be
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: in the.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Little Lynn wearing her Red Bottoms for her fifth birthday.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: I could see it. Yeah, for sure.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: I could see it, top notch. They grow up so fast.
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: As I said, Ally was nervous to meet my family.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Ally is an artist, and she wanted to do something
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: nice for Lynn.
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: I want to stress.
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: that Allie was not at all obligated to give a
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: gift at all. I got Lynn a few toys and
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: was happy to sign Allie's name too. But she was
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: excited to make something for Lynn.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Sounds like my girlfriend.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: Very creative like that?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Very creative, very thoughtful.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah, would rather make something at home than buy something
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: at a store for you?
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Or, you know, maybe do it when it doesn't need
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: to be done. But, you know, all love. Still sweet.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: That's sweet. That's sweet. I'll let her know that.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Please don't. She'll see it later.
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: Allie spent an entire Sunday weaving Lynn a scarf. And
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: let me tell you, this scarf was beautiful. Like, sell
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: it for a lot of money beautiful. No, weaving is
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: not Allie's main art form. She doesn't actually sell her weavings.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: It's more of a hobby that she likes to do
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: for giving for gifts or donating if it's a part
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: of a larger work of art. But they are professional grade.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: I hope that goes with her red bottoms.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right?
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: This is purple, not red. I can't have that. What,
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: am I going to have to wear a blue dress
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: so it makes sense?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I give it back, too.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah. She told me.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: That she knew Lynn probably wouldn't care about it that much,
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: being as she's just a little kid.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: But Allie was excited to give it to Lynn anyways,
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: knowing how Kate likes.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: To be well-dressed.
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: Allie was already talking about how she could make a
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: matching scarf for Kate's birthday next month.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Seemed like it's going downhill.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: Already?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: Oh, man. By the way, this comes from Really Nice Scarf.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: And if you want to submit your own stories, go
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: to the r slash OK Storytime subreddit.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: I'm Riley.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: I'm Richette.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: And Ev here is going to help me read stories goofily.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: She's my good comedic friend.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: And, yeah, are you ready to get into it?
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: I am.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: Initial thoughts so far?
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: So far, I feel like as a kid, I think
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: I might have had some standards. Like, I didn't like butts.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: I think, you know.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, right.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think she had some standards to, like, say
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: ill to a scarf.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I remember getting clothes as a kid.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: And I was like, I hate this. Yeah, I look
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: back at pictures. I remember my parents used to get me, like,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: really tight, like, little halter tops and, like, shorts. And
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: I was just like, oh, but I had to wear
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: it because I wasn't paying for it, so.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: I'd rather have Barbies, but.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: I know, right? Here we are. I mean, I never
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: had red bottoms, but, you know. That's another story.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: That's another, yeah.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, but I think it's going, I mean. We
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: know what happened, but she doesn't know what's going to happen.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: So I just feel like I'm interested to see where
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: this goes, but I think I know where it's going
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: to go. Someone making scarves.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: She's clocking it, dude. So dinner went well.
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: Allie was a little quiet, but seemed like everyone liked her.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: Before dessert, Lynn got to open her presents. When she
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: opened the scarf, her little eyes got wide and she squealed, Purdy!
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, that is.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Crazy, because I feel like everyone loved her, and now
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Kate's about to hate her.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: So, so far, Lynn likes the scarf. Allie made it
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: for Lynn. Everything's going good, but Allie's about to screw
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: it up.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, gosh.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Somehow, some way, I think she's going to screw it
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: up by Kate getting a glance at that scarf.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: Oh, I see. Promptly wrapping the scarf around her head.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: It was super cute.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: As the ice cream came out, Kate unwrapped the scarf
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: from Lynn's head and set it under her chair, I assume,
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: so that Lynn wouldn't drip ice cream on it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: Okay, that's smart.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: That's thoughtful. She put that scarf on the floor. That
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: was a gift.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: That's a good point.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: Not even in the bag that it came in?
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: She didn't even rewrap it. Like, she just said, let
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: me let the dog, like, walk across it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: Good catch.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: As we said our goodbyes after dessert, Kate walked up
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: to Allie, thrust the scarf into her hands, and said,
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: This is too nice for a little kid.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: We don't want it. Gave me a quick hug and
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: walked away.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: What?
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: That's crazy. I'm over here talking about how Lynn should
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: have had, how she should have standards, but it seems
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: like Kate doesn't.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, right?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: It's too nice.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Nothing's too nice.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: Boy, I thought you guys looked top notch.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Oh my God. Who raised them? Who raised her?
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Who raised Kate? And why is Lynn... being way more
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: mature than Kate is here.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Oh my God. A five-year-old. We're over here saying who
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: raised Kate, but obviously it was the boyfriend's mother. So,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: because clearly the father wasn't around.
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: Yes, the father was not around. And this is what
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: happens when the dad's not around.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: What?
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: This kid is always dressed to the.
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: Toe in designer clothes. One outfit probably costs more than
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: my entire wardrobe. How is this too nice? This made
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: absolutely no sense. I could immediately tell that Allie was crushed.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: She said the rest of her goodbyes with a smile,
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: like the trooper she is, but didn't say a word
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: the entire drive home. When we got home, we talked
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: about it, and she insists it was okay. But she
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: moped around the rest of the evening, and the scarf
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: is still sitting in the backseat of the car?
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: So the little baby, she wore designer clothes already, but
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: it was too nice?
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: Make it make sense.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Kate seemed like a hater since teenage years because he
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: said they was never too close. I think it's a
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: little bit of hate going on in there. That's crazy.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: I don't understand. Did Kate resent OP for a while
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: and this is how she's taking it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Out on him?
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: If Allison still has the scarf, I would love it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: You think she'll give it to me?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: She said she donates.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: I hope she dropped her address in this story.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: We are pulling up.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Allison, hit me up. Give me that scarf.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: I know she's upset. This is just so weird.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: I don't understand why Kate felt the need to get
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: the scarf back so unceremoniously. Yes, it's a super nice scarf,
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: but it just doesn't make sense to say it's too nice.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: I don't think Allie will ever be comfortable around my
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: family again.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: How do I.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: Express to Kate that what she did was totally unacceptable?
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: Should I ask her to apologize?
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: And we have an update.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Do you think she forgot not in too nice? Like
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: it's too not nice? Yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Maybe.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: Too ugly for us.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: That's what she meant to say.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: You miss one word and it changes the whole thing.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Everyone gets confused. It does.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: All right. I would love to hear the update.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: But like, how do you think, how do you think
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: OP should talk to Kate?
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Honestly, OP, he should, see, First of all, ain't no
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: way around Kate being a hater because she should have
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: kept the scarf. She could have kept the scarf and
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: she could have gave it to someone else. She could
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: have regifted it. She could have did something. Act like
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: she made it. I don't know. Yeah. Anything other than
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: just shove it back in her face.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: Well, I would say the most important thing is that
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: Lynn loved the scarf.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: That sweet little baby child of God loved that scarf.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: And she just.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Ruined her dream.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: What are we doing here?
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: He just seen her moping around. She didn't want to
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: call and be like, OP, can I get the scarf back?
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: She's not eating. He need to save Lynn from that
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: cruel Kate.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: That's so weird.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: I would talk to my sister and be like, that
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: wasn't cool.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. He should definitely talk to her. I don't know
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: what kind of relationship they have. It seems like he's
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: a little scared of her because, of course, he is
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: the younger brother.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: Younger brother.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Teenage.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think Opie, let me see here.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: He should let her know, you know, that it wasn't cool. Like, hey, Kate.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: Don't like that.
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: So Opie's 23 and his sister's 36. So that's like
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: 13 years.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: It sounds like he's old enough to know better.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, 36, I hope.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. With a kid.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: With a five-year-old.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: And that baby's been around for a while. Like, this
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Kate character, yeah, he should really let her know about herself.
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: I would.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: I'd be like, dude, that's not cool. My girlfriend spent
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: hours on this. Exactly.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: And Matt, how long was this scarf? Does it even,
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: it's not even like a, like, I guess mittens would
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: take a long time.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: Or like a necklace or like a little bracelet.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it isn't like one of those little beaded necklaces.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: This girl was crocheting her life away for his little
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: baby niece.
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: What's wrong with you? Oh my gosh.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Edits.
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: A lot of people are mentioning that Kate may not
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: like Handmaid. I really don't think this is the case.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: I'm the only artsy one in the family, but we
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: grew up with handmade items at home.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Also be clear.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: I will 100% talk to Kate tomorrow. I just don't
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: know what to say.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Edit two. I'll update you.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: After I talked to Kate today. For those of you
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: who keep asking why I haven't yet, this is only
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: happened Thursday and I'm going to see Kate in person today.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: So I guess like it's Saturday now.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: We have an update.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Predictions? I hope he's been lifting weights or something because
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: it seems like he's so scared of Kate that he
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: doesn't want to talk to her at all. At least
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: if he has the upper hand, he can swing if
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: it doesn't go his way.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: That's a good point.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Good point.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: Kate could be, you know, just a hound. Just beat
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: him up or something. We don't know what will happen here.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Update.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: I want to clarify a couple of things first. When
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: I say Kate acted more like a mom, I mean
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: that she was always scolding me and bossing me around.
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: She has never been jealous of my girlfriends. And like
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: I said, we aren't really close, but we get along.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: The comment about her actually being my mom cracked me up, though.
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: Kate is not anti-handmade. Now I think about it, I've
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: definitely seen her with handmade accessories in the past. For
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: those of you who didn't understand why I hadn't confronted
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: Kate yet, this happened Thursday night. Allie and I live
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: a few towns over, and by the time we got home,
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: it was pretty late. I decided to ask Kate to
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: meet me for lunch Saturday. So things got stranger Saturday morning.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: Allie got a friend request from Kate. We thought for
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: sure Kate was going to message her, but nothing. I
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: went to meet her for lunch without Allie, and Lynn
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: was with her dad for the day, so it was
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: just the two of us. This was a bit out
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: of the norm for us. Again, we aren't that close,
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: so I think Kate knew something was up. When I
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: got there, she gave me a hug and then asked.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Where's Allie?
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: She proceeded to rave.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: About how sweet Allie is, how she's absolutely genuine. And
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: trust me, I can tell when she's BSing me. And
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: I had a whole speech planned out, but this took
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: me off guard. And I just blurted out, if you
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: like her so much, why did you reject her gift
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: to Lynn?
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: She's bipolar.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: Might be. Good point.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: She didn't even remember. My grandmother had dementia, so, you know.
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: Dementia and bipolar?
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, just dementia. Oh.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Kate probably has both, though, because she probably forgot that
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: she shoved. It seems like when they explained it, she
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: did a whole, no thanks, it's too nice. Like, it's
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: giving shove and off.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: So, Kate was genuinely confused.
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: I explained that Allie had put a lot of time
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: and thought into that scarf, and that although she may
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: not have shown it, her feelings were incredibly hurt when
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: Kate gave it back. Allie figured Kate must have not
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: liked it, especially considering that Lynn is always dressed so nicely.
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: Kate seemed a bit embarrassed and explained that she thought
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: Allie must have not known how young Lynn was and
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: that the scarf could possibly get ruined. And this is
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: where things get strange. It's because the scarf was pink.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: What?
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: This turned into a long conversation, but the gist is
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: that Kate never dressed Lynn in pink before. not for
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: any gender role issues like I immediately assumed, but because
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: it doesn't match her skin tone.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: So she sees color.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: What?
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: Does it match her skin tones?
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: I'm still not really sure why that matters, but Kate
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: has been consistent with it for the last few years.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: And before anyone gets.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: all worked up that Lynn is going to be damaged
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: and have appearance issues it's not like that at all
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: yes it's just one little quirky thing yes Kate likes
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: Lynn to wear nice clothes but Lynn picks her own
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: clothes for school now and her outfits range from prim
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: and proper to totally goofy and There's just no pink
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: in her wardrobe. So it's probably because Lynn's never seen
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: the color pink before in her life, and that's the
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: first time she saw it, and she was so happy
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: to see it.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, probably, yeah. I mean, I like how they prefaced,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: and they was like, oh, before you get worried and
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: start making assumptions that she's gonna have appearance issues, I
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: did that maybe like 10 minutes ago. So you're a
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: little too late, buddy.
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: Should've had a disclaimer at the beginning of the update.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: They should've said that first, because I'm already ahead of
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: the game. I'm like, Lynn's definitely gonna have appearance issues.
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: It turns out Lynn had asked to wear the scarf
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: to school Friday and was really bummed when Kate said no.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: Kate, girl, come on.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Grow up, Kate. Right?
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: Let her wear what she wants, even if it's pink.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, now that I know it's pink, I don't want
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: the scarf anymore. But I'm just saying, let the girl
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: wear what she likes.
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, let Lynn pick.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: Her body, her choice, Kate.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: Kate had added Allie on Facebook to ask if they
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: could have it back, but then thought it might be rude.
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: By the time I got home from lunch, Kate had
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: already messaged Allie to profusely apologize and ask for the
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: scarf back. Allie is pretty thrilled, actually. So, edit, forgot
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: to include that Kate thought Allie would be able to
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: sell it. She really wasn't trying to be rude. I
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: just figured she was just flustered with all the craziness
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: of Lynn's birthday party. They threw a big party for
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: her and her little friends, too.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Okay, so.
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: I guess I see it.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah. As long as Kate don't get it back and
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: she sells it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: Good conspiracy theory. I could see that happening.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: I like a plot twist.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: I'm always looking for money moves too. That's always on
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: my mind.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Hustler.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I am, yeah.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Maybe she went from a hater to a hustler.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: Can't blame her for making a little money, making ends meet.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, making ends meet for sure.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story. We're going to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: go on to the next one.
• 31:50
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• 31:53
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• 31:57
  Speaker 7: My ex agreed to my terms every time and then
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: changed his story.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: Is he smart or dumb?
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: Let's find out.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: My child's father, Bob. Him and I have co-parented basically
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: since our kid was a few months old. It became
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: clear pretty quickly that we had different priorities. And despite that,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: we have always been amicable. A little background.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: Bob is constantly struggling to adult. I stand with you, Bob.
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: I don't know if I'm on your team yet, but
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: I get it, Bob.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Adulting is hard. I hate paying rent.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: He can't hold down a job, is constantly facing eviction,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: and he has some bad habits he's struggling with, like
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: eating out and video games and social media and other
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: things he tends to prioritize over his responsibilities. Maybe not
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: quite Bob's level yet.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think I want to resonate with Bob.
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: I don't want to be Bob, actually.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: It's gotten to the point that our child is now
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: with me full time because Bob cannot afford to keep
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: groceries in the house. Our child also rarely visits or
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: stays the night for a number of reasons. Bob rarely cleans,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: so his apartment is not a comfortable place for a
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: kid to be.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: This is a good mother.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: Yes, you are. I'm calling it now. I'm team mom.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Team mom for sure.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: Bob, learn a skill.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Like everybody else.
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: Learn a trade, Bob.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: He also tends to get absorbed into his screens. Our
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: child wasn't getting much attention when they were there. Bob
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: has two cats living in this situation. Love that the
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: house is just a situation and not the apartment. One
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: was a cat I rescued that I was fostering while
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: we were still living together. And then he became attached
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: to it and asked to keep him. I said yes
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: under the condition that the cat come back to me
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: if he ever has to rehome him.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: And he agreed. Well, he does know how to steal.
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: He stole the cat.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: He should steal a job.
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he negotiated the cat. Maybe he can negotiate a job.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that is true.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: The second cat was given to him as a kitten
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: by a friend. And by the way, this comes from StockRelationship59.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: If you want to submit your own stories, go to
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: the r slash OKStoryTime subreddit.
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: I'm Dakota.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: And I'm Richette.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: And I'm Savannah.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: And we are all here to read this story and
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: give our thoughts behind And we're not right all the
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: time about everything.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: Who is?
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: You should comment and tell us what you think down
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: in the comments.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: And OP says, Over the years, there have been numerous
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: times when Bob was facing eviction that he asked if
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I would take the cats. I always said yes, but
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: made it absolutely clear that if I do, they are
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: staying with me permanently because Bob has trouble keeping stability
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: in his life.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: Bob has always agreed. The terms have been cleared.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Bob is agreeing to all of them. I mean, I
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: would expect him to just give the cats up anyway
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: because it's just two things he has to take care of.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: Sounds like he doesn't want any problems so far.
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Bob just wants to be 16 forever.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: Yes. Yes, man.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Well, now Bob is facing eviction again. I keep asking
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: him if I need to prep to take the cats,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: but he keeps saying he's trying to figure it out.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: If I need to take in the cats, chances are
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: it will be very short notice. And I forgot to
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: say that the cats know me very well and are
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: used to my childhood. I've also had lots of experience
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: with having cats, so I don't think we will have
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: any issues adjusting. Yesterday, Bob sent me a text that
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: indicated that he thinks I plan to only foster the
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: cats temporarily. Now, should he get evicted, it's highly unlikely
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: he will find a stable residence right away because he
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: has burned many bridges, family and friends won't let him
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: stay with them or loan him money, and he doesn't
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: manage his finances well.
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: Shocker. I'm shocked.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: Mind blown. I never saw this coming.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: Bob, good old reliable Bob.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that can keep a job and and take care
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: of his kids. Honestly, they are more invested in those
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: cats than they are that kid.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he really is.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: We have questions for you, Bob. Have a lot of
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: questions for you, Bob.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: Maybe just dress.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Well, you don't even want the kid over there because
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Bob can't take care of it. It's like dress the
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: kid up as a cat. Maybe Bob will take care
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: of the kid.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: You don't have groceries, but he got frisky.
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: He's just eating it out of a bowl.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: He eats the frisky, too.
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: Oh, Bob's eating frisky.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: That's why he keeps the cats, because the cats eat
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: what he eats.
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: Oh, he's like, we got the same taste. He's like,
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: it's cheap.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: If I do end up taking in the cats, I
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: will tell him up front that I'm planning on keeping them,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: as we have previously discussed, in these situations.
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: Would that make me the a-hole? We do have an update.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: I mean, no, but I would tell you to just
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: tell him right now. Tell him already.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's just going to agree to it. Yeah.
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: He's very agreeable.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: He says yes a lot, but he doesn't do what
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: he says.
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: Clearly the cats aren't, like, helping him.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely not.
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: Cats aren't helping him get his life together. It's not
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: like they're, like, his rock.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: I think the cats have their life together.
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Don't separate the cats, whatever you do.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly.
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: Those cats should stay together.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Yes, just separate Bob.
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Let Bob.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much lower he can go. He's
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: pretty dang close to rock bottom.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all the Bobs I know are good people. Bob
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: the Builder?
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: Now that's a dependable guy. Just have this guy watch
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: Bob the Builder.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: A dependable Bob.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: He just needs a mentor. He needs a Bob figure.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: A Bob there figure. He needs motivation.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: Okay, update. Hey, everybody.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: So yeah, Bob's not getting the cats back. He was
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: evicted and has been locked out of his place. The
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: apartment manager let me in to retrieve the cats just
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: a few days into the lockout. And guys, it was
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: in rough shape. Worse than the last time I had
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: seen Bob's apartment. And if you recall, I had our
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: kiddo full time for a while now. So I wasn't
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: seeing it regularly for drop offs and pickups. He definitely
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: has let it go. And I tried to arrange to
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: get the cats many times before he was actually locked out.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: But he kept thinking he'd pull the rent money out
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: of out of somewhere. Honestly, it was heartbreaking to see
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the state the place had gotten into and to know
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: the cats had been living in it. Things clearly hadn't
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: been cleaned or kept up in a long time, and
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: it was obvious they hadn't been getting the care they needed. Honestly,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I feel bad for Bob, but he's a dad.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not helping himself. He's like, help me help you,
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: help me help you, Bob.
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know who's got to help Bob first?
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: The cats. I'm joking. He's been taking care of them.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: I figure it's best that they return the favor.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: He bought tuxedo cats thinking that they could be receptionists.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: Exactly. You know what? I'm surprised.
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: Because they wear suits.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: I'm surprised that the cats was able to still be
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: alive and sustained without Bob. I think they'll do good
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: on their own. Yeah.
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: You know what?
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's time for you to focus on the cats
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: instead of your daughter and Bob.
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: It's cat time.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: Exactly. The cats deserve love now. Okay.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: As for the cats themselves... I know they've been through
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: a lot. They are stressed out sweethearts, but already seem
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: to feel a little relief. We are just caring about
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: the cats now.
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: This is great.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: I haven't heard about that kid since the beginning. Yeah.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I don't even know her name. One of them, I suspect,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: might have ear mites. I will be taking both of
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: them to the vet to get them checked out and
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: update their shots. They're going to be separated from my
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: cats until they get a clean bill of health and
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: and after we've done some scent swapping to make things
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: less stressful for everyone. I plan on having a frank
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: conversation with Bob about it and telling him if he
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: truly cares for the cats, he will consider that this
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: is the best direction for them. I want to make
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: him feel like he's making the choice himself, just to
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: make it easier, and I don't think he'll fight me
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: on it, but I will. push back with my established
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: vet records if needed. And that is the end of
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: that story.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: That, I guess that was just, that was, it was
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: really just all about the cats.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Really. And, and Bob not being, you know, been,
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: been anything.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't realize the terms were going to
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: be about the cats.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: She said, I already got the kid. I don't, I'm
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: still trying to think like the cats are the main.
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, this is all, this is really just about him
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: giving the cats back.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: The cats are all they love.
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: And I think you'll get the cats back. I think he'll,
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: I think he'll accept.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I think he'll work his way up and get the
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: cats back.
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: Maybe he can get some, some new cats.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: After he scrapes himself off of the floor, wherever he is.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly. And find a job.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man.
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: But I get it together, Bob.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: You have a child. I don't know anything that could
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: make you get it together if that won't do it.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if the child won't do it for sure, like, you.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: You gotta find the Bob inside you, Bob.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: Inner Bob.
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: The Bob you wanna be. You have to build that Bob.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, and become Bob the Builder.
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: Yes, the Builder of himself.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly. Build himself up and get a job in
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: New Cats.
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: Bob building Bob.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story. We're gonna go
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: on to the next one.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I stayed home so my brother wouldn't be alone, and
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: then he went too.
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: Went where?
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: We're going to find out.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: And this is direct from the r slash ok story
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: time subreddit. So, I, 18 female, have three brothers, Max, 12, Sam, 15,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: and Aiden, 20. My parents are no longer together, and
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: my dad lives in a different city. A few months ago,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: my mom proposed the idea of a family holiday to Spain.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: Mmm.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: España.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: World Cup.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: There were five people?
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, wait, it was five people, yeah, at least.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: Four kids, one adult, unless they're bringing the father that.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: Is no longer.
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: That's true, yeah, and then it would be, yeah, it
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: could be six.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: I wanted to go, but Sam didn't want to go,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: so my mom suggested I stay home, and she didn't
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: want to leave him alone, which I agreed to. The
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: holiday was booked for the 18th to the 25th of
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: this month. In the first week of the month, I
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: had my own holiday planned with a friend of mine.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: I paid for it myself, and on the second night
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: of my holiday, Sam decided he wanted to go on
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: the family holiday. Aiden booked him the tickets the same day,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: and nobody told me anything.
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: That's foul.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Sam.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: That is, that is, your whole family is foul for that.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Unless it was a secret between the brothers.
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: My heart is racing thinking about how much that ticket
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: cost last minute. Oh, yeah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: Man, what tax bracket are these people in?
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: I know. We didn't think they had money then. We
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: sure do know what kind of money they got now.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe. Well, maybe they don't live in the States.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: But I feel like people don't usually fly around in Europe.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: They just like take like trains.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, usually they take the trains because it's only like
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: a couple hours or so. And it's cheaper.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Actually, well, they said holiday. So they're not American. Because
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: that's very like, they could be British.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: Australian.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: When Ceci came here, she always said, I'm on holiday.
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: I'm on holiday.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: And I loved it.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: After I returned home, my mom mentioned in passing that
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Sam was now coming on the trip. So I didn't
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: need to worry about keeping an eye on him. I
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: asked her if that meant I could now come on
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: the trip too. To which she said, the tickets were
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: all sold out. I told her I could book a
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: ticket later in the day or I could fly in
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: the next day and meet them at the hotel. either
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: of which I intended on paying for myself, and she
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: just danced around the subject and decided not to give
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: me a straight answer. And by the way, this comes
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  Speaker 2: from Holiday FOMO. And if you want to submit your
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: own stories, go to the r slash OK Storytime subreddit
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: where this story was submitted.
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: I'm Dakota.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: I'm Rich F.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: And I'm Savannah.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: And we are here to read this story and give
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: our good advice goofily, but we don't know all the
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: answers always. We only know what we know, so let
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: us know what you think in the comments. And OP says...
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: As their holiday neared, I stopped asking as much because
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I was simply so upset about it and just didn't
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: talk to my mom, Sam, or Aiden as much. My
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: mom kept pushing me to tell her why I was upset,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: but every time I said I was upset that I
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: was being excluded, she wouldn't really acknowledge it and just
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: brushed it off.
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: I'm upset maybe because you hate me, you know?
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like, what?
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: How? Oh, I can't.
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm getting worked up.
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: Sam didn't even want to go.
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: You should just go. Just buy the tickets yourself. Go
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: to Spain. Don't see your family at all. Go do
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: your thing.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: In fact, post it on social media every day. Make
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: them jealous. Do all the fun things and not the
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: touristy things that they're.
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: Going to do. Yeah. Have fun. Live your life. Free
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: spirit traveler.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: Emancipate yourself, sister.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: I can't properly describe how unbelievably pissed I'd be if
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: my mom asked me, what's wrong? And I told her
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: the exact thing that they are doing. And then she
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: just goes, oh, well, that's not it.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: That's not it.
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: What do you mean it's not it? I only stayed
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: behind because Sam didn't want to go.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Can I have Sam's ticket?
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. Well, he's got a ticket. He was going
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: to say, well, give me his.
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: Home alone. Macaulay Culkin could do it. So could Sam.
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: He could do it.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Let him be home alone. Additionally, she had told my
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: aunt that I was coming on the holiday with them.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: And I coincidentally ran into my aunt the day before
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: their flight while running errands. She asked if I was excited.
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: I told her I wasn't coming. And she was horrified.
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: And then later that day, tore my mom a new one.
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: Horrified is appropriate. Yes.
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: Horrified. Stupefied.
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Shocked and appalled.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 45:22
  Speaker 7: All of it.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: And when I asked my mom about it, she basically
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: said my aunt was trippin' and that she'd never told
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: her that I was coming. I hate your mom so bad, dude.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: I would love to hear a dialogue between, yeah, your
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: aunt's trippin'. It's like, what? At this point, people should
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: have started swinging already.
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: Again, you move forward.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not ever letting this go until they apologize or
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: admit that they've done something wrong.
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: What the heck is this?
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: I'm so curious to see how this ends because what's
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: going on right now?
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Take your own holiday. Do whatever you want.
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: Throw a rager at the house. I don't care.
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: I'm with it.
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: Just don't ever care what they're doing ever again.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: Like I said, emancipate yourself.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: And just as a cherry on top, my mom didn't
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: even bother telling my dad that she was taking Sam
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: and Max out of the country. He had no knowledge
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: of the holiday and only found out when he'd called
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: me and I mentioned in passing that I was feeling
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: bored at home alone. So she's trying to take the
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: kids to Spain and never come back.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: I think he should take her to the judge and
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: get custody.
• 46:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, after she gets arrested by Interpol.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Despite all of this, My mom keeps calling me and
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: texting me, sending me updates of what they're doing and
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: how they plan on extending their holiday so they can
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: visit another country instead of flying straight home. And it's
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: really just giving me insane FOMO because it just feels
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: like she's rubbing it in my face for some reason.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: It certainly does feel like that.
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: That's what she's doing.
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: They definitely hate her. Why?
• 46:59
  Speaker 7: What is this? Yeah, don't stay at home alone.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Go.
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: But you said you were going to buy a ticket
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: to Spank. Buy a ticket somewhere else. Don't let them
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: know where you're going.
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: I'm still stuck that the mom asked her to stay
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: behind to watch Sam and she agreed to it. I
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: don't think the mom ever wanted her to go.
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe this was all a secret plot the entire time.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: Maybe she never wanted a girl.
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: That actually makes sense because there's nothing more insane than
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: like a boy mom.
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: Jealous of another woman in the house.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story. We're going to
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: go on to the next one.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: My roommate's boyfriend used my shower every day, so I
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: locked the door.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's a pretty bad time for a shower, man.
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: Crazy.
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: So I, 24 female, share an apartment with my roommate, Sarah,
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: 25 female. We generally get along fine, but she has
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: a boyfriend, Jake, 26 male, who is always over. Like,
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: at this point, I think he actually lives here more
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: than I do. The issue? Jake refuses to shower at
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: his own place. I don't know why. He claims his
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: water pressure is bad, but I think he just likes
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: my shower because we have those fancy rain shower heads.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, valid, though. Yeah. If my partner had a
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: nice shower, I'm going to shower.
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: Oh, I would be there all the time.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: But also, if they share a shower, I probably wouldn't
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: do it because it seems like... They share a shower?
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: Third wheeling a shower is crazy work.
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: That is.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Very much. Either way, every time he stays over, he
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: uses my bathroom instead of Sarah's.
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: See, now it's weird. Because why is he in there
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: to begin with?
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he is.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: He should have just always been in his girlfriend's shower.
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, not for him. Yeah, his girlfriend's shower's too good
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: for him.
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: Like, I'm not going to go over to, like, my
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: partner's place and then be like, oh, I'm going to
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: use your roommate's shower? How can I be the biggest
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: inconvenience possible?
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: Like, yeah, now I have.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: A problem with it. I can understand if maybe you
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: were sharing the shower, but no, you're literally deliberately going, saying,
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to use my girlfriend's, I'm going to
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: use her roommate's.
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Weird. At first, I let it slide. But then I
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: started noticing things. My shampoo running out. suspiciously fast my
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: towels being damp when i hadn't used them and worst
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: of all the man was using don't say razor my
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: expensive eucalyptus body wash okay i thought it was gonna
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: be weird razor story and i would have.
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: Been scared we got ptsd flashbacks.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: Dog I splurge on that. He smells amazing, but at
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: my expense. By the way, this comes from CoolChange7987, and
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: if you want to submit your own stories, go to
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: the r slash OKStoryTime subreddit. I'm Savannah.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: And I'm Mike.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: And we are here to give some good advice, but
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: we don't have all your answers. We're only going to
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: tell you what we would do, but you should let
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: us know what you would do down in the comments.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: As OP says, So last week, I finally put my
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: foot down and told Sarah, Hey! Jake needs to use
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: your shower from now on. She got weirdly defensive, saying
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: he feels more comfortable in mine. I said, great, he
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: can feel comfortable at his own apartment. She got mad
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: and said I was being dramatic over just a shower.
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: Jake is now sulking, Sarah is annoyed, and I'm wondering,
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: am I the a-hole for not wanting my roommate's boyfriend
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: to treat my bathroom like a luxury spa?
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: No, not at all.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: It's your bathroom. I would not want like if one
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: of my roommate's boyfriends was coming in my shower specifically,
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: I'd be like, what? Like that is just so out
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: of your way.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: And also don't use my stuff.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: I can understand maybe like, you know, your shower wasn't
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: working or whatever. And then hers wasn't. So it's like,
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: could we use yours? I'm like, yeah, sure. You know,
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: I'm not using it.
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: But you use your own products.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: Don't be coming in there using my crap and then
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: I'm paying, you know, the water bill and also my eucalyptus.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: But my body wash is gone. I'm paying like $ 50
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: for that. Don't come at my eucalyptus.
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, stay in your lane, dog.
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: Stay in your lane.
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: Don't be going after homegirls eucalyptus.
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: Don't be doing that. Like, no. Well, we do have
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: an update here. Well, things have escalated. After my conversation
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: with Sarah, I thought the issue was settled. But nope. Nope.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: Jake decided to test boundaries. A couple of days later,
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: I came home from work to find my bathroom door
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: locked and the shower running. That's crazy. That is your space.
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: He's coming in here and be like, all right, I'll
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: just sneak in real quick.
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: That is literally, that is fucking, that is insane, bro.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: One, you don't live here.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: Two, go use your girlfriend's shower. Why is he mine?
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: Guess who was inside? Yep, Jake. I knocked and said, hey,
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: what are you doing in my bathroom? He had the
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: audacity to yell back, just showering. I'll be out in
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: a minute. Like he lives here. I was fuming. When
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: he finally emerged wearing my towel, I lost it. I
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: told him straight up that this was my space and
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: that he had no right to use it without my permission. Sarah,
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: instead of backing me up, said I was making a
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: big deal out of nothing and that I should just share.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: I told her that if Jake wants access to a
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: rain shower head so badly, he could install one at
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: his own place. I would also be going insane. I'd
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: be like, get out.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: And I'd be telling, like, you know, the landlord now
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: at this point. Yeah. You know, I'd be like, yeah, he's, like,
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: using my stuff. Like, is there, you know, like. This
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: is now a problem that neither of them, it's like
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: two against one, but the one doesn't live here.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: What are we doing here? Why am I yelling at, like,
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: a stranger right now to get out of my house,
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: to get out of my shower, my sacred space? Like,
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: that is the most vulnerable place.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: That is, dude, that is so true. Like, it is, like,
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: it's always, like, it's the shower and the inside of
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: your car.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Is it your most sacred place?
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: Of your most sacred.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Spaces, you know?
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's vulnerable. It's like that, and it shows who
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: you are. The next day, I went full petty mode
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: and put a lock on my bathroom door, as some
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: of you suggested. Sarah flipped out, saying I was being
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: extreme and that I was ruining the dynamic. I told
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: her that Jake had ruined the dynamic when he started
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: treating my stuff like his own. Now Jake refuses to
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: come over unless I relax. And Sarah is acting like
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: I'm a tyrant. I'm standing my ground, but the apartment
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: is tense. Did I go too far? no it is
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: your space he has no right to come into your
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: space he can use his girlfriend's stuff he can use
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: his stuff don't come into my space you are a
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: complete stranger to me i don't know you i don't
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: want you touching my stuff using my things using like
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: my towel like you don't even have the audacity to
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: like are you gonna start wearing my dresses too wear
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: my underwear what else you want you want to use
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: my straightener like what do.
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: You want also also the fact that like You literally
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: had to put a lock on your own shower.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: And then they're like, oh, that's so dramatic. No, it's not.
• 54:17
  Speaker 7: No, it's not, actually.
• 54:19
  Speaker 6: You are literally doing what you have to do to... Bro,
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: as the dude, take the hint.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Too, bro.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: It's not even take the hint. It's just listen. I mean,
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: I told you. I told you. There weren't hints. There
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: was legitimate no's going on.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: Like, no, that's not... You can't do that. And he
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: just went... Uh, I'll just do it when you're not here. No,
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: still not okay.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story. We're gonna go
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: on to the next one.
• 54:49
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• 54:53
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• 54:55
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• 54:58
  Speaker 4: My old roommate wanted me to cover for her from
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: the police.
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: What did you do?
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: So I, 28 female, had a roommate from September to October-
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: Just someone needing a stepping stone till they got a
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: place of their own. We found out we were both
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: on probation, but nothing really came of it. That is
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: such a great thing to find out.
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: Bet if we don't know what you did.
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: I want to know. We both met with our POs,
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: kept court appointments. It was all fine and dandy. She
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: moved out after getting a place, and today a cop
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: came to the door. I went through the safety measures
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: of asking him to identify himself and show a badge.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: All the safety measures people tell you to go through
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: when you're a female living home alone. I stepped outside
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: and asked him basically, what's up? He asked if my
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: ex-roommate was home. I explained she moved out and he
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: asked if the address he had was her new address
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: and I confirmed the new address. He asked if was
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: her new number and I said, yeah. And he asked
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: me to call her. And I said, sure. Not thinking
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: much of it. By the way, this comes from EmotionalWreck448.
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: And if you want to submit your own stories, go
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: to the r slash okay story time subreddit. I'm Savannah.
• 56:13
  Speaker 7: I'm Riley.
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: And we're here to talk about some stuff, give some advice,
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: but we don't have all your answers. We're only going
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: to tell you what we would do, but let us
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: know what you would do down in the comments.
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: It's getting really sketch right now. Not going to lie. Yeah.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: But honestly, great like cliffhanger right there.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: It's like, Called him. Didn't think anything of it. What's
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: gonna happen, right?
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: As OP says, I called her and as soon as
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: he heard her voice, he did the gimme motion for
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: my phone. I did not hand him my phone, just
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: put it on speaker. She hung up. And then she
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: texted me saying how dare I betrayed her and not
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: just lie to the cops that I had no clue
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: where she was and I should have said she was
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: out of state or lied and said she was there
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: but in the shower or literally anything to avoid her
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: talking to them. I told her that I wasn't going
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: to lie to the cops and saying she was in
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: the shower just to make him either one, sit outside
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: until she came out or two, since she's on probation,
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: same as me, He could potentially come in for a
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: wellness check on her if she's not out of the
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: shower after a period of time. And telling them she's
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: out of state when you need PO permission to leave
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: the state is also a horrible idea because then a
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: warrant for her arrest would be put out. And if
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: they find an arrestor, I could get in trouble for
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: lying to them. So, yeah.
• 57:37
  Speaker 7: Opie did the sensible thing.
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: Opie did this right. Your roommate, not so much. And
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: I wonder what she's doing. She snapped back with, did
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: they threaten to throw you in jail if you didn't
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: call me? You're a lying a-hole. I don't want to
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: talk to you anymore. And anything I have there, I'll
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: figure out how to get out of there because I
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: can't trust you anymore.
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: Bring, bring.
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: Please.
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: She's been out of state.
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: Get her. Please.
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: She just told me she's not here. Go, go.
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: It looks like she's over here. Yeah, go get her.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: All she left here was a diamond art painting and
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: a library book. My friend says I did the right
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: thing because even her, not on probation, would have done
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: the same thing and called her saying the cops were
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: looking for her. My friend's wife says I should have
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: just not answered the door or just declined to say
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: I knew her or her phone number. But I mean,
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: he could see me from the living room window cooking
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: in the kitchen. It's a ground floor, open plan apartment.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: The living room is a direct line of sight to
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: the kitchen from the window so I could see my
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: fridge and stove from outside when I walked to my door.
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: Same as the cop could see. I feel like I
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: did the right thing, but I ain't too sure. Just
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: figured I'd get outside opinions because now her friends are
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: texting me saying I really pissed her off and friends
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: don't rat friends out to the cops.
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: I mean, friends don't snitch on one another, but probation
• 59:03
  Speaker 8: roommates do.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's the other thing. It's like if a
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: cop is coming to my house, house and asking, you know,
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: all these questions and I'm on probation, I'm going to tell.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: You the truth.
• 59:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah. I don't want any more trouble with the law.
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: Cause obviously I'm, I'm on a, you know, I'm on
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: the nice.
• 59:25
  Speaker 8: And you know, if you're on probation, when you want
• 59:27
  Speaker 8: to be held accountable, Yes. Learn that your actions have consequences.
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, hopefully. There's a little bit left. Edit. They
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: did go to her apartment yesterday looking for her and
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: she didn't answer the door. She told me she wasn't
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: going to answer the door for the cops because she
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: didn't want them to do something to her. When I
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: told her about tonight that it was legit just a
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: pack of papers in his hand, she said, well, they
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: won't meet me in public and I ain't letting them
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: talk to me at my place. I'll leave the state
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: if I gotta. I told her that was a horrible
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: idea because then she'd get a warrant and I'd probably
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: get in trouble even more because I knew of her
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: intent to flee the state. But she read my message,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: said blocked, and now I can't message or call her again.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: So I don't know what to do if they come
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: back looking for her. Girl, if they come back looking
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: for her, she's not there. So you could just say,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: she blocked me. I have no idea what she's doing,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: what her plan is. She just lived here, and now
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: she's not living here.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 7: That's all I know.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 8: Take it a step further. Here's my text messages with her.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: Here's my phone log with her. Check with my provider.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 7: If she does come, who can I contact so I
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 7: can make sure.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: It's always good?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 7: That's true, yeah.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: Be as cooperative as you can.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, can you?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, I saw her. Or you could, like, throw a line.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 8: I saw her at McDonald's the other day. She goes
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: behind the woods and sleeps in a tent with her boyfriend.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 8: Put him on a wild goose chase.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: Make it fun for them. Make them figure it out.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 7: Spend those taxpayer dollars. Money's rhyme.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: And that's the end of this story.