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Speaker 11 Hi, welcome to Smosh Reads Reddit Stories. I'm Shane, and today's theme is updates.

Speaker 11 Yes. So buckle up for some good stuff.
We got a lot of updates coming your way. And I'm joined by two people who have updates to tell me, Ian and Tommy.

Speaker 11 I'm pregnant. Whoa.

Speaker 11 Better top, you gotta top that.

Speaker 11 We're pregnant.

Speaker 11 Ian, you were here for the last updates episode. Okay.
Which had the story about the butter.

Speaker 11 Oh,

Speaker 11 brother. Oh, butter.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 11 O.P., her boyfriend kept disappearing to the bathroom with a stick of butter and then would come out and he didn't have the butter anymore. And

Speaker 11 she would hear moans from the bathroom. So was I in that episode or did I just listen to that? Oh, it was Damien who was in it.
Okay, just listen. Because I probably

Speaker 11 editor.

Speaker 11 It's crazy. It's crazy.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 One of many crazy stories we read here.

Speaker 11 But anyways, thought we'd point that out. I don't know if that's going to mean anything.
What? There was a note. There was a note to bring that up.
We got an update. Oh.

Speaker 11 Nice. If Butterboy saw this, saw this episode.
Oh, no. Gave an update, that'd be crazy.
Oh, no. I hope he gave some tips.
All right. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Hey. Hey.
All right. Well, so obviously, expect some updates.
I'm so, I'm so stoked. I love updates.
Updates are the best. It's always the best.
Our first story.

Speaker 11 Am I at the asshole told my coworker that she's falling for a romance scam, and now she's upset?

Speaker 11 My friend, let's call her N.

Speaker 11 N and I have worked together for three to four years at a hair salon. N is early 30s, kind of an airhead, gullible, but really kind and nice person.

Speaker 11 She's currently in a relationship with this guy for the last six months. He lives in New York.
We're in the Midwest. They talk on the phone all the time.
He's been out here a couple of times to visit.

Speaker 11 We've never met, but I have heard a lot about their relationship. This morning she texted me at 6 a.m.

Speaker 11 asking to borrow $10,000 because her boyfriend's mom has a family emergency and needs the money soon.

Speaker 11 She said he's working on an offshore oil rig in Dubai for two months and can't transfer the money until he's back to the States.

Speaker 11 She doesn't have the money, so she asked if I can ask my relatives for the 10K for her.

Speaker 11 I told her that this sounds like a romance romance scam and that if he's asking her for such a big amount of money like that early in their relationship, it's a red flag and that she should reconsider.

Speaker 11 I told her that since I don't know her boyfriend that well and if he ghosts her, either me or her will be on the hook for the $10,000. Now she won't answer my text or call.

Speaker 11 She also took a personal day from work today. Am I the asshole? Should I have kept my mouth shut and minded my own business? Edit.
Yes, she is very naive and gullible.

Speaker 11 She believes she can talk to ghosts and spirits. That's another can of worms that I won't get into.

Speaker 11 She didn't bring her boyfriend around when he was in town a couple of times, just a bunch of excuses.

Speaker 11 I told her sister about it and got an earful about how I shouldn't judge a person in need like that. I gave up.
I sent her a few articles about sweetheart and pig butchering scams. Still no reply.

Speaker 11 I know she read it. She's not the type that's loaded.
She lives with her parents in their basement and lives paycheck to paycheck. I hope she will realize this is a scam before she's in debt.

Speaker 11 This will be an expensive lesson. Thank you for letting letting me vent.

Speaker 11 Oh no. Oh no.
Yeah, that doesn't sound great because as we all know, oil is not in Dubai. It's in Abu Dhabi, guys.
Right. Dubai is purely tourist.

Speaker 11 And

Speaker 11 I wish she'd have told her that.

Speaker 11 Dubai is where they have all that chocolate.

Speaker 11 Exactly. They got the chocolate.
That's, yeah, it's the chocolate and the big in the big building. It's the first thing you learn in elementary school.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's too bad. Okay.
This sucks.

Speaker 11 This sucks. She's getting scammed.
She's definitely getting for sure. Sure.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I kind of have had this like barometer for my entire life, or at least my adulthood, of like relationships, like the first six months. Like, don't do anything extreme in that first six months.

Speaker 11 Like, don't, this is me.

Speaker 11 People don't have to listen to this. Right.
But it's just like, whenever I hear about people being like, we're getting engaged, and I'm like, have you been together for six months?

Speaker 11 Like, that's always where I'm like, that to me is always feels like a little fast. Right.
And I think giving the person you're dating a large sum of money in the first six months fits into that.

Speaker 11 Unless it's like you are hanging out with their family, you are there, you've got all the evidence in front of you, but you're talking mostly on the phone with this guy.

Speaker 11 And he's like, By the way, I need $10,000. It's like,

Speaker 11 I'm going to need to see some more. I'm like, how often does this work? Should I be asking for $10,000? Yeah.

Speaker 11 Should I just be holding this thing out for $10,000? Yeah. Should I just be like throwing it out there? Shoot your shot.
Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. Be like, I need the new PS5.

Speaker 11 It's 10,000 zombies. $10,000.

Speaker 11 There's then the leap that she's asking a coworker for $10,000. Asking for if they have relatives.
It's becoming a whole MLM. Yeah.
Right, yeah.

Speaker 11 Because I'm sure she told him, like, she doesn't have any money. And he's like, no, no worries.
Ask your family. Ask your friends.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 11 I actually don't think asking your coworkers for $10,000 is crazy, right, James?

Speaker 11 James, do you... James, what? James, do you have...

Speaker 11 I asked you if you had... Do you have James is looking over at Eric? Do you have $10,000?

Speaker 11 What is a pig butchering scam? Ian, do you know? I mean, I watched the John Oliver episode on pig butchering, but it's basically like, you know,

Speaker 11 you fatten up

Speaker 11 your target. Oh, you know?

Speaker 11 You get them all buttered up, and then you go in for the kill and you get all that money from them. So, you know, it's a lot of the romance scams are like the Tinder Swindler,

Speaker 11 like the Brad Pitt in the hospital woman. Yeah.
Brad Pitt in the hospital woman.

Speaker 11 So there was a woman that gave like, I don't know what it was, like $50,000 because she thought she was dating Brad Pitt. Oh.
And he sent her photos of him in a hospital.

Speaker 11 And they were like really terribly photoshopped images. Like crashed in the F1 movie.
No, I need

Speaker 11 help. And

Speaker 11 yeah,

Speaker 11 she sent who she thought was Brad Pitt. She thought Brad Pitt needed $50,000.

Speaker 11 Yeah. I mean, would you agree to be in that F1 movie if you had money?

Speaker 11 Actually, I don't know if it was a bad movie. I think it was apparently an amazing movie.
People really like it. Was it? Okay.
I haven't seen it. It's apparently really good.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 11 Every dad is happy with it. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 It always makes me really sad.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so it's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking.

Speaker 11 It unfortunately, good scam. Like, people are lonely.
That's a way to get them. Oh, yeah.
And it really works. I mean, she's so convinced.
She's so like

Speaker 11 wanting to do this for this guy that when her friend calls it out, she just stops talking to her.

Speaker 11 As we know, there's going to be updates. So.
I'm still going to react like I didn't know there was one. Yeah.
Yeah. So he did visit her.
That doesn't mean he can't still scam her, right?

Speaker 11 Like, you know, like he visited her a couple times in person. But I think a lot of these, I'm surprised that they actually saw each other because like a lot of these are like,

Speaker 11 oh, like it's like, you know, a young woman in like quote-unquote Venezuela, like reaching out to like some 55-year-old man in Ohio being like, I can't face time. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 And then, and then being like, oh, I'm in this bad accident or something, like sending this money. So I'm surprised he showed up, which is like, yeah.
I think this stuff is happening all the time.

Speaker 11 There is a,

Speaker 11 we have an article title here,

Speaker 11 Scammer Pretending to be Keanu Reeves, Bilk's Bay Area Woman out of $160,000. Whoa.
Boomers got that money. And they believe anything they see online.

Speaker 11 We have learned that. We've learned that.
Yeah, I'm wondering with AI how much

Speaker 11 boomers are

Speaker 11 so effed. Just don't trust anybody, guys.
Yeah, don't trust anyone.

Speaker 11 Listen, listen, don't trust anybody at all. Yeah, live miserably,

Speaker 11 live miserably, be upset. Don't trust anyone online.

Speaker 11 Anyone online. But give me $10,000.
But give Ian $10,000. I need it.
I need it because my foot hurts. Oh.

Speaker 11 So, James?

Speaker 11 James?

Speaker 11 My foot hurt.

Speaker 11 Some comments here. Not the asshole.
That's a classic scam scenario.

Speaker 11 And in any case, she shouldn't be trying to borrow such a large sum of money from you and your relatives, even for herself, much less for a total stranger who sounds nice online.

Speaker 11 It's a good thing that you warned her. I suppose you might have added links to some reliable sources on scams, too, if you had had the chance.

Speaker 11 Now you can only hope that she comes to a sensible conclusion while isolating herself from you and taking time off work. I hope to think and do research.

Speaker 11 Someone said, not the asshole, and how do people have the audacity to just ask for $10,000 to their friends/slash co-workers? Someone said, not the asshole.

Speaker 11 I worked with a lady that fell for one of these. I even contacted the med school she said he went to and confirmed he was not an alumni and she still wouldn't let it go.

Speaker 11 Eventually she realized and she later admitted that the Valentine's Day flowers she received at work were actually sent to herself.

Speaker 11 Oh God.

Speaker 11 Someone said not the asshole. You can take a thirsty horse to the lake, but you can't force the horse to drink the water it needs.
You already did your part. It's up to her to do hers.
Yeah. Update.

Speaker 11 What?

Speaker 11 A few days later. Oh, okay.

Speaker 11 Those little tiny mice at the bottom of the screen. She's like, she's...

Speaker 11 Wait, what's that? And babe. Yes, thank you.
Yes. Yeah, someone will get it.

Speaker 11 All right. She just texted and asked for the money under the guise of her sister needing it.
It was a flat no. I feel bad for her.

Speaker 11 I told other coworkers and my boss about it so they can say no to her and maybe she'll understand from a group perspective that we're trying to protect her. Way to go.
Update number two.

Speaker 11 What?

Speaker 11 Two and a half weeks after the original post. What we, me and many Redditors, suspected was true, she was in a romance game.
She has never met her boyfriend in person. They only talk online.

Speaker 11 Oh, so she was lying about seeing him in person.

Speaker 11 She said she was lonely and was afraid of being alone.

Speaker 11 She said her boyfriend stopped contacting her after she couldn't get the money and started asking simple questions like no internet on the rig, satellite phone, etc.

Speaker 11 After she realized that he was scamming her, she started telling me about how she had been sending him small amounts of money like $50 to $500 in the past six months to help him out with some small emergencies.

Speaker 11 When he ghosted her after she couldn't help him with the $10,000, that's when she realized that she had been romance scammed. I'm glad that she saw it for what it was.

Speaker 11 Well, at least she didn't do the $10,000 part. I mean, she watched the giant bullet bill, not the little ones, but

Speaker 11 the big one you got to squat in that little pit for. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I want another update that was like. Brad Pitt told me I did a great job handling that and we're going to go to Italy tomorrow, but he said that his card's getting declined.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 My friend almost got, you know, $10,000 taken away, but Brad Pitt and I are going to France today.

Speaker 11 Damn. That, I mean, still, it all still sucks.
It sucks. It's good that she, you know, was able to figure it out.
Right. I really feel bad for her.
A lot of lonely folks out there. It's really sad.

Speaker 11 I mean, I...

Speaker 11 I understand when people are so lonely, why they want to believe so bad. Like,

Speaker 11 we've all found ourselves in places where it's like, and whether it's like believing like, oh, like, I have a crush on this person, maybe, maybe they like me back.

Speaker 11 And it's like, oh, and then you look back and you're like, no, they never did. Why was I convincing myself of that? Like, we all find ourselves in places where we want to believe in something,

Speaker 11 but you have to always have a healthy amount of doubt. Yeah.
Go, wait, why am I sending $500 to this person? Yes.

Speaker 11 You lie to yourself the best. Yeah.
I've suspended my disbelief for far too long, plenty of times before. Sure.

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Speaker 11 Our next story. Am I the asshole for telling my heavily pregnant friend her fiancé was in a documentary?

Speaker 11 So this was posted only two weeks ago as of today.

Speaker 11 Okay, it's currently 4 a.m. and I feel so guilty right now I can't sleep.
So myself and a few girlfriends decided to watch a documentary that's been trending.

Speaker 11 Not gonna lie, I was expecting a documentary showing a human side of a certain person, but yeah, as anyone who has watched the documentary knows what it was.

Speaker 11 So the documentary that OP is referring to was the 1,000 Men and Me, the Bonnie Blue story where an OnlyFans adult content creator, Bonnie Blue, had sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours.

Speaker 11 The event was fully recorded and the footage is shown in the documentary. On to the issue.
My friend's fiancé was one of the 1,000. I wasn't the first person to notice.

Speaker 11 Two other friends were the first to notice. I didn't believe it at first, but with a second watch, it was definitely him.

Speaker 11 Even though his face was covered, the body shape and especially the tattoos were undeniable.

Speaker 11 We debated till the early hours of the morning if we should tell her or wait because she's eight months pregnant. But in my opinion, if someone cheats like that, it's not their their first time.

Speaker 11 And I'd rather lose her friendship for telling straight away than her finding out I knew and hid it.

Speaker 11 Because let's be real: when you tell someone news like that, there's a huge chance they'll hate you, not the cheater. So, this Sunday morning, I asked my friends to meet up to talk.

Speaker 11 I showed her the evidence, and the minute she looked at the picture, she knew it was him and broke down.

Speaker 11 I expected her to be angry at me, but she thanked me for being honest, as multiple people have hinted that she should watch the documentary instead of being upfront like I was.

Speaker 11 No,

Speaker 11 off. Wait, wait,

Speaker 11 why can't you just try just telling her first? No, don't tell her. Let her watch her husband have sex with you.
You should check this out. That is, that is, that is

Speaker 11 so. That's messed up.
That's making an excuse for your cowardice. Right.

Speaker 11 Right. I mean, like, I mean, like,

Speaker 11 I think it was right for her to tell

Speaker 11 her friend. It was right for her to tell her friend.
Yes. Tell.
We don't need to. That's one of those things where maybe tell, don't show.

Speaker 11 I think it's, I agree, because I think there's many situations where it's like, oh, there was a video of your, your boyfriend at the club making out with someone.

Speaker 11 It's like, oh, show her the evidence and stuff. It's like, no, you can just tell her.
She doesn't need to watch that shit. Yeah.

Speaker 11 And then if she doesn't believe you, then if you need to. And then you can go, look, it's there, but you probably don't want to see it.

Speaker 11 Or worst case scenario, just take a screenshot that's like of him that doesn't show like stuff

Speaker 11 going on. Sure.
Like be like, okay, trust me, there's no other video. There's no other content with this guy guy being naked.
Right. I don't know.

Speaker 11 But also,

Speaker 11 I'm like, did they have a documentary crew filming the porn crew? Probably not. I have so many questions.

Speaker 11 Did they green light the documentary?

Speaker 11 Side by side with...

Speaker 11 Wow.

Speaker 11 I ended up driving her to her mom's house.

Speaker 11 I'm guessing she told her fiancé I told her because he has been blowing up my phone, calling me an evil little homewrecker who ruined not only his life and calling me out on social media for trying to ruin his relationship and wanting his unborn daughter to grow up without a dad.

Speaker 11 My friends are angry with me for telling her straight away and not waiting till she had the baby in case the stress would cause issues to her health.

Speaker 11 I don't give two shits if I'm being honest about her fiancé, but I feel so bad for putting my friend in this situation while heavily pregnant and I'm worried if something does happen to her, it will be my fault.

Speaker 11 Maybe she would have watched it herself and found out on her own. Am I the asshole for telling my pregnant friend her fiancé was in a documentary? Okay.

Speaker 11 Well, there's no right time to

Speaker 11 I would also assume with something like that, there's been a lot of discourse about this on TikTok and Reddit and all over. The documentary itself.
The documentary itself.

Speaker 11 I assume, you have to assume she's going to find out, right? This isn't like, oh, I saw your husband or your fiancé at a restaurant and they were by themselves.

Speaker 11 Like, oh, maybe nobody else is going to know about this. This is

Speaker 11 a published work

Speaker 11 out there.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 And like,

Speaker 11 you know, somebody's going for a record and you're going to be like, oh, I'm going to do this on the sly. And no one's going to find out.

Speaker 11 Oh, there's a lot of stuff. You have Cruz filming it.
There's noticeable tattoos.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Come on, man.
And he's acting like she's the one who ruined it.

Speaker 11 You made a choice, man. You sat there.
You probably waited for hours that day.

Speaker 11 Like,

Speaker 11 You probably had eight hours

Speaker 11 to sit there and go, what am I doing? Right, yeah. But you never stop.
When they said that this obviously isn't his first time, that's like, that's so true. Oh, Mike.
You're not going to start there.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 I feel like I want to see a documentary of those thousand guys and just like get

Speaker 11 like their thought process on like what they were thinking. I think a fair thing to say regarding cheating in general is that you are also putting your partner at risk in a health way.

Speaker 11 And especially this, because it is effectively sleeping with a thousand people. Did they use protection? I don't know.
Yeah, I don't. I haven't seen the documentary.
It doesn't really matter to me.

Speaker 11 You sleep with one person. You sleep with...

Speaker 11 You sleep with one person. You don't know what...
What they've done. Yeah, because he's sleeping with strangers.
So he doesn't know the situation.

Speaker 11 And his wife is pregnant. Like, this is...
I understand. So they bring up a concern that's valid of being concerned about her health because she's eight months pregnant.
pregnant.

Speaker 11 Her husband is not considering, or her fiancé is not considering her health.

Speaker 11 There's some context from the comments. OP says, our friend group is afraid that the stress would harm her as she has had issues during the pregnancy and suffers from panic attacks.

Speaker 11 If anything were to happen to her or the baby, I'd never forgive myself. I understand that.
I think that's valid. I also...

Speaker 11 Agree that like it's like there's there's no good time. There's no good time.
I don't know. I don't think like waiting for the baby to be born to that it's that that feels also messed up.

Speaker 11 But I i feel like there could have been a better way to like

Speaker 11 relay the information to her rather than just like

Speaker 11 here's the video yeah well she and she didn't show her the video oh she didn't oh i know she did no so so op op told her straight away her friends were saying no you should have just had her watch the video.

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah. The friends were like, you should watch the video.
OP said, no, I want to just tell her. Oh, good, good, good, good.
So, no, as far as we know, she showed her the evidence.

Speaker 11 So So, she showed her a picture. Yeah.
She looked at the picture. She knew it was him and broke down.
So, there's a picture. Okay.
I'm not watching more. But I, yeah.

Speaker 11 I don't know. That's a tough, that's a tough thing.
Damn, it's a new damn discount. It's a horrible

Speaker 11 situation.

Speaker 11 But to be clear, he's the one who made this situation. Exactly.
Exactly. She's now burdened with the...
the knowledge.

Speaker 11 And I can't really fault someone for being like, I'm going to immediately go and tell you. Like, we've read so many stories and our takeaway so many times with knowledge of cheaters.

Speaker 11 It's like, yeah, go tell them, like, right off the bat. Like, that's really like, that's your friend.
Like,

Speaker 11 yeah, and he puts, and he puts,

Speaker 11 I mean, he puts the wife at risk, he puts the baby at risk. Like, I don't know if they use protection during all that stuff, but like sleeping with somebody that's sleeping with that many people,

Speaker 11 potentially getting something that you could give to the wife and the baby, like when the baby's delivered like that's that's just like

Speaker 11 not

Speaker 11 good. Just not good at all around smart

Speaker 11 OP left a comment saying they got engaged on Christmas Day and my friend would have found out around January she was pregnant. She didn't tell us till she was three months pregnant.

Speaker 11 Okay, someone said just to be clear since the OP wasn't the dude was in a porn video banging a random chick with 999 other guys Apparently while already with his fiancé I'm pretty sure this is cut and dry

Speaker 11 Someone said so apparently many people in her circle have seen this and recognized the jerk, all keeping silent and maybe hinting she watched.

Speaker 11 How would her watching and suddenly seeing her baby's father be part of this disgusting freak show have been less stressful? You are not the asshole.

Speaker 11 You had the courage to tell her what so many others were whispering behind her back. It's true that, like many others, she may decide to stay.

Speaker 11 Even if that happens and she pulls away from you, you still did the right thing. Yeah, I

Speaker 11 watching and being blindsided by that, you're watching crazy. Like, oh my God.
That would be harder to deal with. Yeah.
Oh, my God. You want to know.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 Someone said, I'm six months pregnant, and I would want to know. Someone said, not the asshole.
He hid his face and didn't tell her because he knew he shouldn't do it.

Speaker 11 He's facing the consequences of his choices.

Speaker 11 I guess men were wearing ski masks to help obscure their identities in this.

Speaker 11 Who wants to watch that? Yeah. I mean, hey,

Speaker 11 you're pregnant. Wouldn't you want to know? That's true.

Speaker 11 Yes.

Speaker 11 There you go. And there you go.
You heard it here. You heard it here, folks.

Speaker 11 I would love to know for the sake of

Speaker 11 my child and

Speaker 11 lastly, someone said he not only cheated, he did it in the most hideous way. What sort of STDs has he brought to his fiancée and unborn child? You are not the asshole.

Speaker 11 His behavior is particularly disgraceful, given the way he's gone straight to offense and blaming you to deflect from what he's done. I hope she doesn't take him back.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I don't know the logistics,

Speaker 11 but I don't think there's a safe way

Speaker 11 that that happens. Like, that's a thousand people.
It's not foolproof. That's definitely not

Speaker 11 something could slip through.

Speaker 11 Cheating about the most heinous way to cheat on somebody. That's a type of cheating that I would think many people who cheat would go, well, I'm not doing that.
Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm not crazy.

Speaker 11 It's the Godzilla of cheating. They're like, how dare you at least just find a motel? Yeah.

Speaker 11 Right. And bang up.
secretary class.

Speaker 11 We've all heard about this video. Yeah, right.
Yeah, I have heard about this. Yes.
Yeah, Guinness was there. We're all men of culture.

Speaker 11 The Guinness person was there like

Speaker 11 Jesus Christ. This one doesn't count.
Yeah. It is funny that there's like a challenge.
They're there too.

Speaker 11 There's like a Guinness World Records like dispatch center. They're like, okay, you're going to go to Smosh for this.
And Jerry, you're going to the giant orgy. Yeah.
He's like,

Speaker 11 yay.

Speaker 11 i thought they would give me the most rubber bands on an arm yeah

Speaker 11 i'm in iowa for biggest corn

Speaker 11 well this corn here is pretty big

Speaker 11 wait yeah

Speaker 11 what

Speaker 11 there's an update isn't there update oh my god 1000 updates

Speaker 11 Bonnie Blueways. It wasn't me, it wasn't me.
It was a total ass. It wasn't me, it wasn't me.

Speaker 11 What I like about this story is that we're judging him.

Speaker 11 I feel like a lot of discourse I saw was focused on judging the woman in that video, but I'm like, That's crazy. A thousand guys.
I'm like, what are they thinking? Like, what are they doing?

Speaker 11 Let's look at that as well. Update the next day.
My friend's fiancé wasn't the only one of our partners to do the lineup.

Speaker 11 Oh, no.

Speaker 11 Yes! No!

Speaker 11 Yes. Do they all just like live in the same town?

Speaker 11 She's like British, right? Is this in the UK? I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know.

Speaker 11 Oh,

Speaker 11 yeah, I mean, it's a small island. You know, everyone knows everyone.

Speaker 11 It's a small world right now, Disney, except it's horrific to look at. Guys, get ready.
Okay.

Speaker 11 OP writes, my boyfriend of three years was one.

Speaker 11 Let's go.

Speaker 11 All right.

Speaker 11 Do you think they carpooled?

Speaker 11 So was another friend's husband. Stop.

Speaker 11 What are we doing, guys? Okay, this is awful. These guys are idiots.

Speaker 11 I don't want to see the sex. I want to see like the drive home.
Yeah. Where they're just all in the Jeddah, just like.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 You know, it's either that or none of them knew they were going to be there. And they see each other in the ski mask.
They're like,

Speaker 11 Jerry?

Speaker 11 Steven? Do you want to go to McDonald's after this?

Speaker 11 Don't you have a wife?

Speaker 11 God, what happens at the sex kitchen? Stays at the sex kitchen.

Speaker 11 Two hours ago, he, O.P.'s friend's fiancé, posted screenshots of a group chat and photographic receipts. No one could deny.
Other men in relationships are involved.

Speaker 11 He said in the caption, I wasn't the only one there. Tags me.
Maybe check your man before coming for my relationship. Tags five other women.

Speaker 11 I'm not taking the blame alone and being seen as the bad guy while tags the men. did the same.

Speaker 11 There was a lot more said, but I stopped reading and just deleted my social media account and then blocked my now ex. I don't want to hear his explanation.
I feel so humiliated and physically sick.

Speaker 11 I don't know how I'm going to face the coworkers or clients at work tomorrow. I wish I could just disappear.

Speaker 11 My phone is going crazy, so I'm going to turn it off, go take a long shower, then see if I can get any sleep for what I'm sure will be a hell tomorrow. Aww.

Speaker 11 Dude, he really said if I'm going down, I'm taking everyone down with me. That's why.
But then it's like, well, good. I'm glad she initially said something

Speaker 11 because she's, you know, she got to end up like clearing out all the minds in the mind figures. No, she can't be like, I don't think she's upset that this all transpired, that this domino effect.

Speaker 11 That's all. I'm just like, well, I'm glad she did because now it's all out in the open.
But it is humiliating as fuck. Of course.
Of course. It really is the Godzilla of cheating.

Speaker 11 Because you're not only, you're cheating in like a such a public way that it's like, yeah. Everyone's going to know about this.

Speaker 11 They're going to know I'm dating someone who did this without me knowing. And like, all right, dude, cool.

Speaker 11 yeah they they should have had like a ski mask for like their whole body you know ski body skib body skibody skibbity toilet

Speaker 11 what's it called the morph suits yeah

Speaker 11 but just

Speaker 11 a thousand guys in morph suits and they're just wieners are out and one bummy

Speaker 11 it's a funny movie one movie yeah and one ninja yeah

Speaker 11 okay if they all all right if they all had halloween costumes on i i might watch it

Speaker 11 That would be fun. Because it's like, oh, who's next? SpongeBob.
God. And his nose.
Never mind. Yeah.

Speaker 11 It's just so... What a, okay.
Okay. May I say horrible update.

Speaker 11 Horrible update. Could I just say absolutely horrible update? You may be one of the worst.

Speaker 11 Sometimes you get updates where it takes a real nice turn for the break. I know, and that's what I love updates for.

Speaker 11 Man, there's those ones where the updates get worse and worse, where we get more and more reveals. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Damn.

Speaker 11 Is that where Five Guys, burgers and fries got their name?

Speaker 11 That was a bad joke. That was a stupid joke.
Five burgers, one burger, five guys.

Speaker 11 Hey, we got there again.

Speaker 11 We figured it out. We got there.
Comments. Honestly, he thought he was getting revenge when in reality, he did all those women a big favor by exposing the rest of them.
Exactly.

Speaker 11 Got to love it when the trash takes itself out. Someone said, what a wild ride.
I think OOP did the right thing by deleting her social media and taking time to herself.

Speaker 11 But what a horrible, horrible human being is this guy. I don't really know what to say.
These guys, asterisks. Yeah.
Someone said, radical concept.

Speaker 11 If you are in a committed, monogamous relationship with a person, don't sleep with other people. It's not that hard.
Jesus fucking Christ. Bonus tip, don't film it.

Speaker 11 Someone said, I have never had an update knock me out of my chair this hard. Right.
Yeah. Yeah.
OP. It's strange to read a story where OP is not the subject matter.

Speaker 11 They're like, this is happening to my friend. And then they get dragged into it.

Speaker 11 Oh, it's actually just as much me.

Speaker 11 These guys suck horribly. Wow.
These are awful dudes. Yeah.
Glad they got exposed.

Speaker 11 It just sucks again. It sucks.
There's not really like any silver lining really out of this one. I'm like, where did they find all these men? LA casting.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 It's a thought I don't want to think too much is just how many men were cheating on partners

Speaker 11 on that day. Yes.
That's an aspect that I'm like, oh my God. Right.
Yeah, because we know it's got to be more than these five guys.

Speaker 11 It's and you know, like when they casted for that, they didn't care about

Speaker 11 anything. Like they're reaching a number, not a quality.

Speaker 11 How big was that crafty table? A thousand guys. I feel like it was less of a production than you're imagining it being.
I highly doubt.

Speaker 11 I don't think they had sun chips on a table. I'm imagining they needed like a whole like Universal Studio sound stage.
But they rent out a CBS for it. Yeah, they like flew people in.

Speaker 11 Like, Steven Spielberg's like, let's take it again. I'm just thinking, like, the rig he's moving around.
Yeah, you need like military-level logistics to pull this off. I feel.

Speaker 11 Like, how do you feed a thousand people? That's like, it's a problem the Romans had, you know? Very true. Imagining the visual of like waiting in line for Santa.

Speaker 11 Oh,

Speaker 11 no.

Speaker 11 Like, that's

Speaker 11 like, just because like you're just in the spider line. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Oh, it's awful

Speaker 11 i am so sorry op yeah there's nothing to say to that one there is a sometimes

Speaker 11 sometimes we read story stories and we're just like damn

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Speaker 11 I got fired from Walmart and never worked there. That's cool.
What does that mean? So this comes from a subreddit that I've checked out before called I Don't Work Here, Lady. Awesome.

Speaker 11 This happens a lot where people assume people work somewhere. Yeah, you go to Target in a red shirt.
Yep. And so people just fuck with people in those situations.

Speaker 11 About a year ago, I worked selling solar panel systems. This job required me to wear khakis and a blue polo when I was meeting customers.

Speaker 11 One particular day after meeting with a homeowner, I had to stop by my local Walmart to get more pens and a notepad for my work bag.

Speaker 11 I pretty consistently got asked if I worked there by other customers and I would help if I knew what they were after. But I always always told them that I didn't work there and they were always kind.

Speaker 11 So this fateful day, I grabbed my pens and paper and checked out in the self-checkout section. As I was leaving, I heard someone say behind me, and just where do you think you're going?

Speaker 11 Now, a little about me. I try to mind my own business as much as possible and don't like to get wrapped up in other people's drama.

Speaker 11 When I hear outbursts like that in public, I assume it's not because of me. I also try to follow the rules as much as possible.

Speaker 11 In this case, I assumed it wasn't me because I paid for everything, so I continued to my car. Roughly 30 feet from my car, I hear again, again, hey, you stop!

Speaker 11 I do turn around at that one because that's typically what you say to a thief. An employee who can only be described as a Karen is marching towards me, eight different kinds of pissed off.

Speaker 11 She starts reaming into me about how I'm abandoning my shift and I'm not supposed to get off for another three hours.

Speaker 11 I'm standing there bewildered because I genuinely have no clue what she's talking about. I try to let her know I don't work there, but she won't let me get a word in.

Speaker 11 Eventually she says, forget it, you're fired. I wait about five seconds and told her, I don't work here.
I've never worked here. She stared at me and muttered, sorry, and ran back inside.

Speaker 11 That's awesome. That's awesome.
I didn't think she'd actually apologize. I love that.
I'm still not sure what happened, but that's my tale of being fired from a job I never worked at.

Speaker 11 Hope it brought you some joy. That's awesome.
That's so exciting. I love that she apologized.

Speaker 11 Sorry.

Speaker 11 Sorry.

Speaker 11 It's like, have you seen like the Watch People Die Inside subreddit? Oh, yeah. Watch People Die Inside is great.
I feel like that's like definitely one of those moments. Very much.

Speaker 11 Do you think if you ended up in that situation, I think all of us know, we'd probably be similar. Yeah.
Right? Yeah.

Speaker 11 None of us would be the types that would, I think I could see Arasha playing into it. Oh, Chigoshi just would be like, no, really? You're firing me?

Speaker 11 But I'll keep it. But I need this job.
No, I'll show up tomorrow. Can I get my last paycheck at least? Yeah.

Speaker 11 Think about that.

Speaker 11 In cash.

Speaker 11 You're firing me, then I demand severance. There you go.

Speaker 11 On Apple TV. See what you get, sweethead deal.

Speaker 11 Can you collect unemployment if you get fired from a job that you never worked? Gotta show proof, probably.

Speaker 11 Comments, I kind of wish OOP went back and asked for severance and the unemployment documentation. That would have been hilarious.
Hello?

Speaker 11 Someone said if she had the powers to fire someone, even if they don't work there, that means she's some kind of supervisor or manager.

Speaker 11 How shitty of a manager are you that you don't even know who your employees are? You'd think she'd at least know their faces, if not their fucking names.

Speaker 11 Someone said, I worked at Walmart for two weeks until I found a better job. Managers didn't know who many of their employees were due to high turnover.
Yeah, I believe that was a good idea.

Speaker 11 I think when I got hired, there were 40 new employees. When I left about two weeks later, another 30 to 40 were hired and on the floor.

Speaker 11 Unless someone was there long term, they had no idea who worked there. Yeah.
Whoa. Yeah, I believe that.
I figured that's probably why she chased after him because

Speaker 11 the turnover at Walmart must be nuts. And it's a big building.

Speaker 11 Yeah. I thought I heard once that Amazon's turnover was so insane that they're like running out of people.
I believe that.

Speaker 11 Like they're running out of new people. There's nobody to hire because we have run through everyone.
God. Well, hopefully that teaches them a lesson on workplace stuff.
Yeah. It won't.

Speaker 11 No, of course not.

Speaker 11 No, it won't. No.

Speaker 11 It simply won't. Five million people want Amazon.

Speaker 11 Jesus. You know, your husband worked at Amazon.
You know, your husband worked at Amazon with all the people.

Speaker 11 There's a ring doorbell photo of him delivering a box. So that's where that is.
Yeah. Funny.
Wait. Update.
What?

Speaker 11 Three years later. Stop it.

Speaker 11 What do we think happened? I think he's her boss now at Walmart. I think he,

Speaker 11 in spite, he got a job. He got a job at Walmart at a different Walmart, became a regional manager, transferred, transferred, and then fired her ass.
Fired her.

Speaker 11 That's pretty good. I'm thinking they ran into each other.
And now they're married.

Speaker 11 That'd be cool.

Speaker 11 Married a Karen. Wait, stop.
Walmart Karen. I love you.

Speaker 11 Yo, stop, thief. You have violated the law.
Of my heart. Sorry, it's oblivion.
Sorry. This first sentence.
I've been banned from that Walmart. What?

Speaker 11 The manager in that story apparently has a memory like like an elephant. Kind of looks like one too.

Speaker 11 That's what it means. Boom! Boom! Boom!

Speaker 11 That could mean so many things. She's got a huge nose that goes all the way down and she drinks water through it.
Like, elephant is such a, that's such a descriptor.

Speaker 11 Look, kind of looks like one too, and is still working there today. I went in to pick up a couple things and return one thing for my wife.

Speaker 11 I'm waiting in the return line, and the person in front of me is having some issue with the return. So the employee helping them calls for a manager.
It's the same lady.

Speaker 11 Recognized her immediately, and as it turns out, she recognized me, kind of. She points at me and tells me I'm not allowed to shop at this Walmart.
And if I don't leave, she'll call the police.

Speaker 11 I asked why I was banned. She said she didn't remember, but she knew I was.
So I left. My wife and I have been cackling over this for a couple days and thought you'd find it funny as hell.

Speaker 11 So this person's just making decisions based on nothing. Out of their mind.
Right. Typical manager behavior.
Hey, yeah.

Speaker 11 this is definitely like striking me as somebody that's just like power trips. Oh, yeah.
100%.

Speaker 11 And probably explains why they're still probably working the same like position at the Walmart and they haven't gone up. Yeah.
I bet the turnover is partially because of her. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Probably.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 Comments. Contact Walmart Corporate and inform them that she is harassing you and banned you because she was embarrassed for harassing a customer.

Speaker 11 He shows up to Walmart Corporate in a suit and they're like, yeah, okay, so come on in. You come to have a meeting.
Yeah, we're at the board. You come and sit at the board.

Speaker 11 He's like, I don't have anything prepared. And they're like, you're fucking fired, dude.

Speaker 11 I like that that comment was basically, can you out Karen the Karen? Yeah. Yeah.
Can you go to corporate?

Speaker 11 Someone said, hello, former loss prevention for Walmart here. If they didn't give you paperwork saying you are banned, you are not banned.
Walmart can't ban you just by saying you are banned.

Speaker 11 There is a process that must be followed. Cops must be involved in order for them to legally ban you.
Per Walmart loss prevention rules.

Speaker 11 Most of the time, only people who have been caught stealing get banned. I suggest calling corporate and asking for the market asset protection manager.
Complain about this manager. Wow.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 you can refuse service to anybody in a private business. Right.
It's just that she said you've been

Speaker 11 termed.

Speaker 11 Right. Right.
But if she just said, like, get out of here. Get out of here.
Like, I think it's.

Speaker 11 Someone said, I've been banned from Walmart for smoking and drinking in the parking lot years ago. I still regularly shop there

Speaker 11 Update number two. That's crazy.

Speaker 11 Two years later after that

Speaker 11 short version to catch people up, I was fired from a Walmart that I didn't work at by a power tripping manager because I apparently looked like someone who worked there.

Speaker 11 The final update is that recently my family moved to a new neighborhood around the corner from the Walmart. After meeting the new neighbors, I found out one one worked at this Walmart.

Speaker 11 I told her the story because I still think it's hilarious. And she let me know that that manager, let's call her Gertrude, was arrested and fired.

Speaker 11 Old Gertie apparently had a history of arbitrarily banning people like she did to me, but nobody really ever complained, so nothing ever got done. She was just shifted from department to department.

Speaker 11 One day last year, she got a little too aggressive with an off-duty cop. The cop tried to forcefully remove her from the store, which inevitably led to Gertrude punching the cop.

Speaker 11 She was arrested and finally fired. My neighbor and most of her coworkers have rejoiced.
Karma can be a beautiful thing. Once again,

Speaker 11 when it comes to karma being brought up, this wasn't karma. It was she was doing shit and finally had consequences for it.
This is fuck around, find out. Yeah.
That's right.

Speaker 11 Yeah, she entered the find out phase. Yeah, yeah.
Absolutely. Well, if that's karma to people, then that's karma.
But you punch a cop.

Speaker 11 You'll get arrested probably.

Speaker 11 Yeah. You've like, yeah, you've, you've paired somebody that's probably power tripping against somebody else.
She's going to be power tripping.

Speaker 11 Yeah. She met her match.
Yeah. Right.
The Karen final boss. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Oh. God.

Speaker 11 I mean,

Speaker 11 that was a pretty good update. Yeah.
I liked that. I feel satisfied.

Speaker 11 I feel good. Like, ate a snack.
Yeah. She's very funny as a fictional character.
Absolutely. Just banning people.
That's so funny. That's really.
You're banned. You're banned.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 You're banned.

Speaker 11 like the fact that like everyone was just like oh i guess she banned another person i don't know everyone just went on the premise of like yeah she can do that i guess she can do that yeah she's the manager she can ban me she got arrested she got arrested i mean you and fine punched a cop so yeah yeah and she did it inside the walmart it's like you're gonna you know sorry gertie yeah you gotta learn to take it outside yeah then it's not illegal right they say that they say that our next story comes from the subreddit relationships and this was posted 10 years ago.

Speaker 11 Wow.

Speaker 11 The original post. Our oldest Reddit story, I claim.

Speaker 11 I think 2015 is about as old as we've gone. But Reddit's been around since like 2006, so there's some old shit on there.

Speaker 11 Me, 24-year-old woman, with my SO, 27-year-old man, of one year. He destroyed a sentimental item of mine and sees nothing wrong with it because of the circumstances.

Speaker 11 Me, 24-year-old female, SO, 27-male, let's call him Eugene. My sister, female, deceased two years, let's call her Carrie.
Oh, it just got sad. Background about my sister.

Speaker 11 Two years ago, my sister was killed in a car accident. She was riding with a friend to the mall.

Speaker 11 The friend's parent was driving, and a teenage boy plowed through a red light while texting on his phone and hit the car with my sister, Carrie, was in.

Speaker 11 Carrie was killed instantly, and her friend June was in a coma for three weeks before her parents took her off life support.

Speaker 11 When Carrie passed, I was devastated and angry and just not in a good place. Carrie and I had been extremely close.
Despite a seven-year age gap between us, we enjoyed a lot of the same shows.

Speaker 11 We went to concerts together, we volunteered together, and I took it upon myself to guide Carrie like any big sister would do.

Speaker 11 Our parents were extremely busy with work most days, and Carrie and I would often cook together and do crafts when we weren't too busy with schoolwork.

Speaker 11 Carrie wanted to be a NICU nurse when she grew up and I helped her find a volunteer position at a local hospital. to help her gain some experience being around patients.

Speaker 11 In short, Carrie was my sister and best friend and when she passed, I was a mess. The last craft Carrie and I made together was a set of candles.

Speaker 11 We both bought the wax at a local craft store and we both made each other a candle and decorated the jar it was in. That was the day before she was killed.

Speaker 11 At her funeral, Carrie was buried with the candle I made her. The candle Carrie made me sits on my desk next to my favorite picture of her and I together at the beach.
Or it did, until last week.

Speaker 11 Background about my boyfriend. I met my boyfriend about a year and a half ago, about six months after Carrie passed.

Speaker 11 I wasn't looking looking for a relationship, I was still grieving my sister's death, but Eugene came along and it was love at first sight.

Speaker 11 He was extremely supportive, let me cry on him when I needed to, didn't push me into getting over grieving or anything. He was extremely gentlemanly about everything and very, very patient.

Speaker 11 After six months of seeing each other pretty regularly, we made it official. Eugene came into my life at a very low point and he has always been very respectful of sentiments I keep from my sister.

Speaker 11 Never asking me to take them down, always giving me space when I needed to cry. Eugene, along with most, if not all, of my friends and family, know about Carrie's candle.

Speaker 11 There was a point after she died where I would take the candle with me everywhere out of fear that someone might light it or steal it or who knows what.

Speaker 11 The point is that candle was and still is a very important part of my life and something that my sister made for me and me alone.

Speaker 11 When Eugene and I moved in together about four months ago, I packed away most of the reminders of my sister and put out the candle and picture on my desk.

Speaker 11 I felt that this was a huge step because when I'd lived just by myself, I had pictures everywhere and a few knickknacks laying around from my sister.

Speaker 11 I wanted to make Eugene and I's home, our home, with just a small part of my sister there. Eugene understood and was very supportive.
The issue.

Speaker 11 Last week we had a massive winter storm that knocked out power. We didn't have power for three plus days.

Speaker 11 The power was knocked out at Eugene and I's house while I was at work, which did not lose power.

Speaker 11 Eugene texted me that he was going to light some candles and try to get a generator so we could have some power or at least be able to charge our phone slash use lights slash etc.

Speaker 11 Now we probably have 30 plus candles in our house. I am a huge fan of sales and when Bath and Body Works has a candle sale I like to stock up and get a range of scents.

Speaker 11 We have candles scattered all over our house. I'm a year old story.
Yeah. Bath and Body Works? Yeah, I know.
It's still around.

Speaker 11 In the room where my desk is, there are no candles aside from the one Carrie made me. None at all, and there never has been.
This room is also downstairs where Eugene doesn't spend a lot of time.

Speaker 11 His desk is upstairs.

Speaker 11 When I arrived home from work last week, I noticed a bunch of candles burning in our living room, safely, always monitored and not near anything that could ignite one of these candles was the candle that Carrie had made me I burst into tears and when Eugene heard me crying he came out from the bedroom where he was lighting more candles and asked what was wrong I was a wreck and couldn't get any words out when he tried to calm me down I shoved past him and locked myself in the room where my desk was and just cried I don't know how he could be so stupid I thought he understood how sentimental the candle was and how much I cherished having a candle that my now deceased sister had spent time making with me just a day before she was killed.

Speaker 11 I haven't been able to speak to Eugene since it happened, Tuesday of last week.

Speaker 11 He has tried to explain why he did it, because he needed candles to be able to see, but I just can't wrap my head around it.

Speaker 11 He hadn't gotten to the large candlestash I have upstairs right by the living room, but went downstairs out of the way to grab the most sentimental cherished item I have.

Speaker 11 The candle was burning most of the day while I was at work and is now melted and pretty much gone. I do still have the jar it was in, but I can't look at it without bursting into tears.

Speaker 11 Reddit, what do I do? Eugene says it was an accident, but I just don't believe that.

Speaker 11 He said he was getting around to lighting the candle surplus we have upstairs, but just hadn't gotten there yet after being home six hours alone with no power.

Speaker 11 I am heartbroken and feel like this is a major slap in the face. I feel disrespected.
I feel like he disrespected my sister. I just don't know what to do.

Speaker 11 I just don't feel like I can forgive him for this. Can or should I try to work past this?

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Speaker 11 Ooh. Wow.
That's...

Speaker 11 Oh.

Speaker 11 That's so sad.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 This episode is a friggin roller coaster. I know.
Updates always have a lot.

Speaker 11 I understand that she may not be able to get past that. And like, I understand, like, oh, like, we can all be forgetful and stuff.
It's like, that's a pretty intense one. Yeah.
Like, that's not.

Speaker 11 And it seems like that was like her big one. That was like her big single thing.
That's not like, oh, my mom got me a candle for my birthday. It's like, oh, I lit that.

Speaker 11 It's like, oh, my mom got that for my birthday. It's like, oh, sorry, I didn't realize it was that important to you.

Speaker 11 I would bet. I would bet money that he completely forgot the significance of that candle.
Oh, of course. Otherwise he wouldn't have done that.

Speaker 11 And that he just thought it was like a memorial candle just

Speaker 11 exactly to be next to the photo not that i'm like defending him no no no it's like he's either the devil pure evil or he's a dumbass and didn't register that this is

Speaker 11 very sentimental yeah but they've been together for years and they're moving in together and it's like he has heard this story maybe in the beginning

Speaker 11 But I'm not that's a story that if you've forgotten, like

Speaker 11 oof, like this is your, this is your person you're moving in with. Like, damn.
Like, there's a, I give people a pass on forgetting things all the time, right? Like, we're all forgetful.

Speaker 11 But this one, I mean, holy shit.

Speaker 11 Anything to do with grief, like, it's like, you got to take that so seriously. Yeah.

Speaker 11 And if he truly did forget, I mean, man, you got to be so apologetic. You got to, you are going to have to pull out all the stops to show her that this was an accident.
You cannot play this off. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Instead, he diminished it. He totally diminished it.

Speaker 11 just yeah he um he said i needed candles to see yeah it's like okay

Speaker 11 like they have a bajillion it sounds like you can't walk in this house without tripping over a candle yeah they don't live in a cave yeah so she said like they have a candle stash yeah it's like that

Speaker 11 he walked in with candles lit and he came from the other room having just lit other candles i'm like how many candles have to be in the so she's saying like we're doing it safely it's like well you have candles in different rooms you need to be in the room with the candle, I think.

Speaker 11 Like you need to be usually. Usually.
You do that. For the most part.
Comments. I would say this is an accident, except he clearly grabbed a bunch of candles and Carrie's candle as well.

Speaker 11 He knew it had significance to you. Yeesh, I don't know.
This is a weird one.

Speaker 11 I'm a very forgetful guy myself, I'll admit, but if you had told me all of this history about the candle, I mean, there is not any way you should forget that candle as a boyfriend or SO or whatever.

Speaker 11 It pissed me off. reading this.
I forgot, babe. He would have got a slap to his face and I would have walked out.

Speaker 11 If you can't trust him with something that simple and yet so important to you, what does that say about his future actions and being responsible for them? There should be heavy repercussions.

Speaker 11 Stay with your parents till the new candle is done. Show him how unacceptable this is.

Speaker 11 Someone said, this may be the wrong idea and it may not help, but as a sentimental crafter, I have a thought. First, I am so sorry about the candle.

Speaker 11 From what you said about your boyfriend, I think he just wasn't thinking. It might not even have occurred to him to remember that candles are consumable and the wax would melt completely away.

Speaker 11 Okay, on to the next step, maybe a stupid idea. It's so, so clear that you're still grieving over the loss of your sister.
You still have the jar.

Speaker 11 On her birthday or the anniversary of her death, if that feels right, make a new candle in the jar. Pick her favorite color or something.

Speaker 11 When you make the candle, pour in all of your love for her along with the wax. Think of it now as something you made together.
She made the vessel, you made the love. Just the thought.

Speaker 11 Maybe she's stupid, but maybe not.

Speaker 11 Someone lastly said, has he apologized sincerely or just blown it off? The magnitude of his remorse should be your guide in how to take this. If he was just an absent-minded dolt, yeah, mistake.

Speaker 11 But a more deliberate action would have him showing little to no remorse.

Speaker 11 Opie said he actually has not apologized, but instead tried to defend his actions by saying he needed the candle for light and then moved on to saying it was an accident.

Speaker 11 But thinking back, I don't think he's apologized for it at all. That's your answer.

Speaker 11 That's your answer, man. Like, I don't.
If he's not apologizing, then that's

Speaker 11 embarrassed.

Speaker 11 Yeah. I mean, sure.
Sure.

Speaker 11 I think that comment of like filling up the, like, if you, if you melt down the remaining wax and combine it with new wax and then pour it into the candle, that'd be a way to like.

Speaker 11 That's an interesting way to like honor. To you know, rejuvenate that item.
Of course. Yeah.

Speaker 11 It is so sad though, because I'm sure there is a part of her that thought like she will light that candle someday. Like she would be the one to do it.

Speaker 11 And now that's just gone and it's gone from this Stupid situation but these types of things happen all the time and and

Speaker 11 I do think that type of comment is important though I think the ritual of things is really important absolutely and I do think she needs to do something to like fix this for it for one to bring it back for herself and then also to like help her like move on because every time she sees that candle now She's gonna be reminded of this like you can like she's gonna resent her significant other the fact that he can't apologize.

Speaker 11 Apologize is just so No, this sounds like, if I'm a friend of hers, I'm going to be like, this sounds like

Speaker 11 this is broken. Like, that's,

Speaker 11 I don't know how you get past that. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 11 Update. Jeez.
Okay. All right.
Update from 20 days later. 20 days later.
Good movie. Good movie, Prince.
Do you think they're going to stay together? Do you think they're going to break up?

Speaker 11 I would hope they break up. I do too.
Fingies crossed.

Speaker 11 Yeah. My original post was the day before Thanksgiving.
Eugene and I had planned to spend Thanksgiving with my parents, but that did not end up happening.

Speaker 11 On my way home from work, I stopped at a local craft store to pick up supplies to make a new memorial candle for Carrie. Thank you to the user for that amazing heartfelt suggestion.

Speaker 11 My parents and I spent a day remembering Carrie and making a new candle using some of the wax from the original candle.

Speaker 11 I also ended up purchasing a locket and having some of the remaining wax from the candle put inside and the locket welded shut by a friend.

Speaker 11 On the evening of my post, I got home and Eugene said he wanted to talk. I agreed we needed to clear the air before Thanksgiving, so we sat in the living room and started to talk.

Speaker 11 I was not ready for what he told me.

Speaker 11 A few commenters from my original post seemed to hit the nail on the head in a way.

Speaker 11 Eugene told me that when we first met, he was extremely turned on by the fact that I was essentially a damsel in distress. Bro, no.

Speaker 11 Oh, he wedding crashered her.

Speaker 11 I just lost my sister recently. I was in a massive depression.
I wasn't myself. And that turned him on both sexually and in a protective way.
Oh, no. God, I just need men to do something like

Speaker 11 anything better. God.
Yeah. Over the past few months, I've started to become more myself.
I got promoted at my job. I've joined a cooking class and have gotten out more.

Speaker 11 And I've definitely moved away from being a damsel in distress in the eyes of Eugene.

Speaker 11 He went on to explain that he burned the candle in hopes that it would throw me back into that phase because that is the only time he felt he was attracted to me. No!

Speaker 11 No!

Speaker 11 No! No!

Speaker 11 No!

Speaker 11 no,

Speaker 11 no.

Speaker 11 All right. No.

Speaker 11 No. Eugene, no.
This is Eugene. So he is pure evil.
He is actually. All right.
This is all. All right.
Permission to kill. I guess we should always consider that like, like,

Speaker 11 men be horny, you know? Right. And that any, and that any motivation to do anything could be

Speaker 11 horny.

Speaker 11 Unfortunately, this is one of those cases. Oh my God.

Speaker 11 I was sitting there and I was like, there's the chance he did it on purpose. And I was like, there's no fucking way.
What is it? There's no way he could. What was going to happen? She'd

Speaker 11 just restart and be like, oh,

Speaker 11 please have sex with me, man.

Speaker 11 God.

Speaker 11 Crazy. That's right.
He is not attracted to me unless I'm upset, crying, and a damsel in distress.

Speaker 11 When I prodded for more information, he told me that everyone prior to me that he had dated had either just experienced a loss or was in need of rescuing.

Speaker 11 Eugene told me he was no longer attracted to me. He dreaded having sex with me because he could no longer be the hero that was rescuing me, which is what turned him on in the first place.

Speaker 11 Brother, that is what role play is for, you dumb fucking idiot. He did not.
He did not rent a castle. Jesus.

Speaker 11 He didn't like to go out in public with me because I had started to put myself together more, like not just wearing a t-shirt and jeans like I did when depressed, and that attracted the stares of other men that he saw as a threat, taking away his damsel in distress.

Speaker 11 Eugene had a whole laundry list of things he hated doing now because I wasn't in a funk anymore. I told him if that was the case, then we needed to break up.

Speaker 11 He agreed and said he would go stay with a friend until they could make new living arrangements.

Speaker 11 My name is the only one on our house, and I told him I would give him 60 days to vacate the house, which he agreed was fair.

Speaker 11 Over the past few weeks, I've spent a lot of time with my parents and with close friends. I don't really feel like I've been dumped or broke up with someone.
I just feel like me.

Speaker 11 Carrie's candle sits on my desk where the original was, and I wear the locket every day. day.
Thank you, Reddit, for listening. I appreciate it more than you know.

Speaker 11 Oh.

Speaker 11 Jeez. Wow.
Wow.

Speaker 11 Wow.

Speaker 11 I just think like it's, it's, it's so, it's so wild because like, obviously this guy has like

Speaker 11 a fetish

Speaker 11 and

Speaker 11 and like you could you could like

Speaker 11 You could fulfill those consensually

Speaker 11 like in the bedroom with like something like role play.

Speaker 11 Like you don't have to try to like manipulate your partner to get her into a state to like turn you, like that's

Speaker 11 like, and he admitted that that's like he preys on these people who are either grieving or going through shit.

Speaker 11 Yeah, because he's too, he's too cowardly to like try to find another way to get his rocks off. That's crazy.

Speaker 11 It's wild when we read about people doing things that

Speaker 11 sound it sounds fictional. I believe this story, though.
Yeah. Because I know these types of people were real.

Speaker 11 And it's just like, man, like, you watch a movie sometimes and you're like, oh, well, the villain wasn't believable. Right.
Mm-hmm. Because they were just evil.
And then you sit on it.

Speaker 11 You see this and like, oh, this guy was evil because he was horny. Like,

Speaker 11 that's the thing. That's all it took? Many such cases.
Like, truly, he's just like, oh, I'm turned on by your despair. I'm like, that sounds like...
Horrible.

Speaker 11 That doesn't sound like a real guy, but it is.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Jesus. What I loved about about that last thing is that she was like, I don't feel like I've been dumped.
I don't feel like this. I feel like me.
Yes. And I'm like, that's beautiful.

Speaker 11 Thank God.

Speaker 11 I am happy that she is found. Getting out of this.
Yes. Well, I think he wanted to get out too, because

Speaker 11 he wasn't feeling it anymore. I truly, this is a situation where I'm like, I hope karma finds this man.
This is where karma will. I'm like, death, do your thing.
Like, I grind him.

Speaker 11 Him admitting all this shit to her, like, like, oh, I only date grieving people. I'm like, you're giving a villain speech to her? Right.
It's just one of those things.

Speaker 11 He hasn't done the internal work and he's just working the only way that he thinks he can. Not that I'm giving any like, no,

Speaker 11 just the explanation of why he's acting that way. Yeah.
And it's bad. And it's like, we can all see it.

Speaker 11 And it's like.

Speaker 11 All right. Let's move on from that.
Move on to our final story, which should hopefully be a bit of a palate cleanser. We'll see.
We'll see. This is a crazy episode.
This is a crazy one. It really is.

Speaker 11 Do I tell my wife the truth after 11 years? All right. Looks like we're in for another doozy.
Hold on, he could be Santa.

Speaker 11 I killed Easter Bunny.

Speaker 11 I killed JFK.

Speaker 11 JFK 11 years ago.

Speaker 11 When we first started dating, my girlfriend asked me what my favorite meal was so she could cook it for me for our one-month anniversary.

Speaker 11 We were 16 and I told her my favorite meal was chicken parmesan. She cooked it for me from scratch and it was delicious.
However, I realized that what I meant to say was chicken Alfredo.

Speaker 11 I felt bad that she went out of her way to cook what she thought was my favorite meal, so I didn't correct her or myself.

Speaker 11 Fast forward to now, we've been together for 11 years, married for two years, and once a month or so, she still makes chicken parm for me because she thinks it's my favorite.

Speaker 11 It's good, but it's really just not my favorite.

Speaker 11 At this point, it's way too late to tell the truth right

Speaker 11 you don't have okay i i have a solution i have a solution he's like he's like hey babe have you ever had chicken alfredo before it's and then he has it's like oh my god it's like this this is my new favorite food it's your new favorite oh my god i love this so much i also feel like this is

Speaker 11 this is something that isn't too intensive a thing to where depending on the couple and like the right person this could now become like the coolest funniest bit for them to share it could like you know oh the parmesan let's have a farm it could unless it doesn't unless it doesn't she he's like actually i meant to say chicken alfredo and she's like get out of here okay

Speaker 11 go go her ex was named alfredo

Speaker 11 she just slams the butcher knife into the cutting board

Speaker 11 um

Speaker 11 what if she what if she's like i know i've known this i've always known

Speaker 11 chicken Alfredo would be easier to make, too, because you don't have to like. Ooh, yeah,

Speaker 11 she's been breading that chicken all this time.

Speaker 11 That involves an oven.

Speaker 11 Chicken Parm is delicious, though. I don't know what he's talking about.
Chicken Parm's amazing. Yeah, well, I mean, he's still

Speaker 11 eating it. He's still eating it.
He's still eating it. He's still eating it.
He's still eating it. Comments.

Speaker 11 I've been with my husband for almost 25 years, and it would make my week to find out he had been covering up his Alfredo goof for this long.

Speaker 11 At this stage of our relationship, finding something new about each other to laugh about is gold.

Speaker 11 Like, I learned something new about a story from his childhood his family always tells and i was thrilled someone said yes it's too late and the fact that your wife still does this for you after all these years means chicken parm should absolutely be your favorite dish that shit is made with love man the purest and best form of love do you realize how lucky you are someone said ask her to make chicken alfredo and hype it up as so much and say i might be reaching but this might be my new favorite how did you manage to do that and just talk about it so much and then when she asks what you want for a special dinner pretend to be stuck between the two Scratch your head and sigh, and say, You know, I really think I want chicken Alfredo.

Speaker 11 Last time you made it, it was so good. I've been craving it ever since.
Smart.

Speaker 11 Or you can tell the truth.

Speaker 11 No,

Speaker 11 we don't tell the truth in Reddit's.

Speaker 11 We're all about lying.

Speaker 11 Update. Okay.

Speaker 11 10 days later.

Speaker 11 What do you think happened?

Speaker 11 I think you told her. I think she's cheating on him.
Right.

Speaker 11 She's having an affair. She was in the Bonnie Blue video.
Oh.

Speaker 11 She was the fluffer. Oh.

Speaker 11 Sorry. I'm glad my travesty brought so many of you joy.
I apologize for taking so long to update you all, but I was vexed with a life-altering decision and needed to weigh the responses I received.

Speaker 11 I ultimately decided to tell my wife the truth. I'm not sure I made the right decision after all because I am far more embarrassed now than I ever was over this.

Speaker 11 I have never seen my wife laugh the way she did that night. Just when I thought she was done laughing, she would start up all over again.
Yep.

Speaker 11 We now have this incredible inside joke for the rest of our lives together. Huge thank you to everyone who commented their advice.
I told you, depending on the couple, it could be an incredible bitch.

Speaker 11 I feel like communication always just results in

Speaker 11 a stronger bond. Absolutely.

Speaker 11 You should make up a lie to Courtney and then

Speaker 11 reveal it 10 years later.

Speaker 11 I never drowned.

Speaker 11 Whoa.

Speaker 11 No, I did that shit.

Speaker 11 I didn't do that shit. No, I did.
I know that. And you did it well.
Yeah. Yeah, you really succeeded with that.

Speaker 11 I feel like, yeah, Courtney and I have plenty of, I mean, we have our, our wedding is kind of a funny bit.

Speaker 11 What if Court was like, I don't like ramen?

Speaker 11 That'd be crazy. That'd be crazy.
Because she's the one that makes it. Yeah.
I don't think Courtney can fake anything when it comes to food. Okay.

Speaker 11 When she does not like something, everybody in the room knows.

Speaker 11 She'll drink something she doesn't like. She'll be like,

Speaker 11 Yeah, she cannot hide stuff well. Unless we're playing werewolf, and then suddenly she turns into a different person.
Exactly. I don't get it.

Speaker 11 Wow. Thank God for this last story being fun and lying.
Yeah, there we go. I love the happy ending.
We end on chicken parm. Chicken parm.
We always end on chicken parm here. I want chicken parm now.

Speaker 11 Hey, breadsticks for the whole family. Yeah.
Oh, breadsticks. Are they coming in?

Speaker 11 In a little bit.

Speaker 11 Wow. Well, thank you both for this wild ride.
Hey, thanks for driving. I feel like I said this last time I was on Reddit stories.

Speaker 11 I was like, this is one of the, I feel like this is one of the craziest stories. And I feel like this, this one, I'm like, this is one of the craziest set of stories.
Yeah. This was wild.

Speaker 11 They really got

Speaker 11 in them. They don't stop.
It always blows my mind when you find old ones that we've never seen. I'm like, damn.
Holy shit. Thank you both for joining me.
Thanks for having us. Thank you for watching.

Speaker 11 And we'll see you next Saturday for more stories. Goodbye.
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James, right now. Give James.

Speaker 11 James, he needs $10,000. His business is going to go out.
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