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them back stories of the year. Up
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to this point, Karen said, boys will
1:03
be boys. So I return the favor. More
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than 20 years ago, when me and my
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sisters were still in elementary, our mom took
1:10
us to a shopping mall for clothes and
1:12
groceries. A major supermarket was attached to the
1:15
mall. After everything was over, we
1:17
stopped by the bookstore where us kids picked
1:19
whatever books we wanted while she was picking
1:21
educational books for both of us. The bookstore
1:24
was also selling some physical discs for various
1:26
softwares, including games. While both of us were
1:28
looking into the games we wanted, a little
1:30
boy of our age came next to us,
1:33
opened up one of the discs and poked
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my sister in the eye. My sister immediately
1:37
started to cry her eyes out, and my
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mom rushed over to see what was happening.
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She scolded the little boy after hearing what
1:44
happened, to which he got upset and went
1:46
to grab his Karen of a mother. Karen
1:48
comes over and demands to know who yelled
1:50
at her son. The two ladies
1:53
began to get into a shouting match. My
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mom argued the kids had no reason to
1:57
hurt my sister like that and should be
1:59
taught better. But Karen argues, boys
2:01
will be boys and that he doesn't
2:03
know any better. She asked
2:05
my mom, why are you overreacting?
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I decided enough was enough. I
2:10
did a frontal kick on the kid as
2:12
hard as I can, making him fall on
2:15
his butt. I saw there was
2:17
a nice footprint imprinted on his shirt. He
2:19
began to let out the most annoying cry
2:21
I'd ever heard. The Karen quickly rushed over
2:23
to her little turd and began shouting at
2:25
me. I looked her in the eye
2:27
and said, boys will be boys. Why
2:30
are you overreacting? She tried to argue
2:32
more, but her friend or maybe her
2:34
sister held her back and ushered her
2:36
out of the store. We went to
2:38
get burgers and fries afterwards, but my
2:40
mom also lectured me about how violence
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isn't the answer. Me being a little
2:44
sprouty elementary kid didn't care and rode
2:46
that hype train for weeks. You know
2:48
what? I actually disagree with your mom.
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Sometimes I feel like violence has to be the
2:53
answer. Otherwise people don't
2:55
learn lessons. Right?
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And take that with a lot of context and
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the vast majority of the time it's not the right
3:02
thing to do. But I feel like once in
3:04
a blue moon, sometimes that has to be
3:06
done. Otherwise no one's ever going to learn. Like there
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are very, very few cases, very, very few where violence
3:10
should be the first response. Very,
3:12
very few. But in a situation like this, where
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this woman is so oblivious to how
3:17
heinous her children are being, spouting
3:19
terrible excuses like boys will be boys.
3:21
And yeah, I can imagine that this
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thing will continue to happen again and
3:25
again because her kids aren't being parented
3:27
correctly. They're not learning what's right and wrong.
3:29
Perhaps this flying kick, which let's be honest, probably
3:32
didn't hurt that much. Well actually sort her kids
3:34
out and we'll stop them from doing stuff like
3:36
this in the future. Like it's
3:38
educational. If a flying kick could ever be
3:40
educational, this is it. I didn't look pretty
3:42
enough four hours after my mum died. This
3:45
happened a really long time ago now, but
3:47
I've never seen anyone run away from a
3:49
situation quite so quickly. And sometimes I do
3:52
wonder what the guy thought or if he
3:54
learned his lesson. So my mum had been
3:56
terminal and was in hospice care in our
3:58
home. We knew. Is limited. However, when
4:01
I'm upset the first things that go to
4:03
hell is my sleep schedule. I slipped two
4:05
hours that nice and I hadn't been getting
4:07
much more sleep than that for the few
4:09
weeks preceding this thought she ended up passing
4:11
slightly before for the morning that this sort
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of the she passed I decided I needed
4:16
campaign to get for the day so when
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the nearest gas station opened up for a
4:20
to have a I headed over that for
4:22
some energy. Drinks are likely did look a
4:24
bit of a mess. It is easy to
4:26
tell when I'm tired and I was wearing
4:28
college much that was. Much bigger than my
4:31
usual size. I guess. I have my car
4:33
as have something for my clothes. I couldn't
4:35
remember which gigantic pocket or took my wallet
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in one. I did that this man whose
4:40
up to a pump and a very shiny
4:42
saw either arm and a what he looked
4:44
like. Beyond that he looks a bit like
4:46
a very put together game show host. This
4:48
man says to me he was twenty feet
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away. So this was who said loudly and
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says. It's. A shame someone so
4:55
pretty can't improve everly day with a
4:57
smile. I burst out crying oddly crying
5:00
with the sobbing mouth thing and shaking.
5:02
I just went from starting that hoping
5:04
I hadn't left my wallet home. So
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bowling and a mostly empty parking lot.
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I did manage to yell something like
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i'm sorry I'm not freaking pretty enough
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for you when my mom dies four
5:16
hours ago to dude turned on his
5:18
heels and less didn't pump gas, didn't
5:21
go inside for coffee, didn't apologize, just
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go and. His car unless I was
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safe of standing in the parking lot sobbing
5:27
by women who I think was talking and
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heard what the man and I said to
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each other and the employee at the gas
5:34
station who were both very kinds ah man
5:36
Aragon and that size of a see the
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deepest story that we've we've had so far.
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Goodness me I just got a say off
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the bow T. I'm so sorry to hear
5:45
about your situation and and you parents passing
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but also just be in this spot and
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have someone do this to a yeah. absolutely
5:52
insane let's be fair to the guy
5:54
may be had good intentions but he
5:56
really shouldn't be doing this so a
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thing he shouldn't be putting your
6:00
nose in someone else's business. Especially when they
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have the expression that I'm sure you had,
6:05
which was just, you know, being absolutely distraught.
6:07
It's past the point of not smiling. Surely
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you look just very, very upset. I mean, from
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an out-looker looking in, surely you
6:14
knew that something had gone wrong there. You weren't
6:16
just being sad or like not smiling. I don't
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know. I get the feeling he came in with
6:20
like a positive attitude. But ultimately, yeah, terrible thing
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to do. Don't assume things about other people. And
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I hope that this guy learned his lesson. Although
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I say that, a good
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man would have just apologized and said,
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I'm so sorry. I really had
6:34
good intentions. I just want people to be positive. It's my
6:36
bad. I'm so sorry if you're a
6:38
loss and that I did that. That's my fault. But
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actually, no, he ran away, didn't he? He ran away
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like a little coward. So I take it all back.
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He's just a disgraceful man. There we go.
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I will say though that the people that
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helped you in that situation, that has restored
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my faith in humanity. But once again, oh
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Pete, I'm so sorry. Let's move on. I
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was getting tampons, officer. So I got pulled
6:57
over one night coming back from Walmart. I
6:59
definitely deserved the ticket for speeding. But the
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cop was asking for too much information. It
7:04
was late. I was cramping. I just wanted
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to be home so I could stop bleeding
7:08
in my pants and eat my cookies. Of
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course, the typical question. Do you know how
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fast you were going? Ah, yes,
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sir. 65. Where
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are you coming from? Okay, fair question. I
7:18
guess it is 12 a.m. Walmart,
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officer. What were you getting at Walmart?
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Um, okay. Why do you need to know
7:26
that? I just want to get home, my
7:28
guy. But since you asked, I
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was getting tampons. Do you want to
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see them? His eyes got wide and he walked
7:35
away without saying a word. He came
7:37
back to give me my ticket and he couldn't make eye contacts.
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Most expensive box of tampons I've ever bought.
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However, the look on that guy's face
7:45
was priceless. Now, I
7:48
agree with you, Pete. There's questions that as
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a police officer, you are obviously allowed to
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ask and expected to ask. The
7:55
one about do you know how fast you're going? That's
7:57
a standard question and I think that is... is
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a reasonable one. But asking what
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you were buying at a shop, surely is just
8:05
not relevant information. Like at all. Why would an
8:07
officer ever need to know that? To be honest,
8:09
I think he should have just not given you
8:11
the ticket there. Just through embarrassment. Just held his
8:13
hands up and said, wow, I've
8:15
been completely done there. I'm not going to ticket you.
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There you go. Enjoy your day.
8:20
But no, he still gave you a ticket.
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What a little rass. Yeah, I get it.
8:24
It's the law. But come on, you have
8:26
to stop there. You deserve some form of
8:28
karma shortly. My kid can die if I
8:30
don't. I was waiting to check in at
8:32
the dentist today and some old lady started
8:34
humping and such. We're in Florida and I'm
8:36
wearing a mask. Unusual, I guess, but most
8:39
people just mind their own business and leave
8:41
me alone. There's a few however who are
8:43
pains about it. She looked at me and
8:45
asked why I was wearing that thing on my
8:47
face. Everyone knows that the
8:49
virus is gone. Why am I out
8:51
and about if I'm that bad? Now
8:54
I have breast cancer and I'm not
8:56
feeling great today. Mine's not terrible considering
8:58
my son though also has cancer and
9:00
his is bad. Grade
9:02
four brain cancer. Oh
9:05
my goodness me, OP. I'm so sorry to
9:07
hear that. I just looked at her and
9:09
said, my oncologist says cancer patients need to
9:11
be careful about dental care. Plus my kid
9:13
can die if I don't. She
9:15
turned sheet white and left me alone at
9:17
the rest of the time we were in
9:19
the waiting room together. I'm pretty sure the
9:22
dental hygienist who came out to get me
9:24
was purposely a bit louder than normal asking
9:26
about how my son was doing. Now this
9:28
is pretty similar I think to the third
9:30
post we had in this episode. Once again,
9:32
why are you sticking your nose in someone else's
9:35
business? Well, you just don't need to be doing
9:37
it. And also what is wrong with wearing a
9:39
mask? If I see someone wearing a mask out
9:41
and about these days, I say fair play to
9:44
them. Thank you. Either you are ill and
9:46
you're protecting the rest of the population from
9:48
getting your illness or you don't
9:50
want to get ill yourself. Both great things. Why
9:52
is that a negative thing? Oh, COVID
9:54
is done now. Well, first of all, it isn't like
9:57
my granny had COVID a couple of weeks ago. And
9:59
the only reason and shouldn't have it that badly
10:01
is because she's still getting vaccinated. And
10:03
secondly, okay, let people wear masks. My
10:05
wife is dead. When my son was
10:07
born, I was a stay-at-home dad for
10:09
the first year of his life. We
10:11
also lived in New York City, and
10:13
I loved taking him out into the
10:15
city to do things. Nearly every subway
10:17
ride though, I'd have some kind of
10:19
encounter with a woman or group of
10:21
women, usually boomers, who would say some
10:23
variation of giving mum the day off
10:26
or so nice to see dad babysitting
10:28
once in a while. Now, first off,
10:30
it's not possible to babysit your
10:32
own kid. That's called parenting. But
10:34
second, I was the primary caregiver.
10:36
Mum was at work, I
10:38
stayed home with the boy. It got
10:40
old real fast, but I found a
10:43
very nice trick that shut these old
10:45
biddies down real quick. Anytime someone would
10:47
ask if I was babysitting or giving
10:49
mum the day off, my face would
10:51
fall. I'd get real quiet,
10:53
and after taking a moment to compose
10:55
myself, I'd say something like, my
10:57
wife died during childbirth. Or,
11:00
my wife is currently undergoing radiation
11:02
treatment for stage four cancer. She's
11:04
at a clinic in California. I
11:06
haven't seen her in six months.
11:09
Or, my favourite, his mum abandoned us
11:11
when he was just six weeks old.
11:13
She'd been using drugs pretty heavily while
11:15
she was pregnant, and so he was
11:17
born addicted. I didn't hear from
11:19
his mother for months after she left until
11:22
one day I found out she'd overdosed and
11:24
died. This little guy is all I've
11:26
got left of her. But, we carry
11:28
on best we can. That shuts them
11:30
up real quick. Now, I will say
11:33
that perhaps given the stories we've read
11:35
earlier in this episode, this might not
11:37
be the best thing to do. I
11:39
think lying about people dying
11:41
in your family is maybe a
11:43
little bit too much, but I completely understand
11:46
why you did it, OP, and
11:48
it did have the desired effect. And again,
11:50
you don't have to deal, or you shouldn't have
11:52
to deal with this complete enough to sexism every
11:54
single day when you're just being a good dad.
11:57
So, if that's the best way that you thought about, you
11:59
know, dealing with it, with people like this, then
12:01
I hold my hands up. There you go. I
12:03
mean, if it does happen every single day, then
12:05
that must get unbelievably annoying. I mean, I will
12:07
say that saying that his mum abandoned us when
12:09
he was just six weeks old, she'd
12:12
been using drugs pretty heavily, and so
12:14
he was born addicted. I mean, imagine
12:16
hearing that. Like you've just said, oh,
12:18
it's so nice to see a man doing the
12:20
job for once, babysitting. And then you hear the
12:23
guy say that. You gotta be questioning your life
12:25
at that point. Yeah, it's had the desired effect.
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Comment on my butt at work. Let me make
12:29
this uncomfortable for us both. I was
12:31
working as a front-end cashier for a
12:34
local grocery store. It was around the
12:36
time of my lunch break, so my
12:38
line was closed off after this last
12:40
customer. Grizzled, 60, 70-year-old bearded guy. I
12:43
am in my early 20s, a feminine cashier.
12:45
As I finish ringing up his purchases and
12:47
he goes to slide his card, the card
12:49
machine doesn't work. I tell him to keep
12:51
swiping until it beeps. We were mid-changed to
12:53
a new sales system, so this was a
12:56
common occurrence. I bend under my tail to
12:58
clean and organize while he's sliding his card.
13:01
As I'm bent over, his card dings. Sweet,
13:03
let's wrap this up so I can go eat. Instead.
13:07
Oh, I liked it when you did that.
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I'm still under the tail. I roll my
13:12
eyes. And then, inspiration
13:14
strikes. Petty, petty inspiration. I
13:16
come up. Did
13:18
what, sir? When you bent over,
13:20
it worked. I had a confused
13:22
face. Why? Well,
13:24
it liked when you bent over. Why
13:27
would it like that I bent over?
13:29
It's a boy card. Boys like it
13:31
when girls bend over. Sorry,
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I've got to say, this is the creepiest
13:35
dude I've ever seen on Reddit. What? But
13:38
why? I ask again. Well, they just
13:40
do. At this point, I'm gleeful
13:42
on the inside. But why?
13:44
I don't understand. The old
13:46
man is getting flustered. His face gets red. He
13:49
mumbles. Mom, you're making me
13:51
a little uncomfortable. I drop the dumb
13:53
act. I lean forward across the check
13:56
stand and look right into his eyes.
13:58
And how do you think I... reveal, when a
14:01
man makes an unwanted comment on my
14:03
backside while I'm at work. He has
14:05
20 shades of red, stammering. I
14:09
meant no disrespect, it was supposed to
14:11
be a compliment. I put on a
14:13
very stern face. Well it was disrespectful.
14:16
Please don't comment on women's bodies when
14:18
they work. I'm so sorry, it won't
14:20
happen again. He collects his
14:23
bag and leaves without another word. Cleanful
14:25
vindication. Good. Now maybe you won't go
14:27
and harass other people at their freaking
14:30
jobs. Well yeah, creepiest guy
14:32
ever. Literally the creepiest guy ever.
14:34
Well done OP for not just being quiet.
14:36
I mean it must be pretty horribly
14:39
uncomfortable in situations like this and you just want
14:41
to stay quiet and just say, okay fine, I'll
14:43
ring you up, go leave the store. But no,
14:45
you did the right thing. I mean, fair play.
14:47
It's very brave to do that courageous. I
14:49
can't even imagine being in this situation. Just try and
14:51
do your job and getting harassed by people 50 years
14:54
older than you. I mean by the way brother, you've
14:56
got no chance anyway. What are you doing? Go home
14:58
to your old people's home and just sit in your
15:00
chair and do the Sudoku my friend. And by the
15:02
way, I quite like Sudoku's. So that's not a slight
15:04
on people that do Sudoku's, but it is a slight
15:06
on creep. I'm
15:10
Sandra and I'm just the professional your small
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business was looking for. But you didn't hire
15:14
me because you didn't use LinkedIn jobs. LinkedIn
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month over 70% of LinkedIn
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users don't visit other leading job
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free job on linkedin.com/achieve today. I
15:42
served my sister-in-law a child's plate after she
15:44
broke multiple heirloom china plates. I caught her
15:47
breaking them on camera. My husband and I
15:49
have family dinners at our house every month
15:51
or so with our family. I have some
15:53
sets of fine china that I like to
15:55
switch out between the seasons that I've inherited
15:58
from my grandmother. I
16:00
serve dinner on these plates. My mother-in-law
16:03
compliments them every time. My sister-in-law however
16:05
has made comments to me that they're
16:07
not her style. I honestly didn't think
16:09
twice about her comments up until this
16:12
past February when one of my plates
16:14
was put in the sink broken. I
16:16
chalked it up to an accident. In
16:18
April we had another dinner. This time
16:20
my sister-in-law was carrying both her and
16:23
her boyfriend's plates of the sink and
16:25
accidentally dropped them both. Again,
16:27
no biggie at all. In
16:29
May she broke two more plates and
16:31
in June she broke a plate and
16:34
a cup. At this point I
16:36
was catching on. I brought up these concerns
16:38
to my husband and he brushed them off
16:40
as accidents. I told my mum and she
16:42
said that she thought that my sister-in-law was
16:45
doing it on purpose and she got me
16:47
a camera to put in the dining room.
16:49
In July we had dinner and I had
16:51
an opportunity to rise. My mother-in-law, sister-in-law and
16:54
her boyfriend joined us for dinner. While our
16:56
plates were still on the table, my mother-in-law
16:58
asked how my plants were doing and I
17:00
said I'd show her. I told
17:02
my husband to follow us outside so he could show
17:04
her the plant that he's growing, leaving
17:07
my sister-in-law alone with her boyfriend. When
17:09
we came back inside, five minutes later,
17:12
her plate was broken. When
17:14
they left, I pulled up the camera footage.
17:17
I saw her stand up when we walked out,
17:19
peek around the corner and then throw the plate
17:21
on the ground. I kept this
17:23
video to myself. All I'll
17:25
say at this point is, are you sure she's
17:28
not Greek and it's just tradition? I just.
17:30
This brings me to this past weekend. We
17:33
had our family dinner and we were joined
17:35
by my in-laws, my sister-in-law and her boyfriend
17:37
as well as my parents, siblings and niece.
17:40
I served everyone, saving evil
17:42
sister-in-law for last. I
17:44
brought her food out on a child's plate
17:46
with a sippy cup and got those kids
17:49
silverware with the plastic handles. She
17:51
looked at me confused and said, I think
17:53
you mixed my plate up with your niece's plate.
17:55
And I said, no, my
17:58
niece is responsible enough to eat on a table.
18:00
grown ups plate. If you're gonna
18:02
act like a child in my home, I'm
18:04
gonna treat you like a child in my
18:06
home." She tried to play coy, but I
18:08
had my iPad ready and I played the
18:10
video to everyone at the table. She
18:13
started sobbing. She swamped the kids play off
18:15
the table and stormed out. My in-laws both
18:17
apologized and offered to pay for replacement plays,
18:19
but I told them not to worry about
18:21
it. Despite this, we still had a nice
18:23
time. When everyone left, my husband told me
18:26
I was out of line and cruel. But
18:28
I told him that this has been happening
18:30
for months and I've told him it was
18:32
bothering me multiple times. It's Wednesday,
18:34
he's still being a little cold to
18:37
me and I also got a text
18:39
from my sister in-laws boyfriend asking me
18:41
if I'd apologize to her because I
18:43
really embarrassed her. I sent
18:45
him the video again and he left me
18:47
unread. My husband just called me
18:49
to ask if I was taunting her boyfriend
18:52
because his sister called him crying that I
18:54
was. Now somebody has asked in the comments
18:56
down below, inquiring minds need to know why
18:58
would she break your plates? Because she doesn't
19:01
like to eat off something that's not her
19:03
style? Yeah, I agree. That is one of
19:05
the weirdest things I've ever heard. How can
19:07
you have a style of plate that you
19:09
like or dislike at someone else's house? I
19:12
hope you replied. I would like to know
19:14
too. I'll probably never get a straight
19:16
answer though. My husband apologized and now
19:18
we're bouncing back and forth off of
19:20
the wise and we're kind of circling
19:22
around to the boyfriend. My in-laws say
19:24
that's when they've noticed a behavior change.
19:26
She's gotten into trouble since dating him.
19:29
They act like teenagers. My
19:31
husband is saying exactly what I was
19:33
thinking was happening. He's trying not to
19:35
blame or pin anything on her because
19:37
she has been behaving differently over the
19:39
past few months. She got caught shoplifting
19:41
and her boyfriend also got caught stealing
19:43
and went to jail. No diagnosis that
19:45
I've ever known of, but the family
19:47
is now saying that could be a
19:49
deeper issue or possibly a substance issue.
19:51
Someone else also commented, I'm glad that
19:53
your husband apologized. What made him come
19:55
around? If I may ask, I'll be
19:57
said my mother-in-law, at least I'm assuming.
20:00
She texted me that they were on the phone
20:02
when he was on his way home. That's my
20:04
bet. I really want to talk to him about
20:06
all of this but I don't want to overwhelm
20:08
him, especially because he's been a little distant. I
20:11
think the whole thing is overwhelming for him. He
20:13
told me his sister called him four times. I'm
20:15
keeping it low key for now but I'm going
20:17
to try and get some answers about the plate
20:19
breaking. Alright then there we go, quite a long
20:22
story. The good thing about r slash traumatize them
20:24
back is that you do get some short fun
20:27
posts, I don't know if fun is the best word there but
20:29
you know snappy little ones that you don't have
20:31
to concentrate on too much and then you get
20:33
some longer more in-depth ones like this. I just
20:35
want to know what is wrong with the plates.
20:37
I really do. How can the style of a
20:39
plate have that much of an effect on someone's
20:41
life to the extent that they want to break
20:43
them? I mean absolutely insane. Shout out
20:45
your mother-in-law by the way. Like what a
20:48
goat saying you know what I know what's
20:50
going on here. Here's a secret camera. Set
20:52
it up. Let's watch this back together. Oh
20:54
actually it was your mum wasn't it but
20:56
still I feel like your mum and your
20:58
mother-in-law both did well here. Is
21:00
sister-in-law less so? I do kind of feel
21:03
like your husband though it's like a lot
21:05
of convincing here. When she'd broken six or
21:07
seven pieces of heirloom china, yep
21:10
apparently according to him you're in
21:12
the wrong for embarrassing her. Why is the
21:14
logic there my friends? I mean yes it's
21:16
good that he's come around but it should
21:18
not have taken him that long. Mother tries
21:20
to spank teenager and regrets it. I'm well
21:22
into being an adult today and this is
21:24
a story of how I stopped my mother
21:26
from ever spanking me again. My mother
21:28
has always been fond of physical punishment. She's a
21:30
pusher, slapper, hit with random objects her
21:32
and a spanker. I got spanked a
21:35
lot for things I did and things
21:37
that she perceived I did. She spanked
21:39
me well into being a teenager as
21:41
well. I was 16 or 17 at
21:43
the time and my wet towel from
21:45
showering was on my bed. My mother
21:47
always lost her mind over not hanging
21:49
a towel properly and frankly this was
21:51
a mistake I made often. She
21:54
came in while I was dressing, saw
21:56
the towel and she immediately grabbed and
21:58
spun me to start Spanking. Hey,
22:00
I'll never know what devil took over, but
22:02
it was a devil that had been needed.
22:04
Much sooner in my life is set of
22:06
crying out in pain. I said. I can't
22:09
quite believe I'm about to do the skies,
22:11
but I will. I'm going to give it
22:13
my own. Oh
22:16
oh. She. Was
22:18
views of us who sort of small
22:20
also sponsors that. My response was well
22:22
as the so many spankings I was
22:24
wondering when I was thought to enjoy
22:27
it. She looks horrified. Left my room
22:29
and I cool down the hallway. Come
22:31
back. We could say correlationship for the
22:34
next level with i was never spanx
22:36
again. I cannot believe I've just read
22:38
that that is obviously going to be
22:40
the conclusion of this episode immediately. Well,
22:43
despite the five, I just as he
22:45
cannot believe watches done that. I'm
22:47
on. I'm I'm really sorry for any family
22:50
members of are watching this or listen to.
22:52
This is probably my last moment in my
22:54
life so far. Advice: The perfect example of
22:56
Off Plus traumatized them back. Your mom now
22:59
surely is living with that trauma. In
23:01
the back of my mind is she might
23:03
have thought you were joking long term but
23:05
is always gonna have those lingering doubts. Did
23:08
my son enjoy sexually? Me: Spanking
23:10
him makes you think pretty litter has still
23:12
my daughter's I'll still he backs. This was
23:14
a few years ago. I think twenty seen
23:16
nineteen, freak over the any right Some a
23:19
bit fuzzy on ages, but I think my
23:21
sister and I I am a woman by
23:23
the way with thirty or thirty one and
23:25
twenty one of twenty three respectively. But basically
23:28
we were followed by a strange man we
23:30
were on holiday at the time and be
23:32
less or mom and pop to go and
23:34
grab a couple of keep things from a
23:37
sharp as a go play with the local
23:39
stray cat. who lived that one of
23:41
the squares she sits been adopted by
23:43
a family is a place have been
23:45
going to since we're both babies so
23:47
we know our way around blindfolded and
23:49
we generally feel safe in the area
23:51
that we were in now have looked
23:53
back to the pop we realized we
23:55
were being followed by somebody be didn't
23:57
know he wasn't being sauces about said
23:59
so We walked a different way to try and
24:01
throw him off before going back to our mum. As
24:04
you may imagine, this was extremely alarming to
24:06
us, particularly because we were in a foreign
24:08
country. Our friend who owned the pub offered
24:10
to call the police on the guy, since
24:13
he was still obviously loitering around the corner.
24:15
My mum though had a different approach.
24:18
She was a formidable woman who didn't
24:20
take any nonsense and was fiercely protective
24:22
of her daughters. If someone like a
24:24
Karen tried to start an argument with
24:26
her, as once happened on a flight,
24:28
they would quickly regret it because she
24:30
always won. She once quit
24:32
her job after one too many insights from
24:34
her boss, knowing her boss couldn't function without
24:36
her and would come begging her to come
24:38
back and she was right. So
24:41
my mum decided to stalk this strange
24:43
man back. My sister and
24:45
I decided to follow along because it
24:47
sounded intriguing. We watched as
24:49
he tried to hide behind trees. It
24:52
did not work and eventually got so
24:54
uncomfortable with my mum's relentless pursuit that
24:56
he fled across the main road and
24:59
she pursued him even then until he
25:01
was finally gone from our sights. That
25:04
is amazing. I mean this is just brilliant. It's
25:07
absolutely comical in my mind. I just want to
25:09
see this happen. This has to be turned into
25:11
some sort of skit or something or some
25:13
sort of episode on a comedy show. I mean
25:15
it's just so good. What a great way to
25:18
just completely unnerve someone and hopefully make
25:20
this man realise that what he's doing
25:22
is so creepy. I mean it's also
25:24
illegal but just mainly just so weird.
25:27
What is going on? Your mum by the way? Absolutely
25:30
legendary. I hope she haunts this man for
25:32
a very long time and to be honest
25:34
I mean might as well keep up the
25:36
stalking. It's so funny. Deceased father's girlfriend is
25:39
going down. So this will be
25:41
a developing story over the next few months. Just
25:43
getting started. My father passed away
25:46
three weeks ago. He was a
25:48
hard worker. It's a real estate and a
25:50
man of means. He has
25:52
seven properties, five cars and liquid
25:54
cash. His girlfriend that chased
25:56
him down nine years ago was his carer
25:58
until death. In the last
26:01
2-3 years, she began to isolate my father
26:03
from his 4 kids. She would attempt to
26:05
keep us out of the home and stand
26:07
at the door and say he was sick.
26:09
We would push our way in and he
26:11
never rejected us. I think we all know
26:13
what she is trying to do here. November
26:15
4th last year, I went out of the
26:17
blue to his house and he was lying
26:19
there, dying. I took a video. He
26:22
was septic and wouldn't have made it through the night
26:24
if I hadn't found him. I sent him
26:26
to the hospital. He went back again a
26:28
week later and was placed on hospice.
26:30
This female dog I've since found out,
26:32
deleted my number from his phone. She
26:35
then got him a new phone about
26:37
2 weeks before he died to confuse
26:39
him so he wouldn't know how to
26:41
use it. He asked my siblings
26:43
and son for my number 3 times to
26:45
call me before death
26:48
and he never called. Oh my gosh.
26:50
I suspect that she kept him from
26:52
calling. I must fill in this blank.
26:54
She drove a wedge between us and
26:56
talked to me like a dog from
26:58
November to December when I went no
27:00
contact. I sent a letter expressing my
27:03
hurt and that I loved him. She presented
27:05
an electronic will leaving her
27:08
everything. Now, e-wills are not
27:10
valid in my state. She sent a text
27:12
from his phone to hers back in January
27:14
stating that he was leaving her 2 homes.
27:16
It was in broken English
27:18
so I know it was her. Dad doesn't
27:21
even text. He didn't know how. So,
27:23
she is losing everything. Her car,
27:25
the house they shared, everything.
27:28
I'm even thinking of suing her
27:30
for mental and emotional abuse of
27:32
my dad. The car he bought
27:35
for her is in his name.
27:37
That's gone. Oh and she also
27:39
ranted over his car skit at
27:41
his children and grandchildren all on
27:43
video. I'm going to ruin her.
27:45
Wow. Also, a quick update. We're
27:47
getting temporary orders of administration over
27:50
the estate and filing eviction tomorrow
27:52
and we confiscate vehicles this Sunday
27:54
with Sheriff Escort winning. Well, that
27:56
is amazing to hear. Wow. I
27:59
mean, the ending for that is great that is great
28:01
to see that she's you know losing everything
28:03
it's just a terrible terrible case isn't it
28:05
it's a terrible story ultimately though i do
28:07
feel like is there not some form of
28:09
like attempted murder charge here that you could
28:11
be going for i know you probably don't
28:13
want to do this and it's horribly morbid
28:16
and it's so sad and just very very
28:18
you know distressing for you and the family
28:20
but if you found your dad pretty much
28:22
dying in front of you well you said
28:24
dying like he was septic and
28:26
it's because of her lack of looking after him
28:28
that's the reason why he's in that position it
28:30
has to be then is there not a charge
28:33
or a potential case for attempted murder there i
28:35
don't know what you've got so far the the
28:37
temporary orders of administration over the estate the fact
28:39
that she's going to be in a much worse
28:41
place after your dad's death than she was before
28:43
despite the fact that yeah she clearly
28:45
was just going for all his money and property
28:47
in the first place i think there's more there's
28:49
more you could do here i don't know it's
28:51
up to you but i do feel like there's
28:53
more that could be done let me know in
28:55
the comments down below is attempted murder not on
28:58
the cards here i'm not sure let me know
29:00
annoying middle school attendance lady years ago i called
29:02
the middle school attendance office to have my two
29:04
boys sent to the office so i could take
29:06
them out of school for a family emergency the
29:08
attendance lady was not happy about this and went
29:10
on a rant about how i should have sent
29:12
a note with them a day or two in
29:14
advance and then she would have had them
29:16
in the office now she has to send a student
29:19
to each of their rooms to get them and this
29:21
could take 30 minutes it's
29:23
a very old building with no intercoms to each
29:25
room sir do you understand what
29:27
an inconvenience it is for me to stop
29:29
my students from doing an assigned task and
29:31
have them go and get your children i
29:34
was trying to interject but she wasn't having
29:36
it she continued on and on about how
29:38
all of the protocols are in the student
29:40
handbook if i would have just taken the
29:43
time to read it at the beginning of
29:45
the year she then finally stopped
29:47
long enough for me to speak mom
29:49
you're absolutely right i'm sorry i didn't
29:51
send a note with the boys now
29:53
unfortunately their grandfather didn't give me advanced
29:56
notice that he was going to have
29:58
a heart attack this morning The
30:00
surgeon performing his open heart surgery didn't
30:03
give us any advanced notice either. We
30:05
have to leave town immediately. The
30:08
stuttering and awkwardness was amazing. Honestly,
30:10
it was hysterical and a great
30:12
stress reducer while he was in
30:15
surgery. My dad loves
30:17
that story. Oh so he survived.
30:20
That is even better. Yeah, the word that springs to
30:22
mind here is just jobsworth. As I said, I'm very
30:24
happy that your granddad wasn't actually dead. I thought he
30:26
was and then I thought it was going to be
30:28
an extremely sarcastic response from your dad, something
30:30
along the lines of, well, unfortunately, we
30:33
didn't get advanced notice that my dad was
30:35
about to die. But at least he's still
30:37
alive and hopefully he could even laugh at
30:39
this story. Absolutely insane. I mean, is it
30:41
that hard to go and get students out
30:43
of a classroom? Also just send
30:45
an email. That's what we did at my school. The
30:47
teachers got an email and they were on their computers
30:50
anyway. Oh yeah, just send the kid around to go
30:52
and get them. It's not that hard. And
30:54
in familial emergencies like this, obviously it has
30:56
to be done. You just haven't had the
30:59
right D yet. So I, a
31:01
19 year old woman, only date fem
31:03
folks. Sexual tastes are a bit broader.
31:06
Much of the support of most of my
31:08
family and all of my friends. The
31:10
friends of my friends? Not so much. One
31:13
of those friends, unfortunately, had a
31:15
Klingon in their circle. A jerk
31:17
we'll call Bill. Bill has certain
31:19
views on relationships and women and
31:22
is not very happy with queer people. He
31:24
likes to make small comments on the fact
31:26
that I only date women and even more
31:28
so that I'm dating two people. Oh, the
31:30
horror. And only one is
31:33
a woman. The other being a fem
31:35
boy. Now he got a bit drunk one night and
31:37
his comments were getting a little bit aggressive. I
31:39
was cuddling with one of my partners
31:41
and exchanging small kisses, but eventually he
31:43
said two things that everyone should hate.
31:46
The classic of you just haven't had the
31:48
right D yet as well as a new
31:51
one I'd never heard. You just need
31:53
to try it once. I volunteer. Oh
31:55
my gosh. My partner tried to stop me
31:57
because she could see I was getting mad.
32:00
But it was too late. Someone told me
32:02
that once, I said. Then he R
32:04
worded me so I could try it
32:06
once. Now I can't trust
32:08
anyone who presents masculine like you. He
32:10
got very defensive over this, acting like
32:13
I was accusing him of something and
32:15
carrying on. He was promptly
32:17
asked to leave by the friend he was
32:19
connected to and I haven't heard or seen
32:21
him in two months. So, hurrah. Yeah, I
32:23
mean this one is just crazy. Absolutely
32:27
crazy. Who in their right mind would ever say
32:29
something like this? It's just insane. What are you
32:31
supposed to even do in response to this? I
32:33
mean, you didn't have to say what you did
32:35
but I'm kind of thankful that you did. Although,
32:38
it doesn't even seem like he learned from that.
32:40
He just, as you say, got defensive and then
32:42
carried on. So really, I mean, did he actually
32:44
learn from that at all? Probably not. Which is
32:46
mad but yeah, crazy. Although, I
32:48
guess if you haven't seen him in two months that
32:51
is a good thing but it shouldn't take you having
32:53
to say something like this to him for him to
32:55
not be around anymore. Also, I mean, your friend who
32:58
is his friend, who brought him in the first
33:00
place, surely should have realised he's just a creepy
33:02
guy. I mean, unless he's just not
33:04
a good friend in the first place, you should
33:06
expect your friends to have good friends, I reckon.
33:08
I mean, that's not up to you but if
33:10
they are in your same or similar circles, you
33:13
can't be expecting someone like this to be knocking about.
33:15
I mean, it's just disgraceful. I mean, you could also
33:17
argue that, you know, how does Bill not
33:19
know that he's gay? He just needs a good
33:22
big D, for
33:24
want of a better phrase, and it'll
33:26
magically change him. Has he tried it?
33:29
No. How could he possibly know? Customer
33:31
asks, I have cancer. What's wrong with
33:33
you? So, I put my wig on
33:35
the counter. Back during the mask mandate,
33:37
I worked in one of the big
33:39
brand jewellery stores, commonly found in shopping
33:41
malls. On this boring day, it was
33:43
only me and my assistant manager. We'll
33:45
call her Lisa working. In the afternoon,
33:47
a man, probably in his mid-30s, comes
33:50
into the store. I do my usual greeting
33:53
and get ready to work with him, when Lisa
33:55
clears her throat and pulls on her mask a
33:57
bit. I didn't even realise that the man wasn't
33:59
wearing a mask. wearing a face covering, so I
34:01
politely offer him a mask so I can
34:03
help him. Of course, he goes on a
34:05
rant, saying he knows his rights and the
34:07
usual mumbo-jumbo we've all heard. I
34:09
tell him I'm sorry but I have a weak
34:12
immune system and I can't risk getting sick. This
34:14
earns me a grunt and him snapping at me,
34:16
I have cancer, what's wrong with
34:18
you? I give him no answer and
34:20
take my wig off and drop it
34:23
on the counter in front of me.
34:25
He sputters and tries to apologise, saying
34:27
he didn't know. He then decides to
34:29
tell my co-worker and me, both early
34:31
20s females, about his testicular cancer, talking
34:33
way too much about his naughty bits
34:35
for our liking. I guess that
34:38
was his way of trying to defuse the awkwardness
34:40
and shame. I've walked to the other
34:42
side of the store and my co-worker dealt with him.
34:45
At some point, I heard him say
34:47
to her, I'd asked what kind of
34:49
cancer she has, but Nalisa and I
34:51
share a knowing look. I never actually
34:53
said I had cancer. My hair
34:55
fell out when I was a kid and never grew back.
34:58
That's all it is. No sickness, just
35:00
my immune system being stupid. Oh wow.
35:02
Eventually, he buys an engagement ring and
35:05
scurries away. I've honestly never seen a
35:07
customer walk out so fast paced. Lisa
35:09
and I crack up laughing once we
35:12
thought he was out of hearing range
35:14
before going back to being bored on
35:16
a slow day. That is
35:19
actually phenomenal. It's a great thing that you don't
35:21
have cancer, but also the fact that you slightly
35:23
inferred that you did while not actually saying
35:25
that you did and him thinking, oh my God,
35:28
what have I done? It's so good as well.
35:30
I think just to clarify what I mean here,
35:32
it's a good thing that you don't have cancer.
35:34
That's obviously a flat good thing, but
35:36
I think it's also a good thing that you made
35:39
him think that you did have cancer despite the fact
35:41
that he didn't lie about having cancer, which would have
35:43
been weird. Him thinking that you
35:45
have cancer, I think is a good thing
35:47
and should in theory, although I've said this
35:49
with like everyone else in this video really,
35:52
should in theory make him think twice about
35:54
doing something similar in the future. But I
35:56
don't know guys, I mean, I'm just looking through
35:58
this again. He scurries away and it's obviously
36:00
embarrassed. Will he do something like this in
36:02
the future? I don't know. I also kind
36:04
of do feel a bit bad for him.
36:06
Like if he has cancer then it's just
36:08
a terrible thing to have obviously. So let's
36:10
cut him a little bit of slack. He's
36:12
probably going through a lot right now but
36:14
it doesn't excuse you know being really
36:17
rude. And it also doesn't excuse not wearing a mask.
36:19
I mean surely you can still wear a mask when
36:21
you have cancer. If anything wouldn't you still
36:23
want to have a mask on? I mean more
36:25
than ever so you don't get you know you're
36:27
not at risk of getting an infection which
36:30
would make your immune system even weaker
36:32
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36:34
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36:36
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36:43
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36:52
here for your enjoyment. To mitigate
36:54
my disability and help me get around in
36:56
the world I have a power wheelchair and
36:58
a service dog. I'm not exaggerating at all
37:01
when I say the trash that comes my
37:03
way could fill a 3 month supply of
37:05
my colosse me bags and then some. For
37:07
our newcomers I am the way I am
37:09
as I grew up in a suburb of
37:11
NYC was bullied constantly my entire school life
37:14
and grew up with an older brother. He and
37:17
his friends made my life a living heck
37:19
until I honed my sarcasm, sharpened my tongue
37:21
and learned to think quickly to give as
37:23
good as I got. Usually I
37:25
ended up turning it around and making it worse
37:27
for the person who insulted me. In
37:29
addition to all of this my
37:31
husband and I recently moved from our
37:34
lovely New York adjacent suburb to North
37:36
Carolina. It's a lower cost of
37:38
living, I still get excellent medical care, we've
37:40
got a house that's fully accessible in a
37:43
lovely neighborhood etc. People here say
37:45
things to you in a sickly sweet or
37:47
very kind voice but what sounds like a
37:49
compliment is often an insult. Now that you're
37:51
all caught up on to the story. Today
37:53
we went to Costco, my hair is a
37:56
gorgeous dark purple and as my service dog
37:58
Kath and I are wheeling around I see
38:00
a shirt I like. I go to look
38:02
at said shirt. It was one of those
38:04
super soft casual cuts in an amazing shade
38:06
of green. A younger woman, maybe
38:08
mid thirties, looks at me and nods
38:10
politely. I smile and nod back
38:13
and begin checking out the shirt that caught
38:15
my eye. She's next to me, also checking
38:17
out the shirt, just in a different colour.
38:20
She says to me, you are so brave
38:22
to have purple hair. I could
38:24
never do something like that. In
38:27
that, oh bless your heart tone. Oh
38:30
no, I replied. What's brave? Is
38:32
a woman your age wearing that?
38:35
A vague gesture to her clothes. What's
38:37
wrong with it? Well, those jeans are
38:40
definitely a choice. Plus open toed shoes
38:42
when your feet look like that. I
38:45
wish I had half your confidence. You'll have a
38:47
great day. At that point I decided against the
38:49
shirt since the shade of green made me look
38:51
like a shade of corpse that was just not
38:54
flattering. Not that any shade of corpse
38:56
is flattering, but this was the least
38:58
flattering shade of corpse I'd ever seen.
39:00
Cap and I zoomed off to find
39:02
my lost husband, leaving her to stare
39:04
at her perfectly nice jeans and perfectly
39:06
normal feet in perfectly normal open toed
39:09
shoes. I wonder what the frick was
39:11
wrong with them and probably wonder why
39:13
a woman in her mid thirties shouldn't
39:15
be wearing perfectly nice jeans with a
39:17
perfectly nice sweater and perfectly normal open
39:19
toed shoes. I'll be living rent free
39:21
in her head for a long, long
39:23
time. Until next time, because there's always
39:26
a next time, your friendly
39:28
neighbourhood cripple. Now just some
39:30
more info to add. Several people have raised
39:32
the question if she was actually complimenting me.
39:34
Sadly friends, she wasn't. Her tone
39:36
of voice was the one reserved
39:39
for very stupid dogs, very stupid
39:41
husbands or very ugly babies. That
39:43
saturn, false sweet tone that indicates disdain
39:45
behind what would otherwise be complimentary words.
39:48
Like calling your dog brilliant because they
39:50
started themselves awake by farting and give
39:52
their butt a look like it betrayed
39:55
them. I am guilty of
39:57
that last one. Peggy does it regularly and
39:59
everyone It's hilarious. Yeah, that is
40:01
fair enough. I was kind of thinking are
40:03
you sure she's not actually complementing you? But
40:06
I guess when you're in real life when you
40:08
hear the tone you would know if someone's being
40:10
sarcastic Alright guys, let me know in the comments
40:13
down below because this is the first time I've
40:15
ever come across this user I've got to say
40:17
from the style of writing and just the general
40:19
tone I love this person and I want to
40:21
read more stories from them about similar sort of
40:23
things that have happened I can't quite believe I've
40:25
not seen a story from OP before but I
40:27
don't think I have Comment down below.
40:30
Do you want to see more from this user
40:32
because I reckon I'm not out of look I
40:34
reckon they've got loads and loads of posts that
40:36
are probably equally as funny as this one I
40:38
mean on this one just well done. Well
40:40
done. It's unnecessary comment from anyone to
40:42
ever comment on someone else's Appearance
40:45
or style when they're just
40:47
strangers. So yeah, you just shut
40:49
her up instantly It sounded like you just clap back
40:51
right away and you're so right It
40:54
makes it better that she's wearing normal stuff That
40:56
probably looks pretty nice because now she's gonna be
40:58
second-guessing probably her entire wardrobe and thinking. Oh my
41:00
god What does she see? What can I not
41:03
see? Why why does she say this about my
41:05
jeans when they're actually completely normal? It's
41:07
so good as you said
41:09
great phrase rent free grab my booty.
41:11
Have fun blowing your nose This one
41:13
happened just an hour ago. I'm still
41:15
shaking a bit. But dang am I
41:17
proud of myself I was at
41:20
the wall of Mars my first mistake and I was
41:22
bent over looking at cross stuff this random
41:24
man late 30s Early 40s decided it
41:26
would be a great idea to grab
41:28
a fistful of my butts Of course,
41:30
the dude does not know I'm a
41:32
martial artist So I was very surprised
41:34
when I rabbit punched him square in
41:36
the nose He grabs his face
41:38
and starts cussing me out. I
41:40
cock my fist back and shout and I'll do it
41:42
again He scurried off still
41:45
cussing up a storm. No, I didn't contact
41:47
the police Not my first rodeo so I
41:49
know they wouldn't do anything. I
41:51
did tell a manager I'm familiar with what happened
41:53
so they could keep an eye out. Why am
41:55
I so proud of myself? I didn't cry I
41:58
even finished my errands before coming home I
42:00
was not gonna let a random jerk ruin
42:02
my day. There we go If you weren't
42:05
sure what r slash traumatized them back was
42:07
all about well now, you know, this is
42:09
brilliant He assaulted you first you get to
42:11
do whatever you want to him afterwards in
42:13
my opinion Yeah, I know like legally
42:15
you assaulted him back, but is that not self-defense of
42:17
some sort? I mean you can't get away with this
42:20
and now he's not gonna do it again because of
42:22
you So you've done amazingly for yourself and for other
42:24
women that this would probably have happened to in the
42:26
future Amazing how a PE teacher
42:28
put my sister in the hospital So this
42:30
is about my older sister who I'll be
42:32
calling Jane for this post now Jane has
42:34
asthma She's had it ever since she was
42:37
a baby and gets it pretty badly We've
42:39
had to spend more than one Christmas in the
42:41
hospital because she had pneumonia and the school was
42:43
very well aware that she had asthma She
42:46
always had an inhaler on her and the
42:48
front office had a nebulizer for emergencies And
42:50
there were multiple doctor notes on file limiting
42:52
what she could do. She couldn't play a
42:54
wind instrument in band class She was allowed
42:56
to not sing in choir if she was
42:58
having trouble and if teachers ever took students
43:00
outside while the weather was bad She
43:02
was allowed to opt out She was in middle
43:04
school when this happened and all of the teachers
43:06
got the memo except for the PE teacher Not
43:09
only did this female dog not believe
43:12
that Jane had asthma, but she also
43:14
didn't believe that asthma was real She
43:16
thought it was just something that kids come up with so
43:19
they don't have to exercise What
43:21
all right, I've got it interjected guys
43:23
now I would typically say that I
43:25
cannot believe this right this seems unbelievable
43:27
that a PE teacher a qualified PE
43:29
teacher Thinks that asthma isn't
43:31
real But maybe they're
43:33
genuinely are PE teachers out
43:35
there that just like love
43:37
fitness and exercise So much to
43:40
the extent that they think that any kid that
43:42
says they have asthma is actually just making it
43:44
up So I guess I'm not saying that this
43:46
woman necessarily thinks that asthma doesn't exist or hasn't
43:48
been trained To know what asthma is
43:51
but maybe she just thinks it's an excuse
43:53
that kids always use. Okay, let's get back
43:55
to the story This caused a few problems
43:57
and Jane had been sent the principal's office
43:59
more than one once for trying to opt
44:01
out of gym class. She wouldn't get in
44:03
trouble, but being reprimanded in front of the
44:05
entire class and getting sent to the office
44:08
is mortifying for a middle schooler, and she
44:10
was sick of it. Our story takes place
44:12
in the middle of winter just before winter
44:14
break. We live in a cold climate, and
44:16
our winters get wet and cold, neither of
44:19
which are great for asthmatic lungs. On
44:21
this day, the teacher had them running the mile,
44:23
but instead of having them run laps in the
44:26
gym, she insisted they go outside, and kids would
44:28
get in trouble for taking their coats because they
44:30
had to be in uniform. Jane tells the teacher
44:32
she can't run outside in this weather, and the
44:35
teacher tells her that if she refuses to run,
44:37
then she'll be sent to the office. Now,
44:39
if you remember, middle schooler's sense of
44:42
self-preservation is non-existent, and Jane has balls
44:44
so big that they impair her walking,
44:46
so she decided enough was enough. This
44:48
school had a track that was a
44:51
quarter mile long, but for whatever reason, the
44:53
teachers never had kids run the mile on
44:55
it. Instead, they had the kids run around
44:57
the block that the school was on twice,
44:59
while the teacher stood at the starting point
45:01
with a stopwatch. What Jane knew, and the
45:03
teacher didn't, was that at the same time
45:05
Jane had gym class, our mum would go
45:07
to kindergarten to pick up our younger sister.
45:09
She'd seen Jane running the mile on nice
45:11
days earlier in the year, and gave her
45:13
a little honk and a wave. So imagine,
45:15
if you will, my mother, a CNA going
45:18
to pick up her baby, only
45:20
to spot her eldest daughter running around outside
45:22
with no coat on in the middle of
45:24
winter, struggling not to slip on ice in
45:26
certain spots. Mum was annoyed. She
45:28
pulled up next to Jane to ask what
45:30
the heck she was doing, and Jane told
45:33
her through chattering teeth that the teacher was
45:35
forcing her to run the mile outside with
45:37
the other girls. Mum told Jane
45:39
to get into the car and drove around
45:41
to the front entrance to rush her into
45:43
the office, demanding they call an ambulance and
45:46
get her a nebulizer for a breathing treatment,
45:48
and something to warm her up and get
45:50
her circulation back, as she was literally turning
45:53
blue. Jane was hospitalised. The school had to
45:55
pay for the ambulance ride, pay for the
45:57
nebulizer medication, and pay for the hospital stay.
46:00
Mum chewed out the principal and the teacher,
46:02
then the doctor did the same. The teacher
46:04
was suspended and put under review, but for
46:06
whatever reason, she didn't get fired. However,
46:09
she did learn not to ignore doctors notes
46:11
in kids files, and there was another incident
46:13
like that. In the 12 years, it took
46:16
for all of our siblings to finish middle
46:18
school. And Jane continues to
46:20
have the largest balls I've ever seen. Why
46:22
is it always PE teachers guys? That's my
46:24
question. It, it, you just hear about them
46:27
a lot. Mum's had one bad PE teacher
46:29
who just forces kids to do things that
46:31
they don't want to do, just for no
46:34
real reason. And I feel
46:36
like I've seen at least two or three
46:38
stories like this, or similar to this, over
46:40
the years. Now, yes, not necessarily have they
46:42
had this level of revenge, which was excellent
46:44
to see. But, you know,
46:46
on like, entitled parents or entitled people, you
46:49
hear about teachers like this, PE teachers, to
46:51
be precise. It's pretty crazy that she wasn't
46:53
fired, by the way. But you said at
46:55
the end there that she did learn not
46:57
to ignore doctors notes in kids files. Is
47:00
that not the number one thing to do
47:02
as any teacher, is read those
47:04
files and know exactly what is in them? Surely.
47:08
But yes, the point is to educate, but first and foremost,
47:10
it's to keep the child alive, isn't it? Like
47:12
when they're in your company, you are their
47:15
carer. That's insane. But yeah, shout out Jane for
47:17
saying, you know what, I'm done with this. I'm
47:19
just, I'm just not doing this again. And
47:22
shout out to you mum as well.
47:24
You've lost weight. You look great. My
47:26
backstory, about seven years ago, I was
47:28
forcibly moved out by my father. And
47:30
after my mother tried to guilt trip me into
47:33
dropping the associated court case, we went no contact
47:35
for a while. She and I are
47:37
on good terms now, but it took a while for us
47:39
to get comfortable meeting up again. And
47:41
this interaction occurred during our first meetup
47:43
after that point. Because of how much
47:46
this had affected my life, I've been between
47:48
jobs for a while and was severely struggling
47:50
with the poverty of very abruptly having to
47:52
fend for myself on top of the mental
47:54
issues caused by the incident. Suffice to say,
47:56
I was really struggling to have regular meals
47:59
and was definitely not at 100%. It
48:01
had been close to a year since she'd
48:03
last seen me and due to this intense
48:05
poverty I'd naturally lost close to 30kg, 66lbs
48:07
since then. I was slightly overweight before
48:13
and was now just slightly underweight. Don't
48:15
worry, I wasn't skin and bones. My
48:17
mum was trying to be friendly and I'm
48:20
sure she did sincerely mean it as a
48:22
compliment when she said, you've lost weight, you
48:24
look great! as she has also struggled with
48:26
her weight a bit. However, I was still
48:28
quite bitter and uncomfortable with seeing her again
48:30
after the start she took and it
48:33
wasn't exactly intentional weight loss. So
48:35
I looked her in the eyes and said, thank
48:38
you, it's from the malnutrition since I can't
48:40
afford to eat properly. Guys, she went freaking
48:42
silent. I don't think she looked me in
48:44
the eye for the rest of the meet
48:46
up. I would never be so bluntly rude
48:48
to her now since we're on good terms
48:50
but she really needed the reminder of how
48:52
bad my life had become because of the
48:55
incident. At least she bought me
48:57
an f ton of groceries afterwards because of it
48:59
so I had some proper food again for a
49:01
while. Yeah, I mean that's a good thing I
49:03
guess but she can't just
49:05
buy some groceries for you in the short
49:08
term and that makes up for everything that's
49:10
happened in the long term. I don't know
49:12
what the incident was, obviously we don't know
49:15
what forcibly moved out by your father means
49:17
but yeah, depending on the age this was
49:19
or what happened, I mean who knows if
49:21
it's legal or not but yeah, losing close
49:24
to 30 kilograms by not being able
49:26
to get the sufficient food that you
49:28
need, whether that's the quantity or quality
49:30
or whatever or other stuff
49:32
from the emotional abuse perhaps of what
49:34
happened. 30 kilograms is nuts,
49:36
giving you a slightly overweight before.
49:39
Wow, it's not as if you were 200kg and
49:42
lost 30 and you're still overweight.
49:45
Yeah, mental but I'm glad that
49:47
she now probably realises what
49:49
has happened to you but then surely she
49:52
should have realised that anyway. Shouting I'm 15
49:54
you pedo and every guy who harasses me
49:56
on behalf of younger me. I just found
49:58
this sub. and wow I love it. I
50:00
thought I'd share something I've been doing for
50:02
a few years which I think this sub
50:04
will appreciate. I used to get harassed as
50:06
a young teen, a heck of a lot
50:09
because I dressed alts and therefore men think
50:11
you're not a person but a walking goth
50:13
sex doll. I also worked in the biggest
50:15
alt market in my city and we would
50:17
get so many guys in there just to
50:19
harass young girls or try to manipulate them.
50:21
I would try to be a cool aunt
50:23
figure to these girls and guide them, showing
50:26
them self defence etc. But honestly the problem
50:28
seems to be getting worse and worse. One
50:30
day after I'd had to deal with a 14
50:32
year old crying on me because a stranger said
50:34
he was going to finish in her hair, I
50:37
was walking home from work and some guys
50:39
started shouting the exact same thing at me.
50:41
Now I'm pretty lucky in that I don't
50:44
look much older than I did at 14
50:46
or 15. People already
50:48
said I looked 18. And
50:50
in that moment I had a wonderful idea. I
50:52
turned around and screamed, I'm 15 you freaking
50:55
pedo. The friend I was
50:57
with got the memo and joined in screaming
50:59
pedo at them. At that point
51:01
we'd been walking through the busiest square in the
51:03
city. Pretty soon other people started paying
51:06
attention to what we were screaming and joined
51:08
in till there must have been 20 plus
51:10
people shouting at the guy with easily
51:13
200 others staring. I've never
51:15
seen someone poop it so quick. It was
51:17
absolutely hilarious to see him go from feeling
51:20
so big and powerful to so scared so
51:22
quickly. He legged it off and dived into
51:24
a taxi, clearly scared that if he stayed
51:26
an angry mob would form around him. It
51:28
was brilliant. I still do it to this
51:30
day when I get harassed if there's enough
51:32
people around for it to work and some
51:34
of my friends have joined in too. Hopefully
51:36
before too long the message will spread around
51:38
them and they'll all become too scared to
51:40
harass anyone. Well you know what OP I
51:43
actually think you're doing the right thing here.
51:45
Yes obviously they're not pedos because you're not
51:47
over the age of 18 but
51:49
they don't know how old you are so yeah
51:51
they're running away because they have no idea and for
51:53
all they know you could be under the age of
51:55
18. And what
51:58
if you were under the age of 18 but didn't say?
52:00
anything. You know, it'd be terrible. So yeah, again,
52:03
kind of like the first story, you've
52:05
stopped this person from doing this again in
52:07
the future. So yes, although you're telling a
52:09
white lie, it's for the good of humanity.
52:11
Have you ever sucked a D? There was
52:13
a guy in my small animal care class
52:15
back in high school who would always ask
52:17
questions about my asexuality in a condescending tone.
52:19
You know the ones. How do
52:21
you know you're asexual if you've never had
52:24
sex? Are you sure you
52:26
just haven't met the one yet? How
52:28
can you be dating, insert my partner's
52:30
name here, without sex? So
52:32
you're just fine with being a virgin
52:34
forever? Almost every day while
52:36
I sat with our class chickens, I was
52:39
interviewed on what I do with my parts.
52:41
His favourite of the questions was, how can
52:43
you be so sure you're asexual if you
52:45
haven't had sex? I tried to
52:48
explain to him multiple times that I didn't need
52:50
to have sex to know that I was asexual,
52:52
that it's a thing you feel, or in our
52:54
case, don't feel, like how someone would know how
52:56
they felt about being with men vs women or
52:59
anyone in between. I used
53:01
all the analogies I could think of and
53:03
he just wouldn't stop. One day, I had
53:05
enough. Without thinking, I yelled,
53:08
have you ever sucked a D Mike?
53:10
I've never seen any person so shocked
53:12
like he'd just been told something that
53:14
would forever change his trajectory of life.
53:17
Wha-what? Have you ever had homosexual
53:20
intercourse with a male? No. Well
53:23
then how can you be sure you're
53:25
straight then? Huh Mike? Stammering, he repeatedly
53:27
insisted it was because he felt such
53:30
a strong attraction to ladies that there
53:32
was no possible way he could be
53:34
gay. Every single time though, I asked
53:36
him again how he was so sure.
53:38
Struggling not to laugh, my friend was trying
53:41
to get me to lower my voice. Look
53:43
Mike, now the chickens are scared. You made
53:45
me scare the chickens. Get back to me
53:47
when you sucked a D Michael. Naturally, I
53:49
got in trouble, but my teacher was chill
53:51
and it was nothing more than a good
53:53
scording and a two week ban from sitting
53:55
with the chickens. I honestly think I should
53:57
have gotten in more trouble. I should have
53:59
controlled my temper. Well, there's no going
54:01
back in time, I guess. For the remaining
54:03
two months that we shared class together, he
54:05
never asked me how I could be so
54:07
confidently asexual. Maybe he learned something
54:09
that day. Maybe he was scared
54:11
of incurring my wrath once again. We
54:13
may never know. I
54:15
still haven't gotten any word that he sucked
54:17
a D yet though. Alright, and here is
54:20
some chicken tacks up on screen right now.
54:22
I don't think I've ever seen chicken tacks
54:24
before on Reddit, but I will say, the
54:26
chickens look pretty lovely. Um, especially like
54:28
the white one. Isn't that
54:30
racist? It wasn't
54:32
meant to be, and it obviously isn't. But I think
54:34
the white one looks cute. Not
54:36
that the black one doesn't. Could this
54:39
stay a yes, because it's not racist.
54:41
It's just unfortunate that I said
54:43
that. There we go guys. I hope
54:45
you don't take offense for that. Just
54:48
a joke. What is not a joke? I don't,
54:50
I mean it. I thought the white one looks cool. Anyway,
54:53
yeah, let's just move on. Tell the entire
54:55
class about my depression while I'm in the
54:57
mental hospital. Hope you don't mind
55:00
me emailing the entire staff about your AA
55:02
meetings. I have severe clinical depression, and I've
55:04
been struggling with it for years. The teachers
55:06
are always made aware of my hospital admissions,
55:08
so they can be more lenient on late
55:11
work after I get back, which I've never really
55:13
had a problem with. Now there
55:15
was this maths teacher I had, let's call her Mrs
55:17
R. My dad is
55:19
a recovering alcoholic and goes to AA regularly,
55:21
which I'm very proud of him for. When
55:24
he went to a parent teacher conference with
55:26
her for the first time, he told me
55:29
in the car that he remembered her from
55:31
AA and was surprised she got a job
55:33
since she relapsed constantly. Now, I didn't care
55:35
much about it since everyone has their problems
55:37
and just decided to forget about him saying
55:39
it. Now, I had to be hospitalised due
55:42
to an unalive attempt. It was for about
55:44
three weeks and during that time I was
55:46
doing math work to keep up with her
55:48
class. When I came back, I realised that
55:50
everyone acted very off when they talked to
55:52
me. I was fairly confused, so I asked
55:54
one of my friends what happened when I was
55:57
gone. Apparently a kid had openly asked why I
55:59
was gone for most of my life. the year
56:01
without any repercussions and Mrs R decided it was
56:03
appropriate to go on a rant about how I
56:05
was suppressed and mentally ill and that she hated
56:07
how I was coddled by the school board. She
56:10
also stated that if I was her child, she
56:12
would, ''beat the depression out of me'' I was
56:14
royally annoyed at the fact that she did that
56:16
and thought it was a good thing to do
56:18
to a kid that at that point was in
56:20
middle school and was being bullied left and right.
56:23
In her age I sent a mass email
56:25
to the staff stating that she was seen
56:27
in AA and how uncomfortable I felt with
56:29
an alcoholic teaching me stuff. Following this
56:31
she was terminated because not even the
56:34
administration knew about her addiction and thought
56:36
that it wasn't safe for her to
56:38
be around children. Now I just want
56:41
to make sure, OP, that you saying
56:43
following this she was terminated, does
56:46
that mean she was shot and killed? I
56:48
hope it does, I fear it doesn't but
56:50
yeah I feel like that is the only
56:52
reasonable outcome here, is that she was shot
56:54
on site. Because the things she is doing
56:56
here are a disgrace and yeah it is
56:58
kind of weird that her school wouldn't know
57:00
about her alcoholism and her aaholic past
57:02
but maybe she just hid it. I
57:04
mean that's I'm sure what happened which
57:07
is crazy to be an
57:10
alcoholic that isn't recovered and
57:12
is still well relapsing constantly according
57:14
to your dad but yeah
57:17
having that person around children is crazy. Yeah
57:19
he did the right thing once again. To
57:21
be honest it doesn't really matter that she
57:23
is an alcoholic or goes to AA meetings
57:25
or relapses whatever, the fact that she is
57:28
disclosing this to your or
57:30
to her class, your classmates
57:33
and then saying all this stuff that
57:36
she said, it is
57:38
absolutely ridiculous. She hated
57:40
how you were called by the school board and
57:42
that if you were her child
57:44
she would beat the depression out of you.
57:46
That's absolutely insane for that reason alone she
57:49
should obviously not be in education. 4
58:02
years beforehand. My parents
58:04
hadn't wanted me to use it
58:06
as a crutch so they just
58:08
hadn't told me. I was furious
58:10
and I immediately pressed to start
58:12
medication and get education accommodations. My
58:15
parents sort of sheepishly agreed to everything I
58:17
asked for and I started doing well for
58:19
the first time ever. This is
58:21
all background info. Well I've gotta say off
58:23
the bat, that is some
58:25
of the worst parenting I've ever heard.
58:28
What on earth? Anyway, we moved and I
58:31
was taking a freshman science class in my
58:33
sophomore year because my old school had done
58:35
what was effectively the sophomore science in my
58:38
freshman year. I'm the 16 year old new
58:40
kid doing standardised testing with a classroom of
58:42
freshman I don't know super well and
58:45
suddenly I have to go to
58:47
the bathroom. My education accommodations allowed
58:49
for bathroom breaks whenever because the
58:51
medication I was on at the
58:53
time included fun side effects like
58:55
bladder control issues. I raised my
58:57
hand and I asked a substitute teacher who
59:00
was acting as our test proctor while
59:02
our normal science teacher was on vacation.
59:05
And she laughed at me. She said she
59:07
wasn't born yesterday and no amount of accommodations
59:09
would convince her to let me leave the
59:12
classroom during standardised testing because I might meet
59:14
up with a friend who had answers to
59:16
the test of something. I tried to argue
59:19
with her and I got increasingly more desperate
59:21
as I explained in hushed whispers what my
59:23
medication did and its side effects. She
59:26
continued chuckling and shaking her head
59:28
with this stupid, bemused smile. I
59:31
started crying before, wouldn't you know
59:33
it? I peed myself. Honestly,
59:35
the next bits are a blur. I
59:37
remember the smile slowly falling off her
59:39
face and then suddenly I was in
59:41
the nurse's office wearing gym clothes and
59:43
listening to my parents scream at the
59:45
principal in two different languages. My
59:48
parents agreed not to sue if that
59:50
substitute was fired. She wasn't able to
59:52
get a job in another school in
59:54
the area and the district apparently brought
59:57
separate charges against her for ignoring accommodations.
1:00:00
she had to pay a steep fine. Now,
1:00:02
thankfully some popular kids decided that anyone who
1:00:04
made fun of me about this wouldn't be
1:00:06
invited to the cool kid house parties, so
1:00:08
I was only teased a little bit. I
1:00:11
still wasn't popular in high school, but
1:00:13
at least my parents became somewhat more
1:00:15
supportive of me and my educational needs
1:00:17
as a result. I hope that lady
1:00:19
enjoys her unemployment as much as I
1:00:21
enjoyed watching someone sign my yearbook a
1:00:24
few years later to P-Girl. Okay,
1:00:27
well, at least your parents eventually did
1:00:29
something that constituted good parenting, but I
1:00:31
hope they realize their errors in the
1:00:34
first place of not telling you about
1:00:36
a serious medical condition that
1:00:38
you have that obviously is gonna impact
1:00:40
your ability to learn. Maybe this happened
1:00:42
a long time ago when
1:00:44
things like ADHD weren't as
1:00:46
understood or accepted, but if
1:00:49
it didn't, and they genuinely didn't want you
1:00:51
to use it as a crutch and
1:00:53
just learn to live with it, I guess,
1:00:55
despite knowing the impact it can have on
1:00:57
you or it does have on you day
1:00:59
to day, then that is
1:01:02
awful. But yeah, okay, maybe they've now changed
1:01:04
their ways and as we can see by
1:01:06
the end, they do care about you. I
1:01:09
mean, yeah, just that first paragraph was shocking
1:01:11
to me. Now as for the teacher,
1:01:13
I mean, yeah, she's just a complete write-off.
1:01:15
What a horrible woman. To
1:01:18
actually laugh at you while you are telling her, no,
1:01:20
I promise you, this is not me trying to cheat
1:01:22
or get out of the test or anything like that,
1:01:25
look at my docs. I mean, surely she
1:01:27
has them on her system or something. Look
1:01:30
at them, I'm on this medication
1:01:32
because of my condition. Like how
1:01:34
can somebody who's a teacher laugh
1:01:37
at you in that spot? It's just ridiculous. It's a
1:01:39
good thing they got rid of her, no doubt about
1:01:41
that. It's a shame that you didn't get the money
1:01:43
though, as you know, you didn't sue and
1:01:46
she was forced to pay her fine to, I
1:01:48
don't know, the school, the district, whatever, not you.
1:01:51
I feel like you deserve some compensation for such
1:01:53
a horrible thing. And fair play to the kids
1:01:55
as well for not bullying you about this. It
1:01:57
would be very easy to do so, not saying
1:01:59
that. They should but I mean
1:02:01
if bullies are looking for a reason to bully
1:02:03
that's a pretty good one So fair play to
1:02:05
the kids for not doing that But yeah, I'm
1:02:07
sure this moment is gonna stay with you and
1:02:09
be pretty traumatic for your life And
1:02:12
yeah I can't imagine what what being in
1:02:14
school and everyone knowing that you've gone through
1:02:16
that would be like now for our second
1:02:18
story This one is brilliant. Still my male
1:02:20
have fun thinking your cast I hadn't thought
1:02:22
of this in years until my daughter brought
1:02:24
it up and suggested I post it here
1:02:27
I'm looking behind us now across the count of
1:02:29
time down the long haul into history
1:02:32
back back in the before times in the
1:02:34
long long ago 2020
1:02:36
I'm talking about 2020 at the time I
1:02:39
was living in the Midwest and my daughter was living
1:02:41
in the Pacific Northwest She
1:02:43
started getting into haunted dolls and
1:02:46
when lockdown happened She picked up
1:02:48
customizing porcelain dolls to keep herself
1:02:50
occupied. I sent her a few
1:02:52
old dolls I'd found at thrift shops But
1:02:54
when I called her to see what she
1:02:57
was going to do with them. She told
1:02:59
me she never got the package That's when
1:03:01
she told me that porch piracy had become
1:03:03
a huge problem in the town She said
1:03:05
that it had always been an issue But
1:03:07
since lockdown had started they'd gotten beyond Blayton
1:03:09
and it was an almost guaranteed chance that
1:03:11
you wouldn't get your packages Unless the mail
1:03:13
person directly handed it to you It
1:03:16
got to the point that the thieves would
1:03:18
literally follow the mail truck and would be
1:03:20
walking up the porch to steal packages as
1:03:23
the mail Person was walking back to the
1:03:25
sidewalk This as you can imagine annoyed me
1:03:27
on a personal level if I was going
1:03:29
to spend my own money Sending something to
1:03:32
my daughter for her to customize. I dang
1:03:34
well wanted her to get it not some
1:03:36
random MOOC off the street I
1:03:38
told her I think about it and get back
1:03:40
to her as there was a doll I found
1:03:42
that I thought would be perfect for a horror
1:03:44
customization Plus I wanted to
1:03:47
support my daughter with her art So
1:03:49
I wanted to commission this doll
1:03:51
specifically the other important factors that
1:03:53
contributed to this situation are that
1:03:55
I'm pagan I love ancient fictional
1:03:57
languages, and I absolutely love it
1:03:59
love being able to screw with people that
1:04:02
deserve it. I spent a few weeks mulling
1:04:04
the situation over in the back of my
1:04:06
mind and I eventually hit on a solution
1:04:08
that borrowed heavily from the satanic panic which
1:04:10
I'd lived through as a kid. Since
1:04:12
I wasn't sure that she would actually get
1:04:14
the package, I decided to send a backup
1:04:17
doll that I'd found and planned on sending
1:04:19
with the original doll just in case the
1:04:21
original doll got messed up in a way
1:04:23
that couldn't be fixed. The doll
1:04:25
had a cracked face, was missing an eye,
1:04:28
had a faded stained blue silk dress and
1:04:30
the hair was a snarled mess. I found
1:04:32
a shoe box that fit the doll with a little room
1:04:34
to spare and I got to work. Everything
1:04:37
I wrote is approximated because I was an
1:04:39
idiot and didn't take a picture before I
1:04:41
mailed the box off. Stupid
1:04:43
of me. Oh that is a shame
1:04:45
I would have loved to see this. Anyway,
1:04:47
first I aged some printer paper with coffee, crumpled
1:04:50
it up until it was soft, then cut out
1:04:52
6 squarish pieces. I created two sigils and
1:04:54
drew them on two of the pieces. One
1:04:56
small one where the sigil took up most of
1:04:59
the paper and one larger one where the sigil
1:05:01
was in the centre but had plenty of room around
1:05:03
it to write other stuff. The sigils
1:05:05
were based on the phrase, efoth thief
1:05:07
and this is not yours. I
1:05:10
also used a Gallifreyan translator app
1:05:12
and created a symbol that translated
1:05:14
into may you perpetually step on
1:05:16
legos barefoot in the dark and
1:05:18
I believe that Gallifrey is the
1:05:20
language used in Doctor Who. The
1:05:23
fourth and fifth pieces of paper
1:05:26
had random symbols drawn on them
1:05:28
including alchemical, astrological, symbols from some
1:05:30
70s metal albums, Le Zeppelin in
1:05:33
specific and random shapes that I
1:05:35
doodled. The last one I used
1:05:37
a Klingon translator and wrote out f
1:05:40
you, you effing eff both
1:05:42
phonetically and in the actual
1:05:44
Klingon alphabet in a spiral that filled
1:05:46
up the entire piece. I took the
1:05:48
larger piece with the not yours sigil
1:05:50
in the middle and wrote phrases cursing
1:05:52
them unto the 100th generation,
1:05:54
accused them of preferring goats as
1:05:57
sexual partners etc in
1:05:59
Norse runes. angelic script and two
1:06:01
other languages I don't remember off the top
1:06:03
of my head. Then I
1:06:05
burned some of the edges and some small
1:06:08
spots throughout the papers. God, imagine
1:06:10
being a thief and looking at
1:06:12
that being like, oh my god, what have
1:06:14
I done? Once I was done with that,
1:06:17
I rolled the largest piece into a tube,
1:06:19
tied it with black and red ribbons, used
1:06:21
wax to seal it and tied it to
1:06:23
the doll's hands over her chest with black
1:06:25
twine. I then wrapped four of
1:06:27
the pieces around the arms and legs of the
1:06:30
doll and I sealed them with wax and stuck
1:06:32
the last piece, the small sigil, over her face.
1:06:34
I used a pentacle wax seal stamp to stick
1:06:36
it to her forehead. I wrapped
1:06:39
the doll in some ancient tissue paper that
1:06:41
I found in my basement and I put
1:06:43
it in the shoe box. I added several
1:06:45
red, black, gray and green quartz crystals as
1:06:47
well as some pinches of dried herbs and
1:06:49
flowers from my altar supplies. I
1:06:52
finished the whole thing off with a short
1:06:54
note written on torn notebook paper that essentially
1:06:56
said that I was grateful to get this
1:06:58
cursed thing off of my hands, that I
1:07:00
tried to seal the evil spirit possessing the
1:07:02
doll as best I could but I didn't
1:07:05
guarantee it would work and that it was
1:07:07
the buyer's problem now. No refunds, no returns
1:07:09
and if the buyer died, it wasn't my
1:07:12
fault. I went absolutely cheesy
1:07:14
80s horror movie with the note. It
1:07:16
was completely histrionic and overblown. I figured
1:07:18
that anyone sensible would think that this
1:07:20
was a prank or a proc or
1:07:22
some I'm so dark and spooky teenager
1:07:24
trying too hard to be dark and
1:07:26
spooky but mostly I wanted to make my
1:07:28
daughter laugh or at least momentarily freak out
1:07:31
who never stole the box. Admittedly
1:07:33
I picked up this doll because it struck
1:07:35
me as looking rather creepy to begin with
1:07:37
so all the set dressing fit the doll
1:07:40
well. I wrapped the box in duct tape
1:07:42
then in brown grocery bag paper, added some
1:07:44
more random symbols on the seams and I
1:07:46
mailed it off to my daughter. The
1:07:49
aftermath. She said that she got the notification
1:07:51
that the doll had gotten delivered but that
1:07:53
when she went to retrieve it, nothing was
1:07:55
there. A Few hours later,
1:07:57
she was sitting in the living room when
1:07:59
she heard a loud trump against the door
1:08:01
and heard the sound of a vehicle speeding
1:08:04
of down the hill. When she opened the
1:08:06
door she found a ripped open and say
1:08:08
City Reed said box containing only two things.
1:08:11
The. Doll buried in what looked
1:08:13
like to full canisters of Molson
1:08:15
souls. She. Thought that was asked to
1:08:17
forgot to ask about the So but she
1:08:20
texted me to let me know the dog
1:08:22
had actually made it. We were So he
1:08:24
about the So last year when she asked
1:08:26
me why censor insults last up for she
1:08:28
was talking about an office. he describes how
1:08:30
that's all arrived. I told her how I'd
1:08:32
actually puck is it's up She was kind
1:08:34
of bomb that she didn't get to see
1:08:37
it and all. it's ridiculous stories that mention
1:08:39
that they haven't had a problem with ports.
1:08:41
Piracy says that. South. I guess
1:08:43
the local post bars was so terrified of
1:08:45
the class that they might have unleashed on
1:08:47
themselves that they've avoided this area since then.
1:08:50
I. Genuinely thought the whole thing was so
1:08:52
of the top and cheesy it would
1:08:54
be obvious it was fake bomb. Whomever
1:08:56
stole at the first time was so
1:08:58
terrified to they have to drown the
1:09:00
doll and souls to break the cause.
1:09:03
I. Genuinely hope base that on that goes
1:09:05
faster. To this day While there we
1:09:07
go I think that is the plastic
1:09:09
story for this sub reddit. Just absolutely
1:09:11
genius. I'm proud of Gang Makarova post
1:09:13
par vibes from this by breathing This
1:09:15
is a level above because that yes
1:09:17
it did put that they saw that
1:09:20
and in I had a comical covered
1:09:22
in and glitter and sparkles and stuff
1:09:24
but this is like genuinely people might
1:09:26
be thinking here these these that they
1:09:28
are cast and a father They've had
1:09:30
some poor soul on the dole to
1:09:32
try and. yeah whatever bright the castle
1:09:34
whatever is ridiculous or it yeah he can
1:09:36
scare some on or you can scare someone's
1:09:39
for the rest of their life thinking that
1:09:41
cause i mean there are levels of this
1:09:43
game crazy stuff it's brilliant hola can say
1:09:46
is absolutely brilliant a lot the only way
1:09:48
you can love of this up now even
1:09:50
father is somehow find out who that thief
1:09:52
was or not is as possible but is
1:09:55
really try have a really try fundamentalist think
1:09:57
i'm put the dog back on their doorstep
1:09:59
with another random note saying like, no,
1:10:02
this is your doll now, you are cursed
1:10:04
forever. And that will ensure
1:10:06
that they truly are cursed,
1:10:08
I guess in their mind, right? Thinking about this
1:10:11
for the rest of eternity. I
1:10:13
think you just have to go that one
1:10:15
step further if possible. Okay, now moving on
1:10:17
to our third post from r slash traumatized
1:10:19
them back. No, I will not be watching
1:10:21
that, thanks. A few years back
1:10:23
when I worked at a fairly large grocery
1:10:26
store, there was the stint when the same
1:10:28
coworker would find me during my break and
1:10:30
whittle away my already precious 15 minutes talking
1:10:32
about whatever TV show she was obsessed with at
1:10:35
the time. Now I'm not great at watching the
1:10:37
shows I actually want to watch, but I'm
1:10:39
equally bad at telling people no. So
1:10:42
often our talks would end with her insisting
1:10:44
I watch whatever show I'd already forgotten the
1:10:46
name of and me sheepishly answering, I'll put
1:10:48
it on the list. Then for like the
1:10:50
space of a month, she got a bug
1:10:52
up her butt about one show in particular,
1:10:55
13 reasons why. Now, most probably
1:10:57
know what that is, but quick summary
1:10:59
for those who lived on the rocks
1:11:02
like myself, a teenage girl uses her
1:11:04
graphically depicted unaliving to get revenge on
1:11:06
the people that hurt her in life.
1:11:09
For the first time I told her,
1:11:11
no, not my type of show, which
1:11:13
seemed to be her sleeper agent
1:11:16
activation dedicated solely to making me
1:11:18
watch this freaking show every
1:11:20
day she'd bring it up and we'd have
1:11:22
the exact same conversation. I would ask what
1:11:25
it was again because I exercised it from
1:11:27
my mind after the last conversation. She excitedly
1:11:29
recounts the show and I tell her, no,
1:11:31
still not interested in increasingly firm ways. Finally,
1:11:34
I get tired of this game one day
1:11:36
and I cut her off in the middle
1:11:38
of explaining the show for the millionth time.
1:11:41
I put on my most chipper tone
1:11:43
and I let loose. Oh my God,
1:11:45
you know, you love this stuff so
1:11:47
much. I should totally tell you about
1:11:49
how I tried to unalive myself last
1:11:51
year. It's got all the
1:11:53
stuff you love, assault, unaliving, abuse that
1:11:56
I still go to therapy for. Oh,
1:11:58
but I didn't try to. alive myself in
1:12:00
a cool teen drama kind of way, I just
1:12:03
try to step in front of a train. Oh,
1:12:05
oh, I can tell you exactly what it feels
1:12:07
like the moment you make the decision to end
1:12:10
your life though. That's what you want, right? The
1:12:12
more I went on, the paler she got,
1:12:14
trying to cut in since I was being
1:12:16
loud and pretty much the whole break room
1:12:19
could hear. She tried to apologise and act
1:12:21
sympathetic to my pain, but I just kept
1:12:23
going, giving more and more of the worst
1:12:25
details until my break alarm went off. Oh,
1:12:27
I've got to get going. Thanks for the
1:12:29
show, Rek, but I don't think I'm going
1:12:31
to watch. Bye. Shockingly, she stopped
1:12:33
talking to me after that and I finally
1:12:35
got to enjoy my breaks. Okay, don't get
1:12:37
me wrong. I feel like if I watch
1:12:40
a good show and there's nothing sort of
1:12:42
massively triggering in it and I really want
1:12:44
someone to watch it, whether it be a
1:12:46
colleague or a friend or whatever, I will
1:12:49
say, have you started watching that yet? It's
1:12:51
really, really good. Trust me. Have you watched
1:12:53
it yet? Now, hopefully I wouldn't get annoying
1:12:55
with that, but I would, yeah, I would
1:12:57
keep saying it at least a couple of
1:12:59
times just to give someone a reminder if
1:13:01
I thought they were really going to like it.
1:13:03
Now, the difference is here. We're 13 reasons why
1:13:05
and I haven't watched it, I'm going to be
1:13:07
honest, but I do know what it's about. That
1:13:10
is a show that you probably wouldn't push
1:13:12
onto somebody again and again and again. And
1:13:14
I think after hearing no, not my type
1:13:17
of show when you first explain it to
1:13:19
somebody, you then probably wouldn't do it again.
1:13:21
Now, I'm not saying that she should have
1:13:23
known that you had this happen to you
1:13:25
before or you were in this sort of
1:13:28
situation, but I feel like you
1:13:30
probably get some sort of hint from someone
1:13:32
saying, no, not my type of show when
1:13:35
it's a show about someone that has been alive themselves.
1:13:37
Even still, like even if it's not about them and
1:13:39
they've had a history with this, if they just don't
1:13:41
like that sort of stuff, then I feel
1:13:44
like you pushed away after that one. But
1:13:46
no, she just kept going and going and
1:13:48
going. And The only way to stop her
1:13:50
was saying what you said. By The way, what I'm saying
1:13:52
is that if I recommended a movie to somebody and they
1:13:54
said, Oh yeah, I'll watch it, then I would, I might
1:13:56
ask them again in future. Oh, have you watched it? By
1:13:58
The Way,: you really should. The and if they
1:14:01
said no I'm not gonna watch that one
1:14:03
not my saw a movie. I would never
1:14:05
recommend a ten that was be weird especially
1:14:07
when it's a topic like this. months to
1:14:09
accuse me of stealing. I'll make you look
1:14:12
back to us as they I found out
1:14:14
I likely have thyroid cancer while pretty treatable
1:14:16
and I'm sure I'll be fine. I've already
1:14:18
survived cancer twice and harry not what again
1:14:20
has been difficult to say the least. Asked
1:14:23
My terrible day I decided to go to
1:14:25
a local gas station and by a trashy
1:14:27
pizza and some snacks to hang out in
1:14:29
the local park. As use the bathroom
1:14:31
waiting for the women who was in the
1:14:33
bathrooms. Immediately after I closed the door, she
1:14:36
started yelling at me through the door that
1:14:38
she'd left her dollar. It's. At me
1:14:40
a second to realize she was talking to
1:14:42
me is that when I did I yelled
1:14:44
back to her the i didn't see it
1:14:46
but I'd be either minutes I finished up
1:14:48
my business and honestly atlanticist give has a
1:14:50
dollar is she couldn't find as as I
1:14:52
just happen to have a dollar on me
1:14:54
I don't usually carry cash and she seems
1:14:56
somewhat forensic like she needed it for a
1:14:58
purchase that was and so she came out
1:15:00
and started yelling at me to i stole
1:15:02
her dollar and how thera sit a dollar
1:15:05
from a homeless person. Honestly, Think
1:15:07
it was probably a scab as an have the
1:15:09
energy to deal with her and I thought it
1:15:11
was best annoyance arise. She. Continued to
1:15:13
yell for a few minutes before huffing and
1:15:15
puffing the from someone helps or purchase whatever
1:15:17
I smith was she wants it as he
1:15:19
talk trash about me to everyone that as
1:15:22
she was leaving she turned back to me
1:15:24
I was not waiting in line as started
1:15:26
yelling you seriously get a still from a
1:15:28
homeless woman Honestly she seemed to the kind
1:15:31
of rough place so I probably shouldn't asks
1:15:33
and I definitely wouldn't have usually. I was
1:15:35
at the end of my rope so I
1:15:37
snapped back looking her dead in the eyes
1:15:40
and replies and you'll go into a rough
1:15:42
a. Woman with cancer over something she
1:15:44
didn't do. Ever got really
1:15:46
sought after that as she passed
1:15:48
out. Death. or might be a
1:15:50
bit of a check for that one but honestly
1:15:53
it felt good for a sec now you know
1:15:55
the just hear us all opium my pin i
1:15:57
think if you're you're completely was in your your
1:15:59
bowels say samantha You know if you're getting abused
1:16:01
by some like rando and they're accusing your stuff
1:16:03
that you haven't done You can do it back
1:16:05
to them when it's actually legit it is so
1:16:07
yeah respects and well done for not letting her
1:16:10
just Get away with this and not giving her
1:16:12
a dollar I mean, I don't really know what
1:16:14
our intentions were it does seem as though it
1:16:16
might have been a scam who really knows? Just
1:16:19
confusing situation all around but I think you dealt
1:16:21
with it perfectly fine That's the thing like if
1:16:23
nobody pulls her up on this then she's never
1:16:25
gonna learn to be self-aware Right and it takes
1:16:28
someone like you saying something like that to hopefully
1:16:30
make her change her ways and not do this thing
1:16:32
anymore I don't really know what it is. So
1:16:35
yeah good on you do it more I say
1:16:37
I've been calling my sister by her full given
1:16:39
name when she dead names my niece My
1:16:42
brother's kid who is a 22 year
1:16:44
old woman came out as trans on
1:16:46
her 21st birthday about a year ago
1:16:48
and changed her name From Lance to
1:16:50
Lacey most of our family accepted it
1:16:52
and the ones who didn't weren't close
1:16:54
anyway Except our sister Eva who is
1:16:56
45 We are a
1:16:58
Native American family with a lot of creative
1:17:01
names and my sister's birth name is
1:17:03
something close to Evangeline But
1:17:05
she decided to go by Eva after a
1:17:07
white kid said her name was res out
1:17:10
By a low-class or stereotypical name
1:17:12
from an Indian reservation She's
1:17:14
insisted on Eva for about 35 years
1:17:17
and we all obliged now She's
1:17:19
regularly been calling my trans niece
1:17:21
by her dead name Lance since
1:17:23
she came out as trans So
1:17:26
I started calling her Evangeline which
1:17:28
she hates the whole family calls
1:17:30
on and have only been referring
1:17:32
to her as Evangeline for about
1:17:34
a year now and she is
1:17:36
furious every time she comes to
1:17:38
family events Recently, she's been calling
1:17:41
me by my full first name
1:17:43
to bother me My first name
1:17:45
is a portmanteau hyphenation of my
1:17:47
mum's four sisters names something like
1:17:49
Alexiana Dorothea But wackia Wow people
1:17:51
have always called me a D or Lexi
1:17:54
or my brothers called me dodo since he
1:17:56
was a kid I love
1:17:58
my four first names, but it's cumbersome to
1:18:00
use an 8 syllable name regularly. Well,
1:18:03
my full name caught on with family
1:18:05
and friends. Just despite Evangeline,
1:18:07
we have all reverted back to our
1:18:09
full names instead of nicknames. Our
1:18:11
dad is no longer Frank, he's Franklin.
1:18:14
Our mum no longer Roz, she is
1:18:16
Rosalyn. Brother no longer Nate,
1:18:18
he's Nathaniel. My sister-in-law is
1:18:20
no longer Kate, she's Catherine,
1:18:22
etc. This has
1:18:24
truly driven Evangeline away, which was the
1:18:26
plan in the first place. Lacey makes
1:18:28
her better company so good riddance to
1:18:31
one trashy sister. You know what, I
1:18:33
just despise people like this. Coming out
1:18:35
as trans is probably one of the
1:18:37
most courageous things you can possibly do,
1:18:39
and it must be an extremely difficult
1:18:41
thing for somebody to do, made even
1:18:43
worse by people like this, who just
1:18:45
don't accept it clearly at all, and still
1:18:48
sadly use their dead name to probably make them
1:18:50
question whether they even should have come out in
1:18:52
the first place. I mean the only thing that
1:18:54
Lacey can do is just ignore Eva as much
1:18:56
as she can, and I think to be fair
1:18:58
OP, with your help and the rest of the
1:19:00
families, she has been able to do this, but
1:19:02
it's just so ignorant right? Eva knows what she's
1:19:04
doing here, there's no doubt about it. The fact
1:19:07
of the matter is, she clearly has an issue
1:19:09
that Lacey's name has changed, but then she didn't
1:19:11
have an issue calling other family members by their
1:19:13
nicknames. Just a disgraceful person,
1:19:15
I hope you disown her. Right, let's step things
1:19:17
up a bit, our next story is
1:19:19
some phenomenal escalating revenge. Should have just
1:19:21
let me walk away with my share.
1:19:23
All you had to do was let
1:19:25
me walk away. For some background, I
1:19:27
am a practicing internal medicine physician, and
1:19:29
formerly a 50% owner in
1:19:32
what was once a fairly successful meds
1:19:34
bar with 4 locations, at least until
1:19:36
what happened below. Before anyone accuses me
1:19:38
of breaking the law, blah blah blah,
1:19:41
don't, this has been litigated, resolved and
1:19:43
I won, but it is a fun
1:19:45
story. In the beginning, my business
1:19:47
partner and I were mere acquaintances working
1:19:49
with a large hospitalist practice. Looking for
1:19:52
extra income to pay off student loans,
1:19:54
we decided to band together and open
1:19:56
a meds bar, offering Botox, minor cosmetic
1:19:59
procedures, and a B12 infusions
1:20:01
etc and it was a huge
1:20:03
hit, big enough for us to
1:20:05
go full time and expand. This
1:20:07
lasted around 7 years. Beginnings
1:20:10
of problems, my partner decides that his
1:20:12
wife isn't enough for him and begins
1:20:14
to step out on her. Now
1:20:16
this is none of my business, however
1:20:18
it does become my business when you
1:20:20
embezzle money to pay for your sugar
1:20:23
baby's gifts from our business account. Fast
1:20:25
forward a few years and I've sat on
1:20:27
this information because business overall was too good
1:20:29
to walk away from. However Covid
1:20:32
changed things and we had to close 2
1:20:34
of our 4 locations. My partner has never
1:20:36
been great with money or time management which
1:20:38
is why for the most far I handled
1:20:41
all of the back office stuff from ordering
1:20:43
supplies to billing and payroll and so on.
1:20:46
This comes into play later. Around 6
1:20:48
months ago I began looking for a new
1:20:50
position and found a new job. I didn't
1:20:52
want to leave my partner in a hard
1:20:54
spot so I gave him a 90 day
1:20:56
notice to find another partner or otherwise get
1:20:58
his business affairs in order before I resigned.
1:21:01
He instead used this time to siphon
1:21:03
off more funds for his side piece
1:21:05
and allow his unruly children to ransack
1:21:07
my office while I was away on
1:21:09
a family vacation and frequently not showing
1:21:11
up to work or showing up late
1:21:13
or super hungover leaving me to do
1:21:16
extra. So it was my time to
1:21:18
go and my time to get even.
1:21:20
Finally the time had come to wind down my
1:21:22
time. Per our agreement my partner was to buy
1:21:25
out my 50% of the practice
1:21:27
which we agreed would occur on the Monday
1:21:29
of my last week. Basically I'd take 50%
1:21:32
of our liquid assets as a bank transfer.
1:21:34
Monday upon checking the bank account I had
1:21:36
been locked out and upon regaining access I
1:21:38
found that $30,000 of my half had been
1:21:41
moved to an account I did not have
1:21:43
access to. I had had it and I
1:21:45
spent the next few days plotting my revenge.
1:21:48
Remember those back office things that I handled above?
1:21:51
Well all of those documents, processes,
1:21:53
order forms etc they're all shared
1:21:55
on our shared office hard drive
1:21:57
and are absolutely vital to the
1:21:59
practice. and are way too much
1:22:01
work for my partner to do himself in a
1:22:03
short time. I just so happened
1:22:06
to buy an identical model and take the
1:22:08
original hard drive home with me. Upon
1:22:10
plugging the hard drive in, I found
1:22:13
a backup of his calendar, pictures and
1:22:15
emails between him and his mistress which
1:22:17
I forwarded to his wife. The
1:22:19
following day, I ran a full page
1:22:21
ad in the local paper announcing a
1:22:24
special holiday deal on our services which
1:22:26
we'd planned. Lastly, I hired
1:22:28
some college students to write a slew
1:22:30
of bad reviews on Google and Yelp
1:22:32
to tank the overall ratings. The Aftermath
1:22:34
The week after my departure, the clinic
1:22:36
was insanely busy and quickly ran out
1:22:38
of supplies. Since the order
1:22:41
forms etc was gone, he had to
1:22:43
turn away new and long standing clients.
1:22:46
My partner sued for the documents and I
1:22:48
countersued for the $30,000 he owed me. We
1:22:51
settled by exchanging the two. I've
1:22:54
since heard that his wife divorced him,
1:22:56
his mistress left him and subsequently he
1:22:58
has filed for bankruptcy as the clinic
1:23:00
never recovered and his wife cleaned him
1:23:03
out. I on the
1:23:05
other hand really like my new job.
1:23:07
Well this is an absolute masterpiece and
1:23:09
yeah he deserves it. He absolutely
1:23:11
deserves the destruction that you've put upon him
1:23:14
and the fact that probably his life is
1:23:16
pretty ruined right now. It's just weird because
1:23:18
your lives were going so well, your relationship
1:23:20
was so good right now. You
1:23:23
were growing this great business, even through Covid.
1:23:25
Managing to keep half of your sites
1:23:27
open as a new business is extremely impressive.
1:23:30
Most businesses definitely would have just completely gone
1:23:32
under there but you managed to keep 2
1:23:34
out of 4 locations open. But
1:23:37
no, apparently that wasn't enough. I've
1:23:39
got to embezzle loads of money to
1:23:41
pay off my new women that I'm
1:23:43
chasing and then some other stuff as
1:23:45
well. Even your partner who
1:23:47
you've grown this business with, you're
1:23:50
willing to just hide money from, take
1:23:52
money away from them. Disgusting and once
1:23:54
again very very deserve revenge. Ok then
1:23:56
let's set things up once again. Now
1:23:58
it's time for some seed. serious stuff.
1:24:00
This is r slash pro revenge. Do
1:24:02
not scheme people and talk about it
1:24:05
in another language. They might understand it.
1:24:07
I am a Serbian who moved to
1:24:09
America to work for 4 years. I
1:24:11
was in a smaller IT company, around
1:24:13
20 people and I was highly regarded
1:24:16
by the owners. There were 2 of
1:24:18
them. Sometimes I represented them in meetings,
1:24:20
mostly when showcasing the company services and
1:24:22
so on. One day, while on a
1:24:24
break, I overheard one of the owners
1:24:26
mentioning they had a meeting with a
1:24:29
Serbian company and they would like me
1:24:31
to accompany them in case there were any
1:24:33
communication issues. I agreed. During
1:24:35
the meeting, we forgot to mention that
1:24:37
I was Serbian. I was introduced as
1:24:40
an assistant, so I didn't feel the
1:24:42
need to introduce myself. When we
1:24:44
presented our services, they started speaking in
1:24:46
Stravokai. Apologies if I pronounced that wrong.
1:24:49
A Serbian slang where words are
1:24:51
twisted, probably thinking that if anyone had
1:24:53
learned Serbian, they wouldn't be able to
1:24:55
understand them. I understood every word.
1:24:57
They were attempting to deceive the company
1:25:00
and it was evident we weren't their
1:25:02
first or last target. I wrote down
1:25:04
a few things they said, translated them
1:25:06
and showed one of the owners the
1:25:08
translation. After the meeting, they
1:25:10
asked if I was sure and I confirmed.
1:25:13
Due to some procedures, we had to
1:25:15
meet one more time. But with permission,
1:25:18
I said, ras milisemor o
1:25:20
vasem predlogu. Which by the way,
1:25:22
translates as, we will think about
1:25:24
your proposal. They just froze for
1:25:26
a second. Face wide and open
1:25:28
mouths, they looked at each other
1:25:30
and tried to stay cool. But
1:25:33
you could hear in their voices,
1:25:35
they knew they screwed up. We
1:25:37
didn't sign anything with that company. I don't
1:25:39
know how many times over the course of
1:25:42
my channel's history, I have seen stories similar
1:25:44
to this. I don't know what it is
1:25:46
with idiotic people that just don't think that
1:25:48
other people could potentially speak their language. Like
1:25:50
surely the fact that you are speaking your
1:25:53
language in the country you're in, tells you
1:25:55
that there could be other people in the
1:25:57
country you're in also speaking the same language.
1:26:00
I mean, why even risk this? Why try
1:26:02
and talk behind people's backs who you're trying
1:26:04
to get money off or you know, do
1:26:06
business with? In a situation like this, if
1:26:08
you're gonna try and scheme someone and probably
1:26:10
don't do it, but if you're gonna try,
1:26:12
probably don't speak about scheming them to their
1:26:14
face. Just insane. Ultimately, they've lost a lot
1:26:16
of money and yes, what they were doing
1:26:18
was terrible anyway, but they could have at
1:26:20
least made some money from it. So for
1:26:23
them, personally, their idiotic screw up just
1:26:25
cost them tens of thousands of dollars probably. What
1:26:27
I do hope is that you got a big
1:26:29
pay rise or at least a promotion because you've
1:26:31
saved the company and we don't know how much
1:26:33
money it was, but you saved the company probably
1:26:35
a heck of a lot of money just from
1:26:38
this one thing and being in that meeting and
1:26:40
also sticking your neck out and telling your bosses,
1:26:42
look, I know this is weird, but this is
1:26:44
literally what's happening right now. I'm 100% confident on
1:26:46
it. How much money might you have saved them?
1:26:48
I mean, we have no idea, but
1:26:50
yeah, I hope you got a bonus at
1:26:53
least. Okay, now that is gonna do it
1:26:55
for the, let's be honest, sort of
1:26:57
safe, gentle stuff off this episode. The next
1:26:59
story is crazy. It comes from nuclear revenge,
1:27:02
as you can see by the title and
1:27:04
the thumbnail, it is just mental
1:27:06
and yeah, I hope you're prepared for
1:27:09
it. If you're not, then just
1:27:11
be prepared. Now, before we get into
1:27:13
it, I do just wanna mention something.
1:27:15
It's a bit of an announcement actually.
1:27:17
A lot of you have been commenting
1:27:19
and you've seen over the past couple
1:27:21
of weeks or so on my channel
1:27:23
that I've been posting pretty much only
1:27:26
stories that are based on relationship drama,
1:27:28
stories from r slash relationship advice, r
1:27:30
slash relationship subreddits like that. And
1:27:32
the reason for that is because I've just
1:27:34
been loving those sort of posts and stories
1:27:36
at the moment. They come from, you
1:27:38
know, best of Reddit updates, that sort of stuff. There's
1:27:41
always conclusions. There's always a lot of drama,
1:27:43
which I like, and you guys seem to
1:27:45
be liking as well. And that is the
1:27:47
reason why I'm covering a lot of them
1:27:49
now. As you can see in this episode,
1:27:51
we're back on a more normal standard subreddit
1:27:54
for my channel, ProRevenge and Revenge Subreddit. I'm
1:27:56
really enjoying the relationship stuff at the moment.
1:27:58
So for that reason. I don't
1:28:00
want to completely inundate you all
1:28:03
with solely relationship drama content. So
1:28:05
what I've done to appease myself
1:28:07
and those of you that really
1:28:10
like the drama stuff is I've
1:28:12
made a new channel, Redditor Extra,
1:28:14
where I'm going to be posting
1:28:17
solely relationship drama stories, be that
1:28:19
weddings, bryzillas, cheating, anything.
1:28:21
I mean, you guys have seen over the past couple
1:28:23
of weeks, these stories can have literally anything in them
1:28:26
over on that channel. Now I've already posted
1:28:28
one entire video episode on that channel and
1:28:30
the reason why nobody has seen it yet,
1:28:32
and I've not told anyone yet, because I
1:28:34
wanted to wait until quite
1:28:36
a long time into a normal episode of
1:28:38
mine to tell you guys, still listening and
1:28:41
watching right now, the core audience about the
1:28:43
channel. It's a bit of a secret, okay?
1:28:46
I only want the people that are really fans
1:28:48
of my stuff to go over there and enjoy
1:28:50
the channel. Don't tell people about it.
1:28:52
Keep it to yourself. I'll leave a link to it, not
1:28:54
even in the description. It's just going
1:28:56
to, you know, I'll leave it in the description, but
1:28:59
a few lines down and I'll also
1:29:01
put it on the end screen as well. But
1:29:03
yeah, don't go talking about it loads in the
1:29:05
comments. I just want this to be for the
1:29:07
core fans. All right, it's not being said, hopefully
1:29:09
people haven't heard that, but yeah, search for Redditor
1:29:11
Extra or click the link at
1:29:14
the end of this one. Now let's get in
1:29:16
to the fourth and final story
1:29:18
of this episode. Make up rumors that I
1:29:20
have CP and I'm a prostitute because I
1:29:23
won't date you. Say goodbye to your
1:29:25
new $150,000 car and hello, prison and a ruined life. So
1:29:31
first of all, let's introduce the characters. Me
1:29:33
an 18 year old male,
1:29:35
unmedicated senior, psycho incel referred to
1:29:38
as PI, a 16 year old
1:29:41
boy. So for backstory, I was the
1:29:43
only gay kid in what felt like
1:29:45
my entire small, deep South Southern town
1:29:47
and came out very young. So that
1:29:49
identity kind of stuck. My
1:29:51
family was mostly very supportive and I'm grateful
1:29:53
for that because outside of two or three
1:29:56
friends, I might as well have had
1:29:58
a scarlet a branded to my fourth. Eventually
1:30:00
though, a few other people came out, one
1:30:03
being Psycho Insel, a very
1:30:05
wealthy, spoiled, all-American entitled kid
1:30:07
who drove a very, very
1:30:09
expensive new car. Now
1:30:11
when he first came out, it was to no
1:30:13
one's surprise, but regardless, a mutual friend was worried
1:30:16
it would be a hard time and asked if
1:30:18
I would befriend him and give him tips on
1:30:20
how to get through it, etc. I
1:30:22
of course said yes, big mistake.
1:30:25
Now by this time, I didn't care
1:30:27
what anyone thought because the people who
1:30:29
mattered had already made it apparent and
1:30:31
vice versa. So I was pretty
1:30:33
open about the fact that I was actively
1:30:35
dating someone much, much older than me. I
1:30:38
don't want to hear it, that's not
1:30:40
the point of the story, it was
1:30:42
a wonderful, healthy relationship that my conservative,
1:30:44
traditional dad even supported, so shut up.
1:30:46
Fair enough, no comments from me, not
1:30:48
that I would comment anyway, respect. Now
1:30:50
after getting coffee with Psycho Insel and
1:30:52
being friendly, he apparently developed feelings for
1:30:54
me and after he confessed, I gently
1:30:56
told him I was seeing someone and
1:30:58
that I was very happy. This
1:31:01
was common knowledge in our gothic ridden
1:31:03
high school anyhow, and that was apparently
1:31:05
not acceptable to him and he went
1:31:08
ballistic. In small towns, there are often
1:31:10
what's known as junior-senior wars, where the
1:31:12
two grades have a war of harmless
1:31:14
albeit annoying pranks. However, our
1:31:17
school was not completely uncivilised, so
1:31:19
there was a group chat for
1:31:21
both grades to discuss rules, limits
1:31:23
such as no damaging, no hitting
1:31:26
houses if someone expressed they weren't
1:31:28
participating, renting etc. Well
1:31:30
in that group chat with over 1000 kids,
1:31:34
Psycho Insel thought it would be a
1:31:36
great time to drop bombshell number one.
1:31:38
I had expressed that I was not
1:31:40
participating, to not hit my house as
1:31:42
it's rented and so on and so
1:31:44
forth. Cue Psycho Insel
1:31:46
responding directly and saying, what, you
1:31:48
can't afford to buy it with
1:31:50
all the money you've been making
1:31:52
being a prostitute for your 50
1:31:54
year old boyfriend? I
1:31:56
would like to say first off, my boyfriend was
1:31:58
nowhere near that age. I saw
1:32:00
red. I loved that man to death
1:32:02
and felt a forehead vein practically hemorrhage.
1:32:04
Say to say the rumor passed through
1:32:06
the high school and the community. My
1:32:09
coaches took me aside, our extra religious
1:32:11
teachers tormented me more and I was
1:32:13
a pariah. Oh well, I
1:32:15
had acceptance to a top university, my
1:32:18
friends, my boyfriend and my family. I
1:32:20
was almost done. Then the
1:32:22
next rumor dropped and this is when
1:32:25
I went nuclear. One day I got
1:32:27
a call from my friend and immediately
1:32:29
I knew something was wrong. Apparently little
1:32:31
psycho incel had decided it was a
1:32:33
good idea to lie and tell people
1:32:35
that I had one, cheated on my
1:32:38
boyfriend, two, made a video with the
1:32:40
guy cheated with, three, it was
1:32:42
with a junior, someone under
1:32:45
18. None of which was remotely
1:32:47
true. Thankfully he was very
1:32:49
popular and very straight and was also
1:32:51
an obsession of psycho incels and knew
1:32:53
where it came from. And
1:32:55
he agreed to, in writing, express that
1:32:57
none of this was true and gave
1:33:00
me copious amounts of evidence, screenshots of
1:33:02
texts, Instagram DMs, etc. of psycho incel's
1:33:04
online harassment. I kept all of this
1:33:06
in a file just in case this
1:33:09
ever got out and I needed to
1:33:11
defend myself. And thankfully it never became
1:33:13
more than a funny, impossible, salacious story
1:33:16
made up about me. However,
1:33:18
it was too late for him as
1:33:20
I was already very mentally unstable and
1:33:22
this would have ruined everything I was
1:33:24
riding on. Now on
1:33:26
to the revenge. Finally. So not only
1:33:29
was psycho incel's car brand new, but
1:33:31
it was a new car because he
1:33:33
destroyed his old one and was not
1:33:36
getting another. Love small town gossip but
1:33:38
also driving through someone's house is pretty
1:33:40
conspicuous lol. Now I'll admit I
1:33:43
did not come up with this. I read it
1:33:45
in a fanfiction, but it actually worked out very
1:33:47
well. The first thing I did
1:33:49
was go to the furthest bait and tackle
1:33:51
shop I could find and I bought catfish
1:33:53
bait. Now if you don't fish
1:33:55
you might not know, but catfish love the
1:33:58
stinkiest, smelliest bait you can find. and
1:34:00
I bought a whole jar of the slop. I
1:34:03
knew the parking lot of my school
1:34:05
had no security or cameras because my
1:34:07
car had already been vandalised. I did
1:34:09
embrace the F-word carved into my door
1:34:11
with pride eventually. Well, I'm
1:34:13
sorry to hear that. And then I got
1:34:15
to work in the cold February morning. The
1:34:18
first thing I did was hammer nails into
1:34:20
three of his tyres. Now this wouldn't pop
1:34:22
them immediately, but they would eventually each deflate
1:34:24
at much more inconvenient places and nails would
1:34:27
look more accidental than if they were slashed.
1:34:29
Then I took poison ivy and rubbed it
1:34:31
all over the door handles of his car.
1:34:34
Afterwards, I took a mix of gravel and
1:34:36
vaseline and spread it all over the windshield
1:34:38
wipers, which would just scratch the heck out
1:34:40
of it once he used them. My
1:34:43
favourite, however, was using that catfish
1:34:45
bait. Knowing enough about cars, i.e.
1:34:47
copious googling, I figured out how
1:34:49
to get to the AC portion
1:34:51
and I pulled in the catfish
1:34:53
bait. Sadly, I wouldn't be
1:34:55
able to witness this, but he wouldn't be
1:34:58
using his AC for another month or so,
1:35:00
since it's still cold. All
1:35:02
that time for it to rot, fester,
1:35:04
congeal, and the first day it's warm
1:35:06
and he decides to blast AC, his
1:35:09
car will be filled with the fumes
1:35:11
of a thousand rotten piles of roadkill
1:35:13
and low tide without any idea where
1:35:15
it's coming from or how to get
1:35:18
rid of it. The next part of
1:35:20
this story is honestly out of pure
1:35:22
dumb luck, and I can't claim complete
1:35:24
responsibility from the universe's work. However, I,
1:35:27
being the obsessive paranoid type, would check
1:35:29
his socials from a burner account now
1:35:31
and again, perhaps hoping to hear
1:35:33
about his fishy car or to see if he
1:35:35
aired out more rumours about me. One
1:35:37
day, I found something odd. Nothing.
1:35:40
Every single social media was gone.
1:35:43
Out of pure curiosity, I googled his
1:35:46
name and found something very juicy and
1:35:48
very crazy. He was arrested
1:35:50
in an entirely different state for
1:35:52
attempting to impersonate a government official
1:35:55
and bring a gun into a
1:35:57
theme park. Safe to say that
1:35:59
didn't fly. but also it did not
1:36:01
get enough traction as I would like. Thus,
1:36:04
I sent it to everyone I knew
1:36:06
in our small town. His summer job,
1:36:08
future college, our high school, that giant
1:36:10
group chat of over a thousand people,
1:36:13
yeah, it got sent there as well.
1:36:15
By the end of the day, he
1:36:17
was a pariah, jobless, and college-less. I
1:36:19
left my town, and honestly, I haven't
1:36:21
heard anything about him since, but I
1:36:23
can't imagine he amounted to much being
1:36:25
that insane and with that type of
1:36:27
crime as well. Well, there we go. Same to say
1:36:30
things differently ramped up in this episode. My word, I
1:36:32
mean, to be honest, the first three stories were
1:36:34
pretty chill. That last one, wow. Goodness
1:36:37
me. I mean, it doesn't get much
1:36:39
worse than accusing someone of having or
1:36:42
creating CP. I mean, that is just
1:36:44
revolting. To be honest, I think
1:36:46
you should go to prison for that. Yeah, I mean,
1:36:48
you have to be arrested for that. That is such
1:36:50
a bold, huge claim that can absolutely
1:36:53
destroy someone's life, even if it's not true,
1:36:55
that I think the ramifications have to be
1:36:57
serious for the person making that claim, if
1:36:59
it is completely false, and they know it's
1:37:01
completely false, and they're just doing it to,
1:37:04
I don't know, destroy your image. To be
1:37:06
honest, though, despite all you did, which was
1:37:08
great, it seemed that in the end, he
1:37:10
was the one that actually pressed his own
1:37:12
self-destruct button, right? I mean, where did that
1:37:15
come from? The fact that he impersonated a
1:37:17
police officer and walked into a theme park
1:37:19
with a gun. What the heck? I mean,
1:37:21
I did not see that coming. Just shows
1:37:23
that this guy was absolutely insane. I think
1:37:25
that the incel is a pretty good word
1:37:28
to describe him, let's be realistic, although it's
1:37:30
probably more than that. I don't really know
1:37:32
what he was planning to do with that gun
1:37:34
though. That is the scary thing. And
1:37:36
based on the other stuff that we've seen
1:37:39
him do throughout this story, I don't know.
1:37:41
I'm only just kind of thankful that he
1:37:43
was caught before anything serious happened. Threaten my
1:37:46
friend with revenge, Prawn. I'll ruin your whole
1:37:48
dang life. My very good friend made some
1:37:50
slightly dumb mistakes and sent some pictures to
1:37:52
someone that she reasonably thought she could trust,
1:37:55
but not knowing much more than his first
1:37:57
name, his screen name, and roughly where he
1:37:59
lived. lived and the type of work he
1:38:01
did. He is not in our country but
1:38:04
had indicated that he would be travelling for
1:38:06
work to near us shortly and they'd made
1:38:08
some plans to meet. And when she got
1:38:10
some red flags and backed out, the dude
1:38:13
threatened to publish these pictures online. I am,
1:38:15
incidentally, an attorney. So, some searching later and
1:38:17
gathering up any pictures he sent her of
1:38:19
him that could possibly identify him, his online
1:38:22
handle led me to a TikTok page, which
1:38:24
led me to an Instagram page with his
1:38:26
name on it. That led to a LinkedIn
1:38:28
page with his place of work that
1:38:31
matched a picture he sent with a
1:38:33
branded polo he was wearing. Some more
1:38:35
searches got me the email of the
1:38:37
CEO, the VP of HR, operations manager
1:38:39
and the public relations manager. I just
1:38:42
fired off an email on behalf of
1:38:44
my client of the screenshots of him
1:38:46
threatening revenge prompts, snippets of the conversation
1:38:48
showing that username while he sent that
1:38:50
exact picture of him wearing his company's
1:38:52
branded apparel, links to how I
1:38:55
know it's him, along with pictures he sent her
1:38:57
of his motorcycle with a license plate showing as
1:38:59
further proof that it is him. I
1:39:01
also included screenshots of him discussing a
1:39:03
workplace incident that were time stamps, along
1:39:05
with pieces of dialogue discussing how he
1:39:07
had sex with an ex at his
1:39:09
place of work and discussing plans to
1:39:11
have sex with her in his office
1:39:13
as well. I also included a picture
1:39:16
he sent her showing his work laptop
1:39:18
with his entire outlet calendar along with
1:39:20
proprietary information which he sent to prove
1:39:22
he was busy, along with other pictures
1:39:24
he took of his workplace with non-consenting
1:39:26
employees. I further informed his employer that
1:39:28
I will be forwarding all this information
1:39:30
to local, to them, law enforcement and
1:39:32
since he'd indicated that he'd be travelling
1:39:34
to the US soon, will also forward
1:39:36
this to the local office of the
1:39:39
Federal Bureau of Investigation. As
1:39:41
since my client is a US citizen on
1:39:43
US soil, these threats constituted a federal crime
1:39:45
so that should they continue with his employment
1:39:47
and continue with their plans to send him
1:39:50
to the United States for work, I will
1:39:52
ensure on behalf of my client that federal
1:39:54
law enforcement is waiting for him on arrival,
1:39:56
which I will do as one of the
1:39:59
assistant US attorneys for this region is
1:40:01
a law school buddy of mine. Since
1:40:03
I have his license plate, I know
1:40:05
where he lives and we'll be contacting
1:40:07
his local authorities tomorrow. You dumb mother
1:40:09
effer, thinking you were hiding around anonymity,
1:40:11
thinking you could threaten my friend, it
1:40:14
took me 45 minutes to destroy your
1:40:16
life. Okay, so I'm recording this on
1:40:18
the 5th of April, 2024. What
1:40:21
I've just read there was posted on the 4th of April
1:40:23
in the morning and there was
1:40:25
an update to come, phenomenally, which was
1:40:28
posted literally just a few hours ago
1:40:30
at the time of recording this. Now, before we get into
1:40:32
that, I just wanna give my initial thoughts. Yeah, I mean,
1:40:34
what else can you say really other than, you know,
1:40:37
eff around and find out? If you're gonna
1:40:39
try something like this and you're not clever
1:40:41
and you're leaving clues and hints as to
1:40:43
who you really are, in
1:40:45
the modern day with technology, it's really not
1:40:47
that hard to do a little bit of
1:40:49
digging. I mean, yes, you've got unlucky, I
1:40:51
guess unlucky in air quotes here that
1:40:54
the person that you're doing this to has
1:40:56
a friend who's a good lawyer, but I
1:40:58
mean, anyone could do this. It's
1:41:00
not that hard. If you're leaving clues like
1:41:02
this, it's so easy to find who you
1:41:04
are, where you live, who you work for,
1:41:06
et cetera, et cetera. And you've just ruined
1:41:08
your entire life. What for? For threatening something
1:41:10
stupid like this? Really, was it worth it?
1:41:13
Obviously not. I mean, you deserve
1:41:15
it, absolutely, but you're just so dumb. Then
1:41:17
again, he's probably not expecting this sort of level.
1:41:19
I would love to see his face as he
1:41:21
realizes this unravels. I mean, we're gonna get into
1:41:24
the update right now to see what happens next,
1:41:26
but my word, imagine this. You send off a
1:41:28
threat online, think nothing of it, think, oh, I'm
1:41:30
so clever and anonymous here and I'm gonna get
1:41:32
what I want. And then the following
1:41:35
happens. Let's get into the update. Okay, now
1:41:37
let's get into the update of that one.
1:41:39
It posted just 22 hours ago at the
1:41:41
time of recording. Like I said in the
1:41:43
intro, this is a very fresh story. So
1:41:45
barely 12 hours later, this happened.
1:41:48
Before I get into the update though, I
1:41:50
want to clarify a few things from
1:41:52
my original post, primarily about the contact
1:41:54
of the employer and why. Some
1:41:56
questioned its truthfulness. While the entire
1:41:58
story is true, some details were omitted
1:42:00
for various reasons. There was more she and
1:42:03
I had in our possession that did positively
1:42:05
identify this individual. So would a lawyer contact
1:42:07
his employer like some stated would not be
1:42:09
done? Well, it depends. I did not do
1:42:12
what I did on behalf of a client
1:42:14
who retained me. I did it as a
1:42:16
friend to help a friend. And
1:42:18
as her friend, who was also a labor
1:42:20
and employment law attorney, I knew exactly how
1:42:23
to squeeze this. And here is the thing.
1:42:25
I was absolutely aware from the onset that
1:42:27
the revenge-prong threat would go nowhere with his
1:42:30
employer. Even if I could clearly
1:42:32
lay out how the person with this screen
1:42:34
name was in fact, this person who works
1:42:36
at that company, all we had were screenshots.
1:42:39
If it was just the revenge-prong threat, any
1:42:41
employer would go, well, thank you for bringing
1:42:43
it to our attention. But even if we
1:42:45
accept our employee uses this screen name and
1:42:48
we neither confirm nor deny any one of
1:42:50
that name works here, we have no provenance
1:42:52
on this. This is just an
1:42:54
alleged screenshot of an alleged conversation that
1:42:56
could be easily edited and manipulated. Please
1:42:59
feel free to pursue this with local
1:43:01
authorities. And rest assured, should we be asked
1:43:03
to, we will cooperate fully with any law
1:43:05
enforcement inquiry, but we have no further comment
1:43:07
at this time. Yeah, I guess that makes
1:43:10
sense. These days, it's so easy to edit
1:43:12
absolutely anything. And I guess that's why a
1:43:14
company couldn't really use it. And I know
1:43:16
that's what they would say because that's exactly
1:43:18
what I would say. An alleged screenshot of
1:43:21
an alleged conversation that was allegedly sent under
1:43:23
an alleged username and it's allegedly one of
1:43:25
our employees, whatever, dude. Call the cops if
1:43:27
you're worrying about it. We'll answer them honestly
1:43:30
if they come to us. So no,
1:43:32
the issue wasn't the revenge-prong threat. It
1:43:34
was the picture of the contents of
1:43:36
the work laptop because that can't be
1:43:38
fixed. There's no way of her or
1:43:40
me to create a false image of
1:43:42
the actual proprietary information on his work
1:43:45
computer unless he sends it. There is
1:43:47
no way for me or her to
1:43:49
have possession of images taken of his
1:43:51
coworkers without their consent unless he sent
1:43:53
them. The proof here wasn't that this
1:43:55
person broke the law. It's that he
1:43:57
sent pictures of company, employees, and property.
1:44:00
which would absolutely be verifiable by their
1:44:02
IT department, that yes, this absolutely is
1:44:04
his laptop. That's what would get him
1:44:06
fired. So I advise my friend not
1:44:08
to block him, to sit back and
1:44:11
wait and not respond to anything but
1:44:13
let him dig himself deeper. And respond
1:44:15
he did. Oh and one more update,
1:44:17
he's been fired. So with now definitive
1:44:19
proof that the individual in the online
1:44:22
conversation is in fact his person, we'll
1:44:24
forward it all to the local authorities
1:44:26
in his country along with his license
1:44:28
plate number. They are more than capable
1:44:30
of getting his home address. Well, OP fair
1:44:33
play to you. It's one thing me saying
1:44:35
at the end of the first post, you
1:44:37
know, it's easy to do this now to
1:44:39
track people down online. It's another thing doing
1:44:41
it legally and making sure you know exactly
1:44:43
what you're doing and then carrying out what
1:44:46
you want to happen so well
1:44:48
to as you say, yeah, completely destroy this
1:44:50
guy's life very fairly and very justly in
1:44:52
just what 45 minutes. I don't really get
1:44:55
why people need an extra explanation. I think
1:44:57
you explained it perfectly at the start OP.
1:45:00
There are a few weird comments down below. Apparently
1:45:02
people were confused. I wasn't confused. I think you
1:45:04
explained it perfectly well and yeah,
1:45:07
it was just really well executed from from
1:45:09
start to finish. Definitely the most professional nuclear
1:45:11
revenge that I've seen. Normally we get some
1:45:13
crazy stuff that is either bordering on illegal
1:45:16
or it's just very illegal. This was nuclear
1:45:18
because it absolutely destroyed someone's life but it
1:45:20
was so professionally and expertly done. It doesn't
1:45:22
even feel nuclear. It just feels right. Okay,
1:45:25
now let's move on to our next story
1:45:27
of nuclear revenge. How about this for a
1:45:29
title? Didn't really want to post on
1:45:31
this account but it's the only one that met
1:45:33
the karma requirements. Not too much
1:45:36
given away there. Let's go. Okay, there
1:45:38
with me. I'm dyslexic and sugar with writing.
1:45:40
Me and my girlfriend moved up to a
1:45:43
remote little town a year ago. It's so
1:45:45
peaceful and amazing. Best decision of our lives.
1:45:47
We were looking at places to buy and
1:45:49
we came across a house that was pretty
1:45:52
bad. The foundation was collapsing. The roof was
1:45:54
collapsing. There was a rodent problem but it
1:45:56
was on 10 acres or something close to
1:45:58
that. A beautiful place. I've learned. My girlfriend
1:46:00
falls in love with this place. It's 215,000. Yeah, not
1:46:03
gonna go for something
1:46:06
that's that bad. I work construction and
1:46:08
I don't want to come home to
1:46:10
then work again. Now my girlfriend's friend,
1:46:12
let's call her Patricia, sounds like a
1:46:14
female dog name. I never bothered trying
1:46:16
to remember her real one. Offer to
1:46:18
buy the place and then sell it
1:46:21
to us later. Yeah, no. She said
1:46:23
we'll talk about it, but I stand
1:46:25
on a hard no and then my
1:46:27
girlfriend tells Patricia no. Patricia and her
1:46:29
boyfriend, Mitch, that's his actual name. I
1:46:31
don't care if he sees this. In fact, I hope
1:46:33
they do. Wow, that is a rarity for someone on
1:46:35
Reddit to say, no, that is his actual name. No
1:46:37
fake nameset and I hope you see this. Already
1:46:39
bought the house thinking we'd buy it from
1:46:42
them for more than the 215K. But okay,
1:46:44
cool. My girlfriend has her friend moving out
1:46:46
here that she's known since she was three.
1:46:48
I told them that if they buy the
1:46:50
materials and the tools and I keep the
1:46:52
tools when they're done, I'll do the work
1:46:55
for them for no additional costs because I
1:46:57
lost all my tools when we moved. Now
1:46:59
this Mitch guy trashes all over me
1:47:01
about how he works in finance and doesn't
1:47:03
need any help. Okay, whatever. I tell him
1:47:05
what he needs to work on first because
1:47:07
there are major issues, but I get pooped
1:47:09
on again. Okay, let's talk about my girlfriend
1:47:11
now. So she has PTSD, BPD and a
1:47:13
couple of other things that I don't remember
1:47:15
off the top of my head. She struggles
1:47:17
to make friends. So this is a big
1:47:19
deal for her. She is super excited. So
1:47:21
when they get here, they don't visit her.
1:47:24
They don't give any idea that they talk
1:47:26
every day and every night, but then they
1:47:28
get here and they block her on everything.
1:47:30
It absolutely destroys her because
1:47:32
she doesn't understand what she did wrong.
1:47:35
Now they were upset and were cussing
1:47:37
her out because she apparently tricked them
1:47:39
into buying the place. She didn't.
1:47:41
I told them not to because I was never
1:47:43
going to say yes. Now fast
1:47:45
forward a year or so. They're on Facebook
1:47:47
complaining about all the issues that I pointed
1:47:50
out were issues they'd need to fix. So
1:47:52
this actual crackhead Mitch is cussing us out.
1:47:54
Now I am just tired of this at
1:47:56
this point. So I call the city and
1:47:58
pretty much wrap. them out. I say
1:48:01
they have plumbing issues, electrical issues, the roof
1:48:03
and the floors caving in, support issues, rodent
1:48:05
problem, all of which can get it condemned.
1:48:07
So guess what happened? I made a complaint
1:48:10
and got it condemned. Then I went to
1:48:12
his place of work and filed a report
1:48:14
with corporate about his drug issues because he's
1:48:16
a financial advisor at a bank and I
1:48:18
don't think he should be anywhere near anyone
1:48:21
else's money. I hope they enjoy 215,000
1:48:23
worth of debt with no job and nowhere
1:48:25
to stay because I'm done getting cussed out
1:48:27
and having them drag my girlfriend's name through
1:48:29
the mud because they thought they could jack
1:48:31
up the price and sell it to us.
1:48:34
Damn, what great friends they must be trying
1:48:36
to buy a house for you but in
1:48:38
reality just charge you more than the original
1:48:40
price of the house. Terrible people. What I
1:48:42
hope is that when the bank gets hold
1:48:44
of this house, repossesses it, that they kind
1:48:46
of, I don't know, look to resell it
1:48:49
to somebody like you for less than the original price. I
1:48:51
think what you'd then probably have to do is just knock
1:48:53
it all down and start again. It sounds like there are
1:48:55
so many issues here that aren't even worth bothering with so
1:48:57
maybe you'd have to do that and it probably would be
1:49:00
a lot of work. If you can make it work and
1:49:02
the price is not too expensive, it does sound like
1:49:04
it's a beautiful property and I feel like you've gone through
1:49:06
enough now to warrant that level of extra effort if you
1:49:08
can be bothered but yeah, as with the story just from
1:49:10
what I've read, all I can say is that they're just
1:49:13
terrible people. Imagine that saying, oh I can't wait to move
1:49:15
to your town, it's going to be so fun. I'm talking
1:49:18
every night like so excited to come down, spend
1:49:20
loads of time together and also I'm doing you
1:49:22
such a favour by buying this house for you,
1:49:24
we'll be in it for a short time, we'll
1:49:26
sell it to you for a cheaper price. We'll
1:49:29
make sure it's ready for you and no one
1:49:31
else gets it. Then just blocking them and saying,
1:49:33
oh actually you can't have the house and also
1:49:35
why did you force us to buy it? Great
1:49:38
friends right there. Not going to pay me overtime,
1:49:40
think again. I was discussing this sub with a
1:49:42
good friend and he said, boy have I got
1:49:44
a story that will fit. Now it wasn't his
1:49:46
story but his brother's and I sat with him
1:49:49
and got the details. Buckle up, it's a
1:49:51
good one and a long one. Let's call
1:49:53
him Bob. Bob has been fiddling with computers
1:49:55
since he was a kid and knows them
1:49:58
pretty well. As with most ITPs He's
1:50:00
moved from job to job. The employee
1:50:02
he worked for was a service distribution
1:50:04
company and there were two IT employees
1:50:07
The company was located in Ontario,
1:50:09
Canada. About three years ago Bob's
1:50:11
employer decided to modernize their software
1:50:13
They had separate programs for dispatching
1:50:16
for inventory for payroll and finances
1:50:18
And it was complicated moving information
1:50:20
from one program to the other
1:50:22
they decided to get an ERP Enterprise
1:50:25
Resource Planning Program and Bob recommended one
1:50:27
that he knew inside out From a
1:50:30
previous employer. For those of you who
1:50:32
don't know an ERP program handles everything
1:50:35
Purchase orders, sales, inventory, personnel, vendors, customers,
1:50:37
all of it You can run a
1:50:39
report and find out which customer has
1:50:41
bought the most part ABC in the
1:50:44
last year Which salesman has
1:50:46
improved his numbers the most? Which vendor
1:50:48
has the fastest delivery time? Which shipper
1:50:50
pack the most orders? Everyone in the
1:50:52
company used the ERP program But
1:50:54
it was very complicated and they used
1:50:56
the aspects of it that related to
1:50:58
their position For example, the receiver would
1:51:01
accept the shipment, verify the quantity, confirm
1:51:03
It was received and the inventory stats
1:51:05
would be available to the sales people
1:51:07
if they wanted to look up how
1:51:09
many were on hand The
1:51:11
receiver didn't care what the price was or
1:51:13
who the vendor was. He just did his
1:51:15
job Now Bob was run ragged
1:51:17
during the implementation process But he managed
1:51:19
to train most of the employees on
1:51:21
their aspects and after a few months
1:51:24
Everything was running fairly smoothly Bob
1:51:26
still got tickets for tweaks in the
1:51:28
operation of the software and occasional hardware
1:51:31
IT issues Then the company decided to
1:51:33
expand their footprint and was marketing into
1:51:35
different time zones that messed things up
1:51:38
Atlantic Canada is 90 minutes early So if
1:51:40
someone sent an email or an order at
1:51:42
8 a.m. Their time it would arrive at
1:51:44
6 30 a.m. Ontario time
1:51:47
Pacific Canada is three hours late. So an email
1:51:49
sent at 3 p.m. Thank you a time would
1:51:52
arrive at 6 p.m This
1:51:54
stretched out the day so many staff came
1:51:56
in early and worked late Bob would arrive
1:51:58
at 8 a.m And then people that
1:52:00
demanded his immediate assistance and were annoyed
1:52:02
that he didn't respond instantly even though
1:52:05
their request was submitted before his start
1:52:07
time. Same with later in the day.
1:52:09
His phone would ring at dinner
1:52:11
time with people that wanted help right now.
1:52:13
They decided to stagger his and his IT
1:52:15
colleague's shift times. Bob would start at 6am
1:52:17
and work until 2.30 and his colleague would
1:52:20
start at 10.30am and work till
1:52:23
7. Bob's colleague had kids and
1:52:25
refused the shift change. The
1:52:27
employer insisted the colleague
1:52:29
quits. That meant that Bob was
1:52:31
the only person in the IT department. The
1:52:33
employer said they'd looked to hire a new
1:52:35
IT guy but they had trouble finding one
1:52:38
that knew the ERP system and they were
1:52:40
offering well under a market value salary. Bob
1:52:42
asked for a raise and was denied. Then
1:52:44
he wanted overtime and the employer told
1:52:47
him that as an IT specialist he
1:52:49
was exempt from overtime laws in Ontario.
1:52:52
Bob looked it up and the employer was
1:52:54
correct. This went on for some time and
1:52:56
he knew lots of IT people socially. They
1:52:58
told him what the company was offering and
1:53:00
Bob knew that they wouldn't find another tech.
1:53:02
Things went downhill from there. Bob would get
1:53:04
chewed out if he missed a call or
1:53:06
an email no matter what time it came
1:53:08
in. He had to train new hires in
1:53:11
the ERP system as well as take care
1:53:13
of the hardware. He asked repeatedly for better
1:53:15
compensation and was denied so he planned
1:53:17
to get a new job. Now here
1:53:19
is the revenge. Bob had access to
1:53:21
the entirety of the ERP program. When
1:53:23
a user signed in the time was
1:53:25
logged and even if they didn't sign
1:53:27
out after 15 minutes it would log
1:53:29
them out anyway. Everyone in the
1:53:31
company was on salary and many of them came in
1:53:33
early and stayed late. Ontario Labor
1:53:36
Laws states that even salaried workers
1:53:38
are entitled to overtime after 44
1:53:40
hours a week unless
1:53:42
they were managers or supervisors. So
1:53:44
Bob jumped into the program and ran a
1:53:47
report for each employee that wasn't a manager
1:53:49
all the way back to when the ERP
1:53:51
program was started. Then he reached
1:53:53
out to an employment lawyer and got the
1:53:55
okay to refer employees to him. Bob lined
1:53:57
up another job and after he left Every
1:54:00
employee in the company got an email with an
1:54:02
Excel sheet showing the hours they had put in
1:54:04
past 44 hours a week. The
1:54:07
subject line said, you're legally
1:54:10
entitled to overtime pay, and
1:54:12
in the body of the email was the
1:54:14
lawyer's name. The poop hit the fan. Almost
1:54:17
every employee authorised the lawyer to negotiate with
1:54:19
the company on their behalf, and the company
1:54:21
had to pay a ton of money. All
1:54:24
the company had to do was pay Bob
1:54:26
for the extra work he put in. Instead,
1:54:29
they had to pay almost everyone. Okay, great
1:54:31
revenge, I'm not gonna lie, but my main
1:54:33
takeaway from this, my main emotion, it's just
1:54:35
feeling bad for just all the employees in
1:54:38
general to work for this horrible company. Bob
1:54:40
obviously on the one hand having to do
1:54:42
not just two people's jobs, but more like
1:54:44
it seems like five or six. I
1:54:47
mean those shift times are ridiculous, and he is the
1:54:49
only one that knows how this all works. That is
1:54:51
such a specialised role that he's not even being paid
1:54:53
for properly at all. I mean it's not even close,
1:54:55
it sounds like. And then all
1:54:57
the other employees who were doing overtime
1:55:00
but then haven't been getting paid for it. What
1:55:02
if Bob had never done this? They would have
1:55:04
just done all those hours and never been given
1:55:06
the money for them? That is ridiculous. So
1:55:09
yeah, I mean shut up Bob for
1:55:11
helping out so many employees that were
1:55:13
just being completely manipulated and just not
1:55:15
given what they deserved. It's just
1:55:17
sad that it had to come to that. Crazy. Pay
1:55:19
the man the money he's worth for
1:55:21
his skill and this would never
1:55:24
ever have happened. But then again you could
1:55:26
also say just pay the employees what they
1:55:28
deserve and are owed for the overtime and they'll
1:55:30
probably be more happy as well and it would
1:55:32
just contribute to a much better working environment
1:55:35
and the company would probably do way
1:55:37
better because of it. I
1:55:39
don't know, it's just a weird one. I feel
1:55:41
like it's backwards policy from a company like this
1:55:43
just trying to you know, skrimp and save money
1:55:45
when in reality you're expanding, you're clearly doing well.
1:55:48
Pay your staff more and they'll pay it back
1:55:50
to you in terms of output and yeah the
1:55:52
company will just do better. I don't know. It's
1:55:54
just weird business practice isn't it really but um,
1:55:57
great revenge nonetheless. 70
1:56:00
plus years ago and I just made sure
1:56:02
it stayed ruined. When I was in college
1:56:04
in the 90s I met Jake, then a
1:56:06
23 year old man through mutual friends. He
1:56:09
had already graduated and was planning to move
1:56:11
to the opposite side of the United States
1:56:13
for grad school and I had already been
1:56:15
making plans to move with friends only a
1:56:17
90 minute drive away from where he was
1:56:19
moving to. We had so
1:56:21
much in common, fell in love and
1:56:23
it really seemed like fate, both planning
1:56:25
to move 3000 miles and landing so
1:56:27
close together. He had two sisters
1:56:30
and a younger brother who were all awesome
1:56:32
people and I became instant friends with them
1:56:34
as well. Because he was in school
1:56:36
and I was working, I would usually go to him
1:56:38
to hang out on the weekends. He was
1:56:40
renting a house with two roommates also in
1:56:42
his program. We were young so money was
1:56:44
tight but we had fun, went for taco
1:56:46
dates and spent a lot of time at
1:56:48
his house where he was breeding and selling
1:56:51
small animals. Jake was an animal sciences PhD
1:56:53
student so being around animals was normal and
1:56:55
I loved it. I became
1:56:57
friends with his advisors wife, Mary who
1:56:59
was in her mid 50s who worked
1:57:01
in administration at the university. She
1:57:04
is a lovely woman, I'd often have lunch
1:57:06
with her when I went over on the
1:57:08
weekends. Jake was a teaching assistant and I
1:57:10
met other people in the program and made
1:57:12
friends with them faster than he did. After
1:57:14
about two years of dating, I was at
1:57:16
the house one day, laying in bed together
1:57:18
in a state of some undress and he
1:57:20
said, out of the blue, he was concerned
1:57:22
I'd been gaining weight and it made it
1:57:24
harder for him to be attracted to me.
1:57:26
No concern about my health, it was all about
1:57:29
him finding me unattractive. I
1:57:31
sat up and said, well then maybe you
1:57:33
should make sure there's better food for me
1:57:35
to eat than crackers and cheese when I
1:57:37
come up on weekends. Even
1:57:39
at 23, I didn't take that kind
1:57:41
of BS. I had gained maybe 10
1:57:43
pounds since meeting him two years earlier
1:57:45
and still wore the same size clothes
1:57:47
about a US size 6-8. I
1:57:50
wasn't going to engage in a fight about it
1:57:52
after all, it was his problem, not mine so
1:57:54
I asked him calmly. What is your
1:57:56
solution to this? He stared at
1:57:58
me blankly and said, well... Well I
1:58:00
guess that you should try to lose weight. And
1:58:03
I said, nah I'm not gonna do
1:58:05
that so what are you going to do
1:58:07
about it? He said, well
1:58:09
I guess nothing, I wanted to let you
1:58:11
know how I feel. And I
1:58:13
said, cool, thank you, put my clothes back on,
1:58:16
went to sleep and drove home the next day
1:58:18
as usual. We keep dating and about 3 months
1:58:20
later he called me and said he wanted to
1:58:22
break up after close to 3 years. The
1:58:26
reason, and I quote, you don't
1:58:28
know enough about science. He
1:58:30
felt like he couldn't have a conversation with
1:58:32
me about his work where he didn't have
1:58:34
to use common names for animals instead of
1:58:36
scientific ones. I said, well that
1:58:38
bull was the real reason. He
1:58:41
said it was the real reason, he came
1:58:43
to see me a month later to return
1:58:45
something of mine and I confronted him, demanding
1:58:47
the real reason. He finally admitted that he'd
1:58:49
been seeing one of his undergrad students, let's
1:58:52
call her Meg, a 19 year old. She
1:58:54
was then 26 and her teacher. I
1:58:57
screamed at him to leave, my roommate threatened
1:58:59
to throw him off our second floor balcony
1:59:01
if he didn't go and he left.
1:59:04
It hit me all at once after he walked
1:59:06
out and I went from rage to stunned laughter.
1:59:09
I'd actually met Meg a few times and at
1:59:11
one point she was at his house for a
1:59:13
barbecue and spilled something all over her pants. Jake
1:59:16
asked me if I could loan her some sweats. Now
1:59:18
I couldn't because I was a size 8 and
1:59:21
she was a size 18. There's
1:59:23
nothing wrong with that at all but
1:59:25
the point is, I realised he made
1:59:27
those comments about my weight to try
1:59:29
and get me to break up with
1:59:31
him because he was a coward. He
1:59:34
clearly liked a big girl. Although
1:59:36
when he said those things to me about my weight,
1:59:38
it was 1am. I lived about 95
1:59:41
miles away and we'd just had sex so I
1:59:43
don't know how he thought that would go. Even
1:59:46
in hindsight, it perplexes me. Did
1:59:48
he think I was going to break up with him
1:59:50
and storm off into the night and drive for an
1:59:52
hour and a half? Anyway, I emailed his room mates.
1:59:54
It was the early 2000s. It's how
1:59:56
you communicate anything you didn't want to say on
1:59:58
the phone. to let them know
2:00:00
that we've broken up and they were always lovely to
2:00:03
me and I thank them for being friends. They
2:00:05
both admitted though that they knew about Meg
2:00:07
and were the ones to demand that Jake
2:00:09
tell me all they would. That is when
2:00:11
he broke up with me with the lame
2:00:13
you don't understand science excuse. One
2:00:16
of his roommates, a super nice super cute guy
2:00:18
named George offered to help me get a few
2:00:20
things to look at their house that he collected
2:00:22
for me away from around the house. He suggested
2:00:25
I come up for the weekend. We go out
2:00:27
and drink, have a good time, all the things
2:00:29
that Jake didn't want to waste money on and
2:00:31
I said sure. So I went up and George
2:00:33
let me into the house while Jake was gone.
2:00:36
I took photos of all of his animals because
2:00:38
while I might not be a PhD student I
2:00:40
paid attention and I knew he had an endangered
2:00:42
species in his care. He wasn't
2:00:44
breeding it, it was an unreleasable animal
2:00:46
that he'd taken in from a rescue
2:00:49
organization. There was paperwork he had to submit
2:00:51
with a $25 fee and he refused to
2:00:53
do it saying he didn't want the government
2:00:55
in his business. I took photos
2:00:57
of that animal, all his breeding conditions
2:00:59
and a photo of an animal not
2:01:01
allowed in the state which was in
2:01:04
a tank right next to a window
2:01:06
and visible from outside. I then
2:01:08
went out for a night on the
2:01:10
town with George. We stumbled in early
2:01:12
around midnight so Jake and Meg who
2:01:15
were watching TV would see me in
2:01:17
a short dress, drunk and George practically
2:01:19
carrying me. I spent the night
2:01:21
in George's room. He was a total
2:01:23
gentleman but made sure to leave the room and parade
2:01:25
past them in his boxes a few times and
2:01:28
we giggled and moaned loudly so they could hear
2:01:30
us. When I went to leave
2:01:32
the next morning Jake said I didn't have to
2:01:34
act like a whore in front of him as
2:01:37
I ate a doughnut slowly in my rumpled dress
2:01:39
with messy hair while George beamed at me and
2:01:41
then planted a kiss on my forehead. Meg
2:01:44
looked ashamed not quite knowing where to
2:01:46
look and I said have fun with
2:01:48
my leftovers and walked out. I wanted
2:01:51
to think that the petty loud hookup
2:01:53
and a few juvenile insults was my revenge.
2:01:56
It was not. The next day I had
2:01:58
my photos developed. Ah the good days and
2:02:00
I called the state office of fish and
2:02:02
wildlife. I reported the animals in the house,
2:02:05
the potential overcrowding of breeding animals and the
2:02:07
two animals he shouldn't legally have at all
2:02:09
in the state and I asked them how
2:02:11
to make a report. Well it turns out
2:02:13
that Jake wasn't well liked by his peers
2:02:16
in his programme or by his roommates but
2:02:18
I was! George had suggested
2:02:20
that he and their other roommate could
2:02:22
submit complaints to the university that a
2:02:24
TA was sleeping with one of his
2:02:26
students and showing her favouritism. The
2:02:28
night we were out at the bars we made sure to
2:02:31
tell the story to anyone who they knew. They
2:02:33
made sure all the women in his classes
2:02:35
knew he was sleeping with Mick. It
2:02:38
wasn't a large programme, people knew fast
2:02:40
that he cheated and was now dating
2:02:42
a student. George and the other roommate
2:02:44
made sure people knew they had put
2:02:46
in complaints. They were sick of Jake's
2:02:49
entitled BS. With my full statement
2:02:51
made and photos sent to the state wildlife
2:02:53
officials, I called my friend Mary, Jake's advisor's
2:02:55
wife. She knew about the break up and
2:02:57
the lame reason and I let her know
2:02:59
that he admitted he was sleeping with the
2:03:01
student. I'd been emailing with him and
2:03:03
he admitted to it in writing so I
2:03:06
sent that to Mary. To say she was
2:03:08
not happy about that was an understatement. She
2:03:10
said she made sure it would be investigated
2:03:12
and told her husband, Jake's direct advisor while
2:03:15
I was on the phone with her. Speaking
2:03:17
of investigations, a few weeks later George called
2:03:19
me, Giddy, to say that state fish and
2:03:22
wildlife officials were there, confiscating the animals. He
2:03:24
told them he'd be happy to tell them
2:03:26
whatever they needed to know. Meg was there
2:03:28
when it happened and told the officials that
2:03:31
as far as she knew, all the animals
2:03:33
belonged to her boyfriend Jake and that
2:03:35
they were all legal. That put
2:03:37
George and the other roommate in the clear. One
2:03:39
animal was kept in the backyard so it was
2:03:41
implied to Jake that a neighbour reported it. While
2:03:44
they were there to investigate, they knew to
2:03:46
look in the back window to see the
2:03:48
far more problematic, illegal to have in the
2:03:51
state under nearly any circumstances, animal. Since George
2:03:53
was on the lease, he was able to
2:03:55
let them in to investigate in the house.
2:03:58
The animals were all in communal areas and
2:04:00
the officers stayed there for a few hours and
2:04:02
returned with a warrant to take all the animals
2:04:05
and enter Jake's room to investigate. George and
2:04:07
the other roommate let them into their rooms
2:04:09
with no issues and they were quickly cleared.
2:04:12
Meg apparently couldn't get a hold of Jake
2:04:14
and eventually drove to the university to find
2:04:16
him. Remember no cell phones yet. It
2:04:18
was a good day. The only animals
2:04:21
they left were some guppies in a fish
2:04:23
tank. Now, PhD students need grant money to
2:04:25
do research and a large part of animal
2:04:27
studies funding comes from the federal government. Jake
2:04:30
had just gotten an EPA grant right
2:04:32
around when he broke up with me.
2:04:34
So I called the EPA and asked
2:04:36
how I would report that a person
2:04:38
with a federal grant was being investigated
2:04:40
for illegally harboring endangered animals. Long
2:04:43
story short, he lost his EPA
2:04:45
grant and had to make restitution
2:04:47
on what had already been used
2:04:49
close to $30,000. He would
2:04:51
never be able to get another federal grant. He
2:04:54
avoided jail time on the state charges
2:04:56
since all the animals were in good
2:04:58
health but lost all his breeding animals
2:05:00
worth thousands of dollars since they were
2:05:02
collected for safekeeping during the investigation when
2:05:04
the two illegal animals were taken. In
2:05:07
the end, he owed a $15,000 fine and
2:05:10
the two animals went to a nearby
2:05:12
nature center. For years, I would stop
2:05:14
by if I was in the area
2:05:16
to visit them. The university revoked his
2:05:18
scholarship and fired him from teaching for
2:05:20
having an inappropriate relationship with a student.
2:05:22
He somehow escaped being expelled but it
2:05:24
always shocked me that he never tried to
2:05:27
hide the relationship with Meg and was so
2:05:29
stupidly self-assured that he didn't even wait the
2:05:31
full weeks until she would have been done
2:05:33
with his class to start publicly dating her.
2:05:36
By the university rules, he would have then been
2:05:38
in the clear to date her, not being her
2:05:40
teacher anymore and she would just have to avoid
2:05:42
any classes he was a TA in. It
2:05:45
never fails to make me laugh. After a
2:05:47
few months, I emailed his sisters and told
2:05:49
them I missed them because Jake broke up
2:05:51
with me after trying to call me fat
2:05:53
and cheating on me and I felt weird
2:05:55
contacting them. The girls told me that
2:05:58
he told the family I broke up with him because
2:06:00
of the distance. I forwarded them
2:06:02
emails that Jake wrote after the breakup, talking about
2:06:05
how he fell for Meg and he was sorry
2:06:07
about it but it was true. I couldn't
2:06:09
keep up with him academically and it made
2:06:11
him attracted to Meg. Jake managed to convince
2:06:13
his dad to pay for one more year
2:06:16
of school so that he could get a
2:06:18
master's instead of a PhD. And while I
2:06:20
stayed in contact with his sisters and brother
2:06:22
via email and then social media, I largely
2:06:24
let it all go. I got
2:06:26
even, I made some friends, Mary became like
2:06:29
an auntie to me and I went on with life.
2:06:31
I went on to get a master's
2:06:34
degree myself and my specialty helping scientists
2:06:36
and doctors communicate their work to lay
2:06:38
people. You know, us dummies who can't
2:06:40
remember all the scientific names. I
2:06:43
swear it happened by accident, not
2:06:45
design, but I love it and
2:06:47
I work with everyone from small-town doctors
2:06:49
and nurses to pharmaceutical companies to museums
2:06:52
to state and federal governments to film
2:06:54
and TV producers. I travel a
2:06:56
lot and speak and get to learn a lot of
2:06:58
cool things about our planet and how
2:07:00
things work. That is amazing. I knew through
2:07:03
his siblings that Jake and Meg got married
2:07:05
and had two kids. Meg dropped out of
2:07:07
the sciences and became an accountant. Jake went
2:07:09
back to breeding animals. Every once in a
2:07:11
while his sisters or brother would tell me
2:07:14
something over a lunch or via text but
2:07:16
we had our own relationship that exists outside
2:07:18
of him. Apparently when I sent
2:07:20
a wedding gift for one of his sisters,
2:07:22
he loudly complained as a co-ed bridal shower
2:07:25
that all of his siblings still were my
2:07:27
friend and didn't make an effort to embrace
2:07:29
his now wife, Meg. Apparently
2:07:31
the sister just laughed and said, I don't
2:07:34
make it a habit to be friends
2:07:36
with homewreckers. This is how Jake's parents
2:07:38
found out how their relationship started and
2:07:41
ours ended truthfully, 10 years
2:07:43
after we broke up. Jake
2:07:45
never found out I was behind reporting him
2:07:47
to the state and in the end I
2:07:50
didn't lie about a single thing except maybe
2:07:52
exaggerating a drunken make out session with George
2:07:54
who was now a successful and tenured professor
2:07:56
with a lovely wife and daughters. Now fast
2:07:58
forward about 20 years to a few weeks
2:08:00
ago. I was at a university giving a lecture to
2:08:02
a room of 250 undergrad and grad students.
2:08:05
In the end, I was mingling
2:08:07
with the students afterwards and I
2:08:09
hear a voice say, Hey, OP,
2:08:11
long time no see. And
2:08:14
I realized it's Jake. And
2:08:16
my facial expression did not change
2:08:19
at all. I was completely shocked that
2:08:21
my instincts was to play dumb. So
2:08:24
I said, I'm sorry, help me out.
2:08:26
Have we met at another workshop or
2:08:28
lecture? He looked incredulous
2:08:30
and said, it's me, Jake.
2:08:33
And I said, I can't place you, but
2:08:35
I'd love to figure it out. Finally,
2:08:37
I gasped and said, Oh my goodness, Jake,
2:08:40
I guess I blocked you out. And I
2:08:42
said, well, lovely to see you. And I
2:08:44
moved on quickly when he tried to reach
2:08:46
out and hug me. I was
2:08:48
happy to leave it there with the satisfaction
2:08:50
of him seeing me as a guest lecturer
2:08:52
in a science department of a major university.
2:08:55
When he was just in the audience, the
2:08:57
department chair and faculty who'd invited me to
2:08:59
speak, took me out to dinner. And while
2:09:01
there, one of them said, so you know,
2:09:03
Jake. I said, I did from over 20
2:09:06
years ago, being vague about how she
2:09:08
went on to tell me that he had been
2:09:10
there for an interview for a teaching position and
2:09:13
I spent a few days there observing and they
2:09:15
were likely going to hire him. I couldn't
2:09:17
control it. I scoffed when
2:09:20
they all looked at me. I said,
2:09:22
I'm sorry. I'm just shocked that he's
2:09:24
teaching after what happened back at university.
2:09:27
They said, what happened? And I said,
2:09:29
well, he was sleeping with a 19 year old student when he
2:09:32
was 26 and he had to
2:09:34
leave the program without a PhD because he
2:09:36
couldn't afford to stay after losing his scholarship.
2:09:39
The three people I was with all looked at each
2:09:41
other like they knew they had a problem and said,
2:09:43
wow, we'll have to
2:09:45
look into that and change the subjects. My old
2:09:47
friend Mary retired a year or two now, but
2:09:49
still friendly with her old colleagues called me this
2:09:51
weekend to say a friend at the university let
2:09:54
her know that someone had called doing a background
2:09:56
check about Jake and they pulled his file, which
2:09:58
included being a student of the university. being
2:10:00
fired, leaving the program with a lower degree,
2:10:02
and the complaint letters from over 20 years
2:10:05
ago about his conduct. Mary's name had been on
2:10:07
it with her husband listed as the faculty advisor,
2:10:09
so she thought that she'd like to know. As
2:10:12
a bonus, it had a copy of his arrest
2:10:14
record for the illegal animals. I guess
2:10:16
his dad had paid for a decent lawyer to
2:10:18
get the record expunged after the charges were reduced,
2:10:20
and he paid the fines so it doesn't show
2:10:23
up on a standard background check. I
2:10:25
don't think he's gonna get that job. So,
2:10:27
I will return to my life, content that
2:10:29
the universe comes through sometimes, especially if you
2:10:31
give it a little nudge just now and
2:10:34
then. The best revenge is when you
2:10:36
don't have to do anything wrong, you just have
2:10:38
to help direct knowledge to the right places. If
2:10:41
there is anything I can impart to any
2:10:43
young women and men reading this, as I
2:10:45
shimmy happily into my now size 10 pants,
2:10:48
if someone who is supposed to love you
2:10:50
complains about your weight or looks, that is
2:10:52
their problem to fix mentally, not yours. And
2:10:55
maybe it's time to check out what they are doing
2:10:57
behind your back or simply move on. Remember
2:11:00
though, it's their flaw, not yours.
2:11:02
If Jake hadn't been a coward and tried to make me
2:11:04
break up with him and just ended things with me in
2:11:06
a mature way, I might not have
2:11:08
found out about Meg and turned his own
2:11:11
wickedness back on himself. Okay, and there we
2:11:13
go. That is the end of that one.
2:11:15
Wow. First thing I've gotta say
2:11:17
is, fantastic revenge, very much justified. There is
2:11:19
absolutely no way this guy should ever be
2:11:21
allowed to work in any form of education
2:11:24
again. He completely ruined that chance of having
2:11:26
a relationship as a TA with one of
2:11:28
the students. That is
2:11:30
my immediate conclusion there. And I'm very happy
2:11:32
to be fair that you've made sure and
2:11:34
you continue to ensure that that won't happen.
2:11:36
Now the next point is, and I wanna
2:11:38
ask you all thoughts on this guys. Do
2:11:40
you think that this guy, Jake,
2:11:43
should still be getting punished 20 years later for mistakes
2:11:45
that he made 20 years ago? Do you think that's
2:11:47
a little bit too long? I mean, do we still
2:11:49
punish him 80 years later for these mistakes? Are you
2:11:51
allowed to make mistakes? And you
2:11:53
know, be punished for them, sure. But
2:11:57
ultimately, I'm playing devil's advocate here slightly, but he's
2:11:59
done nothing. illegal, yet his life is
2:12:01
still being ruined. 20 years later,
2:12:03
is that not a little bit harsh or is that justice
2:12:05
for what he did? I mean, we
2:12:07
don't know the effect that it had on the
2:12:09
19 year old. Clearly, you know, he's abused that
2:12:12
level of power there and who knows what effect
2:12:14
it's had on the girl. But you
2:12:16
get what I'm saying, 20 years later, still getting punished
2:12:18
for something he did when he was half his age.
2:12:21
I don't know. He's perhaps a little bit harsh, but
2:12:24
I think it's potentially fair. I also do
2:12:26
think that OP, like, let's just make sure
2:12:28
that she definitely has moved on and it's
2:12:30
not still kind of trauma in her mind.
2:12:32
Yes, it's great to make sure that someone has the
2:12:34
revenge they deserve, but 20 years of this, not saying
2:12:36
that, you know, she's done loads and it's always on
2:12:38
her mind, just I wanna make sure that she has
2:12:40
moved on with her life. I feel like by the
2:12:43
end, we are, we're getting towards that stage, but I
2:12:45
don't want it to be an ongoing thing for the
2:12:47
rest of her life, but yeah, I don't know. Maybe
2:12:49
it's just a little bit too much for it to
2:12:51
still be going on now. I think now's the time
2:12:53
to leave it. Or do we carry on and just
2:12:55
ruin this guy's life forever? Give me some real actual
2:12:57
answers in the comments. Not just, oh, he did a
2:12:59
terrible thing, he deserves for his entire life to be
2:13:01
ruined for 80 years and then die. Let's be realistic,
2:13:04
okay? I wanna hear some actual logic and some cohesive
2:13:06
thoughts, which to be fair, you guys always give me.
2:13:08
There's no need for me to say that, but you
2:13:10
get what I'm saying. I mean, you could also say
2:13:12
that, you know, the revenge was at the time good.
2:13:15
You told the correct authorities, the
2:13:17
school, whatever it's
2:13:19
called, fish and animal people, the people that deal
2:13:21
with animals, about what was going on. They came
2:13:23
in and dealt with it, that was it. And
2:13:25
again, I have to maintain that he should not
2:13:27
work in a school again. But outside of that,
2:13:29
I don't know if he still deserves to be
2:13:32
getting punished. Maybe he does. I'm not
2:13:34
completely decided to be punished. I actually reckon he probably does.
2:13:36
It's just harsh, but you know, if you are the sort
2:13:38
of person that would do this, yeah,
2:13:41
maybe you do deserve to be punished forever. I don't know,
2:13:43
people in the comments are saying that
2:13:46
ultimately what he did was cheat on you in the 90s with
2:13:48
a woman over the age, over
2:13:51
the age of consent, over the legal age. So
2:13:53
it's a bad move, but it's not a crime.
2:13:55
How does he deserve to be punished 20 years later?
2:13:57
Even if he was the TA, people are saying that.
2:14:00
You know, what you did with George OP
2:14:02
was fantastic and angry, that was brilliant. No
2:14:04
doubt about that. And maybe even think Friends
2:14:06
of the Family is fine as well, although
2:14:08
to be fair, a little bit weird, 20
2:14:11
years later. But yeah, like devastating the dude's
2:14:13
entire life, ruining his career, continuing to do
2:14:15
damage for decades afterwards. After he's like worked
2:14:17
his way back up from nothing and seeing
2:14:20
as if he's trying to live a proper
2:14:22
life, and he's still not doing that
2:14:24
well, right? I mean, he's applying for jobs that
2:14:26
probably should be, you know, a level
2:14:28
ahead of his 40s. And
2:14:31
I don't know, maybe it's just a
2:14:33
little bit too much. Again, maybe
2:14:35
I'm just waffling here. Let me know in
2:14:38
the comments down below, you guys are the
2:14:40
voice of reason on this channel, not me.
2:14:42
Got rude guy arrested for suspended license. In
2:14:44
the mid 2000s, my friends and I would
2:14:46
frequent a small billiards place in a neighboring
2:14:48
town where you could rent a table by
2:14:50
the hour or play per game. We'd play
2:14:52
a few games, watch whatever sports were on
2:14:55
TV, and have casual conversations. There were no
2:14:57
problems and no drama until about three months
2:14:59
of us visiting this place. A guy shows
2:15:01
up and takes our spot at the billiards
2:15:03
table. No big deal, we were all chatting
2:15:05
anyway. 20 minutes later, my friend
2:15:08
lets him know that we want to play
2:15:10
the next game, but this jerk is super
2:15:12
dismissive. Needless to say, we didn't get in
2:15:14
during the next game. So I politely let
2:15:16
him know we wanted to play next. Another
2:15:19
lady chimed in that she wanted the game
2:15:21
after us. The guy blatantly ignored
2:15:23
me and the other woman. Some more
2:15:25
time goes by and the guy leaves
2:15:27
the table. We see our chance to
2:15:29
get in. We put the quarters in
2:15:31
and the balls are dispensed, except the
2:15:33
green six ball. The guy took
2:15:35
it to the bathroom with him. At this point,
2:15:38
it was ridiculous and we notified the manager. The
2:15:40
manager noted it was 12.30 and
2:15:42
they were going to be calling last call
2:15:44
and closing, so he didn't want to make
2:15:46
a scene by kicking him out. He gets
2:15:48
us another ball so that we can play.
2:15:50
The guy comes out of the bathroom and
2:15:53
knows that we realized what he did. He
2:15:55
smirks and proceeds to the patio to have
2:15:57
a cigarette, bringing along his beer and the
2:15:59
green billiard ball. The guy comes back
2:16:01
in and toss the ball he was holding onto
2:16:03
the table, hitting a few balls on it and
2:16:05
messing up our game. He goes
2:16:07
up to the bar just in time for
2:16:09
last call. One of the friends I was
2:16:12
with suggested we follow him home and each
2:16:14
call the highway patrol to report a suspected
2:16:16
drunk driver. Three of four of us
2:16:18
agree. So when he leaves,
2:16:20
we used our trusty Nextel push to
2:16:22
talk phones and coordinated several calls to
2:16:24
the police. We provided details
2:16:27
like license plate, vehicle make, and model
2:16:29
and colour and mentioned the car nearly
2:16:31
hit another vehicle, was swerving between lines
2:16:33
and driving erratically. This was
2:16:36
under a 15 minute plan. We had
2:16:38
no idea where the guy lived but suspected
2:16:40
it was close as he was visiting a
2:16:42
neighbourhood place so our time was limited. The
2:16:44
one guy who didn't notify the police, tailed
2:16:46
the jerk and called us giddy when
2:16:48
a police officer pulled between him and
2:16:50
the guy and turned on his lights
2:16:52
to pull him over. The police blotter
2:16:55
that week included an arrest of a
2:16:57
guy who was pulled over after multiple
2:16:59
calls of erratic driving. He
2:17:01
wasn't arrested for DWI but instead
2:17:03
for driving on a suspended license.
2:17:06
Well there we go, dealt with phenomenally
2:17:08
well. I'm actually quite interested to know
2:17:10
how this guy wasn't done for drink
2:17:12
driving. Maybe he did just have a couple of drinks
2:17:15
and that was all. But still, I'm not
2:17:17
sure I'd necessarily advocate that even though it's
2:17:20
within the limit just about. But yeah, good
2:17:22
to see that you guys got some justice
2:17:24
because what kind of guy does this? I
2:17:26
mean seriously. Like fair enough if you want
2:17:29
to play an extra game. I mean is
2:17:31
that even fair? I'm not sure. You know if you
2:17:34
want to play two games and you say to people,
2:17:36
listen I know that you're waiting but I really just
2:17:38
want to play another game. I mean even then you
2:17:40
should just give a table up. Sorry you
2:17:42
should. But then what he did after that, taking
2:17:44
the green ball to the toilet. I mean
2:17:47
what? I've never heard of someone doing that.
2:17:50
And then ruining the game, the next game by
2:17:52
chucking it on the table just for the
2:17:54
sake of it. Why? I
2:17:56
think he deserves to be arrested just for that pettiness and just
2:17:58
being a jerk in general. Good revenge. Okay,
2:18:01
that's gonna do it for the first story
2:18:03
of revenge in this episode. Let's move on
2:18:05
to the second. Now, I wanna give a
2:18:07
little bit of context here because it might
2:18:09
seem like it's a little bit boring and
2:18:11
professional and mundane. But trust me, this isn't
2:18:13
one of those. It's really, really good and
2:18:15
the justice is excellent. It's definitely one of
2:18:17
the most well-written pieces that I've read in
2:18:19
a while. And it's about
2:18:22
someone that we all kind of
2:18:24
hate, right? Landlords.
2:18:26
I generally agree that landlords
2:18:28
aren't the best. They're sometimes
2:18:30
extremely difficult to work with and deal
2:18:32
with. But you may think
2:18:34
that residential landlords are bad. Actually, in
2:18:37
this situation, we have a story about
2:18:39
a commercial landlord who is absolutely horrible.
2:18:42
Without further ado, let's get into it.
2:18:44
A lawyer's pro-revenge on a landlord. Landlords
2:18:47
are jerks, generally speaking. Everyone
2:18:49
knows that. But if you think residential
2:18:51
landlords are bad, they are nothing compared
2:18:53
to commercial landlords. Most
2:18:55
of commercial buildings are some of the
2:18:57
cruelest, nastiest people I've ever come across.
2:19:00
This revenge tale is about a commercial landlord and
2:19:02
how I dealt with him. Back in the 90s,
2:19:04
sometimes I'd go for lunch at this restaurant in
2:19:07
the basement of our building. The
2:19:09
place was called The Vault because it had a
2:19:11
massive bank vault that had always been there, dating
2:19:13
back to the days before the place was turned
2:19:15
into a restaurant. The vault was
2:19:17
so huge that they could see a couple
2:19:19
of tables in there and you could eat
2:19:22
dinner surrounded by rows of old, gleaming, safe
2:19:24
deposit boxes. One day I
2:19:26
was there for lunch and the owner took
2:19:28
me aside. The landlord's driving me nuts, he
2:19:30
said. The landlord drives everyone house.
2:19:32
I was a subtenant in the same building,
2:19:34
sharing space with an old lawyer, Aaron, and
2:19:37
the landlord was always causing us trouble. I'd
2:19:39
already had a few run-ins with him and
2:19:41
we hated each other on site. In most
2:19:43
jurisdictions, commercial landlords don't need court orders to
2:19:45
get you out. Instead, they just change the
2:19:48
locks and you find out about it when
2:19:50
you show up and your key doesn't work.
2:19:53
Every time our landlord had a dispute with anyone, which
2:19:55
was often, he'd always threatened to change
2:19:57
the locks. stuff
2:20:00
for extra rent. And it's really weird
2:20:02
because a lot of it's really old.
2:20:04
The restaurant owner showed me a letter
2:20:06
the landlord had served on him earlier
2:20:08
that day. I looked over the demand
2:20:10
and read a list of expenses for
2:20:12
snow removal and parking lot repair and
2:20:14
common area flooring and all kinds of
2:20:16
trash going back years. I read
2:20:19
it all the way to the end and there
2:20:21
it was. The usual clause saying he was going
2:20:23
to change the locks if the tenant didn't pay
2:20:25
this and do that. From the wording of the
2:20:27
demand it looks like you've been fighting a while.
2:20:29
Why did you wait before consulting a lawyer?
2:20:31
I asked one of the lawyers I know
2:20:33
and he said it's hopeless. He told me
2:20:35
the lawyers name. It was a guy I
2:20:37
knew with a trashy real estate practice who
2:20:39
resorted to taking little legal aid cases to
2:20:41
keep the lights on when the market tanked
2:20:43
in 89. Did you do
2:20:46
something to make the landlord hate you? I asked.
2:20:48
Because this is a bit over the top even
2:20:50
for our jerk landlord. He knows I'm moving the
2:20:52
restaurant. I think he's trying to grab as much
2:20:55
money as possible before I go. Plus he's giving
2:20:57
me grief over the vault. He won't
2:20:59
let you take it with you? Are you kidding? It weighs
2:21:01
almost 100 tons and I don't
2:21:03
need it. But the lease says I have
2:21:05
to remove it and I also have to
2:21:07
restore the building to what it was before
2:21:09
there was a vault that would cost a
2:21:11
fortune. The jerk landlord says if I leave
2:21:13
the vault behind when I move he'll sue.
2:21:15
Send your lease up to my office and
2:21:17
let me look it over. I said. I
2:21:19
finished my lunch and when I got back
2:21:21
to my office the lease was waiting for
2:21:23
me. It was just as bad as the
2:21:25
restaurant owner said. The lease was a renewal
2:21:27
of a renewal of an assignment or
2:21:29
a renewal. The original documents dating
2:21:31
back to shortly after World War
2:21:33
2 when a bank first leased
2:21:36
the place and the vault was
2:21:38
installed. Somehow the landlord had
2:21:40
suckered the restaurant into taking over a
2:21:42
lease that left him liable to remove
2:21:44
a bank vault at the end of
2:21:46
the term. That is crazy. No big
2:21:49
deal I thought. The restaurant can default and
2:21:51
all the landlord can do is sue a
2:21:53
shell company. But when I got to the
2:21:56
last page of the lease there was a
2:21:58
guarantee clause. The restaurant owner had a
2:22:00
personally guaranteed the lease and he was on the
2:22:02
hook for removing a vault weighing 100
2:22:05
tons and then fixing the place up,
2:22:07
it would cost a fortune. To be
2:22:09
fair, moral of the story so far
2:22:11
is you've got to read the contract
2:22:13
in full for anything like this because
2:22:15
wow, being personally liable for a 100
2:22:17
ton vault is crazy. The case was
2:22:19
hopeless of course, that was obvious right
2:22:21
away but then I thought about the
2:22:23
jerk landlord with his demands and his
2:22:25
threats and his rent hikes and I
2:22:27
asked my brain to do me a
2:22:29
solid, which it promptly did. I picked
2:22:32
up the phone and called the restaurant owner.
2:22:34
I'm screwed right? You're calling me to say
2:22:36
there's no way out. That's what my commercial
2:22:39
lawyer already said but I
2:22:41
just thought I'd ask. Well I can save you,
2:22:43
but it's going to cost. How much? 5,000 illegals
2:22:46
and another G note for the
2:22:48
agent. Agent? What kind
2:22:50
of agent? Real estate. Send up a check,
2:22:52
certified and leave the rest to me. The
2:22:54
check hit my desk in less than an
2:22:56
hour. I went to Aaron's office. I
2:22:59
need a real estate agent, I said. You buying
2:23:01
a house? Nope. Selling
2:23:03
a house? Nope. By this
2:23:05
point I've been showing space with Aaron for almost
2:23:08
5 years and he knew me pretty well. You
2:23:10
pulling one of your stunts again? He asked. Yep,
2:23:13
but nothing that will get you into trouble. Alright,
2:23:16
I know a guy. Aaron knew
2:23:18
all kinds of guys and that's one of the
2:23:20
reasons he eventually got disbarred but he knew a
2:23:22
guy and he gave me the agent's name and
2:23:24
number and the next day I paid the agent
2:23:26
a visit. I told him what I needed and
2:23:28
we agreed to terms. I gave him some papers
2:23:30
and the cash for his fee. A few days
2:23:33
later I was again at the vault for lunch.
2:23:35
The owner saw me walk in and greeted me
2:23:37
himself. The landlord's here, he said.
2:23:39
Why? For lunch and
2:23:42
to be a jerk. Let's sit in the vault room so I
2:23:44
don't have to look at his face. He took
2:23:46
me to the vault room and with the door almost
2:23:48
completely closed, we had a consultation while
2:23:50
we ate pasta and drank red wine.
2:23:52
That's pretty elite by the way, I've
2:23:54
got to say. Imagine that. Sitting in
2:23:56
a vault having pasta drinking red wine.
2:23:59
That's like movie. seen right there but
2:24:01
I guess the circumstances aren't great to
2:24:03
be honest. So I said, we're making
2:24:05
demand on the landlord, munching on spaghetti
2:24:07
carbonara. Demand? What are we demanding? I
2:24:09
put a document out of my briefcase
2:24:11
and passed it to him while I
2:24:13
sip my wine. We're demanding that
2:24:15
the jerk landlord release all the restaurant
2:24:17
equipment, all the fixtures, the ovens, the
2:24:19
freezers, the ventilation, everything you need to
2:24:21
run a restaurant. The lease exempts all
2:24:23
that stuff. He can't stop me taking
2:24:25
what I want. The only thing that
2:24:28
matters is the vault and of course
2:24:30
I don't want that. But I shook
2:24:32
my head. You need the vault I said.
2:24:35
And we're demanding that he release the bank
2:24:37
vault as well. We're insisting that he let
2:24:39
you take it out within seven business days.
2:24:41
You think you can beat the landlord with
2:24:43
reverse psychology? You think if you treat him
2:24:45
like a two year old you can manipulate
2:24:47
him into doing what you want? Well, we'll
2:24:49
find out soon enough. He's had the demand
2:24:51
for a couple of days now. The restaurant
2:24:53
owner dropped his wine glass and it shattered
2:24:55
on the marble floor. You already gave it
2:24:57
to him. He said he got
2:24:59
up, swung open the vault door and called for
2:25:01
the waiter to clean up the mess. Let's see
2:25:03
what the landlord has to say. I told him
2:25:05
and we walked over to the landlord's table. The
2:25:08
landlord was a big beefy man with
2:25:10
a big appetite. He sat alone eating
2:25:12
wolfishly and with his hands. My client
2:25:14
needs an answer today. I said the
2:25:16
landlord looked up at me as he
2:25:19
chewed noisily. I'm the vault's lawyer. I
2:25:21
said, I gave you a demand
2:25:23
the other day. My client needs an answer
2:25:25
right now. He needs the vault for a
2:25:27
new place and he's got to make arrangements.
2:25:29
Your client could forget about the bank vault.
2:25:31
He said wiping his massive creasy
2:25:34
hands on an already soiled napkin,
2:25:36
but you can't do that. I
2:25:38
said my shock was feigned,
2:25:40
but the restaurant owner's jaw dropped for
2:25:42
real. The landlord laughed at us. I'm
2:25:45
the landlord. I can do what I want.
2:25:47
I'm going to need that in writing because
2:25:49
my client might sue. I said, Sue all
2:25:51
you like. The landlord told me, Sue till
2:25:53
you're blue in the face. He
2:25:55
told me that I'd have a formal response
2:25:57
by the day's end. And then he told
2:25:59
me to go away and let him finish
2:26:01
his life. lunch. When the letter arrived from
2:26:03
the landlord, claiming ownership over the bank vault,
2:26:05
I brought it downstairs and showed it to
2:26:07
my client. How the heck did you do
2:26:09
that? Trade secret, I said. The following month,
2:26:11
the restaurant moved out and the place was
2:26:13
empty. And that was too bad, because I'd
2:26:15
always liked eating at the vault. Now
2:26:17
the restaurant was in a new location 20 minutes
2:26:20
away. They called the new place the vault
2:26:22
and they'd preserved the vibe of the old
2:26:24
place. It was very similar except they didn't
2:26:26
have the bank vault. The bank vault, all
2:26:28
100 tons of it, was where it had
2:26:30
always been, in the basement of the building
2:26:33
where I rented space. I showed
2:26:35
up for work a little after that and Aaron
2:26:37
collared me. The landlord's looking for
2:26:39
you, he says. Oh yeah? What about?
2:26:42
He's really angry. He said his deal fell
2:26:44
through. Deal? He was supposed to rent the
2:26:46
place downstairs to a new tenant, a bank
2:26:48
or a credit union or something like that.
2:26:50
They were supposed to come in to sign
2:26:52
a lease, but they didn't show up. And
2:26:54
what's that got to do with me? I
2:26:56
said to Aaron. And I said the
2:26:58
same thing again to the landlord when he
2:27:00
managed to track me down a couple of
2:27:02
days later. I know you were behind this,
2:27:04
he said, his jowls quivering. I know it
2:27:07
was you. That offer from the agent, it
2:27:09
was all BS. Just a trick to make
2:27:11
me keep the vault so that your client
2:27:13
could sneak out of the place and leave
2:27:15
that freaking bank vault behind. I'm gonna sue.
2:27:17
If you're looking for counsel, I think I'm
2:27:19
gonna have to declare a conflict. I'm
2:27:22
gonna sue the restaurant and the agent and
2:27:24
I'm gonna sue you. He stormed off. But
2:27:26
the landlord didn't sue. Of course he didn't.
2:27:28
He didn't have a contract to sue on
2:27:30
only a vague letter of intent that I
2:27:32
drafted enough to hook a greedy landlord who
2:27:35
was used to having his way. The
2:27:37
offer he'd received was non-binding, incapable of
2:27:39
acceptance without the signing of a formal
2:27:42
lease, which of course never got signed.
2:27:44
When I left Aaron's place a year
2:27:46
later, the downstairs was still unoccupied with
2:27:48
a sad full rent sign sitting in
2:27:51
the window, starting to look faded. been
2:28:00
potentially a kind of boring topic you
2:28:02
know landlords and contracts and that sort
2:28:05
of stuff maybe not the most entertaining
2:28:07
so well written and really good this guy
2:28:09
clearly is just a horrible greedy man that
2:28:12
yeah any sort of idea of oh can
2:28:14
i make some more money from a from
2:28:16
a new bank potentially coming in he was
2:28:18
all he was all for it not even
2:28:20
checking if they were even a real bank
2:28:22
in the first place or doing any sort
2:28:24
of due diligence there and working
2:28:26
out what was going on doesn't really surprise
2:28:28
me when he's just as selfish as this
2:28:30
forcing somebody to to take a 100
2:28:34
ton vault with them or he'll sue
2:28:36
i mean just absolutely ridiculous i
2:28:38
guess this comes down to so you have to leave
2:28:41
the property in the same way it was when
2:28:44
you first got it but i don't know how
2:28:46
anyone would realistically know that first
2:28:48
of all there was a a huge 100 ton
2:28:50
vault and then secondly that that
2:28:52
you had to get rid of it when
2:28:54
you left because when you moved in it was
2:28:56
there right but again as was explained in this
2:28:59
one going back to the second
2:29:01
world war and having a contract
2:29:03
carry over from there is extremely pessy i do
2:29:05
kind of stand by what i said though i
2:29:07
do think with all these things you've got to
2:29:09
read literally i was going to
2:29:11
say word for word but almost letter
2:29:13
for letter like the punctuation even is
2:29:15
extremely important in these sort of contracts
2:29:17
to make sure you're not getting absolutely
2:29:19
shafted like this guy did but
2:29:22
yeah if it wasn't for uop i mean
2:29:24
that would have been terrible but thank goodness
2:29:26
that people like you exist and
2:29:28
just exploited the guy that was
2:29:30
exploiting this this unlucky individual steal furniture almost
2:29:32
lose your job so my dad owns a
2:29:35
house that he's been renting for some time
2:29:37
now the tenants that live there were for
2:29:39
the most part decent people who my dad
2:29:41
thought were trustworthy that all changed about two
2:29:44
months into the tenancy when the tenant refused
2:29:46
to pay the month's rents my dad showed
2:29:48
some leniency and gave them another month to
2:29:50
pay what was owed but they didn't pay
2:29:53
a thing by this point my dad frustrated
2:29:55
by the whole situation and being two months
2:29:57
out of rent money offered them a deal
2:29:59
leave the house ASAP and then only pay
2:30:01
half the money owed. They counted
2:30:04
with a different agreement. They would leave the
2:30:06
house in a clean state with all of
2:30:08
their furniture left behind as compensation. My dad
2:30:10
wanting to just be done with them agreed.
2:30:12
Cut to where my dad gets to the
2:30:14
house, finding the place in a mess with
2:30:17
none of the furniture left behind, including the
2:30:19
furniture that belonged to my dad in the
2:30:21
first place. The two sofas that my
2:30:23
dad owned were left behind, but they were trashed
2:30:25
and left in the shed. When my dad confronted
2:30:27
them, asking for them to pay up the full
2:30:29
amount that the furniture was worth, he
2:30:32
was met with the promise of payment after
2:30:34
two weeks, which he didn't believe. And
2:30:36
when he requested they pay earlier, he was
2:30:39
met with good luck getting your money, followed
2:30:41
by laughing emojis. This made my dad angry,
2:30:43
and he decided that he wasn't going to
2:30:45
let this slide. My dad knew that the
2:30:47
tenant was a Christian pastor of a church,
2:30:50
and his son also had some job related
2:30:52
to the church. My dad contacted the church
2:30:54
and explained everything from how they hadn't paid
2:30:56
him rent money, to stealing the furniture and
2:30:58
trashing the place. The church was
2:31:01
somewhat interested about this behavior. The next
2:31:03
day, my dad gets an angry phone
2:31:05
call from the tenant's son, cursing at
2:31:07
him, asking him what he thought he
2:31:09
was doing, contacting the church, saying he
2:31:11
was being unfair. My dad
2:31:13
hung up on him, only for him to
2:31:15
attempt to ring 10 times afterwards. From what
2:31:17
we could piece together, the church had told
2:31:19
the pastor that if he didn't settle things
2:31:22
with my dad, him and his son would
2:31:24
lose their jobs. My dad
2:31:26
received the full amount for the furniture that same day
2:31:28
and agreed to back off. My dad
2:31:30
later said it was never about the money,
2:31:32
but the way this guy treated him and
2:31:34
his values, my dad being a Christian himself
2:31:36
was disappointed. There we go, a nice little
2:31:38
one to finish on there. I do have
2:31:41
to say that it's embarrassing,
2:31:43
that these healthy
2:31:46
Christian people who work for the
2:31:48
church have this attitude. Does that
2:31:51
not go exactly against what they're
2:31:53
preaching? Surely it does. How
2:31:55
can they go to work each day? Like you're a pastor,
2:31:58
a pastor, a pastor. and you are
2:32:01
going to work each day, preaching, knowing that
2:32:03
you're doing this at the same time. How
2:32:05
can you live with yourself? I think it's
2:32:07
kind of people like this sometimes that give,
2:32:09
not just the church, not just the Christian church,
2:32:11
but just religion in general, a bad name. When
2:32:14
reality, it's just these horrible individuals doing things, but
2:32:16
then you hear stories like this quite often, you're
2:32:18
just like, why? How can somebody
2:32:20
be in this position and do something like
2:32:22
this? But I guess it happens all over
2:32:24
the world in every single sector, but yeah.
2:32:27
Normally, I thought that the church would
2:32:29
usually pay for their residence, but I
2:32:32
don't know, maybe they weren't, or
2:32:34
maybe they were, and these two were just,
2:32:36
you know, pocketing that, and then just,
2:32:39
yeah, using it for whatever they wanted. I will say
2:32:41
though, shout out your dad, because
2:32:44
he is a very, very good man.
2:32:46
Teacher insists I talk to my mother. This was back
2:32:48
in school when I was 15, 16-ish. I'd
2:32:51
moved to the area suddenly and had a
2:32:53
lot of accommodations, so most of the teachers
2:32:55
didn't know specifically what was going on in
2:32:58
my life, but most knew it was pretty
2:33:00
messed up and there was an ongoing police
2:33:02
investigation. I guess this teacher missed the memo.
2:33:04
I was talking about prom tickets and how
2:33:07
I collected them as I qualified for free
2:33:09
ones. I don't remember exactly how the conversation
2:33:11
went, so I'm kind of paraphrasing. My teacher
2:33:13
said to me, you just need to
2:33:15
get your mom to email to claim as many tickets
2:33:17
as you need. I replied, okay,
2:33:20
I'll ask my dad to do that.
2:33:23
She then mentioned a few other things, but
2:33:25
every time she ignored my subtle corrections and
2:33:27
asked me to talk to my mom. After
2:33:30
like four times, I lost my temper and
2:33:32
went, all right, since you
2:33:34
insist, I'll drive for two hours,
2:33:36
find my highly abusive mother in police
2:33:39
custody and reconnect with her just to
2:33:41
ask her permission for some prom
2:33:43
tickets, or I could ask
2:33:45
my dad at home. She just
2:33:47
went completely silent and a couple of
2:33:49
nearby teachers gave her judgment or looks
2:33:51
and I walked away. Teachers should honestly
2:33:53
know better than to assume all kids
2:33:55
have parents, especially both. There
2:33:58
was another time, like a month after I moved. where
2:34:00
we had an English class assignment to read and
2:34:02
write poems about our mother. On Mother's
2:34:04
Day, so it was already a pretty sore day
2:34:06
for me, I just left. She'll
2:34:09
have written some poems about how she beat
2:34:11
me for laughing wrong to teach them not
2:34:13
to do that sort of trash. Yeah, that
2:34:15
is extremely poor from that teacher. I mean,
2:34:18
it's just one of those things. If you
2:34:20
are a teacher and you have a classroom
2:34:22
full of children, surely you shouldn't be talking
2:34:24
generally about these sort of things. I mean,
2:34:27
look, maybe you can, but on the whole,
2:34:29
you've got to be so careful because who
2:34:31
knows what you might say that could horribly
2:34:33
upset someone. I mean, you don't know. Clearly,
2:34:36
this woman doesn't know the individual circumstances of
2:34:38
all her students. I think, to be fair,
2:34:40
she should, but for whatever reason, she doesn't.
2:34:43
And I'm thinking about my own education here.
2:34:45
I can't actually remember doing sort of like
2:34:47
Father's Day or Mother's Day stuff in particular,
2:34:49
even in primary school or like even back
2:34:52
in kindergarten. I mean, I don't remember exactly
2:34:54
in reception, but I don't remember it.
2:34:56
And I feel like the teachers would know
2:34:59
exactly what was going on with their
2:35:01
students' parents. So they wouldn't do anything
2:35:03
that could be as traumatic as this,
2:35:05
probably for that reason. But yeah, terrible
2:35:07
from her. Great from UOP. I mean,
2:35:09
you could also argue that she's just
2:35:11
being misogynistic anyway. Like, why does she
2:35:13
keep insisting that you ask your mum?
2:35:15
Because that's just assigning a gender role, isn't
2:35:17
it? It's ridiculous, especially in the modern day. There's
2:35:19
a lot about this teacher to dislike, I will
2:35:21
say. So, yeah, I'm happy you got your own
2:35:24
back, OP. Keep touching my wheelchair when I told
2:35:26
you no, get slapped and shunned.
2:35:28
I am a wheelchair user. Wheelchairs
2:35:31
are considered extensions of our bodies.
2:35:33
And touching wheelchairs without the user's
2:35:35
permission is a no-no. Moving someone's
2:35:37
wheelchair without asking is an even
2:35:39
bigger no-no. I'd explained to a
2:35:41
classmate again and again that it
2:35:44
was rude, inappropriate and even harassment
2:35:46
that he kept touching my chair or moving me
2:35:48
without asking. And when I told him not to,
2:35:50
not only did he keep doing it, but he
2:35:52
was insistent that he had the right to do
2:35:55
so. I'd even gone as far as to illustrate
2:35:57
the issue to him, by getting permission to touch
2:35:59
his sh- shoulder or elbows and moving
2:36:01
him out of the way or leaving my
2:36:03
hand on his shoulder and leaving it there
2:36:05
until it was awkward. Even this though didn't
2:36:07
dissuade him or change his entitled insistence that
2:36:10
he had every right to touch my chair
2:36:12
whenever he wanted to even when
2:36:14
I told him no. Anyway, usually
2:36:16
he'd let go, kind of scoff and move
2:36:18
on. This was over the course of most
2:36:20
of a college semester. It was a voice
2:36:23
class at a community college so there were
2:36:25
less than 20 of us. So our professor
2:36:27
had witnessed many of these incidents. One day
2:36:29
when he touched my chair again and wouldn't
2:36:31
move his hand when I politely asked him
2:36:34
to stop, he refused to let go and
2:36:36
again insisted that he wasn't doing anything wrong
2:36:38
and that he had the right to do
2:36:40
so, it wasn't a big deal etc. By
2:36:42
this point I'd had enough. He continued to
2:36:45
touch me, my chair and therefore
2:36:47
an extension of my person. So I turned
2:36:49
my chair around lightning fast, grabbed his stunned
2:36:51
hand hard enough hopefully to bruise it, I've
2:36:53
got good upper body and hand grip strength,
2:36:55
pulled him down as harshly as I could
2:36:58
and then slapped him in the face as
2:37:00
hard. The rest of the class heard the
2:37:02
slap and his pained and surprised yelp and
2:37:04
they turned to look at us. He screamed
2:37:06
and ran over to the professor to whine
2:37:09
that I'd grabbed him and hit him. The
2:37:11
professor just kind of shrugged and said something
2:37:13
along the lines of, well she told you
2:37:15
to stop touching her. He kept whining about
2:37:17
it to the professor that I should be
2:37:20
punished for assaulting him etc only for her
2:37:22
and the rest of the class to just
2:37:24
ignore him that day and then for the
2:37:26
rest of the semester. Mind you I'm a
2:37:28
very chilled person, unless you count childlike excitement
2:37:30
clear about life and I'm never violent as
2:37:32
well as being patient to a fault so
2:37:35
I don't retaliate nearly ever or easily
2:37:37
but frankly this was self-defence pure and
2:37:39
simple. In any case the whole class
2:37:41
had heard me explain time and time
2:37:43
again not to touch me or my
2:37:46
chair and how and why it was inappropriate
2:37:48
and they'd asked if I needed help but
2:37:50
I'd always declined. To me personally it's not
2:37:52
that big of a deal if someone who
2:37:55
doesn't know better touches my wheelchair I just
2:37:57
explain why it's wrong but he was so
2:37:59
entitled he had the right to and wouldn't
2:38:01
take no for an answer, that was what made
2:38:03
that an actual issue. And I'd
2:38:05
been much more patient than he deserved. He
2:38:07
wasn't very bright, but he wasn't disabled or
2:38:10
autistic. I'd asked about the autism in a
2:38:12
polite way by sharing that I'm autistic, but
2:38:14
even if he were, he'd be high functioning
2:38:16
enough for his action to be inexcusable. At
2:38:18
the end of class that day, I got
2:38:20
a lot of high fives and he kept
2:38:22
his distance from me, occasionally glancing over at
2:38:25
me fearfully. Good prudence frankly. The
2:38:27
last third or so of the semester, nobody
2:38:29
wanted to work with him when we paired up
2:38:31
in groups of three to four to work on songs
2:38:33
together. People for the most part
2:38:35
didn't love working with him before this anyway,
2:38:37
but after it became clear that the professor
2:38:39
was on my side and not his, it
2:38:42
was if he was invisible. Okay now on
2:38:44
the one hand, while I'm happy that the
2:38:46
professor was on your side and this kid
2:38:49
just got ignored for the rest of the
2:38:51
semester, I do have to say, where
2:38:53
was your professor before it got to this stage?
2:38:56
Like, why are they letting you slap
2:38:58
him? Why are they letting
2:39:00
it get that far? Like that should never have been allowed
2:39:02
to happen. How can the professor genuinely
2:39:04
think, okay, you know what, I see all this
2:39:07
going on, but I'm just going to let it
2:39:09
happen and let this student OP eventually slap
2:39:11
one of my other students and that would
2:39:13
be a good resolution, a good thing to
2:39:15
happen. And that's the way to source it
2:39:17
rather than stopping it at source and saying,
2:39:20
you can't do this before letting
2:39:22
it get violent. It's like, it's
2:39:24
weird teaching. I gotta say, like
2:39:26
you're just being harassed all semester and they're just
2:39:28
leaving you to it. Really odd. Look,
2:39:30
don't get me wrong, this guy's clearly a POS and it's
2:39:32
good that he got what he deserved in the end. But
2:39:35
my main takeaway is that professor has to
2:39:37
do more here. Joke's on you, he's dead.
2:39:40
A little context before I start, six
2:39:42
years ago, my dad died of terminal
2:39:44
brain cancer after two years of treatment.
2:39:47
I was nine turning 10 that summer. My
2:39:49
mum was absolutely devastated, but she stayed strong
2:39:51
for my brothers and me. So
2:39:54
we live in France and it's an advanced country,
2:39:56
but we live in the backwaters where there are
2:39:58
still a lot of masonic. and
2:40:00
homophobes. And just to add a
2:40:02
little more intrigue, it's a 5 day back holiday
2:40:05
weekend here in France, and it was nearing the
2:40:07
end of the workers shift. Now my brothers aren't
2:40:09
at home much and I'm at boarding school, so
2:40:11
we didn't need our huge car anymore. My
2:40:14
mum sold it and replaced it with a brand
2:40:16
new Hyundai electric car. It's a
2:40:18
lot smaller than what we're used to storage wise,
2:40:20
so she wanted to buy a roofbox for it.
2:40:22
She went into the shop and asked a female
2:40:24
worker where she could find one. The woman
2:40:26
called over her male co-workers to help my
2:40:28
mum out. She asked them what she
2:40:31
asked the woman. Could I have
2:40:33
a roofbox for my car? They stroll
2:40:35
over. The leader smirked as he says, is
2:40:37
it for your husband? His
2:40:40
friends laughed and so did their
2:40:42
female co-worker, but my mum didn't
2:40:44
even smile. Instead, she grimaced
2:40:46
and said, well, he died
2:40:48
six years ago, so I
2:40:50
don't think so. The guy
2:40:52
was mortified. As she told me this story in
2:40:55
the car after picking me up from school, I
2:40:57
was so proud of her because she was able
2:40:59
to make some light of our trauma. Also,
2:41:02
she taught a misogynistic idiot a lesson. Well, there
2:41:04
we go. Second case of misogyny in this episode.
2:41:06
I think this one was probably worse than the
2:41:08
first, like trying to get a cheap laugh out
2:41:10
of it and then just being hit by that.
2:41:13
What a way to bring you back down to
2:41:15
work. Again, massive shout out to your mum though.
2:41:17
I mean, you've got to take a leaf out
2:41:19
of her book and start remembering these comebacks. So
2:41:21
when it sadly, inevitably happens to you later in
2:41:24
life, but the fact that she can deal with
2:41:26
it so well and not kind of a car
2:41:28
away, like she's not afraid of
2:41:30
talking about this sort of thing. She's not ashamed by
2:41:32
it. Doesn't seem she just wants to, you know, put
2:41:35
people in their place despite
2:41:37
the fact that it's obviously a horrible, horrible,
2:41:39
traumatic thing that's happened to your family. So
2:41:42
yeah, respect for saying
2:41:44
something uncomfortable, which I'm sure she didn't enjoy
2:41:46
saying to be honest or even like thinking
2:41:49
about, but this guy and his mates that
2:41:51
have led her to say it. Guy asked
2:41:53
me why I'm wearing a mask. Some background
2:41:55
information first. My city was mostly anti mask
2:41:57
through all of COVID. and continues to be.
2:41:59
I don't agree with this, but it's a
2:42:02
smaller town so it was easy for people
2:42:04
to get away with. I actually
2:42:06
wore masks before covid because I suffer
2:42:08
from dermatillomania, basically a mental condition where
2:42:10
I struggle with peeling off sections of
2:42:12
my skin. Oh wow that sounds terrible.
2:42:14
I was shopping at the grocery store
2:42:16
with my husband and we were wearing
2:42:19
masks. I turn around the corner of
2:42:21
an aisle and a man looks at
2:42:23
me and asks, now what are
2:42:25
you wearing a mask for? He was
2:42:27
loud and clearly looking for an argument so I
2:42:29
just tried to brush it off and say I
2:42:31
have a medical condition. I tried to look for
2:42:33
my husband but he was still in the other
2:42:35
aisle. The man then asks, oh
2:42:38
what kind of medical condition? I'm
2:42:40
blown away by the audacity of this guy
2:42:43
but at this point I hear my husband
2:42:45
come up behind me and I suddenly feel
2:42:47
courageous or maybe dumb. I pull down my
2:42:49
mask and show him the rest of my
2:42:51
face. He sees the wounds
2:42:54
and some bandages. He looks embarrassed and
2:42:56
quietly says, oh honey,
2:42:58
before walking away. My husband immediately
2:43:00
turns me around and hugs me
2:43:02
since he worries about my self-esteem.
2:43:05
Asking if I'm feeling okay and such and
2:43:07
what that was about. I just answered smiling,
2:43:09
well he asked. I'll pull my mask back
2:43:11
up and we continue shopping. I realised after
2:43:14
that that I should have just kept my
2:43:16
mask on but it felt good somehow. I
2:43:18
also don't know if I was right to
2:43:20
call it a medical condition or not but
2:43:22
I kind of panicked in the moment. This
2:43:24
was in early 2021 so
2:43:27
three years of therapy later I've been doing
2:43:29
much better with my condition. I
2:43:31
don't pick as often or as much skin
2:43:33
as I used to. Now I usually don't
2:43:35
even wear masks anymore to hide it and
2:43:38
I wish I had this kind of confidence
2:43:40
back when I had my grandmother say I
2:43:42
looked like a meth addict. Uh
2:43:44
well you know what, I feel like grandmothers
2:43:46
just do say stuff like that. Don't take
2:43:48
anything from it. They're just all crazy. Uh
2:43:50
no offence and I know that my grandmother
2:43:53
is actually probably watching right now and
2:43:55
I don't mean you granny. Trust me
2:43:58
anyway back to the story. I
2:44:00
feel like OP, you've done extremely well there.
2:44:02
And you know what you're saying about maybe
2:44:04
it was bad or you didn't feel comfortable
2:44:06
or whatever that it felt good? It should
2:44:09
feel good. You completely killed this person phenomenally
2:44:11
well and embarrassed him. So well
2:44:13
done. And also you don't have to keep your
2:44:15
mask on. I mean, he did ask me to
2:44:17
take it off and you did that. So I
2:44:19
mean, you're just doing what he says. Excellent stuff.
2:44:21
You want proof I'm injured? Okay, this happened about
2:44:24
five years ago. So some details are a bit
2:44:26
blurry, but I remember most of what happened. About
2:44:28
five years ago, I had some major anger
2:44:30
issues caused by other undiagnosed mental
2:44:32
issues. I'm okay now and I'm
2:44:34
properly medicated. I ended up
2:44:36
slapping my door, which caused my mirror to
2:44:39
break and sliced my left leg open. Stupid
2:44:41
mistake, I know. I've learned since then. I
2:44:44
ended up going to hospital to get about
2:44:46
48 stitches. I
2:44:48
had to miss a couple of days of school because the
2:44:50
doctor told me to take it easy for two days. When
2:44:53
I finally went back to school, I had crutches
2:44:55
because I couldn't put any way on the injured
2:44:57
leg at all. I got an
2:44:59
elevator key and I needed people to help me
2:45:01
with my books. I kept pain meds with the
2:45:03
nurse because again, 48 stitches. She'd
2:45:06
never liked me for some reason. So when I
2:45:08
went to get half a pill during lunch, she
2:45:11
refused to give it to me. Here
2:45:13
is how the exchange went. You don't
2:45:15
need any meds, you're fine, the nurse
2:45:17
said. No, I do need
2:45:19
them. I'm in a lot of pain. I'll
2:45:21
stop faking and go back to lunch. I
2:45:23
wouldn't leave your crutches here. You don't need
2:45:26
them either. Now I was in a lot
2:45:28
of pain, so I was already not in
2:45:30
a good mood. This really angered me. Do
2:45:32
your dang job and give me my meds,
2:45:34
then I'll go back. I have an ungodly
2:45:36
amount of stitches in my leg and I'm
2:45:38
already upset enough without you being rude. Well,
2:45:41
how do I know you're actually injured? You
2:45:43
could just have a bandage around your leg.
2:45:45
What, you want proof? Yes.
2:45:48
So without hesitation, I untied the gauze
2:45:50
on my leg, removed the gauze pack
2:45:52
and showed her my stitched wound. All
2:45:55
the color drained from her face and she looked like she
2:45:57
was going to throw up. Is this good
2:45:59
enough? For you, after a moment, she silently
2:46:02
unlocked her medicine cabinet and handed me
2:46:04
my painkiller bottle, which was literally just
2:46:06
extra strength ibuprofen, not opioids, so I've
2:46:08
got no idea why she was so
2:46:10
protective of it. Take your pill and
2:46:13
go back to lunch. I smiled at
2:46:15
her as sweetly as possible. Oh,
2:46:17
well, I can't go back now. My banages
2:46:20
aren't sterile anymore, so I need to change
2:46:22
them. I brought extra banages just in case,
2:46:24
so this wasn't a big deal. She
2:46:27
still looked nauseous at this point. So I
2:46:29
changed my banages as slowly as I could,
2:46:31
making sure she got a good look at
2:46:33
my leg the entire time. I only had
2:46:35
to go back to her office twice through
2:46:37
my recovery, but each time she didn't hesitate
2:46:39
to give me my medication. I
2:46:41
saw her when I went to return my elevator
2:46:43
key and she avoided eye contact with me. She
2:46:46
wasn't working there the following year, luckily.
2:46:49
Well, I wonder why. Okay, now go with me on this
2:46:51
one, guys. I do feel like there are a lot of
2:46:53
people out there that have jobs that they're just not very
2:46:56
good at, okay? Who knows why, but
2:46:58
it just probably is the case. Not naming names
2:47:00
here. I just think that is the case. However,
2:47:03
when you're a nurse, I feel like you
2:47:06
need to be pretty good at your job
2:47:08
or at least know what you're doing. If
2:47:10
you're a healthcare professional, you need to
2:47:12
be providing healthcare. That's kind
2:47:15
of the job description, and I
2:47:17
don't think you can be bad at doing
2:47:19
that. Otherwise, it can be potentially very dangerous.
2:47:21
Now, I do not understand how this woman
2:47:23
had this job in the first place when
2:47:25
she is not giving you medication that you
2:47:27
have to have. It's just insane. Also,
2:47:30
the questions that she's asking you are
2:47:32
a joke. First of all, are you actually
2:47:34
in pain? How do I know if you're injured? Can you
2:47:37
give me proof that you're injured? Et cetera, et cetera, et
2:47:39
cetera. All three of those are
2:47:41
ridiculous for so many reasons. First
2:47:43
of all, you don't have to be in pain to have
2:47:45
pain medication. If it's prescribed to you
2:47:47
to take three times a day and you take
2:47:49
it three times a day and you're never in
2:47:51
pain, that's good. That means it's doing what it's
2:47:53
supposed to be doing, right? You've been prescribed it
2:47:55
for a reason. Secondly, are you actually
2:47:57
injured? You could just have a bandage around your neck.
2:47:59
your leg is mental. Surely
2:48:02
she's had some form of documentation before
2:48:04
she needs proof that you are injured,
2:48:06
right? Like if you go to hospital
2:48:08
and you have 48 stitches, your school
2:48:10
obviously should know about that. If not,
2:48:12
something's gone terribly wrong there in communication.
2:48:14
I don't really know why. And then
2:48:16
thirdly, saying to somebody, I need to
2:48:18
see proof that you have 48 stitches
2:48:20
or that you need pain meds is
2:48:22
unbelievable, especially when they're coming in on
2:48:24
crutches. I mean, look, yeah, some kids
2:48:26
do lie about being ill, but I
2:48:28
don't think someone would lie to this
2:48:30
extent. Maybe they would, but this is
2:48:33
just insane. Also, just one final point. Why is
2:48:35
she not offering to redress it for you? Well,
2:48:37
I'm glad that, I mean, I assume she was
2:48:40
eventually fired. The fact that she's not working in
2:48:42
the following year leads me to believe so. But
2:48:45
after clearly realizing that she was horribly wrong
2:48:47
there, surely she at least could have said,
2:48:49
you know, I'm sorry, let me, let me
2:48:51
do that for you as in do my
2:48:53
job, not just what you do it yourself
2:48:56
and be nauseous. Also, she shouldn't be nauseous.
2:48:58
She's a nurse should be used to that
2:49:00
sort of stuff. Everything about this woman is
2:49:02
just so backwards. Don't ask rude
2:49:04
and invasive questions and you won't get
2:49:07
called out on it. My God, this
2:49:09
just happened. I'm still fuming. Some important
2:49:11
context. I have a zip the size
2:49:14
of Everest tucked in next to the
2:49:16
corner of my eye. It's
2:49:18
recurring and it will go away soon. It's
2:49:20
no big deal. It's just massive. I work
2:49:23
reception and a woman came in having
2:49:25
made her reservation for the wrong day. No
2:49:27
problem. I can at least look up
2:49:29
the reservation information while I'm doing
2:49:32
so. She goes, what happened to your eye?
2:49:35
A lovely question to ask the person
2:49:37
trying to help you. I blink and
2:49:39
tell her it's a pimple. No way.
2:49:41
There's no way that's just a pimple.
2:49:43
Then I pulled the saying out for
2:49:45
the first time. I'm shocked. You
2:49:47
feel comfortable saying something like that to a
2:49:49
total stranger. I have
2:49:52
genetic cystic acne, but unbelievably
2:49:54
she doubles down. Well,
2:49:56
I just, my daughter has
2:49:58
acne too. I say nothing.
2:50:01
She doesn't really talk to me about it either.
2:50:04
I double down. Well, I don't like to talk
2:50:06
about it. It got me made fun of when
2:50:08
I was younger. Cue the breathy comments about how
2:50:10
I, as well as some guys she's texting, are
2:50:12
calling her a POS. If
2:50:15
that's what you got from my very calm
2:50:17
and decently polite responses, maybe you have some
2:50:19
introspection to do. Enjoy your
2:50:21
visit and I hope you think twice before
2:50:23
making comments about someone's appearance. Now
2:50:25
fortunately, while the cystic acne is indeed real
2:50:27
and genetic, I wasn't ever picked on
2:50:29
for it. At least, not until I
2:50:31
reached adulthood for some reason. You know what?
2:50:34
I cannot actually believe that this woman
2:50:36
has said, I can't believe it. My daughter has
2:50:38
acne too. And for some reason, she
2:50:40
doesn't like talking about it either. Yet,
2:50:43
she's asking a total stranger about
2:50:45
her acne. Just
2:50:48
obviously she's just so dumb. So
2:50:50
so dumb. And yes, I agree. You
2:50:52
have a lot of introspection to do.
2:50:56
And fair play to you, OP, again, for just saying, you know
2:50:58
what? I'm not dealing with this. Just because
2:51:00
I'm here to help you out and I know I'm
2:51:02
working on reception, you're a customer, whatever. I'm not going
2:51:04
to sit here and take that from you. You've
2:51:07
got to know that this is just too far.
2:51:09
You can't be asking this sort of stuff. And
2:51:11
you know, if you are this woman and you're
2:51:14
thinking, why is everyone calling me a POS? It's
2:51:16
probably because you are. That is the logical answer
2:51:18
to that. So there we go, guys. That is
2:51:20
going to do it for the best post from
2:51:22
Traumatize Them Back so far this year. Let me know
2:51:24
in the comments down below which has been your favorite
2:51:27
so far. Obviously, a lot more to come in this
2:51:29
year. We're only about halfway through. We're not even
2:51:31
halfway through yet. But yeah, so
2:51:33
far, I think this has been my favorite subreddit
2:51:35
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