280: Absurd Chaos Ft. MacDoesIt

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Are you ready? I'm excited, yes. This is not your first rodeo. No. You know Reddit. Yes. You know reactions. I've become acquainted to Reddit, yes. Yeah. Acquainted to these chaotic stories. Well, you also just react to the most unhinged content. I just watched your trying to guess the movie based on the reviews, and I was losing my mind. I was like, I don't know any of these movies, and you were just clocking them. It took me off guard, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It really brought back a lot of random movies I watched in the 2000s when you're just sitting at home, you know? Yeah, you're cultured. I was like, oh, my God. No, I'm just a city boy that can't go outside, you know? Yeah. Well, there was one, too, and it was like llamas and boobs. Like, what movie is llamas and boobs but also flying? And you're like, it can't be The Aviator. Sure enough, The Aviator. Yeah, The Aviator. And then I was like, I've seen that. There were llamas in there? I don't remember the llamas either. No, Fever Dream. Mm-hmm. Fever Dream. Hi, guys. Welcome back to another episode of Two Hot Takes. Oh, we started. I'm host Morgan. We're on, baby. Okay. You probably recognize him, but we've got Mac Does It in the house. Or not. I don't know. I got braids now. People, I feel like this is like a new era of me. Yeah. Your scalpel's looking good. I heard you got sunburn. Oh, yes. Yeah. Oh, you were watching my content. Okay. No, I do my research. Yes, I got sunburn. I had to, like, Afro it out for a bit, but now, yeah, I'm okay. You're healed. I'm healed. You're back with the braids. Looking fresh. I love it. For my listeners who maybe aren't familiar, what's your elevator pitch to the people? What do you like to say? Oh, I say I am a satirical commentator on the internet. I talk shit for a living, and I think I'm funny. You are definitely funny. You're definitely funny. I feel like today, too, the stories that we picked out for you are, you're just going to shine. We have chaos. It is just bonkers. Another big word that started with an A that I really liked, but now I'm forgetting. Absurd. Absurd. Okay. It's not even a big word. Again, I'm like, my last three brain cells are rubbing themselves together, like, you know, having a little chat around a fire, and it's just. Mercury is in retrograde, you know? Is that what it is? I think so. I was told you cannot mess with Geminis right now. Like, people are like. Noted. No, I feel like you can't mess with Geminis, period, right? In general, but especially right now, because of the way Mercury is in retrograde. They're like, a Gemini will kill you if you wrong them right now. Okay. So I'm like, avoiding all the Geminis in my life. I'm just kidding. But okay, let's get into these stories, shall we? Yes. Let's dive in. Let's dive in. Let's dive in. This first one I got for you. I think you're going to set the tone. All right. So this is coming from our very own 2HotTakes subreddit. It's titled, My mom wants my boyfriend to call her by a pet name. Oh. Oh. Oh. Hi, Reddit. This is my first. This is my first post ever, so excuse me if any mistakes. This all happened today, and I'm genuinely baffled. Today, I, 24 female, introduced my boyfriend, 27 male, to my mother, 45 female, after about three years of dating, and I'm already regretting it. Oh, this happened like right away. Okay. I met his family last year, and it went amazing. They're all super sweet, and I love spending time with them. I've been to a few get-togethers, and then Thanksgiving and Christmas. My family doesn't really celebrate either of those. My siblings and I have different dads, so they all go with their dad, and my mom usually works, so I normally spend the holidays alone. So spending time with them was really cool. He has not met a single family member of mine. It wasn't like I was hiding him or anything. My family is well aware that he exists. All of their interactions have been through me. I'm known for dating literal demons, and this is why I'm here. I'm known for dating literal demons, and this is my first long-term boyfriend, and my first partner in years to not be toxic. He means the world to me, and I love him so much, and I'm pretty protective of our relationship. While I think my family would like him for the most part, I was always scared of how my mom would react. Me and my mom have a rocky relationship. Sometimes she can be really fucking mean. She loves to provoke, and the vibe completely depends on how she feels. Sometimes, it feels like we are in some sort of competition that only she knows about. She has hated all of my partners and has made me and everyone else very aware of it. She can be hypercritical about me and my relationships and always jokes about how she wants to like him but can't and how no one will ever be good enough for her daughter, along with several other passive-aggressive comments about every little thing that happens between he and I. However, she's been super, super eager to meet my current boyfriend. Okay. Now, on to today. I was invited to go to a party with my boyfriend's family, and he was picking me up. My mom got home early from work, and I was like, maybe a quick hello to get her off my back for a while. So, he reluctantly comes to the door, and I tell her he's here. She gets all excited, and I'm like, purr, this is great. Purr. Purr. She hugs him, and I'm thinking everything is fine. Until I ask her what he should call her by. Oh, here we go. First name or maiden name. She laughs and says, quote, peaches. Oh. And I'm shocked. My boyfriend is laughing, and I'm thinking this is all a joke, and so I say, no, seriously. And she says it again, peaches. Followed by, quote, I've always wanted to be called that. Okay, so this is a new name that just came out of the ether. All right. It's a new name. Ruh-roh, girl, be so serious. Girl, be so serious. Oh my God. Peaches feels like a crazy nickname in this context. I mean, my grandpa calls me peaches. The only other context that comes to mind is the sexual nickname Beyonce talks about in Partition. Oh, no. We leave, and nothing else. Nothing else happens. We had a good time at the party, but the whole time, I was replaying it in my head. Is this weird? I don't even call my mom by pet names. My boyfriend doesn't call me nicknames, and she knows this. So I'm just really stuck on what I'm supposed to do to stop this. I feel like it's like a constant story of like the mother getting like way too comfortable with the significant other, like right away. I feel like it's like an overcompensated, be like, oh, you're welcome here. And then say something like, like a little bit too much, like, but peaches is kind of crazy. Peaches. Like just coming up with a random nickname that feels very much like, okay, alter ego, I guess. Yes, that. And I was trying to put myself in her shoes, and I'm like, if my husband's mom was like, you can call me sugar. You can call me even honey. I'm like, no, you're Chris. Like, hey, Chris. That's it. That's what you're getting. Like, it just feels too personal, especially for just meeting. The first meetup, yeah. And I'm like, what is it? And it is interesting that OP is like, it feels like I'm always in a competition with her that only she knows about. And like, did you see that one Netflix documentary that came out where the mom was bullying her daughter? Oh, yeah. Like texting. Yes. And she was like trying to get with her daughter's boyfriend. And this girl was in high school, like sick and twisted. Yeah. I guess some mothers can be, I don't know, looking at their daughters being like, I want your life. I don't know. But that documentary was crazy. It's so nuts. Or like, I don't know, like, let me be your best friend. Like, let's, the boundaries are a little blurred of like that mother-daughter vibe. But there's something here that just. I'm trying to be in the shoes of the boyfriend, right? Yeah. Like meeting the mom. Be like, oh, just call me peaches. What would you do? I'd be so uncomfortable. I just like awkwardly laugh. Yeah, like, okay. You know, I would think it's just a joke the entire time. peaches peaches and cream like that'd make it even worse actually no you did you did make it way worse there peaches and cream oh no no but yeah like it's oh my god i'm already crying i'm like it's hard to come back from but i think you need to just like pull your mom aside and be like hey he's gonna call you sarah or tina or whoever you are like mom like be calm down take it down a notch yeah yeah you just mad him you know maybe peaches is for year two you'll get there when he actually comes to the christmas party for the first time you know yeah well especially because like grandpa like her grandpa calls her peaches so again it's kind of like this i don't know maybe are is there any world that we're overthinking this and it is normal man are they like southern i feel like it's more like a southern maybe like a cultural thing let's get into the comments you maybe we're gonna find out okay so top comment we have coming from baby squirrel i just i just had to read these names so cute it's weird i think you're right about how she sees you as competition in some strange way it seems like she's jealous she must know that peaches is the nickname your grandfather calls you so to ask for a pet name let alone one that you're already called by a family member is bizarre she sounds like a narcissist to me oh that's kind of a jump but i don't know you never know yeah you never know you never know someone does respond it goes same with the competition and narc behavior my mom is like this always competitive with me everything she said about her mom sounded exactly like my mom she's trying to undermine her relationship i'd keep him far away from her because this will only get worse the more they interact and this is also ringing a bell for me this is like i haven't read this one on the show yet but someone was like my mom and stepdad asked to hook up with my boyfriend and they like wanted to bring him in to their bedroom that's crazy and so i'm like i don't know some parents out there like again sick and twisted someone says mom would you like him to call you jessica miss jessica or miss smith those are your options and op responds i was genuinely confused like i suggested those options and she just said no i don't know i don't know i don't know she doubled down on peaches well mom that's not an option op responds it's so awkward because i still live at home and i don't want her flying off the rails at me oh okay so it might be some narcy behavior then could be a situation yeah there is another one here someone says you've been together for three years you live with your mother and she had never met your boyfriend until then also he's 27 surely rather than asking what to call her he would just use her name you're all adults maybe i'm just becoming cynical but i don't believe you op responds i'm not sure if this adds any context but my family is black and from the south there we go okay so that's a lot of context for me at least yeah like maybe it is just like hey sugar like hey baby yeah but it's still it's kind of a very much a cute pet name to say to someone that you know for a while like hey peach you know i mean that's very much like a family member like i've known you for years but like the first time it's kind of crazy it would kind of throw me off op goes on to say i'm not sure if this is just a cultural thing but i don't even call my aunts or uncles by anything but auntie and uncle i called his mother by her last name up until she told me to stop lol as for how they've never met my mom works weird hours he moved to a different state a year ago and i'm not sure if this is just a cultural thing but i'm not sure if this is just a cultural thing so when he comes we plan around it for the most part and he doesn't come to the door to grab me and then there's a screenshot and it's op saying you showed me your fam i show you my fam my mom is going to be home and you can say hi too and it's the boyfriend responding no and then something that's scribbled out sure and boyfriend says i don't want to meet your mom and op texts back she likes you boyfriend says don't care oh wait even more lord i'm like what's the tea there like have you even want to meet no so that means does she have stories about her mom that the boyfriend's like oh i don't want to be in that situation okay that's what i want to know like have you been telling boyfriend about mom and like you know he's like really apprehensive and like no don't fuck with her but like i also think your girlfriend lives with her mom i think it is like just a basic respect thing at least say hi meet the roommates meet the roomies it's been three years come on you want us to meet family at wedding day like what some people do that that happens to some couples yeah that would freak me out yeah i don't want to be having a bunch of random strangers around me when i'm marrying the person i'm supposed to love you know yeah no i want everyone to be like drama's already been had yeah i'm not really seeing any other comments really about any lore any drama between them any stories but basically just more comments about my mom doesn't like anybody i've dated good or bad demon or not op does say new fear unlocked mom alone with my boyfriend i think your boyfriend i think you're safe with your mom yeah no no i think i think i'm safe on that one but yeah op says i have been talking to a therapist so you know maybe run it by them too and i think you'll be okay yeah yeah just miss miss smith you know whatever it is just that's get on board babe that's what you're going by okay this next one for us is coming from r slash am i overreacting it's titled am i overreacting for walking out on a first date with someone that basically told me he was trying to date uglier people on purpose oh oh tell me let's get into it that's hilarious okay i 26 female went on a date with a friend 24 male of my brother 24 male apparently he had told my brother he wanted to get to know me first of all friend of the brother that's already nope and i gave him permission to share my number and we went on a date i thought it was odd because my brother doesn't have many friends see that nope where are we going and i don't really go on that many dates but i decided to give it a chance because i usually only get asked out by men double my age anyways the date is kind of normal at the beginning we're talking about music anime memes etc and then i asked what he liked about me he responded quote to be honest nothing much but prettier girls are too much drama so i was trying this thing i saw called shrekking oh oh no shrekking shrek shrek maxing when i asked him to clarify he said that i wasn't normally his type at this point i'm a bit shocked but decided to give a chance to someone who appeared to want to date without superficial reasons i was a bit on edge but the date continued normally for a while until he said quote i bet you're glad for this trend how does it feel to be on a date with someone so handsome oh i laughed thinking he was joking but he kept pressing me to answer so i got up and left wow he's giving a manosphere he went on a date with a manosphere podcast hoster what the hell i have not seen anything on shrekking i've never heard of that before either that but i'm not surprised you know what i mean in this day and age there's that that happens yeah men be like that there's literally an article coming from vice and shrekking is a viral dating term where someone intentionally dates a partner they find less conventionally attractive it also stems from dating someone beneath your league and it will guarantee better treatment loyalty or an ego boost guarantee that's crazy not many things in life are guaranteed nothing is guaranteed nothing wow but no she's not overreacting she's not overreacting she's not overreacting she's not overreacting for walking out i would have i would have walked out as soon as they said shrek and i'm like what i don't know what that is i'm grown i would have just left oh yeah no someone literally said yeah i'm sitting next to you because i'm i'm shrekking like no thank you i'd be like let me go back to my swamp goodbye i don't think that would happen to me because i'm just like drop dead gorgeous but you know i'm trying to relate oh no thank you no not overreacting no no no no no so i guess i mean was it like a younger brother older brother's best friend same age oh same age op was kind of like my brother doesn't really have any friends yeah doesn't really have any friends that already gives manosphere right there too you know so there's so many red flags at the beginning of that first paragraph i was like okay i'm like this is your friend we need we need to save him send help comment not overreacting but do call and ask your brother if he knows what shrekking is and if he knows that is why his friend went on a date with you if he knew beforehand there would be some hell to pay if it were my brother op responds i researched what trekking is and it doesn't seem that bad on its own but the point is to not date based on superficial reasons but he saw it as dating uglier people to feel morally superior or like he was doing me a favor he was still superficial i don't know if trekking i don't know we just looked up trekking we didn't agree with it that definition didn't come up like if you want to just date for not superficial reasons why are you why are you tying it to shred yeah why are you tying it to shrek that's so trek interesting doesn't deserve that either like also let me rewatch shrek so i'm like wait what do you mean wasn't wasn't she she was a princess and i don't know turned into an ogre at night but you know kiss turn her into an ogre forever yeah yeah how is that correlating to i'm not i'm not getting it but i will say shrek is on a lot of people's hear me out cakes and i'm surprised human trek when he turns into a human version then people really go thirsty it's the chad face you know it's that chiseled jaw that's what it is um people do start sharing shrek memes in the comments not that bad he calls you an ogre girl stand up like basically she's like kind of defending him he's like ma'am you felt so bad about it in the moment you got up from the table and left so it felt that bad in the moment so don't then don't try to excuse it yeah it's not that bad no it is that bad um someone's like that dude's a major far quad um someone's like that dude's a major far quad someone goes not overreacting i would have said handsome what do you mean and just made a grossed out face op goes i really wish i would have thought to do this lol and someone else is just like you did great like you honestly handled it better like just getting up and walking away be the bigger person just leave yeah yeah god do what you gotta do i mean damn i just or i would have stayed for the whole dinner and i'm like oh i'm gonna go to the bathroom and then you know make him pay the bill and just left free dinner out of it yeah at least take the free meal oh my gosh take the free meal that's the moral of this episode yeah yeah especially oh good italian spot with good bread maybe a chopped salad oil dip you know yeah deep fried ravioli i'm really hungry i need food this episode is brought to you by freeform it's a new era a new reality and a new obsession stassi's back in the new series house of stassi a raw inside look at her world balancing family friends career and chaos no apologies no holding back it's stassi direct from the source unfiltered unpredictable and unafraid to say the quiet part out loud from her husband beau's crossroads to bestie kdm's brutal truth bombs to constant sister strife expect tons of good news from her husband and her wife and her husband's brother and her of inner circle shade reality royalty returns for the good the bad and the stassi watch the new series house of stassi new episodes wednesdays on freeform and streaming on hulu okay moving on to this next one for us this is coming from am i the asshole aita relationships specifically and it's titled am i the asshole for using my wedding veto on my fiance's sister after he used his on my close friend what is a wedding veto like not invited to the wedding i guess veto you can just veto and you uninvited your fiance sister oh we're getting messy okay i 27 female i'm getting married in two months to the love of my life 30 male we have a large guest list and have been narrowing it down little by little my fiance has said that we should both agree on who gets invited slash uninvited and i agreed to it our one exception is the veto where both of us get to veto a person off the wedding list he suggested it and i agreed the veto means we can cross a person the other one wants to be there from the list and then provide our reason why my fiance has vetoed having one of my friends and i'm disappointed she was my roommate in college and i'm disappointed she was my roommate in college and i'm disappointed she was and she has been with me through a lot of changes in my life i consider her close to me and it hurts that he doesn't want her at the wedding we don't have a bridal party just a best man and maid of honor my fiance's brother and sister i don't like my future sister-in-law we have very different opinions on several things she lives a lifestyle i find distasteful and i just don't enjoy being around her what does that mean like what are the clue hints about that okay all right my husband however wants his sister at the wedding he worships the ground she walks on and i don't know how he can be so blind about her i have very few nice things to say about her and he knows that because he felt entitled to use his veto on my friend i thought it was only fair that i could use mine on his sister when i told him this he told me he loved me but that this was crossing a line i said then my friend gets to come we had an argument that ended with him saying that his sister was right about me before he left for work oh now i'm just sitting here wondering if i was wrong to fight him on it because i love him and i want to marry him am i the asshole yes unfortunately i would say i feel like family is like you know that's blood and if your fiancee doesn't want to marry him then i'm not going to he's really close to his sister they should be at the wedding you should that's that's probably a bullet you got to swallow if you don't agree with the person's beliefs so vague so vague there it's like what are your beliefs though you know uh-huh no that's my question i'm like like what do you what what was the pivot point yeah you have very different opinions she lives a lifestyle i find distasteful distasteful it's like what is she doing oh i'm reading between the lines and i immediately i'm jumping to which one of you is maga yeah that's literally i think i'm like who is a trump supporter and who i'm like someone is and like who vote who voted for mandami and who voted for i'm like just say it like why are we being so couth about this um are you the asshole yes i think there's some serious jealousy going on here like even the line where he worships the ground she walks on that's yeah that does he or does he just like his family like that he's yeah loyal to his family you mean yeah i have very few nice things to say about her and he knows it you sound not very nice it's giving bridezilla a little bit definitely giving bridezilla yeah this was not something i ever dealt with during wedding planning like we never had this veto rule i know people have veto on baby names i've seen that come up quite a bit where they'll give each other veto power but i feel like if you have i don't know a normal healthy relationship you just talk you just communicate and then i'm like god what does he have against the friend has the friend been inappropriate yeah what happened with the friend yeah i'm spiraling i'm crashing out i'm we got more lore you know i know okay so the top comment yikes absolutely wild to suggest he not invite his sister what is his issue with your friend that he doesn't want her there what is so wrong with his sister that you would make such an insane suggestion or are you just going tit for tat because he vetoed your friend sounds like a fun start to the marriage you're the asshole um next comment responding to that also dropping the quote my sister was right about you is not going to make op want to invite the sister ever sounds like wedding plans may need to be put on hold for a while no yeah yeah but you ever heard to go straight to the sister after the friend i mean i'm guessing she is like an only child and she found her like best friend like a sister to her yeah it does seem like it was like well if you're gonna take away someone that's really important in my life you're gonna take away my safe space and taking away yours kind of situation you know yeah which again that tit for tat mentality isn't gonna get you you know what therapy is great you know everyone should try it i need more i'm like give give me more so there is a comment the op responds to here someone says this veto was obviously a terrible idea what's your issue with the sister's lifestyle Mm-hmm. There we go. Are we getting an answer? Okay. she responds she's not child friendly overly involved in politics and just has some very non-compatible values with mine we are practically opposites overly involved in politics what is she like an advocate or like a protester is she out on the streets is that what's happening here she's like oh she's too much oh someone responds so someone did vote for mom dami and someone but which one which one which one who is it someone responds so question mark and since your fiance worships the ground she walks on have you considered he agrees with her and that you two aren't compatible does he know what you don't like about her sounds like a good talk to have to see if you should break up op responds before the wedding literally time to call it op says yes he knows he thinks her views are out there and a bit extravagant but he also insists she's a good person i just don't see it which one so which yeah like who's leading where oh my god oh my god i'm seeing comments about sex stuff she has out there views about having public sex she wears dog collars like necklaces we are um oh so she's a kinky girl we are going off the rails here so she's a kinky boots queen okay so op responds to someone else and goes i'm not maga just a healthy amount of conservative she has said hurtful things about me in the past i don't want a person who lives a life that is explicitly not child-friendly around my kids and she's a part of this whole child-free movement someone responds what's the problem with being child-free op responds it's unnatural question mark question mark oh all right okay okay okay maybe i don't want to go to the wedding you know um yeah i think i'm out i think i'm like okay um also like is she wearing dog collars or is it just a choker necklace because those are back yeah it might be a choker necklace she might be just a hot topic girl you know um apparently there's some issues about a potential dress that the sister was going to wear and our writer has a problem saying like she would dress inappropriate like this is not okay for her to wear this dress that's when you have a dress code for your wedding yeah apparently this neckline shows too much cleavage a slit isn't appropriate i'm sure she'll wear some of her usual jewelry these are all comments coming from op we do get a link for the dress are you ready yeah show me it's beautiful oh i was expecting like uh what was it like a j-lo deep v or something like that i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i plunge a plunge neckline that's so simple it's just giving like james bond you know situation hot girl dress yeah it's giving like normal hot girl dress and i'm like you can't wear a dog collar with that so like yeah no yeah she'd be fine yeah maybe some drop earrings so for those listening it is like a beautiful like higher neckline it actually like the neckline kind of sits right on top of the boob ruched dress a slit that's you know maybe a little upper thigh but depending on how tall you are yeah like on me that would be above my knee because i'm a short gal and it's got like a halter a halter top so like it's staying up it's pretty nice she can rock those you know the moves after getting a little beverage or two and it's not coming down it's a very cute dress and it has 4.4 star reviews after 155 purchases oh so i'm gonna be honest i do want to order it i it's a cart i'm obsessed yeah so i think op what i'm learning that healthy amount of conservative might be a little bit too healthy yeah i have a problem when people start and crouching and judging on others and it's like if she wants to be child free cool like maybe she'll have more time to be an amazing aunt to your kids then like i just think it's weird when you start to be like it's unnatural yeah that's not the case because some people literally even if they are with a partner that they could have kids with air quotes you might struggle with infertility like nothing is guaranteed so like unnatural is a crazy thing to say that's absurd like that's when you lose a lot of people on your side when you say it's unnatural like well yeah last time i checked you're not god so you don't even know like i have heard of stories that people find out they're actually like they have um they don't have ovaries when they start trying to find like start trying to have kids like you don't you don't know unless you've gotten a scan like you don't know how many eggs you have you don't know if he's got a sperm count or if he has eggs himself he could have some eggs he could have a fallopian tube we don't know some people have both you know we are magical our bodies are magical so someone does respond and goes oh ew to her anatomy and that's how i feel like ew just bug off and let people live and someone does bring up to her so you'll be unnatural if you have fertility issues and are unable to ever have kids of your own and op responds the lack of desire is unnatural not the inability so again just you're moving the goalposts and freak behavior i'm just like girl grow up in this economy i feel like a lot of people don't have desires i have kids right now you know i just saw something where on average kids cost a million dollars like from zero to eighteen isn't like what like three hundred thousand a year or something or like one hundred thousand plus i could i could so see it a child yeah i mean you talk about clothes food sports technology especially when like babies like diapers oh my god if you're like not yeah yeah i've seen a lot of people i'm on a really weird side of tiktok right now i'm so sorry like i'm just like my algorithm is messed up and maybe this is not messed up i don't know if i'd be able to handle it but i've seen a big movement for reusable diapers and it's so green and i love that for people i've also seen videos about reusable pads too and i'm like oh well there's a period underwear now yeah there's a period underwear period underwear okay yeah you just like a giant adult diaper or yeah okay you just wash them i'm kind of i'm kind of for it because i'd rather instead of having constantly yeah versus like a dixie cup where it's like a little bowl that i'm shoving up like i think i'd rather just put on some underwear freebly i'm so sorry mac it's fine you're gonna walk out here being like i was raised by women it's fine oh my god it's a d stop or you put a dixie cup see i didn't judge you might put a dixie cup up there i feel like that would give you like toxic shock but you know to each their own um stop oh my god okay well thank you bailey for the dixie diva cup save this episode is brought to you by state farm so this podcast is all about choices wild messy wait you did what choices but for the choices that are actually straightforward state farms got over 19,000 agents real humans ready to help you like helping you save when you choose to bundle home and auto with the personal price plan bundling just another way to save 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They're about the same size. So, wow, that is wild. Okay. Moving along to this next one. All right. Also, just PSA. Apparently, if you do use a Diva Cup, you have to boil them. So, make sure everyone's being safe, regardless of what you're using for your periods. There you go. Well, you know. Okay. This next one, it's got me stressed. Okay. Ooh. I'm sweating. It's coming from AITA Relationships, titled, Am I the Asshole for Planning to Confess My Feelings to My Married Manager? Planning? Mm-hmm. Oh. Okay. Come on. It's giving one of those short-form, vertical dramas. I'm in love with my married manager? I already see the thumbnail. Literally. I, 27 female, feel like I am losing my mind. My best friend just called me delusional and threatened to distance herself from me if I go through with this. So, I need an outside perspective. For my own personal sanity, all names have been changed. For the past year, I've worked closely with David, 38 male. He is the assistant manager at the retail pharmacy where I work as a pharmacy tech. He is married to Sarah, and they have two toddlers. His locker is covered in drawings from his kids, and he talks about his family constantly. On paper, he is the ultimate family man. But over the last six months, I feel like our relationship has changed. It started in November when my dog passed away. He noticed I was crying in the break room, went down the street, and brought me a vanilla latte and a muffin. He sat with me for 10 minutes and just listened to me vent. That's when love happened. All you have to do is listen. Men, men, do you hear that? Bring a muffin and listen. No one else at work even noticed I was upset, but he did. Since then, we've developed a routine. Whenever we pass each other by the stock room, he gives me this specific, warm smile. A few weeks ago, during a hectic Monday rush, I made a joke to a difficult customer that fell flat. But when I looked across the pharmacy counter, David? David was smiling and shaking his head. It felt like an inside joke just between us. This is so vertical drama. Then, there was the team dinner last month at a packed, deafening restaurant. Because it was crowded, David sat directly across from me. At one point, the room got incredibly loud. David leaned all the way across the table just to hear what I was saying. While I was talking, he looked directly at my lips. He smiled and nodded along. A few of our co-workers at the end of the table actually stopped talking and just stared at us because it looked so intense. It felt like the rest of the room completely melted away. The biggest thing happened last Friday. We were staying late to finish checking in an inventory shipment. The store was closed. He walked over to check my progress, and as he leaned over my shoulder to look at the terminal, his sleeve brushed. His sleeve brushed against my arm. He didn't pull away immediately. He stayed there for at least three seconds. Before he clocked out, he looked at me. Oh my God, Mr. Gray. And he said, quote, Don't stay too late, Shelby. We need you around here. It felt like a physical spark. I am convinced that he is trapped in a passionless marriage, and his kindness is his subconscious way of crying out for a connection. Okay. He always remembers exactly how I take my coffee. Men don't pay that much attention to a woman unless they are deeply attracted to her. My plan is to ask him to grab drinks after our shift this Thursday and gently lay my cards on the table. I want to tell him that I know he feels the connection too, and that I'm willing to wait for him. My best friend snapped at me, saying, quote, Shelby, he is a nice guy. He bought you a coffee once. You are being delusional, and you are about to ruin your job based on a sleeve brushing against your arm. Am I misreading this, or am I the asshole if I say how I feel? Ooh, I feel like she might be misreading it. I feel like I've been in that spot before, and I'm going to give you serious talk about it, girl. You might be a good guy. You might be experiencing what I found, because I have therapy. It's called feeling neglected. And when you feel very neglected in some personal space, when someone gives you that feeling of what you feel like you're missing, you might interpret it as like, oh, we're supposed to be together. And so I'm like, girl, you might need to just go out and go on some dates. I think that might be your answer. I think she needs. Go on Tinder and go lay with a man for a few nights, you know? She needs a hug. Rethink your. Yeah, rethink how you're. How he's approaching you. She needs some physical connection. There's like a physical neglect in her right now, and she's like misinterpreting this niceness as like a, oh, he wants me. I would be very curious, like, when was the last relationship you had? When was the last time someone held your hand? When did you get a hug? When was the last relationship you had, and how did that person treat you? Yes. Did you cuddle? Like, to me, I think you are just so on the nose with it, where she has been so neglected. That literally a brush of a sleeve is sending her into. A frenzy. A frenzy. Like, she's giving Twitter pated, like, from Bambi. Like, she is just like, oh my God, she's just distraught over this. And I'm like, to have someone listen to you, and you think they don't care about women unless they're this. Yeah. Attracted or invested or deeply connected. That means you've had some past relationships that were very one-sided, and I guess that aspect. I'm kind of like. Like, now I'm like, God, I'm just, like, a little worried for her. Because I'm like, are you not having genuine conversations with anyone in your life? Unless they, like, want to use you in some way. That's what is kind of coming off the ass. Yeah. Like, okay, like, girl, stand up. I'm like, I really. I want to go give her a hug. Yeah. It's kind of sad. Like, I'm starting to feel really bad for OP. And I'm like, I do just think, like, he's just being a nice guy. Like, if I walked into my break room and saw someone crying, yeah, I'm going to do the same thing. No matter who they are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I went through. I mean, I had a therapy situation about that. I went through a period of, like, feeling neglect. And I was, like, attaching myself really hard to a specific person only because they were listening to me during that time. And I went through that period of being like, oh, I think we're supposed to be meant to be together. Oh, I think he wants me. Oh, I think he's in love with me. And, you know, it took me a second to really snap out of that and realize, oh, I was just in a bad place. How did you snap out of it? Therapy. Was it really, like. It was really. Was there something that your therapist said that just, like, clicked and you were like, oh, shit. He talked to me about, like, just feeling neglect and all that stuff. And I was just, like, telling him about my feelings and everything. I was like, yeah, that's just, like, you're just. You were in a situation where a person you were with, a people you were with weren't really giving you what you want or what you feel. And someone else did. And you, like, translate that to what you, like. Yeah, it's just. It's long-winded. Yeah, I know. But I appreciate you sharing because I think that's, like, so relatable and, like. It is, it is. I understand, like, a work crush. Like, sometimes these. These, like, little work crushes and people joke, like, oh, that's my work hubby. That's my work wife. But he's married with two kids. Two kids, a whole life. So. That's just a full-grown father just, you know, being nice to one of his employees. Like, he would be nice to probably one of his kids. And I'm like, I'm not. I don't think we're, like, misinterpreting it. Like, based on what OP is sharing, like, I genuinely think she is misinterpreting. She's misinterpreting a little bit, yeah. So, we do have some comments, okay? Top comment that I have right now. Of course, you're the asshole. He's married with children. You have no idea about the state of their marriage. And that is something where OP is like, he must be in a. That's also. I forgot about the part. I was like, have you taught. Has he, like, brought up his marriage problems? Yeah. Has he said anything about it? No, I don't think so. Not by the sounds of it. Otherwise, then she would have added it because then it's even, like, more ammunition for her to be like, I love you. Yeah. And the thing is, too, where she says, like, I just want to, like, lay my cards on the table and then I'm willing to wait. How long? Because divorce ain't going to be quick. Yeah, that's not. Yeah, that's a long process. Okay, so he's. So, you're going to be the side piece? That's your goal? Like, what is. Also, what relationship are you going to even have so he can determine if he wants to blow up his life, divorce his wife, split custody 50-50, go through a divorce, separate, maybe lose his house? Like, what are you going to give him? A couple more brush of the sleeves in the pharmacy? Like, what. How do you even know if you'd work? A couple more looks and smiles, yeah. I want to be. Like, I wonder what it's like to be this level of mystified. Like, you know what I mean? It's not great as a person that experienced it. Once the bubble pops, you're like, oh. And you just. You get really embarrassed. Like, the person I was really attached to, we're very. We're kind of estranged now. And I'm like, I understand. I'm about to say. same time i kind of feel bad i'm like i'm so sorry you know what i mean like i i know you didn't deserve all this from me but you know i was in a place yeah i sorted comments by controversial now just to see if we have any people that are like yeah tell him like tell him girl and still even the controversial ones you're the asshole girl this isn't some romance book leave the dude alone you want to be friends cool but don't make it more than what it actually is you're willing to break up a family and marriage because you're selfish and someone goes even romance books wouldn't do this someone does say go for it yolo i would be the one i'm like you know what do it for the plot it did get nine downvotes but only nine like only nine which is like kind of concerning hmm someone else goes you're the asshole imagine being without a best friend and a job because she's gonna lose her bestie over this someone goes fired for sexual harassment and no reference i mean that yeah that's pharmacy i feel like there's a huge hr situation with pharmacists so yeah you can't i don't know the life of pharmacists yeah i don't think you're allowed to really fraternize in that no no in those chemistry rooms no no no no a lot of people just comment your friend is right you're being naive and delusional at 27 people already should understand what is good and bad like no girl no and then we do get an update what happened what does she do what does she do hi reddit i definitely didn't expect this post to blow up so much okay many of you definitely had similar insight that my best friend had and shared with me beforehand prior to making this post i had already began searching for a new job to remove myself from this environment as i have no desire to be the other woman or much less make a move on someone and become a home wrecker you did not say that in the original what you could have saved us a lot of stress within the last month and a half i've been able to secure a new job working as a pharmacy manager the same as david when i left i felt assured that this reddit would not need an update since i had removed myself from any and all contact with my previous co-workers david included how wrong could i be oh oh oh oh two nights ago my phone lit up at 11 30 p.m with a text from an unknown number it turned out to be david he started off by saying that he tracked down my private cell number by going through old company shift logs he congratulated me on my new manager role but then the tone shifted into something completely predatory and my stomach absolutely dropped david said this also our intuition was correct i'm sitting here talking about my i was neglected so i understand you and she was right it's fine it's fine david quote honestly shelby the store is completely miserable without you i miss looking at you across the counter now that you don't work under me anymore we don't have to worry about hr my wife is taking the kids to her parents house this weekend what sarah doesn't know won't hurt her jail how did she how did how how how how wow wow you know moral of the story you know don't um second judge a female's intuition i learned i'm learning i'm learning i'm learning i'm becoming better today hey i just want to apologize she didn't share enough in the original post that like she did it and i'm like the intimate dinner it was loud i'm confused i sat there in absolute horrified shock i wasn't delusional after all the spark was real but i had completely misjudged his character he wasn't some noble honorable family man he was a textbook creep who deliberately used my vulnerability when my dog died to groom me for an affair calculatingly waiting until i left the company so he could pursue me without getting fired by hr oh what a tone shift this went from vertical drama to a vertical horror i still i'm like i don't think he used your dog dying as a way to groom you like grooming us yeah she's jumping that's very serious and how could he have predicted your dog would die unless he went in there and is a serial killer no okay we are we are really going off the rails here i refused to protect a liar i didn't reply to him at all instead i immediately screenshotted the text found his wife sarah on facebook and sent them directly to her i explicitly told her that i wanted absolutely nothing to do with him and believed she deserved to know exactly what her husband was doing behind her back yesterday morning david completely snapped he sent me a string of furious unhinged texts calling me a psycho and a home-wrecking liar and a vindictive bitch because sarah had apparently packed her bags taking the kids and left him he tried to claim that i ruined his life over a harmless joke and that i took things too far to make it even crazier two of my former co-workers who are buddies with david actually texted me defending him they claimed i was cruel for destroying a marriage and a family with two young kids saying that i should have just blocked him and minded my own business i am completely baffled by anyone defending this guy i didn't destroy his marriage david did that all by himself the second he decided to cheat on his wife and hunt down an ex-employee's phone number i feel entirely justified in protecting a mother and her children from a manipulative liar and i refuse to let him flip the script and make me the villain for exposing his toxic behavior all right i'm really confused though and i don't know if i took the appropriate steps or if i jumped the gun am i the asshole dot again i think she might have jumped the gun a little bit i don't know we're it seems like we're missing a lot of like characterization you know what i mean from the original one and this one it's like a lot of sudden he's a groomer now you're like okay we're missing a lot of connections here so i feel like it's hard to judge but based off of just the jump without the connections yeah she's coming off quite much i'm overall confused it's confusing you went from knowing he's married with toddlers and wanting to be their step mommy wanting to yes she wanted to risk it all and now suddenly she's the and now that he does want yeah yeah you're like oh my god he's a horrible person and his wife deserves to know you were feeling the connection into the fantasy and then once the fantasy became real she was like wait a minute what signs were you giving him to feel this spark you know fire takes a lot of different elements to get it going i watched survivor you need a you need a fuel you need air you need a twig you need wood what are you in this are you the coconut shell or are you the flint like you know what i mean where i'm like you it does take two to tango and i'm like you were saying there was like this huge spark and i'm like ma'am you the shoulder brushing the sleeves uh this is this is nuts me personally i don't know i guess like send the screenshot and i don't know whatever you you walk away with a clean conscience and maybe that's what it's about but also i think for sarah to pack the bags and the kids maybe there's some other stuff other stuff bubbling yeah maybe there's some other stuff maybe this isn't the first pharmacy rodeo he's fallen for yeah maybe it's it's maybe it is a whole ploy maybe he does that i don't know that's what i'll say we're missing characterization we're missing i think you're right what do you think is missing if you were going to predict what was left out just all about the the man the dude i feel like she was so focused she was more hyper fixated on how she felt about him in the first paragraph i feel like she was overlooking probably so many red flags about him and then she came back it was like like i said the bubble was popped and she's like oh wait actually he's not that good of a guy you know i think it's just one of those things like the bubble was popped rose-colored glasses came off and i think it is like psychologically uh people want what they can't have and then once you can have it you're like yeah i don't want it anymore like i've been watching love island the uk version way better really and my girl mika man like She just has been going back and forth on Samaraj. And I'm like, Mika, that is not your man. I've never seen that show. But I know a lot of people are obsessed with it. The UK version. Because it's like a 24-7 surveillance dating show. Yeah. Okay, because I watch Big Brother. I'm into Big Brother. I'm into competition, you know, but. Are you watching this season? Yes. Rick Deffens is on. And Dee, I'm a big survivor. He's currently the head of household right now this week. I don't know when this is coming out, but. I've never seen Big Brother, but I'm a huge Survivor fan. I love it. I mean, Big Brother is Survivor, but just in a house. In a house with food, yeah. With air conditioning, yeah. Yeah, probably the one I'd be better at. I know. I'm like trying to get my husband on Survivor. And I want to do a show. You know, I'm like, I need a fun show. I want to do Traders. I really started doing a regular people's Traders. And I'm like, maybe I can sign up for that. I don't think I'm. I think I do. I'm like a C-list celebrity. So I think I can get on the regular season of Traders. You'd be really good. I think I'd be a really good Trader. I think I'd be really fun. Alan. We've got Mac right here for you, baby. I'd love to go together. Maybe we can like co-apply. Do we know any casting people that work for NBC Peacock and Traders? Let us know. Hit us up. Let us know. I would love that. Yeah, there's something. Something's off here. So this next story is actually brought to you by Universal Pictures' One Night Only. It's the biggest rom-com of the summer in theaters August 7th. Set in New York, Two Strangers, played by Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, Dua Lipa's new hubby. They try to find love on the one night of the year that single people are legally allowed to have sex. One night. I'd go insane. My nightmare. How do they catch people not? Are there like trackers? I don't know. We'll see. We're going to have to see. Yeah, watch the movie. We can go. Yep, it's messy. And speaking of this next story, also a little messy. So this next story is coming from our best friend, Direct Caterpillar 77. It's Direct Caterpillar 77. Okay. Yeah. He is on it. The best of the best. He finds it. Hey, give it to me. It is titled, I, 32 male, have been sleeping with my best friend, 32 female, for two weeks. And I think we've been dating for 10 years and never realized it. Wow. Okay. One of those. So me and Sophie have been best friends since like the first grade. She was my next door neighbor growing up. We went to the same college and got jobs in the same city. And we've been roommates since we were like 25. So typing this up almost feels like we've been in a couple all along. But I've never really thought of her sexually since we were teenagers. She had a boyfriend. I like 17 and they were really in love with each other. And I was good friends with him. But unfortunately he passed like a week after we graduated high school. She was obviously a wreck and I helped her as much as I could to get through it. And in the process, we pretty much became inseparable. It's not like one of us was clinging to the other. It was completely mutual. We like the same things, have the same interests and did stuff together all the time. When she was having a hard time sleeping because of her boyfriend's passing, she asked to come over because she didn't want to be alone. And I, of course, was there for her. Eventually, we graduated college and decided to get the jobs in the same city. And eventually after that, we decided to move in together as roommates because we could save a ton of money and we were always hanging out together anyways. Now, I realize that basically, I think we've been a couple except we just didn't have sex. Of course, she would have a guy over sometimes, but it was never really serious. And same with me. I dated a bit, but never really felt a connection. So, about two weeks ago, we were watching wrestling, like we do every week, and she started softly crying and we were sitting like inches from each other on the couch. So, of course, I put my arm around her and I ask her if she's okay and if she needs to talk. Basically, she's been having a hard time finding a guy and she's really upset. She's always been kind of thick, but now she's pretty chubby and says that attractive guys don't want to sleep with her anymore. Hey, I heard about this thing called Shrek-ing. So, I'm trying to be supportive and stuff, and I wasn't lying. I've always thought she was really pretty. So, I said, that's not true and that plenty of guys would love to sleep with her. She's not a prude or anything, and we've always made crude jokes to each other. And I said something like, quote, if we weren't best friends, I'd have been trying to fuck you for the past 10 years. If we weren't best friends. Oh, if we just weren't, you know. Dang. She gave me this look like I had just flipped a switch on a robot and she was staring right into my eyes and my brain is telling me to kiss her. So, I did. We were making out for probably five minutes and she had pulled my shirt off and I'd pulled hers off. And then I think, oh my God. What am I doing? So, I stopped and I'm like, whoa, we need to think about this. Are we sure we want to go down this road? We talk for like two minutes and we basically decide, hey, we've been friends for 25 years and been through way worse together. And having sex one time shouldn't be an issue. It was by far the best sex I ever had. There we go. And now, since that time, we've had sex at least once every day. Sometimes. Every day. Every day. Ooh, okay. Sometimes two or three times a day. Wow, come on, stamina. Let's go. We both realize we need to discuss this, but keep saying we'll discuss it tomorrow when we'll have more time. But I recognize we have to discuss it, like soon. And I'm scared. I think I've realized that I've been madly in love with her this entire time. And that's because I've been in love with her for so long. And that's why I never connected with any of the other women I've dated. And I'm really hoping it's the same for her. I think we both might have felt this way for a long time. And we're just finally realizing it. It just sounds so fucking crazy. Like, what the fuck is going on? Am I crazy? Am I getting my hopes up? If she doesn't feel the same way I do, how can I ever hang out with her again? What do I do? He's just panicking. He's panicking. I mean, y'all have been friends for. close friends for so long. I mean, nothing will really change if you guys become a relationship. It doesn't really have to change much. I mean, sex now. Every day, apparently. Three times a day. Three times. Okay. I know, I feel like. I mean, I guess when you, like, turn a friendship into a relationship, there is that, like, obligation that kind of grows and all that stuff. And that nerves, all that stuff. But you guys have been so close for a while. Just go for it. I'd say. Guess what's the harm? Mm-hmm. Could it end badly? Maybe. Maybe. But if you guys are friends, and if you guys have been communicative for. I mean, probably not. If you guys are just figuring out your feelings now, you probably haven't been that communicative in a while. Ooh, I don't know. Layers. Ooh, layers. Do you think she likes him back? Or do you think she's, like, using him for sex, or.? Well, I know some people can really separate it. And I know there's some people that, like, sex can just be sex. I have a hard time separating sex. For me, I'm very, like. Like, if I'm having sex with you, I like you. Mm-hmm. So. And for him to be like, it's the best sex I've ever had. Like, there's definitely some chemistry there. Sexual chemistry, for sure. Sexual chemistry, yeah. Romantic chemistry, maybe, yeah. Yeah, so I'm like, I feel like there's a really good shot she does like him back. And I'm like, you probably don't even have a reason to be actually nervous. Yeah, no reason to be nervous. I mean, she was crying next to you about, like, how she couldn't find a man. Maybe that was, like, her way of being like. You know, like, ooh, ooh, you know? Oh, my God. Maybe that was her leaving hints. I mean, that would be, honestly, kind of a play. Because otherwise, like, you start crying during wrestling? Was it, like, watching people, like, what about wrestling? WWE? John Cena out there? WWE really bringing the tears out, you know? Yeah, no, I read it the first time. And I read it as, we were wrestling. And I go, we were wrestling? There was a couple that liked to do kung fu in their living room, though. And, like, really go at it. So, like, you never know. Oh, God, okay. You never know. You never know. But I feel like you gotta just talk. Like, no more sex until you talk. Yeah. Talk about it. Come on. Like, down to business, my guy. But I think this could end up really, like, soulmates. Do you believe in soulmates? It could be, like, a Disney happy ending, you know? Yeah. I do believe in soulmates. So this could be it. There's a lot of comments on this one. Everyone is, like, very happy and hopeful. Someone goes, I think she's into you. Otherwise, she probably wouldn't have slept with you multiple times. I suggest that you start taking her out on real dates. If she agrees and is receptive to cuddling and holding hands, she's definitely into you. And whenever you feel the timing is right, you can tell her what's in your heart and how you feel about her. Which is interesting. More of, like, don't tell her yet. Don't tell her yet. That's weird. Yeah. I mean, you guys have been friends for a while. Just tell her. See, I would say just tell her. Just tell her, yeah. Like, I'm really vibing with you. I'd actually like to try to start dating you. dating or do you i guess do you just start dating and then it just falls into that but that's where i'm like i think that could get even messier and you could get more fucked up because if you then start going on these dates and she's just like this is my friend tom just taking me out and then you fall more in love oh yeah things get messy fast yeah just speak your feelings yeah speak your truth king your truth op does respond i mean like we always cuddle on the couch and in college when she would come to my dorm because she couldn't sleep we'd sleep in my bed together just nothing sexual happened i'm starting to think she's spent 15 years trying to give me hints now maybe probably i was saying like she was next to you on the couch crying like i can't find a man i feel like that was very much a hey i'm starting to think you're right yeah no i think that was a good one i think that was a good one i think that was a good one i think that was a good one i think that was a good one i think that was a good one i think that was a good one probably so i was saying like she was next to you on the couch crying like i can't find a man really was like god i've done everything except cry like no i'm like wait 15 years later years later of hints i've been oblivious before i'm i'm pretty oblivious person when people like me i don't know unless you tell me right through my face yeah i think i'm like that because like a lot of times when i've liked people they haven't liked me so i've just kind of given up being the one that initiates like my husband when we started going it took us like he was like so explicit i thought he just wanted to be friends even though we met on hinge and we literally we went to the nun it was so scary and i'm still sitting there i'm just like freaked out and all of a sudden he puts his hand on my leg and i'm like oh and in my head i was still like maybe he's just like a friendly type of friend but no like he didn't want to be friends but like it took that for me to be like okay oh okay yeah yeah so i don't know i don't know but i'm i'm hopeful they have decided that they are going to start going on actual dates so op is taking that person's advice and says we're gonna go on dates we do go on dates all the time i just didn't realize they were dates like dinner together lunch museums that's the youth nowadays i was just talking about that to a friend i'm like you people don't like state like like this is a date anymore you're kind of just like oh let's just go see a movie and then go get dinner i'm like is this a date it's not a date someone say it's a date or not i like when a guy i've been talking to a guy that's like we're going on a date right now i'm like i love this i'm not i'm not used to this straightforwardness i appreciate that because then it's just like are you interested in me or not like like set the tone here like what do i what should i expect what's going on you know yeah did you have to communicate that or was that just like on them and they just like on them yeah i was like okay take me on a date i love that that's yeah that's so refreshing versus like are we aren't we and like the beat around the bush of it all i hate beating around a bush like those bushes are big sometimes and like bushes are massive you can't find your way around i'm lost i know so we do get an update okay so they're married yep they're getting the minivan they're going down the altar down the whatever aisle the aisle soon update so she got home and i told her we need to talk and she seemed disappointed so i was really bummed like she looked like she wanted to cry oh no but i said please just let me say what i need to say and then we can go from there i told her that since we had started having sex i've realized i'd been in love with her for a really long time and i didn't realize it and she started trying to hold back tears and i got the worst knot in my stomach and i thought i was literally going to puke i told her it's okay if she doesn't feel the same i would always be there for her as a friend and i would try my best to not let my feelings get in the way but now that it's out there i guess there isn't any going back she told me to stop and she was crying now okay i stopped and it felt like an eternity just sitting there i couldn't even look her in the face then she just kind of wrapped her arms around me and buried her face in my chest and was sobbing i'm just sitting there confused trying to figure it out if this is good or horrible i hope this is good it sounds like it's good i don't know she seems like a crier finally she looks up at me and says she's been waiting for me to say that since college and that the reason she was crying with me on the couch the other week was because she thought it had been long enough and if it wasn't going to happen and that's why she kept trying to put it off having a talk after we started having sex because she thought that that was the closest we'd ever come to being a couple oh you clocked the crying oh yeah the crying it was there the hint the hint you knew it oh cute abril lavigne song credits you know yeah he ends it with now we are waiting for our chinese food to come after some awesome sex three times thanks so much for the advice and getting me to finally say something this guy is like the epitome of like oh god what is it when like he but he's not complaining about it but he's like you know when people are like uh lobsters too buttery like what you know that that's saying oh my god it's like a really like big saying right now lobsters too buttery yeah lobster too buttery steak too juicy like it's like people complaining oh my life is too good yeah okay yeah lobster too buttery bank account too full like okay waiting for our chinese food after we life is great dog dude you you could have just like i get it you're excited but like you had to rub it in like come on you want everyone to know 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childhood friend that she's always had a crush on and proposed a hall pass arrangement or am i the asshole for telling my friend that her free wedding is unrealistic free wedding free wedding free what what do you mean free i know as someone that planned a wedding i cannot even imagine getting that for free i don't want to hear that because i want to know what a free wedding is let's do it okay let's do it we also had we had a childhood best friend crush coming together and i'm also like you're engaged but you're asking for a hall pass for your childhood best friend ma'am you're with the wrong person go go with the friend but okay let's get into this wedding drama this is coming from aita h again titled am i the asshole for telling my friend that her free wedding is unrealistic i 24 female am a member of a friend group in which one member will call her coral 23 female is getting married she announced her engagement to her fiancee 25 male a few weeks ago and we are all happy for her over the weekend though she shared more specific plans for the wedding and that's where things have kind of gone off the rails i want to hear about this wedding she said she's been seeing a lot of people on tiktok and instagram showing how to plan a free wedding weddings where the couple spends zero dollars aside from the marriage certificate fee i guess oh at first i thought she meant a city hall wedding which would be completely fine but then she got into the details and her expectations for the ceremony she's going to try and find someone with a large amount of money and she's going to try and find someone with a large amount of money and she's going to try and find someone with a large outdoor space to use not formally a wedding venue who will donate their area in support of love she is going to have all of her guests bring a potluck very specific assignments though and she will have a friend officiate a friend do photography a friend do the save the dates and invites her family do the flowers etc including some harder to swing in my opinion things like getting a large tent decorations wedding favors speakers a band etc i'm not sure what her plan is for a dress okay okay so she has a lot okay when i was thinking like oh free wedding without money it's like oh someone's backyard you got a friend officiated it costs like what fifteen dollars to become a wedding officiator person you know what's it called a um ordained minister it's about fifteen dollars i'm an ordained minister forget about that i'm i can do it i don't know if i'm ordained but i did a class online really okay yeah it's just like a forum you sign at the universal life church yes yeah yeah i have the same one i was thinking okay yeah come on colleague have you done one yet um i did it on i went on a comedy tour in like 2018 and then two people during my like vip meet and greet was like you're you're an ordained minister can you officiate us i was like yeah sure and they recorded it they had a witness and i love lucky i had my ordained minister stuff because it was like a whole joke on my tour that i was ordained minister i've been joking oh yeah i have the certificate and everything like we can actually make this real i've i've been joking i want this is what i want really this is what i want guys when we go back on tour this is what i want yeah officiate a wedding it's fun yeah so i officiated one wedding on the run yeah oh my gosh yeah no this girl's got a list and it is extensive it goes on to say what's more is that coral and her fiancee really aren't poor from what i can tell she works as an accountant at a big company and her fiancee does software sales plus his parents are loaded it sounds like they just want to do the free wedding thing for the sake of it that would be okay but she is just shifting all of the costs onto other people some of whom are probably less well off she told me that she wants me to make the cake and then sent me some pictures for inspiration the cake's were ridiculously elaborate we're talking multi-tier fondant flowers gold leaf and one even had a hand-painted watercolor design i'm not a professional baker i just like to bake cookies and brownies sometimes i told her that those cakes would probably take me days to make and they wouldn't come out anywhere near as good she kind of just laughed it off and said quote oh it's not about it being perfect it's just about everyone pitching in it'll be fun i told her that fun or not what she was describing was basically her friends and family subsidizing her wedding with time money and labor and that it was kind of unfair to expect people to spend so much on her free wedding or else she was expecting everyone to show up to a lackluster event and just pretend it was amazing it's like a group project that none of us wanted to do because we already graduated and moved on from all of that i feel that so we don't need the credit she she does graduate a year later than the rest of us i said that if she wants a free wedding she should probably just elope or go to city hall because this isn't really free it's just free for her i might have been a bit more forceful in my wording but i didn't swear or call her names or anything like that she got super quiet and just looked at me for a minute or so and then left with another one of our friends driving her home later that night i got a text from that friend saying that i really hurt quite a bit and i didn't want to be a part of it and i didn't want to be a part of it feelings and that even if the plans were a bit unrealistic i should have just let coral come to that conclusion on her own coral then messaged me saying quote sorry don't worry about the cake with no more context i'm feeling pretty bad now especially since coral was so happy and excited and she never really said anything to me perhaps i should have just gone along with the cake since she said she wouldn't be mad if it turned out badly but i'm worried that her wedding would not have been what she wanted and i was also frustrated about the cake request am i the asshole i feel that i feel that maybe she didn't like have high expectations maybe she was just like she thought it was a fun idea for everyone to come together and like do this group project but i feel like that will only make sense in my mind if like my grandparents were getting remarried and we made it like a oh let's do a free wedding everyone come together as a family and like we built this wedding together but i can't imagine like a high school friend getting married and like expecting me to do all that for them you know that's a whole different scenario well and going back to her list too like i've got prices for all this stuff i literally i did this i did basically a backyard wedding put up my own tent um hired a band did decorations did all this stuff and just like just the band four thousand dollars for a unless you know a band like you can call your brother and his friends up and be like hey will you perform at the wedding like that's different but i guess like should you have said something i don't know you really did shit in her cheerios yeah it's kind of i don't think she was well at delivering her like how hardcore is her expectations if the expectations were delivered better being like oh you know i don't care if it's just a von's cake with a bunch of splatter on it as long as you got like what i was you know trying to go then maybe she was like okay i'll just bake a cake and do whatever but i think because she was setting like severe like serious hardcore wedding cakes it probably was like i don't know intimidating yeah intimidating i know because then like op does be like well what i could do wouldn't be anything like this and then sweet coral bless her heart says no it doesn't matter what it looks like like it can be bad it's just like it's more about the thought so then i guess op should have taken that as like she just wants to do this and like okay cool but i think then it's like op really was like no no no girl like this is super unrealistic and you're actually just like taking advantage of people and like subsidizing your wedding at everyone else's expense like and literally expense money it is funny and so i'm like would you have said anything to your friend i feel like it just depends on the scenario it depends on the friend and it depends on what they expect and how close that's the whole thing so it's like yeah i don't know the connection fully i know and op even says here like i might have been a bit more forceful in my wording but i didn't swear or call her names okay so it's kind of like a stress response you probably said something out of like the moment yeah i'm like how forceful how forceful like how how what did you say how loud were you yeah how good did you get would i have said something probably not right then and there all if all i had to do was make a cake i would have made the cake and that counts as your gift like and it would have been a box cake like i'm not we're not doing this from scratch a little bit of von's cake i just put a bunch of splatter on it okay i the grocery stores are popping off on the cakes costco costco is popping off on the cakes 14.99 for a beautiful cake really i haven't seen a costco cake in a second i got my grandma one for her birthday okay i'm gonna show you a picture it was beautiful and i just like i left a little note on it and i was like flowers yellow happy birthday and they it was incredible it was beautiful i'm gonna have to insert a picture of the one i made for my grandma because it's beautiful no one has really good pictures online maybe that's why everyone doesn't know about costco yeah spread the gospel you know here and now i'm The news, you know, a little jingle. I literally can't find a good picture, there are people that are trying new costco cakes but like here's one like these are like their little happy birthday cakes but you can do custom orders okay so you can do like flowers specific colors and again 14.99 yes where are you getting that elsewhere i don't know costco yeah costco i mean 14.99 plus the membership though but you know what i found out if someone buys you a costco gift card and they gift it to you you don't need a membership you don't use the gift card no no no loophole we're gonna fact check that just to be sure we're gonna have a bunch of people going to costco with a gift card that girl from too hot takes sent me here but i'm pretty sure like because it's like they want you to come in and i'm i am right okay we fact checked thank you very much bailey like you're like what a great sales method get in there get in the door so yeah you still shop there without the membership oh but this girl i do think you might have been a little hard but if you're close this is something i would probably say to one of my friends would i have gone as poop in the cheerios no no no where do you think the comments are going to go on this what direction um probably say you're a bit you're a bit harsh i would think i feel like it could go either way i haven't read any of them i'm kind of nervous sorted by best comment right now top comment almost 7k upvotes not the asshole she's in for a rude awakening the first time she asked for a free party tent from someone those are expensive as fuck to rent so i got a tent it wasn't a tent should i show you a picture what was the tent was a tarp um a tarp over a frame so i say tent it was not a tent it was a structure so it had aluminum steel beams that each beam weighs like five thousand pounds it was not a tent but it's it's technically a tent you know but it's not so you bought a building so i did get quotes for rentals of these because i i thought like the the circus top tents were beautiful but like i was getting married late september i knew it was going to be cold so i needed sides and i just didn't like the look of what i was working with so i wanted this structure looking tent and i got quotes and for what i wanted to rent it one day one time one hundred and twenty four thousand dollars wow so i ordered one myself alibaba.com okay was it a terrifying experience yes i had to wire thousands of dollars to singapore just no idea if i'm gonna get anything but i have to wait like two months for it to come three months three months it rolled up in a shipping container in a big ass crate and it turned out pretty good oh wow oh i did not expect this oh that's beautiful yeah oh my god alibaba alibaba i know now you know now you know but this i mean this is still tens of thousands of dollars you're not getting that for free regular tent rental i did get quotes on that for the three big post circus top looking tent the nice white ones fourteen thousand okay so unless you have a family friend that owns a tent business you're not going to get it for cheap you're not getting it for cheap like it is actually a lot of times cheaper to find a wedding venue that has a building already established than a random ass field to put up a tent like i have a friend that rented a venue for like 5700 okay yeah like that's not bad in terms of wedding stuff again i just said the band was 4k we're not even going to talk about flowers my flower gal was amazing but flowers get expensive flowers was more than food were you like flowers on every table okay that's where that's where you went wrong see that yeah i had flowers everywhere come on wow yeah so this is my flowers oh my god yeah see there that's thousands right can i say that yeah okay thousands of dollars of worth of flowers right there i recognize i'm very privileged like that was a beautiful fucking wedding it was it's mind-blowing like it's absolutely beautiful can you do stuff on a budget can family and friends come in and order flowers from costco or trader joe's and diy it yes you absolutely can get that on a diy but i wonder like does she really have strong expectations or she's like i'm just gonna shoot for the stars and like see where i land was that what her mindset i just depend on where her mindset was you know you would have to like really clarify because if she genuinely doesn't care then like she's going to like whatever just everyone give their best shot and we're good and she will i guess like what that one friend was saying where the one friend was like um you should have just like let her find it out on her own you shouldn't have been so hard on her like i think that is very very true she's gonna reach out for tents for venue for a band for food well no she's doing a potluck that sounds horrible like i just want to go to a wedding and have fun but if i got to bring guac okay i'm gonna go to a wedding and have fun but if i got to bring guac okay i'm gonna go to a wedding okay whatever that's not bad but like a pot roast some hawaiian rolls and you know i could cover those yeah i could cover those for sure but like i think she would find out quickly the reality of like it's not happening trying to make that happen without money yeah how do you determine in life when you need to be the bearer of bad news because sometimes i'm really bad at that i am too i don't know i mean in that situation i wouldn't say anything it's your wedding you know you you you're wedding your consequences i would feel that way but i'm also autistic to where i would like feel like i need to say something because that's just the reality and i'm just like oh my god keep it in keep it in a lot of people keep going down the thread of like i wanted to do a cheap wedding as we were in grad school and our families couldn't help much i rented a park shelter in a very nice park for 50 my parents brought basically barbecue my mother-in-law built a car pieces bridesmaids picked their own dresses groom and got a matching tie and wore their own clothing then we had a cabin for people to hang out and after my friend officiated we did that two weeks earlier but that was it it is possible to do a wedding pretty cheaply it is not possible to do a fancy wedding for free yeah there we go and then a lot of people just go and share they're like i did my wedding for total under two thousand dollars which is amazing a lot of people just go it takes a lot of volunteers and family to do that though yeah it takes a lot of work it takes a lot of you gotta know are you like well connected with these people you're asking like i said before like if it was my grandparents could be married i'm like yeah i'll go all in for that but it was just like a friend from high school i'm like no i'm not gonna i will buy you a von's cake and you'll just enjoy it yeah a lot of people say not the asshole your friend is also embarrassing herself oh guests beneficiaries and employees coral is being tacky and i honestly have secondhand embarrassment for her i think a realistic discussion about this is akin to letting her know that she has spinach in her teeth oh my god okay okay i'm like i don't know now i'm like i'm starting to feel really bad for coral i am too she is only 23 okay there i've missed that part like coral is only 23 so young and ambitious okay family has probably been you know paying for her up until this point freshly out of college you know also you don't know how much a wedding costs until you get into it like there is a big sticker shock there so maybe she's just like blissfully unaware and has these high hopes and ideals and again maybe she truly doesn't care how good or bad something is she just wants her people to come together and feel the love so she can make a little instagram reel for it you know yeah i did my wedding for free i did a zero wedding i feel bad for coral so op does have an edit honestly i feel a bit bad now coral really is a sweet person who is just a bit naive i feel like a lot of people in the comments are tearing her up more than she deserves she has always been the of the group and i just got frustrated and ranted on this case i don't know what the fiancee thinks about all of this that's true too there's a whole nother person yeah there's she is getting married to somebody and his family is loaded as op said so i don't think they're gonna have to worry about free not free yeah i think it's gonna work out just fine for coral and i would actually coral if you're out there listening - I'd like to come. I'd like to see. - Yeah, I wanna go, I wanna see what happens. i would like to see we could go coral reaches out we'll be part of the tick we will be there we will be there um there are two updates oh no oh yes i don't know you guys i literally had my computer shut if you are listening on audio my computer was shut i was gonna be like thank you so much for listening so long farewell oh my god did it happen did it happen update my last post sort of blew up i really didn't think so many people would be that interested in my silly friend group drama short recap my friend coral free wedding yada yada yada after reading the comments i honestly began to feel bad for coral she really is a kind-hearted person but a lot of the people i've met in the past have been kind-hearted and i've been kind-hearted and i've been kind-hearted and i've been kind-hearted a lot of the people i've met in the past have been kind-hearted interpreted her as an insane entitled bride zilla that's really not the case i decided i was going to make the cake and i sent her an apology text to which i didn't get any reply that was making me feel really anxious i still didn't think that coral's requests were that reasonable and wasn't expecting the wedding to go fully to her plans but that's not for me to worry about finally i got a message from coral's fiancee who we'll call basil basil however you want to say it asking to meet up i said yes my expectation going into this was that basil would tell me how much i hurt coral's feelings and i was going to reiterate my apology and share some research and planning that i had done on the cake that is not how it went though as it turns out the whole free wedding thing was basil's idea that's not the impression i got before basil didn't at first explain why he wanted it but when pressed it sounds like it's so he could spend the money that he and coral had been saving up for their wedding on something else oh not honeymoon not a honeymoon a boat okay come on straight men let's go a catalina 27 apparently very useful and practical thing to have when you're living in the city especially if your fiancee gets seasick oh my god we did one of those river cruise things a while back and she had a bad time basil says he'll help her get over that and sailboats are different anyways after my whole outburst coral has apparently been having second thoughts about the free wedding thing basil asked me to talk to her apologize and tell her that it isn't a bad idea after all he basically said that i owe it to him to help clean up the mess that i caused basil no basil no no no no no no i'm just i'm not no no i'm not getting involved in your relationship that's crazy just so you can buy a boat for yourself what's a catalina is that the one is that like a speed boat or it is a sailboat okay i mean it looks pretty nice okay that's what i thought when you when i heard a catalina okay it's got one big mast two sails i've seen those in the marina pop up and it's nice for a day but you know there's a saying about boats i'm from minnesota land of 10 000 lakes a lot of people try to have a boat okay there's two really good days with boat ownership the day you buy it and the day you sell it okay boats are just a lot to handle a they have issues goes on to say i don't feel great about that though apologizing cleaning up the mess i don't want to drive a wedge between coral and basil but telling her i think it's a good idea after all of that just feels like lying and i guess actively advocating for a potential train wreck is a further line for me than just agreeing to play my assigned voluntold baker role moreover this was my first real conversation with basil and i have to say i'm not totally convinced he's a great person i don't know if he has exactly manipulated her into going along with this but it kind of feels that way so what do i do it's been a little while now since i talked to basil so i really do need to do something but do i do what basil asked or further involve myself in the drama by telling coral i don't think that the wedding or entire marriage is a good idea So you went from telling her her free wedding is bad to you need to break up. Yeah. Wow. Just make the cake. At this point, just make the cake. Make the cake. Put your head down and keep on going. Just keep trudging along. See no evil. Have fun with your boat, I guess. I don't know. Hear no evil. Speak no evil. Like that. Like, no. I think Coral is going to figure out that Basil is a bad boy. Or you know what? She will fall into that divorced under 30 hot girl glow up category. Like, I have a bunch of friends from college that literally, like, live by this mentality of, like, getting divorced before 30 was the best thing to happen to me. Like, they are thriving after, like, a bad first marriage. Okay. And I kind of, like, I kind of, I see it. Like, you knocked one out. Now you can, like, you know. Go again. Yeah. Like, you know what you want. Your radar is in tune. Which one we don't want, yeah. And now you're going to be more locked in and ready. And, like, you know, I see it. I see it. So I think you got to let Coral. Coral. Figure it out, yeah. Let Coral Coral. Let her do her thing. Yeah, I would just keep it pushing at that point. Yeah, let her. Let Coral Coral. At the end of the day, let her figure it out. People on the update just say, not the asshole. I would be a good friend and tell her the truth. That you do think the free wedding idea is foolish. But ask her to explain more about what she thinks about Basil and the boat. Let her talk it out herself. She may be already starting to see Basil for who he is. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And OP just kind of responds to people. Like, it sounds like reasonable advice. Like, I should meet up. I should talk. I should be a supportive friend. And then the final update in this saga. Hi again. Finally posting this update. Hey. Hey. How y'all doing? I was finally able to get in touch with Coral and talk to her one-on-one. The first thing I did was just ask her how she's doing. Apparently, not well. Ooh. She's now fully aware that the whole freakery is over. The free wedding thing really was her fiancé's idea. And he had mentioned the boat in passing as something he wanted to save up for, but hadn't at all framed it directly as the thing he really wanted to spend the wedding money on, as he did when he told me. Coral didn't even know. All right. Okay. Maybe he thought that that would make me think he's cool or something. Or he thought having a specific goal in mind would make me more likely to support the idea. Anyway. Anyways, it's not just the wedding planning that has made Coral upset. Apparently, Basil, who is into boats, I guess, has been spending more and more time at the marina. That's 78 minutes away. Coral quoted the exact number lots of time. He doesn't even spend that much time out on the water. He just hangs out with everyone there and has been spending less and less time at home. He also keeps talking about Grace. Who? As had to be explained to me, is a boat rather than a woman. Okay. All right. Parentheses, fortunately. Fortunately. Coral said that she's been invited to the club a few times, but has never really felt like she was a part of it. When she brought that up to Basil, he said he also feels that way because they don't own their own boat. I don't think it's the same at all. Even if Grace isn't a person, Coral is feeling jealous. Last night, Coral brought up the wedding plan, and she said that she thinks she wants to wait and sort some stuff out. Basil didn't get angry or anything. He actually said that he understood, but also asked if that meant that they could spend some of their wedding savings since they would have more time to save up again. He wants to buy the boat. That broke Coral, which might be why she finally agreed to meet with me. I know it makes me kind of a jerk, but to be entirely honest, I'm just glad that Coral is talking to me again. I told her, I told her to break up with Basil. Ooh, all right. She's thinking about it, but I'm scared she won't. I kind of want to offer to do it for her, but that would be silly. That would be crazy. That would be insane. Girl, you just got to butt out. Butt out. We've all had that friend where we don't like their boyfriend or their partner or. Okay, so Basil. Basil was hanging out at the marina with a bunch of boat people without a boat, and that's why he wants a boat. Yeah, he wants to fit in. Okay. He wants to fit in. He wants to fit in with the boat guys. And that's expensive. Like getting a boat, especially like parking at a marina. Yeah. Like there's rent for that. Oh, the boat slip? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I wonder how much the Catalinas go for. I'm very curious. Because like also, what a little like shit too. Like we should do a free wedding and then he wants to buy a boat. So seeing some prices on older Catalina 27s, seeing $10,000, $19,000. I was going to say about like $15,000 is the average for like a used one, I will say. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. An old one from 1981, that's about $6,000. But those could need a complete restoration. Like that thing might not even be able to float. Mm-hmm. Most likely. Like, so, buddy. You're going to need that for the wedding. But I actually, I don't know if there's going to be a wedding. Oh, my God. Some of these sailboats are 300K. Yeah, boats get expensive. I'm not a boat person. I love going on a boat, but I never want to own a boat. You never own a boat. No, thank you. Whew. I am like, wow. That was delicious. I enjoyed every single one of these stories. Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you for having me. Your energy was so fun, so contagious. I'm obsessed with you and your content, which, where can people find you? Where can they go watch? You can find me anywhere. If you search Mac Does It, it's all one word on everything. On everything. I'm a fully branded diva. Yes. All of Mac's links will be in the description. Super easy to find. 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