Family Matters | Reading Reddit Stories

Hello and welcome to Smosh Reads Reddit Stories. I'm Shane and today's theme is family. That was my Vin Diesel impression. Not that good. I'm working on it. It's about family, which is notoriously zero problems. Like families thrive. Most people I know, their families are great. There's never an issue. Smooth sailing all the time. I'm joined by two people who are part of the Smosh family, Tommy and Arasha. Wow. Look at all that up there. I know. For those listening, there's a bunch of Smosh family portraits all over the place of all of us. Oh yeah. It's very lovely. Hold me with my dark hair. Wow. Yeah. Honestly, that could be your brother. The trio you always wanted. Anyway. I love that. And then there's just Shane. Yeah. And then there's me by myself. You're all alone over there. Which is cool. Our son. So today we're covering everything. Sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, moms, and dads. All kinds of family stories today. And we all have families. That's right. I'm an only child, but. It's still. Everybody has their own unique family experience. The producers did not know that. But you've got lovely parents. But I've got lovely parents. Yes. And when they're gone, it's just me. Yeah. No, no darkness. You can't spell family without illy. That's why I have sisters. Sisters. Sisters. Our first story, I love this title already. Comes from Am I the Asshole? Am I the Asshole for calling my boyfriend daddy in front of his mom? I bet the dad was so confused. This has to happen all the time nowadays. But that's me. I really hope that it happens all the time. That'd be great. I'm incredibly excited. Okay. We'll see. Hello, Redditors. I, a 24-year-old woman, and my boyfriend, a 28-year-old man, have been together just shy of one year. Like any ordinary couple, we both have our list of nicknames for each other. His range from baby girl, cinnamon bun, cutie pie, and so on. Mine range from baby, booby, handsome, and my personal favorite, daddy. Just for reference, before I get into the story, let me mention one thing. My boyfriend's mom, who we live with, calls her husband, my boyfriend's stepdad, poppy in front of us. The other day, around five-ish, we like to make it fun so it doesn't feel like a chore. So our cooking sessions often involve some light music, dancing, bad singing, and pecking lips here and there. That said, there's a small open section of wall between the kitchen and living room. While we were cooking, his mom was standing right by that open wall and overheard me call her son daddy. She looked offended and said, what the hell did you call him? At first, I thought she was just joking, as she is quite a sarcastic lady. But after a few seconds, I realized she was dead serious. I looked at her surprised because I had no idea what she was talking about. I was like, what the hell did you call him? And I was like, I had no clue she was there the whole time and responded with, daddy. She was in disbelief and told me to never call him that again. I had the audacity, as some might say, to respond by saying, how is this any different from you calling your husband poppy around us? My boyfriend's jaw dropped. I think his dogs did too. She couldn't even look at me at that point. It's been two weeks now and my boyfriend has been begging me to apologize to his mom, but I genuinely don't understand how I'm in the wrong. Redditors, what would you do if you were me? I would do anything. I would do anything. I would do anything. I would do anything. I would do anything. I So from what is being explained to me, poppy is a little bit more of a term of endearment. It has a wider range of just like where it's used. Yeah. Whereas daddy, it's like anyone who's around knows what that is inferring. Right. Like that is very much, it's like, yeah, we get it. Except for my dad. My dad doesn't know that that's like, you know. Well, if you have someone. No, really. Like he's like, you know, like, you know, whenever we're talking, he's like, you know, just ask me if you need something. Like, just be like, daddy, I need something. And I'm like, yeah, I need something. I'll be like, I can't say that. Okay. Well, that's different. This is a very recent. I get that. We're, this is a very like, and this is very recent terminology that is. But I guess it can be sweet. Like in the way that he described that it's his like favorite name. Yeah. I was like, the way that the boyfriend's reacting has me wondering how it was said. Like how was it said between the two of them? Whatever. Now, do I also think it's fair that the mom's like, you can't call him that it's like, Hey, they didn't know you were around in their privacy. They're allowed to speak to each other however they want. But I think the, the thing is now she's, how is it any different from you calling your husband? Poppy around us is what she's upset about probably the core of what's going on right here. Is that what made her an asshole or not? Yeah. I'm sure it's, it basically is from the point of view of like, don't be like sexual in my house if you, if you can, or like, keep that over there for you guys. Yeah. Maybe from like a more, you know, conservative standpoint or something, but then to come back and be like, well, you do it too. Yeah. That that's, I think what the upsetting part is for me. You're right. Like these are two consenting adults who are allowed to, you know, be playful with each other. They're cooking. It's getting spicy. They're like, daddy passed me the cinnamon, you know? And, and the mom was like alarms. Oh my God. That is my little baby boy. He's not daddy. He's not that. And, and if she is calling her, um, partner poppy, maybe she understands the implications of that. And it's like, oh my gosh, now I'm associating these things and she's uncomfortable. And then when she sort of addressed that, it was met with this retaliation of like, well, you do this. And, and it just became this like much bigger thing. Yeah. I think it's also like, is it a situation, you know, I'm never a fan of lying, but is this a situation where you have to be like, yeah, for sure. Sorry about that. Uh, we won't, we won't. And then it's just like, okay. Like make sure mom doesn't hear us. That's usually what people like to keep the peace. Cause it's like, well, she lives, we live in the same house. So the boyfriends, they're mortified. Like, oh, now my mom and my girlfriend are beefing and we're all in the same house. And you just don't want that confrontation. You want that energy in the house either. They've been together just shy of a year. We don't know whose house it is. Like if it's the mom's house, they're living there. Or the son or whatever. Um, the verdict was asshole. Um, and the comments we have, we all know that that word has a sexual connotation. You're the asshole based on the comments. I know people are going to downvote and disagree with me, but like, nobody wants to hear that. If you're in your own house, sure, go ahead. But if you're in his mother's house, then that is not okay. I don't know about your boyfriend's mom, but poppy is used in Hispanic culture a lot as a term of endearment. It can be sexual, but not always. I've heard moms called their sons that as a term of endearment. I've heard people call their dogs that too. Someone said, daddy does not necessarily equal poppy. Poppy is more universal and can be used between people platonically. Calling a boyfriend who is not the father of your child. Daddy has a predominantly sexual connotation across orientations, whether you intend it or not, which is probably what she was reacting to. Since you live with her, it's worth it to suck it up and apologize. There's no reason you have to call him that around her in her home. Lastly, someone said, you're the asshole. I find that the whole daddy thing weird in general, so I might be a little biased already. But in front of his mom, ew. I think where I'm like, where it's weird for me is that they didn't know the mom was there. If she was on purpose saying it in front of the mom, it's like, whoa, yeah, that's very sexual. That would make a mom uncomfortable. She didn't know that. They are in a kitchen, which is a public space. I think her reaction would have kept this from being an asshole verdict. Well, you call your husband pop. That was the decision. All you had to do is go like, you're so right. Sorry about that. Totally. Sorry about that, mommy. If that's what you, you know. Sorry, mommy. Sorry, mommy. Yeah. I think, no, and truthfully, too, I think what I'm also finally understanding as well with those comments is maybe something that you are okay embracing in terms of things of sexual nature. It's okay for you and for your kids. It's okay for you unknowingly in the circle, and they are expressing that they are uncomfortable with it. So instead of being like, deal with it, it should be sort of treated more like, okay, understood, it's your house. This is your son. Like, you didn't necessarily deserve to hear that. So let's just separate instead of get used to it. You know, maybe that kind of energy. It's my daddy. Get used to it. Right, right. For sure. Because, yeah, that gets into territory of like, you're in a Hey, like, everybody who lives here and uses this shared space probably needs to be comfortable with it. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. I love that he loves it, though. I think we're misremembering that she says her personal favorite to call him is daddy. So he has not, we have no information that he is a fan of that. Right. And is pushing for that. We just know that when this happened with his mom, he was very uncomfortable. Yeah. And he was asking for an apology. So maybe there wasn't like it. Yeah. He's like, my mom was against it. Maybe I can make her stop. He's like, mommy, hide behind the wall. Mommy, hide behind the wall. Mommy, please. Mommy, she's calling me daddy. Please make her stop. Okay. I hate it now. I'm so curious. I feel like I wish I had so much more info on that one. But it's interesting. I feel like that is not the only incident of that happening in the world. I think that's gotta be happening all the time. Yeah. Well, there's that right? Like the whole family being at the dinner table and somebody being like, daddy passed assault and the father and the boyfriend both reach for it. it and it's like and they touch hands and then they go oh daddy today's red stories is brought am i the asshole for not following my husband's family tradition my this is a 28 year old woman my husband who's 29 comes from a very traditional family while we disagree with his family on many things it has never really been an issue until now i am currently eight months pregnant and my husband and i couldn't be happier as we've been trying for a while since i first found out i was pregnant we've been discussing names for our child in my husband's family the tradition wants the child to be named after his grandfather basically first born men in his family only have one of two names james or henry my husband's grandfather was james so his name is james too my husband's father is called henry so our child should be too and so on and so forth but my husband and i didn't really feel like calling our child henry and although it's a beautiful way to name our child we really wanted our child to have a name that would be personal that would truly be his so we chose another name and decided to wait until after the birth to reveal it to everyone this week my mother-in-law came to visit us and help us set up for the baby she brought us some presents amongst which was a bunch of clothes on which she hand embroidered the name henry i said that it was nice and thanked her for it but told her that we wouldn't be naming our child henry as we had already told her in the past she started insisting and saying that it was a tradition that was a tradition so it had to be that way i explained to her that we'd rather give our child a name that we chose and that henry could be his middle name she immediately went to my husband and started saying things like you're not going to let her do that to our family and making it very dramatic saying that i was breaking a tradition that went back hundreds of years honestly not sure about that my husband tried to explain that we both agreed on the name and that all the reasons why we made that that choice but she wouldn't listen she suggested that we name him henry on paper as his legal name and then call him something else but i thought that would be confusing for him and told her that he would be named what we chose she kept begging my husband and saying that i was ruining the family tradition and at one point i lost it which is partially to blame on hormones i think and told her that it was our child so we did what we wanted and we didn't have to follow a stupid tradition she stormed out and my husband has since received texts from his father and sister accusing me of making his mother feel really bad and some other stuff that i don't really remember i get the importance of tradition and it can be really beautiful but also i feel like that shouldn't be an obligation and it's okay to change things we won't change our baby's name because we're really set on that but maybe we were wrong for not following the tradition i'm not entirely sure and am mentally exhausted by all this drama edit i've seen many comments mentioning they saw similar stories in the past i'd like to clarify those weren't mine all of those events happened two days ago but it's crazy to see how many families have similar traditions i really thought that was a super rare thing i mean we've read a million tradition stories that are sort of like this just like you know yeah like well we've done this for generations so we have to keep doing and i and i'm so passionate about breaking tradition i mean if i like my next tattoo is truly going to be break tradition yeah i i think it's quite i understand the historical relevance of a ritual and and a lot of the times it can be tied to religion and faith and spirituality absolutely but at least question tradition and i think it's really important to have that tradition yeah why is it around for so long what's the importance of it is there a way of a compromise the middle name sounded perfect i feel like that's what so many people do that sounded like such a great option and a way to include people rather than bulldozing their ideas and perspectives and forcing them to join this tradition i have a question on one of the details his name is james two no not junior two oh no his name is just james oh t-o-o got it i thought his name was james two and i'm like this tradition is crazy no henry five it's actually it's actually kind of a funny tradition to me because yeah none of them are juniors or the third or something it's like no you're james and your dad's henry and his dad's james and his dad's henry so his dad's james and regardless of the name you're still genetically the family it feels like this tradition is almost rooted in this comfort from the family like it's important to them that this child is named that it doesn't seem like they're doing a lot of around the table consideration of what other people find important about this kid and then certainly not the child himself yeah this feels like more of a thing of control um and like i like traditions too but i think i like traditions that are more like oh we do this get together every year or like we like there's something that happens we go to applebee's in february yeah yeah like hell yeah you know um but just like no your name is this just feels i'm like it's longer lasting it's yeah like that's not heavier that's not legacy to me like that's not family to me yeah that's there's also i think uh a beauty in voluntary participation in traditions right like some something like applebee's in february feels like something everyone can be like yes let's do it yeah rather than like we gotta do this or you know we made a reservation 15 years ago and we have to do it that's really funny um i think that's something that i i have a hard time getting behind when i i know like people are like oh you can name your son james they're like well we don't want to and it's like well you you should though but i'm like wait if you know they don't want to yeah it's not gonna make you want to do it if you don't want to uncomfortable forever that you made them do something they don't want to do and it's gonna kind of like to be boiling under the surface yeah they have to be around their kid longer than you do and what if like their ex-husband's name is james and what if and did you consider that did you think about that could could be really harmful to name your kid the name of your ex just thinking about it like that there's also the underlying uh patriarchal shit of this of like they don't give a shit what her family traditions are right like well this is ours so it trumps yours and speak and what if there's a girl what if it's a baby girl henry the girl i get i i'm assuming they'd be like oh well then we don't care well then we put it back we put it we return to sender exactly it's interesting that it's the mom it's the mom like pushing this so hard right i mean we probably the rest of the family feels the same way i think we get that from this but like clearly the mom went along with the tradition and so now she's not and it's it's got to be forcing i had to do it yeah you do it it's kind of i feel like everybody's heard that of like well we did this so that's normal but i think it's like a reckoning that i'm sure we'll face too as you get older of like oh this bullshit we went through and tolerated and then younger people are like we're not going to tolerate this and it's like well you should because i did it's like oh wait i you not tolerating it means in somewhere in my head i have to face the fact that maybe i didn't have to right but it's like no like the world changes yeah and it's a different world than it was then which is also like traditions change because the world changes like we're not in the 1800s anymore right i feel like because our world is changing so much so frequently at least me and my peers us here i feel like we're gonna get to that stage and we'll be open to be like you know oh it's different for you guys great i'm glad it's different not like oh well you we did it this way so you got to do it that you know it's like i i pay for it and i'm like oh my god i'm not gonna pay off my student loans yes but i don't expect but i want the rest of the student loans to be forgiven i'm like just because i paid mine off you have no yeah yeah no absolutely be free i i agree because yeah it's like oh when i went to college the world was different right you know 10 years ago like the world is different now and humans adapt right like um so it's gonna be this weird thing of like i'm sure when i'm 80 i'm gonna look around at young people and be like what the fuck the fuck is this are you doing but i'm like oh right because the world's different and you all adapt so well right that you've adapted to this new world and you're built for it yeah and in a twisted way though too it's like this level of adaptation and flexibility is also new if that makes sense right so like just sort of to give grace as well to to that to the woman the mom of that family like there is i think we need to acknowledge that like it's almost it can be like this these deep rooted yeah issues right like they say trauma is passed down from generation to generation until somebody is brave enough to feel it yeah and right wow and and it's it's not that the people before aren't aren't brave necessarily it's just that they don't have the tools yet so they're doing their best and they're operating with what they need to operate with in order to survive but now hopefully there can be somebody or something that can help navigate it to be like hey like let's unpack it let's actually understand it let's break it down in a way that refilters some of that agency right for the women that came before her yeah because for one op has a husband who is backing her and also agrees on this change yeah but also yeah there's the aspect of like it's also 2025 as opposed to the mom trying to be like oh let's break tradition it's the 90s it's like right it's a different and completely different yes and a completely different husband so we don't know different support system different norms different references to point to historically like it's it's a whole nother thing and it's unfair to just expect Like, you should also be open and flexible. You know, it's both ends. But also acknowledging how deep this goes with the whole family and the mom. Right. It almost, like, furthers the point of, yeah, you've got to do your own thing. Yeah. Because you can't unravel this. So go your own path. And they're going to be upset because they have not reckoned with everything that's going on. Right. But hopefully this can initiate the beginning of that. Hopefully. I mean, families, we don't always have those moments where it's like, you know what? You're right. Yeah. Okay, what if, okay, in the future, baby Carl, we're going to call him Carl, baby Carl has a family. And he's like, I'm going to name my kid James 5. We're bringing it back, baby. You're not naming your kid Henry? What are you naming him? Benry. Benry 8. Benry 8. Oh, God. Naming your child, like, something junior. But they're not a junior. No, the junior is awesome. That's funny. It's insane. It's awesome. That's awesome. Tell your in-laws that the thousand-year-long tradition in your family is that the mother and father of the baby choose the name, and you'll be following your family's tradition, not the asshole. 10,000 upvotes. Someone said, Your husband needs to snap back and say, this is my decision, instead of allowing them to blame you. OP says, Someone responded to that saying, oh, man, this was me. Anything. My partner did that they didn't like equaled my fault. Any disagreement about anything was because of my brainwashing. I was like, I can't even get them to hang up their towel after a shower, so I'm not sure where this is coming from. Someone said, Not the asshole. My family has the same tradition. I remember being unhappy when my brother and his wife didn't follow it. Shame on me. I was too steeped in traditions to consider an alternative. Good on my sister-in-law for being independent. I learned from her. You are giving your child freedom. Good for you. Well, a family member who learned something. There you go. Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. Whoa. I agree with that. I think some traditions, though, are great as long as everybody's down for it and having a good time. But plenty are just weird. Plenty are just existing because it's what we've always done. Yeah. And that's a bad mindset to have. Totally. I definitely agree in questioning it constantly. Constant. And again, it might be that you evaluate it and you're like, Yeah, this is good. Let's keep it. Right. For sure. But you've got to at least be able to question it. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Assess. Do you guys have any fun family traditions? You mentioned Applebee's. In February? That was a bit. I believe it. It can be a tradition. I don't think the both family has ever stepped foot into an Applebee's together. That's a tradition. That's a tradition. We'll never go. I'm actually sad. My grandma. My mom cares a lot about traditions, but the traditions, they're all like family get-togethers. Yeah. It's more about just like, let's keep the family together and hang out and talk and stuff. And I'm like, that's the tradition I can get behind because it's so easy for that to drift apart. And then you're not talking. Then you're not getting together. My grandma, for the longest time, we had this tradition of just. St. Patrick's Day was just a big party at her house. It was just like, yeah, we're American, but we still are like, oh, but we're Irish heritage. So it's just this insane party where we just have like, green everywhere and stuff. But it was really just an excuse to get together and stuff. That's my family's too. Christmas Eve, it was always grandma, grandpa's house. And she would cook and she'd make cookies. It was always like, it's kind of like her doing all the tradition and we just get to come and enjoy it. But they got old and it was like, she doesn't want to do all this. And then one day we ordered Italian food and we had like Italian takeout and we were like, well, this isn't quite the same. And then we were just like, you know, let's scale it back and just have like a, we come, we open gifts, we talk, we go. Yeah. Yes. We have some dumb ones like, in my family for Christmas, we have a snowball fight, but it's just at my brother's house and we just have these like, caught like, they're like little snowball, like, I don't know what they're made of, but they're just like these squishy, like, like beanbags, like hacky sack? Not beanbags. They're very soft, but we truly just like all split up in this big room and then it's all the adults versus all the kids. Cute. And so it's kind of an excuse for us to just, we just pelt kids with these little, it's like soft as fuck. That's really fun. But now the kids are getting older and they're now winning. And hurting. Their endurance is just endless. Of course. So we get tired and then we end up just laying on the ground while they're just like hitting us with snowballs. That's a great tradition. And you're like, my knees. I'm like, my back. That's awesome. Yeah, like that kind of stuff is fun. I relate to you guys too that, you know, I think for me and my family also, our tradition is also just sort of gathering in the holidays, taking those as an opportunity of we have off work, so let's just spend that time together. I think for me too, the difficulty with traditions is that it feels like it comes with expectations. Sure. It feels like, okay, we have to do everything that we did before, otherwise it's not fulfilling. At least that's the way that I interpret it. So I feel like I have to be very delicate with my rituals and that's why I use the word like this voluntary participation. I feel the need to be very excited about the tradition, otherwise it could snowball into something that's like, oh, it's not perfect, it's not what we had last year and now I'm not having any fun. Yeah. I think being a little lax on it is nice. Totally. Like my brothers and I do a camping trip every year and this year we just, it didn't work. Like we were traveling too much. It was like, all right, yeah, we'll do it next year. Like it's just like, it's not a big deal. We can get back on it. Yeah. Like it's okay. Yeah. It's just like, it's just hanging out with a little bit of structure. Yeah. Like if you think about it like that, then it's fine. Yeah. And it's just, oh, let's give ourselves an excuse to hang out more. That's cute. Yeah. All right, our next story. So today I fucked up. Today I fucked up by forgetting I was on an Amazon family plan for years. Uh-oh. So I just got an email notification stating that I was removed from my Amazon family plan. I completely forgot that years ago my sister and brother-in-law added me to their account as a teen so I could mooch free Prime from them. Upon seeing this, I started getting a panic attack because I have made many spicy purchases on there. Things I know they don't want to know about their little sister. I quickly Googled to see if there's any chance they've been privy to these purchases and there, plain as day, it reads, yes, if you are a teen on an Amazon household account, your parents will be notified about your purchases because they need to approve them. My brethren in Christ, my sister has been approving every single purchase I've made for years. The mundane ones, the questionable ones, the impulse ones, the downright horny ones, everything. And she's never said one word about it this whole time. My last purchase made was two days before being notified via this email and yes, it was a horny purchase. I'm afraid that she finally got fed up with knowing this many intimate details about my life and finally decided to end it. But maybe, just maybe, it's a coincidence? I'm too afraid to ask. Honestly, I'm not sure that I want to know. FML. Okay. Well. I need to know what these purchases are. Absolutely. I mean, I guess I'm, there's a win that it's a sister, not necessarily mother-father. Right. True. True. I think that objectively is a little bit better. Yeah. I would agree. I would agree. I'm too crazy. It's still like, just as like, oh shit. I did not know anyone was seeing this. Yeah. Which is tough. So if anything, it's just lightly embarrassing and now you have to spend money to get Prime again. Yes. Yes. Yes. My instinct would say that it's probably Amazon kicking her off because I feel like That's what I imagine is they outgrew it. These type, these type of things are just always finding ways to like, like screw people over. Absolutely. Like it's more expensive every month and then it's like, no, you can't have more people on your account. Yeah. And if she was uncomfortable with it, she probably would have either said something or before not approved those purchases. Right. I mean, you can say, once you say yes to dildos three times, what's the fucking fourth? Yes. Yeah, go. You got it. Take it. Get it. I can't say I've searched that on Amazon, so I'm so curious. I'm sure they're there. Okay. Oh, okay. So it's not, I don't know why I'm thinking of just like watching movies and stuff. Okay, so she's buying just items. Yes. Well, I don't know why my head was just like buying like movies and stuff, renting movies. I think I was thinking like, oh, you're Amazon Prime like watching stuff. She's taking action. She's buying things. She's getting things that vibrate. She's getting things. Wow. Some slick things. Suctions. Whoa. Yeah. Rubs. Damn. That's all she got. I went somewhere. Love the sister just going like, yeah, sure, get it, take it. That's what makes me think they got kicked off and that it wasn't like. Yeah. Because it's like. What did she order that was too horny? It sounds like she's already been to the moon and back. Unless it was like the weirdest. Yeah. It's like. It's like, look. Buy this book if you're racist. And she bought it. And she's like, bought. And then the sister's like, what? No. Now it's changed. Now it's too much. It's too much. I'm fine with every dildo on earth, but not the this is how to be racist book. Not racism. That's where we draw the line. Comments. Your sister's a real one. 16,000 upvotes. Someone says, it makes you feel any better. I gave my boyfriend my public and curated Amazon wishlist, which he shared to his mom and grandma. They purchased things I completely forgot about adding to my wishlist a long time ago because Amazon showed them my private shopping list with all sorts of lingerie and spicy appliances. It was our first Christmas and I was more than happy. I was mortified when I found out. Spicy appliances? Yeah. Spicy appliances. Like a kitchen? Don't put a kitchen ain't down there. Or do. Or do. Grandma's like, I got a great toaster. No. The brave little toaster, one might say. God. Someone said, perhaps it's your brother-in-law who's been approving your purchases and has protected you and your sister from knowing too much. Either way, someone deserves a thank you. Opie said, somehow, I think that's even worse. Yeah, I think that's worse. I think both of them have to know. I think so. Things are rolling through. They're sharing the, yeah. She's buying so much stuff. Yeah, maybe it's easier said than done, but I just feel like if that happens, I feel like you have to have a conversation and just, you gotta just be honest and be like, listen, I didn't know and I'm really sorry and I appreciate you approving them. Like, did you guys happen to kick me off? Is that just Amazon? Like, you gotta address it. And as you know, I have a surplus if you wanna borrow any. If you need any. I have a chopper for you. Get into chopper. Yeah, exactly. She climbs it through her sister's window because she tied all the dildos together. Climbed up. Oh my God. Holy shit, dude. Spicy appliances. Spicy appliances. Can't shake that. Can't shake that. Yeah. Oh, be careful of my fridge. You can fuck it. Yeah. Make sure. Share my Amazon. I've been making horny purchases. Wow. Wow. All right. This comes from Am I the Asshole? Am I the Asshole for refusing to let my mom wear white to my wedding even though she claims it's her last chance to feel beautiful? Please. No. Please. Please. Please. Oh, God. I felt like I just got punched 50 times. Somehow all of us just got a swing. Because I'm like, no, of course you shouldn't. Oh, no. That's so sad. I've never heard a reason where I was like, oh, maybe you need to. Yeah, that is the only reason you can do it. I think you have to let her. Oh, maybe you let her. If you're like at a wedding, you see like a mom wearing white, you go up and you're like, ma'am, you need to leave. She's like, this was my last chance to feel beautiful. And you're like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. You are beautiful. You just turned to dust and like. Well, it's time to find out if she's a beautiful woman. Let's do it. I just turned 23 and I'm getting married in October. My mom and I have always had what I would refer to as a rocky relationship, especially since I got engaged. She's been oddly competitive, commenting on my body, comparing our bodies, comparing our rings like we are in a competition, saying things like, this day is as much about me as it is about you. I honestly thought she was joking until she showed me the dress she bought, a white floor length gown that looks exactly like a bridal dress. And I told her flat out, she cannot wear that because in my opinion, it doesn't match the occasion. She got quiet, then burst into tears saying it's her. And this was an opportunity to feel beautiful before getting old. And that I'm selfish for not letting her have this one thing. I felt really bad about this, so I also offered to go shopping with her to find something elegant and more appropriate. And all of a sudden, her countenance changed and then she told me I was controlling and ungrateful. What gave me peace was that my fiance backed me up, as did my maid of honor. Now my mom is threatening not to come to the wedding and my aunt says I should just let her have this to avoid drama. I don't think I'm wrong for drawing a line here, but now part of me wonders if I'm the asshole. All right, well it's not as pathetic as we thought initially. It turns out the mom's just being a pick-me. A pick-me. The mom is awful. A huge pick-me. What do you mean this day is just about as just about me as it is you? What? Before I get old, you can be pretty beautiful and old. Yeah, come on. What are you talking about? Yeah. Dude, Helen Mirren. Helen Mirren. Come on, man. Dude, you love Helen Mirren. Okay, Helen Mirren is objectively ridiculously hot. Dude, we're talking about moms right now. Yeah. Oh, God. I think she is one. Shit. And she is one. I made it worse. Exactly. Yeah, the mom needs to not be wearing the dress. I don't, I've never been wed, nor have I planned a wedding, but I'm aware that it's very stressful. I don't know what I would do in this situation where it's like, oh, then she won't come if she's gonna wear, you know, like I'll have my mom not come to my wedding if she, but then it's also like don't wear white to my wedding and she doesn't want to change the dress. She offered to go shopping, so it's like, what do you do? Right. No, that's actually just such an impossible situation. I think like from us not knowing these people, it's so easy to be like, oh my God, this mom, but if we were that, if we were the bride and that is your mom expressing those very deep and sad, painful things to you, it's going to be so hard to say no. It's gonna be tough. I can respect OP for being like in a conflicted place, but I also think these are those situations where the mom's like, well, I'm not gonna go to the wedding if it can't be about me. Then it's like, well, then you're not gonna go to the wedding. Then you're not coming to the wedding because it's not about you factually. This is like, I think this is a clear indication that her mom is not even thinking about her. Her mom is like stealing from her, like reaching the life from her. That is situations where I'm like, oh, if you wanted to cut your mom out of your life, I get it because she is being a parasite to you. She's not being there for you. She's in fact the opposite. I mean, I think if there's hope for a more permanent change for the mom, it's definitely not gonna be through escaping through this wedding, you know? It's not this won't be the answer. No. The answer is not in giving her everything she wants. No, no. Because then it's maybe like, oh, I'm having a baby and now the mom is like, it's mine. Right. You know? There's also been stories, I don't know here, but perhaps, where like a mom will not approve of like a gay wedding or something like that, which is a little, way different than this. And so the, you know, the kids and their partner go like, well, then you're not, then, you know, if you don't approve, great, we're gonna have the wedding anyway. And then they go and when it gets closer to the wedding, the parents go, man, shit, I wanna be there and I wanna, and they change. So maybe what needs to happen is it's like, great, you don't wanna change your outfit, you're not coming to the wedding. And then as it approaches, the mom's like, but then I won't be there at all and then I can't make the day about me if I'm not there. Yeah. Then, oh, then I will change my dress and I'll make a deal out of it and I will show up. She might have a realization. Yeah. I think what concerns me too is the aunt you said, right? Her sister. The aunt was on the mom's side. I mean, that's what worries me that it is just something like that this woman is just going through and her sister is just trying to make her feel better. Let her have it. Yeah, let her have it. Yeah, but she says, like that's terrible advice. OP says that her and her mom have always had a rocky relationship. Oh, since she got engaged. She's been oddly competitive, but still it's like, the aunt is indicating that the mom has kind of always been a little bit this way where it's like, well, just let her do her thing. Yeah, she just deals with her sister by being like, that's her. And I'm like, when you do that, it just never changes. Right. It's guaranteed to never change if you do that. You just do that, yeah. So you have to put a hard stop to it and hope it changes, but it may not. And then it's in the mom's court. But it indicates that her behavior is acceptable, which it's absolutely not. The verdict is not the asshole. Comments, now my mom is threatening not to come to the wedding. Your mother is extremely manipulative. Take her up on that offer, not the asshole. Someone said that 100% this OP, not the asshole. She'll only find another way to make the day about her. She should be making the day about you. If she can't let you shine, you don't need her drama. This is not her last chance to be beautiful. This is your wedding, not her funeral. She can't be that old if her daughter is getting married at 23 and she should want to look beautiful, not like she's pretending to be the bride. People will think and say unflattering things about her. They'll joke at her expense that she's desperate for attention or hoping to steal the groom that she's turned into Miss Havisham. This is a character from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. She is a wealthy spinster who lives in a decrepit mansion and wears her wedding dress every day because she was jilted at the altar. That's a fun way to manipulate the manipulators. Be like, oh, well, people are going to make fun of you if you're dressed in white like me. Don't you want to be beautiful and the star of the show? Maybe you'd dress like a normal lady and be normal at the wedding. Wear green. They continue on. She can buy a beautiful formal dress and wow, I guess, looking like she's ready to pick up her Oscar in any color but white. OP said, I don't understand why a mother would want to steal her daughter's day. It doesn't seem to me like it's about beauty and vanity as much as it feels like it's specifically about being a bride again. Yeah. Pairing the rings, needing to wear a white dress as opposed to, yeah, the alternate of just wearing another beautiful dress that isn't white. She wants to be married. She wants to, she wants to be married. She wants to be a bride in some way. Like, it seems like, again, psychologically, that's what it feels like it sticks out to me that that is what she's harping on. Yeah. Not necessarily feeling beautiful. Maybe she's just like filling in other words for it and it's getting misplaced. So, not to, you know, say that that is what she's going through but my point is I think that she just needs to deal with that separately. Yeah. Right. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Right. With therapy. Absolutely. What? A parent going to therapy? I know. Unbelievable. Moving on to our next story. This is also a Today I Fucked Up. Today I fucked up by bringing my dad to my first open mic. Wow. No. This was posted a day ago as of filming this. This was yesterday? We are reading this less than 24 hours after it's been posted. So, the open mic was like last night. Yeah. So, if anyone doesn't know what an open mic is in stand-up comedy, it's when you're like, oh, I can do stand-up comedy. I'm gonna go to this open mic and try jokes that I wrote and have never said in front of anyone ever before. And so, and usually it's a lottery situation. So you're going to go and wait maybe like two and a half hours before you get called up and you have your three-minute window to do your jokes to a bunch of comedians who are either in their head waiting to go up or pissed off at how their set went or outside smoking a cigarette. And it's just a hellscape. If I may add, too, these days you also have to pay for your performance time. Yes. So you have to put down $5 to go have five minutes, and it is truly just a dark hellhole. And to bring someone—now, listen, and that's still an opportunity to network, and it is the best place to try your stuff out. You have to. Unless you get booked on shows often, you can sneak in one or two every once in a while because you don't want to do fresh stuff at a show. But to bring someone who is not trying to get into stand-up to an open mic. Yes. It's like you might as well have them in the passenger seat and drive off a cliff into the ocean. Truly. This is a punishment on everybody's front. Yes. Wow. Okay. That just needed to be said before we hopped into this. Yeah, but we don't have very many feelings about open mics. Yeah, no, I don't. I'm very neutral, though, to open mics and stand-up in general. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I have only heard this over and over again about stand-up, like open mics and stuff. It is like a nightmare. It sucks. Career to pursue. Yeah. I've never heard anyone say a good thing about an open mic. No, no. I did stand-up. I did stand-up for a year, and then I said, I hate this. Mm-hmm. That makes sense. And that's our story. All right. All right. Tell us yours. I'm visiting my dad's home across the country for the first time, and I hear about an open mic coming up in a couple days. I've come up with a handful of stand-up bits over the years, and I always wanted to give it a try. I'm not seriously pursuing a career in comedy, but I love it, and I have fun making people laugh. I spent the last few days writing a five-minute set, and tonight my dad took me to the venue for the moment of truth. We got there early and sat at the bar, which was, the first mistake, because the bartender talked my dad into buying one of those high-alcohol hipster beers. He tried to sell me on one, too, but I told him he asked me 12 years too late and got a seltzer with lime instead. I asked my dad to take video of my set so I could show my girlfriend later, so we got settled at a table close to the stage, and he started fiddling with his phone to get the best shot. He's a decent photographer, so it's not unusual for him to be picky about this process. I was first on the sign-up list. So it seemed rational to get the phone ready to record, but the host did five minutes herself. Then one of her friends took a turn and mentioned the awkwardness of my dad recording. He assured the comedian that he wasn't recording. The phone was shooting blanks. Shooting blanks. This led to a few more awkward jokes until another opening act took the stage. At this point, a large man dramatically sat down at the one table in front of us and blocked my dad's phone. I knew right away, this guy did it on purpose to stop us from recording. By then, my dad had actually started recording because he thought it would be a cool idea to get the act before me and give my act some prologue. But my dad didn't get the hint. He just thought the guy in front of us was inconsiderate. He complained about him, and I said, Dad, he's doing it on purpose, and made a motion with my hand for him to calm down. The guy turned around and started arguing with my dad, who got loud back at him, talking about how he has every right to record. Now the comedian starts yelling at me and at my dad, too. Someone in the crowd yells out, put the phone away and only record your son bombing. God is ass. Oh, God. God is ass, actually. We're really setting the sun up for success here. At this point, I got up and told my dad we might as well leave. There's no way anyone is going to laugh at my jokes now. Get out. I've been wanting to try stand-up for over a decade now, and I was pissed it all fell apart. I had the set memorized, and I knew I was going to nail it. Okay, buddy, I. No. I've never done stand-up, like, a real stand-up. There's no such thing as nailing your first. You're going to bomb. Right. And that's okay. That's okay, because you've got to. That's what's going to happen. You've got to be okay with bombing. You're not going to go do a five-minute set for the first time ever and nail it. And certainly not in an open mic night. And also, no matter what city you're in, there's an open mic night. Yep. Go tomorrow. Day after, there's going to be one. Applebee's in February? Open mic night. Right. Bring a tripod. Let dad sit in the back. Oh, my God. The confidence on this guy to be like, I'm going to try it for the first time, and it's going to be so good that my dad's going to record it, and I'm going to show my girlfriend, and everybody's going to love it. I'm like, man. All right. Okay. You are. Fun. Yeah. This reminds me of when they're like, the random times in history where the NFL is like, oh, we need to have open tryouts for teams, and people are like, yeah, I'm going to go, and I'm going to make the team. I'm like, you're going to die. You're going to be murdered. Yeah. But you know what? I love the confidence. You need to have it. You do have to be delusional. You have to. You have to be like, this is funny stuff. Right. So you can, you know, deliver it right. He was smart to realize there's no point in going up, but also, I know he just wanted to do this as a one time. He wanted to do this as a passion project. But it's like, yeah, nobody was probably going to laugh at your stuff anyways. So that's it? That's the story? That's it? That's where it ends. Oh, thank God. He should definitely, listen, he likes comedy. He wrote his, he spent time. He should go and perform at some point. Go do it. Yes. Go tomorrow. And have someone in the, just don't bring your parent if you don't want to. Just, people are there recording anyway. Just ask someone to record. Yeah. Yeah. Or set the phone up yourself. Yes. And just press the record button. Absolutely. And just record your set. Yeah, just record your set. You should not be recording other people's sets. Yeah. That definitely was also weird of the dad to be like, it's a prologue. Like, I don't know if that's what I'm doing. We don't need to. We know. We're in the setting of stand-up comedy. We don't need a wide. When I watch stand-up, I'm always like, I wish I had a prologue. An establishing shot. I want to set the scene with an opener. I don't want to watch my son. Oh, my God. Gosh. Oh, man. Stand-up is so brutal, dude. Yeah. But sweet, supportive dad who, you know, was just really trying to be there for his kids. It's really hard because, like, I've been around stand-up comedians and, like, I've been in comedy for so long that people think, like, oh, well, I'm funny and I make my friends laugh. I'll nail this. I'm like, no. Like, it's a complete, it's its own thing. It's its own art form. You're up there alone. It's weird how much it's its own thing because we've done light, like, Try Not to Laugh where we're like, oh, we just stand up. And I'm like, oh, man, it's a whole, like, language that you have to learn. Yes. And it's an act in a way that's, like, you have to present yourself in a specific way with your specific writing. You can't just be like, I got these jokes. Let me just say it. Right, right. I mean, unless it comes so naturally to you. Unless you've been doing it for, like, I've heard people be like, you have to perform weekly for 10 years to start clicking. Yes, yes. I've heard that, like, a few times. Well, because for me, too, the best stand-ups, I think, are the ones that are just, because, you know, what I've heard, too, I also did stand-up for a very short amount of time, and it's all about the crowd. Not necessarily crowd work, but every single time you get up there, it cannot be, and now I start, and this is my act. It's got to be like, okay, this is the audience that's going to receive this specific performance. I need to be listening to them. If somebody says something or something, funny happens in the crowd, I need to be able to adapt. I need to be able to, like, shift my set and have funny things just, like, in my Rolodex of who I am, rather than, like, this is how the joke is supposed to go, and this is how I'm supposed to say it. Right, yeah. Like, it's such a difficult, difficult world to be in. And God forbid the person before you bombs, and then you have to come up, and the audience is, like, upset, and you're like, okay, I have to get you to like me and trust me. Right. Five minutes, I guess I'll take the first minute to get you there. Exactly, and usually that means calling, like, references, referencing the person who came before you, too, and, like, just, it's such a tough language. Or just coming in with all that energy, being like, hey, guys, all right. Yeah, yeah. Let's have some fun, you know? Right. Yeah, anyway. We could talk about it forever. I think my biggest, my only real, I mean, the dad is ridiculous, kind of hilarious. But it's him being like, oh, we need to leave, there's no way anyone's gonna laugh at my jokes now. I'm like, you're not doing it because people are gonna laugh. You're doing it because you apparently want to do this, and you love this. And I think, like, you shouldn't have to be good at something to go and do it. No, not at all. Like, you should just want to do it. You have to fail. That's why he should do it. We just have a couple comments because this post is so new. Someone said, at least you have the video to show your girlfriend. And someone else said, it's gonna get way worse. That's part of it. Keep going. Yep. Someone said, bummer, dude. Try it again without your dad and probably somewhere else. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. There's a million spots. Emphasis on the keep going, emphasis on the somewhere else. Like, this isn't, like, a failure. This isn't a stop. This isn't ha-ha. You're gonna, you know. This is something that if he actually got into it, and in a few years, if he actually, like, He could actually. This is a story he can tell. This is his set. Absolutely. Yeah. Like, that's, you actually kind of need those situations to be a stand-up. Absolutely. Because every stand-up is just telling embarrassing stories from their lives. What I really liked, too, was that he said he's not necessarily trying to pursue a career in it. It's just, like, a hobby. It's just for fun. Having fun, man. Which is even better. Yeah, man. You're not placing that much pressure on it. It gets to be something that, over time, you'll loosen up with. Yeah. I hope he's not too discouraged. Yeah. I hope he goes and does it somewhere. He should do it. Yeah. All right. Our next story comes from Am I the Asshole? Am I the asshole for telling my sister she wasn't always the chosen one? Chosen. Interesting. Interesting. Wait a minute. You were never the chosen one. I was. Before my brothers and I were born, my mom had a child with an old boyfriend. Penny. Her boyfriend slash Penny's bio dad didn't stick around. My mom then met my dad when Penny was three and they got married. My dad adopted Penny. My mom then went on to have me and my brothers with our dad. Growing up, Penny was always the apple of my dad's eye. He gave us all attention, but he always went out of his way to make it equal. Around the time she entered her teens, Penny would make the joke, Dad was stuck with you guys, but he chose me. Or refer to herself as the chosen one. My brothers and parents always thought it was hilarious. I thought it was obnoxious. If our brothers and I were ever discussing what traits we got slash didn't get from dad, Penny would break in with, I didn't get anything from him except his last name because I'm the chosen one. Now, we're all adults, and Penny still trots that out from time to time. Recently, it came up when my siblings and I were out with our partners for drinks. One of my brothers has a newish girlfriend, so she wasn't aware of Penny's story. Penny was telling it, shoving in that she's the chosen one. I admit I was a little drunk, and I said, chosen by our dad, but you weren't chosen by your first dad, huh? Jesus. God. Oh, my God. God. Oh, my God. Saying that out loud, that's crazy. That's so intense. Oh. Oh, God. Oh, God. He was done with Penny. Oh, that's like. Finished with Penny on that one. That's like the peak moment in an Oscar-winning movie where it's like, oh, the worst thing you can say to someone. He was holding on to that. Oh, yeah. Oof. Wow. Penny got a hurt look on her face. My brothers told me that was uncalled for. Even the new girlfriend was looking at me like I was a douche. I said this. This story is just getting old. We've all heard it, and it's a little ridiculous. My boyfriend ended up calling us an Uber and getting me out of there. Well, of course, words gotten back to our parents, and they're pissed at me, saying I was rude. I said Penny was just being obnoxious. Am I the asshole? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you are. Look, do I also think, like, it's one of those things where it's like some behavior is obnoxious, but you sit and you think, like, where is it coming from? Insecurity. Insecurity. I'm like, this one. I'm like. I read this story, and I'm like, I know exactly where this is coming from. I'm like, yeah, I'm sure if you sat down and had some drinks with Penny, and you asked her, like, why do you say that all the time, and you really dug in, it's because it's like, well, yeah, because I don't know what the fuck my identity is, because I've got this thing in the back of my head telling me I'm not worthy. I'm not part of this family. Like, anyone could probably piece that together after talking to her for a second. Five minutes, max. Because that's got to be so hard to have that lingering of like, yeah, your other dad bounced on you. And he's gone. I don't know. Like, you can't just move past that. Yeah. And, like, I totally get where her, OP's dad is coming from of like, oh, like, I know that we're going to have our own, like, we're going to have biological kids of our own, and I don't want Penny to think she's not part of the family. So they, like, go above and beyond, clearly, to make her feel part of the family, and it's created this, like, weird thing. But OP has clearly grown up with it. And not registered. Because it's just been part of her life her whole life. Right. So, and she, I don't know, like, that's also such a rough thing to, like, hear from your sibling. Yeah. It's like, that also kind of insinuates that OP doesn't feel like, oh, you're my full sister. Right. And it didn't just shut down Penny's, like, dialogue. It actually just shut Penny down entirely. Oh, yeah. It's like, oh, actually, you're not my sibling. Yeah. Actually. All those fears you have, they're real. They're real. Yeah. Yeah. I definitely do understand, like, you know, there is naturally also going to be a reaction from these siblings that, you know, they do have both their biological parents in the picture. And hearing this, like, I just want to acknowledge, like, hearing over and over that she is the chosen one, that there is so much effort being put into making sure that she feels included. Maybe on the other end of that sort of seesaw, it's now made these siblings sort of feel like, well, there also is, like, some specialness to us. Right. Yeah. Like, we're also children and we're, you know. I can see where the frustration comes from. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. 100%. I'm also, like, I think the parents fucked up in letting that be a thing. Go on for so long. Absolutely. It's like, no, because that, it also, though, still isolates her. It's like, no, the basis should have been, like, no, you're all. You're all the kids. Like, let's. You're the kids. That's it. You're not different from them. Yeah. You're all the kids. But this makes it this weird separation still. Yeah. Even if it's a, even if it's a positive separation. A positive separation. It's still a separation. And the separation's more the problem than whether you're lesser or more. Right. They're, they're overcompensating. Yeah. And, and, and the reaction of that now, the, the collateral damage is these siblings not knowing how to coexist on the same plane. Yeah. And, and yeah, I mean, in an ideal world, they would sit Penny down and be like, let's break this down and let's talk about it. Right. So that we can all be on the same page. We're all siblings. We're all siblings. But it's clear that right now there's just, like, Penny dealing with her own things. She's internalizing it and, and letting it out sort of in this comedic way, maybe. And then these siblings being frustrated at the way that she's letting it out. And so they're turning their back on her. And it's just this clash right now. And it seems like it just boiled into this one moment. Yeah. Of alcohol getting involved and just saying something that clearly they did not actually mean. It was just from this place of, I've been so frustrated at how you're making me feel. So now I'm going to make you feel like you're going down. On a peg. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Boy. Because these things come out every, like, they are bound to come out. And she was bothered by it for so long. Started off small and then, like, just let it build to this point. It's like, well, if you drink, it's going to probably let loose. But man, that phrase was brutal. Chosen by our dad, but you weren't chosen by your first dad, huh? It's like, oof. Yeah, that's a. You don't have to do that. And I'm like, come on. Like, like, all you had to do is be like, dude, I'm sick and tired of you saying you're the chosen. Stop. Stop. Stop doing. Please. Like, we're all siblings. Like, say that. Say what, how it makes you feel. Right. Don't throw like that. Shoot them in the head. You have new partners there, too. Just sitting there like. Yeah. You're bringing your family BS into the setting with these new partners. Yeah. It also feels like, I think the most tragic part of it, too, is, you know, if Penny had this sort of, like, secret, I guess. Or this was, like, a trauma. Trauma that wasn't something that they were aware of, that they had, you know, triggered or had tapped into. That would be one thing. But this is something that they know. They already know that this very, very hard thing happened to her. And they sort of, and this person used it to hurt her in that moment. Yeah. That's, that's really heartbreaking. It's something she can't help, you know. Exactly. The verdict is asshole, but there's a lot of comments saying everyone sucks here and not the asshole. So it's a bit all over. It's a bit all over. Comments. Jesus fucking Christ. Yeah, obviously you're the asshole. Penny's joke might be annoying, but it's obvious she's overcompensating because being abandoned would cause such a big insecurity. If you had a legitimate issue, you could have discussed it privately, not drop a nuke in the middle of a family dinner. For real. 19,000 upvotes. Yeah. Someone said, everyone sucks here. What Penny has been throwing around for years is annoying and childish, and it likely stems from insecurity. Someone should have addressed this with her long ago, namely your parents. What you said was rude and alone. A low blow. Penny can't help that her bio dad didn't stick around, and that isn't her fault. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we can argue about what makes someone, what's a worse thing and what's like, what counts as obnoxious and what counts as rude and whatever. It's like, the end of the day, they have shit they got to talk about. Right. It's like. Not in front of their partners. Yeah. Not at Applebee's. Lastly, someone said, not the asshole. Sometimes siblings need to be blunt. Honestly, as someone with three younger siblings, if I ever said this, I'd expect them to be mad at me and say something, but for it to be constant, yeah, it had to be said. I don't know about that. What was said can range. Like, you could have said so many other things. Absolutely. But those words together, the no. No. I agree. Something can be said in a better place, in a better time. Yes. And the phrasing can be so much better. Totally. Totally. That kind of mature conversation also, I understand that. That siblings can have, like, talks that maybe parent to sibling, or parent to child maybe doesn't have the space for, but it has to be, again, incredibly intimate and delicate when you're dealing with these very real traumas. Yeah. You need to almost be trained. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, that's therapy that's needed there. It also makes me think there's, I am someone who very personally disagrees with this desire for people to be able to talk to each other. For people to, like, dunk on other people. It's like, oh, well, I hate you. You're annoying, all this stuff. So, I'm, what's the thing I can say that's just a fucking, like, slam? Right. And it's like, yeah, you're humiliating them. You got it. You won. Congrats. Did it help anything? No. Do you think it's going to help them? Do you think it's going to help you? Or is it just going to make everything worse? Because, like, I see it so much online of just, like, yeah, you fucking got them. And it's like, and now somehow things are worse. Like, the rift is bigger. Like, congrats. You feel cool. But that's all it is. Yeah, we've talked about this pattern, too, right? In lots of Reddit stories, it's like, initially, that's why we get everyone sucks, is initially somebody is doing the annoying, frustrating, bad thing, but then somebody else tops it somehow. Or they think because they've been annoying or frustrating or bad, they have now a pass to be bad. Right. To be badder. Yeah, and I just personally disagree with that. I'm like, you know, yes, you're annoyed by something. allowed to address that, but go about it in a way that's going to - Yeah. - Exactly. - Try and leave the situation better than you saw. - Totally. - Totally. - You love watching Smosh, I love being in Smosh, which is why Smosh partnered with Samsung TV+. Hi, you know me, I'm Tommy, a cast member here at Smosh, and I've got good news. Samsung TV+ has live TV channels and on-demand movies and shows, and now we're a part of it. Curious on how to watch Smosh? Well, if you've got a Samsung device, then you already have it. Just open the Samsung TV+ app and start watching. We've got your favorite episodes from "Culture" and we've got episodes from "Culinary Crimes," "Reddit Stories," "Bit City," "Smosh Mouth," and more. And now you can hang out with us all hours of the day. Check out Smosh for free on Samsung TV+. - All right, our final story. Today I fucked up by introducing my widower dad to my husband's single mom. - Ooh, we're-- - And it's Christmas time. - Oh. - And we live in this sweet little town. - And we're going to Applebee's. - And he's a prince. - Uh-oh. - And unfortunately, it sounds like he's daddy. - Oh. - Oh, we need some photos to confirm that. - Okay. Obligatory didn't happen today. My husband and I have been married for five and a half years now. My husband was raised by a single mom and my mom passed when I was 16, so each of us only had one parent at the wedding. Our parents met during the wedding planning and quickly discovered how much they had in common and how well they got along. After a few too many glasses of wine, they danced together at the wedding reception. We noticed a little bit of flirtation between them, but didn't think much of it until they started seeing each other regularly after the wedding, going out together for drinks, going on walks together, going fishing together, even though it was a little weird for us that our parents were ambiguously and later officially dating each other. We truly didn't care because they just seemed so happy. Yesterday, my husband walked his mom down the aisle to meet my dad at the altar. My husband's mom and my dad said their vows and became husband and wife. - What? - And then my dad and I became step-siblings. - What? - You're kidding. You're kidding. - But also, one over? - Yes. - I guess. - It's so funny 'cause like talk about tradition, it's like, oh, this just all the legal parameters of this is that it's like weird. It's also-- - It's just, but it's also sweet, but it's also odd. It's just odd. It's just odd. - It's just a thing. - It's a thing. - It's just odd. - We gotta sit here and deal with it. - Holy shit. - I'm so glad OP is cool with it. - Yeah, they're like LOL-er. - Yeah, they want their parents to be happy. - I'm glad they're LOL-ing through this. - Exactly. - Oh my God. - That's, wow. - That's a reality show. - The priest is like, I don't know what God thinks of this, but hey. - Hey. - That's crazy. - That's wild. - Would you call your-- - Your wife's dad, - Daddy? - Daddy? No. No, you, no, no, would you call him dad? - I don't think you have to. - You don't have to change anything. - I think they get to make their own new thing. - Yeah. - Oh, yeah, yeah, 'cause this is-- - Hey guys, this is a brand new thing. - This is a brand new thing. You can do whatever you want now. - This is a whole new thing. - The world is changing. - Wow. - Wow. - You know, there's no, like, blood in the mix. - There's no blood in the mix. - It's just, it's just spite. - It is, it just is what it is. - And love is love. - Love is love. - Hey, love is love. It all just is what it is. - I mean. - That's the only response I have. - The only take on this. - I would have loved to go to that wedding. - So we got some comments. On the bright side, it definitely simplifies whose family they see for the holidays. - Nice. - Someone said-- - That's some glass half full. - Got it, got it. Someone said, "You think this is awkward? "Just wait until they announce they're expecting "your little brother/sister." - Right. - Okay. - I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. - Okay, so OP said, "My husband has been jokingly "calling me step-sis since the wedding." Now, that-- - Which is my favorite nickname. - Someone said, "Family tree becomes an oval." - Right, that's what I was, that's what I, yeah. - That's wild. - Wow. - Is there an update? - There's no update on that. - Updates this entire episode? I'm sorry, I'm yelling at you like you didn't choose. - I don't choose 'em. - Damn. - Wow, these ones were good. - This was quite a fun batch. - These were good. - We're all still in shock at that, like, huh. - Huh. - These are, we read, like, being full disclosure, we read a lot of stories today where I'm like, man, I'm like thinking about it, and I'm like, I don't know if I'll agree with everything I feel about it when I rewatch this episode. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. - You know, 'cause I'm just like, oh, like, there's so much to think about. - I was just thinking that with the last story, actually. Like, I feel like it was almost an easy response from all of us because everybody was happy. It didn't feel like we necessarily needed to resolve anything. - Yeah. - It was just like, this is what's happening, and we've all been supportive, and so we are kind of naturally like, good, if everybody's happy. - Right. - But what if it was presented more as like, what do we do, do we let this wedding happen? - What inevitably happens with every episode of this show is I will see a comment that points out just a sentence that I kind of didn't pay attention to, or they'll just be like, well, think about this aspect, and I'm like, oh, that changes my entire view of the whole thing. - Absolutely. - So I don't really, these are my initial thoughts, but-- - We're responding in the moment with cameras. We're trying our best to say what we think and feel, and oh, so many times I wish I could've retaken a take. Not that I would, just how I say it. - Sure, sure. - Kind of like how that person told Penny. - Yeah. - It's like, you could say it better. - Yes. - Or differently. - Yeah. - Yeah. - But I don't have the time to do that. - Well, luckily our instincts, I think, are a little bit better than Penny's sibling. - Yeah, I think we're doing good. - I think so. - Yeah. - Well, thank you both for being here. This was so much fun. - We're family. - Yeah, we're family. - Family. - Family. - Family. - Family. - Thank you for watching. Let us know your thoughts on all of these stories down below, and let us know what other themes and subreddits you want us to cover on this show, and we'll see you next Saturday. Goodbye. - Bye, fam. - Ba-bly. - Bye, fam. - Bye, daddy. - Ba-bly. - Whoa, did you like that? Did you like that?