anything goes with emma chamberlain - pet peeves #2

Episode Date: March 3, 2022

i had a lot of pet peeves last time we did one of these, i have a lot more now, and tbh i still have more after this episode but we’ll save those for another time. we all have pet peeves, i probably have more than most, like all the annoying things people do, the foods that make me absolutely gag, and how annoying is captcha? sorry apple watch people you don’t get a pass here either. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello. Hello. It is early in the morning when I'm recording this. It's like nine in the morning. And listen, test, sorry, I just test my microphone to make sure it was recording because every once in a while I will start recording and think everything's fine and then everything won't be fine and I won't know it until I'm done recording my entire episode and then my entire episode is gone. That's happened to me multiple times and I kid you not every time it happens. I'm so traumatized. Anyway, so my drink of the day is a cold brew.

Again, I'm having a classic day. I need something reliable. I'm also staying in an Airbnb right now because I'm moving houses, I'm moving right now, and I had to stay in an Airbnb for a few days. I feel very discombobulated, if you will. Moving is possibly one of the worst things on the planet. I don't know what it is about moving, but every single time I move, I am beside

myself stressed out. I mean, just a mess. I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's like emotionally jarring because you know, you're moving from one place that you called home to another, and that's kind of emotionally jarring, or if it's just the mere fact that you have to move 50 plus boxes from one place to another and without losing one, and that's jarring. I don't know, I don't know what about moving is so terrible, but every time I move, I'm in emotional wreck. So far, during this move, I've been fine,

but there's just like no promises about tomorrow. Like how am I going to be doing tomorrow? I cannot promise it's going to be okay, which is why we're recording at 9 a.m. this morning because I want to catch myself in a good mood and in a stable mood before I start moving things for the day today, and before my mood turns sour. So yeah, so that's kind of what's going on in my life. In today's episode, I'm talking about pet peeves. I've done this before. I didn't talking about pet peeves. I've done this before.

I didn't episode about pet peeves before probably a year ago or so, where I just literally told you all the things that have been bugging me. And that's what I'm doing again today, because I have a running list on my phone of things that bug me. And every, like every time something bugs me, I write it down. Would I do that if I didn't have a podcast? No. But I do do it.

And so I have been, you know, adding to this list of pet peeves for quite a while now, and I think it's time to share it. It's gone to that point. It's long. It's a long list. And so we're just going to be going through it today discussing. And we'll probably gain nothing from this. I don't think you gain anything from complaining usually.

I don't care. I'm not in this for gain. I just need to vent to somebody. So that's what we're doing today. Let me pull up my list. OK. OK. doing today. Let me pull up my list. Okay. Okay. My first pet peeve is Apple Watches. Now, let me give you a little breakdown. Okay. So, when Apple Watches were all the rage, I went against the grain and I didn't get one. Why?

Because I never buy things or watch things or listen to things or look into things when the whole world is obsessed with something. I, for some weird reason, just have no interest in things that are very popular at any given moment. I think the reason for that is that I don't like participating in those conversations. For example, when everybody was watching you for ya and that was all the rage, the first season anyway, I didn't watch it because I was like,

I don't have the energy to put up with all of these different conversations about this TV show, I'm gonna wait till the hype dies down and then I'm gonna enjoy it on my own time. Listen, there's really no valid reasoning for why I do this. It's just like a mental block. I don't get it, but when everybody's doing something, watching something, obsessing over something,

it's very rare that I participate. The only time I did was when the show Tiger King came, sorry, I still have spit in my throat from when I was sleeping because I just woke up and so now I'm choking on it. Anyway, the only time I did participate in hype, if you will, was when Tiger King, the docuseries came out on Netflix

in the beginning of quarantine. And that was too interesting to me for me to pass up. So I did watch it, I did participate in the craze. And it was fun. So I don't know why I have this mental block about participating in the craze of humanity. But I tend to avoid them for some reason, and then I'll hop on later when everybody's over it.

I did the same thing with TikTok. Like when TikTok first started and everybody was getting into it, I refused to download it. I was like, no, I don't know, I don't want to. I don't want it, I know. That's what everybody else is doing it. I don't want to do it.

I'll let everyone else handle this one. They can all take this one. I'm not doing it. I don't want to be a part of this conversation. I'm not interested. And then I't want to be a part of this conversation. I'm not interested. And then I downloaded it once the hype kind of died down a little bit. And yeah, this is just a reoccurring theme in my life. Anyway, the same thing happened with Apple Watches.

Everybody started buying them. I was seeing them on everybody's wrists. And I was like, this is not a hype that's worth participating in for me. I am going to avoid it at all costs. The biggest deterrent for me from buying an Apple Watch was their appearance. I just can't with how they look. They just don't look good.

They look dorky. And listen, if you were an Apple Watch, I'm not saying you're a dork, I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying that on me, I feel like it would look dorky, you know? I feel like it would make me look like a camp counselor. I feel like it would turn any serve of an outfit

into a serve of an outfit with one fatal flaw, being the Apple Watch. I just felt like it wasn't going to align properly with my life, you know. And so I avoided it at all costs and I did not get one. And then I started seeing people talk about how, you know, their Apple Watch are like ruling their life and they're obsessed with how many steps they're getting every day and how much they're moving every day because on the Apple Watch, there's an app that tracks how much you exercise, how much you walk,

how much you lay down, et cetera, and people were becoming obsessed with that and trying to reach certain goals through that app. And I was like, that's two meta for me. That's two, like, that's two robot for me. I'm not, no. The last thing I need is another thing to obsess about. So there's another deterrent.

Anyway, I don't know what ended up happening to me, but I caved. I caved about a month ago and I got an Apple watch. I think why I decided to get it was because I had this fantasy about going on hikes and runs on outdoor trails one day. Because I tend to run or work out exercise in a gym because it's just safer and easier. But I had this fantasy one day about taking my workout outside, moving forward.

I was like, maybe I should start working out outside. I think that would make me happy. So I had this fantasy and the biggest reason I don't like running outdoors is because I hate holding my phone the whole time. Like when you're on a treadmill, you can put your phone down. But when you're running in nature,

you have to carry your phone or put it in one of those uncomfortable arms straps and I was like, ew, like I know. So that's why I rarely exercise outdoors. So I was like, maybe I get an Apple watch and if there's an emergency, I have a mini little iPhone on my wrist and you know, all will be fine.

Anyway, I got the Apple watch. By the time it came in the mail, I already had kind of gotten over the fantasy of running outdoors. But I was like, you know what? I'm just trying to make the most of this anyway. So for the first week that I got it, I wore it pretty much 90% of the time, except for when I was you know going out to dinner or something and wanted to look cute. But this shit was so annoying. It was constantly dinging at me like, oh, you reached your step goal for the day. Or, you know, oh, you just got a new text message. And I was like, all right, well, that's annoying.

Like, I don't want this thing to be screaming at me and vibrating on my wrist all day. Like, that's not what I want. So I started turning off all the notifications. That helped a little bit. But then at that point, I was like, okay, so I'm wearing this Apple watch, but I'm also carrying my phone. So I'm never even going on the watch.

The only thing that the watch is doing is tracking my activity, but to be quite honest, I don't give a fuck about my activity. Like, bitch, sometimes I want to lay in bed all day, sometimes I want to literally walk 40,000 steps. It doesn't, but I don't care. Okay, I don't care. So I kind of came to this realization

that it was serving absolutely no purpose for me. I am saving it for if I ever get another urge to run outdoors for some reason. But otherwise, the Apple Watch is not, it's a pet peeve to me because I think it's so unnecessary. And I think it's annoying. I think it's an annoying product. It's dinging on my wrist all the time.

I'm annoyed by it. I don't like it. It's a burden in my life. So Apple Watch, that's not, that is a pet peeve. And I also get pet peeves when people are wearing them and they're constantly checking them every 30 seconds while I'm trying to have a conversation. This has happened frequently to me.

People have Apple Watches. Don't know how to make eye contact with you anymore. They're just looking at the Apple Watch 24-7, checking their different stats and messages and shit. Uh-uh, not for me. I'm rejecting the robot world, okay? I'm rejecting AI, okay, and? I'm rejecting AI, okay? And I'm not getting the Apple watch.

I draw the line at my phone and my iPad. I will say my iPad is amazing, but that's pretty much like a mini laptop. So like everybody fucking relax, moving on. Next pet peeve is when somebody tries to start a conversation with you when you're holding a bunch of bags or something, like you're clearly on the move,

you're clearly on a mission, and then somebody starts a conversation with you. This blows my mind every time it happens to me. And it happened to me the other day, and listen, this is no hate to the person that I got into a conversation with. They're a great person, but listen, I'll pay you in a picture for you. I just got home from Whole Foods.

I had a bunch of bags. I also had a bunch of bags of clothes in my car because I had a fitting that day as well. So I had a bunch of shit that I had to take inside. I put everything on my arms. I probably had six bags, it was heavy, it was uncomfortable. Opening my front door was going to be a project,

you know what I'm saying? Not good. As I'm walking into my front gate, one of my neighbors starts talking to me and I was like, okay, you know, whatever. So I talked to them for about a minute. And at that point, I'm like, all right, I gotta go. Like my arms are about to crack off.

Like this is not, like I'm trying to play it cool here, but I'm not cool. You know, and he can see that I'm carrying this heavy shit. So he should know that I need to go, right? But no, oh no, that is not how it happened. I ended up putting a few of the bags on the floor because I was like, okay, I can't just rudely be like, I gotta go, bye, man, you know what I mean?

I can't do that. So I was like, all right, I'm gonna put some stuff on the floor. So I put some stuff on the floor. Okay, great, right? Everything should be fine now. He should get the message that I'm putting effort into making myself more comfortable so that we can continue the conversation,

which should be kind of like a sign to him that, you know, we need to wrap it up because I'm now having to put bags down on the floor. That should be a sign that like this conversation is seriously inconveniencing me and it should be had at another time and at a later date. No, not the case. He kept going. I get it, you know, human connection is far and few between in person these days. I love a good convo, just as much as the next guy, but not when I'm carrying six bags, okay, not then, not then.

So, about 15 minutes goes by, we have a 15 minute conversation, by the end of the conversation, all of my bags are on the floor. And this dude just did not want to stop. He did not want to stop. He wanted to keep going. And I felt bad because it's not like we were having a bad conversation, but it's just like, I need to bring in my groceries.

I have frozen goods. Everything's like 70 pounds that I'm carrying. Can we please just wrap it up, babe? We gotta wrap it up, okay? Anyway, 15 minutes later I wrapped it up. I picked everything up off the ground, which for the record, picking things up off the ground is far more difficult than picking things up

from the seat of your car. Because if something's sitting on the seat of your car, it's already elevated, it's easy to pick up. Picking up all this shit from the ground was so difficult and this dude was watching me do it and I was just like, I couldn't have asked for a more uncomfortable situation. So the moral of this story is,

like, you know, if you see someone, they're clearly on the go, save the convo for later, okay? I don't have to worry about this because I can't remember the last time I voluntarily started a conversation with somebody ever. Like I never go out of my way to start a conversation with somebody

and I noticed this during this encounter that I had with my neighbor because I was like wow, he really just like walked up to me and just started talking. And I thought about myself and I was like, when was the last time I did that? Never.

I can't say I've ever done that. Unless I really wanted to be friends with somebody, and so I wanted to go and talk to them, or I had a crush on someone, and I really wanted to talk to them. That's the only time I can ever imagine going out of my way to start a combo, but usually it will happen in a social environment, like at a party, at an event, something like that, not outside of my home. So, the whole thing was, you know,

it was something else, and eventually I got inside, I unloaded my groceries. I was emotionally distraught. But that was that. Next pet peeve, what do we got? What do we got? Oh, okay, this is like obvious, but I wrote down people who are assholes but want to be friends. What the fuck? Okay, so this happened to me recently.

And again, I never, when I like use my real life examples in these episodes, I'm not slandering these people, okay? Like, they're probably great people. Maybe I just caught them on a bad day. Who knows? But regardless, you know, if I didn't use my own life experience

to talk about things on this podcast, I just wouldn't have a podcast. You know, you got to pull from somewhere. Anyway, so, and have a podcast, you know, you got to pull it from somewhere. Anyway, so recently, I'm gonna tell the story very vaguely, so just be patient with me. But here's what happens. So basically, I go to the same establishment, right, frequently. We'll call it a store because pretty much everything is a store.

I go to this store, establishment, place frequently. And so, when you go to places frequently, you start to know the people that work there. At pretty much every location that I go to on a daily basis, I've ended up making acquaintances at these places. You know, whether it's the people at the front desk or it's the cashiers or it's the, you know, chefs or it's the owner or whatever it may be. Like, I'm the type of person that will cling on to one place and just go there every day.

Like, I go to the same coffee shops. I go to the same grocery Like, I go to the same coffee shops, I go to the same grocery stores, I go to the same gas stations, I go to the same workout classes, I am a creature of habit. So I end up making friends with the people that work there. And at one of these locations, I started to become acquaintances

with one of the people that worked there. And at first it was fine. But then they started to be mean to me. Okay, like I kid you not mean to me. Like would be giving me like a really hard time every time I'd see them, like kind of just being rude to me. Like they would go out of their way to like come up to me

and then like start playfully bullying me. And I was like, and at first I was like, okay, maybe this is just their sense of humor, like whatever. But it got like to a point where I was like, this is a bummer. Like this is genuinely a bummer. And listen, I don't have thin skin. Like if somebody wants to pick on me and like joke around with me, I, most of the time I love it, I'm into it.

But there's like a line for me, even for me, being somebody who like, I'm the first one to pick on myself. So when other people like want to pick on me playfully, you know, I'm into it, like whatever, that's my sense of humor anyway. But when people take it too far and are just being like not funny, but still picking on you,

it's almost like they're not kidding. Or they just don't have, they don't have the delivery right. That's where I'm like, I don't know anymore. Like this is not funny for me anymore. So anyway, this started to happen with this person that worked at one of the places that I go frequently. And I was like, and it was becoming so abrasive. And but I was reflecting.

I was like, okay, does this person not like me? Is that why they're kind of bullying me? Every time I see them now, is that what's going on here? And then I was like, no, that can't be the case because they go out of their way to talk to me. So, you know, they must like me. And then I kind of came to the conclusion that I think that this person's way of making friends

is by kind of playing hard to get and by being kind of an asshole. And then, you know, this person thinks that if they're an asshole, that a friendship will bloom out of that. And I kind of understand the psyche behind it. It's like, if you're an asshole to somebody, that makes that person feel smaller than you, right?

When you're getting picked on by someone, you naturally just feel kind of like, you naturally surrender, unless you're somebody who's argumentative, which I'm not. And so, you end up surrendering. And then there's this power imbalance where we have a bully and like somebody who's just nice in trying to be compliant, right?

And then this person who's like the playful bully ends up having a leg up in every interaction, right? Because they establish themselves as a bully. And then they can kind of control you a little bit more. This all makes sense to me. After analyzing my interaction with this person, but that doesn't mean that it's not a pet peeve. Wow, it is a pet peeve. So, yeah, I hate that. People bullying to try to make friends.

It just, it makes no sense. And you know, at the end of the day, it's so unpleasant. And I think it's rooted in a little bit of insecurity. And for that, I have And, you know, at the end of the day, it's so unpleasant. And I think it's rooted in a little bit of insecurity. And for that, I have empathy. You know, I think it is rooted in a level of feeling like you need to be an asshole in order to make friends. That's sad. You know, I have empathy for that, but also, like, don't do that to me.

So that's another pet peeve. My next pet peeve is a pet peeve that I've had for so long. And I think it honestly, I think that this pet peeve made an appearance in my last episode where I talked about pet peeves, but I'm bringing it up again because this pet peeve reigns true. And it's when someone's eating something or I am eating something with like ranch or mayonnaise in it. And it's juicy. Whatever this thing is, it's juicy.

And then little, little droplets of mayo or ranch or whatever white substance is being consumed. Get stuck on the corners of people's mouths. This is a pet peeve of mine. Why is it a pet peeve? Because it makes me very nauseous. I have never liked white creamy, oh, cream cheese is another good example. I've never been a huge fan of white and creamy substances.

Like, that sounds so. Listen. Don't, you can totally take it to where your dirty mind is going. I'm not in the mood for that right now. Okay, so you can take it there. You can chuckle chuckle and think about other white creamy substances that you know about. Okay, you can do that. But I'm not doing it.

Okay, I'm not taking it there today. So sorry. Anyway, I've always been grossed out by like white and creamy foods. Okay, I'll give you some examples. Sour cream, cream cheese, ranch, mayo, Alfredo sauce. All of that is disgusting to me. Except for I will make an exception for cream cheese occasionally, because cream cheese is fucking good.

And I like, I can't help it. I have to make an exception for it, but all of the other ones are pretty much unforgivable for me. I mean, like, I hate, hate, ranch. And I hate mayo. As I'm getting older, I'm starting to like, open up my heart to these things, especially Mayo.

Ranch, no. Ranch is a no for me. I will never eat ranch. There's just, it's just never going to happen. I, I can't. It's so disgusting to me. I don't know why, but it's so gross to me. But like Mayo, I'm, I'm kind of, I kind of.

I'm starting to get it a little bit, especially because AOLI is so good. AOLI is like basically flavored mayo. It's like mayo with like mixed with another sauce. So there could be a pesto AOLI, there could be a sriracha AOLI, and it's basically just mayo mixed with pesto or sriracha, right?

Those are some of my favorite sauces when I go to a restaurant. Like when I'm at a restaurant and it says like, veggie burger with pesto AOLI, I'm like today's the best day of my favorite sauces when I go to a restaurant. Like when I'm at a restaurant and it says like, Vettie burger with Pesto Aoli, I'm like today's the best day of my life, you know what I'm saying? I love Aoli. There's something less gross about it.

I think it's because it's not just white. I think the color of it is something that grosses me out honestly more than the flavor or texture. It's the fact that it's like white creamy shit. It just grosses me out. I don't know, it just makes my stomach flip. I mean like Alfredo pasta, is it delicious? Yes, but for some reason it makes me want to vomit

when I look at it and I don't understand why. It's just repulsive to me. So when people are eating and then they get little pieces of any white creamy food in the corners of their mouth, I get this guttural reaction. Like I literally feel like I'm going to project hell vomit and I don't feel like that about a lot of things. I tend to have a very strong stomach and I don't get grossed out by much, but that grosses me out. And my pet peeves is when someone has that on their face.

And I'm not close enough with them to tell them that it's there. You know, it might be a business associate. It might be a teacher. It might be a friend of a friend. Somebody you can't be honest with yet. I hate it because I'm like, I can't look at you. I can't look at you right now, because you got some built up Alfredo sauce in the corners of your mouth. And I literally,

if I look at them, I will start dry heaving. So I cannot look at your face while we talk. Oh, suddenly I need to look through my purse right now in order to avoid eye contact. Stuff like that starts happening. I can't handle it. And when I'm eating something like with cream cheese, for example, because that's pretty much the only white creamy food that I eat. When I'm eating something like cream cheese, I will literally be pulling out my phone camera every 30 seconds, checking the corners of my mouth

to make sure that I don't have anything going on. That's just me doing my due diligence. Do I expect everybody else to do that? No. Do I wish everybody would? Yes. But hey, we're all on our own journey. We can all hope and pray that one day everybody will learn to periodically lick the corners

of their mouth when eating white creamy foods. We can pray for that day, right? We can. We can pray all day for that day to come. But will it? I don't know. I don't know. Okay.

My next pet peeve is when I feel like I mentioned this one in my last pet peeve episode, and if I did, I'm so sorry, but I just need to bring it up again. When YouTubers or podcasters mention that their nose is stuffed up, okay, like here's, here's, let me pay you another picture for you. Okay, a YouTuber or a podcaster will press record. And it'll be like,

I'm so sorry you guys. If you can hear my nose, it's stuffed up. Ignore it, right? Telling their audience to ignore it. I've done this. Okay, I've done this. And what's even worse is that sometimes I'll start recording and I'll notice that my nose is kind of stuffed up

and so I'll mention it. And then I have to tell my editor to cut that out. I'm like, hey, editor, can you please cut out me saying that my nose is clogged up? Because here's the thing, nobody cares. Nobody's going to notice that your nose is stuffed up unless you bring it up. And if they do notice, they're gonna think about it

for a split second and then move on. Nobody cares that much, okay? So there's really no reason to bring it up. It's so weirdly rooted in borderline narcissism to think that people care enough about what your voice sounds like to be genuinely disturbed by the fact that your nose is clogged. Like the psychology of thinking

that other people care that much about you is wrong. People don't care. I've never clicked on a video and heard somebody's nose be clogged a little bit or maybe they have allergies or maybe they have a cold. I've never like, I don't care. Like I could not care less that they have seasonal allergies. I couldn't care. Like I could not care less

that they have seasonal allergies. I couldn't. Now listen, this is not to say that I'm not guilty of this. I am guilty of this. I've done this before. I've mentioned that my throat is scratchy or that my nose is clogged or that I'm coming down with a little cold. I've mentioned this stuff. I've been like, I'm so sorry if it's annoying.

Even right now, my nose is a little bit clogged because I have allergies. But you know what? You probably didn't even think about it because they didn't mention it. And if you did think about it, you probably thought about it for 0.7 seconds, max. And then you moved on and thought about other things

that are more important and deserve your time and focus. I just think it's so funny. When people are like, oh my God, you guys, I'm so sorry that my nose is clogged. You know, my voice sounds so weird right now. I'm so sorry, no one cares. And this is, listen, the only reason why I'm being so ruthlessly judgmental about this one

is because I've done it myself. So I feel like it's fine that I'm judging it because like again, I've done it. I've been that girl. So I'm allowed to be super ruthless about it. But yeah, like YouTubers, podcasters everywhere, listen up, we don't need to be doing that. We don't need to be mentioning our clogged up noses. Okay, nobody cares. Okay, my next pet peeve is capture.

Okay, do you know what capture is? Maybe not. Capture is like, wait, let me Google it. Okay, a capture is a type of challenge response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. So you've probably experienced a capture test before. I'll give you an example. You're going on a website and all of a sudden it says, select all of the images that have a traffic light in it and then you have to select all of them, and then you say submit.

And then the website basically determines whether or not you're a robot scamming the internet or if you're a real human using the internet. So these weren't a pet peeve for me until recently. Because up until recently, I would only have to do these tests to you know, to prove that I'm not a robot on the internet. I don't know, maybe once or twice a week, like it wasn't frequently that I'd have to do

these. And so it wasn't really a big deal and I never minded doing it because listen, I understand robots are on the come-up right now. They're running rampant around. That's not true. So I don't want to, I'm not going to, I was about to say that robots are running rampant around America, but I really don't think that we need anymore false scares in this world anymore. So I'm not, or any scares at all, not even, I'm not going to, I'm not about to start a fucking

national security rumor. Okay. I'm just not in the mood for that. So anyway, I'm not gonna, I'm not about to start a fucking national security rumor, okay? I'm just not in the mood for that. So anyway, there are not robots running rampant around America, but, you know, I understand that, like it's necessary to use these capture tests. I totally understand it. But recently, every time I Google something on my phone,

I kid you not, every single time. I have to take one of these tests. And it just, it makes me not even want to use the internet anymore because I'm like, every time I pull up Google on my phone to do anything, I have to take one of these capture tests. And the problem is, is that it's not just an easy one. It's not just like, oh, select all of the photos

that have a traffic light on it. It makes me take like three of these tests. So I'll do like, I'll select all the images with the traffic light in it. And then it'll be like, okay, type out this phrase. So then I have to type out a phrase that it wants me to type out, incend it. And then it's like, how many red dots are in this photo?

And then I have to count the red dots. And I'm like, I just wanted to Google where the nearest gas station was. And now it's taking me 45 minutes to take all of these capture tests. It feels like I'm playing an iPhone game in 2010, right? Like while I'm just trying to Google something, I don't understand why it thinks I'm a robot. I think it's because I excessively online shop.

And so it just thinks that I'm a robot. I don't know. I don't know, but I'm really, I'm not feeling it. I'm not feeling it. I'm just trying to Google things. Okay. I don't know how to prevent this, but it's definitely getting in the way of my wellbeing.

And I hate it. Okay, next pet peeve is when a massage therapist talks to you. This is very specific, but let me explain. So I recently wanted to get a massage because my muscles were so sore and I'm not the type to go and like get myself a massage. The most luxurious activity I'll do is get my nails done. But even when I get my nails done, I just get the basic package where I just get my nails done

and I don't get any of the added stuff. I don't get a massage or a sugar scrub on my legs or a callus removal on my feet. I don't do all that stuff. When I get my nails done or I get my toes done, like I'm just going in and I'm doing bare minimum. It's sometimes, sometimes. Once in a blue moon, I'll be like,

you know what, I'm bored today. I'm gonna get like a massage or something, but it's very rare. So I'm not somebody that likes to do this stuff, but I was so sore, I was like, I need relief because my muscles are so tense, and it's so painful and uncomfortable for me, like I can't sleep, blah, blah, blah,

I need to get a massage. And so I booked myself a massage, and I was so excited because I was like, this is gonna be such a relaxing experience. This is gonna be so nice. Like I'm just gonna lay down and this person's gonna massage me and it's gonna be great. Okay, well, the first problem was,

I didn't realize that I had a male masseuse. So listen, I'm not saying, like there's some, I wish that that didn't make me uncomfortable, but it does. Okay. I just don't feel like I can fully relax I wish that that didn't make me uncomfortable, but it does. I just don't feel like I can fully relax when I'm half naked with a stranger who's a guy. I'm sorry, I just can't.

But that was the case with this massage. I apparently booked a male masseuse which is without knowing. I got there, I was like, fuck, I don't, this is not gonna be relaxing for me. But I was like, you know what, it's fine, we're all human. I can just hope that this dude's not a creep. And I'll just leave on as much clothes as I possibly can't.

So whatever, so I'm going into this already kind of upset, right? But I needed this massage. And so I was like, you know what, I'm going to persevere. I considered canceling it, but I was like, I'm just going to persevere. Okay. I get into the room, the massage begins. And immediately this dude starts talking to me. And I'm like, I am here for a relaxing experience. Like, why are you talking to me? And I thought maybe you just wanted to like talk to me for a second to make me feel comfortable.

And like, so he wasn't a complete stranger before he just like went in like literally like touched my entire body, right? You know what I mean? Like maybe he was just being polite. So I was like, okay, you know, I'll give him the benefit of that. Like maybe he's just being polite.

No, he talked to me about the most random shit for the entire 45-minute massage. He talked to me about cars. He talked to me about his dating life. I was like, dude, dude, dude. No, no. You're supposed to be my massage therapist. Okay, keyword therapist.

This is supposed to be therapeutic. Now I'm having to talk to you about this Honda sports car that you're trying to like build up, dude. And I'm paying for this. So like in my head, I'm like, I just paid, you know, 50 bucks, I guess 50 bucks for a massage is not a lot. So maybe that was my problem. I don't know, I don't know how much people pay for a massage.

They can be really expensive. But I was like, I don't think I'm gonna, I don't need to pay. Like I just need a massage. It doesn't need to be fancy, whatever. Maybe I needed to, maybe I needed to pitch in another 30 bucks for a silent treatment, because that was just, it was brutal.

And then he's talking to me about his ex-girlfriend. I'm like, that's when I was like, this is fucking out of control. Like, this is the least therapeutic experience I've ever had. I'm paying for it also. I felt like this dude should have paid me. You know what I mean? For the advice that I gave him, I was like, meanwhile, during a massage, I'm happy to give advice

to a fucking stranger in the middle of the street at nine in the morning. You know, when I'm on my way to get my morning coffee, I'm down to do that. Okay. I'm okay with that. But not when I'm getting a goddamn massage. not when I'm getting a god damn massage. Not when I'm getting a god damn massage. Please, that is the one time I beg for silence. Otherwise, I'll give you advice all day. I'll talk to you all day. I don't care.

Not when I'm getting a fucking massage. Okay, so that experience was traumatizing. I cannot, I don't even want to get a massage ever again. The fact that he talked to me the whole time was so upsetting. It made the experience literally painful for me. I was like tensed up the whole time. I feel like I didn't even work out any of the knots in my muscles. Also my face was pressed down into the massage bed.

So I'm like trying to talk with my face like I'll press up in this Massage bed and I'm like I can't even fucking properly communicate with you dude. This is clearly not inexperience that Promotes talking so why are we talking? That was traumatizing. I hated it. I'm literally getting angry just talking about it next My next pet peeve is velvet hangers. Okay so talking about it. Next, my next pet peeve is velvet hangers. Okay. So I used to be an avid user of plastic hangers, like my whole life. My whole life I've used basic plastic hangers. And I loved them. But when I moved into the last home that I lived in, that I'm now moving out of,

I know, I move a lot, it's very annoying. When I moved into the last place that I lived in, we switched all my hangers over to velvet hangers, because they're pretty and they take up less space, blah, blah, blah. I should have tested out velvet hangers before I switched my entire closet over to them because getting clothes on and off of a velvet hanger is literally near and possible. Okay? Trying to get a long sleeve shirt or a hoodie or a sweater onto one of

these velvet hangers is literally a two-minute challenge. Because they're velvet, they don't glide with fabric. So like, you can't just stick one of the sides of the hanger into the neck of a piece of clothing and glide it in and then slip the other side in and then have your clothing piece be on the hanger. You have to feed the hanger from the bottom of the clothing piece and then nudge it through until the piece is properly on the hanger. It's impossible to get stuff on and off of these hangers because they're not slippery. They're like, they

stick to stuff. You know, there's friction. They're so inconvenient. It is unbelievable. I literally, and I lived with these for a year. I'm switching them out now. I'm donating them because there's definitely someone out there that could use them in a better way. But that person is not me. So I'm donating them, and I'm happy to do it because I hate them. They're better for storing jackets and stuff. You know, like, and that's great,

but I live in California, I have like no jackets, okay. I'm getting in the fuck rid of these. If you are ever like, oh, I wanna make my closet super aesthetic. Don't get velvet hangers. Do anything but that. Get pretty plastic hangers. Plastic hangers are the best, even metal hangers, but I even have an issue with metal hangers. Do anything but that. Get pretty plastic hangers. Plastic hangers are the best. Even metal hangers, but I even have an issue with metal hangers because they get caught

on each other. And it's annoying. The only hangers that are really fully functional are plastic hangers. Period. Velvet hangers are a fucking scam. They look pretty, but that is it. Okay, that is it. They're not functional. And I wish somebody would have told me that before I bought, you know, 200 of them, okay, sucks. Okay, my next pet peeve is that American produce has no flavor. I notice this because I go to Paris a few times a year for Fashion Week. And every time I'm there, I'm blown away by how flavorful everything is. And I always talk about this.

I'm like, why is everything so flavorful here? Even in, it doesn't matter where you go. It doesn't matter. And because people got mad at me, they were like, Emma, it's because you ate, you were eating at a fancy restaurant. Of course your food tastes good. No, no.

Because I bought produce from a gas station, or like not a gas station, but a corner store, like a liquor store in Paris. And the produce there was incredible, okay? The I bought fruit there as a snack. Delicious, okay? So I don't want anyone to come at me and say, it's because you were eating at a nice restaurant. That's why you think that. That's not true.

Because I've eaten at all different, I've eaten at fancy restaurants, quick little cafes. I've picked up produce at a corner store, liquor store. I've eaten at quick places that are like grab and go. I've eaten at all different types of places in Paris. And everywhere I go, the food has more flavor, the produce has more flavor. And I was arguing this to people because some people were like, no, like that's, it's just whatever. I'm right because I found an article and let me read it to you.

Okay, this is an article by Catherine Martinko for Treehugger, the website, and the article is called Why Doesn't American Produce Taste As Good as Europe's? So this article says, it turns out that there's nothing different about the soil in North America.

We have the ability to grow produce that is just as delicious as what's in Europe. It's just that we choose not to. It just all comes down to differences in culture and preference. In Italy, France and other parts of Europe taste rain supreme. It's the most important factor in growing and selling produce. Growers in North America on the other hand have responded to decades of pressure to grow bigger, heavier, and uniform fruits and veggies. Customers want their produce all year round, even if it's out of season and they want to pay

minimal price. So there it is. That is why the produce in America sometimes slacks. And listen, there's ways around it. I've found ways around it. You know, it's like this is such a fucking stupid thing to complain about. But you know, there are ways around it. You know, you can buy seasonal stuff. I tend to only buy certain fruits when they're in season, et cetera. There's ways around it.

I only like to buy strawberries mainly during the summer. I'll buy them sometimes not during the summer, but they're just not good. They're simply not good. I like to buy citrus fruits, oranges and stuff like that during the winter because they're in season. I like to buy tomatoes in the winter because they're in season and they're really good. No matter where you buy them, right? They're normally 10 times better. So, like, there's ways around it, but it's just, I just, but even then, for some reason, even if I buy seasonally here, they're not necessarily as good as Europe. And I was so convinced of it. But my pet

peave is that I wish that I wish that that wasn't the case, okay? Because I think a lot of people don't, especially people who grew up in America and live in America and whatever, they have not necessarily, like, there's a lot of people that don't like for its immeasurable, so much, especially in America. And I think that's because a lot of the produce here is shitty, you know, it's not good, it's flavorless. Like you buy a big tomato, right? In America, it's not good, it's not good.

It's gonna taste like fucking air, you know, it doesn't taste good. Whereas you go to Italy and you get a tomato for fucking 10 cents at a corner store. It's gonna, it's delicious. It's delicious and it's the same price, but it's just they're more intentional about how they sell their produce

and everything is so much more and grow it, right? And it's so much higher quality and it doesn't even necessarily affect the price. I mean, there might be a difference, but I wouldn't say it's too large, you know? Maybe it is, I don't know, I'm not fully educated on that. So please take this information with a grain of salt, you know, there might be an issue, right?

With that that I'm unaware of, but as far as I know, it just, and as far as I've experienced, like it just comes down to wanting to produce, produce, produce. But then, you know, it's sad because a lot of Americans are like not excited about produce, but it can be so good if it's done right.

It can be so fucking good if it's done right. But that's why going to places like local farmers markets and stuff like that is the best bet because you know everything there is grown to be delicious and it's grown on a smaller, more different better scale. And you can get quite a crazy bang for your buck at the farmers market. Like I spend less money at the farmer's market than I do if I go to the grocery store because you can buy and bulk more. So I don't know, there's ways around it,

but it is annoying. Moving on. My next pet peeve is just tampons in general. Okay, I'm so sick of tampons. So many annoying tampon-related things that happened to me recently. Number one, I ran out, I ran out, right? And so I ordered two boxes of tampons online,

because I was like, I didn't have time to go to the store and pick them up. So I was like, I'm just gonna overnight them to my house. So I did. Now that I think about it, I probably did have time to go pick them up if I wanted, but I just wanted to believe that I didn't. So that's just let me live in my own fantasy here. I opened up the box of tampons and they're all cardboard tampons. Putting a cardboard tampon in

is one of the most upsetting experiences a woman will experience in her lifetime. Besides childbirth and getting cheated on possibly, I mean, there's a lot of options. But putting in a cardboard tampon is up there. Okay, it is fucking up there. It is awful. I can't believe that they still exist. They're so outdated.

You know, they're so outdated. A cardboard tampon is like, I mean, putting paper in, it doesn't make sense. Again, it's a similar concept to the velvet hanger, not working with your clothes, whereas the plastic hanger working great with your clothes. It's a similar concept with tampons.

A plastic tampon is easy. It's easy. It's like pop. A plastic tampon is easy. It's easy. It's like pop and it's in there. Okay. A paper tampon, there's friction. There's friction. It's not good. It's not a good creation.

It's not a good, it's not. I can't believe that they still exist. And on top of that, I'm sick of tampon strings. Like, I went on of tampons strings. Like I went on a vacation to Hawaii relatively recently. And of course, the day I get there, I get my period. And I was like, well, the last thing you want to happen is to get your period on a tropical vacation.

Because on a tropical vacation, you want to feel free. But I was determined not to let this get in my way. And so I was wearing, you know, and I, my, my, I need to wear tampons. Okay. I can't just like, I can't just like, it's a necessity for me because I'm not somebody who has like a light period. Okay. So in Hawaii, you know, the best thing you can do is go in the ocean. I mean, that's like the best part, right? At least in my opinion. And so, I'm like swimming in the ocean every 20 minutes with my tampon in. And the waves on the island that I was visiting were pretty rough. I mean, like the current in the whatever in Hawaii in the area that I was, it was pretty strong.

You know, like I was getting beat up, like beat up. Like I was being tumbled, like it was like the waves were big, you know, I was having to dive under the waves. I mean, it was kind of a lot, you know? And so every time I'd get out of the water, like my fucking tampon string was everywhere, everywhere, but where it should have been. And my question is, like,

how can we make tampons without the string? Does it mean putting a little handle on it that you can reach up and grab? Does it mean, like like what does it mean? How can we create a tampon, a disposable tampon without a string? How can we do that? And who's going to do it? It might have to be me because I'm so sick of it.

I just want to have my period and not have a, and be able to go to the beach and not have a string hanging out. There must be a way, and I know that there's like, diva cups, like the reusable tampons, if you will, they're like a cup that catches all your blood, but I've never been able to like, get behind those. I don't know, I just don't, I don't know if it would work for me. Like the fact, like, okay, POV, you're using a diva cup, right? And you empty out all the blood into the toilet when you're peeing or something.

But you're in public. You're in a public place, let's say. You know, you probably want to wash it before you put it back in. But it's pretty disgusting if you're in a public bathroom to take your diva cup and then wash it in a public bathroom sink. Not to mention there could be other people in that bathroom with you, like watching you wash out your bloody period bloody diva cup. I don't know, I just don't, I love just taking out my tampon and that tampon going away and disappearing into the abyss.

So I'm just trying to figure out who's going to create the tampon, the revolutionary tampon that doesn't have a string. If any of you guys are out there and you're creating it, please send me samples. I would love to try and help you with your product, okay? Okay, you guys. Thank you so much for letting me vent today. I have so many more pet peeves. So if you, unfortunately, unfortunately, I have no shortage of pet peeves. So if you want me to do another episode of pet peeves, let me know. Also, if you want to message me your pet peeves, you can tweet me at AG podcast or you can DM me on Instagram at anything goes. You can also follow those accounts and participate in upcoming episodes.

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