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Episode Date: February 1, 2025

Is this revenge or just a terrible relationship with terrible people? Go to https://www.Zocdoc.com/PITREDDIT to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today. 0:00 Intro 2:07 Cab driver thinks I c...an't understand him...but I can https://www.reddit.com/r/pettyrevenge/comments/1hd2r0e/cab_driver_rips_me_to_shreds_thinking_i_cant/ 7:49 I rejected a girl as revenge https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/aw4ci0/aita_for_rejecting_a_girl_as_revenge/ 17:36 I'm telling your wife about the strip club https://www.reddit.com/r/pettyrevenge/comments/1gjgrm5/mock_me_for_not_going_to_a_strip_club_wait_until/ 27:42 She wouldn't say I was her bf so I hit on her friend https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1bh4siu/aitah_for_hitting_on_my_gfs_friend_after_she/ 35:30 I got an obnoxious passenger fired https://www.reddit.com/r/pettyrevenge/comments/1h4cnfi/i_got_an_obnoxious_passenger_fired/ 52:57 I'm struggling to forgive my husband https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1dr9wk7/aitah_for_struggling_to_forgive_my_husband_for/ 1:01:10 I sent an explicit video to my ex's family https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/bhdnls/aita_for_sending_an_explicit_video_my_ex_sent_to/ SUBSCRIBE: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshPit WEAR OUR JOKES: https://smosh.com WHO YOU HEAR Courtney Miller // https://www.instagram.com/co_mill/ Shayne Topp // https://www.instagram.com/shaynetopp/ Chanse McCrary // https://www.instagram.com/phatchanse/ WHO YOU DON’T HEAR (usually) Director: Bailey Petracek Editor: Vida Robbins Director of Programming, Smosh Pit: Emily Rose Jacobson Associate Producer, Smosh Pit: Bailey Petracek Production Designer: Cassie Vance Art Director: Erin Kuschner Assistant Art Director: Josie Bellerby Art Coordinator: Alex Aguilar Prop Master: Courtney Chapman Art Intern: Abby Schmidt Audio Mixer: Scott Neff Audio Utility: Dina Ramli Director of Photography: Brennan Iketani Videographer: James Hull Camera Operator: Macy Armstrong Assistant Director: Alexcina Figueroa Executive Vice President of Production: Amanda Barnes Production Manager: Alexcina Figueroa Production Coordinator: Zianne Hoover Operations & Production Coordinator: Oliver Wehlander Production Assistant: Quincy Bell Production Intern: Caroline Smith Post Production Manager: Luke Baker DIT/Lead AE: Matt Duran IT: Tim Baker Director of Design: Brittany Hobbs Graphic Designers: Ness Cardano, Monica Ravitch Senior Manager, Channel & Strategy: Lizzy Jones Channel Operations Coordinator: Audrey Carganilla Director of Social Media: Erica Noboa Social Creative Producer: Peter Ditzler, Tommy Bowe Merchandising Manager: Mallory Myers Social Media Coordinator: Kim Wilborn Social Media Intern: Mailyn Stiffler Talent Coordinator: Selina Garcia People Operations Specialist: Katie Fink Front Office Assistant: Sara Faltersack CEO: Alessandra Catanese EVP of Programming: Kiana Parker Coordinator Producer of Programming: Marcus Munguia Executive Coordinator: Rachel Collis OTHER SMOSHES: Smosh: https://smo.sh/Sub2Smosh Smosh Games: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshGames El Smosh (Spanish Dub): https://smo.sh/Sub2ElSmosh SmoshCast: https://smo.sh/Sub2SmoshCast FOLLOW US: TikTok: https://smo.sh/TikTok Instagram: https://instagram.com/smosh Facebook: https://facebook.com/smosh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:30 Welcome to Reddit Stories. I'm Shane, and today's theme is all about revenge. And I'm joined by two people who I plan on getting revenge on. Wait, Chance and Courtney. What? Revenge? What did I do?
Starting point is 00:00:44 What did I do? Welcome to Reddit Stories. I'm gonna get revenge. Vance and Courtney. Revenge? What did I do? What did I do? Welcome to Reddit Stories. I'm gonna get revenge. Okay, well there's now why I need to get revenge, because you just did that. Welcome to Reddit Stories. Okay, you guys are giving me the reasons.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Welcome to Reddit Stories. My name is Shayne Tapp. I took it too far. It's okay. I do sound like that. It's time for some revenge. How do we feel about revenge in general? Like, I think it's very entertaining
Starting point is 00:01:20 to listen to stories of revenge. I do not like revenge. I'm not someone who seeks revenge. Yeah, I don't participate in it, but we'll watch. Yeah, it's an entertaining trope. Here's what I like is karmic justice. That's what it is. I like when you're not putting the intention
Starting point is 00:01:36 into the revenge, the revenge just kind of happens. Well, and there's a lot of times though where I think people go, oh, that was karma. And I was like, no, that's just the natural progression of events from making a bad choice to that, but I agree. It's the whole rotting fruit will fall on its own. Wow. Wow.
Starting point is 00:01:55 I've never heard that. It's a long game. Revenge is doing your best, and if somebody else that hurt you falls, I think that's a take I have on revenge, which is, especially if someone wrongs you and you spend a lot of energy and effort in getting revenge on them,
Starting point is 00:02:14 I'm like, all I think it signals is that you are still hyper-focused on them. On someone who doesn't care about you and is disrespectful, I'm like, the best thing you can do is just focus on yourself. Yeah. But we'll see. We shall see.
Starting point is 00:02:29 Maybe we will change our minds today. We'll see. Oh yeah, let's see. All right, our first story comes from Petty Revenge. Cab driver rips me to shreds, thinking I can't understand him, but I can. Oh, see. Classic. Classic. Obligatory, this happened several years ago. A few months after I moved. Classic, classic.
Starting point is 00:02:45 Obligatory, this happened several years ago. A few months after I moved to Chicago, I had moved there from Romania, where I had been living and going to school. Love Romania, people are great, drop what you're doing and visit. Anyway, while I was there, due to my living situation, I had to learn the language fast and thoroughly.
Starting point is 00:03:01 Not many people around me spoke English, outside of the uni I was at. So fast forward to the few months after I arrived in Chicago. Imagine my surprise when the driver of the Uber I had ordered appeared to have a Romanian name. The area had a lot of Eastern Europeans so I guess it shouldn't have been so surprising.
Starting point is 00:03:17 I was really excited to talk to him and make sure I wasn't getting rusty. Maybe make a friend. Up pulls the guy, I get in, he greets me, but he appears to be on the phone with a buddy slash family member, so I just sit quietly in the guy I get in he greets me But he appears to be on the phone with a buddy slash family member So I just sit quietly in the back listening in a bit the person on the other end asked if the driver is getting off Work soon. He responded with something like the following no, I still have a few hours left. Then I'll go home right now
Starting point is 00:03:37 I have someone in the car. God. I hate this country The women here are so fat and ugly at least this one has a nice chest But why can't she lose some weight? And he goes on and on about all the problems with me and other American women. Now, I've always been a bit on the chonky side, and you best believe the Romanians love to comment on it, so I was used to it.
Starting point is 00:03:55 But I was a bit shocked that this guy was going off like that. Anyway, I'm just kind of sitting bemused in the back seat as we near my destination. Then I tell him, in Romanian, with all my might trying to pull off the distinct accent of the region I'd been living in, can you just pull over there
Starting point is 00:04:11 on the right? I swear this guy's head did the exorcist girl's head. And he turned a shade of red I have seen nowhere else in nature. He didn't say anything, just pulled over. When I got out, I said thanks and added, you're not attractive and you're also fat, so maybe you shouldn't make comments like that.
Starting point is 00:04:28 I have never again reached such levels of self-pride. That, I changed my mind about revenge. That's not even revenge. I was gonna say, that's not revenge. That's the situation that he put himself in. She informed him of the reality's the situation that yeah put himself in yes. She Informed him of the reality of the city. Yes. Yeah. Love that. She was in full Yeah, she was right all the way that's retaliation Yeah, it's it's such a power that people who speak multiple languages have as you probably end up hearing people talk shit
Starting point is 00:05:01 When they don't know Yeah one time so I know a little bit of Spanish. One time my family was doing a trip to Florida and we got in an elevator and I heard this group of people call my family ugly in Spanish. But I was like 13 so I didn't say anything. And they also said it in English. They really wanted us to know.
Starting point is 00:05:23 Ugly bitches. Have you seen those headphones that they have now? That automatically translate? I wanna try them. Challenge Pit, we tried the headphones. The head, that's the whole title. Challenge Pit, we tried the headphones. We tried the headphones. I'm just someone who assumes a lot of things about people.
Starting point is 00:05:42 I assume people understand. I would, if I was in another country, or when I've been in other countries, I'm not talking trash, because I'm like any, to be fair also with English, like it's just such a widely spoken language. I assume people know it a lot of times. You assume everyone knows English.
Starting point is 00:06:02 I'm not offended. You heard it here, Shayne Topp assumes everyone knows English. Wow, you heard it here. Shayne Topp assumes everyone knows English. Just kidding. To be fair, there's a lot of countries that like, they will require like 12 years of a language to graduate school, including like English. Like when I was in Japan, it's just like,
Starting point is 00:06:16 oh, a lot of people just spoke English. Like more than you realize do. So this guy being Romanian probably just thought, what are the chances? Nobody knows Romanian, yeah. So this guy being Romanian probably just thought what are the chances. No, he knows Romanian, yeah. There she was. Comments, I live for this brand of revenge. People shouldn't assume they're safe to talk shit
Starting point is 00:06:32 just because it's not in English. Or people should just not talk shit. Don't talk shit. Don't talk shit. What? Don't talk shit, man. Also, it's not even petty revenge. This isn't even petty revenge.
Starting point is 00:06:43 Nothing petty about what happened. Nothing. I don't think it's revenge of any sort, I think. No. Yeah. Someone else said, this hits home for me. I'm a middle-aged white American who looks very much like my Irish ancestors, but I'm also fluent in Spanish and Haitian Creole.
Starting point is 00:06:56 I'm a social worker, so I interview families nearly every day, and one thing I look for is a form of domestic violence called coercive control. Sometimes you'll have one partner who is fluent in English and uses that to control the other partner and when I suspect that, I'll only speak in English and listen to what the couple says to each other while I look on pretending I don't understand. Then just a few minutes before I leave, I'll start speaking their language and watch their faces as they realize I understood them.
Starting point is 00:07:22 This makes future visits much more productive. Someone said, Ant-in-law worked in a place for years and the Japanese women there talked shit about her behind her back slash in Japanese for years. At her retirement, she gave her farewell address in very fluent Japanese. One might imagine there was some loss of face with compound interest. Yeah, that's awesome.
Starting point is 00:07:44 To let that go on for years, that then goes. That's revenge. That goes into revenge. Just like, okay, you're withholding it for a long time on purpose, but it's also delicious. Delicious. Like the Prestige. The Prestige.
Starting point is 00:07:57 You guys know that movie with. Oh, it's so good. It's Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale. Christian Bale. Michael and Amanda. Christian Nolan? No. Referencing a movie and saying the actors in the movie.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Oh, yes. All right, our next revenge. This comes from Am I the Asshole. Am I the asshole for rejecting a girl as revenge? Oh. Oh. Interesting. So to start off maybe, it was a bit petty of. Oh. Oh. Interesting. So to start off maybe,
Starting point is 00:08:26 it was a bit petty of me to be honest. Anyway, I asked this girl Clara out on a date about a year ago. I was a completely different person then and she turned me down. It stung like hell, but it did encourage me to better myself. Since then, I've gotten in better shape,
Starting point is 00:08:41 became more confident, and generally I've had more luck with girls. I still never forgot what made me improve though and that will always be a shitty memory Me and a few friends I've made since last year went out to a gathering I'm still fairly new in their circle and surprise Clara was there I think she recognized me But I wasn't sure me and her hit it off and at the end of the night we had a date planned The date went pretty well and we went on our second one last Friday.
Starting point is 00:09:06 After this I went home and thought about where to go next and I realized I couldn't really forgive her. So she hit me up asking if we were going out again and I sort of made a joke of it, blew it off and put her on mute. I haven't responded since then and our mutual friends say she's been pretty upset since she gets attached to people quickly
Starting point is 00:09:24 but the revenge I got was so sweet. But maybe I was an asshole though. What does Reddit think? Huh, this is complicated. Yeah, cause like, I think what he said was right, it was a shitty memory, not a shitty person. I don't know if he maybe didn't reference the person, like maybe she said, no, I don't wanna date you
Starting point is 00:09:45 because you're ugly, ha ha. It's also like, but he didn't say that. I think he would say that if she was like, and that turning you down wouldn't be the shitty thing. It'd be like, she made this comment. But he doesn't reference anything. He just says, yeah, she turned me down and it stung. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:00 He didn't turn down stings, but that's a situation where you get hurt, but the person didn't do anything wrong. They didn't turn down stings, but that's a situation where you get hurt, but the person didn't do anything wrong. They didn't do anything wrong, and then he goes and improves himself, quote unquote, like he improves himself is what he said. And then she's like, well, now I'm interested, which is a fair thing because he's a different person now.
Starting point is 00:10:20 But also, she might have turned him down because she didn't know him that well. I know that here they are talking, they hit it off. My thought is, okay, you're also like, who is this revenge on? Is it on yourself? You're saying you're hitting it off, you're on a third date, it's actually going well,
Starting point is 00:10:37 and you're going, eh, it'll be better to just make you feel bad. Yeah. Yeah, like, that's the thing. What if that was the one? Are you gonna still be laughing when you're alone at 40 couldn't get over it I don't think this counts as this this doesn't count as revenge No, because she didn't purposefully hurt him, but he's purposefully hurting. Yeah, so actually you're the bad guy here I think he is the asshole because you're the asshole because you are purposefully making an action to make someone feel bad.
Starting point is 00:11:08 That is an asshole move. That's almost all revenge though. Right, but it's, revenge is, quote unquote. It's you make me feel bad. It's quote unquote fine if someone truly like went out of their way to wrong you. That's why I also don't think revenge is, I'm a revenge person.
Starting point is 00:11:27 I'm a person of what will make that person realize the wrongs of their ways, right? If you can do something and they go, oh my God, I now see how I was being shitty, then okay, but if you're just doing something to hurt someone, well what's it gonna do? Like she didn't do anything besides Schadenfreude? She didn't do anything malicious,
Starting point is 00:11:49 and I like what you said about her probably saying no just because she didn't know him. So many times in my life, it didn't matter how attractive the person was, I was too nervous, I didn't know them, so I just said no out of anxiety. I think it doesn't feel, yeah, I see what you're saying is it was like his type
Starting point is 00:12:07 of retaliation, like he technically got a revenge body even though he was never in a relationship with this person. If he got into better shape and like got more confident and stuff, yeah, I just like, I just picture him like, like he's gonna be alone in bed and be like, ha ha, got her, and then look at the empty other side of his bed and then turn out the light, like you're alone, good job. I think it's weird.
Starting point is 00:12:31 I'm just like, okay man, like you went on three dates. It's also not equivalent. It's like, if you really wanted action. But what did he do back? He just, he just. He went on, but he went on two dates with her and then in talking about the third date, he ghosts her. And I'm like, what you're doing is not equivalent
Starting point is 00:12:50 to what she did. She turned you down, but you are making, you're doing this elaborate thing. And did he even say anything? I don't think he was doing it on purpose, right? He says he realized. He realized he couldn't forgive her, and he says he made a joke about the date
Starting point is 00:13:04 and then put her on mute So he didn't even like go. I'm rejecting you because you rejected me years ago. Haha. He didn't do that. It's like so She's not even privy to does he owe her that No, he doesn't he didn't have to go out with her. He could decide. Oh, I'm actually but I also think he's an asshole for his Wording of things. Yeah, forgive her. Yeah, she you don't like she didn't wrong you. Yeah, you'm actually but I also think he's an asshole for his wording of things. Yeah, forgive her. Yeah She you don't like she didn't wrong you. Yeah, you're he's I don't like this rhetoric that he's giving of like I'm a woman a woman turning me down means she's a bad person. It's like that's what's in her rights Yeah, and you don't know why she turned you down. You're not giving us that context. We have to assume
Starting point is 00:13:43 She could have been for any reason. She maybe just wasn't in the zone to date at the time, maybe for whatever, but you're talking about it like, she's a piece of shit for turning me down. It's like. She doesn't owe you anything. I don't like that, man. I don't like that.
Starting point is 00:13:55 But maybe now that he, in his head, which is fucked up too, he's like, now I'm hotter, now she wants me. Yeah. That's his mindset. That's his mindset. That's his mindset. That's the reality he's living in. That's not the reality that might be happening.
Starting point is 00:14:10 The verdict was asshole, which I think is completely fair. Comments, you're the asshole. Revenge for what? Do you think she had some obligation to go on a date with you just because you asked? Not only that, but you organized a date, then flaked and ghosted her?
Starting point is 00:14:23 Damn man, that isn't just an asshole. That's like a post-very-hot-curry level of being a raging asshole. Oh, curry. Damn. Mm. Oh, oh, ew, and it's a hot poop. That they just, I was like, mm, very.
Starting point is 00:14:35 You were like, mm, yummy. Mm, hot. Mm, delicious. Someone else said, you're the asshole. She wasn't attracted to you then. You've changed. She is attracted to you now, or has learned to see beyond looks and is attracted to you're the asshole. She wasn't attracted to you then. You've changed. She is attracted to you now. Or has learned to see beyond looks
Starting point is 00:14:47 and is attracted to you as a person. Nobody is obliged to go out with someone just because they have a good personality. Looks matter and first impressions are often made with looks. Someone else said, you're the asshole. A girl turning you down is not revenge worthy. It's entitled of you to think she wasn't allowed
Starting point is 00:15:03 to say no to you without repercussions. By all means, turn her down now if you aren't attracted to her, but do it properly. Don't ghost her and don't act as if rejecting her is some major win for you. I think, you know what I think would have been fair is if he was hung up on, mm, you know, she turned me down then, I did this, I look different now, and now she's dating me.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Is this just a looks thing? I don't know how I feel about this. You could talk to her about that. You know what, there's something I'm a little hung up on. You turned me down a year ago, now we're hanging out, this is our third date. What is different? What is different?
Starting point is 00:15:43 And if someone said they were gonna do that, I'd be like, you're within your rights to do that. That doesn't make you a bad person. But ghosting someone for this, I'm like, what are you getting out of this? And he is not obligated to go on another date with her by any means, same as she was never obligated for the first one.
Starting point is 00:16:00 Like, yeah, so, you know. And it would also have been fine if he just was like, I'm hung up on this, I can't get over this. But the way he's wording it, I, so, you know. And it would also have been fine if he just was like, I'm hung up on this, I can't get over this. But the way he's wording it, I'm like, no, you're coming to a weird place. I think it's clear she dodged a bullet. His viewpoint on their dynamic. Oh, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:16:18 Yeah, and just holding onto that for such a long time and like, you know, it's okay to feel hurt that someone rejected you, but also at the same time, you shouldn't be, rejection sucks, but that doesn't make a person a bad person, like these comments are saying. So if that fueled you to improve your own life and your health, that's great,
Starting point is 00:16:39 but then you just shouldn't see her as an enemy in any way because that's that type of guy that can just view women as an enemy because they aren't saying yes to him or whatever. I think it is a lot that he is so hung up on it when this isn't someone he knows really well. Yeah. This is not, he is clarified like,
Starting point is 00:17:02 oh, they're hitting it off now, this is their third date, but this is not someone, it's not like, oh, we were friends for a long time, or like, we're really close, so the heartbreak might hit more. This is like, he's like, I asked this girl, Clara, out on a date about a year ago. This girl. Like, this is some, and then he's that hung up on it.
Starting point is 00:17:20 I'm like, it honestly makes me, look, I'm just vamping a little bit here. Okay, go off, Keith. He's talking about how he's had so much luck with women since then. I'm like, I'm questioning that. Like, if you're really, if you were actually out and having success
Starting point is 00:17:34 in the dating scene, but you were still so hung up on this person, I'm like, come on, move. And anyone who says I've had so much luck with women, it's like, luck with women sounds like you sleep with a lot of people, not you're dating a lot of people. Not you're in a lot of healthy relationships with a lot of people. It sounds like maybe he's done some work on himself. Like he's gotten into some shape.
Starting point is 00:17:54 Maybe he's, I don't know, some things, but there's some work that needs to be done. Okay, next story. This comes from Petty Revenge. Mock me for not going to a strip club. Wait until your wife finds out. Oh. Okay.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Let's go. This sounds like revenge. This sounds like revenge. I'm gonna say early. Okay, let's go. Snitches get stitches. Okay. A bit of a backstory, but it makes the revenge even better. I've worked in software sales for the bulk of my career.
Starting point is 00:18:24 About 10 years ago, my company was hosting its annual user conference in Las Vegas. As a sales guy, I pretty much had carte blanche on expenses as long as it involved clients, expensive dinners, drinks, tables at clubs, et cetera. The only unbreakable rule was we couldn't pay for strippers. Having been in the industry long enough, I realized what guys would do to get around this.
Starting point is 00:18:46 It was common for them to explain to a manager at a strip club, and then they would have the girls tips added to the bottle service. Even with that in place, I never thought it was a good idea to play that game, nor did I think it was a good idea to go to a strip club with clients. It was never a good look in my mind. I was roughly 27 or 28 at the time,
Starting point is 00:19:04 and one of the older guys, late 40s, Jim, was the typical sleazy sales guy. He would tell half-truths to prospects, overcharge them, oversell, et cetera, the type that creates a hassle for the services and implementation teams, but he still got paid so he didn't care. And when he got to Vegas,
Starting point is 00:19:21 Jim would go crazy entertaining clients in himself. Sometimes he would go to dinner by himself, but say some senior VP was with him, and he also abused the stripper loophole. One of the reasons he tried to get a group to the strip club each night was that he had a very conservative wife. She made the kids go to a local Christian school and the family went to church every Sunday. She hated the annual trips to Vegas, to the point he would tell stories that he wasn't allowed to bring his suitcase in the house. He had to leave it in the garage where the laundry room was,
Starting point is 00:19:50 and she would wash his clothes and then sanitize the washing machine. On the last night of the conference, he organized a shuttle from one of the big strip clubs to pick up a group. There were some open seats he was trying to fill to meet the minimum commitment for free entry to the club. Jim saw me speaking to a client and invited us,
Starting point is 00:20:07 but I declined. He started mocking me about being scared of pretty ladies, or that I would probably nut the first time one of them touched me, et cetera. This would have normally not bothered me, but he did it in front of my client. I stated, I don't wanna go because I don't think it's professional.
Starting point is 00:20:22 He left, I bought my client another round, and we joked about the douchebag. Then I was on my own and decided to walk the strip a bit and head to bed early due to an early morning flight. If you've ever been to Vegas, there are people on the sidewalk handing out cards that are essentially ads for escorts. They legally can't speak to you,
Starting point is 00:20:39 so they slap the cards on their hands to get your attention. After a few drinks, I started taking a few. Fast forward to the next morning when Jim and I were sitting in the airport waiting for our flight. He had stayed out till three or four a.m. and was a complete mess and totally hung over.
Starting point is 00:20:53 I was 100% and enjoying his condition. At one point, he went to the bathroom and asked me to watch his bag. When he was out of sight, I added those escort cards in his bag. When his wife went to do her laundry routine when he got home, she was not happy. She didn't believe in divorce,
Starting point is 00:21:08 but they were suddenly going to church three times a week and had a weekly counseling session with their pastor. This also led to Jim dropping out of his weekly golf league. He was telling us all the story at the office looking for sympathy, and he swore he never took those cards, but couldn't remember since he was so drunk Whoa? Whoa? This is interesting because Jim is an asshole
Starting point is 00:21:31 Well Jim sounds pretty awful, uh, so this is It seems like the story is inferring that the wife is already well aware that Jim is a piece of shit and Is doing all sorts of stuff? Yeah that's like, leave the bag out in the garage and we're gonna wash all your clothes then I'm gonna sanitize the washing machine. It seems like the context clues say that she's like, I know you're messing around and don't bring that sin into the house.
Starting point is 00:21:59 Also like, I know you're going to the strip club. It's not, I know you're going home with an escort. That. Which is where the line gets a little tricky because I'm like, oh, he kind of framed him for something that he didn't do. Right. Which I'm like, oh, that's kind of weird too.
Starting point is 00:22:15 You probably should, also, it's not your, get out of his business. Like, you might not like Jim, but it's not, you're not an arbiter of justice here. You're not fucking Batman. Like.'re not an arbiter of justice here, you're not fucking Batman. I thought he was gonna report the shenanigans to the boss man. I didn't realize he was gonna affect the marriage, which I don't know.
Starting point is 00:22:37 I don't know how I feel. I guess you did it, dude. Yeah, he doesn't know him well. Because he's not saying he's much better. And it does sound like she knows things are going on. The story makes me think that. Now, or, and she, yeah, it's, at least she knows that he's going to the strip club, and she's like,
Starting point is 00:22:53 if you're going to the strip club, you're gonna wash your clothes outside and then sanitize everything. Yeah. If you're sleeping with someone, that's something different that she might, apparently is not okay with. Based on even just reading the story though,
Starting point is 00:23:07 Jim has cheated on her for sure. Come on. Probably. Jim is like, he's like a play from the 1940s. Like he's just like, dude. I wonder if the story's real because how did he know that Jim's wife found everything and all this stuff? It could also be heavily exaggerated. He was telling you a story at work looking for something.
Starting point is 00:23:28 He was saying that Jim is spouting all this stuff at work, and that seems very possible. A lot of these types of dudes are, it's so funny, 50 to 60 year old dudes will just tell you fucking everything. Anything. Well, they'll tell dudes everything. They'll just start you fucking everything. Well, they'll tell dudes everything. They'll just start spouting off. So I actually believe that he is telling them all this.
Starting point is 00:23:51 It also sounds like this is a little pent up and that he's hated Jim for a long time. So he's finally got a chance to just kind of fuck over Jim. Jim's probably disrespecting him on a daily basis. What is this line of work? Yeah, sales, software sales. Software sales, dang, computer nerds get freaky. Actually, yeah, I think they do.
Starting point is 00:24:10 You're right. I do feel this is the thing that's tough though, is like he's getting revenge on Jim, but he's also kind of, he's affecting Jim's wife. Yes. Like, that's what sucks here, is you're actually, probably who you hurt the most is Jim's wife. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:27 Because Jim doesn't seem like he gives a shit. Well, yeah. Well, Jim hurt Jim's wife the most. Yeah. That's also fair. Yeah. Yes, Jim is hurting Jim's wife, but it's like, what are you really doing here
Starting point is 00:24:40 as an exterior force? Yep, yep, yep. It feels like there's a lot of behavior here that should just actually be brought up to the boss. That's what I was expecting. Yeah, boss over, that makes more sense. You are at this job with this coworker and that's like an HR type of thing.
Starting point is 00:24:57 That's something that can be solved. You're not involved with the wife at all or you shouldn't be. Oh. Yeah. Comments here. Someone said, beautiful. Did it occur to Jim to be more respectful of his wife and employers?
Starting point is 00:25:09 Of course not. Someone said, not so sure it's petty revenge, but it sure as hell is revenge. Yeah, this is a little bit more of like, that's a little more nuclear. Yeah. If you're impacting a marriage, that's not petty. It literally is like, Jim called me a pussy.
Starting point is 00:25:23 I'm gonna ruin his marriage. Yeah. Like, it is kinda. you know what this makes me think of when I was a kid my family would go to Vegas and you went to the strip club and I Was a kid never I know I never been to a strip club. I never been to a strip club either Oh my god, should we go to a strip club you guys? Oh my god, should we go to the strip club you guys? Cut the cameras. We're going. Here's your strip club, bitch.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Yeah. Bring them in. But I'm trying to think of what, I'm trying to think of what age I was. I know I was definitely a kid, but they would hand me those cards. And I was stoked. That's messed up.
Starting point is 00:26:03 Cause I love, I love trading cards. And also, naked lady. Escort trading cards? Oh boo. Escort trading cards is so funny. I think it'd be epic to make a game out of it. Like, I love that. Attack plus three, yeah. I play Cindy.
Starting point is 00:26:23 That's good. I play Candy. No! three, yeah. I play Cindy. Oh, that's good. I play Candy. No! Sparkle. That's incredible. They were epic looking. Yeah, yeah. They're like sensor too.
Starting point is 00:26:33 I've never seen them. They're crazy. They never hand them to me, why not? You have to be, fun fact, you have to be on the right side of the strip too. They can't pass them out on the side with the Bellagio and stuff. And I'm on the left side, am I right?
Starting point is 00:26:47 Anyways, moving on. I don't even know if they still do it. They do. They do? I think so. We were in Vegas not that long ago. I was just in Vegas a couple weeks ago. Were we on the family side?
Starting point is 00:26:59 We were on the left side. Because we're family. We're on the family side. Now we're moving. Family. No, they definitely still don't do those. What do you think they're gonna stand around holding that QR code? I feel like if you and I really went to Vegas
Starting point is 00:27:13 for a couple days, we'd end the trip and I'd look, your bag would be filled with them. What the fuck? Am I wrong? And my bag would be filled with those big grenade drinks. Still full. I did not, I did not. Can I tell you that I've never gotten one of those
Starting point is 00:27:31 and every time we've gone to Vegas, I'm always like, it'd be so funny to walk around with one. You have to, they're so fun. Guys, I think we have to go to Vegas. Chance, I cannot believe, you would, oh wait, no, you said never been to a strip club. You've been to Vegas. I've been to Vegas, yeah. I don't like Vegas. See, I don believe you would, oh wait, no, you said never been to a strip club. You've been to Vegas. I've been to Vegas, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:46 I don't like Vegas. See, I don't love Vegas either. I'm not a gambler. But yeah, yeah. You've seen me roll dice. Awful. Yeah. Terrible.
Starting point is 00:27:55 Anyways. I can't believe you accused me of keeping the best records. And you have not denied it. I like, I just have to like put my mind in the right place to like picture it. and I'm not ready to go there right now Okay, next Am I the asshole for hitting on my girlfriend's friend after she insisted on not telling them I'm her boyfriend?
Starting point is 00:28:19 Okay Wait, so her girlfriend's not telling them He's her boyfriend. Okay, so he's like not telling them he's her boyfriend. So he's like, oh, well, I'll hit on your friend then. Fuck off. It's one of those things where I'm like, what do you want to happen, dude? What are you hoping for here?
Starting point is 00:28:40 Okay, let's see what happens. Let's see what the story is. I don't know, I'm kinda liking it. Let's hear the story. I'm like, claim me bitch, want me, love me, choose me. I see that, also fair. My girlfriend and I have been official for a few weeks now. She hasn't introduced me to her friend group yet,
Starting point is 00:28:59 which I didn't think much of at first. We were all set to hang out, but before that, my girlfriend said to me not to mention we were together. I asked why, and she said because she wasn't ready for it. For that night, I was okay with it. Afterwards, I told my girlfriend that I felt like crap and that I wanted to be seen as her boyfriend. She said not to worry and that she will be ready soon.
Starting point is 00:29:20 But the second time she asked me to not mention it again, I was annoyed, but I agreed not to say anything. During that second time, I overheard one of her friends ask her if there was anything going on between us. She said I was just a friend. I was hurt, to be honest. I knew what I agreed to, but it hurt to hear her say that. Later that night, one of her friends approached me
Starting point is 00:29:40 and started hitting on me and asked me if I was into my girlfriend. I lied and said we were just friends. We spent the next two hours talking and lightly flirting. I didn't kiss her or anything like that but did playfully shove her. I wasn't planning some revenge on my girlfriend or anything but it felt nice to have someone flirt with me.
Starting point is 00:29:57 My girlfriend was pissed. She said that I crossed a line with her friend. I told her we were just having fun and nothing happened. We got into a fight and I'm feeling confused now if I should apologize or not. Oh. Ooh. That's tough, man.
Starting point is 00:30:11 Not what I was expecting. I thought he's gonna be like, hey, baby. Yeah. Like hoping that his girlfriend will go, no, wait, that's my man. Yeah. Like, I thought that would, I thought that's what was gonna happen. This, in gay world, this happens all the time where like, this is my friend,
Starting point is 00:30:29 and they're like, okay, and you're at a party, and then people start flirting with your friend, and you just have to be, I have learned to just be okay with it. Like, if you're not going to claim it, other people are going to flirt, that is what happens. Yeah, flirting, I feel like, it doesn't always mean anything either, especially if nothing happened.
Starting point is 00:30:49 I can't really fault him for a playful shove. I shove everybody. I'd be shoving. Yeah, I mean, he didn't, I mean, we'd have to, you'd have to see it to be like, what was this level? But like, the friend also doesn't know, so she's doing that. Yeah, he did what he was told. Maybe she didn't foresee this happening.
Starting point is 00:31:12 Because where my mind was at first was like, okay, it sounds like they are calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend, but maybe, you know, for some people it's a big deal to introduce a partner into a friend group. Maybe she wants to see how her friends feel about him before she publicly is like, yep, we're together. Because it can be a big step.
Starting point is 00:31:30 But then for the friend to be there asking, so, what's going on? And her being like, no, we're just friends is weird. It's a little weird. I kind of. And it's the second time. This is not the first time. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:43 She's introducing him to her friends. That was the first time. This is the second time. Second time not the first time. She's introducing him to her friends. That was the first time, this is the second time. Second time around them, yeah. This is interesting, I kind of feel like he has the right to ask her like, why are we hiding it? Like what's going on? Give me a reason, because I can't think of a good one. Why are you, I personally, I talk to my friends
Starting point is 00:32:02 about any boy that I ever, I'm like, there was a boy in Costco today. Like I'm communicating and so like, my friends would know that already. Yeah. Exactly. This is, and she's not telling her friends anything. Because friends are flirting with him, so she's keeping this fully.
Starting point is 00:32:23 She can't be mad at him. I don't think she can be mad at him. I don't think she can be mad at him. I don't think so either. This is kind of a consequence of. Flirting is a normal part of conversation. It doesn't always equate to something. And it feels like a little bit, she's kind of friendzoning him.
Starting point is 00:32:36 It's like she's prepping to friendzone him. She's like, I don't want anyone to think that there was anything between us, so when I do friendzone you, it's gonna be fine. Yeah, like he also didn't know what to do. What if he was just like, I was just pushing her away because I wasn't trying to be with her? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:52 And I love that he's communicating what he wants and how he feels, and he's like, you don't want that, I'm ready to compromise. And he's hearing his girlfriend say, oh, we're just friends, which is hurtful. And so now someone's, they're flirting with him, it makes him feel like, oh, I're just friends, which is hurtful. And so now someone's there flirting with him. It makes him feel like, oh, I feel wanted here now. And I mean, the verdict was not the asshole.
Starting point is 00:33:11 Comments, bro, go for the girl who will flirt with you in public. That means she'll hold your hand in public, kiss you in public, be with you in public, treat you like you deserve to be treated. Sorry, sorry. Go back, go back, go back, go back. What was that?
Starting point is 00:33:27 I don't know. That means, yeah. That means she'll hold your hand in public, kiss you in public, be with you in public, suck your dick in public, treat you like you deserve to be treated. They wrote, no, I'm just kidding. Leave the girl who thinks that you are somebody
Starting point is 00:33:41 who has to stay in the closet, respect yourself. Someone else said, I can think of a few reasons why your girlfriend would hide the relationship. None of them are good for you. One, she's embarrassed of you. Two, she's not serious about the relationship. Three, she wants to be able to meet guys while hanging out with her friends
Starting point is 00:33:57 and no one will question her on it. Dump her and get with her friend, not the asshole. What if she's cheating? What if she has a- I don't know about that if she's cheating? What if she isn't? I don't know about that too. There's also the possibility that she hasn't fully wrapped up something else or something.
Starting point is 00:34:11 That she also hasn't told her friends about. Yeah, and her friends aren't even questioning it unless the friend is flirting with him as a means of getting her to finally admit something. Ooh. Revenge on revenge on revenge. Last comment, not the asshole, honestly, I would date the friend and stay friends
Starting point is 00:34:27 with your girlfriend. Jokes aside, get away from this mess ASAP. Yeah, I think what's just fair is like, okay, until we can publicly tell your friends that we're a couple, we're not officially together. Yeah. Like we're dating until then. Like don't do that, don't lock yourself down
Starting point is 00:34:44 if this person's, this person does sound like they're not trying to lock it down. And they said a few weeks, right? Yeah. So it's really like not a few weeks. I mean, so I'm surprised they were calling to their boyfriend and girlfriend.
Starting point is 00:34:54 I feel like maybe he was really in and like. A few weeks of being boyfriend and girlfriend. They have been, yeah, official for a few weeks. Oh wow. Official for a few weeks, which means they were talking before. Oh my goodness. It's weird. Poor guy.
Starting point is 00:35:11 Cause like I'm trying to put myself in those shoes. I would never like do that. But if I needed my partner to keep it under wraps and then one of my friends started flirting with him and he was just being nice, I'd be like, okay, that's, yeah, that would've happened. There's also like, I guess you don't owe it to anyone to tell them you're official,
Starting point is 00:35:30 but if they're your friends, why would you not? It's also, it's interesting that she's, like her relationship with her friends is interesting to me. Yeah. Where I'm like, okay. Is anything real? Yeah. What's real here?
Starting point is 00:35:44 What if they're all her girlfriends? Like they're all like in a polycule and she'm like, okay. Is anything real? Yeah, what's real here? What if they're all her girlfriends? Like they're all like in a polycule and she's like, we're just friends. I promise, yeah. We're all just friends. That's probably what's going on. Okay, our next story. Dang, no update. No update.
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Starting point is 00:37:47 petty revenge I Got an obnoxious passenger fired Fired a passenger fired a passenger was fired Ejected ejected this is a long one, but it was the best revenge story of my life so far I'm a South African living in Japan and I took my Japanese wife to meet my parents and have a honeymoon in South Africa. On the first of three flights back to Japan was from Joburg to Qatar.
Starting point is 00:38:14 We take our seats and get settled in. I noticed that a lot of passengers around us were wearing the same T-shirts, some kind of pharmaceutical company. As soon as we got settled in, I noticed that the woman and two men sitting behind us were some kind of pharmaceutical company. As soon as we got settled in, I noticed that the woman and two men sitting behind us were also employees of this company.
Starting point is 00:38:29 As soon as they got settled in, I noticed she, let's call her Brandy, was quite chatty, loud, and a bit obnoxious. But I am a nervous flyer, so at the time, I was more worried about the takeoff than her. So I put my earpods on and whoosh, we take off for our eight hour flight to Qatar. As soon as the seatbelt sign switched off,
Starting point is 00:38:47 Brandi started ordering Brandi and Cokes for herself and her two coworkers. As each drink came, Brandi's voice got louder and more obnoxious. Oh no. After drink number six, the topic of her conversation turns to relationships. By this time, half the cabin could hear their conversation about how
Starting point is 00:39:02 she disapproves of interracial relationships. Even I could hear her through the guttural screams and face-melting guitar riffs of Miss Suga blasting through my ear pods. Then it happened. A nice woman sitting on four seats to her left quite loudly says, "'Ma'am, could you please quiet down?
Starting point is 00:39:22 "'You're a bit loud and I'm trying to get some sleep.' "'I heard it too, so I paused the song "'and took out my left earbud to excitedly eavesdrop.'" says, ma'am, could you please quiet down? You're a bit loud and I am trying to get some sleep. I heard it too, so I paused the song and took out my left earbud to excitedly eavesdrop. Right, right. Tune the fuck in, girl. What'd she say? That's me.
Starting point is 00:39:35 That's me, unfortunately. I'm all in. I'm pausing my music, I'm putting my movie away. I will admit it's probably a very toxic part of me when I'm on a flight and some shit like that, as long as it's not scary. Yeah. Everybody. If it's just drama, I'm like, thank God.
Starting point is 00:39:53 I'm like, oh, the in-flight entertainment has begun. No, that's what's so funny. Really quick mini tangent, on all those viral videos of something going on on a plane, every single person is... Yeah. When you see whatever's going on, every single person is... Yeah. When you see whatever's going on, every single human is turning.
Starting point is 00:40:09 What am I supposed to do? People are so stoked. We are strapping in, mate. Yeah. Okay, sorry. Brandi was not happy. She says, excuse me, this isn't a nighttime flight. Haven't you heard of earplugs?
Starting point is 00:40:22 And then jumped straight back into her conversation. The tension in the air immediately changed. At that moment, all the people who heard the interaction caught eyes with each other, and we all knew this flight was about to get interesting. About 20 minutes later, a flight attendant comes and politely asks Brandy to quiet down a bit. She begrudgingly agrees, orders another round,
Starting point is 00:40:40 and quiets down. But it only takes Brandy about 30 minutes to get all the way back up to a volume louder than the jet engines roaring outside the windows. Then another Chinese woman from the other side of the cabin gets up and walks to where Brandy is sitting, and in her best attempt at English says, please be quiet, my child keeps waking up because of you. Brandy looks up and I shit you not, asks this Chinese woman in a very mispronounced Chinese, can you speak Chinese?
Starting point is 00:41:05 I'm fluent in Chinese so I could understand what she was trying to say and just kept repeating it until the frustrated Chinese woman went back to her seat. By this time, both flight attendants for our cabin were very much aware of Brandy's sassy nature and decided to close the bar for the whole cabin, which pissed me off because I was hoping to enjoy a few more whiskies before we landed.
Starting point is 00:41:25 A few minutes later, I heard the sound of shuffling, then plastic, then the faint sound of what sounds like the cap of a glass bottle being cracked open. Oh no. Then the sound of liquid being poured into cups. Yep, Brandy had opened her bottle of duty-free Brandy she bought at the airport. And once again, their conversation began to crescendo.
Starting point is 00:41:44 Now, the whole time I had been spectating the Brandy situation, I wasn't really paying attention to my wife, who I assumed was sleeping next to me. I then saw my wife pull one of her earbuds out to try to get a look at Brandy through the crack in the seat, and then turned to look at me with a face I rarely see my wife make. It was a face of pure rage and frustration.
Starting point is 00:42:02 I snapped. Now, usually I'm not the kind of person who likes to cause a scene, but I decided that I'm not going to let this asshole of a woman ruin my wife's flight. So like a crazy person, I stood up and announced loud enough that the entire cabin turned to hear me. Excuse me, everybody. Can I please have your attention?
Starting point is 00:42:18 By show of hands, who of you would like these people to shut the fuck up? About 30 passengers all around us raised their hands. I then turned to Brandy and just point and say, look, understand, shut up. I sat back down to the sound of applause from all the passengers that were raising their hands. My wife was shocked that I did that, but I told her that I did it because I could see
Starting point is 00:42:40 that Brandy was beginning to bother you too. She gave me a hug and the flight attendant that saw what I did brought me a cup of Coke, but slipped me two of those little bottles of whiskey. Ah! Thankfully, Brandi and the gang then passed out and were quiet for the rest of the flight, so my wife and I could relax.
Starting point is 00:42:58 But Brandi wasn't finished, and now she had a new target, me. No! On our descent, Brandi awakes and decides that she wants to play some cards on the entertainment screen attached to the back of my seat, trying her best to hit the buttons hard enough to make my seat.
Starting point is 00:43:12 What? I teach kids for a living, so I know that she is behaving like an angry toddler trying to get the rise out of me, so I ignore her. We land, the plane taxis off the runway, and everyone starts getting up to get off the plane. As soon as I get up and she sees my wife and I, she starts repeatedly insulting me about my weight
Starting point is 00:43:30 and how I married an Asian woman because I can't get a real South African woman, blah, blah, blah. High school bully level bullshit. I just smiled and nodded my head at everything she was saying and exited the plane. Finally, Brandy and her coworkers walk off and my wife and I find a nice cafe to have coffee and chill
Starting point is 00:43:46 and stretch for a bit before we make our way to the next boarding gate for our second flight to Malaysia. We eventually get to the gate and lo and behold, guess who's also flying to Malaysia? That's right, it's Brandy. How does that always happen? She's standing by the gate window taking selfies and doesn't notice me.
Starting point is 00:44:04 I find an empty seat next to a guy wearing the same pharmaceutical company t-shirt and say, excuse me sir, that woman over there with the blonde hair taking a selfie, what's her name? He asks me why and I say that she looks like someone I used to go to high school with, but I wasn't sure and didn't wanna make an ass of myself asking her directly.
Starting point is 00:44:20 He then tells me and I say, oh, then it's not her. Sorry. I thanked him and for the remainder of the wait at the gate, logged into the airport Wi Fi, found their company's Facebook page and website and sent a detailed recount of Brandy's behavior, being sure to include all the colorful things she was talking about with her coworkers. The next two flights back to Japan were uneventful and got home safe and sound. Two weeks later, I got a reply from the CEO asking me for my number, as he would like to talk to me about what happened. He calls me and profusely apologizes
Starting point is 00:44:49 for what Brandy put us through. Turns out that by the time Brandy landed in Malaysia, the CEO had seen my message, changed her return flight back to South Africa for the very next day, and fired her at arrivals in JHB Airport when she got back. I bought a bottle of Brandy and Coke on my way home from work that day and fired her at arrivals in J-H-B Airport when she got back. I bought a bottle of brandy and Coke
Starting point is 00:45:06 on my way home from work that day to celebrate with my lovely wife. Whoa. That is, I say, not the asshole. Is that what we're doing here? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. It was giving a little bit, and everyone clapped. Yeah, I believe most of the story is true.
Starting point is 00:45:27 I think some of it is a lie. A little bit embellished, I think. That a complete stranger messaged the CEO and the CEO was like, I immediately fired her. I'm like, if a CEO would immediately fire someone after a stranger messages them on Facebook, that's wild. What I will say is, and we don't know her past history with the company.
Starting point is 00:45:50 So that's why. Because if this could be last straw, all I needed, I needed one reason. I needed one mess up. The fact that the CEO message two weeks later has me thinking, okay, this lady was talking so loudly, horribly racist shit, with a ton of people of her coworkers, probably other coworkers,
Starting point is 00:46:11 were like, hey, she was doing this, and then the CEO saw that message and was like, I'm so sorry, she doesn't represent our company. Yeah, because he didn't message, he posted on the company's Facebook page. So that's a little bit more public, where it's like, that's now not only seen by the people at the company there It could have been the domino effect of like the CEO saw that was like hey, we got this post
Starting point is 00:46:31 We need this account of the situation I think that makes more sense that maybe other employees all went to the box like bro this happened Yeah, they fired her this was a direct witness that had nothing to do with the company that all makes sense But yeah, and also just like the flight attendant slipping her slipping him fired her, this was a direct witness that had nothing to do with the company. That all makes sense, but yeah. And also just like the flight attendant slipping him like drinks after everyone's clapping and the wife hugging him, it sounds a little. I don't think it's that crazy.
Starting point is 00:46:55 If someone at any company, most companies is being racist and drunk to that point on a plane, they're getting sent home. Yeah. They're getting, they're not getting away with it. Is it also, you're not allowed to pull out a bottle of whiskey. I think that's a newer law, right?
Starting point is 00:47:13 Because it's illegal, it's illegal, I think it wasn't until recently that I started hearing, because we fly a lot, that they start saying on the overhead that you're not allowed to open your own drinks in the cabin, but that wasn't, I never like, I didn't hear that until like this year. This is from this month. Oh, two weeks ago.
Starting point is 00:47:30 Oh, so then. I'm pretty sure you're not allowed. Yeah. That would be, I would think absolutely you can't. My nail file is a weapon? That's a weapon. Going to Qatar too. It just sounds like a person who's gonna get fired.
Starting point is 00:47:45 Like that's also. Yeah, like, but definitely Final Straff, not plus plus plus Final Straff. Unfortunately sounds like a person who has a real problem and they're just going real off on the plane. I have never experienced a passenger of that level. I have just simply not. I've gotten very lucky on flights
Starting point is 00:48:02 where people are just really quiet and not annoying. I've had people on, just one time there was a fight and they wouldn't stop, she kept pointing the air. It was so petty. That stuff sucks. And the other lady didn't like the air and they were like, turn that air off. And they just got into it.
Starting point is 00:48:25 That sucks. I guess also, I just have, I've flown so much throughout my life that there's just etiquette that's drilled into my brain of like, this fan is mine. I get to do whatever I want with this fan. You get to do whatever you want with yours. If you try to touch mine, then we have a problem,
Starting point is 00:48:40 but that's never happened. I am of the opinion that the person in the middle seat should get both of those arm rests. But not everybody adheres to that. And I'm not gonna try to. I don't expect them, but I give them when I'm not in the middle. I don't expect it either.
Starting point is 00:48:54 I give them that, my arm rests. But I will give them that. I also, I am the type that I need, we need airflow in a cabin, but if I have air blowing directly at me in any capacity, I get a massive headache, so I have to turn away at me in any capacity, I get a massive headache. So I have to turn away. I wonder what it is, like what is that?
Starting point is 00:49:09 I don't know. But yeah, I don't know. I feel like I've been very fortunate, but honestly like I'm like, I wish something would happen. Give me one reason. I wanna be, I wanna be clapped for. See, I don't wanna get, I don't, I'm not trying to fuck with shit on a flight
Starting point is 00:49:24 because they will kick you both out Yeah, and you do not want to end up on a list where you can't fly like yeah Like and the main thing to is like if you never know who you're dealing with Like it's the same with road rage. You don't want to push the buttons of someone Who could be just have too many screws loose also Also, the fact that she's playing with his screen gets up and is playing a game on his screen. No, no, no, she's playing on the screen on the back of his head.
Starting point is 00:49:51 Oh. So she's like, say this is the back. I thought she was up and was playing on his screen. I was like. No, no, no. That's crazy, no. She's just poking the back of his seat. I've told this story before, but one time I was on a flight
Starting point is 00:50:02 and I was watching District Nine, and I had headphones in. And there was this guy sitting next to me, and I could tell he was watching my screen for a long time. And District 9 is shot, like, documentary news style. And he taps me, like, 30 minutes in, and he goes, he's like, I'm gonna, like, take my earphones out. And he's like, is this happening right now? And you go, you go.
Starting point is 00:50:28 No, I'm like, yeah, I should have fucked with it. Oh my God. You're not hearing it, you should turn it on. Can you believe this? Yeah, when we land, shit's gonna be. That's crazy. Can you imagine? Oh, it was because I was, it was from South Africa. I was on a flight from South Africa.
Starting point is 00:50:45 Whoa! And the movie takes place in Johannesburg. That's crazy. Have you seen the photo? There's this incredible photo. So you know how like a lot of those games, you can play them online, like you can play them against people on the plane?
Starting point is 00:50:57 Oh yes. So there's a great photo of a guy playing Battleship and he's like, does the guy, does my opponent know that I can see his screen? Oh. So he's just killing him in Battleship and he's like, does the guy, does my opponent know that I can see his screen? So he's just killing him in Battleship. Cheating. Yeah. Thank you. But it's funny. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:14 Okay, comments. I have seen people on a plane applaud a couple times. Once when some jerk got thrown off the plane before we ever got off the ground and once after the pilot landed us safely after a particularly bad storm situation. Someone else said, yep, stuff like this happens. There's an incident from the 80s
Starting point is 00:51:32 where a VP of Ford was fired in the airport because of the way he was treating the airline employees, and someone higher up than him was in the gate area unbeknownst to him. Being a VP, he thought he was God's gift to the world. The higher level executive walked over to him, asked him his name and if he did indeed work for Ford. The guy was rude in his reply to the executive,
Starting point is 00:51:52 not realizing who he was talking to. The executive tells the VP his name and title and then fires him on the spot, stating that they expect better behavior out of their executives. Lastly, someone said, this may be the best petty revenge I've ever heard. Thank you, OP, on behalf of all of us.
Starting point is 00:52:07 I might add, I don't think it's petty, it's just correct. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she, I think she was going to get fired. If this somehow miraculously didn't fire her, she was gonna get fired. Rotting fruit. I'm also confused, are they allowed,
Starting point is 00:52:24 do they have to keep serving you right cut you off and why did they cut off the whole cabin like I'm just like I didn't know that I thought I didn't think that there was a to drink limit on planes no there's definitely not a to drink limit I guess I don't I don't drink on flights just cuz like flights already make me feel like shit and I worry that if I drink I'm gonna feel like shit after. Yeah, it's just like you're basically becoming dehydrated chicken, you know, like the treats that you give a cat.
Starting point is 00:52:52 That's what I feel like is happening to me. You're like being freeze-dried. And then if you drink alcohol, it just speeds up the process. The only time I drank on flights was actually when we used to fly to Sacramento to film sketches Not on the way there though. Not on the way there on the well I mean well sometimes sometimes on the way there because we'd get that we'd land there and then we wouldn't we would go to bed And then film the next day. Yeah, we would get drink tickets because we were like a plus preferred because we were flying so much
Starting point is 00:53:21 So but it's a 45 minute flight. Mm- flight. So they literally will come by, get your drink order, they'll bring you your drink, and then like literally less than 10 minutes later, they'll come to get the trash. So I will order a beer and quite literally chug it. And that's what I was doing. I was like, can I get a Modelo? And they're like, they hand it to me.
Starting point is 00:53:39 And I'm just like, and they'll literally, they will tell you, they're like, you need to drink that fast because we're gonna be right back. We used to, and it was always so fun, like especially when it was after the shoot, heading back, like everybody had their drink order. I'm trying to remember, what would I get?
Starting point is 00:53:53 Do you remember what I would get? I don't know. I don't think I ever sat next to you on those planes. I think it was always next to Olivia. That's hilarious. No. We would all sit by our, I would sit by myself. Keith and Noah would sit next to each other.
Starting point is 00:54:03 And fight the whole time. They would fight the whole time. Yeah. And then maybe you and Olivia. Maybe we'll be in front of them listening and laughing. And then I would just be like, I'm gonna go sit by myself. And I'd sit there and I'd chug a beer.
Starting point is 00:54:12 That was me back then, baby. I have been keen sometimes, a Bloody Mary. Oh yeah, Bloody Mary on a flight. That sounds like it. So awesome. But Bloody Marys don't count. What? Just kidding.
Starting point is 00:54:31 Bloody Marys don't count because there's tomatoes. Bloody Marys don't count. You can just have those whenever. Last thing I'll say about the story is the- It's a vegetable. It's a fruit. Tomatoes are fruit. It's fruit. I like to think that, so you know how there's like so many
Starting point is 00:54:47 of these employees with the same shirts on the flight? Like, it's always like, dang, how are other employees not hearing this? And just the fact that the CEO wasn't aware of it, I'm just like picturing him like, he's like, sorry, I didn't know what was going on, I was in first class. Thanks for laughing guys. All right. I liked it. Thanks. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Thanks for laughing guys. All right.
Starting point is 00:55:06 I liked it. Thanks. Okay, our next story. Oh. Am I the asshole for struggling to forgive my husband for his petty revenge on me? I feel crazy. So the husband got revenge on her
Starting point is 00:55:21 and she can't forgive him for it. But that means she did something first. Yeah. He got revenge and And she can't forgive him. And she can't forgive him for it. But that means she did something first. Yeah. He got revenge, and now she can't handle it. What if it's the couple from the rejection story, but it's years later. Now that years later. And I will also say, she could've done something
Starting point is 00:55:35 and not meant it to be bad, but it still hurts, and then he gets revenge. Exactly. And it's the intent for me. So like, I wouldn't be able to get over the intent either. So let's see. My husband, who's 34, and I, 32, 32 year old woman, have been married for six years.
Starting point is 00:55:52 Two months ago, I stopped him from going on a bachelor's trip with his long-term school friends. I was okay and was kinda looking forward to him having fun until I learned he hid the fact that they would be doing a lot of adult themed activities, think strippers and happy end massages. As a part of their itinerary, it caused a huge fight as we've always maintained that this is a deal breaker for me and the fact that he hid it from me made it worse. He argued that he only did it because of my tendency to overreact.
Starting point is 00:56:19 And of course he wouldn't engage in those activities, but that didn't mean he couldn't go. I would have been fine with him going if he told me about their itinerary and trusted the fact that he would keep away. What he did broke my trust and the only way I could see him earning it back is if he voluntarily told his friends that he couldn't come, which he did. At the time he looked really apologetic and we made up. He took me shopping and it was all good.
Starting point is 00:56:41 I bought some fashionable outfits and was looking forward to wearing them ahead of summer. It was still a little cold and I didn't get to immediately dress up in the clothes I had just bought. Also, most of my summer clothes had shrunk in the wash, so I practically only had my oversized casuals. A few weeks later, it starts to get warmer and as I slip into my new dress, it feels tight.
Starting point is 00:57:02 I'm confused. I just tried them on in the store and I'm a size 14, as the label on the dress said. So no, I didn't get the wrong size from the store. Then another dress was tight, same with the pants and other tops. I start feeling absolutely crazy. Had I just put on so much weight in a matter of a few weeks
Starting point is 00:57:18 that my new dresses didn't even fit, I've always been a bit sensitive about how my body looks and I remember telling my husband how excited I was about these new clothes that looked so flattering on me. I felt so good in all of them. And now they look so hideous on me. I started crying on the floor. I was too embarrassed to tell my husband this.
Starting point is 00:57:35 I thought he must have noticed if I'd put on weight. I was a wreck. I was feeling crazy for a few weeks now. Even the clothes that I had before felt tighter. I don't know if it was a placebo or real, but it didn't help. My husband a few days ago during dinner said he wanted to confess something. He was snickering while saying this, and what he said absolutely crushed me. He said that while I was gone to see my sister, who had just had a baby, for a week, he had
Starting point is 00:57:59 secretly taken all my outfits that he knows I routinely wear and gave them to the local tailor to make them a size or two smaller. I've taken all my outfits that he knows I routinely wear and gave them to the local tailor to make them a size or two smaller. He said he paid him generously to stitch things faster. He said, sorry, but it felt like a funny payback for what I had done, stopped him from going on a trip. I said that wasn't funny. He made me feel crazy.
Starting point is 00:58:19 I was crying and screaming at this point. He severed my sense of self and made me feel ugly. Eventually I tried to be okay, but I am not. I'm still reeling from what he did as petty revenge. It's been some time since he confessed and offered to get them stitched back to original size. I'm struggling with what he just did. I want to forgive him.
Starting point is 00:58:38 I never knew how resentful he was of me about that trip. Maybe it's my fault. I should have been more trusting. I knew he would never cheat in my heart I knew he would keep away and from his POV his petty revenge on me probably feels deserved I would be mad too if he stopped me from doing something I was looking forward to doing but still if you were me, how would you feel has anyone had their spouse do petty revenge on them? But that is not petty revenge, that's psychological torture.
Starting point is 00:59:06 Yeah. That's crazy. That's like some Joker shit. Also, first off, you stitch things to be a smaller size, I don't feel like you can stitch them to be a bigger size. No, not possible. I don't think that's how shit works. No, unless you like literally keep the extra fabric,
Starting point is 00:59:22 but you need like more fabric than you had before. Yeah. So it's like not possible. No, he you need more fabric than you had before. So it's not possible. No, he ruined all our outfits. That's crazy, which is also expensive. Why is he expensive? That's expensive as hell. I mean, Jesus Christ, I hate, because I've been watching some decent amounts
Starting point is 00:59:38 of reality TV lately, I hate when it's like, I didn't tell you because you were gonna be mad. Yeah, no shit, no shit. It's not about me being mad, it's about the shitty thing that you were gonna do. You were gonna cheat on, you were gonna cheat on her. Her swearing up and down that he would never cheat, but I'm like, but he wasn't telling you
Starting point is 00:59:55 about all this stuff. Also, there's some activities like happy and massage. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about here? Definitely suspicious activity. Like talk about that that like that's normal bachelor. Yeah, no behavior. That's Go play pool or Hell yeah, man And her his reaction is really bad He was keeping it a secret and then he's like, oh I wasn't telling you cuz you overreact
Starting point is 01:00:23 All right. I just can't wrap up my mind, wrap up my mind around someone that would put so much effort into something so unfunny. It's not funny at all. It's not, like, it makes her go crazy. It is also establishing, like, establishing you're getting revenge on her. I don't know, it implies that, oh, I was doing,
Starting point is 01:00:48 there was nothing wrong with my situation, but it's like, you kept something secret. Like, you actually really hurt her first. I don't know, I, this does not sound good. No, no, no, no, no. Not at all, I mean, like, cause you know we've talked about like cheating, cheating in a sense, it's just like, it's that extreme I mean, like, cause you know we've talked about like cheating, cheating in a sense it's just like,
Starting point is 01:01:05 it's that extreme dishonesty, like, this isn't, I wouldn't call like, tailoring someone's clothes like cheating, but it is like, it is a level where it's like, that is a crazy amount of dishonesty with your life partner. Like, what the hell, if that's like, ugh. And you fucking know that if she was going on some trip where there was gonna be like some hot dancing dudes
Starting point is 01:01:29 or situations similar to this, the flip, this guy would not be cool with it. Nor. You just know that based on his behavior here. Yeah. The verdict was not the asshole. Yeah, no. It's not surprising.
Starting point is 01:01:43 Comments, not the asshole. To recap, your husband is a liar and cruel. I don't understand how you can watch someone you love suffer and think that's funny. Someone else said that was a calculated, time consuming and expensive act meant to hurt you where he knew you were the most vulnerable and would hurt you the most.
Starting point is 01:01:59 No excuse for that kind of cruelty, regardless of the reason. Lastly, someone said he took revenge on you because you didn't let him cheat. And he took revenge by giving you a low blow to your self-esteem, 100% intentionally. He is not the kind of person you should be married to. He's vile, disgusting, and immature as hell,
Starting point is 01:02:16 and he hurts you as payback for not letting him cheat. If that's what you think you deserve from your husband, then I can't even feel sorry for you. Oof. Yeah, this guy's a piece of work. Amelie, the movie, she does that. So it is kind of like a mainstream no thing. She takes his slippers and replaces them
Starting point is 01:02:37 with a smaller pair. That is so crazy, that is crazy town. It also costs money. Amelie's a little crazy. But what if they deserve it? She doesn't deserve it. In like a cute way. Oh, Omelette, like what? Omelette doesn't, that's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 01:02:48 And the guy kind of deserved it. Nice, nice, nice, nice. Good save, good save. I start stitching his clothes tighter, tighter, tighter. And he's like, good, I'm getting more muscular. Yeah, he's like, I'm fucking ripped. He loves it. I make it just tighter in the crotch.
Starting point is 01:03:05 So you're like, whoa. Wait, what if I made it bigger in the crotch? And then he's like, oh man, my little ass. My little ass. Okay. Anyways. All right, our last story from Am I the Asshole. Am I the Asshole for sending an explicit video
Starting point is 01:03:32 my ex sent to me to hurt me to her family. Oh no, you don't do that. Okay. Bleh. Bleh. Bleh. Bleh. Bleh. Bleh. Hi. Hi. It'sh. Hi. Hi. It's this. Hi.
Starting point is 01:03:49 Hi, am I the asshole? I'm going to try to make this as brief as possible so I don't ramble. I dated my ex, M, for a year and a half. During this time, I confided in her some personal secrets, which I don't feel comfortable sharing even anonymously. Because of these, she knows that there are certain things related to sex mostly that I am very sensitive towards.
Starting point is 01:04:07 We did not part on friendly terms after our breakup and we don't talk anymore. I broke up with her because I found out she cheated on me and she flipped out. Recently, I found out that she is seeing one of my coworkers and that he is spreading rumors about me that she told him. She basically told him bits and pieces
Starting point is 01:04:23 of the personal information I shared with her when we were together and now he's spreading some of that she told him. She basically told him bits and pieces of the personal information I shared with her when we were together, and now he's spreading some of that around the office. Oh. I sent her a message telling her to stop spreading my secrets around and to leave me alone. She replied by sending me explicit videos of herself having sex with my coworker
Starting point is 01:04:39 because she knew it would hurt me. That was the last straw for me, and I sent the video to all of her family and friends with the message that this is what M Sends me when I asked her to leave me alone and stop spreading rumors Her family is quite religious and they lost it Apparently they pulled their financial support for her college and aren't speaking with her at the moment. Am I the asshole? Whoa, okay, they, they broke up because why? She cheated on him.
Starting point is 01:05:08 She cheated on him and she freaked out. She freaked out, started dating their coworker, and then started sending, spreading sensitive information. Once again, this revenge is not helpful. This is intense revenge. It is not helpful. It is not helpful. It is not helpful. It is not helpful. It Once again, this revenge is not. This is intense revenge.
Starting point is 01:05:29 It is not helpful. Yeah. It's not gonna make you feel better. It's not gonna bring you the peace that you're looking for. Sounds like OP acted very, like out of emotion and in doing that. I will say this ex sounds very self-destructive.
Starting point is 01:05:47 Like the fact that they're doing all of these things. It's, so this ex sounds like a nightmare to me. Yeah. This ex is a horrible person. And now it's in the workplace too. Like also horrible. Sounds like malicious person. She's being a nightmare to him.
Starting point is 01:06:05 She's doing everything she can to hurt him. I totally understand that that's so painful and so awful. The thing is sending unsolicited sexual video or imagery to someone is illegal and horrible to do. And then in return, he did that to a bunch of people who did not ask for those images or those videos. He could have said, she's sending me explicit videos. If he went to them and said, I want you to know,
Starting point is 01:06:35 to her friends, she is harassing me. She is sending me footage of her, she is sending unsolicited videos to me. It is so painful for me, that is within his right. But him just blasting this out there is too much. It's a shitty thing to do to those people. Yeah. And that's why I'm not surprised the verdict
Starting point is 01:07:03 is everyone sucks here. Yeah. Which is a rare verdict to get on am I the asshole Comments here everyone sucks here. This is a pretty clear-cut case your ex is a terrible person who is acting despicably But you crossed a line in sending that to her family They did nothing to deserve being dragged into this situation someone else said everyone sucks here She was an asshole which is legal but revenge porn is not if she wants to bring the cops into this you're absolutely fucked Yeah, he literally sounds like someone who's waiting for that opportunity Yeah, he literally did the definition of revenge porn. Yeah
Starting point is 01:07:37 Everyone sucks here this girl sent you an unsolicited explicit video So to get back at her you sent a bunch of people an unsolicited explicit video you so to get back at her, you sent a bunch of people an unsolicited explicit video. You did to her friends and family exactly what she did to you. Yeah, look, there are so many situations in life where someone is being horrible, and it sucks that the best thing you can do is to block them and to do your best to move on.
Starting point is 01:08:01 And they will make it hard for you. They will, but like. There was a lot of steps that like could have had equal like taking care of yourself and standing up for yourself before that. Like even just to the partner that the ex is currently with being like, hey, just so you know,
Starting point is 01:08:19 your partner is sending me explicit content that I'm not comfortable with and because of him. On a standalone thing, he has a legal case there of being sent unsolicited videos to him, but he's blowing that by doing this. I mean, I don't know legal jargon as well. I don't know what the case is there. All I know is that this is not gonna be good for him.
Starting point is 01:08:42 That all sucks. I mean, that's a place where revenge is not gonna, yeah, it's in everyone sucks here, that revenge just kinda leaves everybody feeling horrible. Yeah. Because doing that didn't remove the data of his rumors from everyone's brains at work. It didn't, like none of that stuff was reversible.
Starting point is 01:09:03 Right. And like. It's not fixing the situation at all. It didn't, like, none of that stuff was reversible. Right. And like. It's not fixing the situation at all. No, no. Cause like, telling a loud racist in a plane to be quiet kind of fixes the thing. True. But, yeah, but just doing exactly what that person
Starting point is 01:09:18 did to you is not fixing anything. Yeah, it's just not the right move. Well, that's rough. That's brutal. I feel bad because OP had like really sensitive stuff that they literally probably something really bad happened to them and they're really sensitive to some things. I do feel bad for OP and his ex sounds like the worst person on the planet. Yeah. But this is less it's more a matter of like, you can't, you're doing this to other people though.
Starting point is 01:09:47 You're almost getting revenge on other people. Yeah. No, like no amount. I'm trying to punish her. That's kind of my take on it. No amount of anything being done to you gives you permission to do any of that. No.
Starting point is 01:09:58 Like, it doesn't matter. It's. You gotta be the better person. Yeah. Well, this has been an episode full of revenge. What was your favorite revenge? Favorite? None of them.
Starting point is 01:10:13 I don't believe in revenge. Nice. I think one of them, my favorite was like, it's not really a revenge, but it is the one where the Romanian speaking Uber driver, because it's like, that's not really a revenge, but it is the one where the Romanian-speaking Uber driver, because it's like, that's the kind of revenge that's like, ha ha, got you, you're gonna be thinking differently from now on, ha ha, didn't affect your life.
Starting point is 01:10:36 Like that OP could've like, and I gave them one star and got them fired and they lost their family. What's the difference between avenge and revenge? Avenge is, Avenge is if someone's been wrong's the difference between avenge and revenge? Avenges. Avenges is if someone's been wronged, you will avenge them. For them. For them.
Starting point is 01:10:51 Avenge, but revenge is from you. Is you. You're directly at the person. Reflect. I will avenge you. Avenge me. Avengers. What if there was Revengers?
Starting point is 01:11:07 Is there a Revengers? I think that's a thing. Thank you both for being here. Hey, thanks for having us, Shane. And thank you all. Thank you all for watching. Let us know in the comments down below if you've ever gotten revenge and what that looks like.
Starting point is 01:11:23 And also let us know what other themes and subreddits you'd like to see on this show. And we'll see you next Saturday. Goodbye. Revenge dancing. Revenge dancing.

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