Welcome back to Internet Frenzy. Welcome back,
guys. How are you? Happy to be back. Let's jump
right into it. Last week, we had the episode
about conspiracy theories. That was fun. Not
going to recap every single story. I will just
tell you the one that was fake. It was my story,
the one about them finding a little silver box
at the World Trade Center. Not one of my best
fake stories, but we roll with it. There were
no aliens involved in 9 -11. That we know of.
Well, that we know of. Exactly. That was the
fake one. So if you guys, if you guessed that
already, good on ya. If you didn't, keep practicing.
That one was pretty obvious. In my opinion, we
know the Charlie Kirk one wasn't fake. Let's
jump into this week's episode, shall we? We shall.
I'm excited. What's the theme on this week's
episode? Summer's wildest Reddit updates. It's
fall now, guys. So we've got to close the chapter
of summer. and we're going to come out with a
bang. And don't worry, the next few episodes
after this are going to be spooky, Halloween,
scary, creepy, crawly. I am so excited. This
is my favorite month of us doing episodes is
October. It's it's pretty decent. It's pretty
decent. But summer was good and Reddit was good
to us this summer, the story. So I'm excited
to share some of them. We jumping right into
it. So I'm going to start us off. This story
comes from best of Redditor updates. The original
was posted in June, 2024. And the final update
was September 27th, 2025. So this spanned two
summers. This one's a doozy. My fiance was tricked
and lost our down payment and savings. My fiance
was selling his old mountain bike online someone
messaged my fiance with an offer and this person
said they would send It this the the rider says
my fiance like every other words. It's a little
bit excessive feels like to me So I'm gonna do
my own little edits. Let's just call the fiance
D Someone messaged Dee with an offer and this
person said they would send Dee the funds in
advance and send their cousin to pick up the
bike the next day. Dee had promised me he would
only accept pick up in person with cash in hand.
For context, and so this post makes sense, in
Canada the main way and safest transferring funds
done is through your bank. It's tied to your
bank account. You can only transfer what you
have in your bank account and even then there's
a daily limit. It is also tied to your identity
since it's tied to your bank account. D told
the buyer he would accept a transfer. This is
where the scam started. The buyer sent it, but
he accidentally added an extra zero to the amount.
My fiance told the buyer he would transfer it
back since it was a mistake. He told my fiance
that he got locked out of his bank due to the
mistake with the previous transfer. So my fiance
should transfer it to his, the buyer's cousin's
account. No. My fiance did that. I have no idea
why my fiance, D, CCY, a hundred times, sent
back the whole amount instead of the extra minus
the payment for the bike. The buyer sent another
transfer and the same thing happened. Then the
buyer asked Dee to use a different app that starts
with a P since he was still locked out of his
bank account. He sent it to Dee, but again, he
added an extra zero to the amount and also doubled
it. Again, my fiance sent back the funds. The
buyer then asked if Dee would take a check. They
arranged for my fiance to meet the buyer's cousin
in person and they would exchange the bike for
the check. When Dee got the check, it was higher
than the agreed upon amount, but the cousin told
Dee it was a bonus for all his trouble. Dee deposited
the check and eventually used some of the funds
or attempted to. The funds from the first transfer
was from a bank account that was stolen due to
identity theft. That transfer was reversed. The
funds from the transfer on the other app was
stolen from an account as well, and the app reversed
that transfer. The check was fake and was clawed
back by the bank. This all on top of the transfers
that my fiance made to pay back the criminal.
Our entire savings account is gone. What we had
saved for a down payment, we were looking for
a house and now everything is gone. I didn't
find out about any of this until after the fact.
I get alerts anytime there's a transaction on
our savings account, but my fiance deleted them.
I do shift work, so I was asleep. My fiance went
into my phone and deleted the text because he
didn't want me to find out he broke his promise
about only accepting cash for the bike. No. I
am so angry. I'm not an angry guy in general,
but I am furious about this. Oh my God. We've
been dealing with the bank and with the other
app no success We took the messages between my
fiance and the buyer and the doorbell cam footage
to different levels of the police However, it
didn't change anything our money is gone We were
hoping the bank could reverse the transfers my
fiance made at least but the transfers were made
into a compromised account And the money was
immediately moved stop stop the story. I'm gonna
throw up Yeah, you love money The bank also says
my fiance voluntarily and willingly made the
transfers. We've given the police report to the
bank, but it's not likely to change anything.
Also, because of the fake check, our savings
account was closed. It had a zero balance, and
so is my fiance's personal bank account. Zero?
Zero. I use a different bank, so my personal
bank account wasn't affected. The bank says my
fiance has to take his banking somewhere else
and also that they will not provide mortgage
services to us. not that we will be buying a
house now since our entire down payment is gone.
I have warned my fiance that anyone who says
they can recover the money is lying and he must
ignore them. I will also ignore anyone who says
they can do that. I'm devastated. I know it was
just money, but I feel like I'm on a nightmare.
I tried to be a calm and laid back guy, but that
money was everything we had. We had to cancel
our wedding venue so we could get our deposit
back just so we could afford our rent for July.
I'm so angry with my fiance not just about getting
tricked but because he lied to me He broke his
promise and he lied to me more than the money.
He broke my heart. And right now I hate him This
is like a nightmare. I can't wake up from Thanks
for listening. Oh My god, he's banged up. Oh
I want to know how much money he had. I mean,
I guess it doesn't really matter either way like
I'm just thinking, so he said that he added a
zero on two of the transactions. So I'm thinking
maybe it's like a middle of the road mountain
bike. Let's just say hypothetically, it's a $600
bike. Yeah, twice. And then there was one time
he said that he added a zero and then doubled
it. Yeah, it's like, wait, oh yeah, you sent
me 12 grand. I'll just send this back. Okay,
so they're from Canada? Yeah. And they were living
in Canada. Everything's in Canada. Yeah. Okay.
Okay. Have Canada people not heard this? Like
how they do this scamming wise? All the comments
are like, dog. They hit me with my, they hit
my husband with this in 03 and he sniffed it
out then like, like, come on. Okay. Is there
updates to this? There is an update. Oh my gosh.
Is there any other thoughts you have? For me,
no. It's just, dude, don't do that. What do you
think about? Is the relationship salvageable
is what I want to know. Oh, shoot. So this is
15 months later. That's a long time. That's enough
time for them to figure their crap out. It's
been a rough year, but I32M wanted to post an
update because so many people were helpful and
supportive in what was a very dark time. My fiance
David, M33, See why I called him D? Had promised
me he would only take cash in person when selling
his old mountain bike. I don't know why he accepted
advance payments from someone he never met. I
don't know why he kept taking electronic payments
when there were so many problems. I don't know
why he accepted advance payments from someone
he never met. I don't know why he kept taking
electronic payments when there were so many problems.
I don't know why he took a check instead of cash
when he met the buyer in person. He lied to me
about that. He also tried to hide it from me
when the money started to be clawed back. He
turned off the text alerts option from our bank
when I was sleeping so I didn't realize what
was going on or that money was getting clawed
back. Losing the money when we were in the middle
of looking for a house was devastating. What
was even more devastating was David lying and
trying to hide this from me. Between his lying,
acting like this wasn't a big deal, losing our
down payment and having to cancel our wedding
venue to get our deposit back so we could pay
our rent, my relationship with David fell apart.
I was so angry with him. I've spent the last
year dealing with the police, the bank and the
other app and all of the wedding vendors we had
to cancel on. The police say it is a common scam
and David wasn't the only victim they know about.
It was hell. Even worse than all of that was
David lying to me and doing this and not realizing
he was being tricked out of our money. David
and I had moved out here a few years ago because
the house prices were the lowest in the country.
After we broke up, I heard David move back to
his home province. I'm staying here. I have a
life here, a good job and I'm not exactly on
the best terms with my family. But having to
start over from scratch after what David did
was hard. The last year was a dark time. Not
the worst of my life, but close. David tried
to say I was victim blaming him because I was
angry. He said he tried to hide what happened
because he was ashamed. But he destroyed my trust
and our relationship. Some days I still can't
believe this happened. In short, my relationship
with David is over. I had to find a new place
to live. Our savings were lost and I'm starting
over from scratch. I will be okay, but it was
a hard year. Like, it's crazy to me is that I
feel like everyone obviously has the agency to,
like, choose which hard you're going to take.
Like, there's a fork in the road at that point.
Which one am I choosing? And there's so many
people that I have been around or like I, like
friends and family where I've seen them all at
that fork in the road. I'd say 95 % of them have
chosen to stay. with their couple, you know,
and then I've seen the other 5 % choose to like,
I know I'm out. And it's just interesting both
sides, they both have like heart. So just listening
to him, like, I was thinking like, what if he
would have chosen to stay, there's other people
out there that I've worked through things that
are probably worse than that. Yeah, I would say
and so it's just, I don't know, it's just interesting
to me that like he decided to dip from that.
Yeah, I did you I think actually that's a that's
a good point because if you wanted to really
empathize with David The one that got scammed
panicked and didn't want to get caught with something
like being so stupid Yeah, that's like it's really
easy to be like dude. You're a moron like why
didn't you why didn't you know but like I've
I've been scammed before I Know this story made
me think of that when you first started reading
I was dying laughing because I was the fiance
in this story Yeah, I mean like I was like kind
of mad at you like what were you asking? What
were you thinking and like I'll tell it really
quick I've actually told it on like one of our
early episodes of the podcast, but I was driving
for door dash and There's some elaborate scheme
where they use an IP address They make a door
dash order They have no intention of paying for
and then they use a door dash like they put their
caller ID as door dash and they call you and
so I was like I don't know if they knew, but
I was very early on in my dashing. We had fallen
on hard times financially for a number of reasons
that we won't go into right now. And it was,
it was just rough, but I was door dashing for
a very short time, a couple of days, but had
made maybe like about 200 bucks because I was
doing it pretty regularly. And all of a sudden
I get this call on my phone and it comes up and
like has caller ID on just my iPhone. It says
door dash. So I answer it. And persons sounded
legit. Like they sounded like they knew their
stuff. They're like, hello, yeah, you just received
an order, right? Like you just received an order
to go to Wendy's. We just need you to, we're
gonna walk you through disabling the order. Go
ahead and pull over. I pulled over, did this
thing and they're like walking me through and
I had to update my email or have an email sent
through to me. And so like I gave them my email
address to have it sent through. Yeah, and it
was like an immediate transfer thing anyways,
the long and short of it is it was some elaborate
scheme They were using an IP address They've
made a fake door dash order a real Dasher picked
it up and somehow they were able to contact me
and because they got my email They were able
to access my account or I think they I think
they asked for the code seem I'm dumb I'm the
dumb one but whatever it was they they got in
there and they immediately transferred the like
$200 or whatever and I I was decide myself i
couldn't believe it we were literally like heavenly
father what is happening like we can't afford
anything right now please that money was literally
that $200 was going to be our groceries for the
freaking month eating ramen like it was we were
really really low at that point and it was the
worst thing scammers how dare you do you know
stravers scam the rich like what are you doing
it's like If you have to scam for a living, how
do you target the people that are doing like
what your dumb ass should be doing? Get out there
and door dash and don't steal from the dashers.
That's such bullshit. Oh, that pisses me off.
We were devastated. So I was trying, but I think
I think that's how I could relate a little bit
to this story. I mean, I can't, but I can. It's
just like he made a dumb mistake. And yes, he
lied and was trying to hide it because He knew
it was such a big deal. $200 is nothing compared
to what they were. Right. No, yeah. Nothing.
But I just that feeling of just like, Joe, are
you serious? Like, how did you not know? I'm
like, I don't know what you want me to say. I've
never gotten a phone call from DoorDash before.
And whatever they used to strip, it was like
they knew what they were doing. And then when
I called DoorDash customer support, they're like,
oh, yeah, like you don't we don't ever call you.
I was like, how? OK, thanks for telling me, but
how would I ever know that? No, what I wanted
to say, though, is just to be the voice of reason
a little bit, just like just a smidge. It's so
easy again to be like, yeah, David's an idiot.
You shouldn't have fallen for it, blah, blah,
blah. Yeah. But if you really want to empathize,
put yourself in somebody else's shoes. Like just
think about not knowing. Like think about David
like trying to get this deal done. He's excited.
He's getting money for his bike. It comes through
and he's like. It's not that the red flag goes
off and he ignores it. He did it multiple times.
So it's like, it's just pure ignorance. And that
deserves nothing but just like sympathy. Like,
sorry, dude, that sucks that that happened to
you. Because if you don't know, it doesn't cross
your mind. You don't know. But in the middle
of the night, he turned off his alerts and his
notifications. Like, there is a sense of like...
A pause. A pause. Pause. A pause. I'm saying
just for where his mind, just from where he was
operating from, like that's a horrible thing
to have to go through. And then he's worried
about like getting eviscerated by obviously the
type A person in the relationship. I'm not justifying
it by any means. Turning off the text was completely
wrong. Don't just call David an idiot. That's
all I'm trying to say. David is learning by example.
It's like a four year old. If I took my kid's
toy away, with no intention of giving it back
and I go and throw it in the dumpster. I should
do that, that was messed up. David's the kid,
okay? Oh gosh, that's like 30 years old. But
yeah, no, I get it. I get where you're going.
Do you? No, yeah, I do. That's my main objective.
If any of you get it too, that's bonus, but.
As long as I do. Yeah. That was a crazy story.
You like it? Yeah, that was really good. Yeah,
the next one is gonna make everyone cry, so.
Well, I'm up next. I'm meaning after you go.
Of course. Okay. My best friend's husband went
through my phone and it ended our friendship.
My 26F best friend 26F and I had been friends
since we were little. We grew up on a small town
and played on the same sports teams. We went
to different public schools but eventually went
to the same high school and had prom together.
I was her maid of honor and we even have a couple
matching tattoos together. Essentially we've
been through all the ups and downs of life together.
She's one of those people I always thought would
be in my life forever as her husband, 26M. I
was actually friends with him before they even
got together. We met in high school and there
have been many times that we were there for each
other and I consider him a best friend. That's
why what happened completely shocked me and has
left our friendship in pieces. One day she and
I went for a long walk to check out a new grocery
store in town. Yes, in small towns we get excited
about things like a new grocery store. I left
my phone at her house like I've done many, many,
many times before and we went on our way. About
halfway there she got a call from her husband.
I believe just checking in but also to say my
phone's alarm was going off. I told her I didn't
have any alarms set but he asked for my Pabst
code so he could turn it off. I didn't give it
much thought but it seems responsible. I gave
it to her to pass along. Keep in mind they both
have had access to my phone before either to
call themselves because they lost their phone
in the couch or to look something up and didn't
want to get up on their own phone that was charging
a ways away. Either way I have trusted both of
them for years with my phone and to respect our
privacy. When we got back about three and a half
hours later like I said a long walk I checked
my phone and it could see that the alarm clock
app was still left open in the background, so
I assumed he'd go into that app and turn off
an alarm. Then I see that my phone was left on
a different page than where the alarm clock app
had been. My clock app is on my home page. I
also always write to my home page before locking
my phone. I mean, I have some weird OCD tendencies
to always do this. If I forget, I will open my
phone again and do it. I cannot emphasize this
enough that I always do this. So it was weird
that I was swiped two pages over. Then I noticed
I missed a call from my boyfriend 25m and a bunch
of snapchat notifications from our work friends
group chat. When I asked her husband if that's
what he heard going off, he avoided eye contact
and vaguely said, I don't know, it was just some
alarm sound. Later at home, I told my roommate
23f in her friend 23f what happened and why I
felt weird about it but was looking for them
to both tell me I'm crazy. and overthinking things.
But, my roommate being the little detective that
she is, checked my phone's screen time history.
And that's when things got really unsettling.
According to screen time during the hours I was
gone, my phone showed about 15 minutes in Snapchat,
15 minutes in my photos, 10 minutes in my Google
photos, and five minutes in my text messages,
and only 15 seconds in the alarm clock app. I'm
stunned. We did some research and learned that
background apps don't count towards screen time.
unless they're actively open on the screen. So
this meant he was actively in those apps. I immediately
confronted my best friend about it. She spoke
to her husband right away to get a reason for
this, but of course he came back with a bunch
of inconsistent excuses saying he only opened
apps to stop the alarm and didn't actually look
at anything. He claimed he opened apps with notifications
but didn't read them, then closed them all. But
his story kept changing and nothing explained
why he was in my photos at all where there are
no alarms or notifications. When I pointed out
the holes in his story and the screen time proof,
she asked me, do you have proof he went through
your photos? I just don't understand why you're
so adamant that he's lying. That honestly broke
me. I showed her the evidence and she still defended
him. I can understand that they are married and
she's going to take her partner's word, but the
proof I had was pretty solid. I can't understand
denying it. Maybe I can see having a united front
and questioning it behind closed doors. but she
completely ignored and dismissed my feelings
and wanted to brush us under the rug. I took
a couple of days and talked to my boyfriend about
this since they're also his friends too. My boyfriend
and her husband had known each other and grew
up with each other since they were babies. They
got really close in college when they all lived
together and when my boyfriend and I started
dating the double's dates never stopped. My boyfriend
felt disrespected and violated as well since
we did start dating in COVID and have sent things
back and forth. it wasn't just my personal photos
that he could have been looking through. From
posting the first hint a lot of people were stuck
on the fact that I didn't hide or lock my nudes
which I did but the password in my phone is the
same password to the hidden album. After a couple
of days she had tried to text me and send me
memes like nothing had happened so I explained
it again that it was wrong what her husband did
and if I was her I'd look through his phone.
I asked for space and I haven't spoken to either
of them in three months. My phone plan was up
and I got a new phone but there was some confusion
about keeping my number and now I have a new
one. So she couldn't contact me even if she wanted
to. My boyfriend wants nothing to do with them
and he also believes her husband is a cheating
asshole I was looking for news. He thinks that
we're better off without them. I feel so heartbroken
and betrayed and I keep going back and forth
on what to do. Should I try reaching out so she
at least has my new number? Or should I cut my
losses and move on? This lady needs to know what
a TLDR is. It's as simple as husband's friends
look for my nudes. Am I the a -hole for not wanting
to be their friend anymore? Do you think that's
what happened? Yeah. So do you think there actually
was an alarm or do you think he was just there
and saw her farm and down the look? The fact
that she even fell for it, she's as dumb as David,
literally, because When an alarm goes off on
your phone, there's snooze and stop, whether
it's locked or not. Yeah, exactly. She I don't
have words. Don't give that guy your password
to your phone. And when you're in Podunk, small
town USA, take your phone with you so that if
you get kidnapped, they can track you. Anytime,
anytime we go anywhere, we go to the gas station
or the movies or whatever, she tries to leave
her phone. I'm like, take your damn phone. There's
a reason that you have it and it's supposed to
go everywhere with you. It's You need it on you.
It's safety. I never yeah, I never move my phone
like the other day I had to run into Trader Joe's
and I left my phone in the car and ran in Joe
parked and I didn't know he was so I just sat
outside the Trader Joe's just staring into the
abyss What do you guys think I was doing? honking
no, I it's a parking lot full of people I was
parked just like just on the opposite side and
I see you walk out and you walk and look and
like she's looking right at where I am. So I'm
like, OK, she's going to walk over here. It's
great. And then she just stops and turns around
and goes back to the front. Like, oh, she wants
me to go and like drive the carriage up to the
front and, you know, put her in the chariot and
we go on about our day. So this is like. This
little Trader Joe's parking lot and just like
the road rage. I can just feel it right now because
people are just backing up into you, walking
across. You can't go anywhere. It takes so long.
So I have to back up and swoop down and around.
And on my way around, I get up to the front through
thousands of people and I'm looking and she's
gone. And guess what? She doesn't have a phone.
Gosh, I'm like, where the hell did she go? Where
like you were at the front of the store. You
started walking towards me and then you stop.
Where are you? I was there. Like looking through
where I was parked to the parking space is still
open. I don't know what to do. She'd like walk
all the way down to the end over to the side.
Who even knows? Finally spots me. See, I don't
bring my phone. That could happen to me. I felt
like that would happen. Oh, you'd be like, oh
yeah, here's my code. Go ahead and look through
it, Kevin. I think she's just more upset that
the friend's not believing her and she's like,
dude, your husband's a piece of shiz. He's freaking
like cheating on you. Let's go to mine. This
one comes from best of Redditor updates. What
IBDA hole if I didn't tell my best friend that
I'm dying. I recently got diagnosed with stage
four lung cancer that somehow went undetected
before. and I have up to three months to live
according to the doctor. I could try treatments,
but it's going to be expensive as hell and at
most it's going to extend my life by a few more
months before I die anyways. So I decided I'd
just take it and face it head on. And now my
best friend since forever and his wife finally
got pregnant after eight years of trying with
no luck and they're genuinely the happiest I've
ever seen them. He knows I was in the hospital
and they came to check on me multiple times and
I just told them that they shouldn't bother and
that it wasn't serious. I don't wanna make one
of the happiest times of both of their lives
sad just for me. It's gonna happen eventually
when I do go and I know it's gonna destroy him
because we're genuinely closer to each other
than we are to our own siblings. He already told
me that I'm gonna be his daughter's godfather.
And I genuinely hope I'd get to see her at least
once before I go. I'm single with no children
and I'm planning to split my estate to give some
to my older sister and set up college funds for
her three children who I love very much and to
my parents and I want to give something to my
friend. I want to set up a little college fund
for their future baby daughter. I'm also writing
a long personalized letter to a lot of family
and friends and I'm writing his now and I can't
stop crying. I'm apologizing for keeping this
a secret and I said I didn't want to take the
spotlight and I love him and his wife and that
I know their daughter would be the most loved
baby in the world. But I'm wondering if this
is the right thing to do or if it hurt him even
more when I go should I just tell him oh that's
so sad we're an incredible person that's tough
huh he's so alone this is like in this family
doesn't know I mean that's not part of the story
but we don't know for sure but there is I'm just
gonna tell for your sake right now, there is
an update. You could read the comments on best
redditor updates. I'm not going to, but this
is the update. He posted it the same day, only
five hours after the original post. Oh wow. Thanks
for all your kind words to me and I'm sorry about
all your loved ones who suffered the same. Almost
all of you suggested telling him about it and
y 'all gave me perspectives I honestly didn't
think about and so I did it last night. Right
now it's 6am over here, but last night after
I posted it and got most of your messages, I
called him. He answered on the second ring and
I just broke down and started crying. I told
him everything about why I was really in the
hospital that time and about my diagnosis and
the fact I have up to 3 months to live. He broke
down and called me a bastard and a liar and told
me to stop effing with him. Then he hung up on
me. and 15 minutes later he came over still in
his pajamas and we just hugged and cried. I showed
him my medical records and reports and I showed
him the post and the comments and he called me
crazy and a damn idiot for even thinking about
not telling him. He said he'd have hated me and
himself if I died without telling him before
that. And he said I'm more important to him than
a million babies. We stayed up the entire night
just talking about it and life and reliving our
memories and laughing and crying and stuff. He
even took a video of us just talking. I cannot
do it. Sad. Death is sad. He even took a video
of us just talking and he asked if I really wanted
to leave something to him and his daughter. And
I was like, yeah. I joked that I wouldn't be
needing the money anyway and that I'm throwing
it in the trash basically. And he laughed like
it's the funniest thing ever. He just left right
now because his wife has an early doctor's appointment
tomorrow. And I begged him before that that I
don't want any pity or sadness from him or anybody
else. And he said, bitch, I'd never cry for you.
after a whole night of him indeed crying for
me, by the way. And we hugged and he told me
to get some sleep and rest because we have a
long day today. I asked what he meant and he
told me I'd see. So yeah, I feel like a huge
weight was lifted off me and it's mainly thanks
to all of you. Thank you again. Update number
two. Okay, good. I can't reply to any comments
or post anything on my original account and I
wanted to give you all one last update because
none of this would have happened without y 'all.
So there was no doctor's appointment. instead
he had his wife bake me this family recipe cake
that I absolutely love and they came over at
10 a .m. with the cake his wife gave me the biggest
mama bear hug and cried and said she loves me
and asked if it was true and I said yeah and
we sat down and cried they were crying for me
but I was crying because the cake was so good
Then they took me out for a family fun day out
and it was honestly so good We went to the mall
and watched the conjuring movie in the cinema
because we all love horror And we even did carding
just me and my friend though because she's too
pregnant for this They took me to my favorite
restaurant and refused to let me pay for anything
the entire day We then went to a beach and watched
the Sun go down and we just talked more about
it and we cried some more I told them when I'm
dead I don't want them to be sad at all for me
or else I'd haunt them forever and I told them
to love their baby daughter extra hard for me
and they film multiple videos of me saying they
want to remember my voice which honestly hit
me really hard. They told me they wanted me to
move in with them until I go because they wanted
as much time with me as possible and would love
having me around and honestly it's perfect timing
because my lease literally ends two weeks from
now. They don't want to leave me alone so they're
both sleeping at my place tonight. We're giving
my bed to his wife and we're taking the couches.
I don't wish this sickness on my worst enemy
but honestly I'm feeling so lucky and loved right
now. They literally would not leave me alone
and honestly I couldn't be any I just wish I'd
get to meet their baby at least once before I
die and it's possible because she's in her seventh
month Tomorrow I'm planning to go and tell the
rest of my closest family and friends again Thanks
for all your nice words to me. This was posted
on the 27th of September Took him to play games
go -karting Yeah, like we'll do it when you're
like you're there somebody commented, damn someone
is aggressively cutting onions near me. It's
crazy though because that is it's a very moving
story. You can feel just from OP who is very
much a dude writer. Everything's just a comma.
A little bit hard to read, but he and that best
friend are straight up like two peas in a pod.
And OP, OOP, so the guy that posted the original,
the guy that's dying, he comments all over the
place. He's got a good sense of humor. It's fun
if you want to go read it. Painful to try to
put yourself in their shoes, but would you want
to tell? Would you make like this kind of whatever?
Not like a parade, but like you want to be like,
hey everyone, I'm terminal. Yeah, I'm telling
everyone because I would be so scared. I would
need my people. Like I wouldn't want to be alone
in that. I wouldn't have want to deal with that.
But I'm like who would you tell would you because
it's you have to think about how exhausting that
would be people that love you They're just gonna
turn into a puddle and like yeah, there's support
there, but it's also like this like Yeah, you're
causing them to grieve you and you're still there
but that's like I think I just think it's cool
the friend and the friend's wife They did a perfect
example of that's how you support somebody in
that it's like be there for them, love them.
That's so terrible. That's so horrific. Would
you tell them? Yeah. I think I would tell. How's
that for an update story? That's sad. I'm probably
not ending on that because I'm going to be depressed.
OP is not the a -hole though. That was the consensus.
Not to my story. Am I the a -hole for asking
a girl not to film me at the gym? I23F was at
the gym yesterday when I noticed a girl setting
up her phone across from me. At first I brushed
it off, people record themselves all the time,
but after my first couple reps, I realized I
was dead center in her shot. I instantly felt
embarrassed, the thought of it being background
content for some stranger's TikTok made my stomach
drop. I racked the weights, cleaned up my area,
and decided to move to a machine on the other
side of the room. I got through one set in my
new spot before I noticed her again. She had
walked over, set her phone up right next to me,
and once again had me in the fray. This time,
I couldn't just ignore it. Between sets, I tried
to get her attention and said, hey, would you
mind angling it so I'm not in the shot? She looked
straight at me, tapped her headphones, mimed,
I can't hear you, and just kept going. At this
point, I was getting hella pissed, so I went
into the bathroom to try and calm down. When
I came back out, I nearly bumped into her. She
was glued to her phone, editing the very footage
she had just taken with me in it. She walked
past me without even noticing. That's when I
decided to find a worker and explain. I told
him what happened and he said, Oh, she's not
filming here. She's just filming herself and
brushed me off like I was being dramatic. I tried
to hold my ground, but he clearly was not having
it. So I decided to head home. I sat in my car
for a few minutes, still were playing it in my
head raging. That's when I saw the worker walking
out of the building, holding hands with the TikToker.
They laughed, got into the same car, and drove
away together. I went from feeling brushed off
to realizing I never even had a chance of being
taken seriously. So, am I the a -hole for not
wanting to be in the background of her TikToks,
or is it that just something you have to accept
if you work out in public? No, you're not the
a -hole. And guess what? There's a whole guy
that's made millions of dollars just eviscerating
people that do that. Joey Swole? Yeah, I love
his videos. I really do. Be better. Have you
ever had that experience where someone was like
filming and you're like in the background and
you notice No, not in recent memory, but that's
it the gym we go to film. He's not allowed Yeah,
I'm sure people still like sneak in and do stuff,
but I also just I don't care. Yeah, I don't see
anyone really. I've seen a few. Well, I have
an experience. So I just got back into going
to the gym. I decided I was going to take this
like hip hop class. So I take this hip hop class
and I go in thinking like, Oh, it's gonna be
fun. They're gonna like teach us a dance in the
class and then we're going to do it. Cause like
with high fit or anything like that, you're like
learning the dance as you go. And it's like easy
steps that you take by the end of the Class you're
like you're in it with the class. You're not
just like standing on the side looking like an
idiot Like I don't know what's happening. So
I figured that's what this hip -hop class would
be No, it's so stupid how they set this up. I
haven't been since that's fine. Anyways walk
in thinking I'm just gonna learn it I am standing
there. I went in the back I'm standing there
looking like an idiot because I could not figure
it out Larry you walk in they turn the music
on girls boom just start doing all the crap,
twerking on the floor, rolling iron splits. I
don't even freaking know. And I'm just standing
there, what in the hell? Where are we? What am
I doing here? And everyone in the back didn't
know what they were doing. So we all are just
like scattering. You know, when you're like trying
to do a dance that you don't know the dance and
so you're like five steps behind. Yeah. It was
literally us in the back the whole time. And
I was next to this grandma and she had been to
a few classes before, so she knew a little bit
more than me. But they do new dances every class.
So I'm trying so hard. I'm like bright red because
I am getting a workout and I'm trying. And I
just, I don't feel attractive at all. Like I
don't feel bad about myself while I'm doing it,
but I'm like, I'm just going to try. I, it was
almost at the end of the workout or the hippo
fast. I like look in the corner of my eye to
my right. There's an iPhone set up directly at
me and it's the front train so I can see it.
Like I am in the shot. it's me and then there
was this lady that was next to me and it was
her phone she was filming and she was filming
me and her doing this class and i'm literally
like oh my gosh this entire class i've been filmed
and i look like an idiot i mean if that was posted
on tiktok i promise you it would have gone viral
i promise you because i was trying so hard And
I looked like an absolute idiot. I mean, who
knows? Maybe people would have been like, oh,
that poor girl. I prefer her for trying. Or they'd
have been like, that fat loser. What is she doing?
Get out of the class. Why didn't you ask her
to airdrop it to you? I would have cried. So
anyways, I see it and I like look away and I'm
like, oh my gosh, are you? I felt so violated
and so just like, it was just so ridiculous.
It should not have been allowed. And I immediately,
what's wrong? Are you crying? No, no, I'm not.
I immediately grabbed my stuff and just like
walked out. I was like, I mean, I took the second
to think and I was like, no, I don't feel comfortable.
And I also didn't feel comfortable looking at
this lady and being like, get your phone away
from me. Like, what are you doing filming me?
But I was like raging. I was so embarrassed,
so upset. I just felt so violated. Anyways, I
grabbed my stuff and I just like walked out of
the class, had like maybe 10 minutes left. I
have never been back since and I've never seen
that video of me on social media, thank goodness.
Probably has like 12 followers. Yeah, she has,
probably. This story, when I read it on Reddit,
I was like, read it on Reddit. That's what it's
based on, you get it? Anyways, that's my story
about the gym and I don't think phones should
be allowed at all. I think there needs to be
like set places for influencers that they can't
go. Like hell? At the gym. Yeah. Yeah, there
should definitely be set places because I mean
I get it if you're a fitness influencer you got
to get content and gyms would best way to do
it, but People that are just trying to get their
spark back man like for it What is freaking normal
average -sized people be yeah? Let us be let's
be it all right. Well our daughter just woke
up, so let's finish up this Okay, I'm not gonna
get any time to game all right guys. Well that
was that was wrapping up the summer Reddit stories
what this is the ninth time you want to dab me
up go ahead dab me up cuz Shit, yeah, bud. Okay.
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