Episode 39
· 26:55
Yapping!
Erika:Hello. This is Erika.
Edgar:Hey, Edgar.
Erika:And we are the Yapping Snowsers. We entertain you with the app worthy stories we find around the web. Today's theme is petty chaos. Am I the asshole? Boyfriend peed the bed and is mad at me for my response.
Erika:My boyfriend, 27 male, and I, female 23, just moved into a new house and bought a new mattress. Last night I woke up to a wet feeling under my arm and hand. My boyfriend was already up and in the bathroom. When he came back I asked him if he spilled something in the bed or knew why it was wet. He told me that he thinks he peed the bed.
Erika:I asked him again and said, Wait, are you serious? And he said, I think I peed in my dreams and peed in real life. Didn't you say that had a dream that you were peeing?
Edgar:Yeah, and luckily I did not pee the bed. But yeah, it's always, you play a dangerous game when you're peeing in your dreams.
Erika:Yeah, I think it's an automatic response to get up and go. Okay, we are both half awake at this point and I'm just surprised that he actually did wet the bed. I asked him to go grab some stuff to clean it up and he told me that it was fine. I asked him what he meant by that and he grabbed a towel, laid it on the wet spot and got back into the bed to go to sleep. I put the covers off him and told him that he needs to go grab stuff to clean it up because I don't want it to get stained and it's a new mattress and we don't have a mattress cover for it yet.
Erika:He told me that it was fine, that I'm overreacting. That statement naturally pissed me off and I told him I'm not going to sleep and his piss and that's not fair to me. He told me he'll clean it in the morning, that's not a big deal and it doesn't warrant the reaction I have. That was not the solution I wanted so I took all the sheets off the bed, threw them at him, and told him to sleep on the couch. It was very irritating hearing him tell me that I'm overreacting because I asked him to clean up his pee in the bed we both sleep in.
Erika:Then he knocked on the door ten minutes later asking for a new blanket because the one I gave him smelled like pee. So am I the asshole for overreacting to my boyfriend not cleaning up the pee in the bed right away?
Edgar:No, that's like not an overreaction. Like, I just find it like wrong that the boyfriend wanted to just like stay in his pee all night just because he's tired. I feel like just like the stickiness and just like the grossness of it would make me want to just wake up and clean it. No,
Erika:I think she handled this as a champ. Like honestly, I would be pissed. Literally. I would literally, I would not have handled it this well. So I think she was a champ for saying, she was half asleep, she thought he was joking because he'd never done that before.
Erika:And she said, Okay, let's just clean it up. Go wash it. He didn't want to. It's just disgusting. Imagine you marinating the whole night, eight, nine hours, like with your pee under you, it's disgusting.
Edgar:I can't imagine, like you're gonna get like pimples and like rashes from that.
Erika:Yeah, that's, no.
Edgar:And it's like going to smell off the room too?
Erika:Yeah, no, and then stain. And even to remove that off the mattress or the blankets, have to use special like cleaning stuff. It's just not soap and water.
Edgar:I think the worst thing that happened like in a fresh new mattress that you like probably bought, it was like thousands of dollars and like mattresses, you can't like just fit it in the laundry.
Erika:I know, I would be so pissed too. Well you have the special tools where you go like, know, when I'm talking about those vacuums that you just go like, like liquid in water and you go like that, you know what I'm saying?
Edgar:Yeah, know, but how often do you have that, like next year?
Erika:Yeah, I mean, they're pretty expensive so, yeah. I mean, the mattress that we got is pretty expensive, so I would be really pissed.
Edgar:Luckily the dogs and I have like eaten it.
Erika:No, the dogs are such good girls. There's a small update but I'm not really gonna read it because it's really void. So the only thing is that he did apologize and got her flowers and her favorite ice cream and just saying, you know, I should have cleaned it right away. It was disrespectful for me to be like, You're overreacting. So I thought he did good after just saying sorry after that.
Edgar:I mean, considering that he was tired, it's probably just his blunt reaction, like, Oh, I'm just way too tired to deal with this. When he woke up, he probably had a lot more clarity. So it does show that it's not really all his fault that he wanted to sleep in the pee.
Erika:Oh yeah, he did sleep and then he peed,
Edgar:yeah.
Erika:Well, still, you know, but there's no reason for him to saying, You're overreacting. It clearly was not an overreaction. It was just disgusting.
Edgar:Yeah, it's not a reaction, but also he probably was not like conscious enough to like, think it through, like what he's saying during that time.
Erika:Yeah, but he could have done better.
Edgar:Okay, so final reaction?
Erika:Final verdict? Would say that she's not the asshole. I think she, like I said, she was a champ. She didn't scream at her, yell at him. She was just annoyed.
Edgar:Yeah, she handled it as best as she could and then he handled it better. Afterwards. Afterwards, yeah, after the fact. So, the next story is titled A Little Girl Stole My $700 Fishing Pole and Broke It. I'm a female, age 18, and I love fishing.
Edgar:It's a simple fact, I go whenever I can and have pretty expensive equipment. Yesterday, I was fishing at a pond in my local park where there were a ton of fish. And I was catching a ton and it was going good. I was using my second pole that has my lateral for base. My expensive pole was sitting on my camping chair that I always bring.
Edgar:And I look over at my chair and it's gone. I'm panicking and running around the pond to see if anyone had it. All of a sudden I see a little girl, about 11 years old, holding it. She had casted and was reeling it in. I wanted to make sure it was mine, I waited until I could see the larrow.
Edgar:Sure enough, when she pulled it out of the water, it was my, Oh, it's lur. Okay, she just found it weird.
Erika:I was wondering what that was.
Edgar:Yeah, okay. Every time I said lur, it's lur. But yeah, so my Lur, my pole and my property, was what I saw. I come up to the little girl and say, Nice pole. Where did you get it?
Edgar:And with the most blank expression, she looks up at me and says, I found it. And well, I said, It's mine, so can I have it back? And it was really expensive. And then she replies, No, I found it. It's mine, so if you don't give it back to me, I'm going to have to take it.
Edgar:And she looks up at me and just so angrily stabs the lip of the pole into the ground and with her force snaps it in half. I can't believe what I saw and I picked it up and started yelling at her. A lady came over running and started screaming at me and asked me why I'm yelling at her daughter and I explained to her what happened with the most annoyed face and tone. She found it so it's hers. I told the lady I would call the police if she didn't give me the money for the poll.
Edgar:She said she wouldn't because it was now her daughter's poll. I called the police and they took her and her daughter in and I am filing reports right now and trying to sue her for the $700 I know it might sound ridiculous, but I am pissed.
Erika:I think it's so, ridiculous.
Edgar:I mean, crazy part, like, how old was a little kid, like an 11 year old? The 11 year old and a mom had the same mentality.
Erika:I mean, when you're 11, you're not a kid anymore. I'm sorry. You understand what you're not supposed to be touching, you know, a stranger thinks you shouldn't be grabbing. Like, you know I mean? You're not that young.
Erika:You should know what's right and wrong. I just, I think it's ridiculous. I hope she gets her money back or some type of compensation because ridiculously, dollars 700 down the drain over a little kid touching your stuff.
Edgar:I know, like it could have just been like a playful thing, then the mom kind of like make it even worse.
Erika:Yeah. Saying, oh, she found it. It hurts. Really? She did not find it.
Erika:She took it.
Edgar:Exactly. She just want to, I don't know. There's just something not connecting up there for the mom. No. Now Terrible parenting.
Edgar:The mom and the daughter, like the 11 year old daughter are going to jail probably.
Erika:I don't doubt it. I doubt they'll go to jail, but this should get fined for something.
Edgar:At least they're fine. And this is like destruction of property and like potentially stealing. I mean, it's up to OP, like how pissed she is.
Erika:How she wants to go with it, yeah.
Edgar:Yeah, because usually they let you press charges or don't press charges, so it looks like she's intending to press charges.
Erika:Well, the entitlement was insane there. So the top comment is not the asshole. She stole and broke something that wasn't hers and her adult defended it. What does she think is going to happen with this kid in the future?
Edgar:At the, yeah, you got to nip it out at the butt. And as an 11 year old, just like punish her now, that way hopefully she'll get the lesson that you're not supposed to steal.
Erika:Yeah, well yours will be touching that something that's not yours. Simple as that. Respect others privacy or things and that's it.
Edgar:I know, right? I just don't get like how that could happen. Like how so many things could go wrong so quickly.
Erika:Yeah, and it's scary. Like what if
Edgar:she, God forbid, sees a weapon or something? She's like, Oh, well now it's mine because I found it. Like, you know,
Erika:it's not something-
Edgar:Or if OP wasn't nice, you know? What if she was like a violent person? OP. Oh, It could that's have been a lot more worse for the little kid.
Erika:Yeah. I mean, thank goodness that this time they found a decent human being or somebody at least that was not going to hurt them for doing something like that. Because people take it, like fishing seriously.
Edgar:Yeah, like I love fishing and mean,
Erika:You just I started a hobby.
Edgar:Yes, it's my new hobby, my new obsession and I love it already. But I don't think I would spend that much money on a fishing rod. I don't see the point too much, but I can get like equipment for a bunch of hobbies that you have, like whether it's like fishing or like music. It can get very expensive. Like it's something that you have pride in and you have ownership of.
Edgar:Oh, right now Erica and I are just looking at Cabela's for $700 $800 fishing And I'm good with my $35 fishing rod from Walmart.
Erika:Yeah, there's no way. That's insane.
Edgar:I feel like I'm getting good mileage of it, but I guess the $700 $800 fishing rods are for more heavier fishes.
Erika:Yeah, I mean a shark or something.
Edgar:They know a lot more than I do about these things, but it looks cool, I guess. It looks like an actual fishing rod.
Erika:Yeah, it looks advanced. Yeah, it looks pretty cool.
Edgar:I hope I get a sponsored regular list. I want to show them my four eight inch fishes.
Erika:Well, you got a 10 inch one the other day.
Edgar:Yeah,
Erika:you were really happy for that one.
Edgar:I was, yeah. It was a fighter. Like, yeah, back to this story. But yeah, so mother and daughter go to jail, directly to jail. Do have Pascoe?
Erika:I would just say she's not the ass for reacting the way she did. I hope she gets justice somehow or she gets some money in return. Because $700 is crazy.
Edgar:Yeah, dollars 700 is like, that's a lot. I mean, it's not grand larceny technically, but still. It's almost there.
Erika:I mean, yeah.
Edgar:You're heading towards there.
Erika:Yeah, definitely. So the next story is coworker told a customer no in my favorite way. In the aughties, which means in the decade of the 2000s, I worked in a call center doing tech support. Our jobs ended up getting outsourced, so I got laid off. A few weeks later the company called and asked if I wanted to work on a new contract at the call center.
Erika:I was desperate for a job, so I went back. The contract was doing warranty customer service for a major car manufacturer. Once training started, I realized quickly how much it would suck. My previous job was to fix the collar's problem, something I enjoyed. Without warranties off, the collar was the problem and my job was to find any way to tell them no.
Erika:I was paired up with a battle hardened older woman for a few hours to listen and learn. She was an old at it and I got to witness her power. A guy called in and she had to look at his call history. She muted him and showed how this man had called in for stuff many times over the years despite his truck being long out of warranty. He has somehow begged, whined, complained, and screamed his way into free repairs multiple times.
Erika:None of it should have been covered but people just did it to get him off the phone. She unmuted him and let him go into his spiel. She told him three times that she could not help him, and he started getting warmed up. Finally, she gave a big sigh and said words I'll never forget. Sir, there comes a time in every man's life when he must stand on his own two feet.
Erika:To take full responsibility for himself, today, sir, is your day. She said that as if we were giving a pep talk to a team before a big game. After some silence he simply said, okay and hung up. She made some notes and told me he'll probably call back and get some softy and went on a smoke break. I didn't last a month at it.
Erika:It was too soul crushing for me. I often wish I could channel that woman's energy and tell someone to eff off in such a well worded way. Isn't that crazy?
Edgar:That's pretty crazy. I mean, it sounds like a dream job, just saying no to people all day.
Erika:No, it's so draining, dude. Customer service, any customer service job, I think regardless of, depending on if you help them or whatever it is that you do, but you work with customers, there are days where it's draining. And working face to face or smiling all the time or, you know, it takes a toll eventually.
Edgar:It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.
Erika:You're so funny. I mean, I enjoy working with people for the most part, but it does get draining at times.
Edgar:I kind of rather work alone most of the time. Like I work in teams, like big and small, I just, I prefer more like working alone.
Erika:I work fine with both people. It's just sometimes you need to recharge, you know? Like if you're like, I could be social if I want to, but then I need to like be left alone for a little bit to recharge.
Edgar:Yeah, people are pretty draining.
Erika:Yeah. So the top one is I felt the weight of that there comes a time. But yeah, I mean she's definitely handled it, which can tell that she had years of experience the right way. But you know, a lot of customers like to yell and scream and hype up and I'm gonna call your boss, I'm gonna call your boss's boss and you know, make up a huge deal because they want to get something. The fact that he's doing it for years and he's gotten away with it, it's crazy to me.
Edgar:It's like a little secret she called for him. Guess. I mean, repairs are like, depending on the kind of repairs he needs, could be like thousands. So it's probably saving a good amount of money.
Erika:Yeah, definitely.
Edgar:So final verdict?
Erika:I would say, I don't think this one is an
Edgar:asshole one, I think it's a,
Erika:you know, to have a confidence of that woman and tell him off.
Edgar:Yeah, have the wisdom.
Erika:Yeah, the years of experience, yeah.
Edgar:Someday it will be like that. The next story is titled, I accidentally sent a voicemail of me peeing to my coworker. Mortified. Basically titled, I had finished calling someone, slipped my phone into my back pocket and went to the bathroom. Peed, flushed, washed my hands and as I was leaving the bathroom, I grabbed my phone to check my notifications and noticed I had been recording a two minute long voice mail to my coworker.
Edgar:So basically, now she has a recording of me peeing and I farted, bro. I've, yeah, and sharted. I've never been so humiliated. I quickly sent her a text saying, Sorry, I butt dialed you. Disregard that voicemail.
Edgar:It was accidental. And I'm praying she doesn't listen to it. Generally, this is the worst moment of my life. So yeah, her life is definitely over. She should just go off grid, never come back, change her name, fake her death.
Edgar:Like there's no coming back from that to be honest.
Erika:That's so embarrassing. Oh my god. And then it depends on which coworker, like for example, if that happened to her, I wouldn't tell anybody, I would feel bad for that person. Then you have other people like, Oh my god, let me show you what somebody sent me. And then spreads it everywhere.
Edgar:The thing is there's more people like that, like the latter.
Erika:I know.
Edgar:And none. I know. Especially like the bigger the office, like more gets around. And at the very least, now they have kind of like a, they have blackmail, but they have something over OP.
Erika:I mean, damn, you really think the worst in people. That's how it is. I like to think the best people, but know, You not
Edgar:think about being in a rat race, even if you win, you'll steal a rat. What?
Erika:I can't with you. Oh my gosh. The talk comment is LOL. She will listen to it, wouldn't you?
Edgar:I wouldn't. Who will? I will listen to it.
Erika:Was listening to a fifty minute butt dial, dope deal, and I was the guy's PO, so it could be worse.
Edgar:I don't know. If someone sent me an accidental voicemail, I mean, don't even listen to most voicemails that get sent to me, TBH.
Erika:My mom sends me voicemails by accident. And then sometimes I go to the beginning and then I go to the end and then I hear anything. I fast forward it because it's boring, but you hear it talking or shuffling around.
Edgar:That's funny.
Erika:Butt dials.
Edgar:A little butt dial.
Erika:It's cute.
Edgar:But yeah, I just, I think it says a lot about society, how the top line was like, everyone will listen to it.
Erika:Well, it's true though, because you want to like, why he left me this long voicemail or why he called me.
Edgar:I'm not that curious. I'd be like, okay, they obviously buttered me or I'm not listening to all of that.
Erika:Because you know how in the voicemails they actually give you a transcript
Edgar:of what it actually says, So I wonder what type of transcript it would
Erika:even give. Don't think it would say
Edgar:anything. Explosion.
Erika:Would be actually interesting.
Edgar:I just
Erika:clicked off. Yeah, I don't know. And maybe dot dot dot or something.
Edgar:Followed by a waterfall. That's her dreams.
Erika:Yeah, I don't know. It's very interesting. But yeah, I thought that was pretty funny.
Edgar:But yeah, poor OP.
Erika:Yeah, I hope he doesn't, you know, become the ridicule of the whole office.
Edgar:I feel like he is TBH.
Erika:I hope not.
Edgar:It's over for him. I also You know what it was before the incident TVH, if you have to be honest.
Erika:You don't know that.
Edgar:Could feel it.
Erika:I don't know. They're right Oh my gosh. I hope not. And it also depends on the coworkers too. Like, hey, yeah.
Edgar:You guys have final verdict? What would you do if this was you?
Erika:Oh my gosh. I would, I don't even know what I would do. You can't really do anything at this point. You gotta just let it happen.
Edgar:Yeah. Like, you know, like you can't
Erika:be like, oh, let me see your phone to the person that, and then I'm just gonna see something real quick and then delete it. Like, it's weird and then the person would be like, what, why? And then also if you delete it, there's undeleted messages that you have on your phone as well.
Edgar:Do delete it forever?
Erika:So once you delete it first, it goes into this folder of deleted voicemails and then you need your face or password or whatever to go into that one.
Edgar:That's correct.
Erika:To delete it again.
Edgar:That seems like a waste.
Erika:So yeah, I mean, even he deletes it, he's screwed because then she'd probably go to her deleted voicemails and be like, why he delete it? Then
Edgar:You go ahead.
Erika:And then listen to it. So yeah, there's just no
Edgar:As I said
Erika:No winning.
Edgar:You had to pick it up.
Erika:What? I don't think he's that bad. Maybe new job.
Edgar:My god. We both travel fast. We train companies too.
Erika:All right, so next story is, so I accidentally started a neighborhood feud and I'm too embarrassed to fix it. Weeks ago, I was walking my dog when my neighbor's sprinkler hit me. I was having a bad day so I murdered something about them watering the sidewalk more than their lawn. The lady next door heard me and apparently she's had issues with the sprinkler for months. She thought I was on her side and marched over there to confront them about it.
Erika:Now the entire block has picked sides. One family thinks I started some campaign against them. The other neighbor keeps thanking me for backing her up in the war with them. People have stopped talking to me because they're friends with one side or the other. The crazy part is the sprinkler was fixed a week ago.
Erika:But now they're leaving passive aggressive notes on each other's cars and parking to block each other's views. I just wanted to walk my dog in peace. Now I'm scared to leave my house because I might make it worse. How do you tell an entire neighborhood that you accidentally started a feud over getting slightly damp?
Edgar:Alright Pete, imagine everyone's looking for a single neighborhood as that nosy.
Erika:Oh my god. I know. He literally murdered under his breath and she came out and say,
Edgar:I told you so I
Erika:told you. She was waiting for that one moment of somebody else having trouble with the sprinklers. Oh my god.
Edgar:I would just immediately move. Like, this is too much.
Erika:I wouldn't move, but it's just, oh my god, you gotta deal with that.
Edgar:Mm-mm. I have too much to deal with.
Erika:Yeah, okay, it's gonna be easy to move, like, you know, everything, go somewhere else for What if you go and move somewhere else and they're worst neighbors, like?
Edgar:I can move where there's no neighbors. I used to check back in the day, cheap little shacks that you can buy in like New Hampshire, Vermont, rural Maine, and Massachusetts, and they're like 10 to $40,000.
Erika:And you're just gonna live in a shack and a shed?
Edgar:Yeah, a basically a shed.
Erika:That's crazy. No, I cannot. Where are you gonna pee? In the woods?
Edgar:That's everything. It's like the studio.
Erika:Yeah, I don't know about that.
Edgar:Would you live there?
Erika:No, absolutely not.
Edgar:I feel like I would get one of those as like a middleware.
Erika:Man cave?
Edgar:Man cave as well. It's gonna look like abandoned, but it's gonna be boo boo trap. And when you manage to get through the boo boo traps, because you'd be agile like me, there's going to be lots of games, my entire computer set, so I can code and pictures of beans.
Erika:That sounds okay. Could tell the favorite dog is here for I love all my dogs equally.
Edgar:I love them too.
Erika:No, you don't. You love beans more. I love all my dogs equally. At least I tried to because they all deserve the love.
Edgar:But back to it, back to the story. Yeah. Yeah, I would just move somewhere very desolate.
Erika:I don't think it's worth moving. I would just, you know, let the rumors die down or the feud die down and that's it. Alright, so the top comment is honestly though, just blame it on bad vibes from that day and say you weren't talking about anyone. People love dramatic apology followed by free cookies, trust me. Suburban diplomacy runs on baked goods.
Edgar:I mean, given like how immature the entire neighborhood is, this probably would work.
Erika:Hopefully, oh my gosh. I mean, the fact that he just wanted to walk his dog in peace and he was just trying to not get soaked. I mean, come on.
Edgar:Yeah. That's getting pretty fast. But I guess the final verdict on the story?
Erika:I would say, I mean, it's not really an Am I an asshole story, but I would say he didn't do wrong, anything wrong. He was just stuck in the middle of a war
Edgar:and ended up choosing a
Erika:side without even really consenting.
Edgar:Yeah. Poor Ophie and DevDog.
Erika:I know. Alright. That's all the stories we have today. Thank you for tuning into this week's episode. Check out our website www.yappings.com and join our mailing list for updates.
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Edgar:Also, we have a Facebook group called AITA Relationship and Family Drama linked in the description. For instance, you can share and might ask a post you like or share your own stories with us all to judge. We may even read a few posts in one of our episodes, if you're lucky.
Erika:Thank you. Bye.
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