Episode 7: Christmas 2024 Episode - These People are DEFINITELY on the Naughty List

Intro: 00:00

Yapping!

Erika: 00:02

Hello. This is Erika.

Edgar: 00:04

Edgar.

Darielys: 00:05

Dave.

Chelsea: 00:05

Chelsea.

Erika: 00:06

And we are the Yapping's Loughers. We entertain you with the out worthy stories we find around the web. And today, we just doing last minute things for Christmas, at least for me, preparing Christmas games. And that's about it.

Erika: 00:22

How about you, babe?

Edgar: 00:23

Yeah. Just preparing Christmas stuff.

Erika: 00:27

And how about you, Dave? I just stayed home all day studying.

Darielys: 00:32

It's nothing unusual.

Edgar: 00:35

But now you're home alone.

Erika: 00:38

Yes. But I still have to study. So

Edgar: 00:40

And cook for yourself.

Erika: 00:42

I cooked today.

Edgar: 00:43

And did groceries by yourself?

Darielys: 00:44

And I did groceries by myself. But that was yesterday. But I cooked today by myself, which I never really done. Like, I made rice for the first time.

Edgar: 00:52

You heard it here.

Erika: 00:52

How did it go?

Darielys: 00:54

It it actually went pretty well. I didn't mess up. Nothing was like too like or, like, not cooked. It was, like, perfect. Oh, that's so good.

Erika: 01:05

Yeah. Rice is really good. I was so proud of it though. She knows how to make rice. Mhmm.

Erika: 01:10

Yeah. Because of the it was first time. Okay? Okay. It's eatable.

Erika: 01:14

Okay? It's eatable. Okay.

Darielys: 01:16

It's flavor. It

Erika: 01:17

tastes like rice. It's edible.

Darielys: 01:19

But It's edible. Okay.

Erika: 01:20

There it is. And I made, the ground beef too.

Darielys: 01:25

But that's I already made them before.

Erika: 01:27

Oh. That's easier, I think. Yeah. That's easier. For me, that's easier.

Erika: 01:31

Yeah. I mean and then how about you, Chelsea? I just took a nap on

Edgar: 01:34

the couch.

Darielys: 01:35

Nice.

Erika: 01:35

You took a nap. Let me know. Nap. It was a really great nap. You were try you were supposed to watch Planet of the Apes with your with our parents and you both.

Erika: 01:43

That clearly did not work. I made it 30 minutes into the movie, and I woke up and that credits were rolling. So Yeah. Well, at least we had a good chill day, at least, I would say. Alright.

Erika: 01:59

So the first episode well, this episode has to do with Christmas themed, and the first story is Emma that asked for refusing to host in laws for Christmas. I'm 26 female, married happily to a 30 male. We bought a 4 bedroom, 3 bath house in 2023, close to Christmas. And as a holiday gesture, my husband asked if he could host his entire family, which includes mom, dad, 2 sisters, and their partners, 4 nephews for Christmas. They would stay 4 to 5 nights, spend Christmas, and leave on Boxing Day.

Erika: 02:36

Relevant backstory. None of them live in town and all live 5 to 8 hours drive away from us in the remote town. In previous years, Christmas was hosted at his parents or grandma's place with other extended family members, aunties, and uncles. 2023 was the first time all the members of his family could be under one roof and celebrate. I was strongly opposed because I just didn't wanna host in people for 3 nights.

Erika: 03:02

Yeah. That seems like a lot. I'm a huge introvert. I don't even want to be around my own family, friends that much. 2, I didn't wanna set up a precedent and have it become an expectation going forward.

Erika: 03:15

I grudgingly accepted as a one time thing, and everyone seemed to have a blast. Adults had their rooms. Kids slept on the pike in the den. I planned food menus, activities for all 3 days. Everyone pitched in and helped especially with Christmas dinner, and there were no major incidents.

Erika: 03:33

However, I was still extremely relieved when they left. Fast forward to this year, and we have asked they have asked about our plans if we can host this year, but we both work Christmas Day. Although he's told them no for now, my husband is already insinuating to me he would like to host them for next year. I'm putting my foot down because I'm not setting a precedent to host a house every alternate year. My husband's making me feel like I don't understand the point of Christmas, and it's supposed to be with family even if it's slightly inconvenient.

Erika: 04:08

I have suggested everyone getting a hotel and just having Christmas day gifts and dinner here too, but he feels we have the space to have everyone over. I would even be okay with maybe every 5 to 7 years, but not every second year. But he wants it often, so it becomes a family tradition. I know he's not going to throw me under the bus, but if I don't agree, he'll be the one to tell them no. I just don't wanna commit to something this big every other year.

Erika: 04:37

Am I the asshole?

Edgar: 04:40

No. Because it is a lot of work, and to expect her to do that every year is pretty inconsiderate on everyone else's part.

Erika: 04:48

If I don't want somebody at my house, you're just not coming to my house. I don't I don't maybe I'm the asshole, babe. But, you're not going to my house if I don't want you on my house. I'm tired. I like to That's a

Edgar: 04:59

lot. Because they gotta clean

Erika: 05:00

the your room. For 3 days, guys.

Edgar: 05:02

But they hold days too.

Erika: 05:03

Like, if it was like a night, I'd be like, alright. Like, a night makes sense. But, like, 3 days, bro?

Edgar: 05:07

Yeah. I mean, my family does that for my for my Canadian Indian family does that. Like, they clean up the rooms for us, like, whenever we come over, for the weekends. But, yeah, it's, like, not something, like, we, like, demand or ask. It's just, like, oh, we we want you here for these weekends or whatever.

Edgar: 05:22

Yeah.

Erika: 05:22

So is that every year?

Edgar: 05:24

What? No. It's just usually sporadic.

Erika: 05:26

Well, there you go. That's why. It's not something that they expect or it's a tradition.

Edgar: 05:31

Yeah. But if it looks like from on their end, they just want their house for whatever reason, maybe because it's bigger or nicer, but they wanna do it at OP's house every year or as much as many as possible.

Erika: 05:42

This would not be an issue if she felt comfortable. However, she doesn't. So the husband has to respect her wishes, and that's it. Because, honestly, the wife is gonna be the one doing most of the work. The husband is not gonna be hosting.

Erika: 05:55

The husband's not gonna be doing the cooking or the planning with everything that's going on or the organizing. Yes. I do with the cleaning. So You got another one, Sam? Yeah.

Erika: 06:07

But exactly. So if she doesn't wanna do it, then she should not be forced or feel like she's being guilted in doing it. Mhmm. So the top comment is offer every 4 year, 4th year. Mom and dad insists in 2 and then you go again.

Erika: 06:23

If it shares the burden and honestly is 1 once every 4 years. I feel like somebody else can do this at their house if they really wanted to be like a tradition like that. So the comment was trying to say to just have everybody host every year, and then she'll be every 4th year. So that way she doesn't have to share the burden every year or every other year. That makes more sense, though.

Edgar: 06:46

Yeah. Like we're putting it amongst the family houses. Mhmm.

Erika: 06:49

And then she OP actually responded to that comment and said, bruh, I offer this and he doesn't want he doesn't want to want to because he doesn't think his sisters will keep it up. Alright. Well,

Edgar: 07:00

it's like this is what it's like 4 years.

Erika: 07:03

Yeah. That seems like that's not her problem. Exactly. Yeah. Alright.

Erika: 07:10

So overall Not the asshole.

Edgar: 07:13

Yeah. OP is not the asshole.

Erika: 07:15

I don't think nobody's really the asshole because Yeah. It's just like a weird situation to me. It's not really asshole situation. Yeah. It's just everyone's just like,

Edgar: 07:22

oh, can you post it? Because and I I guess they like that enough to wanna

Erika: 07:25

do it. More convenient. Mhmm. Yeah. So I don't think anybody's asshole, but the husband should respect her wishes.

Edgar: 07:31

Mhmm. Okay. As for the next story, it's titled am I the asshole for refusing to buy my husband any more gifts? I, 35 female, have been with my husband, James, 39 male for 12 years and we have this argument like clockwork every single birthday and Christmas, but I've had enough. I hate surprises, and I hate surprise gifts even more because I lived in clutter with my parents.

Edgar: 07:55

Reinforced to keep a present to not offend someone bothers me because then I grapple with frustration, guilt, and general annoyance because now there's a thing taking up space that I know not what to do with. James, on the other hand, loves surprise gifts, but he is super picky. He does this thing where he would tell someone, oh, I'm alright with anything. But when he gets that anything, he will make sure, they know that it wasn't what he actually wanted, which dampens the mood and makes him sound so childishly ungrateful. It drives me mad because the most hypocritical thing is that if I do that to him, I e say, oh, I want whatever, he'll get upset and say that I should be grateful.

Edgar: 08:39

He bought for example, he bought me a dress he thought I'd like for my birthday despite me telling him over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Erika: 08:49

Wow. How much I would like to just take care

Edgar: 08:52

of earrings. I know. Yeah. This is ridiculous. I gave him a week.

Edgar: 08:57

Dinks, and he was silky all evening, especially when my friends bought me something else off my wish list. And I was so happy, and it's not about the price either because the things he surprises me with are always either more expensive or around the same price as what I actually asked for. Now I've tried my hardest to figure out what he liked, but I always somehow missed the mark. For instance, 1 year, I managed to force him to tell me that he'd like any keyboard there, any Apple product. But when I got him a new iPad to replace his old one, he said that he wanted jogging socks from a specific brand.

Edgar: 09:36

But when he got them, he said that he actually wanted another variant of it. Another year

Erika: 09:41

Oh my god. He kept

Edgar: 09:42

talking about a specific type of wallet for 6 months straight, sending me posts about it, reviews, whatever, and I got it for him thinking I've cracked the code. And you know what he said? If you guessed, actually, I wanted something else, then you are absolutely correct. Rinse and repeat. This year, I tried to ask him again to at least give me a hint to work with, and he playfully told me to surprise him.

Edgar: 10:07

Years of pent up frustration got the best of me, and I told him that he's an ungrateful child and I would not be surprising him this year. If he wasn't going to tell me, then he's gonna get nothing. I also told him to stop surprising me with stuff I don't even want because he's a hypocrite whose feelings will get hurt if I don't fall to my knees thanking him, I exaggerate, for something I don't want. I'm done coddling him over gifts because it's stupid and causing undue stress to me. As per usual, he's gonna suck it off, and I feel terrible for lashing out at him.

Edgar: 10:40

Am I the asshole?

Erika: 10:44

Honestly, no. I don't think she's an asshole. Nah.

Edgar: 10:48

Amy because

Erika: 10:49

he's doing so much like if he he should just say what he wants at that point.

Edgar: 10:55

Exactly. He's

Erika: 10:56

like, I don't care, but he obviously does care.

Edgar: 10:59

He's very unaware or self unaware.

Erika: 11:04

I wouldn't get him anything in there. Mm-mm. I think I'm just I would just be over it. I'd be like, you know what? Can I'll give you the money you pick up with.

Erika: 11:11

Yeah. A gift card. I like what I'm saying. Always great. He's like, here's a gift card.

Erika: 11:15

You get whatever you want, whatever brand, whatever type, whatever, anything. Here you go. Mhmm. Mhmm. Yeah.

Erika: 11:21

So the top com is not the asshole. I love to know what his deal is because it makes no sense. And then OP replied, that's the thing. I've tried to ask him, but he keeps repeating that he likes surprises. He's completely reasonable on other things, but his gift giving thing is just I have no clue what is happening.

Erika: 11:38

And then this one was kind of interesting. He said, I think the point here is that the reality, he doesn't even know what he wants for himself. Some people seem to get stuck in these expectations for Christmas being magical, possibly coming from childhood, when the presents truly were surprises. As a kid, I often didn't even know toys like that existed before I opened the package. They are chasing the dragon of the ultimate gift, which they didn't even know they wanted and the feeling they imagined they would get from something like that.

Erika: 12:07

This can also happen on the givers' side where they are disappointed if you don't act like the present is the most thoughtful one you've ever had. On the other hand, he could just be a tosser. So, yeah, I think it's interesting. Maybe something psychologically is wrong with him. Could be.

Darielys: 12:25

Could he? You know,

Erika: 12:26

maybe something happened when he was a kid or something and he doesn't want to, you know, say anything to her, but it's interesting. Yeah. I think He gotta grow up. Yeah. I think the poor OP is just having a rough time.

Erika: 12:39

Like, honestly, he's been putting up with a lot. Like, I would just given up. There's no way. He just needs he's just to be direct. That's it.

Erika: 12:47

I want this for Christmas. That's it. So Mhmm. Final verdict?

Edgar: 12:51

Yeah. I would say OP isn't the asshole.

Erika: 12:54

No. Okay.

Edgar: 12:55

For the next story, am I the asshole for how I fought my boyfriend's medical bill going too far? My boyfriend had to go to the ER after an accident, and he got a truly ridiculous bill back. I offered to fight the bill for her because I've done it before, and he said, sure. I went all out because, honestly, if we were out $5 after insurance, I would fuck up our holiday plans pretty bad. So I had him call the hospital and authorize me to handle his bill and access his medical records, got an itemized bill, and compared the prices for each code to the fair prices, Called billing to dispute the bill.

Edgar: 13:33

I was told that billing only collects bills. I need to contact admin to dispute. Bounced around a call center for hours trying to get someone who is actually qualified for bill disputes and getting nowhere. Googled and LinkedIn searched for the hospital board of directors and upper management. Got 30 emails of the most influential people at the hospital, plus the hospital's investors.

Edgar: 13:57

Every day would send a few emails working my way up the chain, running an increasingly long email describing how they build my client at 7 times over the fair price for services rendered and how the billing department, customer service department, and the growing list of management I'd emailed had failed to address the issue. Escalated the emails until I was writing the director level staff with the entire board of directors and a number of outside investors cc'd asking for a written statement regarding their justifications for billing at a rate 7 times higher than the national average. For commencer rates services to what is available at other hospitals and certainly laying out the failure to appropriately respond at every level of the company. Well, once I've done all of that, which honestly took, like, 15 minutes a day, they reduced the bill from 5,000 to $26. Yep.

Edgar: 14:50

26 Oh

Chelsea: 14:51

my god.

Edgar: 14:51

Dollars. Well, I told my boyfriend the good news, and he was, at first, overjoyed and blown away. Like, little literally jumping up and down and hugging me and saying I was literally a Christmas miracle. But then when he asked how I did it, I said it wasn't too hard. I just had to send a couple emails each day.

Edgar: 15:09

He was curious about what I'd said, and I handled him on the my phone. He started to get stressed in flipping back through other emails, which there were, like, 60 of. He told me I went too far. He was expecting me to dispute through their billing department or something normal and reasonable like that. That incident stuck every single manager and board member and investor and harassed them into dropping the bill.

Edgar: 15:32

I was frustrated because I just saved us 5 grand. I actually made it possible for us to afford a nice Christmas and save some money. And he was mad at me because I've been a bit of a hard ass. I was furious, and he was also mad at me saying he authorized me to dispute a bill, not basically threatened and harass the whole damn hospital for weeks. And my asshole for how my boyfriend's medical bills dropped.

Chelsea: 15:54

Leave him. Leave him. Leave him. Leave him. Leave him.

Chelsea: 15:54

Leave him. Leave him. Leave him. Leave him. Leave him.

Chelsea: 15:54

Leave him.

Edgar: 15:55

Leave Leave him. Leave him. Leave him. Leave him.

Erika: 15:59

Leave him.

Edgar: 16:00

He just saved you $5,000.

Erika: 16:02

And he's mad, bruh. Like, that's crazy. Leave him.

Edgar: 16:05

It must have cost him as a kind of, like at least management in hospitals, I heard, like, pretty, it's, like, very hard to get communication around. But that's, like, true with a lot of other big companies as well.

Erika: 16:15

Yeah. Leave him. Leave him. Leave him. But, yeah,

Edgar: 16:17

I think he's, like, ungrateful on the husband's fire for, like he said, oh, help me with the bill, and she did. And then he was like, oh, why'd you do it that way? Well, no one asked for her help in the first place.

Erika: 16:28

He did it. He would have to spend that much.

Chelsea: 16:30

Yeah.

Darielys: 16:30

He would have to pay the 5,000.

Erika: 16:32

Yeah. Thanks to her. He's ungrateful.

Edgar: 16:35

Mhmm.

Erika: 16:36

So the top comment is not the asshole. Hospital billing is intentionally screwed up and difficult to address issues. When I gave birth to my kids 16 years ago, they double billed everything. It took almost a year to get it all straightened out. I pretty much had to schedule hours into my weekly schedule to deal with contesting collections, getting a setback to billing, dealing with some other person in billing, etcetera.

Erika: 17:02

With a newborn through 1 year and while I was also working full time, it was an additional part time to fix the damn hospital bill. What you had to do is not abnormal.

Chelsea: 17:14

Mhmm.

Erika: 17:15

It's sad. I mean, like, even down the comments, there's, like, a lot of, stories of what people had to do to deal with, you

Edgar: 17:21

know, all of those stuff. Exactly.

Erika: 17:23

It's it's sad, honestly.

Edgar: 17:25

Mhmm. You know, like, this isn't I feel like I feel like from the outside, it looks like it's, like What? Harassing. It's, like, kinda normal.

Erika: 17:31

People should go and strike.

Chelsea: 17:34

Just stop

Erika: 17:34

working at the hospitals. That's insane.

Edgar: 17:36

I mean, the hospital people get paid.

Erika: 17:38

Oh, right. Yeah. Hold on. We're not talking okay.

Chelsea: 17:40

Maybe we

Edgar: 17:40

I think people just go

Erika: 17:41

into the hospitals.

Edgar: 17:42

Yeah. We should just do back alley, like, surgeries. Wait. What?

Erika: 17:47

No. I don't think we're taking it a different route.

Darielys: 17:50

You can do that.

Edgar: 17:51

I will. There's no alleys here, though.

Erika: 17:54

Okay. There's an alley.

Edgar: 17:56

Where? Go

Erika: 17:57

just go to the side of the corner of the street.

Edgar: 17:59

Oh, yeah.

Erika: 18:01

Yeah. No. There's a couple of alleys like behind. Like There's some. We just gotta look for them.

Erika: 18:05

Yeah. You're not looking hard enough clearly. Very. No. I I would definitely not recommend that.

Erika: 18:12

I think it's just it sucks, honestly. I just I wish it was a better way to have Once there was a way. Medical, and health care and all that stuff. But it's like that for a reason. It's a business, honestly.

Erika: 18:28

A hospital is just a business. Mhmm. They're profiting off you and me.

Darielys: 18:33

They literally do you know that though when you go to, like, a appointment or whatever, the first person that'd be going be like, what's your insurance? And they take, like, all your information. Like, damn.

Erika: 18:42

The doctor hasn't even seen me yet, and you're already, like, charging me.

Edgar: 18:45

I know. They're already looking for ways to charge you. Yeah.

Darielys: 18:47

That's so annoying.

Erika: 18:48

Oh, yeah. In order to

Edgar: 18:49

I would hate

Darielys: 18:50

to have that job. I feel bad for them. Yeah. Because I'd be, like, if I was a patient, I'll be so mad at them.

Edgar: 18:54

Like, imagine, like,

Erika: 18:55

your wife's giving birth right now, and then they're like, we actually need to ensure I know. Like, go shut up. Get away from me. Exactly. Like, they always come, like, at

Darielys: 19:04

the most, like, random time. Like, dude, I just sat down in the room. Go away.

Edgar: 19:08

Yeah. You think the house feels to be, like, more friendly, but, yeah, imagine you just, like, come in without an arm and they're like, can we take your insurance first?

Erika: 19:14

Exactly. Like, go away. Well, I mean, like, they can't get you into a room without them knowing that you're able to pay That's so unfair.

Chelsea: 19:23

For their

Erika: 19:24

Like, by the time you give

Darielys: 19:25

them the information, you're, like, dying. Mhmm. Yeah. That's unfortunate.

Erika: 19:29

What was if I'm in a car accident? And then

Edgar: 19:37

Oh.

Erika: 19:37

Am I just supposed to, like, like, kinda like I'm in a coma and that's it? Right. I guess we just wait for you to wake up. Are you dead ass? And then

Darielys: 19:46

Just start typing, like, right next

Erika: 19:48

to you once you wake up.

Chelsea: 19:48

And the

Erika: 19:49

crazy part for

Edgar: 19:50

the crazy part for Chelsea, she was in a coma, and she had to be, like, in the hospital. They charge us every day she was in the hospital.

Erika: 19:57

That's crazy. No way. So even though you're in a coma, the your family has to take care of that bill.

Edgar: 20:02

Yeah. They don't yeah. They don't wanna, like, give you anything besides probably WID.

Erika: 20:05

Control that. How oh my god. I'll be like, wake up. Wake up. Wake up.

Erika: 20:10

Wake up. Wake up.

Edgar: 20:11

Imagine those people who are, like, in a coma for, like, decades.

Darielys: 20:14

At that point,

Erika: 20:15

you will pull the plug. Yeah. I'll go. Yeah. Oh

Edgar: 20:18

my god.

Chelsea: 20:18

I will.

Erika: 20:19

I will.

Chelsea: 20:19

I will.

Erika: 20:19

I will. Because that's ridiculous. Yeah.

Chelsea: 20:23

The pay

Erika: 20:24

the the, the who did the hospital

Darielys: 20:26

thing, whatever the the paycheck?

Erika: 20:28

The bill? The bill, whatever. The the paycheck fee. The bill. Mail check.

Erika: 20:31

Yeah.

Edgar: 20:32

I was like, oh.

Darielys: 20:33

It's gonna be more than, like, like, burying them, dude. You've been staying there for 10 decades.

Erika: 20:40

No. That's crazy. All the bloke. At that point. You'll know.

Erika: 20:42

A 100 years worth of medical bills.

Darielys: 20:44

I love you, but you gotta go.

Erika: 20:45

I love you. I'm sorry. I mean, like, it depends on the medical. Like, first, it was brain dead. It's a person's brain dead when you can't really do much

Chelsea: 20:53

or not.

Edgar: 20:53

Imagine there's just like a new home or not

Erika: 20:55

like that brain dead. Coma around it. Then that's all. Just gonna

Chelsea: 20:57

pull the plug

Erika: 20:57

on you. But, like, what if you put

Darielys: 20:58

the plug and then, like, you really I would feel so bad though because, like I

Erika: 21:02

think what

Darielys: 21:03

if they had a chance? What if I just, like, killed them? You know what I mean?

Chelsea: 21:06

I think

Erika: 21:06

you have to carry that around for you first.

Darielys: 21:08

Yeah. Like, I wish

Erika: 21:08

I'd like, what if I waited, like, another day or, like, a little bit longer? Well, you know, how many days would you wait for

Edgar: 21:14

Chelsea? On them.

Erika: 21:15

Oh, I

Darielys: 21:15

I'm just saying. Yeah, Dave.

Erika: 21:17

How long would you wait before you had a full o'clock on me? Excuse me? How many days? I would have to worry about that.

Darielys: 21:23

What happened?

Erika: 21:23

What happened? No. God.

Darielys: 21:24

I don't have that.

Erika: 21:25

Well, I'm sorry.

Darielys: 21:27

Why would you put me?

Erika: 21:28

Okay. Well, I'm just saying.

Darielys: 21:29

Do not put me for

Erika: 21:30

your mom. I'm just saying.

Darielys: 21:31

And not put Erica.

Erika: 21:33

And what? I don't

Darielys: 21:33

want that responsibility.

Erika: 21:34

Wait. No. I'm just

Chelsea: 21:37

I'm not for Erica. And what? I don't want that responsibility. No. I'm just saying.

Chelsea: 21:37

Why? Why is it not? Why me? What are what are you gonna are you have

Erika: 21:38

how long are you waiting? I don't know.

Edgar: 21:40

But imagine, I think every day, they charge you, like, $500 to $1,000 Nah. For Chelsea. No. No.

Darielys: 21:49

Why me? That's so stupid.

Erika: 21:50

No. Don't put me.

Darielys: 21:52

I don't have money. Well, Edgar.

Edgar: 21:54

No. I'm sorry, Erica.

Erika: 21:55

So how long are you waiting, babe? Let's put Why are

Chelsea: 21:57

you pulling

Erika: 21:58

the plug

Edgar: 21:58

on me, Dave?

Erika: 21:59

I don't know, dude. A day.

Edgar: 22:01

Oh my god. That's crazy.

Erika: 22:03

You gotta wake up with Jake

Edgar: 22:04

and Chelsea? 2 days.

Erika: 22:06

I mean, 505,000 dollars a day if that's it is what you're trying to tell me.

Darielys: 22:10

So I'll spend, like, 4 k, baby. So, like, 4 days, maybe.

Erika: 22:15

Oh my god. Okay. Well

Darielys: 22:17

How about if I was me?

Erika: 22:19

I would not pull the plug on your day. Yes. You would. No. I would not.

Erika: 22:21

Just a liar. Yes. I love how you think I would pull the plug on you. I would not pull the plug.

Darielys: 22:25

You were just leaving there?

Chelsea: 22:26

Yeah. I

Edgar: 22:27

follow you every day.

Darielys: 22:27

You were going debt?

Erika: 22:29

I guess I have to. She's gonna open, like, 10 credit cards. I don't know. You'd be mad. I'd

Darielys: 22:33

be mad.

Erika: 22:33

I'd be mad at you.

Darielys: 22:35

You, dude. Because, like, why would

Erika: 22:36

you do that? No. I'd be mad at you. Mhmm. Y'all heard it here first.

Erika: 22:41

I'm worth $5,000 today. Only 5,000. No. Yeah. I mean, it's a difficult decision, and I think it's just hard all around.

Erika: 22:53

But Yeah. So she was not the asshole. The boyfriend was a 100%. Mhmm. So the next story is, am I the asshole for destroying family Christmas?

Erika: 23:06

I've been with my wife for about 5 years, married to and we have 1 year old son. My mom is the type of person who doesn't like change, doesn't like new people, and keeps to herself. That being said, she isn't controlling and doesn't seem to care what her kids do with their lives, but she doesn't like it when she feels things are pushed on her. She also is someone who will just keep doing what she does without thinking. So when she continued to buy me lavish gifts but nothing to my wife or baby, I didn't think of it as malicious, but it hurt my wife.

Erika: 23:44

And even after my marriage, my mom wasn't buying her gifts. I sat down with my mom and explained this. My mom was sorely shocked and couldn't believe my wife expected a gift. I tried to explain that my wife is part of the family now, but my mom was upset and said she has 3 kids and shouldn't have to pretend my wife is her kid. She really seemed surprised, so I do think that that was genuine.

Erika: 24:10

And she kept saying how mortified she would be if her husband expected gifts from her parents and that she wouldn't be with such an entitled child. Finally, I told my mom to just stop. It is okay if she has a difference of opinion, but she's hurting my wife and it needs to stop. My mom thought about it a couple of months, talked to my sister who said she should just suck it up and buy gifts for our partners, and that her ultimate decision was that she didn't want to host Christmas anymore. I thought she was bluffing, so I ignored it for months.

Erika: 24:44

I realized she was serious and we can do it at my house, but she didn't want to come. I mailed her a small gift as a test. She mailed it back. Finally, I was like, fuck, and did Christmas with my wife's sisters and their partners. Both of my sisters were miserable the whole time and one cried, which I thought was crazy dramatic.

Erika: 25:06

My mom was on vacation and had her phone off. The sisters who cried finally blew up that my wife and I ruined Christmas and ruined our family, and she left early. Her and my other sister called out mom later and finally got her to answer and begged her to do a normal Christmas again. And my mom says she feels like now that we are getting married and have a kiss, it shouldn't be her problem anymore. And she will think about it, as leaning towards me.

Erika: 25:35

Now, my sisters are angry and feel that I ruined family Christmas. That's a good turn, and I feel like the mom is being is such a manipulative person. Mhmm. Yep. Wow.

Erika: 25:47

That's crazy. So, yeah. I think she was definitely I I think she just ruined the whole thing. I don't think the mom had to be that way just because she was asked to include their significant others. But I feel like she

Darielys: 26:05

she just didn't wanna, like, give her a gift.

Erika: 26:07

Yeah. She didn't think it was, like, necessary or whatever. Yeah. She said that I was entitled. But, like, at least something small.

Erika: 26:12

It doesn't have to be, like, a big thing. I'm not asking you for, like, $500. I'm asking you for a coffee cup, bro. Like Yeah. I don't know.

Erika: 26:19

It could be, like, a little thing or, like, little small things.

Darielys: 26:21

I don't know. Like, make it up just to, like, include her since she's there. Not just, like, push her off to the side, like, oh, she's not my kid. I don't care. Like, whatever.

Darielys: 26:29

Yeah. Like, it's not just anybody that's just coming over for Christmas. It's your kid's wife. Mhmm. Exactly.

Darielys: 26:37

She's part of the family. It's not like it's just of some stranger that you invited. Like, oh, hey. Come on now. She's part of the family.

Darielys: 26:44

Like, at least something small. It doesn't hurt.

Erika: 26:47

Yeah. I I agree. And then she did this whole thing with not having Christmas, and now everybody's mad at that That was dramatic. That was dramatic. Yeah.

Chelsea: 26:56

But you

Erika: 26:56

went on vacation for Christmas? That's even messier.

Darielys: 26:59

And then turn off her phone. Exactly. Want everything.

Erika: 27:03

Like, you literally did not have to turn off your phone. First of all,

Darielys: 27:06

I don't know

Erika: 27:07

anybody who actually turned off their phone when they go to vacation. Exactly. Me neither phone in the

Darielys: 27:12

in, like, the hotel room

Chelsea: 27:13

or

Darielys: 27:13

wherever they're staying. I'd be recording everything. Like,

Erika: 27:16

oh, god. You take pictures on vacation. Alright. So the top comment is, I could overlook no gifts gifts but your wife, maybe. Oh, damn.

Erika: 27:28

The top comment is, I could overlook no gifts for your wife, maybe, but none of for your child. That's the much bigger issue. To accept Lavish gift, if the baby gets nothing really bugs me.

Darielys: 27:39

That's it. Yeah. No. I know. Even the grandchildren.

Erika: 27:42

She don't care about them either. She's like, no. It's like if that was, like, her kid's job to, like like, for him to give his kids gifts and not hers.

Darielys: 27:52

But, like, no. Yeah. At least it is. It's weird.

Erika: 27:54

Because kids I I I I agree with that comment because, like, the adult, okay. But, like, kids, that's like Christmas for them is, like, the biggest thing.

Darielys: 28:03

Like Yeah.

Erika: 28:04

Oh my god. Christmas. Like, a a little gift for a kid who would be,

Darielys: 28:06

like, the world. Like, you know what

Erika: 28:07

I mean? Like, for us, it's like, okay. Well, it's fine.

Darielys: 28:10

But, like, a kid? No. I feel like definitely kids should be gifted more.

Erika: 28:14

Mhmm. I feel like Christmas is for the kids, honestly. Like, come on. Yeah. Alright.

Erika: 28:20

So, yeah, we would say that the mother is the asshole. Yeah. A 100%? Yep.

Darielys: 28:25

Mhmm.

Erika: 28:26

Yeah. Alright. The next story is Yeah.

Edgar: 28:29

For the next story, it's titled Today I Fucked Up by Buying Everyone an Ancestry DNA Kit and Ruining Christmas.

Erika: 28:36

Well, we know how this could turn off. So

Edgar: 28:38

Yeah. Earlier this year, Ancestry DNA had a sale on their kits. I thought it would be a great gift idea, so I brought 6 of them for Christmas presents. Today, my family got together to exchange presents for our Christmas Eve tradition. I gave my mom, dad, brother, and 2 sisters each a kit.

Edgar: 28:58

As soon as everyone opened the gifts at the same time, my mom started freaking out. She told us how she didn't want us talking. She told us how she didn't want us taking them because they had unsafe chemicals. We explained to her how

Erika: 29:16

there were

Edgar: 29:16

actually no chemicals, but we could tell she was still flustered. Later, she started trying to convince us that only one of us kids need to take it and since we will all have the same results and to resell extra kids to save money. Fast forward, our parents have been fighting upstairs for the past half hour, and we are downstairs trying to figure out who has a different dad. Too long, didn't read. I brought everyone in my family and sister DNA kits for Christmas.

Edgar: 29:47

My mom started freaking out. Now our parents are fighting and my dad might not be my dad. Oh my god. Thank you so much for all the love and support. My sisters, brothers, and I have not yet decided yet if we are going to take the test.

Edgar: 30:01

No matter what the results are, we will still love each other and our parents no matter what. Update number 2, Christmas isn't ruined. My fuck up actually told my fuck up actually turned into a Christmas miracle. Turns out my sister's father passed away shortly after she was born. A good friend of mine was able to help her through the darkest times in her life, and they went on to fall in love and create the rest of our family.

Edgar: 30:29

They never told us because of how hard it was for my mom. Last night, she was strong enough to share stories and photos with us for the first time, and it truly brought us even closer together as a family. This is a Christmas we will never forget. And, yes, we are all excited to get our final results. Merry Christmas, everyone.

Edgar: 30:47

PS, sorry my mom isn't a whore. No. You're not my daddy.

Erika: 30:53

What? And you're saying daddy

Edgar: 30:55

is crazy. I know. Yeah.

Darielys: 30:56

That's a miracle? Wait. Wait. Wait.

Erika: 30:58

Wait. That threw me off. Like, why? I don't think it'd be a miracle. Wait.

Erika: 31:02

What? Why did they actually, why did they yeah. Christmas, it turned into a Christmas miracle. Turns out my sister's father passed away shortly after she was born.

Darielys: 31:13

But why is that a miracle?

Edgar: 31:15

Because that means that, like, they're all related related. It's just that, like, they didn't know that her older sister, like, actually, the real father passed away and their parents took her in as their own.

Darielys: 31:27

So she's, like, what, adopted?

Edgar: 31:29

Yeah. Yeah. They just don't know that until

Erika: 31:32

What? How is that a miracle? I would be mad if I was a kid.

Edgar: 31:35

I know.

Erika: 31:36

I'd be like, where's my dad? Why? What happened to him? He died in a fire accident. Wait.

Erika: 31:41

Wait. Wait. So wait. I'm not understanding that. Wait.

Erika: 31:44

So then after that part, you get it. So read the sentence right after.

Darielys: 31:49

Wait. So the

Erika: 31:49

the so that that sister is a half. Correct?

Edgar: 31:53

Yeah. That sister is a half. Okay. That's how

Erika: 31:55

I was I'm like because the dad their actual dad passed away. Yeah. Okay. So I guess it wasn't bad. I thought it was cheating involved.

Edgar: 32:02

I know. Yeah. I know.

Darielys: 32:03

It's usually

Erika: 32:03

what happens. A little better.

Chelsea: 32:05

I think

Erika: 32:05

the ball

Edgar: 32:05

has been too sus.

Darielys: 32:07

Yeah. She's like, it has

Erika: 32:08

bad chemicals. Bad chemicals. You guys You have to give

Edgar: 32:10

a lie.

Erika: 32:11

Just test 1. She can't lie. Like I'd be mad at

Edgar: 32:14

you as the father. But, I mean, did the father not remember, like, what happened? Watch this like, watch that, like, final update have been a lie. Stop.

Erika: 32:23

I hope not.

Edgar: 32:25

Because, like, I I feel like the father would understand.

Erika: 32:27

How many kids does she got? 2? No.

Edgar: 32:29

Quite a few.

Erika: 32:32

I bought 2 sisters. Yeah. He bought 6 kids.

Edgar: 32:37

But 2 of them put the parents at the

Chelsea: 32:38

But the

Erika: 32:38

way the the mom,

Darielys: 32:39

like, explained this, she'd been saying, like, oh, no. It has, like, those chemicals or whatever. That made it seem so weird because, like, does every single one have, like, a different dad then? Because, like, what do you mean?

Erika: 32:50

Well, PS Why she says, sorry my mom isn't a whore. So maybe not.

Darielys: 32:54

Yeah. But, like, the way she said it, like, if you if there weren't any updates,

Erika: 32:58

I would assume that she cheated on their dad or whoever's dad.

Edgar: 33:02

I know.

Erika: 33:02

You know what I mean?

Darielys: 33:02

Because of the way how she said it, if there weren't any updates.

Edgar: 33:05

I thought everyone was gonna have a different dad. Yeah. Or at least a different mom.

Erika: 33:09

No. I I know. I would think

Darielys: 33:11

of that because the dad didn't even say anything about the kids. It was the mom.

Erika: 33:14

Yeah. She's the one freaking out. Yeah. I was a little suspicious. Well, that was a story.

Erika: 33:22

Well, there was a, there was a top comment, but it was erased. So we can't we can't see it, unfortunately. Oh, no.

Edgar: 33:30

Wait. So, I guess Who is the asshole in this situation? I don't know. No. No.

Edgar: 33:36

No one. No. Maybe, like, the the son for buying 6 medical kits and, like, having having everyone in,

Erika: 33:41

like, any child out. He didn't know.

Edgar: 33:43

But, like, he yeah. He didn't know.

Erika: 33:44

He didn't it was a crisis. He just wanted to be messy. Yeah. I think the sale was what ruined everything because the D Day kits were not on sale.

Darielys: 33:53

I think

Erika: 33:53

at chest 3.com ruined everything. Yes. We're having that sale. Alright. So next one is ancestry.com.

Darielys: 34:02

That'd be kinda scary.

Erika: 34:03

Well, Paulina has it. She hasn't done it, I think. Paulina has never done it. Alex done it. Remember?

Erika: 34:07

He's 1% Jewish. Yeah. Have

Edgar: 34:10

a let me say something.

Darielys: 34:15

I I wanna do

Erika: 34:16

it, but, like, I don't wanna see, like, I don't know. Like, I don't know what to expect. I would be I don't know. I think Edgar would be Asian. What?

Darielys: 34:28

He closed his eyes.

Chelsea: 34:29

You there,

Darielys: 34:30

though, He

Chelsea: 34:31

closed his eyes. You guys don't

Erika: 34:31

eat some. Stop. That'd be funny. I wanna know why I don't look like my dad.

Edgar: 34:36

Oh. Oh.

Erika: 34:38

You look like mom. Exactly. Yeah.

Chelsea: 34:40

You do.

Erika: 34:40

Why don't I look like my dad? Why Why don't I look like my dad? I

Chelsea: 34:46

know. You you

Erika: 34:47

look like your dad. You very look like our dad. You look like dad a little. Paulina looks like dad the most. But I had I don't even look like my dad.

Erika: 34:53

It just happened, like, over time. But it looks the most mean, kinda, and you not

Darielys: 34:58

But just you got

Chelsea: 34:59

the the man. The man. You got the

Erika: 35:01

over of the genes. I got whatever. You got mom's genes a 100%.

Darielys: 35:04

Yeah. You do.

Erika: 35:05

I wanna take a DNA test right now. Right now. How much

Edgar: 35:09

did I buy? What Ancestry. My kids Oh

Erika: 35:12

my god.

Edgar: 35:13

For Christmas.

Erika: 35:14

No. That's messy. That's so funny. Alright. So next one is Emma the asshole for jumping out of a bathroom window to avoid my mom's attempt at forcing a reunion between me and my ex fiance.

Erika: 35:29

This is the longest title ever, but yes, let's see what happens. Some backstory. I had been dating my ex fiance, Sarah, for 4 years. We had been planning to get married in November 2020, but I found out at the start of this month that she cheated on me. She begged me to give her another chance, but I broke it off.

Erika: 35:49

The problem was that being cheated on is, in my mind, completely emasculating and humiliating. So I never told anyone that was the reason we broke up for obvious reasons. Sarah also didn't tell people we broke up because she cheated. So people have blamed me for the breakup, including my mom. They just see that I dumped her out of nowhere.

Erika: 36:12

I've gone very strict no contact with Sarah after I discovered she was cheating on me. Sarah had been talking to my mom and has convinced her that if we could talk one more time, we would be able to reconcile. My mom has been applying hardcore pressure on me to talk with Sarah, but I explained that there's no chance we will get back together. So tonight, I go over to my mom's place because she's hosting

Chelsea: 36:35

a family for Christmas Eve.

Erika: 36:35

I'm there a bit talking with my aunts and uncles and Christmas Eve. I'm there a bit talking with my aunts and uncles and cousins and then the doorbell rings and I can see it's Sarah. I asked like, what the fuck is going on? And my mom says she invited Sarah so we can work this out in the spirit of the holidays. I pissed.

Erika: 36:56

Now, because the only way to explain my side of the story is to tell everyone I was cheated on. Complete humiliation in front of my whole family. So as my mom goes to the front door, I go into the bathroom and my mom starts knocking at the door saying that I need to come out and talk to my ex like an adult. I say fuck it. I kick out the window screen and get into my car and go home.

Erika: 37:18

My mom called a short while ago saying she's cutting ties with me over my behavior. She's really fixated on me jumping out the window and that Sarah will always be like a child to her. My sister called me after to ring me out for ruining Christmas. I broke down and told her that Sarah cheated on me, which is why I dumped her, and I didn't wanna see her under any circumstances. She called me a big asshole who was lying to cover for myself.

Erika: 37:45

Am I really in the wrong here?

Edgar: 37:47

Bro, the entire family is y'all up here.

Darielys: 37:49

I know. But jumping out the window.

Edgar: 37:52

Like, imagine imagine your sibling tells you, I I just cheated on no. My my ex cheated on me, and then you take the exercise, though?

Erika: 37:59

No. I would believe my sibling. Yeah.

Edgar: 38:01

It's crazy work. I know. I feel like what what's, like, the ex's, like, thought process thing she can, like, get back together?

Erika: 38:08

I don't get it.

Edgar: 38:09

I got yeah.

Erika: 38:10

Using your mom, like, his mom to get back together, but obviously, it's not how it works. Mhmm. Like it Desperate. Is she desperate?

Edgar: 38:18

I don't know.

Erika: 38:19

Well, yeah. Because she went to her and his mom. Yeah. But why?

Edgar: 38:23

Text. I just don't cheat next time.

Erika: 38:26

Yeah. But he's trying which way to sneak herself back in. Is like all I have family about, like, cutting ties because he run out the like, he left.

Edgar: 38:33

I wouldn't laugh.

Erika: 38:35

That's too much. They're doing too much. I would've asked why would he do that. Not, okay, I'm cutting ties with you. You know what

Darielys: 38:40

I mean?

Erika: 38:41

Yeah. There has to be a reason for doing that. There is no way he just did that because he wants to do it. Like, just because.

Edgar: 38:46

Yeah. Mhmm.

Erika: 38:47

Like, yeah. I think that's not

Edgar: 38:48

in your ass. Batteries. Yeah.

Erika: 38:50

I wonder how high that window was. I know. Hopefully not that.

Edgar: 38:53

The 10th floor.

Darielys: 38:54

Oh, okay. Yeah. No.

Erika: 38:56

He would not survive. Ah. Yeah. He would be plumbing to his death. So, no.

Erika: 39:02

The top comment is not the asshole, but dude, seriously, it would have been so sweet that you had stood in the middle of the living room and just announced to everyone why you left there. Why in the world would the cheating reflect badly on you when you didn't do anything wrong? There's got to be some culture difference at play here. Because the first time I heard this mentality where you're afraid of doing the one thing that would get people off your back.

Chelsea: 39:26

I mean,

Edgar: 39:27

even it like, he meant it he admitted it to, the sister, and he still got, like, in trouble over it.

Erika: 39:33

Well, because she she didn't believe him. But I I feel like I feel

Edgar: 39:36

like that same thing would happen if he he did that during the during the Christmas dinner or Christmas event. He would be in front of everybody. He chewed on me, and they'd be like, why are you saying that? And that's how he they reacted in private.

Erika: 39:49

Okay. So then there's another comment said, I would say this. I have zero interest in patching things up with you after you cheated on me. Now please leave my mother's house house before you fuck with someone else here. And I think that's

Darielys: 40:03

I know that one's

Erika: 40:04

always so messy. Terrible.

Edgar: 40:07

I mean, yeah. The the comment has a point that she he had the opportunity to, like, just humiliate her and just, like, get some some simple revenge over another Thai thing. Yeah. He did have.

Erika: 40:16

I think he just didn't wanna feel like he said, emasculated because he he got cheated on.

Edgar: 40:21

Yeah. That's why I was eating. Primary reason for not doing anything awesome.

Erika: 40:28

Yeah. I feel bad for him. Poor guy. Mhmm. His mom was to cut ties too.

Erika: 40:32

Like, damn.

Edgar: 40:33

I know. Entire family.

Erika: 40:35

I know.

Edgar: 40:37

And then there's no update. Right? About what happens afterward?

Erika: 40:39

No. There's no update on anything like that.

Edgar: 40:41

That's great. I wanna see, like did they all find out that she cheated? Like, I wanna know how they reacted to that.

Erika: 40:46

Well, he told his sister, but his sister was like, you're lying. You're just trying to get out of this.

Edgar: 40:50

Bro.

Chelsea: 40:51

I

Erika: 40:51

think that's crazy. Because they all just got

Darielys: 40:52

on, like, everybody's good side, and now they think,

Erika: 40:55

you know, it's, like, bad. Yeah.

Edgar: 40:57

But then she just adopt her and, like, disowned the guy.

Erika: 41:01

Bro. No. At that point We're not trying to do that either.

Darielys: 41:04

No. No. Indeed.

Edgar: 41:06

Clearly, they have favorites. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.

Erika: 41:10

They do have favorites, unfortunately.

Edgar: 41:12

So OP is in the asshole even though he jumped off

Erika: 41:16

of the door. Crazy, but

Edgar: 41:17

he's not the asshole.

Erika: 41:18

I mean, yeah. I mean, come on. He should've just talked it out. There's no way to jump out the window. At least just leave.

Erika: 41:24

Like, if you don't wanna talk, just leave. Yeah. That's it. Like, once you saw her, just, like, walk out walk out the door. Not go in the bathroom and jump out the window.

Edgar: 41:32

It's about sending a message.

Erika: 41:34

Yeah. That's a little bit traumatic. I mean, dramatic. I guess he just wanted to make a scene. Yeah.

Erika: 41:39

He

Edgar: 41:40

did get a scene, but it backfired on him. But, OP is not the asshole but everyone else in the story is.

Erika: 41:47

Yeah. Mhmm. Mhmm.

Edgar: 41:49

So for the next story, it's titled, Am I the Asshole for Not Wanting Cole for Christmas? This year, I went to my fiance's house for Christmas. It was my first time going as we would typically go to my family's house instead. I got a rather pricey gift for my fiance, Dan, related to his hobbies. I got nice gifts for Dan's parents based off of things I talk about with them before.

Edgar: 42:13

And I got a small pack of chocolate for each of Dan's other relatives. I didn't know them that well. I wasn't expecting many gifts from Dan's relatives because I don't know many of them that well, but I was certainly expecting more than what I got. At first, I was excited when I saw that there was a big pile of gifts for me. However, once I opened the first one, it was just a piece of coal.

Edgar: 42:36

Bro. Everyone laughed and I just kind of laughed along thinking it was a gag gift and that the other gifts would be different. But every single one turned out to be coal, all 18 of them. I started to get upset, so I cried and lashed out at Dan. But he calmly explained, apparently, this is a long standing tradition in his family where they give coal to newcomers who are celebrating Christmas with them for the first time.

Edgar: 43:04

He explained that it's just easier that way since all their relatives who might know him, the newcomer, well, don't know don't have to stress over finding a gift, and it's a fun experience for the newcomers as well. I told Dan I couldn't believe I skipped my own family celebration for this and left. But now, Dan and some of his family are blowing up my phone saying I embarrassed him in front of his relatives and that I made it awkward for everyone. So a mighty asshole.

Darielys: 43:35

Absolutely not. That's ridiculous.

Edgar: 43:37

Why would

Darielys: 43:38

you give somebody 18 gifts? This pissed me off.

Edgar: 43:41

That is funny.

Darielys: 43:42

That's not funny.

Erika: 43:43

That's not funny.

Edgar: 43:44

My family has a tradition, like, in their end. I don't know.

Erika: 43:46

I'm not a person in

Edgar: 43:48

that. I'm

Erika: 43:49

gonna look at them.

Darielys: 43:51

But why 18 of them?

Erika: 43:52

That's excessive. That's all At least one real gift. Yeah. It'd be like, if okay. If you wanna make, like,

Darielys: 43:58

a little joke and give her, like, one gift of okay. That's fine. But then have a gift. It's

Erika: 44:02

like adding to the banana. Actually No. As somebody who has been traumatized by a banana, I don't think they should get it at all. I don't think I think they should just give them a real gift. I don't think you should fake it with 5 presents and then the last present being a moldy banana.

Erika: 44:17

I just It was just the wrap of it.

Edgar: 44:19

Does it still matter with that?

Erika: 44:20

Yeah. Yeah.

Edgar: 44:22

Is it, like, 15 years?

Erika: 44:23

It's not been 15 years.

Edgar: 44:25

Funny. It's been

Erika: 44:26

I don't know. It has been The mom gave me a, a bull. Oh. A bull?

Edgar: 44:31

Your mom?

Darielys: 44:31

This year.

Erika: 44:32

Yeah. So we celebrated Christmas earlier, and she had

Darielys: 44:34

3 three stuff for me. And she was like, open this one first. It was a freaking bowl.

Edgar: 44:40

Like, it

Darielys: 44:41

was like the silicone ones that you, like, you put in the air fryer.

Erika: 44:44

Oh. Because, like, okay.

Darielys: 44:44

So you can cook. That's not funny.

Erika: 44:47

You see, that's not funny. You see?

Darielys: 44:48

That was

Erika: 44:49

mad. That's messed up.

Chelsea: 44:50

And then

Erika: 44:50

they were

Darielys: 44:50

laughing, and

Erika: 44:51

I was like

Edgar: 44:52

At least it's not cold.

Erika: 44:53

What? Oh, yeah. But I

Darielys: 44:54

was like, ma, this is not funny. And they're like, no. I know. That would that's for your grandma anyways. I was like,

Erika: 45:00

okay. Grandma's dick. Because I was like, it's ridiculous.

Darielys: 45:03

You say

Erika: 45:03

it's not funny.

Darielys: 45:04

And I will

Erika: 45:04

be getting Alex's kid back.

Edgar: 45:07

He will grow up.

Erika: 45:08

He will grow up. You should do it. You should do it. And I'm gonna make sure it's a huge box. Like, I'm talking about, like, a refrigerator.

Erika: 45:16

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Darielys: 45:17

And wrapping it. Smaller and smaller.

Edgar: 45:19

And make sure to put, like, a PlayStation 5 box in there.

Erika: 45:21

Yeah. I will. Yeah.

Edgar: 45:22

Yeah. Yeah.

Erika: 45:23

Yeah. He's gonna really want. And then He's like, he'll open this. And it's gonna be a banana.

Edgar: 45:30

Because I'm confused.

Erika: 45:32

To go down like this. Funny. Don't worry. All of his kids will get will will reap

Darielys: 45:38

the kid a different fruit.

Erika: 45:40

Yep. So I'm I'm hitting selfie this year. Oh, you should. That'd be so funny. Understand.

Erika: 45:46

You should.

Edgar: 45:47

That would be Which which fruit for Sophie?

Erika: 45:49

Get her an apple. Which fruit she doesn't like?

Edgar: 45:53

I know you guys eat one.

Darielys: 45:54

We love everything. Kids because kids are picky. So, like, what what fruits don't they like and then give them that fruit or vegetable.

Erika: 46:01

Vegetables will be cut off for you. Mhmm. Because, like, I

Darielys: 46:04

know they're like, a lot of them, like, don't like vegetables like that.

Edgar: 46:07

Yeah. Broccoli.

Erika: 46:08

Sophie eats everything. Yeah. But if she doesn't like what does She eats everything. Yeah.

Darielys: 46:14

She's nasty.

Edgar: 46:17

We'll we'll find something.

Erika: 46:19

Just get her cool.

Edgar: 46:21

But I don't think because it seems like this was like a tradition well, back to the story. I think this was like a tradition anyway of like every other family member that was a newcomer. And, like, the reason they gave, like, kinda makes sense. Like, they don't like, only at this point, the mother and maybe one other sibling knew, OP, and everyone else didn't know. Like, the 16 other relatives don't know her.

Edgar: 46:39

So, like, as they said, they didn't want, like, everyone to feel, like, bad. Like, oh, we don't we all don't know what to get her or anything like that. So this is all, like, in collectively give her a call and, like, welcome, the newcomer to the family in this way, like, in, like, a lighthearted way.

Erika: 46:57

No. I'm still cruel. No. There's no

Edgar: 46:59

because the rest of the family got into it like this. No. And they all seem to have

Erika: 47:02

It doesn't matter. I would not be happy. I would literally leave that party and never come back. I'm throwing hands.

Chelsea: 47:07

It's like

Erika: 47:08

you're like, you don't feel welcome. All 18 people. They're right. It's like you're a joke. It would

Darielys: 47:12

be over.

Erika: 47:13

Literally a joke.

Edgar: 47:14

I'd be dying laughing.

Erika: 47:15

No. It would be over. Yeah. It's gonna be a no for me. There's no just there's just no justification with this.

Erika: 47:24

No. There's a lie, and they're crossing it. The top comment is not the asshole. One box with quote in it would have been fun gag. Not 18 and nothing else whatsoever, though.

Erika: 47:35

18 is crazy.

Edgar: 47:37

That's overkill.

Erika: 47:38

Then it's just cruel. Exactly. I think that says it perfectly. Yep. Alright.

Erika: 47:45

So the next story is Emma the Asshole for gifting my sister pictures of my dog. I'm a bit jackass, I would admit, but hear me out. So today, I was at my parents' house to celebrate Christmas Eve with my side of the family, as this year I will be spending Christmas with my girlfriends. Anyways, we opened the presents up early this morning. Something I would know about my sister is that she loves her children, which is great.

Erika: 48:15

I do love my nephews, but every year she gets me magnets, pictures, blankets, and pretty much anything she can plaster her kids on. Please.

Chelsea: 48:24

Please, please

Erika: 48:24

don't know where this is heading. Please. Well, it's nice. I don't have a shrine at my house dedicated to them, and I don't know. And I know this might sound selfish, but I don't really want them as I don't know what to do with them.

Erika: 48:39

They end up in a drawer or something. Because one year, she got me a large tapestry thing with her kids on it. It was huge. Obviously, I didn't want to hang it up as it quite literally covered the entire wall. I never say anything to her as I don't want to offend her and ruin Christmas.

Erika: 49:01

So that's when I had the genius idea of doing the same thing, but with my dog. I put him in a little tie, took his picture, and put it in the frame. Yes. I love my dog as my child. So I figured I'll gift it to my sister.

Erika: 49:17

This is like Erica Kaur. Also, got her a $25 Starbucks card as she's obsessed with them and I wasn't trying to be petty. Anyways, she opened it up and her face drops. Then she goes to me and says, what the fuck am I supposed to do with this? With that, I thought, I said, same thing I do with yours.

Erika: 49:36

I'll look it'll look good on your coffee table. Oh.

Edgar: 49:40

Okay. That comment was, like, a little

Erika: 49:42

bit awkward

Edgar: 49:43

for her.

Erika: 49:45

That's like a inside voice kind of comment. Yeah. You don't say that out loud. You think it, but don't say it. Long story short, she got mad.

Erika: 49:54

My family is pretty much on my side except for a couple of people who thought it was funny in the end. Those are incomparable to humans, which I don't necessarily agree with and wasn't the point of the gift, but whatever. I thought it was funny, but I need an unbiased opinion. Am I the asshole? No.

Erika: 50:12

No.

Edgar: 50:13

No. I think it was, like, yeah, pretty, like, standard gift to gift around, you know?

Erika: 50:17

She deserved that.

Edgar: 50:18

And then especially for, like, her like, the sister. Like, she shouldn't she should be the last one to be, like, what is this?

Darielys: 50:25

Why are you gifting pictures?

Erika: 50:28

Sometimes That's, like, something

Darielys: 50:29

you just give randomly.

Erika: 50:30

Mhmm. That's, like, something you give grandparents. Not everybody. Like, that's annoying. And, like, I understand, like, a

Darielys: 50:36

whole album of, like, memories and everything.

Edgar: 50:39

Mhmm.

Darielys: 50:39

But, like, hit, like, the siblings, not their kids. Like, that makes no sense.

Chelsea: 50:46

But I

Erika: 50:46

would I wouldn't want, like, a album of, like, some I don't want a giant ass tapestry.

Darielys: 50:50

I wanna have us, you know, like

Edgar: 50:52

A Wesley.

Darielys: 50:53

No. Like, that's weird. Like, a picture, like, oh,

Erika: 50:56

like, you know A picture. Those are those pictures that they give you, like, when they get their pictures taken. Okay.

Darielys: 51:00

That's, like, something you give out normally. Yeah. Like, as a gift?

Erika: 51:03

No. Not for a picture. I wouldn't want a frame Mm-mm. Of, like, one of my cousins there. Cousins there.

Erika: 51:07

No. That's weird. I know. That's giant tapestry of your cousin. It was No.

Edgar: 51:11

That's crazy.

Erika: 51:12

That's gonna go in the closet. We're hitting

Edgar: 51:14

somewhere in the garbage.

Erika: 51:17

Oh. That's even worse. The garbage is crazy.

Edgar: 51:19

No no one wants our dogs merch. Like, their face plastered on, like, a cereal box or on a sock.

Erika: 51:27

Nobody would have

Edgar: 51:27

me with that. Reasonable?

Erika: 51:28

A shirt? Okay. A dog in that in that sense, I would wear a dog

Darielys: 51:33

like, the dog's face, not a kid's face on my

Edgar: 51:36

I know. Yeah. Yeah. I kept

Erika: 51:37

I would wear the dog. You're gonna think of freaking kids on Amber Alert, bro. Like He's missing here. But Yeah. I think it's a little bit unnecessary.

Erika: 51:47

She's a little bit over the top. I don't think she needs too much stuff with the of her children everywhere.

Chelsea: 51:53

I

Edgar: 51:53

mean, clearly, she's obsessed with them. But, I mean, I guess Yeah.

Erika: 51:56

Everybody's obsessed with them. Like Yeah.

Edgar: 51:57

I mean yeah.

Erika: 51:58

Stay on me.

Edgar: 51:58

This is can be obsessed

Chelsea: 51:59

with your own kids.

Erika: 52:00

Kids like that, lady.

Edgar: 52:02

Clearly, they have

Erika: 52:03

the line crossed, and it looks like the

Edgar: 52:04

rest of the family agrees.

Erika: 52:06

Yeah. Yeah. But if I the family was sick of it, they were like, bro, we don't want this either.

Edgar: 52:10

I don't want your 13 year old child's face on my other on a shirt.

Erika: 52:14

They have, like, 10 years of, like, pictures collected from her. Everybody has their own frame.

Edgar: 52:19

Yeah. I think it's trending.

Darielys: 52:20

She can

Erika: 52:20

make friends of hers. Exactly. Like, that's for her house. Yeah. And people can see it in the wall or something, but she needs to gift it to everybody.

Edgar: 52:28

I know.

Erika: 52:29

The top comment is not the asshole. Pictures of your kids as a Christmas gift is tacky. In my humble opinion, especially to a non grandparent Thank you, Zach. And sickling.

Darielys: 52:39

Mhmm. They

Edgar: 52:40

were on the dance.

Erika: 52:42

Yeah. 100%. I don't think he was in the wrong and I don't think he was an asshole, but he was an asshole for saying That comment. Yeah. That was a little bit over the top.

Edgar: 52:51

I think I would've laughed.

Erika: 52:52

I would've laughed

Chelsea: 52:52

for you.

Edgar: 52:52

I would've

Erika: 52:53

laughed. I would not say that. Keep it to yourself.

Edgar: 52:56

Is this, like, the worst gift you can get, though? A picture of, like, your your nephew

Erika: 53:00

on the shirt?

Darielys: 53:00

At least he got her the $25

Erika: 53:03

Starbucks card. Yeah.

Edgar: 53:04

Yeah. See, that's, like, that's an actual gift.

Erika: 53:06

At least. Yeah. Yeah. At least it was an actual gift. Yeah.

Erika: 53:09

Yeah.

Edgar: 53:09

I think the dog gift is, like, a lot better than the children gift.

Erika: 53:13

The chicken? The children. Oh, the children.

Edgar: 53:14

Yes. Better chicken.

Erika: 53:16

Me too. Me too. No.

Chelsea: 53:17

I'm not

Darielys: 53:18

hungry. His hungriness, dude.

Erika: 53:20

He wants pop Popeye's.

Edgar: 53:22

Popeye's. Popeye's.

Erika: 53:24

Did we get Popeye's? Can we get Popeye's? We got Popeye's yesterday. I did.

Edgar: 53:28

Now I want celery. Celery. Celery. And

Erika: 53:32

so, Edgar eats like

Edgar: 53:33

a rabbit.

Erika: 53:36

Yeah. I did just imagine him eating a celery. Ew. Anyway, I don't like celery.

Edgar: 53:41

You about

Erika: 53:41

to see it

Edgar: 53:41

in a few seconds.

Erika: 53:43

Celery?

Edgar: 53:43

Yeah. We have it in the fridge.

Darielys: 53:45

I don't like celery.

Erika: 53:46

I love celery.

Edgar: 53:47

I like celery.

Erika: 53:48

Me? I guess Alright, guys. I I will have to say that that he was not the asshole. Right? Final verdict?

Edgar: 53:57

Yeah. He not the asshole.

Erika: 53:59

Alright. And thank you guys for joining us. We'll see you next week.