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Changing a reservation and "Stag & Doe" Parties - TICKED OFF TUESDAY - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid
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Uncle J Train
I know you're angry. It's Tuesday and it has no feel. The weekend was fun. You're still hungover from the eating and next weekend is too far away. What will you do with your day? It's time to get ticked off. Complain with your gripe. Right now, your friend Uncle J Train is here to tell you that you're right. It's a ticked off Tuesday. Ticked off Tuesday. You're angry and you don't even know why. Enjoy this podcast. It'll help you get to Friday.
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Jared Freed
Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Hamilton Island, Australia. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. It's hard for me to be ticked off. I don't know if you can hear it, but I'm taping this outside on the deck in my room. The deck for my room here on the island. It is raining. And I said this on Monday's episode. It sounds like an ad for the Calm app. Like, I'm going to give you a second to get away from my nasally horrible voice and listen. I mean, if you listen to this podcast to get to bed, you're probably sleeping right now. You're probably all, you know, snug as a bug in a rug. Comfy, cozy. Wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee. Well, I am here for a ticked off Tuesday. I'm taping this on Monday. That is Australian time Sunday. If you're on the east coast of. If you're in America, it's Sunday. Still. That sounds like a helicopter. That's not a bird, it's a plane. I just did the Superman, son. Okay, so every Tuesday, you complain, I complain with you. I am sitting here. We have two ads. The ads are going to be in the description of the episode. All like always, you know, that's the way you support the show. You. You go, you either. Oh, now I got the. The mouse pad a little wet, so now I can't scroll down. I'm giving you the play by play as I wash it. So listen, you either support the sponsors or what you can do is sign up for Patreon. Patreon. I've been telling stories from my Australian trip. I do it every week. Anyways, I tell stories from the week that was. My mouse pad is so fucked up with water that I just created a new folder. You don't care about this. We go over the week that was. We tell some stories. And, you know, these past few weeks, the stories have been, you know very. It's been fuller. I actually did an extra episode of Coffee with J Train because it was just so much to talk about and I didn't want to forget it. And I knew there's another week coming. I'm sitting here this week. I'm going to have another coffee with J Train this week. So if you sign up for Patreon. Patreon.com Jared Freedom. You also get first dibs on. You get first dibs on ticked off Tuesday today. So you can send in your complaints. Right now I'm looking at, oh, we got screenshots. I love it. I got three complaints, two from Patreon subscribers and then one is a screenshot. We love a screenshot. So again, what do you do? What is, what is the premise of the show? It's already started. Stop raining. You write in with your complaints, I complain with you. I make you feel validated. I will find a way to agree with you. And I start every episode with a complaint of my own and I have a story. I have two complaints and it's again, you know, travel related. And the first one is a short complaint and then I'll do an ad and then I'll do my longer complaint and then we'll do the listener ones. Here's my issue and I guess my first complaint kind of goes into my second complaint. When you're traveling abroad and you, you need your phone now, I don't know what service is like for an Australian. I don't know if the speeds that I'm getting on my phone are the speeds they get. I would assume that's not the case. I would assume it doesn't take them 8 hours to post a 15 second video to their stories. But I don't know. I haven't really asked around. So, you know, wi fi for me, when I go to a restaurant, a restaurant or a coffee shop, it's kind of an island. You're, you know, I'm parking up to the island. I'm taking the me, the boat of me and I'm parking up to take a minute to look at my phone and kind of do a little bit of, you know, some stuff and also text with people. And so I don't have this issue in the state. So I don't know what it is Like. I do know in the US a lot of coffee shops will have a wi fi. Here's the password. It's up on the wall. I do think, I guess I'm asking for more than I would ask at home. So it's not really fair, but what complaint is? I just think when I go to a restaurant here, I just want to be spoken to honestly. I go to these restaurants and it's all of them. Hey, do you have any WI fi? Again, I'm asking because I am an American. You can hear the accent. Obviously, I don't. There should be. I'll get to what there should be. But I'm saying they'll look at me and they'll go, there's no WI fi. As I'm looking at the name of the restaurant's WI fi on the choices with a lock next to it. So it's like, I know you have WI fi. You literally. What do you think? You think the tap for the credit card works by magic? Don't lie to me. What do you think is going to happen if I have the WI fi? I don't understand. What is the issue here? If someone asks and you're using WI fi, and again, what, is my phone going to slow down this operation here? If that's the case, tell me that's okay. Hey, we have noticed in the past when we've given out our WI fi, it slows down our credit card system and we just can't have that. And that's why we don't give it out anymore. And for that reason, we're out. That's all you have to say. Shark Tank me. And for that reason, I'm out. There's nothing. I think we should all be Shark Tanking each other. Just a simple no. That doesn't really. You can't tell me we don't have WI fi when I'm looking. Hey, I went to, you know, oh, I'm at Frida's restaurant. I don't know who Frida. I'm just kidding. Oh, I came into Frida. Then you go on your phone, Frida's WI fi. Then you're like, hey, what's the WI fi password? Like? Oh, we don't have WI fi. That's a lie. You have just lied to me. Just don't lie. And there should be. And this is the. There should be section reciprocity. If an Australian comes to America, if I hear an accident, I work at a restaurant, they need the WI fi. Let's. Let's just assume they are in need. Let's assume that their phone isn't working. Well, here, listen. If it's a. If it's an American in America, you don't want people using the wifi. Hey, we're, you know, it interferes with Our credit card system can't do it. That. I mean, at least do a good lie, a thoughtful lie. Don't do a lazy lie. No, we have no WI fi. I'm looking at it. It says Frida's Restaurant. Wi fi here. That's a complaint. So you can send that in. J Train podcast Calm. Also, you get first dibs at complaining by signing up for Patreon. Patreon.com Jared Freed. We're sponsored meundies. I'm traveling right now. There's nothing I would say wife on the list of importance. It's wi fi and then it's underwear, and then it's socks. In that order. Maybe socks and underwear. You could flip flop, but you can get socks, I think, on meundies. But more importantly, I've been wearing meundies all over Australia. I brought 10 pairs of underwear. 10. Okay. And all of them are front of the rotation underwear. Here's what happens when you pack. You bring more underwear than you would normally use, and you bring that back end of the rotation underwear. And you know what? You deserve better. You. You deserve me undies. And they have this whole thing about a contoured pouch and ball caddy. You can get that version. They have many versions. And I love them. And you're going to love them. The signature fabric is incredibly comfortable. So you're going to get the good fabric with all the different types. So you can get shorter cut, longer cut. You can get this ball contour, cut, contour cut. That's a tough one to say. Listen. And then they also have different prints and you can get just solid colors. Here's the thing. It's great underwear that you would be happy to wear every one of them on a. On a long trip. So think of your life as a long trip. You're gonna pack and you're gonna go, damn it. I got four pairs of underwear I like, and then I got 10 other pairs of underwear that I'm, like, okay with. I would never wear if I didn't have to. Let's get rid of those. Let's be good to ourselves. And I'm gonna give you some free money. Good things come in big packages of Meundies. Get 20% off your first order, plus free shipping on orders of $75 or more at meundies.com feather promo code feather. That's meundies.com feather code feather for 20% off me undies. Comfort from the outside in. So that's one of two sponsors. They are all in the description of this. Okay. I'm going to tell you a story. I might repeat the story on coffee J train, probably not because I'm getting it out here. This is my complaint. I get to the hotel yesterday. It's a travel day but it's gorgeous. So I get here at like 2:00 and it's, you know, let's, let's sit at the water and have a drink. They give you the champagne as you're coming in. It is. If you've been watching my stories, you saw it, it's just unbelievable. So I have an 8:00 dinner reservation. The weather's beautiful. I'm going to go check out the sunset at 6:30. 6:25 is the sunset. So I've got a couple drinks in me. I get showered, I get dressed, I go up to the main hut, the main building where they have a huge bar and they got a PO up there and I'm like, I'm gonna watch the sunset with a drink in my hand. 6:25, let's do it. I honestly now thinking back, my room was probably a better viewing angle but that's all. That all doesn't matter. So I'm also like, okay, maybe there'll be people around. It'll be a little bit more buzzing than my apart my, my hotel room. So I get up there and it's 6:15, have a drink. I get like a fruity drink. 6:25. I watch the sunset. I have a martini. Now it's 6:45. I'm on another drink. I'm like, you know what? I am tired from the travel day. My dinner reservations at 8 in this hotel in the lobby 100ft away. I'm like, you know what? I don't want to get hammered. I want to be able to wake up. I want to go to the gym. I want to tape ticked off Tuesday. Let's just go to the host and be like, hey, I know I got an 8 o'clock, let's do 7 instead. To me, the restaurant at the hotel was so not busy that there was an assumption and again, let me be reflective. That's wrong on me. I don't know their situation. That's okay. I don't know their situation. Would I be surprised if I couldn't sit like you? I would be surprised. You and I would both be surprised. I get up to the host and this guy and I said hey, I have an 8 o'clock reservation. I'm and I'm like trying to, you know, I'm kind of, I'm a Little tapped out on the sunset. Can I sit at 7? I probably actually said it. I'd like to sit at 7 instead. I said that as if. Listen. And this guy was like, we are full. And I look at the restaurant and there's not three seats open. There's 20. 20. 20 is an understatement. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt. There's 20 seats. And I go, you can't. You're completely full. He goes, we are at capacity. It is over. We are slammed. He never once gave an explanation other than that. And I go. And he looks at me, he goes, would you want to cancel the 8:00? And he'll just do room service. That to me, is not the. That's actually not a negotiation. He's basically said, I didn't like the way that was said. If I'm gonna. If. If my complaint is valid, listen, you can't switch to the reservation. We have two seating. All I'm looking for is a reasonable response. It is unreasonable to go, so you wanna cancel the eight, you'll do chicken fingers in the room by yourself. Huh? And it's like, I'm by myself. I'm not like, with a table. I'm not looking behind me with a table of ten. Hey. And. And so I think it's just acknowledging reality is what I'm looking for. Hey. Yeah, I know what you're looking at. Looks like an empty restaurant. We got two servers. We got one cook in the back. We just can't handle one more. This was the number we set things at. I hope you can understand that to me is the conversation is actually a conversation that, to me is different than say, yeah, so we'll cancel the 8 o'clock and you'll just go home alone. You won't eat. That's how, like, an angry parent talks to their kids. So I guess you're not eating tonight. That's how it wasn't. That was my issue more than anything. And I didn't say anything in the moment. I just go, so you have not one seat available? As I'm staring and you kind of. I thought of curb your enthusiasm. Because I'm like, in curb. All of his arguments are correct. And every argument, it comes to a place of rock. You're between a rock and a hard place. There's no give. That's why the Larry David arguments are fun to watch. Because it's kind of like this, you know, porno, this complaint porno you're watching where you kind of hope to get Someone that won't give on you so that you can, you know, you, you know, spar with them. In most cases, I would think most cases, people don't want an argument. Especially I'm staying at your hotel. I don't want to complain. You know, I would go, I'll listen, sir. I get where you're coming from. Like, if I were on his end, I would look me in the eye and go, I see exactly what you're seeing. There's the reality. There's chairs open. I'm telling you, you're not seeing this behind the scenes work. You're looking at the duck. You're not seeing the feet going like crazy underneath the water. And then I would go, I get you. You're right. I hear you. So my complaint is really more about, I think someone's coming to the room. I turned on, I turned. Yeah, hello. No, can you. Do you mind coming back later? Thank you so much. Like in this scenario, you know, you come to the room, oh, I'm clean. No, it's just not the time. You know, again, this is how most people have conversations in this situation where we're at the restaurant and I'm looking at is like, okay, just acknowledge. It's the same as the WI fi. Yeah, we have a WI fi. We don't give it to customers. Oh, you. Why? Because it gets in the way of our credit card system. We've had the issues in the past. Fine. And that's, that could be a lie, but it's actually a reasonable lie. So that, that was my complaint. I literally came here to complain about that. Here's the rain again. So I posted about it on my stories and mostly to joke, like how I'm going to be passive aggressive, but I'm going to be. I'll never stop talking about this. And it is one of those things I would never stop talking about again. I, I do this for a living. I, I love the, I love the humanity of it because I, you know, all he had to say, you know, I do. This is what interests me and making fun when making jokes. So I get done, I do the dinner. The dinner was okay. It was fine. It just. No, what I did was I went back to the room, I got in my golf cart. They give you a golf cart with each of your rooms, which is crazy. I come to the room and then I like, eat stuff from the mini bar, which is like, not even what I wanted, but I was like, hungry. I didn't want to drink anymore. And I get to 8 o'clock I go do the dinner. The dinner takes a little bit longer. I eat a little too much. I feel too full. It's like, you know, we're at this point, the one, you know, the. The snowball kept rolling down the hill. I make my video. I go to bed. I wake up in the morning and I had a coffee while taping Mailbag Monday. And then I had. And then I went to the gym, got, you know, got my 5K. I've been trying to do, like a 5K whenever I get on a treadmill, just because. Let's keep it in K's based on where I am in the world. And I'm gonna go to breakfast. So I get up to the lobby where the dinner was last night, the dinner mishap. And first I was gonna check in because I wanted to golf. Maybe I thought everyone's been saying that there's this golf course that's on an island that's, like, unbelievable. I'm like, okay, I'm in. So I'm talking with the guy, and so I walk up and the guy goes, hey. I go, hey, I tried to make a golf reservation yesterday, and I didn't hear back. He goes, we got you for the 12th at. At 7am and I go, he didn't even ask for my name. And I was like, that's nice, you know, like, they didn't even ask for my name. And I go. I go, well, I go, well, what? Is there anything available? And we start negotiating, like, if there's another golf time available. And I'm actually going to go today. This afternoon at 2. It's 10:30am as I tape this on Monday, so. But I did notice. I was like, this guy didn't even ask for my name. Then I go to the host stand, this guy George, he's like, hey, table for one, Mr. Freed? And I go, he, like, knew me. And I go. And I couldn't help but notice, like, he knew me right away. He goes. He goes. He said something that. It was like. He's like, how was your night last night? How was the restaurant? I go, it was good. It was. I enjoyed dinner. And he goes, what? He said something else where I was like. And no, I. And then I said to him, I go, how many rooms are at this hotel? He goes, 65. And I go, you guys do a really good job of, like, knowing everyone. I. I can't believe you. You knew who I was right away. He goes, yeah, we try to make an effort. And I'm like, okay. And he Sits down, sits me down. And he goes, oh. And then he goes, how? Then? He asked. He goes, how was dinner last night? I go, it was good. I enjoyed. And he goes. And he crouches down to me and he goes, I just want to, like, you know, I saw your video from last night, and I'm like, oh, my God. He goes, I just want to, like, you know. And I. And I immediately backtrack, like, listen, I'm not looking. Because the first thing on my mind is when I do. Ticked off Tuesday. Ticked off Tuesday, when we complain here. The worst thing in the world to me is that someone would get in trouble for me having fun with a complaint. Gnawing at the bone, as I call it. I really don't want any. And honestly, I just think this was a miscommunication of, like, I just wish it would have been told to me, like, we. You know, I just wish I would have been treated as if I was a human being. It kind of felt like I was just like. That makes it sound even worse. But I'm saying, I said to him, I go, listen, I don't want anyone getting in trouble. I feel badly that you even saw it. I was joking around. I just thought it was funny. And I said to him, and then I go into my complaint, I go, I just thought it was interesting that I'm looking at a restaurant with tables open and you're telling me it's busy, we're slammed, and we can't take one more, and I'm by myself, so it's hard for me to understand. And I said, if you said to me. And I give him this. This thing, I go, george, if you said to me, jared, I know it looks like we're. We're not busy, but we got one guy in the kitchen and one server. And I would have totally understood. And I wouldn't have complained. I wouldn't have posted anything. It was just the nature of, like, so we'll cancel it and you'll have room service. And he goes. And George looked at me and honestly, I gotta give this guy the most credit I could give anyone in the world. He could have just gone along and been like, yeah, we only had enough. He goes, that's the thing. We weren't that busy. And I go. I go, well, then what was? Why would it get communicated that way? And he goes, I don't know. I'm trying to figure that out. And I go, listen, man, I don't want anyone getting in trouble. You could have just lied to me. Now he Chose not to. He took the harder road. And, you know, I've got. I've read a lot of feedback on my Love Is Blind commentary for the wedding episodes. And it's like, that's how I make my decisions. Reviewing something. What's the road that's easy? What's the road that's hard? Did you take the difficult road or did you take the easy road? For the Love Is Blind review. And you can go read, go listen the recap. There's a. There's a one. The women who ended things at the altar, they chose to kind of, like, give these reasons that were undeniable politically. We don't agree. Like, if that's your. That's an undeniable reason to not get married to someone. But when you do it at the altar and then bringing up off camera after the fact, I think you've taken the easy road to try and make someone look bad so that you can be serviced, so you can be upheld as the good guy. So that's my piece on Love is Blind, and that's my piece on this guy George, who didn't choose that. He goes, I don't. We weren't that busy. We could have sat you. And I said, dude, I appreciate this. Talk everything. And I shake his hand. I go, please, please, please. I hope no one gets in trouble or anything. And he walks away. Ten minutes later, another manager comes up, and she's like, Mr. Freed, I saw your video. Oh. And then on his way out, george, this guy's gonna own the hotel one day. He. On his way out, he goes, and I think you're a good comedian. I. Whoa, Georgie. He might as well have just, like, just giving me the biggest hug in the world. I'll never stop talking about how great this guy is. He knew what to listen. Lie to me. And you're a great comedian. He said, good. You're a good comedian. I hope you can hear this rain. It is so peaceful and awesome. And I want to jump in this pool and just get in it and make out with myself like I'm in a Nicholas Sparks novel, okay? Then 10 minutes later, another manager comes over. She's like, I just want to talk to you. I go, please, please, please. I just don't want anyone getting in trouble. I was. I was making fun of the whole thing. I wasn't mad. I'm happy with the service here. I love it here. Please, I want to. I want to buy the hotel, please. And then she goes, well, we have a meeting set up with you. We're going to bring over the general manager from last night. I was like, I don't want to play this is your life. I go, don't. We don't need to talk. We are good. We are perfectly good. I thought it was. It's funny. I do think you're seeing how people would feel if they're just told it's busy when it doesn't look busy. That is it. So that's my ticked off Tuesday. We're here every Tuesday with my complaints as well as yours. Let's get to your complaints after the ad. I mean, this rain is awesome. I'm rare to say rain is awesome. I'm not happy. And I'm looking at where the weather's coming from and it's like bright. So this will end. But, like, I mean, I gotta take a picture as I'm sitting and breathing. I mean, not to stop the podcast, but this is, you know, rain can be sexy. That's what I would call this sexy rain falling straight down. Ugly rain is when it's coming sideways and you're like, get it out of my face. Why is a cat peeing on me? Factor. Factor is a meal meal plan. 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I'm in Australia. The, you know, the, the money exchange is very good now. We got the thunder rolling in. Oh, what a special episode of Tick Tock Tuesday. I hope you guys are enjoying this. I just booked two tickets on a Delta flight and Delta is the most expensive. People know that both the same exact seat level. But there was only one. There was only one left at a lower price. That's crazy. So I had to book separately to get the lower price for one and then pay more for the second one. It makes no sense that they would have a limited number of seats available for a certain price. Then after that, it's the same ticket but more expensive. Ultimately, I only save $40 by booking separately and I'm also annoyed at myself for caring about the $40. Here's the thing, if you, I agree with you, this is crazy. And if you really want to think deep on is very frustrating to know you are on a flight. And I think about this all the time and this is agreeing with your complaint. When you fly, there are everyone on that flight paid a different price and for no reason whatsoever. It's not explained, it's not acknowledged. You could be in one seat and the person next to you could be in another seat and they paid $200 less than you. And I think about this all the time in first class. Like when you get upgraded, you go, and again, here's the thing, the price should go up with the days left to book. To me, if you book early, you should be getting a better price than the person who booked late. But we should kind of know what that is based on how you know, what was the demand. Should we just believe there's a demand? And I think for these flights, what they say is they go, they go. There's one seat left and no one wants it. But if someone does, we're still taking off anyways. So to them if it's empty, it's kind of like them. You just, it what it feels like you're just a pawn because you are just a number on a, on a sheet. There's no care. They go, oh, and you're the one that's getting screwed. They go, you know, big bad Delta who I have, you know, I'm a Delta guy, but it's only because they serve what I need. They have a lot of options out of New York and I can, I've committed at this point. This is the other issue. Once you've committed, there's no option. You're paying the $40 and Delta knows that once you're in, you're in. And the way, and that's the frustrating part is that like if you've committed to the credit card, they've got you forever and you can't. Whatever the price is, that's what it is. You're not going to haggle it. That's what it is. What are you gonna not go and see grandma? What are you gonna not take your trip? You pay it, you take a big gulp and you have to pay it. That's the frustrating part is that not that you, you, you know, you care. Be that you, you care that you have to spend the $40. But the thing I care most about is that I have no say in the matter. Delta has me. I have no. Maybe that's the Delta gods smiting me. They're like don't tell anyone about our price schemes. Do another ticked off Tuesday recently started paying for YouTube Premium. See, I don't know what that comes with. I'm gonna get into my complaint. The audacity of these content creators, non podcasters due to their own commercial breaks through throughout a 30 minute video makes me want to harm myself. Well, I hope you don't do that. Also anyone who keeps their bright ass headlights on in a drive thru. Okay, thanks TD Freed. Well a double complaint. Headlights in a drive through. I, I think turning on your brights is the, is the, is the issue. I would have to go back to the YouTube thing. I don't sign up for YouTube Premium. But I guess what you're saying is you have YouTube Premium and then you're watching a content creator who has embedded ads even though you've paid to have no ads. And that is frustrating. That is. I would understand that. That's like if I was like, hey, you get no ads with The Patreon. I don't do that because I don't know how to do that. But we do that with the U UP podcast. And it's like, you, you got to make good on your promise, like, and to have these ads inside. So like, you know, these content creators who have these YouTube shows or whatever you're watching, they're getting paid, you know, triple. They're getting the YouTube money. That's the real goal with a YouTube channel. You might not know this, but you get money from YouTube. So they end up getting the YouTube money. They get their, their sponsor money. And it's like, when's it enough? And I try with the ads here to make them feel, you know, right and feel like off the cuff and a little different every time I. That's why I do reads every time my. I get annoyed and I'm not sure if this is happening with your YouTube is if they tape it once and then they do the same one for a month. It's like. And then I'm like listening to this and they're having this like fake drummed up conversation. I'm like, I heard this conversation. This isn't happening. Now at least, you know, treat me like a human and an adult and, you know, do a different version. Do, you know, find a different way to talk about me undies. If I can do it, they can do it. We have one more with screenshots. I am looking off and I, I don't know if this is annoying. You can let me know, but I'm not, It's not like I'm going to be taping from Hamilton island every day. As I talk about annoying as I am looking at a bird that is so unbelievable. And the bird is like molting. He's doing. Is that what it's called? I only know molting from Aladdin. He's like pecking at himself, cleaning himself off. He's like getting away from the storm. This bird is unbelievable. This bird is so unbelievable that I'm like afraid it's gonna come up to me and just like just say I own the hotel room now. Like, because if it walked towards me, I would freak out. The screams you would hear would be so embarrassing. Okay, last one. A former co worker recently reached out to grab lunch, so I did. We have not seen each other for at least two years. Okay, so this is a catch up. After we met, he sent me an invite to a stag and doe. I've never heard of one. So I decided to Google it. It is essentially A ticketed fundraiser. Rural Canadian folks have to pay for their wedding in lieu of a bachelor and bachelorette party. Interesting. So basically, you throw a stag and doe. It's like being like. I guess what I would compare it to is like, Vinnie Guadnino is at, you know, a nightclub in Atlantic City. And not to you. Not to use Vinnie, but that's kind of like what those guys do. This bird cleaning himself is quite a thing to watch is. I feel like David Attenborough. I should explain.
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Uncle J Train
The bird cleans itself using its beak.
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Jared Freed
Sometimes it bites its own feather. I'm watching it bite its own feathers. Okay. Vinny Guadnino, all these Jersey Shore people, they would do, like the come to the club, use my code, and then they would get paid off of that. But then people used to do this with their birthday parties. I'm getting a table, use my code to use my table. And then they get money back on their table or they get a free table. And this is kind of one of those. So I do understand. Listen, if this is the way you're going with your wedding, good for you. You should also. And you said when I politely declined, I was double down with a if you want to contribute. No, no declining. Buying a ticket and not showing as you contribute it. I guess their thing would be like, well, we want to know how many people are coming. But, like, at this point, enough with me. Not to mention he knows I live and work. When I politely declined, I was double down with, okay, listen, if it's automated, it's one thing. If the person is literally saying to you, if you want to contribute after you've been like, hey, I'm good. I can't make it that night. Good luck. I hope you have a fun party. Well, if you want to contribute to the wedding. No, I don't. Are you asking me to fund your wedding after you. We. We haven't seen each other in two years. Not to mention he knows I work, live and work in Toronto, which is two and a half hours away from this event. So he wants me to drive. Two and a half. Two and a half hours, pay for a ticket, buy my own drinks, participate in a silent auction to fund a wedding I am not invited to. Have you ever heard of such a thing? I know I'm not invited because he mentioned at lunch, his fiance wants it to be small and they already hit the guests limit their venue. Am I crazy to think this is horrifying behavior? You are not crazy. You're absolutely right. I am going to Read so it. So listen, it wasn't automated. I'm reading the text. So hey, I don't know if you have the bandwidth in March, but if you do, Blank and I would be honored to have you at our Stag and Dough. So I look at the invite. It's like a flyer that you would text someone blank and blanks. St. Patrick's Day stag and doe hosted at the Blank. So it says Ninja Creamy door prize. You can win a Ninja creamy tickets are $10 online, 15 at the door. It's small so I'm getting in. Drinks, games, dancing, prizes. Okay. This is a nice offer. It's a nice. They have put together a time. Good for them. I have no issue with the endeavor and it's. I'm with the. The listener. The person who emailed in. So the person who emailed in wrote hey, blank. Fortunately, I'm in Montreal for work that week. Crying emoji. See they give a nice lie with a fun emoji. Don't be a stranger though. Have to catch up again soon. To me this is over. The only text back from this person who's trying to do a sales meeting for his wedding. I mean, you have to wonder. You have to like question his intention of the original get together. Two years you haven't heard from him. Maybe this was all to get the 15 bucks from you to get to Stag and Doe. But his only response to me and I haven't read his yet, should be no problem. Hope to see you again soon. Here's his response. Darn. It would have been nice to have you there if you. No, it wouldn't have. You haven't seen each other in two years. If you still want to support or enter into the 5050 draw, let me know. The door prize is a Ninja cream yet. We saw that on the flyer. And there are also a couple other raffles for Amazon gift cards and a big basket of booze. Okay, I could not be more. Let me first say thank you for sending this in. This is a fantastic ticked off Tuesday. I hope people are still listening to this episode because I just want you to be acknowledged as this is what we're looking for. This is a perfect complaint. You have screenshots. You. You are. I have never agreed with someone more in my entire life. His text back to you should not be answered. Should not. The only answer. Thumbs up, thumbs up reaction. That's it. That's the only answer that because we see the Ninja Creamy. We see the raffle. I saw what I could win. I have said, no, I'm gonna be in Montreal. He's basically saying, oh, I guess because of this Montreal trip. So you would want to contribute to our wedding? No, this. This party that's just a front for you to make some money to pay for your wedding. You. I. A wedding I'm not invited to. And even if I was invited to, I'd be like, I guess, you know, I would feel a little bit. You know, I'd be at the wedding. I guess. This is what we paid for. This is horrible. I do understand. Like, and again, like, I am not against the idea of, like, hey, we're. We'd like to, like, pay for our wedding via this fun party that we're gonna, like, put together. We're giving people a Saturday night where they can do something fun and different. We're making a St. Patrick's theme. Anyone can show it's easy and fun. People are looking for events like this, especially in their 30s, you know, hey, I want to do something where I'm going to see people like my age. Everyone always asks me, what's a bar in New York I can go to that have people my age? This would be the event where you'd see people your age, and you might see some different people that you don't see on as a single person. I would say event like this are easy to hate on, but they're actually a good thing. But you get one shot. Hey, I invited you. It's. And I'm two hours away. I'm. I am a fringe contact at this point. We are not friends as much as we are, you know, people who know each other. We had a nice lunch. It was good to catch up. I already said my no. Walk away, man. Hey, I'm with you. Ticked off Tuesday. Every Tuesday, back next week. Boom.