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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. Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is Jay Train Jared Freed coming to you live from the West Village of Manhattan. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you angry? Do you have a complaint? Well, send it in to Ticked Off Tuesday and there's three ways to do it. Jtrain, podcastmail.com or you can DM the J train Instagram account, or, and this is the way you really get on the show is to join the Patreon. The Patreon is $5 a month, and what you get is an extra podcast every week. Every Friday, I do Coffee with J Train. And that is like my diary. I tell stories from the week. This week's Coffee with J Train. I, you know, I'm just, I got a lot of messages about, I talk about a date I went on and I talk about just, I talk about dating in general. It's kind of. I, without realizing it, Coffee with J Train was like a Valentine's Day special of sorts. And I got a lot of very kind messages that people were laughing a lot at the stories I told. So I, and again, I get like, from my Patreon, I can't tell you how. I mean, I'm telling you, I'm pitching you to go sign up because you can sign up for Ticked off Tuesday and you'd get first dibs. But also, I love telling my stories on there and they all turn, you know, a lot of them turn into bits. I did one of the stories on stage and Alpharetta last weekend. If you came to the Alpharetta shows. Thank you. I'm back. I'm taping this Monday afternoon after flying back and my, my Ticked off Tuesday is my full story of getting back. I'm going to tell you the full story of coming back to New York this morning. It was a journey. I'm gonna. And it's all just loaded with complaints. I took notes down because I was like, this is just the morning from hell. Like, this is a bad travel morning and this Is all to say, it is so funny to go, I had a bad travel morning and I got home exactly when I thought I would, you know, would I opt for being delayed and stuck in Atlanta or what happened? I guess I'd opt for what happened. I don't want to be delayed. That's how bad a delay can be. That's how much it can ruin your day and how tired it can make you. So it is interesting that, you know, I'm home safe, on time and I'm still sitting here like an. It was just exhausting. And it's why I did have moments where I'm like, it's gonna. This is what breaks me. This is what goes. What makes me say, Jared, don't. Don't travel to Alpharetta. Because this week at an Alpharetta came up kind of last second. It came up last second. They, they booked someone for Valentine's night and I guess they didn't book anyone for Saturday and Sunday. And, you know, I'm looking to work on material again. I told a story that I did on Patreon on stage the first time I ever told it, and it did, you know, moderately. Okay. And that's a win in stand up. Not stand up takes work. And if you're going to see someone who does stand up and they don't get up on stage every night, you don't see them on stage, they're probably gonna have a great act. I'm letting you know they're gonna ask you, what do you do? Where you from? For. For an hour. So I'm just. That's a little bit of insider word of the wise. Buyer beware, so to speak. So I, so I wake up. So my flight this morning was a 7:20. What was it? A 7:25. This is my ticked off Tuesday, by the way. And I have complaints from the listeners from you. I have two from patreon, patreon.com Jared Free. That's how you sign up for Patreon. And then I got a third one from the email. So go sign up if you want first dibs. And then there's also one ad. So I'll do my complaint. And, and this is also. Okay, before I get into my complaint of the story of the morning, you I am going to be doing shows in Australia, New Zealand. I leave on Friday. It is my 40th birthday on Friday and I will be on a flight to la then from. To New. Auckland, New Zealand. If you are in New Zealand or Auckland or Sydney, Bris, we already canceled A show that, that hurts, that, that, that's no fun. I don't like canceling a show. We do it to get ahead. Like, you know, if people don't get tickets ahead of time, you, you kind of like, do the math, you know. So if, you know, if you have 10 tickets sold two weeks before, it ain't going to be 150. So if you know someone in. But this is all to say I also added a show in Sydney that's sold out. So, you know, you win some, lose some, so to speak. So if you are in these areas, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle, Melbourne, Auckland, if you, if you know anyone in those areas, send them my information, let them know about the show, tell them to bring friends. I'm coming in hot. I got a lot of material I can do there because I've never done material in Australia. So I have every joke that has not hit the Internet. So. Jared free.com for tickets. Okay, so this morning, my flight, I could probably look it up. My flight was seven. It must have been 7:25. 7:20am that was my flight. Okay, 7:20am which meant 6:45 boarding. So I am in Alpharetta, Georgia, which is an hour which if you look at Google Maps, no traffic, it's 35 minutes. That's what it said on the no traffic. If you look at Google Maps traffic, it can be upwards of an hour and 10. There is nothing worse than that type of difference in drive to the airport in Atlanta. They, you know, I just saw a thing like the most unhappy people where they move. And one of them was like, Atlanta. And I love Atlanta. I think Atlanta's awesome. I love the food there. I like the people. I, I actually think Atlanta's like a. I. There was a moment where I thought of moving there because of the airport, because it went. You could go anywhere from there. It's the biggest airport in the world, I think are the busiest, whatever. And Alpharetta. I enjoyed the area. It was cool. It was easygoing. It was. There was like a mall town area that I was in called the Avalon. And then there was this like other downtown area that was a little bit more specific to Atlanta and didn't just look like any town USA. So I liked the area. But when you have 35 minutes and, and I'm sure someone's gonna comment or DM me that it's never 35 minutes. I understand that. I understand. But I'm saying when you're leaving at s. When you have a 6:45 boarding, you are like, okay, now you're like, you're doing this gamble with your sleep. And especially as someone who flies a lot, I like legitimately, like, I'm like, I'm looking for any few minutes I can get. And I, what I do is I schedule an Uber or I schedule a lift and I'll probably be switching to Uber because the deal with Delta with Lyft is running up and it's going to move to Uber. So I schedule a ride and now it's this thing of like, when do I schedule the ride? So my plan, I legitimately schedule. So. And then this is also my theory on flying. And, you know, this is someone, me who flies more than probably you or similarly to you, if you fly a lot. I believe that most. I, I believe I'm going to catch 99% of my flights if I get to the airport 15 minutes before boarding. No security takes longer. Generally takes longer than 15 minutes if you have TSA pre and clear and the digital ID, which is the new one where they, you know, they have your face recognition and they probably, you know, know my Social Security number and can tell me what porn I watch. So I have everything. If you have everything, I'm telling you, I have never had an instance. The only place I was like, I should have gotten here earlier was Orlando, Florida. And that was because of the children and kids and, and, and Disney of it all. So I scheduled my ride for 5:40am knowing that it could be an hour, but it could be 35 minutes. Also 5:40am I'm not really counting on there being traffic. I'm thinking we're going to glide right in. I think we're like an hour before traffic time. But I had heard Atlanta has bad traffic. Here's the first. So, so this is all annoying. This is all my complaint. So then when you schedule a ride for 5:40, I'm downstairs at 3 5:35am I'm ready to go. There is a moment where I'm like, maybe I should have gone earlier. But because I woke up and it's only because I woke up earlier. I woke up at like 5:10. I'm like, damn it, I'm up. I could have done this earlier. Not dealt with like, you know, the, you know, the racing. So I get downstairs at 5:35am the car that I, I do Uber black when I do these early rides that I schedule because I want to trust that the dry. I want a professional driver. The Uber coming is a Tesla. I hate Tesla Ubers. I hate. And I'm saying Uber. But it's a Lyft. I hate them. They're not comfortable. They. It feels like you're sitting on a wood plank, and they. And they. They jerk around. It's not a com. This is the least comfortable of all the rides I could have to the airport. Already annoyed. Then the driver messages me. I'm here without. Where are you? And I know it's an automated message. I know. They hit. They hit, I'm here. Where are you? I would say to Lyft, why don't we add some kindness? Why don't we. Why don't we soften our message to the people? Why don't we soften. I'm here. Where are you? What are you, my mom at a party? Like, picking me up in middle school? What's going on here? How about, hey, just got here. I'll be here when you're ready. Like, how about that? As your automate. And I know it's an automated thing. I don't think the person wrote. I know they didn't write that because you can. They have automated responses, which are just as terse. Yeah, I use the word terse. I'm a big SAT word guy. As I sit my coffee, and then I look down the street. They're all the way down the street, and it's like, don't. This is my. My major issue. It's as much as the. As the terse languaging of the message. You better be outside. If it's, hey, I'm here. Where are you? You better be waiting. You better be looking out. Waiting outside of the car like a dad going to pick up their kid from the, you know, from the school dance, annoyed, looking at a watch. Don't send me that message unless you are actually here. This driver was not there. I had to. And they're stopped at another door. I walked out to the street. I'm waving. It's dark out. I'm waving to the driver. Finally, they pull up. I go to get in the back. It is locked. And listen, it's a Tesla door. I understand. You got to, like, push it in, and you have to, like a push, pull. You have to, like, really have your hands move quick. You got to be like Mr. Miyagi catching a fly. But I know how to do it. The driver is like, they. They get out of the car, and it's like, how about you try unlock? Why don't we try that? Maybe the door is still locked. How about you do the. Do the door lock, unlock. Do that first before you get out and accuse me of not knowing how to do the door. Again, already annoyed. We are on a bad start. The driver comes out all the way around and also tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick the time. I need everything to go. I need this driver especially. Like, it can't be chilling if you're doing an airport pickup. Let's just assume time is of essence. Let's not, let's not sit here and look at the map and which way are we going to go? No, let's, let's put on the driving gloves. You're Mario Andretti. Let's go. The driver comes all the way around and they're trying to open the door, and I go, it's not. You got to unlock it. They go back to their car. They go, they unlock it. Oh, look at that. I get in the back and they're now looking at Google Maps. And I'm like, airport, we're going to the airport. And they're like, well, you know, we could. And it's like, we need to be rolling. These wheels need to be moving. We can discuss this on our way out. They go out. There's. Everything's blocked off because it's so early in the morning and we're in this, like, mall town. So they have to do three point turn. And it's like. And there's no sense of urgency. There's just. I just need you to like, sweat this out with me. And I listen, It's. It's the 5. It's the 5:40 pickup. I scheduled this last night. Obviously I'm not scheduling this. If I, if I'm not worried about time, the drive goes as well as it could go. I'm annoyed at this driver. The rest of the ride, no matter. You know, I needed that driver to, like, make my head hit the back of, like, hit the back of the seat. Like, I'm like, whoa, they're going so fast. I needed to feel them care about my time, but they didn't. So I. We get to the airport, but we legitimately get the airport exactly when it said we would. I think it's 619, 619, 645. Boarding the Atlanta airport. And I think it is considered the busiest airport in the world. If it's, it's. If that's their reputation, what are you doing about it? Like, this is the thing I'm googling. Hartsfield, Jackson, Atlanta International Airport is the world's busiest airport, serving the most passengers and aircraft movements each year. It's been the world's busiest airport since 1998, with the exception of 2020 due to Covid. Okay, 1998, 2008, 2018. I mean, we're almost at 30 years of you busy being the busiest air. What are we doing about it? Cause I walk in, it is confusion everywhere. There's signs, but they don't make sense. It doesn't really take you in the right direction. And I guess maybe this is because they're the busiest airport that they've probably had. Like, switch things around, and I get. And. And I'm like, where is TSA pre and clear? Like, where's the 3D ID? Where's the one that knows my porn? Like, where is all that stuff? And if I don't know, nobody knows. Like, if I don't know, if I can't see it right away as someone who flies a lot, then the guy with the family of four, the. The mom with her two daughters, they ain't figuring this out faster than me, so they're walking in everyone's way. So now it's turned into an obstacle course because I'm looking for where to go. I want to get to that line as quickly as possible. And then you have, like, children going around, and there' it's almost like American Gladiators. I'm jumping over old people. I'm. I'm dodging moms. And it's. And it's horrible. It is a mess. I find the line, and I end up in the TSA Pre line. No clear. And. And I'm like, I'm already. I'm already in that line. I was already. If I. If I go back, I'd have to go back to the clear. The end of the clear. And I looked at a woman as I go into the. Into the. The queue, and I go, I have clear. Is this. Should I get in that line? She goes, I would stay exactly where you are. Thank God for her. I get in this line, and I look at my ticket, which had said boarding 645, and now it says 6:40. In what world we. We don't. No one wants boarding early. Nobody wants boarding early. We want the flight to go. The only time the flight should be, hey, we're going earlier is if you've already been delayed. We have all planned our whole week around 6:45 boarding. You change it to 6:40, you're making nobody happy. The people at the gate, they're not going, oh, yeah, five minutes. No, you're fucking over. Anyone who did this correctly stayed out of the way two hours before their flight so that the people who have their flight two hours before can get to their flight. I see a change and I'm in this line that I can't even see where the security is. It is so far away. But it's moving. That's the only good thing. And it's going left to right, left to right. It's like the Kevin James bit. And you're in the, the line with the, at the bank. And there's no one in it, but everyone was in it. And we're going left to right. And so now we're at like, it's 6:40 on my clock. So in my mind, my rough estimate, if you, I listen, if you're trying to. You get there when I say you get to the airport 15 minutes before boarding. You can get to the airport 15 minutes before boarding. And then it'll probably take you at most airports, five minutes to get through security. It really doesn't take that long most of the time. And then you got this, like, gap of time from boarding time to door closing. That is in my estimate, 15 minutes. At a, At a minimum, at a maximum, at a. I think 15 minutes. I, I say, I would say if it's 6:45 boarding, that means I have till 7 7am to get to this, to this boarding. Like, I'll see the door. I'll see, you know, zone five. All the, all the pigs in zone five lined up. So I see 6:40 or 6:45 on my clock. I'm like, okay. And I'm not even close to security. The line is moving, but I'm not even close. It's going back and forth and back and forth. Finally we get to the line and. Or get to the security, and it's seven. I get through it and it's seven oh, nine. I'm going to say I was hopeless at this point. There was no thought in my brain. I actually almost called Delta to be like, hey, find me another flight. But I did hold back. I said, jared, let's see the gate, and then we'll make a move, see that gate, door close, and then we'll make some moves. Because honestly, you're in Atlanta, one of the busiest airports or the busiest airport since 1998, but also the most flights, Atlanta to New York with three airports to choose from. I'm not concerned about not getting home today. I'm just concerned with, like, this is. This will be annoying. Which. Let me get there and see it. So I then go to the train that takes you to your terminal, and I kept it calm. No running, no. No getting in people's way. And I'm proud of myself for that. Get to the escalator that takes you up to terminal B. And I'm B5, which I know, Atlanta Airport, it goes, you know, you. The terminal goes. You can go. When you get off this escalator, you can go left, you can go right. Left will be 1 through 18, B1 through 18, and right will be B19 through 35, whatever it is. The problem is the low gates are at the end, not the beginning. It goes. It goes inside, it goes outside, in. So the first gate, when I take that left is B18. I gotta go all the way to B5. I start. That's when I start running. Okay, it's 7:09. I was supposed to aboard at 6:40. If this plane is still there, it's a miracle. I start running because minutes, seconds and minutes now matter. This is when I got annoyed halfway there, I'm like, I gotta walk. I couldn't. I couldn't make the whole hallway. I had a moment. I go, fuck it. And the real annoying part about that, when you stop running for your gate, where, you know, seconds and minutes matter, I can no longer watch, like a movie about the end of the world and imagine myself in the group who's surviving. Like, this is a real look in the mirror moment for me. I am not main character. The world has been killed by these zombies. Or we're the last remaining faction of a group that survive. I'm the first dead. I'm done. I'm not. I'm side character. I'm the zombie trying to eat the main character. Because I was taken out minute one of this whole thing. That is a mo, where you, like, if you can't run to your gate, you're not like, there's no, oh, no, we got, you know, the apocalypse is now. You. You're not going to be the last one alive. You're not going to be the remaining member of society. You're not going to be the last one to remember America. You are first gone. I get to the gate, it's open. I'm out of breath. Even though I stopped midway, I stopped and then I ran again and then stopped. It was embarrassing. If there was a camera on me, it would be disgusting. It would be a blooper reel. It would. It would go viral. So then I get to the gate, the gate woman is there, and I can't even make out the words. I go, I thought you guys would be gone. She's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, get the, get in there, you fat fuck. And I get on the plane, and the guy next to me is like, I saw you were running. And I'm like, yeah, man. Like, I can barely get out the words. I'm like, yeah, I, I, that. It's. This place is crazy. Like, and it is annoying. If you're the Atlanta airport, you have a problem that's been happening since 1998. This. You can't have it that busy. You can't have it take a half hour to get through your security. You just can't. When you're, you're the number one place, you're the place everyone goes. And the thing is, I go to Atlanta all the time to go other places, but I never have to go through security. And he starts talking to me, and we start chit chatting a little bit, and he's like, well, you made it. And then I see a big group get on the plane. I'm like, something must have happened because I saw there was some EMTs that came on the plane, and I'm like, okay, some. Someone looked kindly on me. And I will say this, you, I seem like a logical person when I fly. I am emotional, I am illogical, I am praying to God, I am praying to deities. I am apologizing for I've done. And when I make a flight, there is a piece of me that's like, man, this is a sliding doors moment. Like, I ran to get on this flight that's gonna, like, you know, fucking crash. Like that. Like that. That does run through my head, and I am not proud that that runs through my head. We take off within where the flight is easy breezy. I'm in first class. I got the upgrade. I'm very, I'm like, wow, can't believe I'm gonna make it home on time. The guy comes over the loudspeaker, he's like, we got 30 minutes to go in the flight. There is extreme wind in the New York area, so I'm telling the flight attendants to take a seat and we're gonna, you know, strap in. But just letting you know, we're about to land. We'll be landing in a half hour. And there's gonna be some bumps which I have flown out of myself. The nerves I used to. I used to be a bad flyer. I fly enough now that I know the noises, I know the dips and ever. But when it gets bad like that, I do get. I, I. It does come back in extreme circumstances. And I would call this an Extreme circumstance, because we start to land and it is like we're dropping, like, you know, feet like, you. You know, you. You feel that? Not the small bit. We're doing big drops and we're doing. And it feels like the wings are going to tear off the plane. And what's even more frustrating is the guy next to me keeps the window closed. I don't understand. Like, let. To me, seeing the outside and seeing. That's a little bit calmer out there than it does feels in here. I think windows open while we're landing. Why are we keeping these closed? You're just gonna, like, shut your eyes to all this. You don't want to watch your grand finale. He won't open the window. And I keep looking to the back, the row behind us to look through their window. And then he looks at me, this guy that was talking to before, and he goes, yeah, they're circling around. I go, yeah, I'd like to watch the circle. We go to land the first time. The first time guy goes to land, and then you feel us pull up mid landing. All of a sudden, you hear the noise. Everyone's looking around. He comes on the loudspeaker and he's like, yeah, we. You know, here's another complaint. If you're gonna come on the loudspeaker, give us some confidence. Be a leader. You're. You're a pilot, for God's sakes. Like, you. He comes on, he's like, yeah, we. We made a first attempt, and the. The plane just wasn't having it. And it's like, the plane wasn't having it. The plane didn't like it. I actually wrote down. I was texting Michelle Wolf as this was happening, and I said, this is the bumpiest flight of all time. He just came on to say that he's confident this next approach will work out for us. That is a quote. He goes, yeah, the plane didn't want to land first. The plane was a dog that he. And he goes, I think this next attempt, this next approach will work out for us. It was like he was parallel parking. This was like him apologizing to everyone watching that's walking by on the street in New York City that he's trying to get into a small spot. Like, dude, how about, we took an approach, the wind wasn't letting us do it, which is what happened. And we're going to do another approach, and we're always going to be as safe as possible the. You know, the first time. That happens all the time. Just say it happens all the time. Don't say, well, the plane wouldn't let us. What did you speak to it? You whisper to you. I'm not feeling it today. Give us, give us. Just lie to us. Hey, we did a first approach. The wind, I didn't think the wind was great for a comfortable landing. This happens all the time. We're going to pull up, we're going to go around, and we're going to be landing on the next, on the next approach. And if I don't like that one, we're going to keep doing it all day until it's right. That's how a man speaks. That's how a pilot speaks. God damn it. I love a God damn it at the end. Finally, we land. Oh, no. I didn't even tell you the worst part of the story. Second approach, he pulls around. Second approach, he's going down. It takes a huge dip. And I'm not proud of this, but I went that I was the yelling guy. I, I, I made it. And, and the guy next to me kind of laughed. The flight attendant that was in the jump seat staring at me, he put a hand out like a whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy, easy. Like it, like I was a horse that was getting too rambunctious. Easy, easy. And I go, God damn it now, Now I have to, like, hang my head in shame. Like, I am not a man. I am the pussy who yelped on the plane. Like, I, I, I don't even, I couldn't, we landed, I couldn't make eye contact with anyone. I just the guy next to me that I was talking to, I'm not to him. No, no, no. Not. Nice to meet you. No, I'm the yelper. I am going to literally sprint to an Uber right now and never make eye contact with any of you again. 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It's a good reminder that the show exists. I understand sometimes you pop in and out of shows, you might see a subject that gets you involved and that gets you, you know, back on the J Train, so to speak. Also, if you are on YouTube, I would love for you to go watch I every Saturday night I put up new YouTube videos of stand up. It's crowd work. You get to sit in the room in Batavia and Phoenix and the cellar. This week is a very special week because Sasha Baron Cohen kind of sort of heckled me. It's on, it's on my YouTube so you can hear the whole story about Sasha Baron Cohen. I'm gonna do a longer version of that story on Patreon this week, but because there's a part I haven't really told yet. So go, go, go to my YouTube channel and here's the thing with YouTube, comment, like subscribe. All that stuff costs you zero. Means the world to me. Jared, I have a tot for you. I rent a house on a large property and about six months ago I got new temporary neighbors in a travel trailer. And now we share the same trash bins I don't like this at all. They approached right away and wanted to switch off every other week taking the bins down to the main road. Okay, so you're in a house that you're renting and then they're on the property in a travel trailer. Here's the problem. When your travel trailer, like they can just, they can just go in the middle of the night. So like they don't really have like this isn't about, you know, house versus trailer. I guess it is, but I'm just saying, like, where's the. It's just really. I don't know. There's a thing of like you can just up and leave. So maybe you don't care as much about the, the bins that I have to deal with. Like for you to move, it's like you got to move out, you got to get moving vans for them to move. Turn on the trailer, let's go. So that's my first initial thing. Wanted to switch off every other week taking the bins down to the main road. That sounded great to me. But since then I can count on my fingers the amount of times they've taken them. Now every trash night, I'm wondering if that day they'll decide to do it or just go ahead and do it myself. Are they do. Are they not doing it in a timely. How do they just leave the trash out? And to add to that one night, due to special circumstances, I wasn't able to take the bins out at night. I know I should have done it early, but of course they didn't either. Two weeks later, the landlord texts me a friendly reminder that tonight's trash night. See, this is annoying. Here's the most annoying part about this and here's. This is also part advice you. We do like direction as humans. We want direction. I want. This goes back to my complaint about 6:45 boarding you board at 6:45. I'm going to be doing my. I'm. I'm planning my whole week towards 6:45. The issue you have and the issue that these people have and my initial question in this email is because they do take it out. They don't take it out. They don't. If you guys need to decide on a time that this trash needs to be at that corner because when you don't know when it's going to happen or if it's going to happen, then you tend to forget on your end. This is why you are forgetting, because you don't have it. If it was 7 7:30pm these bins go down to the corner. You and me. This is what we've promised. No earlier, no later. Then everyone would be on the same page. But because it's this vague. Yeah, you do it this week, I'll do it next week. No, no, no. We should all be in concert. We should all be on the same schedule, the same thing. This is. And this is the annoying part because. Because they're lax. You don't know what to do. So you. You're forgetting because you're probably going in the morning. You're like, oh, well, I got to do in the morning. Because what if they do it today? No, no, no. You got to have another meeting with them. I'd say, hey, the trash thing ain't working out for me. We need a new deal. I never know when you're gonna go, so I don't know if you're gonna bring it down in the morning or at night or not at all. So can we have a time that we. Let's. Let's. That we both abide by? I'm not saying. I'm not above this. We are a team here. And if we're gonna do the trash, it is this day. At this time, you will have missed the trash time or you've made it. So 7:30pm or whatever it is. So 7:29. I can get my shit to that trash till 7:29. It's the vague nature. You need to re. You got to have a re meeting. You got to get together, you got to negotiate. You got to say what time works for you. Because right now, at this point, trash day is the whole day. And I don't know if I'm going to make it or not because I don't know what time you're going to do this. So we need to come to an agreement on a time. And if you don't do it, are you going to do it the next week? But can I trust you? I think you have a right. They came to you with this big deal. They're not abiding by the deal. You have the right to go. Hey, we've had a couple misreads on this trash thing. Can we create a new schedule? Let's. Let's organize. Let's reorganize. Little reorg. J train podcast@gmail.com. j train podcasts@gmail.com. keep sending your ticked off Tuesdays. I am ticked off. My boyfriend lives in a luxury apartment complex and got a note in his door a couple of weeks ago that Said their payment system for their rent would be down indefinitely. That's. And that they must submit their rent via physical check or money order. Money order. I don't even know what a money order is. That. That sounds like it's from the 1800s. What do you have to go to, like the, you know, the, the Wells Fargo in the middle of town until further notice. This is crazy. They also said they must go in and manually cancel any reoccurring payments. Payment methods they've set up. It's. This isn't. How did their problem become. Your problem is my problem. Their problem became your problem, and that's my problem. It's 2025. You expect people to go get checks to pay their rent? How about delaying the due date until you get your shit together? This was insanity to me. I'm with you. This is crazy. This is. You as a landlord, as an apartment management company. What are your responsibilities? Keep the apartment up to code. You know, the elevators also make it easy for me to pay you. Make. Make it so I can pay you. But your issue, you to say it's down indefinitely, that's even worse. And they say it's down indefinitely because they don't want to be held to any problems. I'd be like, I'm not paying until this is. Until you give me a date. This is gonna change. And then what do you. Well, that. This is the real. Look at me. Tough talking as if that's what I would do. That's the real issue. That's the problem. They know they can do this. They know. What are you gonna do, stop paying your rent? You think anyone's gonna take your side? They're the apartment. They'll kick you out on your ass. You haven't paid. Get the fuck out. And they'll start hitting you with penalties, and it'll be your fault because they made it hard for you to pay. They're like, oh, all you gotta do to pay. Hey, the system's down. All you gotta do. From now on, we'll get the system back up. But, you know, from now on, why don't you climb that mountain over there and there's a little box on the top of a tree on a limb. And all you gotta do is shimmy out the limb and put your check in the box. And then we'll get, you know, then we're gonn good. And it's like, they know they can do this because they have the money, they have the space. They. And you're. This is one of those moments where you just feel small because it's like they go. When they say indefinitely, like, who they. They're like, what are you going to do about it? You're a renter. Get the out. Then we'll find someone new to rent that. That, that shitty apartment for too much money. Yeah, this is. That would annoy me the most, the smallness. Because it's kind of like they used to have this thing where they would talk about, like, college athletes unionizing, but college athletes and, and they never could unionize because you just get a new group every four years. Every year they move out. There's no, no one's there for long. And that's the same with a renter. Like a renter, they're like, they'll move out. Who cares? We'll. We'll. We'll be nice to the next one. We'll piss off these ones. There'll be a new one that replaces them in two seconds, which is a bad business model. It's bad business. But that means they have. They're taking advantage of you because they can. Last one ticked off Tuesday. You can send it in j train podcast gmail.com j train podcastmail.com or the Instagram at J Train podcast. My wife and I live on a quiet street in Georgetown. Georgetown is a beautiful area. If I'm D.C. i would assume for Christmas we got a modest tabletop tree from Whole Foods, and I gave it a dignified sent off in our outdoor fireplace on January 11th because that's what responsible urbanites do. Outdoor fireplace. This place is a kingdom in Georgetown. Our neighbors, however, had grander ambitions. Many went for the full size Christmas experience, but skipped the effort in the cleanup department. Instead of handling their trees like grown ups, they just dumped them out front, assuming the trash department would magically carry them away. Spoiler alert, they did not the trash stuff. Listen, I'm not. I think when you live in a city, you kind of take trash stuff for granted. Especially if you live in a building where you rent and you have all people that work at the building, you know they're doing God's work on Tuesdays. When you walk New York City, all people put out their trash. It is like mounds of it, like huge amounts. And I, I'm actually like, naive to the. Like, I, I'm just, I feel thankful that that is like. And to know. Like, I think once you go to the suburbs, once you start getting a place, you go, oh, this is now my problem. And that you. These are like real issues people have. Fast forward to February 7th, we now have an evergreen graveyard on our sidewalk. That is great. No one went and picked him up. At least 10 trees remain, slowly decomposing. What happened? Is this happen every year? Decomposing? Well, serving as both a dog urinal and an impromptu recycling depot. Yeah. Plus with the snow, D.C. has gotten some snow. Just piss riddled trees just out there. Now, let me be clear. My complaint isn't with the trash department. No, I'm with you. I they honestly on the trash department. The dump trucks should have on the side. We don't clean up trees. They have actual work to do. My beef's with my neighbors. I'm with. I agree. You live in a city. If you want a massive tree, you need a post holiday plan. Either arrange a paid pickup or haul it to the woods like a proper Christmas enthusiast. Do you agree? I totally agree. Or should we start bracing for a Christmas in July celebration? This is insanity. It's. It's like, you know, you want to play, you got to pay. You want to be big Clark Griswold with your big fucking tree and all your ornaments, you got to get rid of it. And what's crazy is like, are they just, your neighbors are just walking by their tree every day, seeing it on the street, just going, I guess it didn't happen today. Like, they don't feel any guilt. They don't see the tree and go, oh, you know, that's really. I, like, I would walk by, it would be like a dead body that I just brought outside that I'd have to walk over every day. Like, they don't see it. They don't look at it. They don't feel any shame. And the problem, the biggest problem is they don't have to feel shame. None of those trees have like a name on them. You don't know whose trees they are. This is now. Now you got to look over your back. You got to look at your fellow neighbor and think, are you one of those tree people? Are you a good one? You know, like, are you a good person or a tree person? Do you take out the tree or you not it add. It creates distrust. It creates problems in the community. I this is because if it had their name on it, you could go, hey, where's Kowalski? You know, or whatever. Quality is a fun name to say. Ticked off Tuesday, back next week, boom.