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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 J Train, Jared Freed coming alive from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Do you feel like you have no one to talk to? Well, this is the place for you. Every Tuesday, I read complaints from listeners and I find a way to complain with them. So if that sounds interesting to you, I would love for you to join the Patreon. Patreon.com Jared Freedom. That is five bucks a month and you get first dibs at the complaints. This week I have four complaints from four listeners, all Patreon subscribers. Now you don't just get first dibs, you also get coffee with J Train if you sign up. Every Friday is coffee with J Train. That's my personal diary. I tell you about the week that just happened. If you are listening to this now, I will have a coffee with J Train up where I tell you about doing a gig at a casino. That was pretty much. It was tough. I'll get into it then. That's my first complaint is I stayed at a casino where, you know, the casino is like the lap of luxury. Look at you. You got money and you got hundreds in your hands and you're gonna win big. And. And the whole hotel element should be very nice. I'm not saying this wasn't a nice hotel, but two things in this hotel and we start every episode with my complaint. If you're new here, I do my complaints. That's the beauty of having a podcast, is that you can complain. If you have any comments, you can comment on Spotify. You can comment, you can send me a dm, you can share the show. That's a great way to help the show. Sharing it. These shows, you know, I'm telling you, a lot of podcasts are gonna start disappearing soon. I'm just letting you know that. And I would share the ones you love. Share the ones you love. Cause your friend who does a bunch of hot Instagram photos might not Have a podcast in a few months that wasn't about anyone in particular. But I'm just telling you, the industry, you know, expands and then it contracts. I think we are in contraction mode right now, but the J train ain't going nowhere. So, you know, I was one of the first. Not first. I mean, when I started a podcast, when I started podcast, I thought I was late. And then, and then I realized I was really not that late, considering how many started after me. But happy to have you here. So here's my complaint. The pillows at this hotel, the pillow, and, and it's a tough complaint to do. Only a professional complainer can do it. Because I'm at a beautiful hotel. I have a great room. It's like very suite, like big, big, big shower with a seat in it and big bathroom. And, but it, it, it, the pillow had like a balloon in it. If the pillow takes 30 seconds from when I press on top of it for it to deflate, you have a bad pillow. I don't. And the problem is I go, who would ever like this pillow? Who on earth wants the pillow that feels like you have to balance your head on because you might roll off of it because it won't squish at all? This was like laying on a workout ball. And the thing that bothers me most is there's someone who tested this pillow. They said, this is it. This is what the people want. I ended up having to sleep on the decorative pillow, which they say is, like the dirtiest, grimiest thing. I don't really believe that. I don't think anything in the room is way dirtier than another thing. I, I, I guess I won't concentrate on it. That runner that goes on top of the bed, you could say that's really not clean, but who's running into the room and taking that runner on top of the bed and, like, wiping their ass with it? The dirtiest thing that could go on it, I guess, is a luggage that you're, like, putting on the bed, but you put it on the runner, so now you're getting luggage debris on it. I don't know. I, I just, I don't think any of those germy things that maybe someone would, like, get bogged down by really anything that matters. But that's my personal opinion. The pillow was just so inflated. And it's not about the pillow being inflated. It's the person who said, that's the one. And do they get feedback or is it just. Or do they not test the pillows at all? Which would be, like, even more insane. You're a hotel, but are you not really caring about the hotel? Because it's all about the casino. We got the gambling, so they can take whatever the hell we give them. In addition, how does a hotel not have coffee out in the morning? I think, I think we all would expect to walk out of any hotel. And there's the coffee and water, and I actually, I'm not asking for a bottle of water. I think that's even, like, way nicer than I'm even expecting. I'm expecting a big old jug with three types of sugars. Give me Splenda. Give me sweet and Low. Give me regular. And then I'm expecting a, you know, I guess a decaf. I'll, I'll, I'll open myself up to that. That's not for me. But I can understand why I would be there. This is at a minimum, to walk downstairs and have no coffee station. And I'm not asking for it to be all day. When it's all day, I'm very happy. But an hour. Just give us until the jug is gone. If I see the jug is gone, I go, listen, people really needed this today. That's my fault. I should have been down here earlier. Or I just missed out. That that's okay. I just couldn't believe that you get downstairs because then what happens? I had to drive back. The gig was in Tampa Bay, Florida. Florida. I had to drive back. And what you want is that coffee for the road. You don't want. When you leave the hotel, you are not leaving the hotel. Thinking of. Oh, and I want to stop. You know, you want out. You want that first hour. If you're driving for more than an hour, you want that first hour to be like, I just got it in. And the minute there's no coffee in the lobby is the minute that you are now your, your first hour just became an hour and a half. I really didn't have a lot of complaints other than the pillow and the coffee. I, I, I get annoyed. I mean, it's Halloween. I think you either dress up for Halloween or you don't. I think this whole gimmick that I see out there about Halloween is for children. No, no, no, no, no. Halloween is for everyone. This whole idea that, oh, it's just for children. What are you, a child? You have to dress up. How about we all have a little whimsy and wonder? How about we all get involved and dig into something that makes us forget about the horrors of life for 15 minutes? Why not? I just. I just don't like the hot take of being against Halloween. Not for me. It is interesting to me that I see people that. I'm like, you know, it's funny. I'm like, I've dated many people, and I'm like, the ones that don't get into Halloween after we've ended. I'm like, yeah, we weren't a match. I don't know what it was. And I. When I, you know, I dress up for Halloween every year, but my version of dressing up is not. Like, I don't, like, put years and months into it. I'm not like, sitting in the makeup chair like, I'm Heidi Klum putting in new eyeballs and stuff. I am just getting into it at what I think I get into Halloween. It is a very low impact on my life. And when someone says they're like, I don't do Halloween, I'm like, I mean, you didn't do this one fun thing that took 15 minutes for me to think of. I literally said to myself, owl, I'll dress as an owl. Googled owl. And then had an owl costume at my place within four days and then put it on. That was it. I didn't paint whiskers. I didn't put on talons. No. No, nothing. And I saw some great Halloween costumes on. I will say this brings me back to Delray beach, where I sit right now. If you're going to go somewhere for a weekend, I think Delray beach is the place. To me, every bachelorette party above the age of 30 should be in Delray Beach. I don't think. I think if you're going to Nashville, there'll be a moment where it's too much. You're going to Charleston. It's. I think Charleston works, but I think throwing Delray beach into that grab bag of 30 plus, you know, weekend or bachelorette party places. Worth a gander. Here's my last complaint, and then we'll get into your complaints. I have two sponsors. We want to support the sponsors if they can support you. We always want to support the sponsors if they can support you. My last complaint is I went into a Dunkin Donuts on the way home from the hotel I stayed at, which you can hear about on coffee with J train, which is patreon.com j free, five bucks a month. As I. I said before, I no coffee on the way out. So I wanted to get that first hour done. I get in the car, I drive. I got two bottles of water from the hotel that's very nice of them to do, but no coffee. And I got to a pot spot about an hour into my ride. Dunkin Donuts drive through. I'm not a Dunkin Donuts drive thru person. I actually like, you know, letting my wings out, stretching my wings, getting my, my, my feet on the ground, having an interaction. It didn't seem like the Dunkin Donuts people wanted an interaction that day. I got in line. What do you have and how we do? And I go, how we doing today? What do you need, sir? And it's like, okay, I guess this is the interaction we're having. I ordered a iced coffee, hazelnut one sweet and low, extra ice as I do. And then I hear on the, the music I hear, you know, the Dunkin Donuts playlist that they're playing. It's the most wonderful time of the year. And I'm like, oh my God, we are in it. It's officially holiday season. And I hear the song and it's the most wonderful. And it did put a little bit of a tickle in my tuchus. It made me feel good. I said, we're here, you know. And this is to say, this is all to say there'll be a point where we get done with the holiday season which November 1st to December 25th. It's a long time, but fine, that's what it is. I'm okay with that. November 1st to December 25th, holiday it up. And I think, you know, the appropriate amount of it is a gentle hum that turns into a loud screech. You know, it starts with one. It's the most wonderful time. And then suddenly here comes Santa Claus. Here comes Santa Claus. That's on December 24th. So I think here. It's the most wonderful time of the year being played on November 1st. I actually think that's the most. That's like the best way to start the season. That's actually makes so much sense. I do. I think there should be a nationalized playlist from November 1st to. That would be a great Spotify thing. Play this on the first that they micro dose us into a holiday, into the holiday season. Spotify is really one of the music. Apple Music, Spotify, one of the music services should have a playlist for every day November 1st through December 25th, where they slowly introduce the holidays in our lives. Just a slow injection into our veins of holiday season. Like and one of the days could be the all I want for Christmas is you. That would come later. Don't hit us. November 1st with all I want for Christmas is you. That's gotta come after Thanksgiving. That should maybe be the Friday after Thanksgiving. We get hit with that song. Now we're excited, it becomes a holiday. Then we bring out Mariah Carey on a parade float. That would be fun. Missed opportunity. I am literally marketing for these companies right now. You call it whatever the, you know, the, the holiday season playlist. Yeah, that's no good. What am I, the old granny who did sit down September with my horrible marketing? Holiday, hurrah. Holiday well figured out in post. So I hear it's the most wonderful time of the year. And I, I go, well, that's nice. Holiday season has arrived. The playlists are playing. And I tweeted something along the lines of I was at a Dunkin Donuts, I heard holiday music. We're officially in it. Please don't disturb me while I'm having my morning candy cane. That was my tweet. Just a cute way of saying I'm going to be eating candy canes in the morning from now until Christmas be. Because there's holiday music on. Fine. And I get a response to this tweet and it's something like, TV wise, this happened before Halloween and this is my complaint. Don't come at me when I'm specific with your disagreements that are vague. When I say I was at a Dunkin Donuts, just heard holiday music, we are in it. Don't say to me, TV wise, we have already seen holiday commercials. I need to know what are the holiday commercials you saw. Show me the example. Let's. Because this is happening in all arguments. It is. It is very Trumpian. People are saying, everyone's talking about. You should hear. Everyone's mad, everyone's happy, everyone's angry. Show me the people. These people getting by on vague recollections of their personal experience and then just allowed to say, well, TV wise, this happened a while ago. Show me the fucking commercial now. I don't give a fuck about TV wise. No, no, no, no, no. I came at you with a specific, vulnerable. The more specific you are, the more vulnerable you're being. The more you go on they's and people and everyone. That is you shirking vulnerability to get involved in the conversation. You are bringing a fake ticket to the convo. I got some feedback and it's my. It is actually the least. I think it's the most. There is no worse feedback than vague feedback. It is actually a threat. I've had this happen to me. People are talking about how you do this and you do that. No, no, no, no, no, no. Tell me what you think. Give me your opinion. I want to hear your problem with me. You tell me why you hate what I do. Give it to me now. I don't need to hear. Well, people are saying that's a threat. That's you trying to say. Well, there's this group, there's this militia forming that is discussing the problems you're. You're that are going on in your life. No, no, no. Don't be vague. Vague, Stein, with your conspiracy theories. I want to hear what you think. It is such an annoying feedback. People are really getting upset. No, no, no, no. Are you upset? So you're not. So let's move on. I'll wait till those people, whoever they may be, come to me. Say it to my face. Ticked off. Tuesday. Every Tuesday on the J Train podcast. We are sponsored people. 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Okay, so we have four complaints. I have one that's very thorough. Oh, we have five complaints. We got a lot of complaining to do. I'm sorry. I was totally doing my own thing here. One, two, three, four. One of them might be. No. Okay, we got five complaints, Jared. My ticked off Tuesday complaint is a two parter from a recent hotel stay in Nashville on Halloween. Nashville on Halloween. That must be a blast. But you got to be ready for that. That's got to. That is like. Because, listen, I talked about Delray beach on Halloween. Atlantic Avenue was great fun, busy, but it wasn't, like, overbearing, which I kind of, you know, was like, ooh. Okay, okay. Under the radar from a place like Nashville. The first complaint is about the sink in the bathroom. The faucet was located on the top right of the sink and barely overhanging the basin. Plus, the water pressure was next to none. Yeah, I don't a lot of. I need the faucet to be in the middle of the basin. I need the faucet, like, way out. I don't want to touch the back of the sink with my. With my. My, my fingies while I'm trying to wiggle them around to get the soap off. This made it difficult to even properly wash my hands in the sink, let alone wash my face or effectively rinse off my toothbrush. Yeah, because then your toothbrush might touch the back of the s. You know, as I said before, I'm not a big germs guy, but I'm not looking to invite germs. I'm not looking to have that go through my head. I think the germs are. More. Are way worse for your brain because you think about it, I ended up having to stand diagonal to the faucet every time I used it and basically be leaning against the wall to my left. Yeah, no, we need faucets to have a long neck because then it defeats the purpose of what a faucet is for, which is to get clean, to not touch other things you want to wash and then go directly to bed. You don't want to touch everything when that faucet doesn't have a long neck to reach above the basin. We are all screwed. Okay, second part of my complaint is about noise. Okay, I'm gonna. I haven't read this yet because I. I read these with you. Noise. You're writing in about Nashville on Halloween. This is gonna be a tough one for me to agree with you on. I have a feeling. Okay. My husband and I got back late to the hotel room after going out for Halloween. We were trying to go to sleep when we hear a presumably drunk guy walking down the hallway saying loudly, Wake up every. That is a crazy person. You get back late and there's a guy in the hallway. Wake up everyone. Like, what is he, a toddler? Then the next morning, when we were trying to get to sleep in a little, the noise was so loud, we could hear everything people were saying either outside in the hallway or in an adjacent room, including the blow dryer turning on and off, the toilet flushing, the ringtone on someone's phone, and even their conversations. Are these walls made out of plywood? I of all these things, the guy walking the hallway saying, wake up, everyone. That's the one where you go, this is something that can be handled. I found these two more. I found these two things very annoying and not something that should happen during a hotel stay. It also made me wonder if they could hear us in our room. Anyways, love your podcast and comedy. Thanks for all the laughs. They could hear you in your room. Nashville on Halloween. If, if I, I, I think like, when I go to Nashville for Halloween, I'm. I'm packing my patience because unless you're staying away from Broadway. But this isn't a defense of a guy walking through the hallway going, wake up, everybody. That person I might complain with you. Listen, in the morning, would the morning stuff be as annoying if the guy didn't exist at night? I don't think so. The morning stuff you guys are trying to sleep in. To me, quiet hours at a Hotel are 10pm to 9am if you're making noise in the hours from 10pm to 9:00am you are wrong. You should be booted. You should be. And I would need to me, my issue is the guy who walks through the hallway late at night at the hotel in Nashville screaming, get up, everybody. The only thing that would make me feel okay about that is if when you got downstairs at checkout, the they had a big sign with a picture of the guy cuffed with a cop with his knee into his back, holding him down, making sure that this person was arrested. Like, I need that to feel like enough was done about someone who wanted to be a nuisance to everyone in the hotel. I need that on my checkout. I need to see that something was done. The other noise. Listen, that's going to happen. You can't go to Music City and go, it got too noisy. But that doesn't mean people should use that opportunity to be like, like, like an infant and walk through the hallways and say, everybody, wake up. That is like a crazy thing. We used to do that in college in the morning for tailgates. We'd go as a joke. We do. We called it pots and pans. Everyone goes through the hallway with pots and pans. We'd smash them in the hallway, wake up everybody. And it was funny to us. That's what this guy's trying to do to strangers. He should be arrested. Jtrain podcast gmail.com J train podcastmail.com Taking us to a favorite tot topic. Airlines. Okay, here we go. I found out I'm teaching a training in Baltimore the day after I fly home from a pediatric mission trip in Peru. What a hero. So you're teaching a training in Baltimore, and you went on a pediatric mission to Peru. Good for you. Original flight was Lima to Houston, Houston to Chicago, Chicago to Peoria. But you're. Is Peoria. Baltimore. I mean, I. I just need. Is Peoria. What's Peoria? Peoria Airport is in Illinois, so I guess it's Houston. Lima to Houston. Houston. Chic. The way they wrote this, I'm not sure if they mean Chicago. Peoria Airport is. Is Peoria so far away from Chicago? Let me see where it is. I don't want the accu weather. Peoria City in Illinois. I'm trying to see where it is to see how far are you flying from Chicago to Peoria? I'm not familiar if that's even a flight. We're trying to check this out. Central Illinois set on the Illinois River. We're trying to find the Google map version. All right, so let's go back to the email. I try to change it online, and it's an additional $1,200 to go from Houston to Baltimore. Well, where's Baltimore in your original flight plan? I try to change online to end the trip in Houston. System says that's not available, even though I'm already clicked on that flight in Polaris. So I call. This is a United person. Okay, I'm gonna not look up here. Okay, so I call after putting me on hold, he says it will be $700. They want me to pay $700 to take two less flights. He suggested I. So you had. But I don't know where. Baltimore, Peoria, Illinois. Lima to Houston, Houston to Chicago, Chicago to Peoria. Where's Baltimore in all this? I try to change it online, and it says an additional $1,200 to go from Houston to Baltimore. I try to change it online to end the trip in Houston. Says that's not available, even though I'm already ticketed on that flight in Polaris. So I call after putting me on hold he says it will be $700. They want me to pay $700 to take two less flights. He suggests I grab my bag after customs and skip the last two legs. I ask if I can book Houston to Baltimore. No, they'll cancel it out because my original flights are at the same time. So now I'm flying Southwest. To make it even more annoying, I'm a couple hundred dollars from platinum status. Maybe next year. I mean, at this point, take a mileage run. You can. You can take a flight just to get. I mean, a couple hundred dollars that's worth taking the flight to. See the. The. The top of the mountain that is called platinum is. Is very annoying. It's very annoying. Besides the particulars, which I'm still a little confused by, it is annoying to see the airline that you have put money in, the one you've committed to, because it seems you've committed. You even said you're a couple hundred dollars from platinum. When you're putting so much into the airline, and it feels like they. You. And it feels like you mean nothing to them. This is like the great reveal. This is United. And it doesn't matter who it is. This happens to me with Delta. This happens to people with every airline. There is no airline. Like, I like Delta because it fits my life. This idea that, like, it's part. I'm part of the Delta fleet family because 1stes gave me a card that says thank you. No, because at every point in your airline journey, the. The. Every airline takes off their mask and it turns out you are nothing to them the whole time. And this is that moment for you. Because for you, you're like, I fly you all the time. There's a better option that's going to cost less if I just don't book this. And I booked that. Work with me. I work with you. I take. You know, I am sitting here as a person who goes to Atlanta just to get points with you. So why don't you work with me one time out of this. In this. In this relationship, it shows the fraudulent nature of committing to a business that has no mom or pop there to go to. This is kind of the problem with the world right now. So many of these companies, even if you work for them, you don't see the Boss. There's no Mr. Chase bank isn't coming through the hallway. So why would anyone feel this personal thing with a company? Why wouldn't they do the best for themselves at every level of the company? You know, JP Morgan ain't walking around these halls anymore. Dick's Sporting Goods. Mr. You know, Dick of Dick's Sporting Goods isn't coming through the office, so fuck them. And this is kind of like an example of that. Jtrain podcast gmail.com jtrain podcastmail.com if you have a complaint, we get to them. If we don't have enough Patreon so you can send it to J Train, podcast your complaint or you can join the Patreon. I'm also on the road. Durham, Charlotte, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Royal Oak, Columbus. Those are my next stop for Lauderdale. Miami is the weekend after Thanksgiving. If you're coming down south, would love to have you at the show. Bring your family ticked off Tuesday. People who make giving out full size candy bars on Halloween, their whole personality bite size is more fun anyways because you can sample more varieties without committing to a whole bar. Yeah, there's always that house. There's always the house. And you know, I haven't been suburbanized, so I don't know the inter, the intermingling of, you know, what it's like to like, get involved with like the, the social hierarchy of the Halloween stuff. I will say it seems as though Halloween is changing before my eyes. What I see online and is that there's a ton of events, there's a ton of like, socializing. It seems as though it's gone from going house to house to this other thing of like, it's a party. It's a lot more talking. It's a lot more. Which I love. I think that's great. The full size candy bar. When it's not, you know, when it was just a house on the block that did it. To me, that's more admirable. That's like, like no one would even talk to that family. We would be like, yeah, they do. Like the full size candy bar. We didn't even know they were like humans that live there. Like, we. I remember my block. It was a house that like, was not a player in the game. To me. It's the full size candy bars. Become a little weird when it becomes this community thing that you're doing. Because I saw like they're doing a lot of Halloweens from parking lots now. It's called trunk a ween or something where they do it from the trunk of their car. Like, I was like, wait a minute, we're not going house to house. We're like going around in a circle at a parking lot. And in that scenario, the big candy bar is a real. Look at me at that point. We Used to have a house on our block that did Popcorn. I loved it. I loved it. That, to me, is a personality. That, to me, is a little bit of a change up from the regular chocolate or sweets that's going on. Popcorn. Whoa. And it wasn't a bag of popcorn. It was a box that was made from a popcorn machine. Yeah, I'm with you. The big size bars, they're fine if it's just a dark house that you didn't see it coming from. The minute it becomes out of their trunk and they're like, hey, everybody. And they're holding it up like it's the WWE Championship belt. Look who brought the big king size bars. Big swinging dick over here. Yeah, Mr. Moneybags. I got big bars also. They end up running out quick. And now it's like seven people got a big candy bar. Who gives a shit? Jtrain Podcast. Com. Let's do. Here's another one. Why are influencers making the font on their IG story captions so small? I noticed this a few months ago, and now I can't unsee it. It's everyone now. I do. I do captions. I don't know. I haven't noticed this, but now I probably will. Anything influencers do is to make money. So the annoying part about this is they're making it smaller because one person told them the algorithm will be nicer to them if they have a smaller caption. There's a reason they're making it smaller. I'm with you. I'm annoyed with you. Because there's a reason they're making the font smaller. That if you found it out, it would be the most enraging, stupid reason that you've ever heard. That would make you hate influencers a little bit more so. Because I hear these things all the time. Oh, yeah, you gotta make the font smaller because Father Algorithm will look kindly upon people who aren't trying so hard. And it's like, we have all lost our minds. We are now praying to a new God, and that new God you really do think is going to help you. These influencers are praying to Father Algorithm, and they're crazier than a cult. They are in a cult and they won't admit to it. They'll say, oh, no, I just do it smaller because, you know, it looks better. No. Someone told them a thing that gets them another eyeball, and they. They went for it. And honestly, we could make one up. I could make one up and you'd see it. A month from now, you'd start Seeing it happen. Yeah, they, you know, the algorithm is really good to people who use pumpkin emojis. Did you hear about that? I. Yeah. So I put one pumpkin emoji. I, like, hide it in the corner. Like, I, I think if I did that, if I was like, yeah, you gotta use the sparkle emoji or else the algorithm won't really pop you off. So just use a sparkle emoji. I think if I made that video, if I started doing that and started putting sparkle emojis in mine, you would see people doing sparkle emojis. It would be everywhere. It's how it works. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com We got one more. This is a depthy one. Jared, my husband and I are longtime listeners and you up subscribers. Love you. We just got married last week. Congratulations and have the perfect ticked off Tuesday for you. We're both 40, so didn't want a huge wedding. We did a small ceremony for just family in a synagogue and then following night hosted a dinner for family and close friends at a restaurant. What a beautiful affair. Before we invited our own friends, my mother insisted on inviting three of hers. That is its own ticked off Tuesday too. I'm sure it is. One happens to be a nature photographer, so we asked if she would be open to taking photos at our ceremony and dinner so we didn't have to hire a photographer. I already see problems. I. There is no way I am asking for any small favor from a woman my mom's age at all. No, this is a pro. You have made a big mistake. Huge. I asked my mom. I went on Katie Nolan's podcast. I went on Katie Nolan's podcast, which was so much fun. We did two hours. If you want to go listen to a fun podcast. Katie Nolan's great. She's so funny. I had a blast. They were like, we need. It's a. It's called casuals and it's a sports podcast. I asked my mom for a picture of me playing football in high school or Pop Warner. It was as if I asked her to chop off a pinky and send it to me in the mail. It turned into such a thing of her then yelling at me for asking her to do things last second. Everything with you was last second. And it's like all I said to her is, hey, do you have a picture of me playing football? Thinking all she has to do, go into my dad's office, take a look around. Is there a picture of me playing football? Oh, there it is. Take a picture of it. Send it to me. Is there not? Nope. Hey, Jared, I can't find a picture in the office. No problem, we'll move on. She's saying to me, she goes, now I'm gonna have to go in the garage and I'm gonna have to take out a box and I'll have to take out the ladder. And it's like, are you doing this to make me feel bad? There is no point where I said, hey, yo, bitch, take out a ladder and find my football photos. That's not how I asked this question. That's not what I wanted. Hey, do you have a picture of me playing football from growing up my mom for weeks? Who has a picture? I said, usually. And you needed me to get a picture and you needed it right away. And you're always asking for things last second. And I said to my mom, I go, normally parents have pictures of their children. If you don't have it, just say, I don't have the picture. I can move on. This wasn't life or death. So you saying before we even invited our own friends, My mother insisted we invited three of her friends. That zone ticked off Tuesday. The idea that you're already inviting mom's friends and it's annoying that this person. Oh, she takes pictures. No, it's not that simple. One happens to be a nature photographer. Oh, you take pictures? Why don't you take pictures? No, you're asking a 65 year old woman who now will misunderstand the assignment and make your life a living hell. So we asked if she would be open to taking photos at our ceremony and dinner so we wouldn't have to hire a photographer. I would pay twice as much for a photographer. She said yes. The moment she arrived in New York City, she immediately told us she bought a new camera for the wedding and doesn't know how to use it yet. I saw this coming from a mile away. This is what they do. You just said, hey, can you snap off a few photos? And she was like, I have to go to the store. I have to get a new camera. I have to learn how to use it. I have to take a college class on how to develop the film. It's like, no, no, no, we didn't ask that of you. We love your bird photos. Just pop some off. This was a huge mistake. She then said if it didn't work, she could always take photos on her phone. That's not what you wanted either. That's not, I, I, this, I know I'm, I'm complaining with you, but this is your fault. I. I don't normally say I'm mad for you and at you. At the ceremony, she didn't. At the ceremony, she did take photos of our families with her camera at the beginning and then didn't take any more, saying people were in her way with their phones out. Then right before our dinner party, she said she would be. She wouldn't bring her. Then right before her dinner party, she said she wouldn't bring her camera because she still doesn't know how to use it and that she'd take photos with her phone. But then she. At that point, I would have said to her, don't worry about it. But then she wouldn't have let that happen. No, no, no. I could take it with my phone like any. Like any civilian. No, we wanted bird photographer woman, not rando aunt who's in the way taking pictures with her iPhone. But then she was just standing in the corner doing nothing and then seated over. Then right before our dinner party, she said she wouldn't bring her camera because she still doesn't know how to use it and that she'd take photos with her phone, but then she was just standing in the corner doing nothing and then seated over the whole dinner. Yeah, I. I can't. I. I have to blame you. I'm sorry. I. I'll complain about this woman with you, but you thinking that a boomer is going to just, like, be okay with doing photography. They can't multitask. They can't. We are literally. Our whole lives are multitasking. We have a phone that we're doing, we're texting with friends while writing our emails while also doing our job. The boomers have no ability for multitasking. The idea that you thought that this woman could be photographer slash wedding invitee. I asked her if she planned on taking any photos, and she said everyone's taking photos with their phones already. Are we crazy? Or. If you say you'll take photos at someone's wedding, you show up with a camera you know how to use and take photos at each. At each event. No. Why bring in brand new camera and risk messing up the wedding photos? Well, this is the thing. This is like my mom, hey, can you get me a picture of me playing football? It turns into, you've asked them to do more than they can handle, and then they get bogged down and then they don't do it at all. Also, where do you get off saying everyone's already taking pictures on their phone, so why should I bother? You're supposed to be there taking photos as a professional photographer. No, she's not a professional photographer. You're not paying her. You just said you. You go, oh, we don't have to pay for a photographer. We just have my mom's friend. Your mom's friend wanted to go to the party and get a little drunk and hang out. She didn't want to work that night. She also isn't a professional photographer. She happens to be a nature photographer. So we just asked if she'd be open to taking photos of her ceremony dinner. We wouldn't have to hire a photographer. No such thing as a free lunch. Listen, I agree this person's annoying. They should have been more upfront. Hey, if you want an actual professional job, I'm not going to be able to do that. And instead of like half doing it and using it as. No, no, no. You're supposed to be. If we wanted sell pictures, we wouldn't have asked you. A perfect pictureless batch. I'm sorry to like. Listen, the premise here is that I'm going to agree with you no matter what. I agree this woman is annoying and shouldn't have agreed to taking pictures at your wedding and then switched up the camera last second and then said, I'll take them on my phone and then do nothing. That is. That is annoying. You shouldn't have thought that you were going to get professional grade photos from a mom's friend. I will rely on a mom's friend to be a fun conversation before drink two at a party. That's it. That's all I'm depending on a boomer friend to do. I'm going to depend on them to be somewhat fun until drink two, and then they're going to be annoying and they're going to do something that I'm going to want to walk away from. So. I hear you. She is annoying. But you have made a grave mistake. This is the idea. Well, we. Hi. We thought you were a professional photo taker. No, she was a guest at your wedding that you asked to do something way more than she could handle. The minute they hit 60, there is no multitasking. JTrend podcastmail.com ticked off Tuesday back next week.