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Reservations For Bar Stools, Low Water Pressure, and Kids On My Lawn - TICKED OFF TUESDAY
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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.
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Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. J Train Jared Freed coming live from Dallas, Texas. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday where you, the listener, complain to me, the comedian, and I complain with you. That's the promise of this show, is that if you complain to me, I will find a way to make you feel seen, make you feel heard. Any complaint you want to send in, send it toj train podcastmail.com but that, you know, that's not a great way to get on this show. Every email today is from a Patreon subscriber, except for one. So three out of four are from the Patreon subscribers. They get first dibs. So sign up for Patreon, will you? You get coffee with J Train, which is every Friday, and I tell stories for my life. And then you can comment on coffee with J Train with your ticked off. Those get moved to the top of the inbox. So that's how it works. I think I explained it well, if you're listening right now, Beach Mountain, North Carolina. I'm going to be there for my birthday weekend. I'm also going to be in Tempe. I'm going to be in Vancouver, Seattle. We added a second show. I'm going to be in la. Those are my dates. Oh, Salt Lake City, Utah. I want to thank you for being a listener to the show. I love doing Tiktoff Tuesday. This is therapy for me. I mean, my complaints today, I have two complaints and they're pretty normal, they're pretty relatable and. But what, you know, sometimes it's a me episode and sometimes it's a you episode. I would say this is a you episode today because I'm looking at the length, the girth of the emails that I'm looking at, of the emails that I've received. And I will say they are thorough. I don't read them before. I like to react with you. This is a daily show, so you're getting like the daily product. This is a daily podcast that you get, you know, you're gonna, you're gonna know me in a way that maybe you wouldn't know a podcast or a comedian if they did it once a week where they're like, cut that out. You know, let's take out that hour discussion we had and not. Not here. You're getting the full J train. You getting the full J train. You're getting the head. You're getting the caboose. You're getting all those cars in the middle. All the whole train. Who. We have two sponsors, so I'm going to do my complaints first. Here's two things. I'm driving now. I drove my whole life. But when you move to New York City, you give up a car. You go with this pedestrian lifestyle. Is that what it's called? Yeah. You know, you're going by Subway. You're doing Subway and cabs and Ubers and walking. And now I'm in a car. I have a car. I have a white wrangler. I call her Cher Horowitz. It's the same car Cher Horowitz had in Clueless. So I have Cher Horowitz, my car. Something I've noticed, and again, because I haven't been driving, this is probably something everyone has noticed and annoys everybody. I don't like when a gas station has a pump not working. And instead of putting a cone out or a big sandwich style sign, they put just a piece of tape over the credit card box where you would like tap your card and it's just like, pump out of service. Go inside. No, no, no. This should be a huge sign that is out on the street. I should know before I pull in. Don't pull into that one. Pull into that one. Because pulling into the gas station isn't easy. And it's also kind of a show. It's a, you know, I would say pulling into the gas station is parallel parkings. You know, younger cousin, not as important, not as big a deal. Parallel parking. Oh, look at that idiot. They don't know how to do it. Everyone's watching, everyone's judging. When you go to a gas station and you have to, like, figure out what side the gas cap is on and you hope that you remember and then you gotta, you know, you pull in, you know, every now and again you get the one you can just pull right in and then you got the one where you gotta, okay, I gotta go ahead of that guy. And then back into the spot. Let's make this very difficult process easier than it has to be. Let's Put out a sign. Let's have something that you can see from your car from at least 50 yards away. That's my first complaint, my second complaint. And it's something that will, I'm sure, relate to everybody, but it comes from moving into my new apartment. My new apartment is beautiful. If you've been, if you follow me on Instagram, you can see little pieces of it. I'm, I. At some point I'll do some sort of tour, but I would like for it to finish first. There's things that I'm like doing. I'm going to put a podcast studio in the apartment. Yes. This J Train cinematic universe is looking to get to the next Lev. So we are going to make a studio that is deserving of a great audience. You're a great audience, but I'm saying of a bigger audience. We want to have a studio where it can be taped and I can have a desk and it can look like a late night show and I have the space for it. It's why I bought this apartment. The water pressure in the apartment is just no good. And I think when you build an apartment building, when you're building the apartment, you want the roof to work. And I think we can all agree there is not one person on earth who wants low water pressure. So why are we doing this? What is this game? Now, a plumber could respond to me and say, it's just really tough to get high water pressure. If that's the case, let's get all of our finest engineers and start working on that. Let's get them off of all the army and gun stuff and Internet stuff. Let's put them all on water pressure. Because the fact that this is not something we take seriously as a society. And you go, well, we do take it seriously. Yeah, we all want good water pressure. We talk about it. You leave your hotel room, you should see the pressure in the shower here. We would go and talk to friends and family and then everyone go, oh my God, is it that good? I guess I'll stay there. They have great water pressure. Good to know. So it's something everyone wants, everyone cares about, but it seems that the effort isn't there. Now if you're gonna come back to me and this is more to my complaint and say, Jared, it's about the environment. I think if you've listened, I think if you've listened to this show long enough, you know my feelings on us gen pop, us normies and our contribution to helping the environment. I don't believe that we can help at all. I don't believe. And. And you. Maybe the feedback would be, well, that's like saying, my vote doesn't matter. I would say it's so far beyond us because there are all these companies, all these corporations feeding smog into society. And you would say, well, maybe that smog is creating something that gets you something you want. And here's my feedback to you. Why aren't we presented with a list? When you move into an apartment and they say, here's a way that you can help the environment, because you. There's a million ways to help the environment. And it seems that we're all doing different things. But the low water pressure thing, if I was to have a list of things I could do if they. This is what bothers me is like, it seems as though the whole environment conversation is had to make you feel badly because you can't help. It's made. The whole environment thing is had to make you feel less confident. Less sure. Less. When you have the three buckets in front of you at Starbucks of refuse, waste and recycle and you're sitting there with your stuff and you go, I don't even know which is which. And you throw it into the baskets and you go, oh, am I a bad person? Then you walk away, and then the person at Starbucks takes all three baskets and combines them into one and throws them in the garbage. What was it all for? It was all for you to feel less than. So if you're going to say to me, something in my apartment is being done for the environment, how about we have a list of what can be done for the environment and where? I want to place myself on that list because there's someone who's like, I don't need low water pressure. I would say that someone really doesn't exist. Like, I would actually say that there's, like very few people. So me, I would put low water pressure at the bottom. I would say, that's a place where I'm going to be a big fucking pig. That's where I am going to be. The pig rolling around in his pigsty, not caring about Mother Earth. Sorry, Mother Earth, I spit in your face when it comes to lower water pressure. Now, when it comes to. If you said, okay, well, then, because I put low water pressure at the bottom of the list, let's put recycling at the top. And you would say, jared, you don't care about recycling, I do. Now, knowing that I'm getting the high water pressure that I want, the thing that these environmental People don't really acknowledge is a world of incentives. They live in a well. We all just want to help. No one wants to help. Everyone wants to help if it helps themselves. So why don't you play to that? Hey, Jared. You have the choice between five things that can help the environment. One of them you got to do to be able to get the tax credits for being a homeowner. If you want your tax credits, you got to do one of these things on the list. You can have low water pressure. Nope, don't want that. Give me the high water. Okay, what's next? I'll do something else. This is where you get let down. I'm an idiot. I'm stupid. I'm not that smart. I just came up with this idea in half a second. Why isn't it. Why isn't it happening? That's where you start to become depressed by society. You go, oh, then nothing can help. Yeah, my vote doesn't matter. Now we're back at my vote doesn't matter. Jtrain podcastmail.com Jtrain podcastmail.com We have two sponsors. This is a sponsor where you will know right away if they can help you. And if they can help you, I want you to get involved with them. It's called quo. When you work with a team, you need to be all on the same page. That's why today's episode is brought to you by quo, spelled Q U O. The smarter way to run your business. Quo is the number one rated business phone system built for how modern teams work. Now, I am always surprised by the width and breadth of this audience. I got doctors, I got lawyers. There is a business owner who will be helped by quo. And I think you should look into this if you are one of those people. Quo Apple works on your phone or computer, wherever you are. 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The plumber goes well with the. You know, you can't only do so much in the state of Florida. And I'm like, so here's a. So sometimes you know the listeners. You know, when there's one set of feet in the sand, that was the listeners carrying me. Jared, I recently brought my sister to your Baltimore show. I'm in Philly, she's in D.C. so we met in the middle. Glad we made the drive. We loved the show. That. Love it. My ticked off Tuesday is I'm 37, single, and bought my first house eight months ago. Congratulations. That's amazing. I work in sales, so I get the hustle and cold call funnel. I work in sales, so I get the hustle and cold call funnel. But there is a line. The same window company has come to my door three times since I moved in. This is crazy. Including yesterday, the doorbell rang while I was waiting for a package, so I answered, thinking it was ups. Nope, window salesman again. I feel you, sister. This is annoying. I moved in and you know the cold call. As someone who has made cold calls in their life, I used to sell life insurance. I cold called 300 aisles a day. I did them. It sucks. But there's also, you know, as a cold caller, as a person who's canvasing, as a person who's done that, you gotta stop bothering people just because they're available to bother. Like, that's insanity. They're taking out their insanity on you. Coming to your door three times as a window salesman. No, we don't need them. You're wasting your own time. And I know that's the bothersome part, is that this salesperson is trying to delude themselves into thinking they're doing a good job, but they're actually doing a bad job and they're, like, ruining it for themselves. They could be at another house they haven't gone to yet. And you go a second time, hey, just checking in. But you should be checking in six months to a year later with windows, maybe five years later. So this is annoying. And over the years, the cold callers have become better. So they know when to knock at your door, how to knock at your door. That's better than it was before. So they can Try and fool you. I just moved into my new apartment and I get these letters that are handwritten and I'm like opening them up. And then you open them up and it's like a. It's junk mail. And I'm like, wait a minute. They wrote, they're sending the junk mail with handwritten, like, stamps and, and addresses. Like, they're getting good. I told them from the start, I'm not interested right now. Reach out when I am. They wouldn't take no for an answer and kept pushing, asking questions, reframing the offer, trying to stay engaged, even though I was clearly done. I mean, these are windows. I either need them or I don't. And listen, we have ads and sponsors on the show. I always say, if it can help your life, use it. But not. I'm not going to push you. I said I wouldn't replace windows for two to three years. I mean, that's the thing with like shows. This is where I get annoyed with like shows. I put out my shows, I put out the dates. I would love for you to come. Come or don't. I think the, the problem this person has with the windows is like, are you okay? Is life not going well? Like, will my window sale, like, affect you that much that I've become the only person you can call on? I said, I. I said I wouldn't replace windows for two to three years, right? They asked to still give an estimate. I said, no. Inflation means prices will change and I'll call when ready. Still not good enough. They kept pushing. One guy asked to come back another day. What other day will I think differently? I said, sure, and gave a day that I'd be out of town. Next morning, I woke up to a confirmed appointment in my email. Yes. Stop it. Stop it. Which I never gave them the cherry on top. As he left, he said, does anyone else live with you? Oh, no. Must be the. This is. He's. He's going to raise his annoying with an insult. Let me raise how annoying I've been by insulting you. That. Let me speak to the man of the house that's asked to be where this is going. Does anyone live with you? I get it. Trying to see if I'm the decision maker, but caught me off guard and I said no. Before thinking. Before thinking. At first I thought, nope. I thought this big ass house. I. At first I thought, nope, I bought this big ass house for myself. Then it hit me. Now they know I live alone. Yeah, this is bad. You got cocky. Yeah, no, I. This is my House that I live in alone. And I haven't gotten the ring camera set up yet. And the locks. All you really need is to, you know, kick the door in and you be in in two seconds. And you can murder me. Yeah, I, I wouldn't. As someone in sales, I get persistence. But as a woman alone, this crossed from annoying to unsettling. I agree. No, no mean no should be no. So what's the best way to answer when someone asks if anyone else lives there? Be honest. Or invent an imaginary bodyguard boyfriend who hates windows. A window dodging batch. I, I, I am so sorry this is happening. This is very annoying. I hope you feel heard. I hope you feel seen. I will say this. There's no good way without lying because so are you here alone? Is like such an invasive question. Like, off. And then you say, well, why would I have. What does that matter, sir? And that means you live alone. Like, do you live alone? Are you the. Does anyone else live with you? Why does that matter? Is that something you need to know? Okay, that means no. I live alone. Does anyone else live with you? Yes. And they're. And they're here all the time with their big, huge gun. Get out. Scat. Scram. Shoe. That's how you answer? Yeah, I actually live with my husband, but he's out at the gun range right now where he shoots his many guns. Where he shoots as many guns instead of going to therapy. How does that sound to you? Yeah, my husband is out right now. He, he trains our bobcat. He goes to the woods and wrestles with our bobcat that we have. We have a home at home bobcat. We keep it upstairs. It's dangerous. Yeah, it's a bit dangerous. But we love him. Bobby the bobcat. Yeah, we love him. Oh, your windows. Yeah, he doesn't scratch windows. Oh, if you have a bobcat, then you must get a lot of scratches on the windows. So I guess we'll come back next week and replace these windows. No. Okay, okay, enough, enough. That'd be a fun sketch, trying to get this person to not come. Avoiding the window, man. That's a fun sketch. I've never seen that before. Jared, you should go at snl. Would you ever do snl? No. I said no to SNL when I was doing open mics. I said no to the audition. I didn't want to do it. What do you fucking think now? I now it'd be more of a decision. I would do it. Well, what if I suck on snl? Yeah, I don't know. Neutrophil Men, listen up. I. I get asked that question. It is very annoying. I mean, that could be a ticked off Tuesday in itself. 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A friend and I, suburbanites for several years now, decided to spice up our evening with a wild and reckless adventure by venturing into the city Boston for dinner at our new restaurant. Wonderful. I was just in Boston. Loved it, had a great time. So you leave the suburbs for, you know, you leave the suburbs to go to a new restaurant in Boston. Fun. For context, we both spent our glory days in Boston racking up a treasure trove of stories at every possible hotspot. Now, as proud members of the late 40s club. That's right, the JCU reaches the paramount. I love this email. That's right, the JCU reaches the paramenopausal set. I love it. We figured we'd outsmart the crowds with our early bird instincts. Arriving at 5pm to score prime seats at the bar. I'm with you. This sounds great. 5:00pm we're two people coming from the suburbs. You can sit at the bar. You could be there till 6:30. Honestly, in having just come from Boston, 5pm might as well be 9pm at night. It is dark at 6:30. 6:30 felt like it was 2am So 5pm sounds about right for dinner time. But instead of a serene empty bar, we were greeted by a line of people cardoned off by velvet sanctions stanchions. This is a very well written email that I am flubbing. Okay. But instead of a serene empty bar, we were greeted by a line of cordoned. Cordoned. I don't know if I know that word. Cordoned off. We're going to do a Google search just so I. I mean this might searching. It might make me sound dumber than not knowing it. Cordon off the me Cordoned off means to restrict access to a specific area. Huh. You were James. Cordoned off. Cordoned off. Okay. We were greeted by a line of people cordoned off by velvet stanchions beside the host stand. And yes, these people were in line just to get and yes, these people are in line just to get to the bar. Important note, this is a restaurant, not an exclusive nightclub with a secret handshake. Undeterred, we set off to. To our. Undeterred, we set off to one of our trusted old haunts. Surely we surely here we'd be welcomed with open arms and open bar stools. But plot twist, the bar was reservation only. No, no, no, no. Stop it. No bar should have reservations. The bar is the bar. If you travel to Europe, you will realize that the idea of a bar is a very American thing. The idea of walking up to the bar at the saloon is a old west American ideal to have reservations for bar seats. You are anti American, anti freedom, anti mosey. Because that's what it's all about. Moseying in the one person new to town can float up to a bar and have a drink. No, I don't bar with reservations. We should be marching. We should be protesting outside of that bar. Apparently, in our time away, spontaneous bar hopping has joined payphones and Blockbuster in the relics of history. Undaunted, we pressed on to two more spots. Only to discover that the bars at each place were also reservation only. This is horrific. This is also very Boston. I have to say. I live in Florida now. I haven't seen this. And I go to bars. I go to bars. So the. And I have noticed in the city of Boston, there is an unwelcoming attitude to people who sit at bars. It even happens at the end of the night. You're talking about going at 5 o'. Clock. I've been there. A bar that closed at 2am they will start flipping bar stools over around you at 12:45 and they'll go, no, no, no, you're good. Yeah, no, no, we're just getting ready to close up, you know, don't worry. No, no, no. We're just like, don't worry. You're good. And you're like, well, it doesn't seem like you're good. It seems like things are bad. It seems like you're telling anyone who might float up next to me, I'm not at a bar at one in the morning because I want to be alone and crying over my martini. I want someone magical to waltz in and see an open bar seat and sit next to me and strike up a conversation. No, they can't now because you're flipping over bar seats. Oh, no, no, no, no. Sit. Have fun. Alone, surrounded by this moat we've created. I'm like, so annoyed because I've always known Boston for that. And now to hear that this is happening. This is the, the next iteration. This is. This is just Boston showing you how they feel about a bar. There is no and. And crazy that the setting for Cheers, where everyone knows your name, is the least comfortable city in America to stroll up to a bar. I'll say it. I've been to all the cities. I've had drinks in every city. I go through the airport in Atlanta. I have been to every town that they show on those boards, and there is not one place. And if this is true that Boston is going the way of reservation only at the bar, that is telling you how they've always felt about people who go up to the bar. I'm like. I'm like, angry. Apparently, in our time away, spontaneous bar hopping has joined payphones and Blockbuster in the relics of history. Undaunted, we pressed on to two more spots, only to discover that the bars at each place were also reservation only at our fifth and final spot and a hotel restaurant. We were told there was a magical, mythical place downstairs. The non reservation bar. Yeah, they put you in the closet Downstairs, we descended a flight of stairs and entered what can only be described as the B List Bar, complete with a six to eight seat counter and bartenders who radiated all the cheerfulness of DMV employees on a Monday. Still, we nabbed two seats, enjoyed a drink and some apps, and called it a night. When did going out for a casual bite in the city become a quest worthy of Indiana Jones? All we wanted was a spontaneous night of good food and drink. A bar fly batch. I I'm angry for you. You're two people who wanted to here's the thing about a bar. The bar is all about social. We live in an antisocial time. We live in a time where the option to be on your phone is always buzzing in your pocket. That that sweet relief from awkwardness sits in your pocket every day. And these bars where you can meet someone new and have an interaction and be a little flirty that might make you think that this great hellscape we live in isn't as bad as you thought it was. The magic that is the bar is the people who go up to it and make it fun. And I will say this. I'm telling you, Boston is not a bar town. You're hearing it here on the. On the ufo, I got confused with pockets. I'm so angry. Boston is not a bar town. It's not inviting. They don't want you there unless you've been going to the same bar for a decade where they kind of know you and they'll give you a head nod, then you'll feel invited. But this isn't, you know, a bar is all about meeting new people and having an experience, a little adventure as you rode. And I've had this experience in Boston every time I've gone to that city. Every time. There is no bar that feels like something fun could happen. And they're putting seats up around you. They're blocking you off from other people. The reservation. No, this is where something weird happens. Jtrain podcastmail.com, jtrain podcastmail.com tot My neighbors don't respect property lines. Ooh. My husband and I bought our house in November, officially moved in December, and officially moved in. So you guys bought around the same time I got my place. Man, it's such a coincidence. I did my home ownership complaint amongst a lot of, like, homeownership stuff. My neighbors don't respect property lines. My husband and I bought our house in November, officially moved in December 18th, and we are learning that none of our neighbors know how to leash Their dogs or their children. We pick up our dog's poop every time they go. We have three. And yet we still find dog shit in random tracks in our yard almost every day. You have three dogs and you pick up the poop every day, and then you find other dog shit. That's crazy. I've had to yell at three different dogs to get out of our yard since moving I've had to yell at three different dogs to get out of our yard since moving in. We got home from running errands today and took the dogs out, and there was a kid sledding in our yard. My husband told him sledding needed to wrap up because we were out with our dogs on our own lawn. And he left. Thirty seconds later, his dad came out and asked us if we told him he couldn't sled. I mean, yeah, we told him that we have dogs and we don't want them barking at your child and then getting in trouble because your kid runs away screaming, crying. Yeah, of course we told him. We asked him not to sled while we're out with our dogs in our yard. And he then told us, well, this is the neighborhood sledding hill. Well, not anymore, bitch. Neighborhood sledding hill. Do you guys pay hoa to the sled hill so that you can make, you know, so that the T bar that brings people up the sledding hill? Like, does it. Does that help pay for the gondola that gets people up the hill? What are you talking about? Neighborhood sledding hill? Things change. Someone moved in. Not the neighborhood sledding hill anymore. To which I responded, well, we didn't know. We. To which I responded, well, we didn't know that. We just. Well, we didn't know that. And just so you know, we are going to be putting a fence up in the spring. This is the neighborhood sledding hill. Oh, we didn't know. Oh, also, there's a fence going up in the spring. Say goodbye to your hill. That's basically what you said. We found sleds at our yard before, and I don't fucking know. Like, it's not your yard. So why are you giving us a hard time and asking your kid to not be in our yard? Well, I might have read that wrong. We've found sleds in our yard before, and idfk. I don't fucking know. Like, it's not your yard. So why are you giving us a hard time about asking your kid to not be in our yard? The lack of control or increased entitlement people seem to have around here is mind boggling. Get off my lawn bench. I agree with you. This is crazy. Here's the other thing. You know, none of us want to be litigious. None of us want to be like, the person that thinks of getting sued for every issue. But these kids sledding in your yard, There is a slippery slope, literally, that we could slide down that ends with you getting sued for the kid breaking his ankle because he was on your property and you didn't keep your property. There are ways. And again, this is. This is the. The sad thing of the world is the lack of trust. We've seen too many instances. We're all becoming safer. You know, there's a time people go, whoa, back in my day, we could just go sled. And it was, well, then back in your day, you know, people could sled in other people's yards. And then 10 years later, one of the kids died, you know, because he hit a tree. And their family sued that person who owned that, you know, property because they wanted a fat settlement. And now we're all sitting here afraid in our home and saying, stay off my lawn. So, yeah, the world's changed. I'm sorry to inform you. And get your kid off my fucking lawn. We're putting up a fence in the spring. I'm with you to double down on it. The father should have came over and said, hey, I'm really sorry my kid was in your lawn. I think he got used to it. There's a right way to do this. That's the thing. There isn't no way. Hey, I am really sorry. My kid came home, he said that you guys asked him to leave. I totally get it. It's your property. He loves sledding on that hill. Before you guys moved in, we didn't, you know, we would sled there all the time. But now that there's a house there, we do have to change. But if there's any way he could sled there, you know, because he really does love. Like, if he came with that attitude, it's a different story. It's. Hey, I'm your neighbor. I. I just gotta let you know, you know, your house was built and it's beautiful and I love that you guys move here, and I hope we can get to know each other in the future. Our kid kind of got used to sledding on that hill. I totally understand if you don't want it, but, like, is there any way you can go up? Like, there's a way. That's the entitlement. The entitlement isn't, oh, my kid is always on your lawn. The entitlement becomes. How do you react to that? What do you think you deserve? No, a house is there. They have property lines. Your kid is intruding. He's a trespasser. Get this 8 year old trespasser off my lawn. And then you come back and you say, well, we used to sled there. No, no, no. Hey, I. We lost ourselves. I'm sorry. You know, your house wasn't there before. We used to like that hill. The neighborhood sledding hill. Do you pay taxes on the neighborhood sledding hill? No. So it's my sledding hill. I'll be charging admission. That's what I would say. $5 please, to get on my sledding hill. Jtrain podcastmail.com Last one, Jared. Here's a ticked off Tuesday for you. For context, everyone in the story is women ages 26 to 29. I'm 26. I love this. I can't believe 26 year olds are writing into me. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Long story short, I can't believe we went from perimenopausal to 26. We got them all. This is great. Share this show Share it Long story short, I was in. I'm not going on snl, so please share the show. I was in two overlapping friend groups with a girl named Ally. Okay, so you got two friend groups and there's one girl that floats into both. You guys are the center of the Venn diagram. Back in September, another girl, Jessica, got mad at Allie and made a group chat with everyone except her to trash talk. Oh, that's a problem. Because here's the thing. Loose lips sink ships. That might work for a day. It's fun. We all trash alley. But then it goes for a while. And now you have this very real documentation that Ali is being shit on. That could get back to Ally. I spoke up and said she should talk to Ally directly instead of piling on. Since then, Jessica and that whole group stopped talking to both Ali and me. Oh, you're out. Listen, you want to be a hero? That's. That's the tough part. Fast forward to last weekend at a grad school formal. Allie, our other. Our other friends. Our other. Our other friends. Fast forward to last weekend at grad school formal. Allie, our other friends and I. So the other group went to the bathroom together and Jessica joined in the stall. She drunkenly grabbed my face and said, I miss you so much. We haven't spoken in five months. So I awkwardly said, yeah, me too, and tried to disengage. She doubled down, saying she missed me and hated that the group chat's been dead, and I told her if she felt that way, she should text in it. I told her that if she felt that way, she should text in it. The uncomfortable interaction dragged on, including her smacking my butt until I escaped. This is very women's bathroom things. Two days later, I worked alone with her in the clinic for 30 minutes and she didn't say a word. So she got a little drunk confidence and came up to you and told you how she felt. You know, imagine dating this woman. I love you. I love you. What's your name? You know, just changes. Here's what I'm. Here's why I'm ticked. This is over. You chose to stop being my friend. That's fine. But don't drunkenly tell me you miss me in front of my classmates when you've ignored me for five months. Don't act like it was a misunderstanding. You tried to gang up on someone, didn't like that I wouldn't participate and opted out. I'm with you. Own it. Don't let some alcohol get in there. And then, oh, we're all mushy. Ooh, you and me, friends forever. We. Why don't we talk anymore? You don't talk to me because I said stop making fun of this other chick in a group chat. I don't like to be a part of that nonsense. Own it. Leave it alone. Thanks for letting me vent. My boyfriend and I met you in St. Louis last year. He got me into you up and now I'm a full on J train listener. I hope to catch another show soon. Thank you so much. A J Train loving. I love, I love that you love the show. Thank you so much. I agree. Agree with you. And here's the thing. Like, don't. I don't mind a drunk interaction. That's delusional because that's what she did. The, the, the, the, the, the drunk interaction generally isn't the problem for me. It's how you act after it. If you're going to come up to me and go, why haven't we talked? I miss you so much. Okay, drunk words are, you know, your inner thoughts. There's a saying for that where when you say something when you're drunk, that is an honest version of yourself that you are loosened up to be able to say, fine. But then the next time I see you when you're not as loose. Acknowledge it. Hey, I was drunk the other night. I may have said a few things that I'm a little hazy on, but also, I do miss our friendship. And now it counts. The drunk stuff doesn't count until you do the sober stuff. Stuff you followed up with a. You know, I did mean a lot of what I said. I wish I wasn't as mushy, but, you know, here we are. Okay, great. I just. I. I'm with you. Like, it's just so fake. Like, hey, oh, I miss you so much. No, you don't. You can go any day where we're not together. You're not texting me. Hey, I've been thinking about you. You haven't done that. That I would text her. Hey, I just want to, like, get this all out there. You came up to me in the bathroom, you're smacking my ass, and you're telling me how much I miss how much you miss me. Now I see you the next day, you don't say a word. What's the deal here? I need to move on from this, and you're making it tough for me to do that. I was going to move on from this, but then you're telling me how much you love me, and now I feel weird about it. You tell me how we should move forward. Lord. So, jtrainpodcast@gmail.com. this was such fantastic emails. I love this. Keep em. Keep emailing and share it with a friend. Back next week. Boom.