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Thanksgiving Food, Cheap Cat Toys, and Condo Management - 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. Is J Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Delray Beach, Florida? That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday where you, the listener, email me the comedian with your complaints. That's the show. Email the show j train podcast gmail.com title it ticked off Tuesday. But I'm going to give you a big but. First dibs goes to the Patreon subscribers. So for five bucks a month you sign up for patreon.com jared free. The link is in the bio. This episode you get coffee with J Train every Friday and then you comment with your ticked off Tuesday on Coffee with J Train on the Patreon app and there you go, you get put to the front of the line. Today we have four complaints. We got a couple from Patreon subscribers, a couple from the mailbox. So it's all here. Jtrain podcast gmail.com Sign up for the Patreon. If you're in Royal Oak or Columbus, Ohio or San Diego or Orlando, I'm coming. Happy I'm, I'm taping this pre Thanksgiving post. Not post anything. This will come out post Fort Lauderdale Miami show. So thank you to anyone who came to those shows. We will have behind the scenes footage from Fort Lauderdale and Miami on my YouTube channel. So if you want to see what goes on on the road, well, this one will be different. It's going to be my, my parents will be on it. We're doing a home organized home organizing with star organizers Summer Summer Rose organizer to the Stars. It's probably not out yet or maybe, maybe we get it. No, it's definitely not out yet. So yeah, Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee, those are out on my YouTube channel. And I have one sponsor. I'll do my complaint first. I have two complaints. Moving related. Well, one is moving related. I, I, I talked a little bit about this on Coffee with J Train but let me give a little bit of a recap. I move into my apartment. I need Internet. I wasn't Here for my closing, I had given power of attorney to my parents to sign all the paperwork for me so that I could close while I was on the road. That is the life of a comedian. So I didn't have. But I don't know how much of a discussion of like here are your keys and here's how to do the trash and here's how to do the Internet and here's, you know, sometimes you move into a building and they go, here's you're moving in paperwork and it's a couple. Listen, I, maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm okay being wrong, but I do feel that when you move into. I'm in a condo, I am, I have bought, I have a mortgage, I have all those things. But there is a management company that deals with the condo in my. What are my expectations? You know, so many complaints here about expectations. And then the reality, reality not meeting expectations. My expectation from a management company is that they are my place to go for questions whether it comes to built. When it comes to building things, how, what days do the trash get taken out? Where what are the trash rules for the building? If I fold up a box, where should that go? Where does recycling go? A lot of trash related stuff, the Internet, who to go to? Is there somewhere that everyone in the building goes to is, you know, setting up the TVs, moving, moving processes what. All these things I would expect from a management company. I and this is a little bit of a recap from Coffee with J Train. So if you're subscribed to that, you're going to get a little bit more of a fuller story. I call the management company, someone picks up the phone, they go, hey. I'm like, hey, I'd like to do my Internet. I just moved into this, you know, this apartment I just bought. Very happy to be on the team. And the person's like, well I'm the accountant so I don't really. Yeah, I think everyone does Comcast. And that was like their answer. Now you could say, Jared, that's not really enough of an answer. But they were like, yeah, just go to Comcast. Just do that. It felt very loose. Call Comcast. I'm like, hey, do you guys deal with this building? They're like, we'll set up an appointment. They're coming on Tuesday. Tuesday. The guy shows up and he, he's like, I need to get into an electrical room to be able to hook up your Internet. The electrical room is locked, I can't get in. I message I then Call the management company. It turns into an argument. Even then I'm like, hey, when I called you, whoever, you know, I wouldn't have the accountant pick up the phone if they can't help a tenant, that I would have them doing debits and credits. So I'm upset because I'm like, hey, I feel alone here. The person, the person that helped me on the other line was not helpful. They were aggressive. I would, I would describe it as. So they say you can email your liaison, your person that you're building deals with. I email that person, hey, I have set up a new appointment For Friday morning, 8am I just want to make sure I'm doing everything right. I don't want to have to go another week with no Internet in the apartment. I think anyone listening to this can understand that. I then the night before, I double check, hey, just making sure there's going to be someone here to let us into the electrical room that can lead me through this Internet thing. Yes, yes, no problem. Now, I have spoken to the head of my board for the building. They gave me a code to like a rock that holds a key and a lantern and, and a map to get you into the electrical room. So, but to me, that is separate from, hey, I have someone from the management company that told me that we're going to have someone there to help you through it. Our tech guy, morning comes, Comcast is here. I'm outside of the electrical room. No guy from the building. I've, you know, and I've checked on this. It's not like the building emailed me back and said, we don't do this. They said, I will have someone there. I then email the building, the management, hey, there's no one here. I call the, you know, the offices, hey, there's no one here. They're like, I've been trying to get in touch with them for 10 minutes. They're not picking up. I've called 15 times. I'm like, well, this is disappointing. I then go into the lockbox, I open it up, I get the key, I let the guy in myself. But we're kind of alone. The reason I wanted the tech guy there is because I can't speak to the building and the tech things going on there. It would be my assumption that whoever came to open up that door would have more dealings with the building than I do and can answer some questions with Comcast that might come up. The Comcast guy then goes in the room and he's like, dude, I think you got a Weak signal. You're on the opposite side of the electrical room. And he starts explaining something that I really don't understand. I then call the management company, hey, there's nobody here. I'd like this person here that this person can talk to because he's speaking a language, a technical language, not language language. Like he's talking in Comcast language. And I don't understand anything going on. They say, well, we'll get the electrical guy on the phone, the guy that did all the electricity there, and then he brings someone else on the phone. There's miscommunications everywhere. No one's getting anything. I am still upset that the person that was supposed to walk, walk us through and hold our hands through this process, still not there. So then I email, the Internet gets set up. It ends up working out, it's fine. I email the management company, hey, this is route. This is strike two. Two times where I feel a little bit let down and unmanaged, and I don't. And I wrote a strongly worded letter that was not in any way. I mean, I would even feel comfortable reading it here. It really wasn't in any way mean, just more direct. I mean, it was along the lines of like. I mean, I can read. Was along the lines of like, I don't feel managed. And I, I think that's pretty fair. I got it right here. I got. Okay, so now this is the email. I was told that someone would be at the building to help walk the Comcast person through the process of putting in my WI fi. I had the code of the lockbox outside the electrical room. So we are able to set it up. We were able to set it up, but he had questions I couldn't answer. You said someone would be at the building to help. I have had. I've had. I have enough time to make sure everyone was. I have enough time to make sure everyone was on the same page. Nobody showed. The person from Comcast said that because I'm on the side of the building that's far from the electrical room that my signal is weak. There was nobody there to answer these questions. It's a true letdown to feel that I'm moving into a building with a management company that isn't managing the building. There has been no move in instructions on really anything associated with the building. And I'm left wondering what I'm paying to be managed. I would, I would have expected things like the Internet hooking up things like hooking up the Internet, trash rules, mailbox, Amazon delivery instructions. To all be in. In a very simple place. I'm still aware. I'm still aware of none of that. In addition, whoever I keep speaking with at the office is the opposite of helpful and gets aggressive whenever questions are asked. The experience so far has been again, been a letdown. I think that is a fair email that kind of spells out the things I'm looking for now. The email I got back I would describe as demeaning. That's a demeaning on the. On this. From demeaning to not demeaning. It's more towards demeaning. I escalated this. This ticket to the executive team. I'm sorry for any confusion. The only thing I was doing is making sure the electric room door was open today. At no time did I commit any IT support to help Comcast with providing the service. That's an escalation of what I said. Unfortunately, the tech. So you. You call this person a tech but you're not providing it. Let's not call them a tech. I am saying you agreed someone would be here at the building to help me open this door. And you go, they're a tech who knows the building. The tech who said he would be there to make sure you had all the access was in the ER at the hospital, which explained why he did not answer the phone or be at the meeting. Here's the thing. I'm the one who reached out after the fact to say, hey, there was no one there. They didn't get back in touch with me to say, hey, they've been in the er. I'm sorry, I'm driving over right now. The, you know, this ER thing came once we were called out. I don't even buy the ER story, to be honest. I also understand the corporate office assisted with getting your Comcast tech on the phone. Why are they calling my Comcast guy a tech and their guy a tech? But no IT person was committed. Okay. I. I'm just saying tech feels like an escalated version of a. A bigger version than guy opening a door. Getting your Comcast tech on the phone with both the building builder, electrician in the building Super. Neither of which understood the issue completed the Comcast text was the computer issued completely the top Comcast tech was raising. I also understand you have the code for the access to that room. That is not. Has nothing to do with anything. Yeah, I have the code. Thank goodness. Because now I have Internet because I had that code. Not thanks to management team. Why didn't. If you know that there's a code to be had why didn't you just send that to me when I asked you to have someone here in the morning? Here's how it should have gone based on this email. Hey, we don't provide a person to help you in the Comcast guy. There's a code by the door you can use that not we'll provide a guy then guy doesn't show. Hey, heard you had a code that's kind of this is all kind of like this is all bad. This is all like you know, after the fact. I feel that you're blaming me and our company for an issue that ties with Comcast that lies with Comcast. No, I'm not. I'm blaming you for not having anyone here to open the door that you said that would be here many times. Despite this I'm here responding and just was notified the called you and left a message at 8:30. Please let us know, let us tell us what you want us to do to do to assist. It's always you tell us and then we'll tell you we don't do that and you yeah you will do whatever we will do whatever possible to help. I'm sure you see my repeated follow ups in response to no, you are not alone. I am alone. Your responses mean nothing. It could be coming from anyone you I haven't the one time I needed help, didn't have help, was alone. Our team has some contacts in the Comcast the construction division. Maybe that will help. Can you get something in writing? See this is all you do work that they know I'm not going to do. This is my complaint and we've gone on a little bit but I'm just giving you the full, you know, can you get something in writing? So now I'm going to get right from Comcast on what exactly the issue what their IT ops suggests. Finally please note this is a condominium association, not an apartment complex. The association documents were signed for and given to you to understand how the association operates. Nonetheless, whatever questions you have for us, again you've been given the documents but any questions you have, I'm sorry this community building does not have on site or concierge staff but I can be reached 247 so anything you need. So it's like this to me. They're doing a fun tight wire walk of I'm helpful but I can help with nothing. So here's my response to that. Got it. Apologies for misunderstanding the management company's responsibilities. Can you send me a PDF of the services I can expect from the management company? So that I don't come to you with issues that aren't included. Don't want to make the mistake again. And here's, here's my, really my complaint. I haven't even complained yet, Jared. No worries. I'm happy to help. The best thing is the association documents that describe best business, best everyone's role. Thanks for being a great new member of the community. Don't hit me with I'm a, you hate me, you don't like me as a member. Don't tell me I'm a great new member of the community, happy to help in any way. And then the attachment is a 79 page. I'm laughing because it's cuckoo batshit bananas that you are like, oh, here, let me just send you what we do. A 79 page lawyer written like article one, declaration, like article two, definitions. I'm not reading this bullshit. 79 pages. I'm asking, when does the trash get picked up? I'm asking, where do I put boxes? Where do I do recycling? Amazon code. I wrote this out to you, 70 of my invaders. And I wrote back. So there's no simplified version to explain the owners, what they can expect from the manager company. Not really. But let me know any specific questions, you see, at any time. I'm always here to help you. Again, this is like maddening because it's always, I'm here to help. And I'm like, here's three things. Read this 79 page document. You know, here's a, a dictionary to read. I'm sure this will continue. I'm sure this isn't the end. I'm sure this will get worse. I'm positive of all those things. I mean, my question is really for deliveries, like, I have some Amazon things. My last complaint is again, is clerical, you know, dealing with people that I'm calling for information. I have a doctor's appointment today at 1. I'm taping this at 8:52am I have in my calendar, doctor's appointment, one o' clock with a new doctor that's here locally. And it says, remember to fast. Now, I wanted to make sure that that was the correct information because I remember when I made the appointment, they had no appointments and I travel, so I was like, I gotta get this in before I leave again. And they're like, we got one o' clock on a Tuesday. Are you okay to not eat? And I'm like, I'm okay to not eat. We'll figure it out, it'll be fine. And then they looked at me, they're like, really? Are you okay? Not deed. I was like, that's offensive. No, that's not what happened. But I, I, I go, I can wait till one. But then I called to make sure. I'm like, hey, just calling to confirm my appointment, but also to make sure that I need to fast for tomorrow because I don't want to have to fast if I don't, I don't want to fast if I don't have to. I don't want to wait till 1 to eat or 2, 2:30. The woman picks up, she goes, ah, you don't have to fast. And I'm like, but I have it written. And I have a faint memory. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm just saying it's written in my calendar. Yeah, you should fast. I'm like, well, can you check with the, Do I just. Here's the thing. When you answer the phone, if you can't answer questions, that's fine, but let's write them down. I'll get back to you. Let me get back to you. To me. These are parts of the job of the people picking up the phone. Oh, hey, I'm the accountant, but let me write this down. I'll get right back to you within 15 minutes. You know, like I, I don't do this thing. It's weird that I'm picking up the phone. But let me make sure that what I, what would a person who normally picks up the phone would get you done. Would get the. I'll get this done because you call the doctor, you go, should I fast? That feels like a phone call. That feels like a person at the door question to answer. J train podcast gmail.com. this is ticked off Tuesday. I am ticked off. The management company thing. I, I can't stand the emails that are. Happy Thanksgiving. Great to hear from you. We'll help with anything we can. Here's a 79 page document that can answer all your questions. No way. I would expect to me, when you move into an apartment, there's one page one with like a picture of a cartoon box with eyes on it waving to you, welcoming you to the building. Hey Jared, welcome to the building. Congratulations on your new home purchase. Here are the five rules we have here in Delray beach to make sure you have a Delray day. That's what the move in should be. It shouldn't be. Oh, you got a problem? Here's a 79 page document for you to read. Fucking loser. Good luck. Good luck reading that one. See you in six years when you get all. Get done with all the moving reading. And I just, I don't appreciate when someone I. I appreciate people working to not work. I don't appreciate when they do it. So obviously. And I'm like sitting here knowing it's someone working to not work. Working to not work. I get that. You know, half the shit I do is working. So I don't have to realize I'm not really doing anything. But don't include me on this bullshit extravaganza. Factor Meals. The holiday season can get busy, so finding time to cook can be tough. Save time and get a hot meal with Factor Factor Chef prep meals make it easy to eat healthy. You can enjoy hot, delicious dinners in just two minutes. Factors offers a wide variety of weekly meals, including premium seafood like salmon and shrimp at no extra cost. I've had Factor. It's delicious. Here's the issue with trying to eat healthy. You have two issues. Your, your eyes are bigger than your stomach. You buy too much food. You end up overeating, making portions that are too big. And I mean you by me. We, we, we do this. 2. We are not creative. We are not chefs. So we got three moves. 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That's code jtrain50off@factor meals.com for 50% off your first box plus FREE breakfast for one year. Get delicious ready to eat meals delivered with factories. Offer only valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto renewing subscription purchase. Love that. Love when we can help. Everyone gets helped. Everyone gets you know, jerked off with that one. You get a good deal on Factor. Factor gets a new customer. I get paid by Factor. That's really the circle of podcasting. And if Factor is not for you, sign up for the Patreon. All right, let's do the listener complaints as a Patreon subscriber. Feather, Feather. I have a ticked off Tuesday about Thanksgiving. Perfect. I love to cook and my husband and I love to plan and host dinner parties. This should be the holiday for you. Each dinner party will have a thoughtful theme and special menu. Okay. However, nothing feels less inspiring to me than the thought of making the traditional Thanksgiving meal. It literally could not require more effort to make a less exciting meal. As a culture, why are we wasting a holiday devoted to enjoying food to one menu? This whole holiday feels like a missed opportunity for culinary exploration and actually flavorful food. Why can't each Thanksgiving host plan their own menu of dishes they actually enjoy making? They actually enjoy making and have some fun with it. Thanks for all you do. Well, you know, the response is you can do that. You should do that. I think you answered you didn't really come with a. Well, you can answer your own question. You the, the. And I don't even think you understand what your real issue is. You love hosting dinner parties. You love to plan. You love to cook. You and your husband love doing this together. Win, win, win. I think you should do that. I think you should do a different theme every year. I think you should do a different theme of food every year. I, I think this is a tradition that you could become famous for within your community, within your family. And here's the complaint. And I don't mean listen, I'm not disagreeing with your complaint. I hear you. We are constricted to these social boxes and we shouldn't have to live in them. You should make something spectacular and fun, fun and creative. And you and your husband should spend the night hugging one another after everyone leaves your house satisfied and complimenting you and saying, guys, what you guys do every year, I, I you will get to this point. Here's the complaint. It's going to take years of training your audience. It you need to work through the most annoying people on the planet to get to spiritual nirvana because it is there for you. But it is up that mountain. Right now, you're at ground zero. You are at your home with family, friends, cousins, girlfriends, wives, husbands, boyfriends. All the crew is there. They are all coming in with their really run of the mill regular opinions that they think are interesting and Smart. They're not interesting and smart. You're the creative. You have to lead. They all go to Thanksgiving going, I like raisins in my stuffing. And everyone's supposed to go, whoa, you are crazy. No, no, no. You got to spit those people out. You got to create an event where you have to deal with the critics. And I think, if I were you, I would. If you're worried about the critics, this is the. This is the thing. True artists have to be okay with disappointing people with. Angering people, with. With. With. With someone saying, where's the Thanksgiving stuff? You. If I were you. So there's two versions. If I were you. This year. We're already past this year. Next year, I'm going one standard deviation away from the regular Thanksgiving accoutrements. So you go, you know, and then you start to realize who you don't want to invite anymore. The person that's like, hey, where's. Where's the cranberry sauce? And then you have to go, we didn't do cranberry sauce this year. We're sorry. It's actually all solids. We're going no liquids. That's the theme this year. Solid food siesta. That's what we're doing. Like, something like that. And then you got to keep moving away from Thanksgiving. If I were you, I would go hard immediately. Hey, guys, we're having our. We're having our aloha Thanksgiving feast. And you guys go full Hawaiian. You go full poi and y luau style. People show up, bring your favorite flowered shirt and your hula skirt, and we're going to do a aloha Thanksgiving because we're waving goodbye to all those flavorless foods. As you said, that's the move. And then you become known as the house. We do Thanksgiving a different way. And then you get the freedom. Now this holiday has actually become what you wish it would be. You have to be the change. I think I hear you. And the complaint will be realizing who in your life can't handle it. Who in your life. Which cousin needs to be cut? Which grandma just isn't as fun as she thought she was. We're going to find out who's fun next Thanksgiving. When you're serving. When you're serving Spam in a banana leaf, you're going to find out which of your family members ain't as fun as they thought they were, because they're going to go, whoa, whoa, hey, whoa. Spam and a banana leaf. Where's the stuffing? You go, we're doing an aloha theme. No stuffing this year. What? Well, how am I supposed to live anymore? Am I who? I don't even know who I am. Uncle Thomas. It's gonna be okay. Uncle Thomas. I thought there'd be stuffing at Thanksgiving. Uncle Thomas doesn't know Uncle Thomas then starts making out with the dog. Yeah, maybe Uncle Thomas gonna freak the fuck out. But maybe this is what Uncle Thomas needed the most. Jtrain podcast gmail.com J train podcast gmail.com Keep sending your complaints or sign up for the Patreon Feather Feather. I'm a subscriber and deep in the coffee with J Train archives. Thank you. It's been a great break from the political chaos. I produce news for a small radio station in North Carolina. Well, thank you. Here's my issue. I sold an air purifier to my friend's mom over a year ago and later realized I forgot to give her the remote. Okay, it's funny. The friend's mom could have written in about you. Where's the remote to my new air purifier. I can't go to the My friend. My. My. My daughter's friend. They're going to think that, you know, this could have came from the When I mentioned I'd reach out to her mom, my friend insisted to give it to her instead, which felt odd, especially because she's been acting increasingly unstable and seems to rely heavily on her mom. Okay, well, hold. Let me read this again, because the sentence is I got thrown off when I mentioned I sold an air purifier to my friend's mom over a year ago and later realized I forgot to give her the remote. When I mentioned I'd reach out to her mom, my friend insisted to give it to her instead, which felt odd, especially since she's been acting increasingly unstable and seems to rely heavily on her mom financially. Months later, I found out she somehow ended up with the purifier, but put it in storage to sold it to someone else and is now asking me to mail the remote or buy a universal one or Venmo the buyer. I'm a little confused. I found out she somehow ended up with the purifier. So she got the purifier, put it in storage, sold it to someone else, and is now asking you to mail the remote to the buyer. Why would you be responsible for mailing the remote? I'm irritated and don't want to deal with this chaos, but I also feel responsible since I forgot the remote. Am I wrong to be resentful what should I. What would you do? You are not wrong to be resentful. Once you acquire the item and you sell it again, you are the seller. You have sold it without the remote. Honestly, if I. If I'm all of you, I just forget this remote exists. It's one thing if this person who sold the air purifier to someone on Facebook Marketplace, then gets a letter, hey, I'm suing you. If I don't get this remote. And then they go to you, hey, do you have that remote? And then they get it again. You wouldn't be the one they'd be suing. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm saying you aren't the one they'd be suing. If their remote was gone because they bought it from someone else, it's now their responsibility. I mean, you were nice enough to say, hey, I forgot this remote. It was a year ago, but I'm sure your mom would want it. Oh, yeah, I'll take it. And then. And she doesn't even tell you, and now she's asking you to mail it. No, I. Here's what I do. This friend, you've said they've gotten unstable. I'm. I'm backing away from this friend. Here's what I do. I put the remote in the friend's mailbox. I say, hey, put the remote in your mailbox. Wish you the best. Done. No questions. No. Oh, well, maybe I know the remote's there. Take it or leave it. Tata, bitch. We need more. Tata, bitch. We need more. There it is. End of sentence. Ta ta, bitch. We need more of that. We need more of just ending the loop. Hey, do you have that remote for the air purifier? I sold your gift to my mom to someone else, and now the person who I sold it to needs that remote. Hmm. Oh, really? Sounds like not my fucking problem. The remotes in your mailbox. You're lucky I did that much. Tata, bitch. Even throwing a hand. Move. J train podcast@gmail.com. jtrain podcast gmail.com. this one starts aggressive. My ticked off Tuesday is about being a fat and tipping okay. When I order Ubereats, I often grab dinner and ice cream from a second restaurant using the free delivery if you order within 9 minutes deal. I didn't even know that deal existed. I'm happy. I didn't know that deal existed. I can't believe. So it's free delivery if you order within 9 minutes of your first delivery. I always tip extra well because obviously it's A pain in the ass to go to two places. So if you order from one place and then you order again from another, within nine minutes, you get free delivery on the second place, which is, I mean, if I'm, if, if I'm to complain with you, the reason, as you put it, you're a fat is thanks to Uber Eats. I mean, this is encouraging fat. Here's the problem. If two different drivers pick up each order, Uber Eats splits the tip in half, which is I'm tipping based on the total cost of both orders. And dinner is way more expensive than the ice cream. That means the ice cream, which is like ten dollars, ends up with a six dollar tip. And the expensive dinner of also ends up with only a $6 tip. Right? I, I hear you. I, I just think the tip to the delivery driver would be based on heaviness because they're not making the amount of food, they're holding the amount of food. I, I'm, this is just me talking out loud. This inevitably leads to someone grabbing the ice cream first, which I don't want. Or worse. Both drivers show up at the same time. Meanwhile, my dinner is slow because no one wants to pick it up for a mediocre tip. Oh, so they're seeing the tip. You in the app. They're going six bucks for a three course meal, and then another guy's going six bucks for a pint of ice cream. I'm in the money. I'm in the money. Just had to vent. Thanks for listening. Yeah, I agree with your conundrum. If I'm you, that, that factor deal sounds pretty good if you're trying to get away from fat. But I, I would say, yeah, I don't want, here's my prop. Them seeing the tip before getting the meal. Tip doesn't tip stand for like, like this whole thing of like, it gets frustrating because we end up fighting with each other instead of fighting with the corporation. That is the problem in this case because we're all like, no, you got a tip, you got to do this, you got to tip, tip, tip, tip, tip, tip, tip. And it's like, how about they pay the people better and add it into your meal and they deal with this. How about the company deals with their employee and the tip should be a gesture and it's turning into this expectation which, listen, I'm here with you. I just think we are so hard on one another with this tipping thing. You got to tip this much, you got to tip that much. It's like, well, this, this started out In a good place. Hey, I want to show someone my appreciation for what they've done. And now it's gone to this very transactional place, which again, it is a transaction. But to see your tip before you go, I just think that should come after as a. Oh, that's nice. You kind of lose that when you see the tip before you go make. I'm not going. It kind of becomes this like. Like if your kids knew what gift they were getting from grandma before going to grandma's and had the choice to go to grandma's or not based on the gift. Hey, grandma's got some sweaters waiting for you at the house. If you go to the. I'm not going. Fuck that old bitch. Right? They would go, hey, grandma heard your, your, your feedback on the sweater. She's got some race cars and power wheels that you can drive around while we're at the. Yeah, Grandma's. Awesome. Like you wouldn't do that for a child. I don't know if that's a false equivalency, but there's something there. Last one. Hi, Jay. Love the show. My ticked off Tuesday is about cat toys. I have a cat who is my only responsibility and as such I spoil him quite a bit. I have an income that allows me to do that and it makes us both happy. I'm happy for you. He eats the best food, lies on a forty dollar blanket made for babies. Because of the natural fabrics used, he won't touch a polyester surface. This cat has quite a life. The toys I get for him are all well made and composed of natural fibers because I think that's what's best for him. The people in my life have started to gift him toys. Oh, gonna get judgy of the gifts now. You're gonna sound like the kids with grandma. And this is where my complaint comes in. They give him the cheapest things imaginable. Yeah, they don't. They're thinking it's just a cat. You're seeing how people see your cat. Oh yeah, we'll get a cat doesn't know. We'll get some toy. I really appreciate the thought and I think it's a sweet gesture to give something for my little guy. But I end up throwing them away because of the low quality. They always have small pieces of plastic fall off. They fall apart really easily and risk him accidentally swallowing something good. God forbid a piece of glitter or sequin. Well, I love the idea that you need to create a moral thing. Like if they're cat toys. Let me just Give you some feedback. You let's. I'm just going to like critique your complaint. I know what we do here is. I'm going to agree with you. I agree with you. It is annoying that you have high end things for your cat and you're expected to just accept any gift for your cat because they don't see your cat the same way as you. And now you have this garbage that you kind of have to throw away. You're doing the most 2025 thing where this podcast exists. Ticked off Tuesday because you're allowed to say, my friends get my cat cheap garbage gifts. And they're cheap garbage people who don't know how to treat a cat right. You're allowed to say that here. That's the whole show. You are allowed to be a complainy, whiny little bitch. And that's okay when you start saying like. And again, I'm assuming they're buying cat toys. So cat toys go through some sort of process to make sure that the cat toys are made for cats. Well, what if he swallows something that falls off of their garbage cat toy? Well, I would assume that these cheaper cat toys are made not to kill cats. So if they're made for cats and they give you a cheap made for cat, you know, cat toy, the, the, the feedback of like, you know, I, I just don't need you to take yourself out of the whiny bitch game. You and I are the same. We're both whiny pieces of shit who want your cat to have the nicest and finest. And your friends are cheap who don't do that. And you're complaining about them and their cheap gifts and how you now have to hide the idea that you're throwing them away. They'll come back. Hey, where's the gift I got the cat I had to toss. It ripped up. I would just do that. It ripped up. I got, I guess, you know, some of these gifts, they rip. You know, some of these cat toys, I would even say that to my friends. Yeah, some cat toys, if they're not really, you know, if they're like low quality, they rip up. So we had to get rid of it. I would do that even without it ripping up. Because what you're doing is funny. It's really a hazard at this point. And where it becomes more of an issue is if my friends come over and give them the toy directly, where I can't just control the situation and throw in the garbage in front of them. Okay, well, that's a little aggressive. I Know this is a stupid but it's bothering me now with the holidays coming up and all these cheap feathery Santa toys everywhere that aren't really safe for pets. Thanks. Get that sequin away from Simba. If they are pet. Here, here, let me, let me, let me, let me take a step back. If they're cat toys, the complaint that I agree with is these cheap cat toys are garbage and I want to throw them away, but they're a gift from a friend and that's a little awkward. If they are not cat toys and they're being bought and given to a cat, that is a justifiable complaint. Why are these people giving my cat toys that aren't made for a cat? Then things can fall off of them and get eaten by the cat. Now I have a cat problem. I'm going to the hospital. I'm going to the vet. But my feedback with if they are cat toys that are cheap that you don't like your cat playing with, let's own the position. Don't do well because they're cheap. It might kill him. I'd scare everyone away. I I don't know. This is like the age we live in of like it does feel like sometimes everyone has to take yo he ghosted me. He's problematic. You know this I related to dating because of the UF podcast. I hear a lot of emails from people taking a very real world issue and a sad thing like getting dumped by someone and then finding a way to make this person on the edge of morally bankrupt. And hey, everyone should watch out for that person. It feels like you've gone to a different place with your very applicable. You know, this is also a fine complaint. I I my and what you're doing is a little bit taking yourself. You're going well, I don't want to be known as this snobby cat owner, so let me just make it about how they might kill him with their cheap cat toys. No, no, no. I am a snobby cat owner and their cheap cat toys are making my house a filthy mess and I don't want to look like a, you know, a peasant. That's okay. Own it now. Again, let me repeat. I take it all back. If they are toys not specifically made for a cat, that is annoying. Don't come to my cat with toys for a rat. I like that it rhyme Ticked off. Tuesday this is a daily show if you're listening right now. Tomorrow's chit chat Wednesday we have a great guest. Thursday's pop culture. Thursday, Friday sign up for the Patreon, you get coffee at J Train ticked off Tuesdays, Every Tuesday. Back next week, boom.