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BMW tailgates me hard, so I

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trick him into chasing me over

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a tall bump that sends him

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flying. Here's what happened. Subscribe

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to AMI the Jerk on YouTube and hit the

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bell for notifications. I'm

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driving to work a few months ago

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and getting close. I have two turns

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remaining until I turn into the building.

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It's just a few blocks away. All

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side streets, no highways involved. This guy

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behind me is in a black BMW

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and he's on my butt the whole

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time. I see him checking his phone,

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then making angry faces at me and

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getting closer and closer. I speed up

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a bit thinking it might calm him

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down. 5 over. Nope, anyway,

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I make the first turn and am now

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on the street where my building is. Maybe

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600 yards up ahead. The Jerk is

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still behind me, driving inches from the

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back of my car and obviously ticked

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that I'm still going the speed limit.

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I see 35 on this street, so I speed

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up a bit and see he does the same.

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I drive an 8 year old Toyota truck, not

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one of the big huge ones, but not one

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of the small ones. I

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do have all terrain tires and I've

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certainly driven through pastures, over rocks, popped

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a curb or 10 in my time.

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My suspension is in good shape and

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I have no problem treating my decade

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old truck like a truck. Well, as

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I get closer to my building, there's

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a large speed bump in the street,

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effectively to get people to slow down

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as they approach the parking garage entrances.

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I look back and see Jerk is

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still riding my bumper. I remember thinking

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to myself, I need to slow down

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for this speed bump, and looking back

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and thinking, if I hit my brakes,

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this guy's gonna hit me. The plan

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takes shape in my mind, and I

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speed up. I'm doing about 45 when

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I hit that speed bump, and yeehaw!

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I did a bit of a jump

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and land, never once touching my brakes,

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didn't even tap them. I gave him

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zero warning for what was about to

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happen. I'm watching my rearview mirror intensely

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during this, because because I wanted to

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see his reaction. He was cradling his

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cell phone between his ear and his

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shoulder when he hit. His hood buckled

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up behind me, then slammed into the

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ground. I see him go flying out

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of his seat straight up. He slams

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his head on the roof of his

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BMW and his head rolls sideways from

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the impact. He then slams back into

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his seat violently. He has a total

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what the heck was that look on

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his face as he grabs the wheel

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with both hands to recover. And

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yes. He slowed right down after

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that. You know

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I get that you're in a hurry some days

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but it still comes down to other people's safety.

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You gotta be leaving enough space between you

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and the car in front for reasons like

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this. Our original poster didn't feel

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safe hitting the brakes going over the speed

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bump. Sure there may have been a little

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bit of maliciousness involved here as well, but

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the alternative would have been to hit the

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brakes and let him slam into the back

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of you. Then both of you have damaged

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vehicles. Nobody wins. At

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least this way the guy who deserves to get his

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car wrecked gets his car wrecked and our

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original poster can't be blamed for the

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way it happened. You

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can submit your own stories to be featured

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below and don't forget to subscribe. Karen

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keeps trying to make noise complaints about

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us so we give her something to

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complain about so this all happened about

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15 years ago give or

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take. When I was still a kid

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living at home we had a house

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with a huge backyard in the suburbs

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and the neighboring property next to our

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driveway was a set of three attached

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rental flats, each with their own front

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door facing our house. We were usually

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good friends with most of our neighbors,

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the flats next door included. After the

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family in the middle flat left an

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older single woman moved in. She

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was home more often than not

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so I doubt she had a

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job and wasn't particularly friendly. She

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kept to herself, which is fine,

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and never really acknowledged any of

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the neighbors. Whatever, that's cool. So

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one Saturday around midday I was

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out back with the lawnmower earning

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myself some pocket money. It's

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a big yard, so about 20 minutes

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in I was about halfway done, and

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suddenly a noise control officer knocks on

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the door. He tells us to hurry

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it up and that they'd received a

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complaint, and though they thought it was

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ridiculous they had to say something. Bit

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stupid, but whatever. Now we weren't a

4:30

loud family, no parties or screaming or

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anything like that at all. Over the

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next month however we kept getting visits

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from noise control, always during the day

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mind you. We would get visits for

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mowing the lawns and even at a

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couple of complaints about my younger sister

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and I playing and hanging out in

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the backyard on weekends, or in the

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afternoon after school. Again, we weren't all

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that loud. At the time I would

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have been about 13, so

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more often than not the boy next door

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and I would just be chilling on the

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swings, just talking, not loud, just being

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outside. Now we'd never had an issue

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with noise before, none of our other

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neighbors ever had a problem, we'd never

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had noise control called before now. So

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we asked around. It was fairly obvious

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at this point that the snobby cow

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that had moved into the flat next

5:17

door was the one doing all the

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complaining. My father would always stock up

5:22

on firewood in the summer to prepare

5:24

for winter, and would have to chop

5:26

it up himself. It's the first weekend

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of chopping for the year, and

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it's about 2pm on a Saturday. He

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pulls out his old chainsaw, and it's

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on for about a minute and a

5:36

half at most before he realizes the

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chain needs to be replaced. He turns

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it off, grabs the axe and proceeds

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to chop wood the old fashioned way.

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Next thing we know, noise control shows

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up. The officers are sick of having

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to visit at this point, and we're

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pretty friendly with that by now. Turns

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out that yes, it was the new neighbor

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next door. It also turns out that

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she'd been an issue for them for

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a while and that Noise Control

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was well aware of her stupid

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complaints from all of her previous

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addresses. Unfortunately they were legally obligated

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to follow through with them. Next

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weekend, surprise surprise, we get another visit

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after dad's been chopping more wood. With

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the axe, the chainsaw was still out

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of action. At this point he decides

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screw it, why not give her something

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to actually complain about. A family friend

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of ours happened to be a truck

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driver. He drives a big rig up

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and down the country. He also

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happened to be back in town that

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weekend. We give him a ring and

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he's keen to help us out. Next

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step is to warn all the other

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neighbors who are fully on board because

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as it turns out we weren't the

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only ones she was complaining about. Proceed

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to next weekend around 9am and we

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spend about half an hour getting this

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great big truck down our driveway. It

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was a pretty wide driveway but it

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was a pretty wide truck too. So

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it was a tight squeeze. Now having

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been good friends with previous neighbors we

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were familiar with the internal layouts of

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those flats. The bedrooms were directly next

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to their front doors, facing our driveway.

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We managed to get the cab of

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this massive truck far enough into the

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driveway to be directly next to this

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jerk's bedroom. There's about a meter and

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a half separating the truck and her

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wall. Perfect. On goes the

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horn. Loud as heck. It terrified

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our cats. Then it goes

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again and again and then us kids

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get a turn. You could hear that

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thing a block away. We did it

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for about 10 minutes. Go inside for

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a coffee, come back out and run

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the horn one more time for good

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measure before our friend takes off. This

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time there were no noise control officers,

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no complaints, nothing. The jerk left the

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next week. I

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mean hey you can't argue with the

7:50

results. It honestly sounds like this woman's

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just got issues and it's nothing to

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do with you or anyone else around

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you. It's all something that she needs

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to learn. learn how to deal with.

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The fact that these officers know her

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from multiple addresses means that they've had

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to deal with her for quite a

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while and it must mean that she's

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gotta be the one with the issue

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here. The fact that she's had to

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bounce around to so many different places

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also indicates that she's the one that

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doesn't seem to be happy wherever she's

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at. While I'm sure she left each

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of those places for probably similar reasons

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of it just being something that she

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felt she couldn't tolerate anymore, I doubt

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in any of those instances she got

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blasted out by a truck horn. I

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replaced the jelly in my

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jerk co-worker's donut with something...less

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pleasant. This happened about 20

8:40

years ago when I was a teacher in

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a small high school. There was one

8:45

teacher who was absolutely toxic and would say

8:47

inappropriate things to students about the teachers he

8:49

didn't like. He once told some students of

8:52

mine that I didn't get invited to parties

8:54

because I was a stiff. His dislike for

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me stemmed from the fact that I

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was vying for promotion device principal and he

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felt threatened by it. He did a bunch

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of other things that gave me a

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slam dunk workplace harassment case against him

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but I never pursued it. One day

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he brought in donuts and left them

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in the staff room. However, being the

9:13

guy he was, he put little toothpick

9:15

flags in them with everyone's name on

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them but mine. He also left a

9:20

note on the table saying help yourself

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not you original poster. The one with

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his name on it was one of

9:26

those powdered jelly filled things. In full

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view of some of the other teachers

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who were gobsmacked by his behavior, I

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took a straw, sucked all the jelly

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out of it, then refilled it with

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mustard. Then I put it back into

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the box, unwrapped my sandwich and waited.

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He came into the lunch room with

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a big ol' grin on his face

9:45

as he looked at me and nodded.

9:47

I munched my carrot sticks. One of

9:49

the women thanked him for the donuts.

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He just smirked, picked up his and

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took a big bite out of it

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right in front of me. The look

9:57

of horror, confusion and disgust on that

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jerk's face. was priceless. This

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one's honestly kind of harmless. The

10:04

original poster definitely showed that they're

10:07

not as much of a stiff

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as this jerk thought they were.

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I mean, they did manage to

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get one over on you. A

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donut filled with mustard though sounds

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Term Supply. Karen

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decides she's the bathroom police and

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isn't gonna let me take the kid

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I'm babysitting in to go to the

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bathroom. This happened a while ago. I

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was about 18 or 19 at

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the time and babysat our neighbor's three-year-old.

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He loved animals. It was the middle

11:04

of spring, so nice and warm. I

11:06

decided to ask his mother if it

11:08

would be fine to take him to

11:10

a petting zoo in the city. Everybody

11:12

was excited, me included. So we went.

11:14

We had a ton of fun. He

11:16

got a large amount of animal feed

11:18

so he could enjoy himself. Nothing was

11:20

weird up until this point. Nobody was

11:22

staring and I felt it was pretty obvious

11:24

that I wasn't in fact his mother but

11:27

rather just babysitting him. Now came the time

11:29

where the little guy needed to pee. Not

11:31

a problem, I thought to myself. So I

11:33

took him to the bathroom. There was a

11:36

large line in front of the women's bathroom

11:38

but since I had to accompany him because

11:40

he was too young to use the adult

11:42

toilet himself, we couldn't just go into the

11:45

men's room, which was empty. I figured waiting

11:47

in line for a minute or two wasn't

11:49

gonna be an issue. Enter Karen. Hi,

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um, excuse me, she said, tapping me

11:54

on the shoulder. Yes? I Thought that

11:56

maybe since she had a little girl

11:58

with her that she... Might have

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just wanted to as to skip ahead

12:03

in the line since her little girl

12:05

needed the p badly or something. Is

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this your child's Oh no, this is

12:09

my neighbor's kid. I'm just babysitting today

12:12

and why the heck are you taking

12:14

him to the bathroom? Then she got

12:16

very aggressive straight away. excuse me see

12:18

needs to use the bathroom and is

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clearly too young to do so by

12:23

himself, so obviously I'm accompanying him. What

12:25

am I supposed to do? Just let

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him p his pants. This is highly.

12:30

Inappropriate. Only his parents in a companies

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and to the bathroom. easy boy. And

12:34

on top of that, not even your

12:36

child's god knows what you might do

12:38

in there with them. Okay, so now

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I was getting kind attacked. At that

12:42

point in my life. I dealt with

12:44

a lot of bull crap from people

12:46

since I was a nurse and people

12:48

in the hospital tend to be as

12:50

entitled as hack when they don't get

12:52

their way. I was absolutely capable of

12:54

defending myself with words and I already

12:56

lost my temper with her being so

12:58

rude. So I said. Very loudly. You

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think I look at his privates in

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their know, what the hell? What? Are

13:05

You have to make a bathroom trip

13:08

with a small child Sexual? Do you

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think about that when you take your

13:12

girl to the bathroom? Oh my god

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would you do stuff to your girl?

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Oh that's disgusting. More: would you even

13:19

think about something sexual when taking your

13:21

little boy going to the bathroom? Now

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I said old these things kind of

13:26

very sarcastically as it was just meant

13:28

to scare her off. but obviously. I

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said in loud enough for a lot

13:32

of people to hear know everybody looked

13:35

at are disgusted and whispered or even

13:37

chimed in with me to tell her

13:39

thinking stuff like that was disgusting in

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that she should just leave me alone.

13:44

She looked mortified at this point and

13:46

says backed away and left. Moral of

13:49

the story: Please let people take children

13:51

to the bathroom peacefully because I couldn't

13:53

have just let the poor boy Peace

13:56

Pants. Yeah.

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i hate to say it but i

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was thinking the same thing going through

14:02

this story. Like why is that even

14:04

your first thought? They're clearly just looking

14:07

after the kid for the day. And

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what else are they supposed to do?

14:11

You can't send the kid in there

14:13

by themselves. The kid's 3 years old.

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He clearly can't be in there alone.

14:18

The only alternative is for the adult

14:20

who's looking after them to take them

14:22

in. The fact that that's where your

14:24

mind goes is a lot more disturbing

14:26

than what they're doing and looking after

14:28

the kid that they're responsible for. Our

14:31

original poster called attention to what

14:33

was going on and our Karen

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swayed to public opinion. It

14:37

does happen once in a while. My

14:40

boss ate half my lunch while I

14:42

was in the bathroom. I went to

14:44

the bathroom and came back to find

14:46

my lunch box open and half of

14:48

my meal missing. Confused I asked what

14:50

had happened to an older lady who

14:52

sits next to me. She responded that

14:54

our boss came in, noticed the food

14:57

on the table, took half of it

14:59

on a plate and left for a

15:01

meeting. I got angry and complained about

15:03

how unacceptable that was but she told

15:05

me to just shrug it off and

15:07

that it's to be expected. I mean

15:09

I'm debating just taking a crap on her

15:11

desk and saying I'm giving her the other half

15:13

of the sandwich. I

15:16

don't think you're gonna get the reaction you

15:18

want doing that but it's probably gonna feel

15:20

pretty good in more ways than one. I'd

15:22

say your best bet to get her to

15:25

stop faking them is to bring in a

15:27

crappy lunch that you leave on your desk

15:29

and she'll see the kind of stuff that

15:31

you bring in and hopefully not even bother

15:34

with your stuff from now on. Either way

15:36

though it's a real jerk move coming from

15:38

your boss. I

15:41

impersonated my wife to sort out

15:43

her banking issues. This took place

15:45

about 15 years ago and involved

15:47

a large corporate banking entity. I

15:49

forget the name of it but

15:51

for the sake of this story

15:53

let's call it Fells Wargo. This

15:55

is potentially an example of malicious

15:57

compliance but it took some creative

15:59

hours outside the box thinking prompted by

16:01

their own phrasing. So I'll let you

16:04

be the judge. There are some important

16:06

parts that come into play. My

16:09

spouse and I were young and dumb financially.

16:11

We both had bounced a few checks on

16:14

our own checking accounts. They were closed a

16:16

few years prior. Fels

16:18

Wargo offered a way to rehab your

16:21

checking account history. They offered you the

16:23

opportunity to pay them an additional $10

16:25

per month to have the right to

16:27

a checking account. They restricted the release

16:29

of funds and made life difficult

16:31

to even have a checking account. But

16:33

if you played by their rules, you

16:36

could graduate to a traditional checking account

16:38

after a year. I

16:41

participated in the opportunity checking and graduated

16:43

my account. My spouse had lived without

16:45

a checking account for a few years

16:48

and wanted to try again. I

16:51

took my spouse to Fels Wargo.

16:53

We specifically explained their previous history

16:55

and specifically asked for the crappy

16:57

checking rebuilding account. We knew my

16:59

spouse needed to start at the bottom. The

17:03

manager of the branch enters the basic

17:05

information and declared there was no need

17:07

for the rehab checking account. They qualified

17:09

for the regular account. We asked again

17:11

to be absolutely sure. Yes, no rehab

17:13

needed. Here's some starter checks. Your ATM

17:16

card will be in the mail in

17:18

a week. They gladly took an initial

17:20

cash deposit of $500. Fast

17:23

forward a week and we get the ATM

17:25

card. We called to activate it. Our account

17:27

has been closed. Why? We

17:30

determined you have bad checking history previously.

17:32

We go round and round about how

17:34

we covered this, disclosed it up front

17:36

and asked for the checking rehab account.

17:38

Y'all have to go back and open

17:41

that account if you want it. We

17:43

can't change the account. So

17:45

they're closing the account because we

17:47

needed to have the rehab checking

17:49

account. The one we specifically asked

17:51

for and they refused. My spouse

17:54

didn't know what to say. So

17:56

we got on speakerphone. I started

17:58

asking questions. Will you

18:00

pay the outstanding checks and refund the

18:03

rest? No, we won't pay any checks.

18:05

You'll be charged for return checks from

18:07

your merchants. My spouse wrote three checks

18:09

totaling less than $100. Very

18:12

few places accepted starter checks. They have

18:14

the funds in the closed account to

18:16

pay for them. Where's the issue? We

18:19

don't do that. At this point they

18:21

became flustered. Nobody seems to

18:23

ever have the funds or the audacity to

18:26

demand them to pay checks written in good

18:28

faith. They had no answers on how

18:30

they refused the checking account we requested

18:32

and would have been okay to have.

18:34

They didn't think they had a responsibility

18:36

to notify us the account was closed.

18:39

And how dare we challenge their policy?

18:41

They didn't like how I kept pointing

18:43

out how there wasn't a single thing

18:45

we did wrong. But they think they're

18:47

not responsible for return check fees. So

18:49

they decided to not talk to me

18:52

anymore. They hung up. We

18:54

call back. Repeat. They

18:56

finally offered this gem. They won't talk to

18:58

anyone except the name on the account. Click.

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Their only possible choice to avoid a

19:03

difficult discussion where they own their mistakes

19:05

was clinging to not letting someone else

19:08

ask questions with the account holder's permission.

19:10

They even refused to let me tell

19:12

my spouse what to ask and respond

19:14

to my spouse directly. You can only

19:16

talk to the name on the account?

19:18

Okay. So I called back.

19:20

Miraculously, in 60 seconds I now

19:22

identify it as a different person.

19:25

Thanks for calling Fels Wargo. Can I

19:27

have your name? I give my spouse's

19:29

name. There's a long pause. Uh,

19:32

you're not that person. Sure I

19:34

am. Ask me anything. Name,

19:36

Social Security number, address, mother's maiden

19:38

name, date of birth. I verified

19:40

it all as the name on

19:42

the account. There's a long

19:44

pause. No, you aren't

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them. Why do you say that? Because

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you're a man. Wait a minute. That's

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why you closed my account? Because

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I'm a man? I'm pretty sure

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that's against ECOA. Maybe

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Regulation B. These are

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laws stating discrimination on gender is

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illegal. Things can't reference gender or

20:05

other protected classes to close accounts.

20:07

Ugh, please hold. A manager finally comes

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on. We have a little back and

20:12

forth about who I identify as, but

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seeing as how I'm not doing anything

20:16

except demanding they pay checks on my

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spouse's account, written by my spouse, with

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funds in their possession, there isn't much

20:23

they can fight, but they finally agree

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to pay the three checks from the

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funds in the account. They didn't want

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to, even in the end, but the

20:32

name on the account demanded it. The

20:34

fallout? They had to do the right

20:36

thing after wasting hours fighting it. Comment.

20:40

When my mom died and we were

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trying to close accounts or switch names

20:44

on them, things like paying off mortgage

20:46

and changing names on the utilities, things

20:48

that needed to be done soonish after

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she passed, I was told repeatedly that

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they would only speak with the account

20:55

holder. I understood they were just

20:57

following their training, but she was dead. How

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are they going to get in touch with her?

21:02

I told one person that they'd need a medium

21:04

or a Ouija board to speak to her, and

21:06

if they did make contact to have her call

21:08

me, because I wanted to speak to her too. Response.

21:12

When my grandmother passed, my grandfather took her

21:14

urn with him to the various banks and

21:16

whatnot. He placed it on people's desks so

21:19

they could speak to her directly. It made

21:21

the process a whole lot quicker. This

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is the behavior that I just

21:27

find disgusting. Like why are they

21:29

picking on you, the little guy,

21:31

over a hundred dollars that they

21:33

actually have access to? A hundred

21:35

dollars is absolutely nothing to a

21:37

bank, but it's everything to you

21:39

where you're just trying to make

21:41

ends meet. But they don't

21:43

care. They're gonna sit there and screw you

21:45

over and hang on to your money. God

21:47

forbid they should have to do the right

21:49

thing and actually get money from the people

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who have it. These banks

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are just crooks. What

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he were dawn in the background to finish listening

22:02

to all the stories. Or if you want some

22:04

by be music to put on and background check

22:06

out Easy Mode if you like am I the

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jerk give am I the genius of shot. Everything's

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linked in. The description.