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Goodbye. Goodbye. Hello. And welcome. To my favorite murderer. That's Georgia Hartstark.
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That's Karen Kilgarrett. This is the mini-sode. That's right. We don't do it like that.
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I know, but it's okay. Okay. It's 2026. The world is ending. We can do whatever the fuck we want at this point.
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Nope. Yep, you're right. This is where we come to get away from that stuff. Turning my phone off.
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Oh, is that the police? Hello. Hi. Okay. It's the minisode. We're going to read you emails that you sent to us.
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Yeah. Should I go first? Sure. Okay. This is called New Orleans Car Crash. Oh. Hey, I love y'all and could go into pleasantries for five paragraphs, but I don't want to.
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I want you to. When I was 23 years old, I was driving home around 1 a.m. after having a movie night at a friend's house.
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I was crossing a major intersection underneath an overpass when a car came out of nowhere, made an illegal left turn, and smashed into my driver's side door.
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I did not see it coming. My car spun around twice and hit a cement support underneath the overpass.
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All the windows, including the windshield, shattered in the collision. All the windows.
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And all the airbags deployed. My driver's side door wouldn't open and I was forced to climb out of the passenger window.
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The car that hit me had fled the scene. It was late. I was scared and in a bad part of town.
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I called the New Orleans police three times and no one ever showed up. Yeah, you're in a bad part of town.
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Right, no one's coming. They don't get that service. All of a sudden, six people ran from the gas station across the street.
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They helped me push my car out of the intersection and told me there was no way the police were coming.
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but they would sit and wait with me on the curb until someone came to get me. One of them was a nurse getting off shift from the nearby hospital
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and used her phone light to check me for concussions. Concussions or just concussion?
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It says concussion. Multiple concussions all over her head. Can you get multiple concussions?
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Maybe if you hit your head on the steering wheel and then back really hard. One here, one here, one here.
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And then here comes the airbag. I don't know how it works. She informed me that if I had braced for the collision,
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there was a good chance I would either be unresponsive or worse. did you know that like you get injured worse if you're like oh yeah and that's why drunk people
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usually come out of stuff like that just fine i remember i got in a bad car accident like 10 years
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ago and i remember going i saw it coming and i said to myself just relax like i knew what's
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gonna happen and i just like made myself relax okay can i just tell you that's the benefit of
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your anxiety is you you probably absolutely ran that possibility in your head at one point
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Absolutely. Always. Jesus Christ. Oh, wow. Yeah, that's so cool. And that was fine. Like, it was a pretty bad accident.
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God damn, Georgia. Yeah, like, cut on. Fucking A. Jesus. All right. So everyone remember that in your anxiety daydreams.
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Yeah, go ahead and relax during the car crash. Another car crash. And then they said, I luckily left the accident with only cuts from the glass
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breaking. One man, the sweetest Nola grandpa you've ever seen. And for me, the car which had
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hit me had pulled two blocks away and was sitting down the street with the lights off. That's so
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menacing. Or like maybe they were like, I did something bad. I can't go away, but I don't know
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what to do. Yeah. Just waiting and watching. I don't know about y'all, but if I was to hit someone
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that badly, I would be running out of the car to make sure they were still alive. So they were just
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sitting in their car. Could have been in shock. That's right. As I walked up to the car to get
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the driver's info, all six people walked with me as support. When the driver rolled down their
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window. They were clearly under the influence and struggled to get their things. I have made
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mistakes in my past, and I know things happen, but empathy for other people has to be above fear of
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getting in trouble. My six new friends were very helpful in this situation. When I finally got the
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driver's information, all six people from the gas station gave me their information, and I was able
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to use them as witnesses in court. It goes to show that sometimes the support you need comes from
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unexpected places and never underestimate how powerful community is. I know we're supposed to
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look for the helpers, but this night the helpers found me. P.S. When I went to check on my car the
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next morning, the license plate of the driver who hit me was embedded in the metal of my driver's
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side door. I don't know who was up there in the sky, but I'm glad she was looking out for me that
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night And I thankful for the amazing community in what I think is the best city ever People really are amazing SSJGM and please don hit and run G she her
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What a wonderful request at the end of that email. That is like so touching. I know.
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Also, the odds that a nurse would be standing by is miraculous and wonderful. And that six people are the kind of people who run towards the emergency.
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Like six. That's so heartwarming. Yeah. Incredible. God, that makes me think of my car accident at the end of your street that night.
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Yeah. And it was like a lady going, go ahead, you can go. And then the next thing I knew, it was a loud noise and just dust in the air, and I didn't understand what was happening.
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So crazy. Knock on wood. I hate car accidents. Me too. The subject line of this email is the time three little girls were going to take down the Night Stalker.
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Hey there, my make-believe besties. During the summer of 1985, my sister and I came up from Oceanside to stay with my family in Whittier.
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I was 16, my cousin was 14, and my sister was 10. And this was peak Night Stalker panic.
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It was terrifying, especially for us kids, because he was loose in our area. The news kept tossing out ominous patterns like, what color house is he targeted?
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Remember that? No, I don't. What year was it? You were too young. It was like in the early 80s.
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Okay, yeah, I was too young. No, but I've since read that, and that just sounds fucking horrifying.
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It would just be on the nightly news. He's looking for yellow houses. Did you just always think someone's about to climb through your fucking window?
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It was so crazy. It was really, I thought it was later though, but it was, yeah, it was high school.
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Like what color houses he targeted or whether he picked victims near freeways. I was already a buddy murderino, so my fear and fascination were basically holding hands.
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One night, my grandfather dropped the three of us off at my aunt's house to spend the night.
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We had plants with her the next day, but she was out at a business dinner, so there were zero adults home.
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Honestly, we didn't care. Being unsupervised felt like freedom until it didn't. We were in the den watching TV when a helicopter started circling overhead, over and over.
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Immediately, we all had the same thought. The Night Stalker is absolutely in our neighborhood right now.
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We locked the den door and tried poorly to convince ourselves everything was fine until a huge crash came from the kitchen.
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I swear I still remember that drop in my stomach. My brain went straight to he's in the house.
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We panicked, but we panicked with purpose. I grabbed a bat. I handed my 10-year-old sister a can of bug spray and my cousin a can of hairspray.
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Amazing. Because, you know, nothing says self-defense like Aquanet. That's actually true.
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That shit can do serious damage. Yeah. Get a lighter near there and you're fucking...
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You're done for. We crept through the pitch black living room and burst into the kitchen ready to attack the intruder.
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But no one was there. The kitchen light fixture had fallen and exploded everywhere.
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That's it. Just a rogue ceiling light trying to murder us. We were still shaken, but we survived the night.
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I can't remember whether we ended up calling my grandparents on the rotary phone or if my aunt checked in on us.
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But we stayed until she got home like the brave little idiots that we were. Fast forward to after your San Diego show when my sister and I were telling my mom this story.
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My sister suddenly goes, I still can't believe they left us alone that summer. A literal serial killer was running around Southern California and everyone was like,
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eh, the girls will be fine. It's so true. So fucked up. Stay sexy and check your light fixtures.
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Danielle. Danielle. Danielle. Oh. Danielle. Danielle. Danielle. I love that. And I love panic with purpose.
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Panic with purpose. That's the theme of this is panic with purpose. It's kind of what you did in your car accident.
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Exactly. You can panic, just panic with purpose. Panic with purpose. Like, it's okay.
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I love that. We have to get shirts made like in Sweet Honesty writing. Panic with Purpose.
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Goodbye. This one is about Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, and this episode comes out on his birthday.
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Oh, so great. Yeah. This is also a literary podcast. That's right. We are so smart.
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Quiz us. Hi, Murder Raconteurs. Oh, that's a first. This is a real smarty pants email.
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Yeah. And this is called Hometown Story, Poe Baltimore and the Mysterious Poe Toaster.
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Like what do you think about Poe Toaster Sounds like a machine in your kitchen right My hope is that it a toaster that when the toast pops up his face is on that toast Okay It not It confusing
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They mean like a toast as in like cheers. Oh, okay. So it confused me in the beginning. Okay.
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Hi, murder raconteurs. I was thrilled when the 28 October 2021 episode discussed the death of
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Edgar Allan Poe. I now live in Canada, but I grew up in Baltimore. So assuming Poe is a victim of
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foul play, that's a hometown murder for me. You've got a lot in Baltimore. And I thought you might
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also like to know about a Poe but not murder related mystery, the motivations and identity
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of an unknown person or people referred to as the Poe toaster. Poe's birthday is January 19th.
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And for the whole time I was growing up, it was an annual event that a figure dressed in black,
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face obscured by a hat or a scarf, would enter Baltimore's Westminster burying ground
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on the night of January 19th. The person would then stand at Poe's grave, pour a glass of cognac, toast the grave, and drink. Along with the cognac bottle,
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three red roses were always left on the grave. Occasionally, there would also be a note.
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And then the Poe toaster would leave until the next year. Was it a raven? No. There are theories about why these specific objects were left. But to this day,
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no one knows for sure who the Poe toaster was or why this person carried out this annual ritual.
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I learned about this tradition on an eighth grade field trip that took my English class to the Poe House, where that year's cognac and roses were displayed on a mantelpiece.
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Note that we also visited Poe's grave and got to see collapsing wooden coffins and skeletons in the catacombs.
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Best field trip ever. Turns out the Poe toaster tradition might have started as early as the 1930s.
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Baltimore Press started reporting on this visitor to Poe's grave in the 1950s. Over the years, folks would start to gather near the graveyard on January 19th to watch.
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To gather to watch the toaster come and be. Yeah, this anonymous toaster. A note left in 1998 suggests that the original Poe toaster died and passed along the tradition to someone else.
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In 2006, someone tried to grab the Poe toaster and determine the individual's identity, but bystanders helped him get away.
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Who the fuck is grabbing. A ruiner. A ruiner. The only time anyone ever interfered.
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Some might say that the tradition died out, but I think of it as evolving. In January 2010, there was no Poe toaster appearance.
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Over the next few years, several people showed up dressed in black. In 2011, four on the same night.
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Someone was like, I'm going to do it. I'll do it. You're just not original. Yeah.
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Or you just want to be a part of things. Yeah, or you just be friends with each other, actually.
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You're all in the same American lit class. The press dubbed them the faux toasters.
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the press is covering this yeah then in 2015 the maryland historical society set up a competition
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to choose a new poe toaster since then the appearance of the poe toaster has become sort
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of a civic celebration i love being from a city that takes such pride in a weird brilliant goffy
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victorian poet and horror story writer in no small part because he died there yes the football team
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is called the ravens because of poe's poem do we know that i did not know that amazing
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And I think it's cool how over the course of decades, what possibly started off as a personal tribute to a beloved author turned into another mystery.
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If you read this hometown story on the podcast, please send my love to my sister, Dani, who introduced me to your work.
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One of many ways she has made my life better by being in it. Oh, Dani. Thanks for the stories you share.
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Stay sexy and don't be a faux toaster. Erin. And then she gave us the Wikipedia page for it.
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That's amazing. How cute is that? So if you're listening to this on that day, go see the faux toaster.
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Go watch the, this would be the faux toaster or the poe toaster? The faux toaster.
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Go watch whoever. Yeah. Go watch that guy. Yeah. Or gal. Yeah. Or they or she. What about like a deathbed confession from your grandma that she's the original poe toaster?
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I mean, I thought of that. I thought it'd be real funny. Why does she have that accent?
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She's in Baltimore. I could never do that Baltimore accent. Grandma from fucking Tennessee suddenly.
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She moved. She was transferred at her job. Yes, it happens. Okay. The subject line of this email is, why were you not asked back to babysit?
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Remember that? Yes. We asked people to send these emails in, and I won't read the rest of that title.
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It says, hi, pals. I could send a thousand emails detailing the things you've seen me through as a day one listener.
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College, my amazing mom dying of pancreatic cancer, marriage, moving to the middle of nowhere, finishing my last year of my MA in clinical mental health counseling.
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I digress. Wow. What an arc. Amazing. These are the things that make up our lives.
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You've been through it all with me. And for that, I'll be eternally grateful. Thank you for being my friends.
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That's so nice. Your recent request for why weren't you asked back to babysit stories really struck a chord.
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I don't remember that, but I love it. It was like somebody sent in somebody doing a bad job.
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And we're like, we've all done a bad job. This one comes from my later babysitting years as a well-seasoned 17-year-old with five full years of child care under my belt.
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I was definitely 12 watching my four-month-old cousin a story for another time, but I did learn
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the hard way that while fiber one bars are a delicious treat to find in the cupboard after
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the baby's asleep, you should not eat five in a row. Oh, God. Oh, God. The stomach cramps. The
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fucking horror. It's just like a young babysitter's entry into cupboard freedom. Totally. And it's
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Gone wrong. I could eat a can of kidney beans right now if I wanted to. What are these?
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Fiber One bars? I feel like when you'd eat a fucking, you know, like you shouldn't eat more than like two dried apricots or you'll be farting for the rest of your life.
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That's like, I found a whole bag of them in animal. They're like candy. As a 17 I was now a professional I was babysitting the daughter of a woman who worked in administration at my high school They were out at a holiday party on a weeknight so things were relatively tame I helped my charge to bed and like the responsible adult I was took out my homework to complete before her parents returned
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When in your life did you ever pull out your homework to complete? Didn't have any.
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As contact lawyers can empathize, the radiator heat in the apartment had my eyes feeling like sandpaper.
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I pushed through it for a bit, but eventually decided to hunt around for some saline or eye drops.
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A happy excuse for my actual favorite activity, snooping. The second job you have as a babysitter.
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With relief, I saw a massive bottle of ice solution on the counter as I entered the bathroom.
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I flipped open the cap and doused my eyes in sweet relief. Returning to the table to work, I was puzzled and discouraged to feel that my eyes still felt dry and uncomfortable.
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Several trips back to the bathroom later, redousing my eyes with no change, I eventually gave up deciding this family must be buying the one-ply toilet paper version of contact solution.
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What was it? I'm scared. About 20 minutes later, I started to feel increasingly frustrated as the page of my textbook was becoming cloudy, almost blurry.
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Rubbing my eyes without relief, I returned to the bathroom to look in the mirror.
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To my horror, my pupils were the size of dinner plates. Oh God, oh God. Taking up the entirety of my iris so no green was visible, only huge, black, very suspicious eyeballs staring back at me.
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Panicked, I reached for the sailing bottle, holding it as far from my face as possible.
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I read, quote, dilating eye drops, Rx only. Holy shit. Flashing before my eyes were scenes of the child I was babysitting talking about her eye patch worn to correct her lazy eye and the drops she hated that her mom had to put in to correct her vision.
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I'd effectively triple dosed myself with dilating eye drops and had less than half an hour before this child's parents were due home.
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Oh, my God. I went in high school to the doctor, had to get my eyes dilated for an exam.
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I went back to school and my friend Jenny Gillard was like, we were at an assembly.
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Yeah. And I was like, hey, what's up? And she's like, oh, my God, are you on acid?
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Why are you on acid at school? And I was like, what are you talking about? Yeah, I just came to school after I dropped a bunch of acid.
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Yeah, I thought that'd be funny. Shout out Jenny Gillard. She's alive. Sorry. Shout out Jenny Gillard.
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Point it to the heavens then. I packed my things and sat quietly at the table contemplating my fate. When they returned, like the responsible 17-year-old I was, I said nothing, stared only at the floor, not making eye contact, accepted my cash payment, and left as fast as humanly possible.
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I don't recall exactly if I declined all future babysitting offers from this family or if they never came after my exceptionally sketchy goodbye that evening.
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But that was my last trip to that house. My eyes were dilated for two weeks before returning to normal size.
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See photo attached for their status about eight days afterwards. Stay sexy and just wear glasses.
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Ingrid, Vermont. Holy shit. What happens when you put those in? I know you dilate, but can you damage your eyes?
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Yeah, because all the light just goes in. Right. So you have to wear sunglasses and be super careful.
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Right. Oh, my God. I had those weird, that day at school, I had those weird paper, they look like old people's sunglasses.
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Yeah. That's what you're saying. That's too fucked up. Like, she dilated her eyes for two weeks.
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Two weeks is like, I would have, I wonder if her parents were like, taking me to the hospital or something.
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She got giller in. while the world watches the stars at the fifa world cup this summer hyundai has its eyes on
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rewriting record books that barely had time to gather dust because next doesn't wait for an
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invitation and hyundai doesn't either hyundai has always moved the future within reach hyundai
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did it by making advanced safety standard on every vehicle. Hyundai did it by engineering EVs
00:22:09
with ultra fast charging capability. And Hyundai continues doing it every day. From robotics that
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planning should be. Goodbye. My last one is cat murder. I love to blab, so this is me trying really
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hard to be focused and concise. You asked for stories of lies your parents told you. Well,
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Well, for context, I was an only child until I was 10. So this explains the lack of life skills and thinking things through in the story.
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I had a childhood cat named Angie. We found Angie in the streets and I picked her because she meowed a lot more than the other cats she was with.
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Angie was a real trooper as my New Year's resolution every year growing up was to be nicer to Angie.
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She was an angel cat and would let me dress her in doll clothes and push her around in a stroller.
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for whiskers. She was, I've covered her in barrettes as a child. Whiskers? Yeah.
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She was so patient. Growing up, we also had two green parakeets named Jacob and Sarah.
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Well, yes, I did get my self-esteem from academic achievement and had no creativity growing up.
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In my child brain, I was convinced that Jacob and Sarah were going to lay eggs soon and made
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them a nest in their cage and would check religiously if they had laid eggs yet.
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Suddenly, Jacob died. A few days later, Sarah was laying lifeless on the bottom of the cage.
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I was a wreck. How did my beloved expectant bird parents just mysteriously die with no heads up?
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The only solution to my heartbreak was to beg my parents for new birds. Unfortunately for me, my parents informed me that there was a bird flu going around that made the birds sick.
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So if I got more birds, they would also die. How did this bird flu work? You ask.
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It caused the birds to get an infection in their wings. And the next thing you know, they are dead at the bottom of the cage.
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Sound familiar? Yeah. Fair enough. I would just have to wait out the bird flu, I thought. For the next few years, I would ask my
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parents for updates of the prevalence of the bird flu, which they always stated was still happening.
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Fucking loud, those parakeets, man. I feel them. I began to reference the bird flu socially,
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telling my friends all about it and feeling super smart that nobody else knew about the
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infectious bird wing mystery disease. In high school, I even wrote about the bird flu in one
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of my exams that was submitted to the college board. Oh, wow. Wow. You couldn't let go.
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Repercussions. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, but they let... Okay. They let her believe it.
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Yeah. Then comes COVID lockdown when families are forced to actually talk, where my parents were
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shocked to find out that at the age of 21, I still believe the bird flu was the origin
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of Jacob and Sarah's death. Turns out the reality is that my sweet, beloved, overweight, brown tabby cat, Angie, murdered
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the birds by jumping on their cage, knocking it off the cage hook and trying to capture
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them until they both had heart attacks and died. Oh, my God. Oh, Mo would be so proud of himself.
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Like, I could see him doing that. Yeah. Yeah. That's such a cat thing. And then it's done in paragraph.
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I am still processing this To truly explain how we just do not talk about things in my family my first year of medical school I was living in another state I sorry this is a fucking doctor we talking about Only children are fucked up Yeah They have no like can I bounce this off of you real quick
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Yes. My sibling thinks this is bananas too. Yes. Or like my sibling's here to ruin everything
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intentionally for me, which actually educates me about the world. Like if this person had got made
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fun of for believing that by a sibling. They would have gone on to it quicker than 21.
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My first year of medical school, I was living in another state and had dreams nightly that Angie
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was dead. She was 17 at the time, so we knew her time was coming to an end, but she was visiting me
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in my sleep nightly. I would ask my mom if Angie was okay because I was so thrown off from my dreams,
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and she would always reply that Angie was alive and well, catching lizards and begging for treats,
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Just cat stuff. Then one hour after my first medical school exam, my little sister, then 12 years old
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and mean, so she was an only child until she was 10, then 12 years old and mean, called
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and said only the following. Angie died three weeks ago when we didn't want to make you fail your test if we told
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you. Bye. Bye. Bye. And hung up. Yes, I should get a therapist. Pics of Angie attached.
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Stay sexy and don't assume your child has common sense. S. Yes. So she, oh, she's a beautiful cat in a dress. That's a hilarious picture of a cat in a dress. That's really funny. No, this one. Yeah, she looks very stupid. She's like, get me out of here. Oh, my God. But then S really dreamed this cat died, like was really connected. And it did. I know. Sisters, like even when you have nothing in common, like nothing to do with them, they're going to be a jerk to you.
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Also, that 12-year-old was just sitting there waiting until the moment that she could make that phone call.
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That's so funny. Okay. The subject line of this email is the getaway driver. It just starts.
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Now let's get into it. In the mid-1970s, my grandma was babysitting my brother and sister.
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I wouldn't be born for another eight or so years. She had also had to get some work done in her car.
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She and the mechanic agreed on a price and my grandma went to the bank to withdraw the necessary cash When my grandma brother and sister went back for the car the mechanic wanted more money than they had originally agreed While pretty much everyone knows that this is par for the course with mechanics they don know Grandma Jessie
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My grandma wasn't just regular Scottish amounts of frugal. She was, quote, raised on a farm,
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formative years in the Great Depression and World War II, and had to earn her own money for her own
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stuff because I guess my grandpa didn't think that raising five kids was job enough level frugal.
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Jesus. Mm-hmm. She handed the keys to my siblings and told them to go wait in the car.
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My brother did what he always did when he got into the car at that age, immediately laid down on the backseat and went to sleep.
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When he woke up, there were sirens. They were being chased by the police. So who was the getaway driver?
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My grandma. Instead of paying the extra fees, my grandma got into the car and rammed it into the locked gates and took off.
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No way was a shady mechanic going to make her granddaughter late to gymnastics. My grandma also did not pull over for cops, but drove the 4.5 kilometers, about 2.75 miles, to gymnastics before dealing with the fuzz.
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Because she sent my brother and sister inside, this story never really had a proper resolution, so I asked my mom to fill in the end.
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My grandma was never charged, so she probably flirt-intimidated the cops. My grandpa settled up with the body shop.
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Yeah. Thank you for the forum to share this Jessie story. She died October 3, 2020, and COVID prevented us from having the kind of funeral where this story would have brought the house down.
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Proud to do it now. Grandma Jessie is a badass. Stay sexy and get away with property damage, April.
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