We Tell The Awkward Dating Stories That Still Haunt Us

One bad kiss can end a romance, but what about a bad kiss plus a corner fart confession? We’re laughing through the kind of dysfunctional dating stories that feel too weird to be real, then realizing they’re exactly why so many of us still cringe at the words “first date.”  Listen To The Full Dysfunctional Dating Roundup Then Tell Us Your Worst Date Story?

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Transcript

Welcome And Setup

SPEAKER_01 0:10

Welcome to the dysfunction junkies podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now, here are your hosts. Hey! Kiri.

KERRY 0:24

Hello, junkies. I'm Carrie. And I'm Chrissy. Alrighty. We got a good one today. At least I think we do. I know Chrissy does. She's been excited about this one. We actually tried to record this and had some technical difficulties. And Chrissy's, no, I want to do this now. So I think we got everything fixed. So here we go. Chrissy, go. I'll try and harness the energy I had from last time. So we're gonna talk about dysfunctional dating as far as everybody's had the cringe dates, right? I know I had a few, even though I know I've been with my man for a really long time. But there was a period that I still dated while I was finishing up high school and early into college. So you didn't have a lot to offer me on this. I know my dating was a little bit different, but yeah. I'll find something to add into the story, I'm sure. Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

But before you get started, did you and I ever uh did you have any did you and I ever have any dysfunctional dates?

KERRY 1:34

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Oh, okay.

KERRY 1:35

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 1:36

Okay, just make it sure.

KERRY 1:38

Now wait. I think there's a lot about us that is dysfunctional, but we're not gonna talk. That's not this show. Uh that might probably never be any show. Thank you very much. Because there's only so much I need to discuss about me. I tell everybody enough. What were you gonna say? I was gonna say, now wait a minute. If we're just gonna talk about going on dates that are dysfunctional, oh, I'm sure that Jim and I have plenty of those experiences, but I know what you're alluding to. Dates gone bad. Yeah, like the first time you're ever relationship. Then there was very good reason as to why they did not. Yeah. So let's see. They start out with the dating thing. From what I remember, because now we're talking this has to be about 35, 6 years ago. How long we've been out of school? 36, 37 years, probably now. So we're talking 36, 37 years. I dated, and some of these are from high school and uh a little bit early on in in college, but I was just finishing up my freshman year in college when I met Nick. Yeah. So okay. There wasn't a whole lot of time to July 91.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

We've been together since July.

The Lip Bite And Corner Fart

KERRY 2:54

But the awkwardness of going out on a first date. What am I gonna wear? Where are we gonna go? Yeah. What do I do if he tries to, especially when you're 16 or 17? Is he gonna try and hold my hand? Is he gonna try and kiss me? Blah, blah, blah. What do we do? Yeah. So there's that whole thing. You remember all that, right? Yes. Yeah, I do. Okay. So I have some funny stories about some real awkward crap that happened to me, and it basically sealed the fate of any future dates with any of these people. One was one I went out with this one guy. He was a cousin to one of our alumnus. He went to an opposing school of ours. Opposing Catholic or opposing oh, okay. All right. And he was a super nice guy, but in what he went and make in the background.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Because I know the story. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll turn my mic down and tell the story.

KERRY 4:00

This one was a double whammy, actually.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

Oh no.

KERRY 4:03

Super nice guy. Nice looking, very nice kid. But I remember we kissed me goodbye. He bit my mouth. Like on purpose? Like in a little love nibble. No, I don't hope I hope not. But it was enough to make me say, I don't think I can do this. In the first kiss, it's a pretty big impression. And when you get bit, it's like the other thing was is that when we went back to my house after we'd gone out for dinner, we would generally retire to the living room and watch television. Really? What's in television? Yeah, that's what we do. And so we were there, and I sat down in front of the TV, ready to watch with him, and I couldn't find him. I didn't know where he was, and I turned around and he was ominously standing in the corner. What? And but he wasn't with his face in the corner, so it wasn't like a Blair Witch thing where the guy's standing towards the corner with his back to you. He wasn't in timeout and put himself in timeout. I don't know, but of course you have to ask what he's doing. Oh no. He had some gas. So how do you recover from that?

SPEAKER_01 5:37

So he wasn't in timeout, he was in blowing.

KERRY 5:42

I don't know why he didn't just ask to use the restroom. And then why would I have wanted to sit next to him after you show him the door after that? I don't think it we made too long after that for the rest of the evening. I was pretty much done. Oh so yeah, it's terrible. I feel horrible. What he was the one that was party McFartz in the corner. Yeah, he was I just feel horrible, but it's so funny. How many people can say that has happened? Oh my it was like a first date, too. It wasn't even like how you start to be a little comfortable. I was probably 16 or 17. But he actually admitted to you that he had a fart. Or did you figure this out because of the Roma therapy? This was the other, he did not even hide it. That was the other thing that totally blew my mind. He like totally said, Oh, I just I have a little gas, I didn't want to be over there. I want to know where this guy is today. I know I never looked at her up. Oh I'm sure he's been married. I'm sure he was not a dumb kid. He was a smart because I never would date anybody stupid. I couldn't handle a stupid man. Can you imagine a poor guy who's not real bright with me? I'd flip a wall, he'd be done. You have to be able to navigate this whole mess. And it just would be too easy for me to totally take control if you aren't right on your game or anything. So yeah, getting bit on my lip and so this was the same one. The lip fighter is farting the parts up. Oh my god. Yeah. The other thing, too, I remember about him speaking of because he was really smart, but I think it was more book smart type of thing. Yeah. Because I remember on our way to my house in the car, before any of the other two events occurred, I was talking about something pretty simplistic. And for some reason, an affiliate had something to do with telephones. And remember, this is before cell phones. Yeah, this was back in the complicated. Right. This is landlines and the most no, we still we had push buttons by then. Oh it wasn't the we were done with that. But we had co-waiting. Remember co-waiting?

SPEAKER_00 8:18

Yeah.

Intimidation And Missed Chances

The Sexiest Lips Compliment

KERRY 8:19

I was talking about something in regards, and I just remember him saying, I really don't know anything about that. And that's like the worst thing you could ever say to me. Don't ever tell me that you don't really know anything about that. You know how we talked about people who are one-uppers? Yeah. This is like somebody who's like a one-nothinger. Like you have to at least have something to contribute. Lie. Do something. As soon as I find out you don't know anything about something, I'm like, you're not gonna be helpful to me in the future. You have to be able to know something about everything. Or you have to be able to lie that you know something about everything. You think on your feet, man. You gotta keep going. Oh, that's hysterical. It just didn't work out. So much done. I think this is what my problem is because I have found this out a lot. That I people, how do I want to word this? There's a many times in my life where I have found out that a person liked me, wanted to date me, wanted to ask me out, but they were too intimidated by me and or they thought I was out of their league, or whatever the excuses were. So they never got to that point. And so I think by the time I I was somehow self-eliminating people before they before I got to the point of dating to self- to eliminate people. Like it was happening before the date. So by the time I actually started dating somebody, that was it was like already it became serious, or I married them three times. Um but so I well, what do you mean? Like they actually would tell you, oh, I wanted what this was after like you were already married now. Like, for instance, I remember like it started in eighth grade, like when we had our eighth grade graduation. Like I was not the popular kid in class. I hung out with the like I told before, the girls that were like my good friends, they were the popular girls. I was their sidekick. I don't, but I wasn't, they weren't hanging out because of me, they were hanging out because of the other person or whatever, not popular. And so, anyways, eighth grade graduation, two different boys came up to me and said, because they were going to a different school, and they were like, I always liked you. I never got the nerve up to ask you out on a date, or we would have roller skating parties or whatever, or they'd be like, Last dance or whatever. No, like I just yeah, I was too embarrassed, I was too shy, whatever. And in eighth grade, I was like, Okay, because you're just then just starting to dabble in the liking boys, but then in in high school, same kind of thing at the end of graduation. Like, what is it about graduation day with these guys? They all of a sudden have this like moment and whatever, they get balls to be able to talk to you, and they didn't talk to you for four years. So, anyways, like I have two different guys come up to me at graduation. Now, mind you, I was with somebody, but they came up and you were very much with somebody. In fact, I think I was already engaged by senior year wasn't I yeah, so any close, yeah. So, anyways, but I had two different guys separately throughout that last week of school or graduation that was like, I always wanted to ask you out, I just think you're really cool, but I was always I just I felt like you were out of my leg, you were too smart, you were too whatever, I was too intimidate. Whatever they and I'm like, if you would have asked me out, I would have totally went out with you. And in hindsight, I'm like, I might have changed my life. But anyway. When we finish today, uh huh, I'm gonna need to ask who these people were. We can't say no. I know, but unless you think we can. I don't know if I remember do I have to need to go get our yearbook and then like showing you. Yeah, because I can see their faces, and so I could see, yeah. But the one kid, especially, I was like, Yeah, dude, you're you're really cool. I really liked you. I would have went out with you. Man, you're making me shit. So, anyways, I think that's why I didn't have as many dating experiences because I was somehow self-eliminating people before they even got to fart in a corner on a date with me. Yeah, no, it's your missing man, it's the hottest ever. It is nice. So let me think now. That was exciting. I do remember going out. This is another alumni of ours who was dating someone, and they had a twin, believe it or not. Okay, and so she decided to hook me up with her boyfriend's twin. Okay, and I remember we went to Chi Chi's, oh, the best, uh-huh. And I just met this guy, we sit down at the table, we get our drinks, and he's like staring at me or whatever, maybe because he doesn't know what to say.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

I don't know what the hell's going on.

KERRY 13:26

And then he proceeds to tell me, and this comes out of nowhere, that I have the sexiest lips he's ever seen. And I spit my drink everywhere, probably hit him, his brother, our fellow alumni, and I started laughing because it struck me as so funny because I'm like, dude, why yeah, and then I just remember getting phone calls, and I was like telling my mom, now I don't know why, but that just totally it would just seem weird to me. Yeah, because we just met and already I guess I shouldn't have been affected by a compliment, but yeah, tell me I look nice, or I really like your choice in outfit this evening, or your hair looks really good. I don't know why the lips thing just totally threw me. He had a fetish. That was that that that was that's what maybe I was worried about. Yeah, yeah. Oh my god, you think about this. Is this after you were bitten on the lip by the other guy? You might have been having some PTSD thinking, oh my god, it's another biter. It might you know what? It was after that, I'm pretty sure. And yeah, wow, I don't mess with my mouth, dude.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Maybe your lips were swollen yellow from the bite, yellow flipped like the college.

Modern Dating Fears And Catfishing

Creepy Pursuit And Age Gap Dates

KERRY 14:57

No, this was way past that. Yeah, dating the whole dating thing, I don't know. I am I really did skate through it pretty easy as far as not having to date much. I really did. But I Jim always says, because Jim's older than me and he's had health issues over the years, so he's always, I'm gonna probably die before you. And if I die, no, it's really morbid. I get on him for saying it all the time. But but he'll always say, if something happens to me, you gotta get back out there, you're too young, you need to get out there. And I'm like, no, done, done, not doing this again. Thank you very much, but no, and part of it is because oh my god, the thought of going out there and dating nowadays, especially. Oh like it was hard enough back in the day. I can't imagine uh no, it's a totally different game. I don't want to play. I don't think I would be able to manage it. If I'm offended by people farting in the corner and biting my mouth, I would imagine things they do now are just totally crazy. And the social media thing is it's too scary. Yeah, thank god we didn't have that. Oh my god. I know that they probably hear it. I know there's a ton of Gen Xers out there on social media that talk about how wonderful we are and we did. I just I hate to agree with that, but we did. Yeah, and with all the TV that we have nowadays, like all of these screw crime and we call it murder porn because whether it's like these what is it, snaps, the snap shows, the crime shows, the Jeffrey Dahmer mover movies and everything, it's just uh no, the world's too dangerous. No, I don't want to be uh yeah, and especially with the online dating. Now I've known many people that have very successfully done the online dating with the apps and everything, and God bless them because they found some great guys, but my luck, I would I'd be either catfished or I'd be the one that would be next on America's missing whatever dateline, whatever. Yeah, so okay, I hate to admit when I don't know something, but what is catfish? What I gotta fake my way through it. Oh yeah, god catfish, how awful. What is that? What are you talking about? You've not heard of catfishing? Okay, I think I've heard of it. I don't know. Do you know what it is? Oh, okay. It's we both are ignorant. You didn't lose any points with me now. Thank god you didn't lose any. Of course, you know, I'm sure you know a lot of things that we don't know. No, I'm gonna try to do that. This is your time to shine on this one. I'm gonna try to find I'm Geminiing, I'm Geminiing that what it what is. And okay, so basically it's like when you it's like when somebody pretends to be something that they're not, and no, I don't want to know about the catfish. I want to know catfish people. Let's try that. They're not being yeah, so P, you'll you hear all the time about these people that will find somebody online and here it is. Okay. Catfishing refers to the creation of a fictitious online persona or fake identity with the intent of deception, usually to dismay victim into an online romantic relationship, financial fraud. Perpetrators usually refer to as catfish, generally use fake photos, lie about their personal lives, their financial status, and yeah, so they're usually out to get something, they're whether to defraud you, to murder you. But yeah, yikes, yeah. So that's what I mean. I yeah, so there's another reason why I just don't want to ever have dating. The internet is a lovely, wonderful place, and then they've got that kind of stuff, which is awful. We learned something today, yeah. So I will say that there was, I do remember one guy that really wanted to date me, but he was a total like stranger danger, gave me the creeps kind of thing. And it was when I worked at a veterinary clinic and he was a client, and so I couldn't get away from him kind of a thing, but he would always come in and he'd ask, and I just was like, Oh, I'm in school or oh, I'm busy. I couldn't figure and so finally I just was like, I don't know what made me finally give in. I guess I thought if I give him my number and I reject him at the where I work, maybe he'll take it seriously. That didn't work because then he kept calling. But this was back in the time of home phone numbers and landlines, and luckily I was still living at home at the time. And so finally I just had my I had my mom tell him to stop calling me. Think on moms do that. Thanks, Melbourne. I know, thanks, Mom. Thanks, Moma. Because so this was somebody where you worked. Yeah, I'm trying to think. I worked for a little while before I met Nick. Because I didn't work in high school, right? But I did work after I graduated. You did the the bridal registry with the gun. No, that wasn't my first, that was after Nick and I were married already. Um, okay. I worked for a company that if you're from where we're from, I'm not gonna say the name of the company, it's gone. I'll just say it. I worked for a distributor who supplied this company, but the guy who owned this company also owned the big time discount drugstore type thing that was big in our area in the late 80s and early 90s. And I worked at the distributing company. I don't I remember, I remember. And there was a guy, he was a computer guy back when the computers were still very mysterious, and we didn't even have a computer. Yeah, and uh he was mainly managing the computer for a few people, but I'm sure it was a big deal. I went out with him a few times, but he was quite older than me, and uh that made me uncomfortable because of the age difference. Yeah, because I was only like 18 and he was like 26 or something, so it doesn't sound like anything now when I'm sitting here at 53, but back then it what? You're gonna say something. Oh, okay, he's not gonna say anything. But weird things to date, like the friends obviously I had some friends who try to hook me up with people, yeah. And what's weird about dating? What's some dysfunctional dates? That maybe get set up on. What would be weird to do as far as a date goes? Yeah. Would you date?

Dating Dad Friends And Big Age Gaps

SPEAKER_01 22:08

Go ahead. Are you gonna say something? Oh no, I just was gonna say, like I was reading on the internet the other day about this guy who actually dated his daughter's friend. I guess I would say so flip that. So would you ever would you ever date like your father's friend or something like that?

KERRY 22:30

That's gross. That's gross. That's gross oh, ew. Oh that's way too close. It's it's like dating your dad, isn't it? Yeah. That's daddy issue. A little bit? That's daddy. And how does that friend talk to your their buddies? Yeah. Ew. What do buddies do? They talk about the girls they're dating and what they're doing with their girlfriends. It's just got way too many layers. I can't, I don't think it I can't believe a dad would let their friend date their daughter. No. That's no that's a error. I guess it depends on what they think of their daughter. I don't know. What do I know? Oh, this is true. No, there were plenty of movies in the 80s about those weird storylines where their mother dated the murder. That just takes a really dark turn. That's what I'm saying. But you hear about that and it's like, oh no, no. Gross. No, no. Date the milkman. Or the mailman. Right. The milkman, the mailman, whatever. The pool guy. The pool guy. So yeah. No, not where to go with it. You have lots of friends. Yeah. And you've been a lot of places. Have you seen any weird things? People dating that don't look like they belong together. But maybe they do get a lot of people. Opposites attract, right? Yeah. I don't mind the age difference. The age difference doesn't quite bother me. But when it's the guy, I have less, and no, this is probably totally people are gonna probably get mad about this. I have no problem with older ladies dating younger guys, like the cougar thing. But I'm more judgmental the other way. And I guess because really, yeah, like I I don't mind there being an age difference, but when you see the really old guy with the really young girl, there's so much that goes through my head. I'm like, first of all, is it daddy issues? Or is that just one really smart chick that's got is she's got a financial game plan if the guy is well off. But on the guy's end of it, I'm like, why are you doing that? I don't know. I've never seen like a big age difference thing. But at the same time, I shouldn't judge like that because at the same time, there's other people that I know that have a really big age difference and you wouldn't even realize it. I guess I'm thinking more like the Hugh Hefner. I guess this is what it is. I'm thinking more like the Hugh Hefner in the barely 18-year-old bunny, like that kind of thing. The 90-something-year-old guy with the 20-something-year-old girl. You did live in Las Vegas, so I'm guessing that you see out there. So that's what I mean by, but just the other age differences. I don't care. But I don't really see, yeah. I have never really firsthand seen that either way. Are you looking at me like you know, we've we haven't really seen that kind of an age. And here's the other thing. So I think I dug a hole. It does say what did you just say? I said, I think I dug a hole. Oh, I thought you said something about a whore. No, it's not I think I dug a hole. It's also one thing when a couple has a really big age difference, but they've been together for a while, so that if they grow different, they grow older, so it may look worse as they get older because of the age difference, but it wasn't that bad 20 years ago because I just set up. No, I guess I get what you're saying. So maybe when they first started dating, the age difference wasn't that noticeable or whatever, yeah. But then as they are after they're together 20 or 30 years, then it looks worse, but they've been together forever, and they're it's not. But again, I think when I talk about the age difference thing, I have a problem when it's like they just met and the guy's 90 and the girl's 18 or 20. That's what I'm talking about. That's the I'm like, you're either really smart or the guy's either really gross to do that. So the girl's really smart. The guy, if he's older, chances of him farting in the corner are higher, I think. Although my date was pretty young. Hey, does he write that now? There's an etiquette about it all. Sorry, guys, she just don't do it. Now I know some girls don't care, they don't care, and they'll be like, fart in the corner, hell, I'll fart right with you. Uh that's not me. I'm not that girl. So I'm sure the fart in the corner guy could probably find a girl that won't care if he farts it. She'll appreciate that. Hey, thanks for going to the corner and not farting under the covers on me. But yeah, well, just so maybe if I was like older when that happened, like in my 40s or 50s, I'd be like, okay, that's cool, because I wouldn't want to be dealing with that. And we're older, and I get it. But when you're 17, 16 or 17, it just you just you're not mature enough to do that. That's just the maturity. That kid needs the, yeah, he needed to age a little bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

I know you laughed at that kid at Chi Chi's on day, but you really do have sexy lips. Oh.

Friend Zone And Exes Drama

KERRY 28:23

I do not by today's standards. They're not there. I don't have that. And I don't know how to outline my lips to even pretend I have that. I don't even know. No. This is interesting. Yeah. We want to know about I don't know if people know these are just a few of mine. You didn't chime in at all, Nick. You don't have you don't want to talk about these cleaner.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

I don't know about age differences. I did go on one date with my friend's aunt. He did.

KERRY 28:58

Did you just name the person? You just said your friend.

SPEAKER_01 29:02

I I had a friend's aunt.

KERRY 29:04

Oh, friends' aunt. I thought you said your friend. And I'm like, what's that mean?

SPEAKER_01 29:10

This is before Chrissy and I, obviously. But I just remember when I told Chrissy about it. She was like, what? Yeah. So she was. I think she was either she was fresh off on divorce, I think. And I was probably more than anything, just something for her ego. But there we didn't even kiss or anything. So it was a real big one. I'm gonna be quite honest with you. I just I went and I don't even remember where we went, but we went and just hung out. Nothing happened though. Not even so she friend zoned you. What's that?

KERRY 29:43

Friend zone is that a thing?

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Oh you gotta I gotta Gemini that because I don't know what that means.

KERRY 29:50

You guys like a friend, like you can remember, Carrie.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

We've been we've been out of the game for the game 35 years.

KERRY 29:59

The friends like it's on TV. Okay, you watch TV and movies and stuff, and you don't know what the friend zone is, like you like when a guy really likes a girl but she doesn't have those same feelings back, and they're like, No, I just want to be friends, and so you got friend zone.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

It was weird. I don't even know how to describe it. I guess it was technically a date, but yeah, we only went once, and it was just like nah. Yeah, I was probably thinking she was too old for me, so at the time, because it was probably 18, 19.

KERRY 30:30

He was I have one he probably was hoping what like for a Mrs. Robinson moment then or something like that, because she was older, you were younger, she yeah, you weren't picking up what she was laying down there. Uh-huh. Do you know the references? Mrs. Robinson. Oh, I oh yeah, that's from the graduate. Oh my god, who are you talking to?

SPEAKER_01 30:53

But I when you guys talked about earlier, like I know there was like girls that wouldn't go out with me. I was a good student in high school, but always you're too smart, and then you're too nice was one of the uh was one that got one coming up.

KERRY 31:07

You don't fart in the corner, fart in the corner, you don't bite. You don't bite anyone's lip. I have a story about my interaction with one of Nick's exes that happened over the last few years. Probably we ran into a girl that he used to date, and we were just standing around awkwardly, and all of a sudden, out of the blue, we were probably in a group of four or five people, but it wasn't like she wasn't there with her spouse or anything, and then all of a sudden out of the blue, she said, Anyone here getting divorced? She says, I am and I said nothing and we went on our way, and then as soon as we were walking away, I said, Don't think I didn't hear what she said. What the hell does that mean? What who the hell says that? Anybody here getting divorced? Raise your hand. I am yeah, Chrissy always. She wants to get a junk on who's coming up on the on the acting app.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

I think Chrissy always thinks that all these old exes are gonna come out of the woodwork and want me, and that was that in fact that's the reason. You notice our Facebook is a shared Facebook? Yes, because she doesn't want me have my own Facebook, because she thinks all my exes are gonna friend me.

Share Your Stories And Autism Support

KERRY 32:32

Not not if I have anything to say about it. So I will say one of the things, yeah. See, that that is one thing with Jim and I, this is where I think both of both him and I being married twice before, we are not jealous at all. Okay. Like our motto has been, it doesn't matter where you get your appetite as long as you eat at home. Okay. So I don't care. Wait a minute, what the hell's that mean? What that means is if you see a beautiful woman walking down past and he double checks her, I don't care. Gorgeous, yeah. Look at it. Trust me, if there's a gorgeous guy, look at him. Paul might even look at the gorgeous girl too. But what I'm saying is, it's okay. It's it's whatever. I'm not gonna get jealous because you side-eyed a good-looking girl or whatever. Just don't step out. That's the thing. And so, anyways, we don't get jealous. And if anything, we'll joke around about things. Like I used to joke around about to him, like it, I don't even know how it started, but we had this thing about his fictitious girlfriend was named Lolita. And I was like, Oh, you gotta I keep be getting rammed, like, oh, you gotta hunt date with Lolita or something. And we joke about it. That lasted for about 15 years until one day we were at the checkout counter at Walmart, which I don't shop it there anymore because I can't stand them, but there was a time where I did, anyways, and it just so happened that there was this poor little old lady working at the checkouts, and we had a rough life, you could tell. And her name was Lolita, and I about died. I was like, Oh my god, it's your girlfriend's dear. So we can't say Lolita anymore, his fantasy is ruined. But so, anyways, but speaking of ex-girlfriends, so Jim and I had just started moving. We had just moved in together. I don't know, we had been together like seven months or something. And actually, no, it was longer that it was a year. Okay, we had been together for a year, and his birthday, it was his birthday, and the phone rings, and I answer the phone again, landline phone in the house, and it was this girl, and she was asking for him. Here it was his ex-girlfriend that he had broken up with two years before we met. For whatever reason, she was on a rebound or something, and she thought she was gonna tap that with him. And so she reached out to him to wish him happy birthday and I don't know, try to get a booty call or something. And I answered the phone and he answered and he was like, Hello, okay, thank you. No, I'm with somebody from now. You can just disregard this phone number and he hung up on her. Oh my gosh. But I did not do jealousy. But I was just like, Wow, that was ballsy of that girl. I'm sorry. If I would have called some ex and a girl answered, I would just hung up. I wouldn't have kept talking, I wouldn't have asked for him, I wouldn't have just hung up. But are you looking at me because you want me to say something about a similar situation? I don't really want to talk about it. When we first started dating, we were over at his house sitting and his sisters were there and stuff. We were just watching TV and his phone rang, and it was for him. And here he had been dating some girl who I think lived in his neighborhood, but he they were not together anymore. But I think she had been drinking and she was feeling bad that they weren't still together, and so I could hear him like mumbling uncomfortably on the phone. I think that she wanted him back. I've never forgotten that. Never. And I won't. Oh my little. So that's that. For all of you that are dating out there, you have our love and support. God bless you. Good luck to you. Yes. Now for all the terms Carrie brought in. Yeah. Catfishing and stay safe. Always let somebody know who you're with, where you're going, you know, how you put it, put your phone on the tracker thing so your friends can track you. That way, in case you you did accidentally go down a bad path with somebody that catfished you or whatever, they can find your body, but no. So, anyways, do we want to know your dating malfunctions, dysfunctions, crazy stories? So please check out our Facebook page, Dysfunction Junkies, or you can go to our website, you can shoot us a message, you can email us at dysfunction junkiespodcast.com. Now, on a completely different note, this is the month of April. And in April, we are supporting for our junkies care initiative autism. So, Chrissy, tell us about the organization we're supporting this month. We are supporting the Autism Society of Akron. Yes. And lots of information there if anybody needs it. If you're not in the Akron area, that's just one that's over here by where I live. It services my area plus many other areas. But a lot of places have their own autism society. And if you need any information, if you want to help, if you want to do anything, please reach out to those organizations. They're always ready to give you anything that you might need, support. They offer a lot of programs, information about programs. So, yes, it's it's a wonderful organization. Absolutely. All right, everybody, we can't wait to read your dating stories, but otherwise, we'll see you next week. Bye bye. Bye, everybody.