1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Love a good etiquette question. Wow, love it to see 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: how everybody feels about it and how they would react 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: to these sort of things. 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 2: I guess. 5 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: There is a couple who are in a little bit 6 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: of a disagreement and it all has to do with 7 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: a birthday. 8 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 3: Yes, it has to do so they're a married couple 9 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 3: and it has to do with the wife's mother's birthday. Okay, 10 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 3: so it's the wife's mother's birthday, the mother in law. 11 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 3: They're all over at her house as you do, for 12 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 3: a little birthday celebration, a couple of her close friends, 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 3: all the family that lives in town. Great, we have 14 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 3: a nice meal and then we all gather around to 15 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,639 Speaker 3: sing Happy birthday and watch mom slash mother in law 16 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 3: blow out the canton. 17 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 2: Let's do it, and so do it. 18 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 3: Yay, happy birthday. 19 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 2: Make a wish and half hearted. 20 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, we sing my husband, me and my daughter sing 21 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 3: my husband have birthday on Monday. And it was so 22 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 3: awkward because she's like mumbling it like you said, and 23 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 3: I'm like leave it. 24 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 2: But it's just the two of us. 25 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, and my husband's like standing there like please make 26 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 3: this stop, you know. But anyway, so they do that 27 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 3: whole thing, and then mother in law mom starts to 28 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 3: cut the cake. She cuts the cake herself and is 29 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 3: handing out little plates to everybody, and so the husband 30 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 3: is standing right there. A piece of cake is handed 31 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,839 Speaker 3: to his wife. Great, she takes it, and then mother 32 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 3: in law goes to hand a piece of her birthday 33 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 3: cake to him, and he says, nah, thank you. 34 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:40,559 Speaker 2: I'm full. 35 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 3: You know, I'm not really feeling cake right now, but 36 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 3: thank you, and she goes, no, come on, you got it? No, 37 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 3: no really, I'm just really Do you want me to 38 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 3: cut you a really small piece? 39 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: No? 40 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 3: No, I just I just really don't want any cake. Okay, 41 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 3: On to the next person, give them cake. Well when 42 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 3: they're leaving. On the drive home, wife had feelings that 43 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 3: the husband did not accept a piece of cake from 44 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 3: the birthday girl slash his mother in law, and according 45 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 3: to the wife, she believes it is rude to say 46 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 3: no to a piece of birthday cake on someone's birthday. 47 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 3: She says, if it's a massive party and like the 48 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 3: cakes just laid out, to grab a piece, of course 49 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 3: you don't have to. But if it's a smaller group 50 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 3: and the birthday person offers you a piece, it is 51 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 3: rude to say no. 52 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,839 Speaker 2: Thank What is rude about it? Am I insulting you? 53 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: Like I don't care about your birthday because I'm not celebrating. 54 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 3: She doesn't say, but honestly, I agree with her, and 55 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 3: you do. And my thought is, yeah, it's kind of rude, 56 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 3: Like this is the culmination of the reason we're here, 57 00:02:58,120 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 3: the singing of the birthday. 58 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 4: That's not why I'm there. I'm there for your birthday. 59 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 4: A diabetic well, obviously there'd be a reason. I have 60 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 4: seen Thor turned down cake, like when you were working 61 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 4: out and all that stuff, and that we've had like 62 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 4: birthday things or like in the office or whatever, and 63 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 4: Thor will flat out tell him no. And I do 64 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 4: see Sky coming out of her skin. 65 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. 66 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 4: I don't like cake. I like I like butt cake. 67 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 2: You're a big ice cream cake. 68 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 4: I like ice cream cake, but like regular like sheet cake, 69 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 4: I hate that. 70 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 3: But this cake isn't about you. 71 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 4: It's not about take it not eat it, which to 72 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 4: me is way worse. Taking it not eating it and 73 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 4: then throwing it away is way worse. 74 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 3: Because somebody else. 75 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: No, you could have leftovers if I go, oh, no, 76 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 4: thank you, I'm as nice as possible about it. 77 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 3: See this could be because I'm married to dessert hoarder, 78 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 3: because if it's an and I'm a picky eater, so 79 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 3: I don't like all cakes. Like there'll be some things 80 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 3: that I'm yeah and so, but I will feel like 81 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 3: I'm a jerk if I don't take crazy again, if 82 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 3: it's a massive party, if they don't see whatever about this? 83 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 4: What in the recovery world, when somebody gets like a 84 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 4: year or more, they get a cake, and a lot 85 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 4: of the times I hate this. 86 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 2: Do you eat it? Yes? 87 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 4: Oh, people will cut the cake and then pass it out. 88 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: At a meeting or whatever. 89 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 90 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 4: And I go to like smaller meetings and stuff so 91 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 4: they'll see me. And I've never once in eighteen years 92 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 4: and ten months had a piece stop it cake it. 93 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 4: I've been like, no, no, but they're honoring the person. 94 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 4: Why do I have to eat it? They just they 95 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 4: just blew it out and spit one everywhere that care 96 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 4: that's not even here. No there second, I still want it. 97 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 2: I want to. 98 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 4: I'm paying attention. I'm locked in. 99 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 2: No, you're not. I just don't. I just don't. 100 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 4: I just don't want a piece of cake. I don't 101 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 4: so I could go no thanks. That's rude because I'm 102 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 4: not saying no and then giving you a side. I 103 00:04:58,040 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 4: am going no, no, thank you. I appreciate that. 104 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nice. 105 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever turned down a piece of 106 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: birthday cake in my life. 107 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 2: Obviously, that's a good man. That's a thoughtful man. 108 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: That being said, those guy, what, I'm a new man now. 109 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: Oh health, I'm on a health journey. Oh god, I 110 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: can't tell you a last dessert that I've had. You 111 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: must go back to like Christmas time. 112 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 2: That's crazy. 113 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 4: Listen, I could tell because you're not because you look great. 114 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 3: Thanks, babe, Okay, don't call him babe. Stop complimenting each other. 115 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 4: Jim the other. I'm going back to the gym now. 116 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 4: And I told my wife yesterday all thanks to Eddie. 117 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 2: Wow. 118 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 3: Okay, can you guys, thanks to ed with your little 119 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 3: health club and we're guessing each other up. 120 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: Okay, if it was your birthday today and there was 121 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 1: a cake in here, I would say no, thank you. 122 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 2: And I hope you would understand. Yeah, I would think 123 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 2: I'm not eating that crap anymore. 124 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, the guy's at all You. 125 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 2: Want me to have a heart attack. 126 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 3: Well that's the thing like if your doctor said, hey, 127 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 3: no sugar, are you you're going to have a heart attack? 128 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 2: That's one thing. 129 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 3: Diabetic that's another thing. 130 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 2: If you're just on a. 131 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 3: Journey on your own, I'm sorry, friendship trumps your new 132 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 3: little little journey. And and and have at least a bite. 133 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 4: So let me ask you a question. You're at we're 134 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 4: at your birthdays, guy, and you love being toasted, Tell 135 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 4: you be toasted. And somebody does a toast everybody, and 136 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,359 Speaker 4: they pour a glass champagne for everybody, and I go, oh, no, 137 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 4: thank you, And I don't do it because I don't 138 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 4: have a champagne? Am I? 139 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 2: Am? I? 140 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 4: Am I rude? Because I'm not drigging the champagne. Eddie 141 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,679 Speaker 4: doesn't want to eat unhealthy, is he? What's the difference? 142 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,679 Speaker 3: The difference is if there's. 143 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 4: A medical issue, my sobriety. 144 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 3: If there's a medical issue, like we call it covered diabetes, 145 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 3: heart attack, alcoholic, then you're excused from said thing. But 146 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 3: if none of those things. 147 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: Apply you, so what about I don't understand what that 148 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: problem is? 149 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 2: Why am I rude? If I don't want cakes? You 150 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 2: didn't even buy the cake? Yeah, you didn't make it. 151 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 2: You didn't buy it, something to. 152 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 3: Do with it. It's part of the honor. I'd rather 153 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 3: you have a piece of cake over getting me again. 154 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 4: I mean, that's the dumbest thing I've ever brought. My 155 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 4: jaws dropped. You have a piece of cake with a gift. 156 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 4: I'm gonna throw a cake in your face. 157 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: No, you're not so uh? 158 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 3: This again? Isn't gonna shop shock anyone. Don't care for taramasou. 159 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 2: Whatever? 160 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 4: What even is like sponge? 161 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 3: I don't even know that is so anyway, For my 162 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 3: mom's birthday, they had a taramasou that's weird. 163 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 2: Which weird, weird birthday cake, weird whatever. 164 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 3: But even though I dislike it, I took a slice 165 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 3: and did the thing where I take little bites and 166 00:07:57,920 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 3: move it around. 167 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 2: Gave the rest of the boo. Yeah, of course, because. 168 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 3: We're all sitting it's like eight of us at a 169 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 3: table together. 170 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 2: Why does your mom not know that you hate Team Sue? 171 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever told her that. 172 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 3: We didn't have very many desserts growing up, so there's 173 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 3: not much knowledge there, Eddie. 174 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 4: I'd be more annoyed, though, if I was somebody who 175 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 4: liked tearra Masue and I saw this chick pretend and 176 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 4: I'd wasted your kids. She's wasted Sky. Oh great, Sky 177 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 4: wasted a piece of my cake and he said, hey, 178 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 4: no thanks, Hey thanks, do I can have that later? 179 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 2: Crush it. Really, it's rude. 180 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 3: Take the smallest slide wanted, take one tiny bite. Happy birthday? 181 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 2: Why what do we I don't get what's rude about it. 182 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 3: It's part of the celebration. It's like if everyone's singing 183 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 3: Happy birthday and you're standing there not singing. 184 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: No, it is, well, this is nuts. 185 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 2: I mean, eat the cake. I don't want to. 186 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 4: I don't want it so healthy. 187 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 3: I'm going a journey. 188 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 2: You're welcome. 189 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 4: I guess what we're not having today, Taco Bell. 190 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 2: That's right, buddy. 191 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 4: This makes me sad. 192 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 2: Okay, sorry,