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Speaker 1: Karen refuses to believe that I'm blind and steals my

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Speaker 1: guide dog. Should I have her arrested? And she was

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Speaker 1: raging onto an apparent security guard, titled mother, Oh god,

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Speaker 1: that's her. You see my god? This voice. She's sitting

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Speaker 1: there with a dog. She sounds as a guide dog,

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Speaker 1: but she's blind. You have to kick her out right now,

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Speaker 1: No dogs allowed. I sighed and removed an earbud to

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Speaker 1: prepare for the oncoming ordeal. I love how like op

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Speaker 1: like this is just like normal for her. She's like

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Speaker 1: another day of people. She's getting groceries. Let her be

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Speaker 1: blind and get groceries. Jesus seriously. A deep male voice

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Speaker 1: sounded from a few feet in front of me. He

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Speaker 1: sounded rather harassed. Oh miss, is this your service dog?

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Speaker 2: Me?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is a seeing eye dog. I'm allowed to

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Speaker 1: take him in here. I have a copy of the

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Speaker 1: appropriate law if you need it. No, that's fine, I

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Speaker 1: know service dogs are allowed. This woman is saying you

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Speaker 1: aren't disabled? Is that true? No, she's just angry that

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Speaker 1: I didn't let her daughter touch my dog. I honestly

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Speaker 1: don't know why she cares. Entitled mother, it's because you're

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Speaker 1: a liar. I told you I have a blind cousin.

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Speaker 1: Don't try to tell me I don't understand blind people,

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Speaker 1: because I knew me. I directed my attention to the

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Speaker 1: security guard. I've tried to explain to her that one

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Speaker 1: blind person doesn't represent all blind people, but she doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to get it. Could you please ask her to

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Speaker 1: leave me alone? I just want to eat in peace. So, maam,

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Speaker 1: are you blind? Me? Yes? I am sorry? But can

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Speaker 1: you prove it in any way?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: No? How can I do that? And why? Well, it's

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Speaker 1: just because she's saying one thing and you're saying another thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know exactly who to believe, but yeah, I

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Speaker 1: see how you're proving you're blind doesn't really work. Why

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Speaker 1: is it exactly that you think she's lying? Are you serious?

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Speaker 1: Are you sick? Lug? Her eyes they're not white and

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Speaker 1: cloudy like people's. She was literally looking at her phone.

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Speaker 1: Uh maam, what's your response?

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Speaker 2: Why is he? This is like a tennis match? He's like,

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Speaker 2: all right, you're like a debate.

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Speaker 1: Like b what Maybe her cousin has those eye symptoms,

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Speaker 1: but not every blind person does. Those symptoms are caused

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Speaker 1: by diseases like cataracts, which I don't have as for

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Speaker 1: the phone, devices have been accessible to the blind for years.

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Speaker 1: I find it surprising she has a cousin who is

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Speaker 1: blind and doesn't know that. No. I thought I saw

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Speaker 1: you looking at the phone.

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Speaker 2: You were looking at it, guys, put uh put a

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Speaker 2: w in the comments for Sam's vocal cords, which are.

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Speaker 1: Vocal cords are being fried. You guys better not hate this.

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Speaker 1: I have basic light perception. I can detect light. I

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Speaker 1: direct my eyes to it out of habit because that's

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Speaker 1: where my hands are occupied. Look, it's not my job

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Speaker 1: to educate you people on what you don't know. I

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Speaker 1: spoke to the car, I spoke to the guard. Please

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Speaker 1: please just ask her to leave me alone. I don't

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Speaker 1: care if she doesn't believe me. You don't need to

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Speaker 1: stand here, immediate back and forth, as if we're going

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Speaker 1: to degree, as if we're going to agree. I just

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Speaker 1: like her to stop talking to me and leave me

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Speaker 1: in peace. I'm feeling extremely harassed, and the security gard

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Speaker 1: just leaves right Ronald, of course, not Maam. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: get that. It's just that I can't know for sure.

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Speaker 1: You're blind, so she might have a violent point, bro,

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Speaker 1: What does it matter?

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Speaker 2: Like, the worst case scenario is she has like an

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Speaker 2: insanely well behaved dog.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that is the.

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Speaker 2: Worst case scenario if if she's lying, and why why

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Speaker 2: would she ever be lying?

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Speaker 1: And also like that Karen isn't like asking for the

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Speaker 1: dog to get kicked out, She's asking me to pet

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Speaker 1: the dog. Yeah, yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: So it's like, what's what's the what's the uh dispute

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Speaker 2: that relates to?

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Speaker 1: Like I watched a security guard that's fine done? What

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Speaker 1: that applies to every blind person? How can anyone prove

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Speaker 1: that if she has no reasons for me lying, then

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Speaker 1: then shouldn't you just give me the benefit of the doubt.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. If she said her cousin is bland,

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Speaker 1: she probably knew something about it. Broh, like security guy.

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Speaker 1: It could have been a hero. I paused for a second. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I'm not even going to bother. Look, if you're not

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Speaker 1: going to get away from me, then I'm going to leave.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for failing to protect a disabled person. I said

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Speaker 1: to leave, and my dog got up to guide me.

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Speaker 1: I took a few steps and suddenly felt someone grab

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Speaker 1: hold of my harness handle tightly and pull me to

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Speaker 1: a stop.

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Speaker 2: The audacity.

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Speaker 1: Wait, I said, I wanted to let my daughter pet

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Speaker 1: that dog. Then you can leave. No, get off my harness.

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Speaker 1: Get off. Now, understand, grabbing my harness is akin to

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Speaker 1: someone taking away your eyes. Truly, she was impeding my

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Speaker 1: means of navigating through the world. So I panicked. This

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Speaker 1: has only happened once before. What it's happened before? Oh

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Speaker 1: my god? And I panicked then too. I attempted to

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Speaker 1: pull my harness hand back, all the while screaming get off,

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Speaker 1: let go help, and her screaming in my ear about

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Speaker 1: Actually I wasn't exactly listening, as I was too busy

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Speaker 1: screaming myself, but I assume had something to do with

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Speaker 1: her daughter wanted to pet the dog. The security guard

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Speaker 1: was fumbling around fairly uselessly. Eventually another security guard hurried over,

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Speaker 1: and I heard him bark out, what's going out? What's

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Speaker 1: going on? She's taking my guide dog? Help me? She

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Speaker 1: won't let me go. No, she's supposed to let my

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Speaker 1: daughter pet her dog. Guy he's sun so, oh my god.

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Speaker 1: I assume she pointed to the guard. I'm blind, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know. The guard didn't respond, but the way

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Speaker 1: the conversation went it seemed like he non verbally indicated

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Speaker 1: that he hadn't said that. Might let go of the

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Speaker 1: lady's dog right now, or I'll have to escort you.

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Speaker 1: Om No, she's not even blind. The dog isn't real.

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Speaker 1: Don't just jump in and you know what's going on?

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Speaker 1: How did we get to the dogs?

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Speaker 2: Not real?

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Speaker 1: How did we arrive there?

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Speaker 2: If the dog's not real, then your daughter doesn't have

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Speaker 2: to pet her, because it's not a dog, it's it's

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Speaker 2: a dragon.

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Speaker 1: Me I had calm slightly so I could speak in

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Speaker 1: a more coherent manner. Please just get her off me.

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Speaker 1: I want to leave. I don't feel safe. Let me leave.

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Speaker 1: Putting the foot down, Hey, you're all rat, miss, everything

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Speaker 1: is going to be fat. I then felt a woman's

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Speaker 1: hand being forcibly removed from the harness handle. As soon

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Speaker 1: as I was free, I immediately commanded Gumbo to I'll

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Speaker 1: lead me to the exit. Oh Gumbo, what a great

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Speaker 1: name for you, doc, I know. We walked quickly. I

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Speaker 1: heard the woman screeching loudly behind me, the man shouting

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Speaker 1: calmed down, stop screaming. I was still somewhat panic, but

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Speaker 1: I was able to calm myself as I hurried towards

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Speaker 1: the exit. It was so chaotic. I very nearly forgot

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Speaker 1: my shopping where I left it at customer services because

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to have it around me in the

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Speaker 1: food court where it could be snatched. I left, called

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Speaker 1: a taxi and came home. It really stuck with me

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Speaker 1: for a couple of days. But the worst part is

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Speaker 1: that these type of interactions are almost a daily occurrence. Wow,

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Speaker 1: blind people are the targets of constant harassment in public.

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Speaker 1: This woman just went farther physically by assaulting me. I

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Speaker 1: know I could have and should have gotten her arrested,

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Speaker 1: but honestly, I was just so panicked I wanted to

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Speaker 1: get out of that situation asap. Understandable. Why am I

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Speaker 1: telling the story? In short, I'm spreading awareness. It's important

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Speaker 1: for people to know more about blind experience and what

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Speaker 1: blind people have to deal with. It's super important to say,

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Speaker 1: if you've ever witnessed a situation like I just described, intervene.

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Speaker 1: Had that second guard not intervened for me, the situation

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Speaker 1: could have gotten a lot worse. So I appreciate any

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Speaker 1: up votes on this post to help spread awareness. And

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Speaker 1: I didn't even get to finish my Fries also, ope,

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Speaker 1: we agree. I feel like, like, I mean really just

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Speaker 1: with you know, any differently abled people, like there's just

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Speaker 1: such a different experience that it helps to have a

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Speaker 1: little empathy spread And so hopefully we can help too

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Speaker 1: by spreading this with all of all of you guys listening.

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Speaker 2: It shows, like you know, like you said, you have

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Speaker 2: to go through a daily like it it's mind blowing

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Speaker 2: to us. Yeah right, so it's like it's good to

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Speaker 2: show the like absurdity of these situations. And now it's

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Speaker 2: like all right, we now have that in our minds

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Speaker 2: and hopefully everyone listening.

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Speaker 1: To it's a crazy story, but like also you told

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Speaker 1: it so well, so thanks for giving this a laugh.

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Speaker 1: But damn, Karen's be crazy. Yes they do