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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. No. I go to bed

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Speaker 1: about eight thirty because I have to get up early

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Speaker 1: in the morning. And I say to Harley, good night.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to bed, and I'm going to read

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Speaker 1: a book and I'm going to drift off into a

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Speaker 1: big sleep. Ten o'clock, I'm still scrolling through my phone,

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Speaker 1: and often it's because of Reddit threads. I love a

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Speaker 1: Reddit thread. Can I read this one to you? It's

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Speaker 1: not about eating sesame seeds for a year and this

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Speaker 1: is what it did to me. No, that was yesterday's.

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Speaker 1: This one says my dad died classics start to a

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Speaker 1: funny story. He was buried in a small village in Sussex.

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Speaker 1: I was really close to my dad, so I visited

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Speaker 1: his grave a lot. I still do. He says, don't worry,

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Speaker 1: it's funnier. He said. I always took flowers, and my

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Speaker 1: mom visited a lot, and she always took flowers. And

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Speaker 1: my grandparents were still alive and they always took flowers.

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Speaker 1: My dad's grave frequently resembled a third place at the

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Speaker 1: Chelsea Flower Show. Nice, but I felt bad for the

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Speaker 1: guy buried next to my dad. He never had flowers.

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Speaker 1: He died on Christmas Day, age thirty seven. No one

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Speaker 1: left him flowers, and now there's a pop up florist

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Speaker 1: in the gravenixt door. So I started to buy him flowers.

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Speaker 1: I started buying flowers for a deceaseman i'd never met.

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Speaker 1: I did this for quite some time, but I never

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Speaker 1: mentioned it to anyone. It was a private joke with myself.

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Speaker 1: I was making the world a better place, one bunch

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Speaker 1: of flowers at a time. I know it sounds weird,

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Speaker 1: but I kind of think of him as a friend.

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Speaker 1: I wondered if there was a hidden connection between us,

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Speaker 1: something secretly drawing me to him. Maybe we went to

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Speaker 1: the same school, played for the same football club, or whatever.

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Speaker 1: So I googled his name. Ten seconds later I found him.

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Speaker 1: His wife didn't leave him because his wife didn't leave

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Speaker 1: him flowers because he'd murdered her on Christmas Day. After

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Speaker 1: he'd murdered his wife, he'd murdered her parents too. Then

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Speaker 1: after that, he jumped in front of the only train

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Speaker 1: going through Balcom Tunnel that Christmas night. That was why

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Speaker 1: no one ever left him flowers, No one except me.

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Speaker 1: I left him flowers every couple of weeks for two

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Speaker 1: and a half years. Goodness, I felt terrible for his

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Speaker 1: wife and her parents. Now, I wasn't going to go

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Speaker 1: and leave them flowers every couple of weeks for two

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Speaker 1: and a half year, but I did feel like I

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Speaker 1: owed them some sort of apology. I found out where

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Speaker 1: they were buried, I bought flowers, and I drove to

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Speaker 1: the cemetery. As I was standing at their graves mumbling apologies,

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Speaker 1: a woman appeared behind me. She wanted to know who

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Speaker 1: I was, and while I was leaving flowers for her

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Speaker 1: aunt and grandparents, Oh what, I explained, and she said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's weird but quite sweet. I said, thanks, it is

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Speaker 1: a bit weird, and oh god, I asked her out

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Speaker 1: for a drink. Incredibly she said yes. Two years later

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Speaker 1: she said yes again when I asked her to marry me,

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Speaker 1: because that's how I met my wife. Whoa, whoa, what

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Speaker 1: a story. So when the kids say where'd you meet

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Speaker 1: you going? You know what, it's just too h just

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Speaker 1: down the pup. I just met them down the pup,

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Speaker 1: you know, I says, me seeds for a year and

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Speaker 1: this is what it did to me. Ha. That's why

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Speaker 1: I love Reddit.