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Chapter 1: What land is this podcast recorded on?
It's A Lot is recorded on Gadigal land. We pay our respects to the traditional custodians of this land and to elders past and present. We also would love to extend our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening today and remind you all that sovereignty was never ceded and it always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
It's a lot, isn't it?
Alright everyone, time for a nightmare fuel. Amy, what the hell is this?
This one is a little bit of, let's say, someone with the self-awareness to know when they were the nightmare fuel.
Oh, I love it. All right. A self-dob. Let's do it. Hello, Nightmare Fuel team. Well, it's Amy. Hello, Abby, Amy and crew. Congrats on the new podcast queen or podcast area. I already love seeing all the videos. Anyway, I've sent in a Nightmare Fuel about a corporate story, but now I'm sending one that's a dating story. So Amy, you can cut this bit if you need.
This is a story of how I was essentially broken up with by my situationship. I know I hate that word, but we continue. My situationship of two years in front of moving cars on Johnston Street in Melbourne. Now, if you aren't familiar with Melbourne and Johnston Street, it's like, it's like It's like a pipeline through the inner north, stretches from sort of Fitzroy into Collingwood.
It's a Friday night. There's cars everywhere.
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Chapter 2: What is Nightmare Fuel and how is it introduced?
But how did we get here, you may ask? Well, it was the summer after 2021, so we'd been going through ā two years of lockdowns and we were finally allowed to, I don't know, hang out with people again and go to a bar. And I'd been seeing this girl on and off during lockdown. We were each other's intimate partners, if you will.
Actually, there's a whole other story because she kind of was like, oh, I've got another intimate partner now. And I was like, I don't think that's how the bubble works. Yeah. Whatever. Okay, people were doing that a lot. Okay, I actually had the same thing during lockdown.
Yeah, where this guy who was my friend, he was like, yeah, we can be bubble buddies because we were both from ā well, he'd lived in Sydney for a while but we were both from Brisbane and I didn't really have anyone. I'd just moved to Sydney that then ā I thought lockdown was over. I moved to Sydney.
It all came back again and I had fucking no friends because I couldn't even make any friends and any friends that I had in Sydney were past the five kilometre. They were all like Potts Point in the west. Yeah. So he was mine and then, yeah, and then it turns out that he also had another bubble buddy. I can never say it. Bubble buddy. He had another bubble buddy that he ended up dating.
And I was like, I don't care that you're dating her. I care that you've stolen my chance at a bubble buddy. It's really fucked. And that isn't how the system works. You're exposing me. Crazy. It's like going around fucking with a condom at the time. It's like, no. That's the first red flag. Anyway, so it's the summer of 2021 into 2022. We're feeling good.
I've just been at a picnic all day with a very good friend of mine, absolutely sinking piss. Now, am I proud of that? No. But, you know, it was traumatic, okay? So I dealt with it the only way I knew how, which was friendship and love. beers. Um, and it was a beautiful sunny day.
Um, but of course all day I was waiting for a text from this girl because I had spent that whole summer waiting for a text from this girl, because for some reason I would just literally wait weeks to get, I don't know, an ounce.
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Chapter 3: What is the story behind the situationship breakup?
Um, because to be honest, the sex was really good. Unfortunately, sorry, I just... Just threw up a little in my mouth. Unfortunately, it was really good. That's the thing, isn't it? That's when you start gagging for their messages. You start like, if the sex is good, you actually have a reason to stay. If it's a bad route and they're treating you badly, bye-bye.
When the sex is good, it's hard to find.
I'm trying to think of like what the lesbian term for digmatized would be.
Yeah. We'll think of something.
Whatever it is, she had that.
Yeah, guys, message us and let us know what the hell Dick Matias would be. So... I finally get a text from this girl. It's 4 p.m. and goes, we'd love to see you tonight. I've missed you over the summer. I go, okay, we are so on. I'm buzzed. I look hot. Like I'd done full glam to go to the park because it was lockdown. Say it with me. It was lockdown.
We had to, well, actually it was not lockdown, but we had to be looking our best. So I was so ready to get absolutely mortifyingly railed. Yeah. And she goes, why don't we meet at Bar Liberty? And I go, this is brilliant. I love Bar Liberty. For those of you who haven't been to Bar Liberty on Johnson Street, shout out, not spawn, just a really good place for a Negroni.
And we'd always bonded over the fact that we loved Negronis because we were 22 or was I 23 and we thought we were cool because we drank Negronis and now I'm just old and realise that they kind of taste like,
just dish water anyway we'll get there sorry i'm really i'm doing a lot of side stories but it's important context setting i fear anyways so i get to buy liberty looking glam you know six beers deep um and she looks great i'm like whoa this is amazing We sit there and we talk about our summer. I'd gone back to Brisbane because, yes, I am also a Brisbane chalky abby.
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Chapter 4: How does the narrator describe their feelings during the breakup?
I'm not saying the name. Name. Name. And she's like, what the fuck are you doing here? And I was like, you owe me an explanation. You can't just lead me on for two years and break up with me and then let me get hit by a car. She does not come down from her balcony. She instead goes inside and sends me the most diabolical voice memo that included lines like,
you're too good for me and I'm sorry you nearly got hit by a car but you need to go home. So I walk home from there, obviously. And the whole way home I'm thinking of what could be the voice memo I send back to really like put the nail in the coffin.
But I was so mad and kind of drunk and also very sad because, to be honest, I had a crush on her, like a really big crush on her, and I was really sad that she had just dumped me. And then, you know, my life could have possibly been gone because I was getting hit by a car. Anyway, what I end up sending is just, well... You could have had it all, but instead you just get this.
Now in my mind I thought I ate, but I clearly did not eat, and then she blocked me on everything and I never heard from her again. Literally never, like two, two and a half years of talking, never heard from her again. Anyway, I thought it was quite funny now. Maybe it's not funny though. Now I'm saying it out loud, I'm like maybe it's not funny, but I honestly think like, wow.
Of places to break up, not only did you take me on a full date before you did so, you then did it in front of moving traffic at high speed and then were shocked that I was like, hey, perhaps I owed an explanation. Anyway, just saying the lesbians can be wild too. Let's go, lesbians. Oh, boy, have a great time. Okay, thoughts on following her to her apartment? It's...
Yeah, it's a little bit intense. To be honest. You know, maybe a phone call wouldn't have gone astray.
Yes, yes. And I think at that point, you know, if you're following them to their place, you're not going to get them back.
Yeah.
We're just embarrassing ourselves at that point. I also understand when you're in these, like, toxic situationships and you think, like, if I could just, like, get in front of them, like, then we could, like, figure it out. It's like she's left you in the road on Johnston Street or whatever the hell this place is. She's left you on the road even though ā
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