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What are the hosts discussing about bullying?
Hello, welcome to Smosh Reads Reddit Stories. I'm Shane, and today we've got some classic Am I the Asshole stories. A lot of bullies this episode, so prepare yourselves. I'm joined by two people who are not bullies. You don't know that. I'm joined by one bully.
Yeah, I'm gonna just say, nice hair. and you don't know which way I mean that. So now you don't know whether I'm Schrodinger's bully.
The compliment bully. Yeah. Pretty good. I like how you just wear whatever. Cool slaps, dude.
Yeah. Oh, I had something like that last year.
And before we move on, a reminder that tomorrow is the last day to buy tickets for our live show. To get the VOD, go to live.smosh.com and you can watch Smosh Reads Reddit Stories Live. It was a great time. What was your favorite part of the show? It's probably that one part when everything and it all happened and it was really good. Oh, it's so good. Yeah, it's definitely happened. As of reading this, we've definitely done it. So it was definitely cool.
For sure.
Anyways. Tommy, Damien, thank you for being here. Thank you. What? I realize I never said your name, so people listening didn't know who you were. Oh. I feel like they could sense it, though.
Yeah, our aura. Yeah. Yeah. Just unstoppable. Cool guy. Riz, I guess. Yeah. Okay. Did we just bully ourselves? Yeah.
Why does someone refuse to stop using a Pokemon lunchbox at work?
So no one else could bully me. I'll talk about it in therapy. Our first story is an Am I the Asshole? Yes. Am I the asshole for refusing to stop using my embarrassing lunchbox at work? I, a 28-year-old man, bring my lunch to work every day in a bright blue Pokemon lunchbox. I've had it for years, and I don't think much about it. It's just the perfect size, keeps my food cold, and honestly, I think it's kind of fun. Recently, a new coworker, Matt, who's 35, started making comments about it. At first, it was just joking around. Stuff like, nice lunchbox, dude, my kid has the same one. Whatever, I laughed it off. But then he kept bringing it up, saying it was unprofessional, and that I should grow up and get a real lunch bag.
I told him I didn't see the issue and that it's literally just a lunchbox. But last week, he took it further, telling me in front of our coworkers that it was weird for a grown man to be carrying around kid stuff. I told him he should worry less about my lunchbox and more about his own life. Now he's been acting cold toward me, and a couple of coworkers said I was being too harsh, that he was just messing around. But I don't see why I should change something harmless just because one guy thinks it's weird. Am I the asshole?
No! Unless there's way more information. Yeah, I mean, unless it's the naked Pokemon lunchbox, I think it's... What? Where can I buy it? Yeah, I was about to say, where do you even get that?
It's so funny to hear about different types of workplaces, because we work here, right? Which is just such a different environment from any job.
If someone brought in that lunchbox, we'd be like, oh shit, that's a sick-ass box, dude.
I'm pretty sure people probably do have those types of lunchboxes here.
Someone could bring in a full-scale replica of a Pokemon for their desk, and we'd just be like, oh dude, sick Skarmory. Got to move it for meetings, but that's awesome. Yeah, it's made of metal, too. Wow, it hurts.
It actually hurts. I just can't imagine being bothered by this.
Right, this person is Matt, the coworker. Deeply insecure man, obviously. Yeah. Very fragile, fragile masculinity. Yeah, what a little asshole, that guy. Yeah, he needs to reconnect with his childhood. He needs a whole ghost of Christmas now and before and later to teach him, remember when you were a boy and you liked the NES? Look, they've still got it.
Yeah, yeah. Verdict, not the asshole. Great. Comments, super weird that he feels the need to control a coworker's lunchbox choices. Sounds like he needs a different hobby, not the asshole. 12,000 upvotes.
Incredible.
100%.
That's the way to live. Someone said, I have a sparkly unicorn water bottle. No one steals it. It always finds its way back to me. Matt is trying to put you down and be mean. Ignore him. I think a lot of people nowadays, I think millennials especially are like one of the first generations where we're just like, oh, I don't have to stop.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the hosts discussing about bullying?
0:00–1:32
2
Why does someone refuse to stop using a Pokemon lunchbox at work?
1:32–6:08
3
What happened with the wrong cookie incident?
6:08–19:35
4
Why did a boyfriend give an ultimatum over audiobooks?
19:35–25:36
5
What was the outcome of the audiobook ultimatum?
25:36–1:07:31
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