Mums Gone Wild
Mums Gone Wild: Two Generations, Zero Filters
Join a mother-daughter duo as they dive into Reddit’s wildest posts, tackle your juiciest write-ins, and dish out advice with zero filters. Expect laughs, chaos, and real talk because we are not therapists but we are never shy about giving our two cents. From hilarious stories to heartfelt moments, Mums Gone Wild is where generations collide, comedy thrives, and the conversation is always unfiltered.
Mums Gone Wild
Ridiculous Roommates
We trade housemate horror stories for clear lessons on boundaries, money, and safety, from a boyfriend moved into a shared bedroom to a stealth food thief and a friendship that curdled into threats. Expect laughs, practical fixes, and a firm stance on protecting your peace.
• house rules, consent, and privacy in shared rooms
• rent fairness and dividing costs when partners move in
• food theft as a trust breach and kitchen systems
• when the offender is family and rules don’t apply
• safety planning for harassment and threats
• documenting issues and knowing when to move out
• dark humour moments that keep it human
• rapid-fire hot seat questions for levity
If you're a Redditor and you come across any juicy stories that you would like us to read on the pod, please send the link to us via socials or email us on mum's gone wild pod. That's mum's gone wildpod at gmail.com
Welcome to Mum's Gone Wild, the show where Reddit meets real talk and chaos meets comedy. I'm Chloe and I'm Paula. Every week we'll dive into Reddit's wildest posts and juiciest writing. Warning, the advice you're about to hear is completely unsolicited, mildly unhinged, and definitely not professional.
SPEAKER_00:But hey, we're not therapists, but that's never stopped us from giving our opinions anyway. So let's get unhinged. Before we dive in, just a quick heads up. The stories we chat about on Mum's Gone Wild are from public posts on Reddit and they belong to their original authors. We're just here to share, laugh, and give our take for entertainment and discussion, all under fair use. We also do our best to remove names or details to keep things private. If you're the original poster and you would like your story removed or credited differently, just get in touch with us. We'll happily sort it. Yeah. Let's get started. How has your week been, mother? My week has been slightly up and down, Chloe. Up and down. Up and down. Hurt my back. Tell me you're getting old without old. I know I am I am making old lady sounds every time I bend over, but it is getting better. It's not a big thing. It's just a little setback. But I'm much better now, so that's good. I did have a night away the other night with some friends. Tell me year old without telling me you're old. Yeah. So we went out to lunch. We came back and sat out on our little deck and we were in bed by 8:30. I have managed to have my friends realize that going to bed early is a good thing. We were all done by 8.30. Went to bed, woke up early. This is what I've been trying to do for years. It's great. We had a breakfast and come home. It was fantastic. We had a great time. I love that for you. And in return for them going to bed early, when I wanted to go, I had to watch a dog show for Jody. She does love a good dog show. So we watched the dog show and then we all went to bed. It was great. The dog show. Dog show. It's rehoming dogs. Oh, I'm thinking it's like I think it's called Dog House. Yeah, okay. Well, that's alright. I can Yeah. And that was a bit cute. So we had a great time. I feel good today. And I am currently working my way through my third bourbon. Nice. Sun come over today, had a couple of day drinks with him, and now having a drink with you. Yes. Look at me go. Look at you go. Yeah. Have I had a great week? I can't remember my week. Your week's been pretty awesome. Has it? Yeah, it has. I can barely remember what I did this morning. Oh, do you know what we can talk about? Well, I know everyone's past spooky season, but we did have a fantastic Halloween evening. Oh yeah, that was a lot of fun. And I've remembered the name of Miss 4. It was Alpha. Yeah, AlphaBa. Alpha. Yes. So Miss 4 wanted me to be Gelinda. So me at my beautiful 53 years of age in a big pink dress tiara, dressed up because she wanted to be Alphabet. But see, we were recognized though. Some people recognize it's Alpha and Galinda. I don't want my head to be too big, but it was quite big at Halloween. We did have a big head. I was wearing an Ollof mascot costume. It was huge. You were the actual neighborhood center of a track. I had people chasing me down the street and people were gonna get photos of me. I was having the time of my life. You did love yourself sick that part.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I did. But anyway, my week, really good thinking of you know, doing some more camping and things like that. We've been looking at camp events. So that's a bit exciting.
SPEAKER_00:That is so exciting. I Miss Fall had a sleepover at her nana's house. And I went for a nice 10k walk with That's huge. Well done. It was huge.
SPEAKER_01:Like 10K walk with Michaela. Yeah. But we stopped halfway and had a pub lunch. Okay, that's an advanced.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, so you did five lunch, five bags. Yeah. Excellent. Yeah, no, I would not 10Ks in one go. Yeah, okay. Stupid. Pub lunch pub luncheons do help. You had brisket loaded fries. It was I've always wanted to do that. Oh, so good. You need to do it. Yeah, though. So what is it? Loaded fries. What do they put on loaded fries? Well, it was chips, brisket, barbecue, like in a barbecue. Oh, sorry, I didn't even hear you say brisket. So brisket loaded fries. Yeah. Okay. See, brisket loaded fries on the floor. It's a bourbon sauce.
SPEAKER_01:Then it had like cheese on top as well, but you know, I'm a little bit can't have cheese at the moment. Yeah. And then it had like this sauce, like an aioli kind of on top.
SPEAKER_00:It was delicious. I ate the whole thing. Do you know what? Didn't even touch the slides. My friend Jody had the big thing at the Dongra Pub, the warm beef salad. Yep. Everybody gets warm salad down at the Dongra Pub. Yeah, so it's not like 100%. It really I know. It's not so it's like a bag of the spinach stuff. You just chuck that in. And then a bit of capskin tomato, blah blah blah. But it's the honey mustard dressing that they drizzle over the warm beef buddy bum diggity. Do you get that? Nut. I've got calamari. You always stick with the same. I know I and sometimes I'm really happy. This time not. It was a little lackey bandish. But still, yeah, I'm like the service is great. There, everything's great. Calamari is a little hit and miss. You win some, you lose some. It wasn't horrible. Wasn't great. Little in between. I'm happy with that though. But we did have a fantastic little overnighter. Well, that's there were three of us, great mates, just chilling. I love no expectations of either one of us, and we had a lovely time. Oh, don't worry, there was Passion Pop and strawberries involved.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I was gonna tell you.
SPEAKER_00:For those of you that don't know what Passion Pop is, it is 100% the cheapest, sweetest, fizziest bottle of champagne that you can probably get. I probably shouldn't even call it champagne. It's like fizzy cordial, but hits the spot, chuck some ice strawberries. You are now classy ladies.
SPEAKER_01:Very colossal.
SPEAKER_00:Back in the day, Chloe, it used to cost$2.99 for a bottle of Passion Pop. So drink that one before going out.$2.99,$2.$2.99.$3 for a bottle of champagne. You neck it before you go out. Well, you know, that was still a thing when I was No, it's$10 a bottle now. Yeah, that's a bit wild. I think it got up to like five, six dollars a bottle when I was eighteen. It's right up with the expensive stuff now. Ten bucks. Coming up in the world. Anywho, top nine. Alrighty. I think are we ready to dive in? Yeah, I think we are. Enough catching up. We today are talking about housemate fails. Just some crazy shit that goes down when you're in a share house, basically. Yeah. And we've got some doozies for you. I've never been in a shared house myself. I was like we've found out before, I was 16 when I met your dad. We got married at 19, went on our honeymoon and came back. We moved in together.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. So I also have not had a housemate before. However, I have heard of housemate stories, and I'm very grateful that I've not had to share. I crushed Amy's housewarming party and I never left.
SPEAKER_00:That's exactly what you did. So yeah. Okay. All right. Then shall we flip a coin? I've given the coin tossing challenge to you. I will go. Tails. Tails, it is. Wasn't ready. Wasn't ready. Okay, I'm gonna start off with no not that one. Sorry. Changed my mind. I am going to start off with I think this one. Okay. So this one is a shorty, but it's a goodie, I think. A little bit of swearing, so I apologize for that. But please remember, I'm not writing it, I'm just reading. Okay. Roommate moved boyfriend into our shared bedroom. What? I don't know. Can you roommate moved boyfriend into our shared bedroom?
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so the housemates are sharing a bedroom and the boyfriend's been moved into there. There's three people in one bedroom. Is that what is that heartbreaks?
SPEAKER_00:Just gonna have to buckle up, strap in and go. Coming for the ride, Chloe? I'm coming for the ride. Let's go. Okay. The title sums it up, but essentially I live in a three-bed, two bath, which was supposed to be for four people. I'm in a shared room since it costs less. One of my roommates, he has his own room and he moved his girlfriend in. She helps pay rent and she's a pleasure to be around. My other roommate told me his boyfriend was moving in from across country. And since his home situation is shitty, he's moving in. He claims I gave consent, but I do not remember giving consent. And I'm low-key concerned that he may have asked while I was drunk and I gave consent then. That's not giving consent. I know. We used to remember we used to do that with your dad. That's how you got your first iPhone. Yeah. Remember, I told you to wait till a certain time, not that he was drunk, but like he'd had a few to be tipsy and stuff. Oh, I remember.
SPEAKER_01:We were at islands and he'd had asked him when he's had a few, and he was saying, yeah. Yeah, you had to go outside to the back fridge and pass the seals, dodge them, and climb into the fridge to get another veat.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And so that's how I got my first phone. Yeah. I said, Arsh your dad, once he's had a few, he'll say, okay, side story. That just popped into my head. So okay. This uh OP's low-key concerned that they were asked this for the boyfriend to move in while they were under the influence of alcohol and they gave consent. Anyway, so let's pick up where we left off. So I share a room with a couple who like to mm-mm all the time. I'm sorry. She shares a ro a room with a couple that like to they've said the rude word, but you know, I just feel like we're just gonna Sunday.
SPEAKER_02:Mm-mm-mm all the time.
SPEAKER_00:They like to fuck. Okay. Yeah, it's out there, we've said it. All the time. That's just dick. They keep our shared bathroom a mess, and his boyfriend snores like a train. To top it all off, he doesn't pay rent and he doesn't plan to start. I currently don't feel comfortable sleeping in my bedroom. I'm paying eleven hundred dollars to either sleep in my room and listen to his boyfriend snore or not, or to just stay there and then to not stay there and go and live with my girlfriend. I feel like he just answered his own question there. Wait, so it's a guy, his house, his rooming. He's losing another guy who's moved his boyfriend in. And the boyfriend and the other guy are banging all the time. And he's over here listening to them banging, and they keep the bathroom a big mess.
SPEAKER_01:But your girlfriend and another mate needs to get out of there, move in with your girlfriend.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but he's playing there, so it's his house. So I feel like there needs to be some sort of boundaries. Like you can't like you shouldn't be doing a bush. I don't know. Find a bush. Like, I don't you like like when that class when you want to be intimate together, just hang a tie on the door handle, just come back later.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like there needs to be a bit of a conversation.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, if you're sharing uh intimate space like a bedroom, then you should have some clear boundaries about what can occur in the same vicinity. It's just it's I'm sorry, but I personally could not get freaky in front of somebody else while they're it While they're sleeping. Excuse me, can you stop snoring because it's ruining my vibe? We're trying to get down and dirty here, and all I can hear is your snoring. Like, what do you do? Do you just put a pillow over your face and shut up, stop moaning? Like finish already. Tap out. No, I couldn't nail I couldn't enjoy my time. I couldn't pay eleven. It wasn't$1100 a month.$1,100 doesn't know, it doesn't actually say it just says eleven hundred dollars. I'm gonna go and say a month. Surely or let's go maybe go fortnight. Do you reckon fortnight? I would rent's usually months, is it? And it's supposed to be four people. So if they're splitting it four ways, it would probably be about stressed. Anyway, shall we keep going? Oh god. That's not the end. Oh god. Okay. It might feel like I'm not going to be able to do that. I'm not at the point where I want to move in with my girlfriend. And I don't feel comfortable sleeping in my own apartment. I feel awkward as shit in my apartment since literally none of my other roommates have an issue with this guy living rent-free since it isn't in their room. I cannot take this anymore and I don't know what to do. The worst part is the roommate who did this to me is somebody I considered a close personal friend. And over the last couple of years, he spent all of last year bitching about how much he hated living with his roommate who moved in with his girlfriend to get off the lease. So I guess this is the point where I'm asking what your thoughts are and some advice. What do you all have for me? He is not a good friend. Or if he is such a good friend, open that line of communication. So I think they must have been really good mates and decided that they could live together. Anyway, there's a few comments here. Yeah. This is awful. You need to save something. At the very least, the cost of the room needs to be divided by three. So you should all be paying$733. They should be paying their share. The person that moved their boyfriend in that is doing the banging, which is upset the Apple cart, is not paying anything. But none of the other housemates really care too much because not in their room.
SPEAKER_01:At the top of the comment, so his mate's paying for it, and then he's having to listen to people banging it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. That's not okay. The other roommate has got his girlfriend living in there, but she's paying. Fine. That's fine. If people are paying, it's fine. Still not fine. But how big is this room? How big is this room where there's well I'm thinking I'm thinking it's a three-bedroom by two-bathroom. So the way that they said I was stressed. I share with a couple who like to fuck all the time. To me, that's the same room. This doesn't even sound like there's a dividing rule. You know, in America and the movies, and they've got a dorm room kind of situation. And there's like that's what I'm visualizing in my head staying in a cabin where one of our friends who organized the trip had the double bed by herself. Me and my friend slept in the same room, two single beds. It's the same room with two beds in it. And these ones. Yeah, well that's what I'm thinking. Like a dorm room.
SPEAKER_01:Like, you know what a dorm room looks like?
SPEAKER_00:They normally have one side of the room. There's no wall into Oh, okay. Yeah. No, I'm with you now. Yeah, like a dorm room. Yeah. I don't know. It all is so not okay. Not cool. It's not okay. A, not okay to be doing the dither in the same room as somebody else. And B, if they're not sitting party. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Fair cool. But still, would you want to sleep and say, Yeah, it's okay, you guys go for it. I'll be fine over here. I just put my earplugs in. Okay, so there is a couple of other more comments. Do we have time for some more comments? Of course, yeah. Okay, so one other person has said, I don't understand why people think the problem isn't solved by just splitting the wrench. The problem is the violation of privacy that's been committed. So, like, you shouldn't be, like you said, consenting parties. You shouldn't be banging with other people in the room if they've not agreed to it. It is a massive violation of their privacy. I think privacy and peace of mind is value. These people are robbing OP of that in his own home. Their behavior is simply unacceptable, and it's a deal breaker which needs to be addressed as such. Yeah. I think so. Next one is I agree with you. They mean the the very least that OP shouldn't be paying for the privilege of this guy living in his room. Exactly. Let me just go through a few. Has OP said anything? I'm trying to have a look to see whether I don't think OP has. Let me just have a little sneak e-peek. Refuse them staying together or they need to pay full price. Yeah. Call the landlord. Yeah, that's about it. Yeah. Alright. Yeah, that's just not a nice situation to be in at all. But this is what happens when you're moving in with people. They really should nip that one in the butt. Yeah, 100%. Alright. Moving along. Moving along. Alright, so my turn. And this one comes from the subreddit Bad Roommates. Was posted one day ago. Super fresh. And it is got 612 upvotes and 94 comments already. Okay, that must be a doozy. Yeah, looking forward to it. Seriously considering buying a lockbox for the fridge to prevent Scavenger roommate from picking away at my food.
SPEAKER_01:I'm getting sick and tired of coming home to find my food items have been tampered with. Things like dip, my ice cream. Oh fuck off.
SPEAKER_00:There's no way. Don't touch my ice cream. Fucking touch my ice cream, I'll cut you. Brutal. Chips, nah, sorry, butter, restaurant leftovers. You name it.
SPEAKER_01:All have the telltale signs of someone having eaten around the edges, an attempt to conceal the fact that it's happening.
SPEAKER_00:And it's really starting to piss me off. Brother, restaurant leftovers are the best. And you usually want them for lunch the next day. Oh, I'm so excited. If I've got leftovers or something, like restaurant leftovers, Italiano restaurant. Oh, so yum. Green street, green street leftovers. Oh my gosh. If I have something of that in the fridge, if someone touches that and it's lying. No. Game not happening. Examples include watered down orange juice. So they're drinking the orange juice and then topping it back up with water. Pizza slices that are weirdly skinnier than I remembered.
SPEAKER_01:Sliced cheese being slowly whittled away out, sticks of butter shrinking, pie sitting way too neatly on the tray with no residue filling. Oh filling out. What the K, no pundit intended, was discovering after making myself a sandwich one day, my best foods mayo for some reason tasted like Miracle Whip. I fucking hate Miracle Whip. Apparently, the sneaky bastard didn't have any mayo of his own, so he decided to swap it out some of the content with my other roommate's Miracle Whip, a large container, for my best foods, the tiny one. Because the best foods must be the brand. Because that's the one he likes. What pisses me off is the bastard goes about it in a sneaky ass way, reminiscent of a child or teenager who thinks his parents won't notice things have been tampered with if they can rearrange things to make them visually appear the way they were before he puts his grubby paws on them. Any suggestions on a fridge lock boxes would be appreciated because everything I look up on my brief Amazon search looks too easy to pick open.
SPEAKER_00:Install cameras. Or put a fridge.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, you really shouldn't have to go to this length, but get a fridge for your room.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. Oh yep, yep, yep. Fridge for your own. Because I mean, this is what you did with your parents when you're still there Scotch. You fill it up with iced tea. Because it's the same colour. I never did that one. Because you you had really good parents that didn't drink. But no, I actually didn't. But like it has been done. Like you can do that. You shouldn't wait to make a difference. But this is what this person's doing. Like just he might talk about slicing of somebody's like pizza to make it get skinnier. Just to have a little taste. Just a little taste. No, I just couldn't cope with someone taking my food, to be fair. No. Not even for a sneaky ask. Just ask. Just say, hey, that looks really cool. Can I have a little taste? Yeah, don't stink. Being so conniving. And like just scooping around the edge of somebody's ice. A little sneaky taste. Like I mean, I do that with Miss. I was kind of awesome. Well we know to have a little sneaky peek, a little sneaky taste. But not housemate. And no, it's only Brett. Yeah. And generally, like ask. Sometimes. And I'm like really diet conscious. So I really only just take a slither of I still couldn't do it without that person knowing. What was the worst thing they did? They filled up those orange juice with the order. Yeah, no, that's someone orange juice. Sin. That's immortal. Someone said, like what we said at the top comment is get a mini fridge for your bedroom. And a bedroom locked.
SPEAKER_01:Lock your door. They have those fridges that aren't tiny but not full of size.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Those things are energy suckers, so like they do use up a lot of energy, just like a big fridge. What I was thinking was install some sort of camera just so you can link it to your phone. Do you know how it just comes to your phone? Yeah. No, you don't want to be spying because you can get into trouble for doing that. But just say, mate, I look on my phone. You have been eating my stump. Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_01:Someone said sounds like a cat food sandwich is in order on top of every other suggestion. So someone's like, plant sneaky food. I mean, that would be cat. Someone's like quesadillers and someone's like cat of dealers.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Oh, that actually is not a bad idea.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Plant some.
SPEAKER_01:Someone said sprinkle a whole box of laxative chocolates onto a tasty slice of chocolate mousse cake or something equally tempting. Make the fucker prey to God on the porcelain throne. In all seriousness, I saw a post regarding a similar issue, and some folks commented on suggesting looking into a husp lock for a mini fridge at Home Depot. But yeah, can you imagine?
SPEAKER_00:Were you regretting your choices? Should. Yeah. Buy your own food. Food's expensive. Get your own mini bar. And not mini bar. Oh, look where my head is on a Sunday mini bar. Oh, that's funny. There is an update. Excellent. I know we do love a good update around here.
SPEAKER_01:Most of the responses I've been getting from people are advising me either to A, just talk to the guy, or B, get a mini fridge.
SPEAKER_00:These are both obvious solutions if they were applicable to my situation, but they just aren't.
SPEAKER_01:I initially omitted information intentionally from this post to keep it brief and to spare a lengthy backstory in order to just cut to the chase. My situation, however, is a lot more complicated than what many of you are interpreting as the typical bad roommate's post. Where the OP is overly concerned with avoiding conflict and afraid to say anything to the offender. I assure you that this is not the case with me. Without getting too specific, I will disclose some facts to help shed light on why getting a mini fridge isn't an option and explain why communicating with the offender would be absolutely pointless. For starters, the room I'm renting only has one functioning power outlet due to the previous 10 wall overloading the circuit and blowing out the other one. Ironically, it was his mini fridge that did.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yes, the back has a head. They do run a lot of energy, those fridges.
SPEAKER_01:For this reason, the owner is now diametrically opposed to anyone in that room having a mini fridge.
SPEAKER_00:The owner is also either too cheap or can't afford to fix the wiring in our house.
SPEAKER_01:But whatever, that's why a mini fridge is out of the question. Other roommates have their own mini fridges, but they also pay a lot more than being rent, which is fair.
SPEAKER_00:Now, onto the responses pertaining to why talking to the offender would be a futile endeavor. There's a relationship dynamic at play between the homeowner and the individual in question. They are related, i.e., family. Oh fuck.
SPEAKER_01:As mentioned earlier, the previous tenant had a mini fridge too. He is a recovering drug addict who's been living on the streets for God knows how long. And the owner finally decided to get him off the street after he almost died from an overdose. She lets him stay here rent-free and also brings him food every two weeks or so. In his mid to late 60s and a real loser.
SPEAKER_00:I feel like this person doesn't live at that house anymore after writing this. In his mid to late 60s. Yeah. Do you reckon it's the daughter or something like that? I don't know. Or a niece or someone. As mentioned earlier, the previous tenant had a mini fridge too.
SPEAKER_01:In fact, BRM is the only reason everyone in the house has one. But when the previous tenant blew the power outlet in his room, now my room, he had no choice but to start using the main fridge. And that's when things got confrontational. He got kicked out for making threats of violence, which is understandable. But it also makes sense why he threatened the guy in the first place. Because no matter how many times the owner has talked to BIM about his rampant, disgusting behavior, his pattern is to stop doing it for a little while, start back up again after the heat dies down, then lie his ass off when he gets caught out again for it. But I think I have a solution. I have mock boxes for the fridge and freezer on the way. I hope this clears things up for you.
SPEAKER_00:There was a lot that they left out of that original post. Yeah. There was a lot. Like yeah, there was a lot. I can understand why they left out a lot of all of that stuff out just to kind of get a non-judgmental opinion. Yeah. Either move out. Yeah, I'd be moving out. I don't want to be sharing house with a mid to late 60s former drug that's stealing my food. Hell no. Some people don't have a lot of options, but surely there's got to be a better option. How long is this? Only a day. One day a week. Okay, so yeah, it's not even COVID times where you're like just but the price of rent these days is just ex you know, like this poor person could have afforded almost an apartment on their own now and they're having to afford a shared room. Yeah. That's a lot. It is a lot, that's why. Anyway, okay. Moving on. All right. Here we go. Oh, this one's a longie. People join us for this journey. Are you ready? So this one is tried to include our anxious housemate. Dot dot dot. She ended up sending death threats. Why? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Are you okay with that?
SPEAKER_00:That's the last time they want to go. Okay. I apologize. This is a long read. So please, if you're on that long drive, I know some of you are. Stay with me. I think it's a goodie. We're all good to go. I've got my listening ears on. Excellent. My partner and I were living in a large shared house in London. At some point, a new girl moved in from another country. It was her first time living here and she didn't know anyone. We tried to be friendly and include her in things. If friends came over, wouldn't you know some girl moved in? Yeah, like you would know probably exactly when they would move in, right? Maybe they're just glossing over that little fact. Okay. It was her first time living here and she didn't know anyone. We tried to be friendly and include her in things. If friends came over, she joined in sometimes. If we went out for a movie or something, we would invite her along. She often said how grateful she was that we were the nicest people she had ever met here. And for the first couple of months she lived in that house, it was pleasant. Looking back, there were red flags from the start. She had extreme social anxiety and almost never left the house, not even to buy groceries. She took Ubers everywhere if she did go out, which maybe would have only been once or twice a month. She smoked a lot of weed, was constantly high, and she barely ate. She also constantly made comments about my body saying things like, How are you so skinny? This was all fixated. In a way, they've got like in brackets ED, maybe, so I'm assuming like eating disorder. Yeah. After she moved out to another place, we stayed on good terms. I only met her once again months later when we went out for drinks with a few girlfriends. Wait, hang on. Okay. Do you feel like you know what I'm going to say?
SPEAKER_01:She only met her a couple of times after that, but isn't she not living in the house?
SPEAKER_00:No, no. So she after the top of that paragraph was after she moved out to another place. After she moved out to another place, we stayed on good terms. I only met her once again months later when I went out for drinks with a few girlfriends. She was ranting about her new flatmates. They were awful to her in her eyes. And only one of them was cool and is now her best friend. A few months after that, she messaged me out of the blue saying that she quit her job. She was burnt out and ill and planned to move back home. I was shocked, but I kept checking in to see how she was doing. I invited her to a wellness event through work and I saved her a free spot. She didn't come. I hosted a housewarming and invited her again. She didn't come either. Before she left, I invited her to dinner at our place. She showed up looking frighteningly thin. The whole evening felt really heavy. She talked about how everyone in her life was terrible. Her family, her colleagues, and basically everyone in the country was horrible. She then cursed people who wronged her. She claimed that all men at work were obsessed with her and started calling her former bestie a whore because of how she dressed. The conversation got darker and I remember feeling completely drained when she left. Have you ever come across anyone that's like sucked the energy out of a room?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah, like real Debbie Downers. And I feel like sometimes when you hang out with someone like that, it really brings your own mood down. I can't think I've ever come across anyone this not this dark, but I have come across like, or just in general, like if someone you're hanging out with is in a bad mood, I feel like it kind of puts you in a bad mood.
SPEAKER_00:I wonder what for the energy shift. There's still a fair bit to read, but I wonder what did change because at the top of it she sounded like she was really fitting in quite well with these guys with OP and the shared house, saying they're nicest people. I don't understand. It doesn't actually say why she moved out of the house and moved into another one. Maybe it might have been a work thing or something. Anyway, let's keep going, see where this takes us. A week later, she messaged both me and my partner out of nowhere. She said that she'd regretted coming over and that she felt insulted. She accused us of being rude, of using people, and that I cursed her for not coming to my events. The text is kept coming, angry and erratic and delusional, so I blocked her. Then she started messaging my friends, people she'd met through me, but maybe only a couple of times, and accusing them of talking about her behind her back. What the months? This sounds like it's going on for a while. Yeah. Like when you read it, you look at it in a short-term block, but it's actually probably over a period of four or five months. Yeah. That's how it's kind of reading. Months later, she found another way to message my partner again, accusing us of bullying her. He told her she needed help and he blocked her too. About a year and a half had passed, or a lot longer than I thought then. Cool. I recently got married and an email from her appeared in my inbox. I have no idea how she found my address or even knew that I was married. The email was full of rage, insults, and actual death threats. It was vicious and obsessive. I didn't respond and I blocked her. My therapist said it clearly sounded like a severe mental illness. A colleague of mine thinks it was possibly a psychotic episode or something triggered by heavy weed use. I feel uneasy and sometimes I can't fully wrap my head around it. Oh, heavy, hey, sorry about that. Oh my god. It's 17 days old.
SPEAKER_01:I could not live with people other than family.
SPEAKER_00:So I've never been to London, and I know you've never been to London. So I know that there's probably shared housing. I do know that they have a real housing crisis over there. Yeah. From what I've seen and heard. And it said London. So that's like where the hub of everything. Like it's a probably quite densely populated. So it'd be you, I feel like you could probably rent a room and then other people in the next room, you don't really even know them. Like you kind of meet and you just share the house. God, that would suck. Yeah. Especially if you had different values. Life choices. Maybe this chicks a bit of a chameleon. Like she just tries to fit in with the people that she's around. And then finds her happy spot, but then has to move and doesn't connect well with those other people. Yeah. She can't morph. And they'd say she smokes a lot of weed. Like you can't, you just can't do that and think that it's not going to mess with your head. Yeah. Like the chemicals in your brain. Well, it's a top comment. Alright. Sounds like onset schizophrenia. Then it says, or one of its brethren. So I'm assuming brethren means like a of schizophrenia. Yeah. Call the cops to make a report and request a wellness check. That's good advice.
SPEAKER_01:Especially if she's like kind of edging on that stalkerish behaviour, like contacting like a year and a half later or months later.
SPEAKER_00:And then now that she's married, she's got a different last name. So she's like what she's sidelines. What they see may be enough for them to detain her and take her to the hospital to be assessed was psychiatric. He has just said I would, but she's moved back to her home country. So at least she's a country away, so they're safe. But with the way that you can get in touch with people all the time through different social platforms. You can file a report with police and get a restraining order against her in your country and then call her area's police department for a wellness check. Yeah. Definitely giving a psychotic break energy, not just bad room out vibes. I hope someone actually did do that wellness check before she started emailing other people like that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:OP doesn't really chime in with anything anymore about what happened. I suppose there's nothing to tie this story up because she's moved country. So the only thing they can do is, which would be a huge job, change your emails and change those types of things. Yeah. And I would hope that she would just stop with these people. It's been a year and a half. Let it go. Yeah. Look after yourself.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Everyone's just saying, definitely file a police report. She sounds dangerously fixated on you. Some people think they can change where they live and it will change their life. But wherever you go, they'll be there. Hey, mum. Yes, love. I've got a bonus story for you. Oh stop. Yeah. You didn't tell me this. I know you shut my computer down. Get comfort in my chair. Okay. I just found it and I thought I have to read it. Okay, cool. Okay. Is it gonna light in the moon? It's kind of like a guessing game. You get to choose options. So it's a bit of a do you A, B, C, or D. Okay, cool. I'll let you choose. I'm excited.
SPEAKER_01:All right, so this one is again from the subreddit Bad Roommates posted six days ago. Titled, I had a heart attack. My housemate had noodles. Yeah. Okay, so you've just come home. This is a scenario. You've just come home from a quick grocery run to see your housemate slumped over the kitchen table, slurring words and clutching their chest with three paramedics surrounding them. Paramedic A is clearing the space for a stretcher. Paramedic B is asking housemates, housemates frantic, panicking partner where the glasses are so they can get housemates and water to help swallow medicine. Right. Does that make sense? So like the paramedics running around asking the partner where are the glasses?
SPEAKER_00:Okay, I feel like in a kitchen, paramedic can just be opening up cupboards. Maybe trying to give worried housemate a job to do to stop them from freaking out. Okay. Okay, first paramedics. But then remember there's three paramedics. So then the clearing way for trying to get a glass.
SPEAKER_01:And the other one, paramedic C, is trying to keep the housemate conscious by asking questions.
SPEAKER_00:The slumped over one. Yeah. Okay, this is the part where you get to choose. It's not feel like a game show. I actually have sweaty pass. All right. Do you A, ask what's wrong and if there's anything you can do to help?
SPEAKER_01:B, head into your room and let the professionals have their space that they need to save your housemate's life. C. Show the paramedic where the glasses are because you are standing next to them. D. Ignore the situation, don't say anything, proceed to cook dinner while your housemate has a heart attack on the kitchen table.
SPEAKER_00:Actively make the situation worse by being in the way of the paramedics. What would you do? I'm 100% hands down. A. Like I feel like the paramedics would probably be saying, look, you need to stand aside and let us do our jobs. Like you are not the paramedic.
SPEAKER_01:Maybe like even calm down the frantic partner.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. If it was me, honest to God, I would be right in there up amongst it. I'll be up in all their grills trying to help, trying to do it. Yeah. And then I'd make the mistake as they're trying to keep the housemate that's had the heart attack questions, I'd be answering the questions for them. Yeah. Which is not helpful. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would be over helpful and then end up not helpful because I'm being too helpful.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I would probably, for me, I would be, you know, well, I'm not good in medical situations. You would have passed out by now. You would have been the next casualty. I'm on the ground. You would be 100%.
SPEAKER_01:I think for me, I would probably go over to the panic part and just kind of calm that person. That person's not in pain, but they need a support person. So I feel like I would be that support person if I'm not already become a patient.
SPEAKER_00:Become a patient myself. But the story continues. Okay. Because that has happened. Who? Jo. Didn't we go see Nana, your dad's mum, in hospital once? And then you ended up becoming a patient.
SPEAKER_01:It ended up in hospital. I went to visit my Nana. And then in hospital. In hospital, I ended up passing out and then became a patient. Gotta admit it. I'm really not great. I'm not great in anything medical-wise. It's just no, not happening.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, let's go. If any of our listeners, okay, sorry. If any of our listeners chose D, congratulations. You are a fucking sociopath. And apparently the guy I live with is also a sociopath. Oh, so this is where the noodles come into it. Stop it. Yeah. He did not. He went and got in the way and cooked dinner.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so he ignored the whole situation, didn't say anything, proceeded to cook dinner while his housemate was having a heart attack on the kitchen table.
SPEAKER_00:So slunched over the kitchen table having a heart attack. And then making room for a stretcher. Other panics. Then they proceed to get in the way and actively make the situation worse by making noodles. He was really hungry. Oh my god, that gives us episode two with the wife that passed out in the husband's office, and he just stepped over her, turned all the lights off, and kept going about his thing. Yeah. So that gives me those vibes. It's like, okay, you guys got this covered. I will just make myself some noodles. I'll be out of your way.
SPEAKER_01:The top comment on this one is on a serious note, that is really fucked up. And I'm genuinely sorry that you had to go through that. And I hope you're doing better. On a ladder note, she reminds me, okay, it was a female housemate.
SPEAKER_00:The heart attack was having the noodles. The noodles was a female. See, that surprises me. For some reason, I was imagining me too. I thought a female would have more empathy in that. On a ladder note, she reminds me of a sin character or something. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Can you imagine like that your dialogue of that person making the noodles? Like they're like walking home.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, well, there seems to be someone in trouble. Like, did they even do they have blindeth on? Like, what are those horse thinkers? Yeah. Or it was just like they were so I mean, you can get hungry, like really, really hungry. Just think, oh, do you know what? It's like, what is noodles? Two minutes? You get two minute noodles? Yeah. Maybe they were just like, I'll just make ball a kettle, chuck it in a couple apple. Well, or even just be an adult and hold off and wait. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Someone's like, My baby is on fire, but I can't do anything about it because I have to play video games for eight hours. You know, everyone's just commenting different things now. But yeah. I thought that was a fun little bonus story.
SPEAKER_00:Do we have time for a few podcast hot seat questions, Clo? Yeah, the couple, I reckon. All right. Well, I am going to just do this. Off the top of your head, you have to tell me what you like. Okay? Okay. Ready? Yes. Sweet or savory? Sweet. Morning or night? Morning. Drama or comedy? Comedy. Cats or dogs? Dogs. Glitter or gold. Oh, that's Oki. I want glittery gold. Yeah. I want gold and that's glittery. Yeah. Stage fright or stage delight? Oh, I probably I'm going to say I get a bit of stage fright. Oh, I'm full stage delight. That's my happy place. Dream holiday destination. I think I'd really want to go to Fiji. Well, that would be nice too. Where as soon as you say that, I just think those, you know the hotels over the water? No, but now I'm thinking of the whites. Yeah, maybe I think that might be that. Or maybe that's both. Quite possibly. You know the big long trunk palm trees that kind of curve down over the beach. And they I mean, I'm giving actions to Chloe here so she knows exactly what I'm talking about. You guys have no idea what I'm doing with my hands right now. But like a beautiful long white beach with random beautiful coconut trees that kind of bend. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. But now I want to do the whole water. Wait, where's your one? I might come with you to that one. That one sounds fun. Doesn't it? Most overused word you say. I think we know this one.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. What do I say? Well, I've probably the F word.
SPEAKER_00:That is a goodie.
SPEAKER_01:Why I said the F word and censored it is beyond me because I've said it many times during the podcast.
SPEAKER_00:We do say a lot, like you said to me. Yeah. I probably say for fuck's sake. That's a good one too. Yeah. Give me the next question. So favourite emoji. Well, let's have a look on my phone right now. My most common one. You have to do this too, mother. So is that the very first one that comes up? Yeah, see where the clock is? No, that's mine's the laughing one with tears coming out of its eyes. Okay, so that's that top one in there. Call it the love heart one. You know, all the love hearts around it. Mine's all loves. Mine's love hearts, pink flowers, kissy face. Okay, so mine.
SPEAKER_01:Mine goes, if I'm going down, smiley face, that your top one, the love heart around a face, a fire emoji.
SPEAKER_00:Smoke band.
SPEAKER_01:They're like, yes, queen emoji with your hands inside, like, yes. And then the one where it's like gloming out.
SPEAKER_00:Like so that's your top four. Followed by the face palm and then the melting emoji. Oh, do you know what? I've really used that melting emoji a lot, but it's not on here. Obviously, not as much. And let's go. Have we got time for? Oh, who's funnier, you or me? Oh. I don't know. I feel like that's not a question we can answer. I think you're pretty funny. I think you're funny. But we need to be on constant record with the shit that we come up with and we talk about. God. You guys are missing out on a lot. We are pretty funny. Take you on a drive with us. Yeah, that would be fun. You guys want to come for a drive? Spontaneous shit that happens on a drive. Stage fright and probably not say anything. We're just like crickets. Okay. Well, we'll save the rest of those questions for another day. Yeah. Thank you so much for sharing those stories with me. Thank you. For listening. Well, uh, I think this is our number four wrap-up. Four episodes. It is four episodes. We've been doing this for a month now. Holy cow, a month already. A month. I wonder what's our next theme? Are we doing Christmas? Oh, we have to do Christmas. Christmas. Yeah, we'll do some Christmas stuff. Our next theme is going to be Reddit deep dives. And Christmas. Excellent. See, that's why you get paid the big bucks. So, what is the pettiest thing you've done? What screams, rich kid? Okay. Reddit's juicer stories. See, I'm all Christmas. I'm excited for that. We'll see what happens from there. Oh, do you know what? Then we've got like we can do New Year's. The beginning of the year, so much fun to do all that stuff.
SPEAKER_01:If you're a Reddit and you come across any juicy stories that you would like us to read on the pod, please send the link to us via socials or email us on mum's gone wild pod. That's mum's gone wildpod at gmail.com. Excellent. Okay. We will see you next week.
SPEAKER_00:All right. Bye.
