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Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast.
My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social.
And today we have a fun topic talk.
And this one is, these are just silly questions, social and we're going to do three of them.
And if you join our English corner through the WeChat group, you can also discuss these, we discussed these questions last week, but we will discuss questions like this in the future as well.
And number one is, what are your most random pet peeves?
Because we talked about pet peeves before, but what's your like most random one that probably no one else is annoyed by, but only you?
My most random pet peeve, the leaving the chair, not pushing as we discussed before.
What's another one? I'm trying to think.
I'm not too much of a picky person, so it's kind of hard for me.
I hate this is kind of a weird one.
It's not really my business, but I just hate seeing useless men.
This sounds weird, but it's kind of a pet peeve mind when there's a woman with, like, this just happened in the airport.
There's a woman with literally, the, she, she and her husband were at the airport and she had like seven kids.
And I think she's pregnant with another kid.
And he, the man just like, there was, he was supposed to get like, dinner for all the kids and the wife with his oldest son.
And they just disappeared for like two hours and then came back with nothing.
And the kids were like running around and screaming and the lady looked like devastated.
And it was like, oh my god, I just, you know what I mean?
I hate seeing stuff like that.
Every time I see a man, it's a useless partner.
That's a huge pet peeve.
It's funny because it's not really my business, but it just makes me angry.
Yeah, it's kind of, I'm just, I think it's funny that you were just watching that whole scenario play out and just see thing just so angry.
Yes, I was sitting across from the lady.
And I was just like, oh my god, this poor lady.
And this like older lady sitting next to her was like, helped ended up helping her with distract her kids for a while, which is really nice of the older lady to step in.
But it was just crazy that the woman has a whole husband that's like doing nothing.
Yeah. Absolutely insane.
I wonder if my wife would have stories.
And then I found, fortunately, there might be some examples of me checking out for a moment.
But I try not to. I try to, you know, we try to divide and conquer, you know, the best that we can.
I don't think it would have been that useless.
Like this guy was a new level, you know, and I mean, from what I've seen of you, I have a hard time believing you would have been that bad, you know, so that's a big pet peeve of mine.
And I think those are, those are two big ones.
I, I don't think that I have another one.
I guess another maybe third one is like, noise makes me irritated really fast.
So like, I like things to be pretty quiet.
But if I have to hear like a bunch of noise, I can just get so angry quickly for no reason kind of.
So that peeve is like just really noisy environments can really great on my nerves.
If I'm not expecting it, you know, if I'm at like a concert or something, obviously, I don't really care that you expect it to be loud.
Yeah, I really complain about the noise at a concert.
Yeah. But it is just like sudden loudness or something out of nowhere.
Like it just kind of greats on my nerves.
Yeah. How about you, Jack?
What are your pet peeve?
I've got a couple. Well, my, the first one, I said this one was in another podcast too, but I bother doing people say, you know what I mean?
Like that. I'm always like, yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
You don't have to ask me, you know, I'm not stupid.
But, but it's not that's just me projecting because people are, they're not really asking me a question.
They're just, it's just a filler, right?
It's, it's a, or they're worried that they don't make sense.
Like when I ask people, oh, do you know what I mean?
Like I'm, I'm asking because I think I don't make sense.
Yeah, you're being like, you're being an active listener.
You're actually really genuinely trying to be understood and making sure the other person understands you.
So, um, yeah, that, that pet peeve is, is just, it's, it's, actually, it's, it's on me.
It's not, it's my fault.
It's not other people being annoying.
It's just me being annoying.
Um, another one is that I've noticed that really bothers me is, um, when, like, people, when did people stop using headphones and just let's start listening to their stupid phones?
Oh, my God. Oh, loud. They're good.
Oh, no, I mean, but was it music or was it, uh, talking just brand himself, like videos and talking and music and like, and phone calls and stuff.
And I'm like, why are you listening to everything out loud?
Like, where are your headphones?
Yeah. And so funny because just before that, I was like seeing a video and I'm like, oh, I don't want to listen to this because I don't have headphones.
And so I'm not going to listen to it.
I'll just save it for later.
And then there's person next to me is like blasting this video.
I'm like, it's so weird.
You know, yeah. I know, I know what you mean.
It's, it happened to me yesterday.
Guy in the elevator is listening to his stupid YouTube channel about baseball or something.
And everyone has to listen to it.
Then another person, the elevator takes their phone on, starts listening to their thing.
And none of them are putting any headphones in.
As if we all want to listen to your garbage, you know, it's like, if I wanted to listen to it, I would listen to it myself.
There's no, is there, is there no respect anymore?
What, what happened to people?
It's just, uh, I just grew, actually, I grew up, you just sounded like such a boomer when you said that.
But it's kind of funny because my boomer dad would actually do that.
We would be watching like soap operas like my mom and I would be watching soap operas.
And my dad would come in listening to baseball on his iPad and just sit in the room listening to the baseball like in the middle of us watching soap opera.
And I'd be like, can you leave like or turn that off?
And he's like, I just want to spend time with you guys.
I'm like, then put some headphones in or watch this with us or and watch that late or something.
It was just so annoying because it's like, we can't even hear the soap opera that we're watching because he's too busy listening to the baseball game on full blast in the middle of the room.
We were sitting in. So yeah, it's really.
Headphone etiquette. Come on people.
What's the craziest thing you've ever done?
I mean, this is a hard question because I've done crazy things, but.
Crazy thing. Maybe just like deciding I was going to move to Korea, like I don't know where I just pulled that out of thin air and I was like, yeah, I could, yeah, I'll move to Korea.
That was kind of crazy, I think, but it ended up working out fine.
Another really crazy one that I always remember is we went to Spain when I was a little kid.
I was like nine or 10 years old.
And my dad, we were like going to this castle and my dad decided to crawl up through the castle.
Like there's there was an old sewage hole in the castle wall.
And my dad decided to that we should like cut through and go through there instead of walking around into the castle entrance like normal people.
My mom was the craziest thing your dad's ever done.
Yes, we were little kids, but I unfortunately would drag along and I was like, no, I don't want to do this.
And then my sister and I were like getting angry at me because I was like on the verge of tears because I was like, we're going to get in trouble.
We didn't get in trouble by the way.
Somehow we did, we did that and then jumped over this like police orange mesh stuff and just acted like we were there the whole time.
Wow, you just got away with it.
Nice. Yes, it was very weird.
My dad is an insane person.
So yeah, that was definitely a crazy thing.
And I do remember it still vividly because something that I didn't want to do and was forced into doing.
So yeah, you Jack, crazy thing you've done.
Well, I mean, I think probably the craziest thing I've ever done is yeah, I would say move to Asia.
I mean, just kind of on a whim, just like I'm going to go to Thailand and teach English without any teaching experience or anything I just went and I didn't even know where Thailand was on a map.
I could have been going to Taiwan.
Like, I didn't even know.
I put so little thought into it.
I just got on a plane and landed and hoped for the best.
And yeah, 20 some years later, it worked out great, but it was just it was a crazy thing because it changed the entire outcome of my life.
It just the direction, it changed the entire direction of my life.
And so it took me, it took me to places that I've I never dreamed I would ever go to or never even heard of before when I was a kid.
So yeah, I think yeah, travel doing doing what we did is is pretty crazy.
Yeah, most people never do that.
Yeah, I think I don't have people think about it, but they they they rarely pull the trigger and do it.
I think the like hardest part though from the at least is like a target.
Did I interrupt you? No, no.
Okay, I was just thinking I think the weirdest part for me is like when you get to Korea and you meet a bunch of other people who were just as crazy as you.
And then like some of them are actually crazy people.
Because you know what I mean?
There's like a lot of really weird ex-fats because there's a lot of weird ex-fats because it takes a certain level of audacity and craziness to do to to do that.
So like uproot your life and move somewhere else.
And so there's other people who are also crazy for different reasons though.
You know what I mean? Or am I not making sense?
I have a theory about this actually because no, I know exactly what you mean.
There's kind of two two groups.
You know, there's like normal there's normal people that want an adventure.
And they they they kind of do something crazy because they're like because it is kind of crazy to move to a country where you don't speak the language, you don't know the culture, and you're going to live there indefinitely.
And that's crazy. But there are also kind of crazy people that just don't fit into society back home.
And so they they go to another place where they can where the local population, the local people can't distinguish between crazy people and normal people.
So there's normal people who are adventurous and then crazy people.
And we all get lumped in together as foreigners.
And I will always want to feel like that person over there is crazy.
That person does not represent me.
I'm not that person. That person is weird.
That person is weird in America.
That person is weird in Canada.
Yes. That person is a weirdo.
You know, they give you.
Yeah. I had that experience a few different times.
I had like I had a lot of fun about experiences with other experts in Korea because you find out there's a lot of people that are there for a reason that is not the reason that you're there.
They're like escaping all the bridges they burned back in their home country.
Different weird things.
I had one person that I knew that was extremely weird.
Like he was really friendly at first and then became like really hostile.
And it was like super weird.
And I just stopped talking.
Like she told me I misinterpreted a situation that we had.
And I was like, come maybe I actually came off like a jerk.
I feel terrible. I'm so sorry.
And she's like, no, you definitely did that on purpose.
You're a horrible person.
And I was like, oh, dang, maybe I am a horrible person.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean, you know, to do that.
And then that person had the same exact problem with everyone else that we knew mutually.
And I was like, oh, okay.
And every person that she knows back home, she's had that problem with.
Yes, that's exactly what happened.
And then what's another crazy one that happened?
I had this one. I had like, it happened to me like a few different times with different people.
And on the contrary, I have friends that I'm people that I met that I'm still friends with, you know, that I still stayed in touch with.
But there, there was another like, there was a couple that was like super racist.
And I was like, oh my god.
Like they just started saying racist stuff in front of me thinking I'd be cool with it.
And I was like, what the heck?
You know what I mean? And I was like, no, weird.
And also the other expats like go to Korea and are racist towards Asian people.
And I'm like, why are you here?
Yeah, yeah. That is bizarre behavior.
I mean, because there, you know, no one will take them anywhere.
They don't fit in anywhere.
And it's like, they have to, you have to fix yourself.
You can't just, if you're broken in America and then you come to Korea and you think you're going to be fixed, it's not, it's not, it doesn't work that way.
You know, you got to fix yourself wherever you are.
And, but I, but I feel like they can blend in a little bit more here in an odd way or get away with their behavior a little bit more because people are just, just uh, chalk it up as, well, that person's a foreigner.
So they don't understand.
But it's like, no, it's not, it has nothing to do with them being a foreigner.
They're just a weird person.
They're just strange. And they behave strangely.
And so they deserve, they, you should avoid that person.
That's what I wanted to talk to.
I know I have had that happen so many times.
So ultimately, yeah, it's, uh, it's an interesting experience.
Um, yeah. So I don't know.
Listeners, let us know what the craziest thing you've ever done was have you ever lived in another country.
And also, do you know about the phenomenon that Jack and I are talking about?
I'm curious if you guys know what we're talking about.
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