- I'm gonna probably get really red during this
'cause it's embarrassing.
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- So I was with my then boyfriend,
and my best friend and her husband,
and we traveled to Morocco together.
Then my then boyfriend got sick,
so he decided that he was just gonna chill
in the room for the day
and try and like get over this random bug that he had.
Me and Christina, my best friend,
and her husband Ben were like,
"Okay, well we're just gonna go out and go shopping."
We really wanted to get
one of those Moroccan wedding blankets,
so like we'll just be an hour or two.
We'll be right back.
Left him with a little bit of water,
so the rooms at the riad,
you locked them with an actual padlock from the outside,
so that's like when you left for the day,
that's like what you did
and then you could also lock them from the inside.
I think I thought I was locking him in to be safe,
but I didn't think about the fact
that he wouldn't be able to get out.
So I locked him in the room.
It was fine for a little 'cause he was sleeping,
there's AC in the room, so he was just like passed out,
but then he woke up like an hour or two later.
We weren't back and this was 2014,
so like we had cellphones, but when you traveled
it wasn't like the norm to turn your data on
'cause it was much more expensive
and there were not phones in the room.
He waited for awhile.
He like finished the water that I left for him, (laughing)
and then me and Christina and Ben ended up like shopping
for a lot longer than we initially planned,
and then we got back to the riad
and there's this beautiful pool and it's hot out,
so we're like, "Let's just put our feet in the pool
"and chill for a little."
Then this other couple came also to the pool
at the riad and started talking to us.
We ended up talking with them
until one o'clock in the morning,
and Chris was locked in the room the entire time. (laughs)
And the worst part is he could hear us downstairs
like laughing and talking,
but we couldn't hear him. (laughs)
So he was like ready to murder me
when I got back to the room.
He didn't have food, he had run out of water.
He was just like trapped in this room,
but apparently he was like knocking on the door,
and kind of trying to yell to get our attention,
and we never heard a thing.
He was texting us because he had wifi in the room,
so his phone worked, but I didn't have it out with me.
I mean, he survived. (laughs)
He was fine, and then actually the next morning,
he was not sick anymore.
It was like a 24 hour bug,
and so then he was fine after that,
so maybe being locked in the room helped cure him.
(laughs)
But he still married me, so he forgave me.
- Five years ago, I was with my boyfriend.
We were together for about two years
and his birthday was coming up.
I had planned a weekend for us to go in Canada.
So I had saved up money for like months
to do like the rental car, 'cause we were gonna drive up.
I remember I had gotten like a really great deal on a hotel
and I was like so excited
because it was saving me a lot of money.
We drive up and we get to the hotel
and he goes to park the car and I was like,
alright let me go check us in,
'cause I had gotten like a bottle of champagne
and stuff like that to celebrate.
So I get up to the hotel and I tell them my name,
and I'm so excited, and they were like,
"We can't find your reservation."
And I'm just like, well that's weird.
I was like, alright maybe my last name has a space,
so I was like, alright maybe it's the space or whatever.
So I give them my ID, still can't find the reservation.
So I got pissed, then I started saying like,
"What are you talking about?
"Like, how can you not find the reservation?"
I'm showing them, you know these are the dates.
I booked it months ago.
They look at the email, they're like yeah you totally,
you booked it but that was for last weekend.
I was like, oh no.
So I basically had just taken
hundreds of dollars and set them on fire,
because now the hotel wasn't gonna work with me
'cause they were like, this screaming lady.
We're not gonna help you.
We're not gonna do anything different.
I get a text from my boyfriend at the time saying like,
hey, can't find a spot,
looking in another parking lot, whatever.
And I'm like, alright I gotta figure out
what I'm gonna do right now.
So I wound up paying full price for the right weekend
and I just booked it on my credit card
before my boyfriend even found out.
So it wound up being like almost $1,000
and I don't think I ever even told him.
I think I just made it seem like,
yep we're good, everything's fine.
Ever since then,
I check everything about four different times.
I add it into my calendar.
I make sure that everything lines up.
I keep a planner, just because I'm so scared
that this is gonna happen again.
- Three years ago, I went to Europe for the first time.
I went to Paris with my friends.
I was single at the time.
I really wanted to meet a Frenchman because, duh.
(laughs)
Like, of course.
That accent.
I hopped on Grindr like one does,
and I found a gentleman
who was willing to rendezvous with me.
This so happened to be in the dead of night.
I went to this gentleman's apartment.
He seemed perfectly nice,
but there was definitely a language barrier there.
I also learned when I got there
that all of his roommates were home and asleep.
He was like, we just have to stay in the living room
and we have to stay completely quiet,
and we can't turn any lights on.
I was like, okay.
Yeah, I guess that's what we're doing.
Guess we gotta make that work.
Kinda figuring things out in the dark.
It was very quick and then I was like,
well, I guess we're done now.
So I'm gonna leave.
He didn't really feel like walking me out,
so I went on my merry way.
I got down to the lobby
and I was ready to push on the door to exit to the street,
and the door wouldn't open.
That's weird.
Try again, I'm like pulling it.
I'm pushing it, I'm so close to being outside,
but I'm not able to get there,
and then I turn back around
and I tried to get back up to the apartment
through the other door of the lobby,
and that one is locked too.
So I'm trapped in the foyer.
I'm like, "Oh, this is how I die."
I'm in a foreign country.
My phone is like not really gonna work that well.
All of my friends are asleep.
I looked around the whole lobby.
I found a button on the opposite wall.
I was like, "I guess I can try this."
I go over there and I push the button,
and that's what releases the (bleep) door.
And I'm like, this is not up to fire code safety.
So I finally get out, and then at this point it's 2:00 a.m.
There's like drunk French people
everywhere being kind of rowdy.
I get home to my bed safely and I lived to tell the tale.
I got my wish.
I got to rendezvous with a Frenchman.
It did not go down exactly how I pictured, but that's life.
That's just life for ya.
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