70. I Left My Mother Homeless

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The story of an unbreakable spirit in which a young woman is forced to make a decision that will haunt her the rest of her life.

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0:00.0	Hi, do you have a secret? Yes. Okay, so my secret is one of my hockey friends
0:06.3	said in high school and throughout college people used to just do crazy things
0:10.4	and leave to stuff or trash in front of his driveway. Maybe like three years
0:15.5	later I had a yucca bush that was huge like 11 feet. We finally were able to
0:20.9	pull it out because it was slowly dying. The thing was humongous. We're like
0:24.0	we're we're gonna take it and I was like okay you know what we'll do? Nick lives
0:28.6	down the street. Let's go drop it in front of Nick's driveway. My favorite part
0:33.3	about this is I imagine seeing someone's reaction but the second best thing
0:37.8	you could do is actually hear somebody describe what you did to them and
0:41.5	they're like hey someone left a yucca tree in front of my driveway and I'm
0:45.5	like come on Nick someone left a yucca tree that's impossible to get in front
0:49.1	of your house. He's like no so on day. So fast forward three years and one of my
0:54.0	buddy leaves is a truck exhaust that used to live with me and the truck exhaust
0:58.6	is even bigger and longer and heavier and I told my buddy Jason you need to get
1:03.9	this truck exhaust outside of my house and so he's like okay well we're
1:07.9	gonna bring it and I'm like I know where we'll bring it we're bringing it to
1:11.1	Nick's house so Nick goes you guys will not believe what just happened to me
1:15.5	now. Now someone left just like 14 foot truck exhaust I'm like Nick this is
1:19.7	starting to sound made up. Someone just left a truck exhaust like this is
1:23.9	sound manufactured who's gonna bring a truck exhaust so to this day he does
1:27.9	not know I kept unloading these things but fun if it sounds.
1:31.3	Hi my name is Claire and my whole life is secrets which led me to leave my
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