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Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

Drunk Texts, Hypothetical Unemployment, Collectively Hating Our Jobs, and More Listener Questions

Retail Therapy by Sunday Scaries

Sunday Scaries

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This month's listener-submitted questions include proper morning-after etiquette for drunk texts, my footwear lineup going into spring, dealing with the ripple effects of a hungover Monday, how I'd spend three months of unemployment (with severance), drinking habits since Dry January, why collectively hating our jobs is fun, the difficulty of new hobbies, and more.

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0:00.0

My name is Wild Freeze, and this is a Sunday Scaries podcast. You are here for the Sunday Blues.

0:15.0

Because it's the first episode of the month,

0:17.5

we're gonna jump into some list of questions that we got from Instagram. Let's dive right in our first.

0:24.4

What is the proper etiquette for morning after drunk texts?

0:28.9

Do you acknowledge or do you ignore?

0:31.9

If there's one thing that can inspire Sunday Scaries on an otherwise normal Sunday,

0:36.6

it's the thought of that drunk text being a dark cloud over your head all day.

0:41.1

So whether or not they respond, you still hate the fact that you thought it was an okay idea

0:45.4

to send a text to that one person. As much as I don't like admitting this,

0:50.9

I was really no stranger to a drunk text back in my single days. I think we all probably were.

0:55.6

It's something we've all done and something we've all regretted.

0:58.3

But how you handle the fall out of bad drunk text makes all the difference.

1:03.0

Here's my three-step guide for dealing with drunk texts. The first,

1:08.6

delete the text from your phone. Ignorance is bliss. You don't want to see it when you're

1:13.1

scrolling later and the days later when you're just, you know, going through your eye message and

1:17.5

you're sober and you don't want to see anything that you did while you were drunk.

1:20.8

It's just the best to just delete it and pretend like it never happened even though it did.

1:25.8

You can't totally block it out, but you can at least take it out of your visual, you know,

1:29.9

kind of just area. Our second step is to decide whether or not you need to apologize or not.

1:35.5

Was it an inappropriate text? Was it innocent? Was it coherent?

1:39.9

Sometimes the easiest thing to do is to just say, haha, I was really drunk last night.

1:45.3

I'm sorry, it's pretty innocent. But then you leave yourself open to praying that they respond,

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