How To Confront a Vindictive Neighbor with Tig Notaro (Encore)

How To!

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Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The trouble began when Sarah put a fern in front of her new condo. Nice, right? The woman who lives in the unit above didn’t think so, and without warning sent Sarah a slew of passive-aggressive notes. Sarah thinks it’s all a big misunderstanding, but now her neighbor refuses to even speak to her. Sarah is wracked with anxiety, struggling to sleep, and contemplating moving out. On this episode of How To!, we turn to stand-up comedian Tig Notaro, a cancer survivor and host of the new advice podcast Don’t Ask Tig, to help Sarah approach the situation with humor and clarity. When things don’t go your way, Tig says, you have to take back control of your own story. What would the hero in your favorite movie do? For Sarah, this means gardening with headphones and the Rocky theme on the soundtrack. Do you have a problem that could use some humorous advice? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. If you liked this episode, check out “How To Talk to Strangers.” Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.8	or lowercase that Shopify dot cokeel. C. you a fun one from the archives. Listen, have you ever gotten a slew of passive aggressive notes from a neighbor?
0:36.0	Maybe you took the mature route and tried to talk it out,
0:39.0	or maybe you sent an equally passive aggressive note back,
0:42.0	or maybe you just thought screw this I'm
0:44.2	moving out well luckily for you comedian Tignataro one of my absolute favorites has
0:51.0	some advice you may recognize TIG from her podcasts or hilarious stand-up
0:55.6	specials. She actually has a new one out called Hello Again. All right, I'm going to
0:59.9	hand things over to our former host, Charles Doohig, and we'll see you back here next week.
1:06.7	There's so much going on in the world and she's outraged about a fern and yeah
1:12.3	you know it's just you all you can do is pity her at this point and
1:16.7	start planting ferns.
1:21.4	You're listening to how to. I'm Charles Doohicks.
1:25.0	Each week on the show, we hear from listeners who write us with a problem
1:28.0	and we try and find a creative solution.
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