Welcome to Reddit Stories. I'm Shane. And today's theme, we have some shocking stories. And I'm with two

shocking individuals, Damien and Tommy. Brendan also let out a gasp. That was, yeah, that was actually,

I don't think I've ever seen Brendan Shofier. I should have you guys know, the original plan for today's

episode was going to be silly stories, but then apparently so many shocking stories, so many shocking developments happened that they changed this. So this episode in itself is a bit of a shock. No laughing, no humor. Silly is out. Silly is out. Shocking is in. I'm so glad they told us because, like, I was preressed for a silly episode, and I pre-canned all of my reactions. And now you're, like, now you're screwed. Yeah, because if it was shocking and I didn't know that, and someone's like, my mom turned out to be bats, I'm like, I don't want to do that. I probably would get that reaction. I love the idea of rehearsing your reactions for Reddit. We all do that, right? Looking in the beer before again? Definitely the asshole. Yeah. Not the asshole. Yeah, you got to look. Tears. We'll have a shock scale. We'll try to keep a shock scale going. We'll see, like, after each story, we'll be like, okay, how much did that shock you? Got it. We'll see if we hit a 10.

Oh, we're doing numbers. I think like 1 through 10. I was thinking like DDR vibes of like crazy. Sure, you can do that too. Phenomenal. Nice foot. Nice foot. Nobody's stopping you from doing that. All right. Our first story. Am I the asshole for not wanting to get rid of the anime body pillow that saved my marriage? So this anime body pillow saved a marriage. Let's see. My husband and I are best friends during the day. Love of my life. It's at night that's an issue. I'm a blanket stealer. I once yanked them so hard, my poor hubby flipped

a full 180. Hubby, for his part, is a thrasher. Bruce Lee would be jealous of the moves he pulls off

while unconscious. It's a constant war between us when we fall asleep, and both of us often wake

up, sore and exhausted. It was starting to affect our relationship. Neither of us wanted to move

to a separate bed because we like spending our nights together, but it seemed like an inevitability. We were both crabby every morning, and we started fighting as soon as we got up. It sucked, but neither of us wanted to concede defeat and move to the other bed. Quick background, I was a huge nerd as a teenager, full-on otaku. Go ahead, cringe, I do too. One night as a joke,

I brought down an old anime body pillow from the attic. I know the cringe, and I plopped it down

between my husband and I, declaring it our demilitarized zone. Hubby also thought it was hilarious,

and we named her DMZ Chan. She stayed there the whole night. It was a game changer.

DMZ Chan protected me from hubby's REM-induced rampages, and she's just heavy enough that I can't

yank the blankets at full speed. DMZ Chan is now a beloved part of our nightly routine. We both

thought it was the funniest thing, but she legitimately helped us solve the only real issue in our marriage. One day, mother-in-law stopped by to pick something up. She got up to use the restroom, passing by our open bedroom door. You can guess what she saw? DMZ-chan. Propped up in the middle of our bed, her giant soulful anime eyes looking right back at mother-in-law. When she got back, she quickly grabbed her stuff and left. Hubby and I both confused. She later mentioned DMZ Chan to Hubby while they were on the phone, and it absolutely mortified him. As far as I know, Mother-in-law now thinks we're deviance in a three-way relationship with a body pillow. Hubby was too embarrassed to explain, and now he wants to put DMZ Chan back in the attic. I was upset. I told him I didn't want to go back to boxing with each other at night, and that DMZ Chan helped us so much in that. He agreed, but suggested we get a normal, plain body pillowcase to replace her. I felt like there was no need to spend the money on something we already have, and if it was really that big of an issue, we can put her in the closet while we have company over.

Hubby is firm in that she has to go permanently. I know he's embarrassed, but I feel we shouldn't have to compromise our inside jokes to appease other people. Am I the asshole? Don't put her in the closet. Do not put DMZ Chan in the closet. So disrespectful. Yeah, what are her so far

is gonna look at in the closet?

I know.

I thought the mother was gonna like come out and be like, my hero. We are a demon slayer household. That's true. You know what? Tanjuro as a body pillow, the pattern would actually lend to more rooms. And look, man, I don't know, I'm a weeb. You know, she's used the word otaku. I'm like a whatever floats your boat kind of thing in a relationship where it's like, if it's not hurting anybody, like, I don't care if you want an anime boobie's poster, like live your life. They're both dying on weird hills because it's both solutions are pretty

easy yeah it's like either yeah throw it in the closet when the mom's over if she's if like you don't want her

to see that or yeah get another cover for it or buy another body pillow or use that time to wash the cover

like yeah maybe they have we don't know if they have or not. But it's so easy to hide it.

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