r/MadeMeSmile • u/Rpark888 • 7h ago
Wholesome Moments I left my yoga mat in my locker after class yesterday morning and asked my husband to get it during his workout last night. He said the lock combo I gave him didn't work. UGH What a freaking liar š„°
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u/NoZucchini595 7h ago
These are the things that keep a relationship solid
When I was a cable tech my husband would track my phoneā¦to leave flowers or a candy bar š„¹
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u/Brahminmeat 6h ago
He was subtly reminding you that heās tracking your every move šļø
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u/EJoule 4h ago
Every move you make, every breath you take, heāll be watching you
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u/demivirius 4h ago
Oh can't you see, you belong to
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u/dark_enough_to_dance 3h ago
His poor heart aches, every breath you takeĀ
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u/EmbarrassedOwl7610 5h ago
My best friend/roommate and I would track each other's phones so we could have food/drinks ready when they'd get home from work. I miss Google Latitude.
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u/MrPinguv 3h ago
You can share through Google maps, WhatsApp, find my on iPhoneā¦ lots of alternatives :)
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u/Rpark888 6h ago
The yoga studio has hall lockers. I'll take a pic after my class before people start accusing me of AI š
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u/Alarming-Highway-584 6h ago
I believe this image isnāt ai lol! Handwritingās too messy hahah. Also the doodle! š
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u/Rpark888 5h ago edited 5h ago
Ok so this sub doesn't allow of pic attachments in the comments.
But anyways, to address some questions- Why did I want my yoga mat back? Because as anyone with a yoga mat would tell you, if you don't clean it after you get sweat on it, it starts to SMELL. Turns out, my husband cleaned it for me with the mat spray they have in the studio and left a note for me to find, just to brighten up my morning :)
It's corny, I know. But. When he used to telework, his schedule was more flexible (no pun intended) and he used to do yoga with me. He'd walk into class and set up next to me and pretend we were strangers and hit on me.
His go to line would be "hey beautiful, you come here often? š" while our butts would be in the air while stretching or doing downward dog lol
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u/No_Strike718 1h ago
Thatās awesome! Small gestures like this are actually huge. And I donāt think thatās corny! Super cuteš
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u/Uhmerikan 5h ago
OP wanted to clean their yoga mat that they forgot to bring home, her husband did it with cleaning spray at the gym and then left the note.
Redditors donāt believe anything.
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u/ThreeUrinalCakes 5h ago
I donāt get this post at all. She asked him to do something, he doesnāt do it for her and lies about why, and then leaves a love note proving that he could have done it.
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u/ConcentricCow 5h ago
He didn't do what was asked but if you read what OP replied with you know he fixed the problem she was trying to fix. She wanted the yoga mat so that she could clean it before her next class and it not get stanky over night. The husband, knowing the intended result was a clean yoga mat and not necessarily a yoga mat at home, went to the studio and cleaned the mat himself at the studio. He then returned the mat to the locker and left a cute note. Now his wife will have a clean mat at the studio and wont have to clean it herself and then carry it back to the studio.
The husband gets cheeky and tells a white lie about not being able to open the locker the wife has a slight surprise and hopefully better morning from the little prank after realizing she has a super clean mat and a cute note from their husband. I'd assume this level of cheekiness is acceptable if not expected as the wife has chosen to stay with the husband. Its not hard to assume they enjoy this small, low stakes game of leaving loving mementos around for each other so that they think of the other throughout their days.
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u/Rpark888 4h ago
UM. excuse me, but...
HOW DARE YOU come in here with your natural and rightful logic and inductive reasoning and correctly assume that my husband and I love each other?????
š fr though thanks, some people just find it easier to be miserable and bring shade into others' light..
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u/ConcentricCow 3h ago
Hahaha. Okay this made me laugh. Definitely a had me in the first half situation. Lol.
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u/Berry-Bakes 5h ago
Holy hell, some of you people sound absolutely miserable in your lives, picking everything apart to get some negativity out, to fill your life with. She wrote that she wanted to clean it, but her husband also did that for her, while trying to tease her and pull a little innocent prank. May you let in some rays of sunshine in your lives, damn.
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u/Krushed_Opiates 6h ago
Just a guess if he couldn't normally get access. If he explained what he was going to do to the person in charge I don't think they would have stopped him most likely they would have helped.
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u/Lexi_Banner 5h ago
I'm glad you like it, but any partner of mine tracking my phone would skeeze me out entirely.
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u/Cam_e_ron 4h ago
as long as it goes both ways, it doesn't seem too weird to me. Its really not much different than snap maps and loads of people use that.
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u/Liberteabelle1 4h ago
My BF both can track each other. Itās convenient and neither of us cares if the other sees where we are.
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u/guyseriously 3h ago
I know what you meant but I quickly read this as both of your boyfriends can track each other lmao.
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u/Lexi_Banner 4h ago
I don't willingly use any tracking type services (and fucked if I'd ever use snap maps), and would never share or allow anyone to find my location. And I don't want to be able to track my partner, either. If I want someone to come to where I am, I will contact them and give them my location. And if I want to go to my partner's location, I will contact them and ask for it.
Again, it's fine if you think differently. But when I am out and about, I would find it incredibly disturbing and invasive if my partner looked up my location and just showed up, or if they started asking why I went to X place before I went to Y place. Like, I'm a full grown adult, and I've been running loose since I was like, ten. Not even my mother would hunt me down to see what I was doing, the fuck are you trying to pull by tracking me now?
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u/Cam_e_ron 4h ago
Fully understand that. I guess I just never have felt weirded out that some people know where I am. In my head, if someone wanted that info for nefarious purposes, they likely already know where I live/work anyways.
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u/AnxietyPretend5215 4h ago
I feel like it's just a case by case basis type thing.
If you already have a solid relationship with someone where foundational trust has been established it's just a convenience plus safety tool.
Outside of that, whether it's family or romantic relationships, it's frequently a mechanism for control and manipulation.
For me, I just don't like giving all of these details to Life360 and other services like them. If it's free, you're the product somehow.
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u/Cam_e_ron 4h ago
Yup I agree. I also agree more people should be aware of the data that gets collected by companies like life360. They 100% sell information to advertisers based on the places you go and how often.
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u/sobrique 3h ago
Like so many things it's a matter of (informed and free) consent being the difference between 'good' and 'awful'.
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u/Lexi_Banner 2h ago
it's frequently a mechanism for control and manipulation.
And consider this: it might start out fun and innocent, and everyone is happy, and how nice that you could be found in an emergency situation, should the need arise. But the moment that changes and the relationship sours, the people who can track your location can use it against you.
Before the days of easy phone tracking, I had a partner that questioned me if I took three minutes "longer than usual" to get home from work, and would interrogate me about where I went if I went out shopping (and would call/text constantly). The thought of people like him being able to track the exact location of their partner's phones at any given moment makes me fucking sick with dread. It is absolutely a dangerous tool to give to someone, and I don't think there's a single person I would trust to give it to, ever.
For me, I just don't like giving all of these details to Life360 and other services like them. If it's free, you're the product somehow.
This is the another huge factor in what I will and won't allow to track me. There are lots of things I cannot control (and likely a ton of trackers I don't know are following me online, even with being vigilant), but how so many people just willingly giving up that information boggles my brain.
Growing up as a latchkey kid with tons of independence from a very early age, the idea that people and companies can silently follow along with your every move makes my skin crawl.
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u/sobrique 3h ago
I think it's as simple as informed and free consent.
Nothing wrong with consenting to someone you trust being able to find your location. (Persistently or temporarily - e.g. I might enable 'track my location' when on holiday or something just to make it a bit easier to meet up, then turn it off again for 'normal life')
Nothing wrong with deciding 'nah, ask me each time'.
Everything wrong with overriding that consent and doing it anyway.
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u/No_Strike718 1h ago
I use find friends before I send a text to my husband to make sure heās not driving. Because I know if I send one and heās driving heāll pick up. He has it to read out loud but thatās still distractive driving. Other than that I donāt use it. Not everyone who has a way to track their partner has nefarious intentions but I wonder how many partners who are against them have nefarious intentions?
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u/uoftstudent33 21m ago
To each her own. I find it super convenient to be able to look at my husbandās location so I can see where he is without bugging him or waiting for a response. Neither of us have anything to hide. When I was on maternity leave it was nice to see if heād left work already and would be home soon without messaging him because I didnāt want him to feel pressured to rush home. Or the other day he had a really long and stressful day in court (as an attorney). I didnāt want to potentially distract him by texting so I just waited until he was no longer at the courthouse. I also like to see where he is when weāre meeting because heās usually early and Iām often running lateāit helps me plan better without sending a bunch of messages.
I also share my location with my little sister. She travels a lot so itās fun to see where she is. And sheās told me in the past that sometimes she checks my location to make sure Iām not at work before she calls.
I do get that it might be different if youāve experienced domestic violence in the past or arenāt currently in a healthy relationship. Or if you feel the need to conceal your whereabouts from your partner or whoever for some reason.
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u/NoZucchini595 2h ago
Weāve been married over two decades and he has never asked me where Iām going, who Iām going with, how long Iāll be there, what Iām wearing, etc..
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u/Lexi_Banner 2h ago
Great! In your specific instance, that's perfect, and it's working fine.
But that isn't how it always is, and it's fair to have that dialogue, too.
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u/Triumphail 2h ago
Me and my boyfriend our in a long distance relationship, and I have pretty bad anxiety just in general. Iāve told him that I worry about him a lot, and sometimes when I wouldnāt hear from him (usually because heās driving or taking a nap) even though I knew he was fine I would tend to spiral pretty quickly. So we let each other see our locations to assure one another that everything is fine. We also made sure that both of us were comfortable with it, since I know it can be used for controlling behavior, neither of us have ever used it because we think the other is doing something behind our back.
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u/NoZucchini595 2h ago
As a female cable tech it was actually something I would make sure to mention to the creepy guys whose homes I had to enter
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u/Lexi_Banner 2h ago
I mean...you could just tell them, and they wouldn't know if it was the truth or not.
Again, if it works for you, fine. I just don't see the benefits outweighing the creep factor, personally.
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u/FancyThing8889 6h ago
Big Papa has serious game
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u/Cajun2LowCountry 6h ago
Throw your hands up in the air if you's a true player
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u/anonymousopsec1337 1h ago
I see some ladies tonight that could be havin my babyyy bayyybayy
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u/picodepui 6h ago
Oh my god I thought this was some creep who did this and was disturbed. Cute that itās your husband :)
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u/agingergiraffe 6h ago
Haha me too. My bad for looking at the photo before the title. I was like "made you smile?!?!"
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u/FullofContradictions 6h ago
Same! I read the note before the title or the subreddit & was essentially the meme of disgusted Barbie thinking some random man broke into her locker.
Oops. Glad it was cute. :D
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u/Newberr2 4h ago
There is a fine line between a creep and a husband, and that line is usually attraction.
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u/theesmartstallion 4h ago
And relationship!
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u/sobrique 3h ago
And consent.
Which for some things is the only difference between 'amazing' and 'awful'.
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u/SassyScapula 5h ago
Makes me think of the joke my dad and me would play on my mom. She would call say how long and we would say were stuck in traffic or something and well be a while. 5 min later were home lol
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u/Cheezeball25 3h ago
Lol that reminds me of how many times I'd go out with my dad, and inevitably my mom would call us concerned about what was taking so long. And she somehow would always call when we were about 2 minutes from the house, right as we were entering the neighborhood. It was funny how well timed it was.
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u/BlackberryPi7 7h ago
Me: That's really cute
Everyone else on Reddit: But he didn't do what she asked. Omg GURL! ya gotta dump his ass!!!!!!
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u/FreeFortuna 7h ago
āINFO: Does he often ignore your requests and just do whatever he thinks is best? Because it doesnāt seem like heās actually listening, or that he even respects you, since he lied straight to your face.ā
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u/reddit_is_geh 4h ago
Clearly an abusive narcissist. This whole stunt was about him, to get attention.
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u/knighthawk3759 7h ago
Oh here we go, comments from the peanut gallery who's probably single.. habitually
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u/FreeFortuna 6h ago
ā¦ Apparently my ability to imitate AITA commenters is a little too spot-on.
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u/BlazingFire007 6h ago
You just have to remember that Redditors (myself unfortunately included) have no ability to read social cues, including cues through text
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 5h ago
habitually single? you just putting words randomly near to each other? what does that even mean?
"I'm going to do my normal morning routine of making my coffee, ironing my shirt, and of course reaffirming that I'm single"
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u/im_enigma28 5h ago
Pretty sure tittysprinkles wrote that because of the earlier comment that was made by nighthawk haha
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u/tittysprinkles112 6h ago
As a habitually single person, one of my pass times is going against the majority opinion relationship subs when I'm bored.
The majority opinion is usually something like my husband used the wrong type of salt and it was so traumatic š
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u/Yeah-NO_FORSURE 6h ago
I mean... He could have grabbed the mat and then left the note.
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u/bizzledorf 6h ago
Then what reason would she have to look in that locker? If the mat was already out?
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u/Yeah-NO_FORSURE 4h ago
I believe she said it was her locker Im sure she puts her belongings in before a work out.
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u/TechyShreky69 6h ago
There is literally one negative comment that has been ridiculed. It's a cute gesture. We (nearly) all like it.
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u/ZeroAmusement 6h ago
I'm so confused. She asked him to get the mat, but he didn't, lied about the combination code being wrong (would cause confusion) but left a note so it's ok?
Why do you like it?
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u/Strange_Temporary515 1h ago
People who like this probably think that romance movies are normal. You could leave the note without the weirdness of lying and not helping her out lol
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u/WriterV 3h ago
'cause it's cute, and simple.
And before you fire off with "LYING ISN'T CUTE!!!", please grow the fuck up. It's not about the lying, it's about the nuance. OP clearly loved it, and her husband clearly knew her well enough to know she'd love it, which is why he did this. That's thoughtfulness, and demonstrates true love between these two.
If you somehow didn't catch that, then you're gonna need some more life experience before you're ready to be in a relationship yourself.
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u/ZeroAmusement 1h ago
The context here was that OP wanted to take it home to clean it. He cleaned it for her (OP said in another comment) so he didn't need to take it back. Without that context it's pretty weird but I guess I need to tell the person I'm married to that I need more life experience and I'm not ready. :P
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u/BlackberryPi7 6h ago
This is in reference to other subreddits, not this specific comment thread
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u/The_Buko 6h ago
Yeah the relationship advice sub is so freaking toxic. I called them out yesterday and they did not like it very much. They donāt even ask for āINFOā anymore they just assume/react to whatever and all you hear is ādump him/her!ā It used to be a bit more helpful in the past..
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u/PumpkinSpiceJesus 5h ago edited 3h ago
Why did my brain default to seeing the yoga mat as the size of a rug and the index card the size of a poster board?
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u/Medical-Finance-3976 15m ago
mine did too. i was very confused by the ridiculous size of the locker and thought maybe it was a closet instead
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u/Miniature_Colosus 5h ago
What a monster! I'd surprise him with his favorite snack or treat... He'll definitely hate that
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u/talivus 7h ago
Consent is the deciding factor between creepy and cute.
When I saw this and didn't read the story yet, I was like wtf.
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u/Berry-Bakes 5h ago
Holy hell, some of you people sound absolutely miserable in your lives, picking everything apart to get some negativity out, to fill your life with. She wrote that she wanted to clean it, but her husband also did that for her, while trying to tease her and pull a little innocent prank. May you let in some rays of sunshine in your lives, damn.
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u/Electrical-Bat3479 3h ago
I do this to my partner all the time.
Sheāll ask āhey babe, can you do so and soā
Iāll answer no, then start doing it anyway.
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u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN 4h ago
Anyone else struggling with the scale of this? Is it likeā¦one of those huge post-it presentation size sticky notes? Or is it a very tiny yoga mat? I need a scale banana.
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u/PancakeHandz 4h ago
Before I read the title and sub name I assumed there was a creep stalking you at the gym. Itās definitely cute now that I know it was your husband lol
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u/TheXIIILightning 5h ago
Why does your yoga mat look like a slab of stamped bruised meat?
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u/TiredAF20 3h ago
I'm outside reading this under the bright sun and thought it was a bruised limb and was very confused.Ā
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u/Dear_Palpitation4838 5m ago
Sounds like your yoga game isn't hardcore enough, bruh. Mine looks like fish paste.
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u/s-amantha 2h ago
But likeā¦ he could have brought the mat AND left the note. Theyāre not mutually exclusive. I donāt understand the thinking here.
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u/crazymissdaisy87 3h ago
This is so cute!
Reminds me of when my husband asked me to get him a soda And I was like 'get your own soda' but eventually relented annoyed - and I'm the fridge was a cakebox saying 'I love you honey' with my favorite cake insideĀ
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u/Beginning_Style_1718 2h ago
That looks like a Lifetime locker. If so, excellent choice of club (and spouse, of course.)
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u/PauseConfident997 1h ago
Wait but whyd you ask him to grab it if you didnāt need it š and if you did need it then why didnāt the grab it š my autism feels like thereās something missing here š¤¦
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u/blondedki 1h ago
she said she asked him to get it so she could clean it. but instead he cleaned it for her and left it there. told her the combo didnāt work so she would have to check on it and see
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u/Blue-zebra-10 36m ago
I thought your yoga mat was a very bruised leg for a sec... I need to wear my glasses more often š
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u/ghengiscostanza 5h ago
So he didn't get you your yoga mat? He left it at the gym after putting a note on it, claiming he couldn't get it because the lock, so you had to go get it and see his cheeky note? Am I understanding this right? I guess it's kind of cute to leave a cheeky note but weird that he didn't bring home the thing you asked for to do it.
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u/Rpark888 5h ago
I asked for him to bring it back so I could clean it.
He cleaned it for me and left a corny note of a pickup line he used to say to me when we used to do yoga together, pretending we were strangers in class.
He lied about the code so I would go back today and find it.
If he brought back the clean mat, then I'd have no reason to go to the locker and find the corny note.
We have a 7 year old and he coaches a lot after work so we don't get a lot of date nights in during the week. So little reminders like this are thoughtful to me.
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u/ghengiscostanza 5h ago
oh the cleaning thing makes it all make sense!
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u/ZeroAmusement 3h ago
Same! What doesn't make sense to me is how this makes sense to everyone else without them knowing about the cleaning part!
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u/ghengiscostanza 3h ago
I low key have irrational dislike for the people who think it made sense without that piece and are being pompous about it in the comments lol
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u/Garchompisbestboi 5h ago
It's a little hard to believe this post when the account that posted it has bot levels of karma associated with it.
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u/DrJohnIT 7h ago
He is definitely a keeper. Queen keep treating him like a King and you can expect him to continue with beautiful moments like this. Ugh so gross. š¤® ā¤ļø š
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u/Britt-a-brac 5h ago
Do you have a kid or kids? I remember someone posting a letter about parents fighting and how itās normal for them to have disagreements. His sign off on the letter had a similar drawing a large face and ball cap, and a small one for the son. Just curious!
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u/DiscountCondom 5h ago
my brain could not parse what i was looking at before reading the title. A bruised forearm? a roll of dirty bandages? I was so confused. even now I still kind of am.
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u/GeekS1989 6h ago
As per rules of reddit: You should divorce him! He's a lying bastard and liars never learn! If he lies about these small things then what else wouldn't he lie about?!
Jokes aside, what a cute little surprise. Enjoy the hell out of that relationship!
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u/mckenna_moon 5h ago
i LOVE when they say these things to misdirect you into an even more heart-warming experience!
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u/horsedragons 4h ago
Sooooo sweet!! How long have you guys been married? Y'all are smitten with each other it's adorable š„°
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u/awildNeLbY 2h ago
The design on the mat made me think this was a super bruised upper arm š
EDIT: Cant spel
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u/Commercial-Fox-288 5h ago
Holy shit redditors are fucking stupid. there was nothing hard to understand about this.
People need to leave their keyboards and interact with humans outside.
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