No gloss, no filter, just stories, spoken without fear. A person who is not generous cannot be an artist. The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. Listen to my weekly podcast, the puja bhajjo on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty, stay for the fire. You know those places kids can go with trampolines and climbing walls and giant foam pits? Yeah! Well, one mom is scheduled to take her twin daughters there for a kid's birthday party this weekend. What she doesn't know yet is the play zone area is officially at full capacity. So, she's allowed to take one of her daughters, the other one, well we have a plan for her. It's in your phone tab right now. Hello? Hi, Tanya Lu... Uh, speaking, yeah. Hey, I know we've never met before. I'm Vivi's dad, Brian. Oh, hi, hi Brian, how are you? Hi, I'm good, how are you? I'm great, thanks. Yeah, so your twin girls are coming to Vivi's birthday this weekend, right? Yes, they're so excited. Allie's especially very excited. Oh, they're excited? Yeah, she's a big climber so she's really into the play zone stuff. I was kind of hoping you wouldn't say that. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Is something wrong? No, I'm sorry. Because I know this is kind of inconvenient but I talked to the party zone people and they told me that the play area that we rented out with the party room is over capacity. Oh. Yeah, that's my fault because I didn't know that you couldn't go over 15 kids. Like it's a safety issue, I guess. Oh, gosh, there's like too many kids coming. Is that what's happening? Yeah, so here's the deal. Your twin girls are Allie and Ashley. Right, yeah. So while Ashley can be in the play area, Allie is going to have to watch from outside. What? It's okay because I've got the people who work there to rope off an area just outside the building but they have this pretty big window that looks into the play area. So you're going to just like rope off an area outside and just put my kid like outside. Yeah, she'll be okay to like look through the glass and put her hand up on it and she can watch all the other children have a good time. She just can't be in there with them. Right, but I just don't understand why my kid is being put outside while the rest of the kids can be inside playing. Well, because they're twins. You've got two of them. Right, but they both are people. Most of the others only have one kid that are going to the party. Okay, but... So it's not really fair for me to say to somebody else you can't bring your one kid, but she can bring two. I'm sorry, but Allie and Ashley are extremely close with Vivi. I don't see what the problem is. Oh, yeah, no. Why is she can't? Look, we don't want her to feel excluded. That's why the facility gave me special permission to bring a slice of cake outside so that she could eat it on the bus stop bench while she looks through the glass. Okay, I don't understand. How is this allowed? It's right next to the building, so it's not far. Is she going to be supervised in any way? Well, we'll be able to see her outside. Oh my God. Eating by herself. Are you laughing about my kid being excluded and like treated like this? I'm sorry, it's like some sort of like exhibit. It's dusty in here. I'm in a dusty room, so I've got the sniffles. So you think this is a joke to actually put my kid in like a pen? I don't think of it as a pen. Think of it as an exclusive VIP roped off area without heat. Without heat? Well, it's outside. Okay, what you're doing, it's not right. And you're not taking into consideration my daughter's feeling. Okay, but in my defense, it's not your daughter's birthday. It's my daughter's birthday. So I'm just trying to look out for what's best for her. Okay, but it's still about the kids. It doesn't matter whose birthday it is. Yeah, but it's mainly about one kid and that's Vivi. What is the matter with you? It's her birthday. I don't care if it's her birthday. You agree? You agree? On her birthday, she should get what she wants. And what your daughter wants is to put my child in a pen outside and stare at her through a window. Okay, you're being a little dramatic here. I've even told you that Vivi at some point during the party says she's willing to leave all of her good friends and walk over to put her hand up on the glass just to make Ally feel included. Oh, like a prison? She's gonna go up like a prison visit and put her hand up on the glass. Like that's gonna make it better. Are you kidding me? You're comparing my sweet daughter's birthday party to a prison visit? Okay, but- How dare you? Wow, okay. I have been to prison and it is nothing like that. Alright, this is not going well. Actually, I really would rather my daughter's not go and be involved in this at all because this is ridiculous. You're not? This is ridiculous. No, I'm not. Oh, that actually solves everything for me. Thank you. Because clearly, my daughters are not a priority. They're clearly not close enough with Vivi to be included. Yeah, actually, if you don't bring Ally and Ashley, maybe you could just ask your sister Rachel to bring her daughter to the party. I'm sorry, what? And that would fix everything. How do you even know what my sister's name is? Oh, first of all, I know your sister because she's the one who asked us to do this prank phone call on you. Oh my God. I'm so sorry. My name is Jeff from Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. This is a phone tap. I feel so silly. Oh, I'm so embarrassed. Your sister Rachel is pretty vicious, isn't she? Oh my God. She's the worst. She knows the worst way to pick on me is through my girls. Are you cool though, if we do put Ally at the window and maybe we could have a little voice speaker so they could talk to each other like it is prison? Oh my God, no way. Broken Jeffrey's phone taps on the 20s. No gloss, no filter, just stories, spoken without fear. A person who is not generous cannot be an artist. The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Bhachon on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty, stay for the fire.
