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Chapter 1: What is the theme of Armchair Anonymous: I Quit?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts, or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Rather, and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
Hi.
Today's Armchair Anonymous prompt was, I quit. Tell us a crazy I quit story. Now, guess what? You can finally listen to this one.
Oh, good.
Yeah, you can listen to this one. There's, let me hold on, Heidi. Well, yeah. Yeah, there is some, I guess, light animal cruelty, but the animal's dead. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So other than that, I think you're free to listen. Please enjoy I Quit.
Hard times come and go Good times take them slow Hi.
What a beautiful, robust set of headphones you're wearing.
And the wall, is it plaster?
No, that's a sheet.
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Chapter 2: What led Kaylee to quit her job at the wildlife agency?
If I got Giardia beaver fever.
I would still be paying for that. You would be.
Yeah.
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Chapter 3: How did Kaylee's experiences change her career path?
You're hitting all my erogenous zones right now. Kmart, Hershey. Yes. Blue Light Special.
This was 2002, 2003. I was 16-ish. And to preface, I do not condone my actions of this story or my behavior at all. Undiagnosed ADHD, heavily angsty teen, anything's possible. I hated this job. I applied at Kmart to be a cash register lady. I wanted to be that since I was a small child.
Yeah, I can relate.
Yeah, it's the best. The buttons. I mean, a sensory dream. So they put me on stock, straightening the shelves. It was mind numbing and I hated it. So I was always trying to like call off and a normal person would just find a different job. But I had to come up with a grand scheme to get out of this job.
So one day I arrived for my four hour shift and I noticed there was a ladder in the aisle, like one of those step ladders, like staircase. So I devised a plan to fall off the ladder. And in my teenage brain, I was going to then sue Kmart. Oh my God, you had big dreams. And then also sue to never have to work again. Oh, right.
You're going to retire at 16, basically. Correct.
It was so awful working at Kmart. So I'm like devising this plan all day, straightening my shelves and walking over. I'm like, how am I going to do it? So finally I decide to do a test run and I look around. I don't see anybody nearby. So I walked to the top of the ladder and I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to fake fall. I've never done that before.
So I kind of kick my leg out in front of me and I go down and I start falling and I fall on the floor. My head, I'm like, okay, this went pretty well. But then all of a sudden I hear this woman and she's like, I saw the whole thing. Don't move. I'm a nurse. Oh, so she's like, I'm going to stay with you. Don't move your neck. I'm like, I think I'm fine. I can probably just stand up.
She's like, no, no. So she gets the manager and then they call 911.
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