AIO I got the ick bc my bf was peer pressure into wearing a diaper to the Spider-Man movie
YALL I’m going to crash out. I love your podcast and all of the stories and you never think something story worthy is going to happen to you until it does so I had to download reddit and tell you guys the most insane fucking thing that happened last night.
I (28 F) have been official with my bf (31 M) for about a 5 months but talking for 8ish. We are both gamers, a little quirky, and his quirkiness is what o admire a lot about him. His friends are equally as weird and I’ve always enjoyed being around them because they’re always putting on fun events like drunk smash bros tournies, PowerPoint nights, making their own board games etc. They are all HUGE Marvel fans and although I haven’t seen ALL of them, I’ve seen the majority of them and love the spiderman movies so I was really excited when Brand New Day came out.
We all decided to dress up and meet as his friends apartment beforehand to eat dinner. We get there and a few of them already seem pretty hammered. I don’t mind but I was a little worried going to a movie theater with hammered people. I get there and they continue to drink and my bf even has a couple of drinks. They were getting a little rowdy and a few of the guys leave us girls in the kitchen while they go in the friends room for a sec. We hear them all just DYING of laughter. Listening in, I hear:
“Wanna see? I’m being so serious”
“You’re not. You’re fucking with me- holy shit you’re serious”
“You gotta do it”
“I’m not doing that”
“Come on”
We were so confused and when they stepped out we asked what was going on. The wife of the guy whose apartment we were at was like “ohhh I think I know what this is about. They do this thing”
I said “what thing”
And the girl laughing said “They think it’s funny to wear diapers to the movies so they don’t have to leave to go piss.”
My jaw was on the floor. Had they done this before? Had my boyfriend done this before when I was at the movies with him?
My boyfriend had claimed that HE hadn’t done it in a long time which is why he was shocked when they showed him their diapers in the room underneath their spiderman costumes. His friend corrected him and said “you literally did this with us for Thunderbolts last year” 😭😭
They were all so hyped up and hyping each other up and it was a weird drunken diaper cult mentality and all of the wives/girlfriends were literally laughing their asses off at their grown men wearing a diaper to the movies so I felt so gaslit into thinking that if I said anything, then I would be seen as the “lame” one.
A little disclaimer: they’re all very social and have a weird banter that sometimes I feel like I don’t have and it leaves me feeling a little left out at some hangouts that we have because I’m a little bit more shy and the newest to the friend group. So I think maybe this also contributed into why I felt like maybe I was the one being lame.
ANYWAYS flash forward to the movies. I thought in my head, okay so they’re wearing diapers for the bit - no way they actually take a leak in them during the movie, right? Lo and behold, not even 20 minutes in, one of the friends does an exaggerated “sigh of relief” to let us all know that he used his diaper. They all start “quiet chuckling.” They all would do similar things like that whenever they peed. One of the wives even got up mid movie and my bf said “bet you wish you had a diaper on right about now.”
Towards the end of the movie I whisper to him, “you’re not actually going to pee yourself right?” And he whispered back that he already had but didn’t make a big deal about it like the others did because he didn’t want to “make me feel uncomfortable”
Now it’s the next day and we both had work so I haven’t seen him today. Maybe the title is misleading because I know I’m not overreacting to the situation itself - but I guess I’m just wondering if it would be overreacting of me to break it off completely. This whole thing left an icky feeling inside of me and I can’t shake it but maybe I just need to talk to him or give it a few more days.
PS: I created reddit just to tell you guys this so my username is just the first thing on my mind when I was making the account