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Some people just know the best rate for

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you is a rate based on you with

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Allstate. Not a rate based on

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Terry who keeps and

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makes the car behind them. Oh

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no, they're about to... Save

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with DriveWise and the Allstate app and only

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pay a rate based on you. Not

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available in every state, subject to terms and conditions, rating factors and

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savings vary, and in some states your rate could increase with high-risk

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driving. Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance

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Company in Affiliates Northbrook, Illinois. Welcome

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to r slash Malicious Compliance, where someone gets paid

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$250,000 a year to literally do nothing. Our

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next Reddit post is from without Dennis

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Nedry. I have a very good friend

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who maliciously complied her way into getting

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paid for essentially doing nothing for 19

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months. It was

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a government job, no surprise there. She

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and her colleague worked in a state

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office that kept track of plague cases

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among prairie dog towns. What? They

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were super busy trapping and testing all

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summer, but once winter comes, prairie dogs

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hibernate so they ran out of work.

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They told their boss via email that

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there was no more for them to

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do that season, and their

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boss responded by telling them to stand by

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for reassignment. So they did.

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For months. They didn't want to be

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accused of theft by just clocking in

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and leaving, so at the very beginning

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they organized some storage spaces, very

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slowly. They cleaned their office several

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times and organized paperwork, that

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sort of thing. Initially, they slept and

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turned so someone was always available if

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anyone came to check on them, but

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when it became obvious that no one

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was coming, they stopped bothering. By summer

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the following year, when the prairie dogs

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came out of hibernation and she thought

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that her work might resume, the whole

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office, all employees, and every department received

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an email from someone high up informing

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everyone that this particular department had been

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cut. I don't know if the

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project got unfunded. or if they

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got all the necessary data from the

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previous summer, or if that particular pet

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project of some politician was forgotten about,

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but somewhere along the line, the state

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fishing game acts the project for whatever

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reason. Nothing was mentioned in the email

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about my friend's job status, so her

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and her coworker continue to go in

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and do nothing. She

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would tell me about making a giant

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binder rubber band chain and roping two

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office chairs together facing each other to

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turn them into sleep seats. Making

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a nest under her desk and moving

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the large copying machine out of the

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cabinet and sleeping inside of it. They

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made sure the security people saw them

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periodically throughout the day and

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they were on camera so anyone above

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them paying attention would have noticed but

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no one ever took the time. They

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dodged the folks in the other departments

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for fear that they would get told

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on and they just minded their own

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business. They rarely interacted with other employees

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anyways. Eventually, my friend ran into her

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boss at a show and she

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asked my friend where she had found

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new work. My friend didn't lie and

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said that she still worked there. Where?

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the boss asked. Where you left us?

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My friend said you should have seen

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her face when the lady put the

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pieces together and realized what was going

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on. The jig was up and she

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and her colleague were let go that

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following morning via email before they went

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inside. Because... Because

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they had technically worked there

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for so long, I think two years was the threshold.

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They both got a little severance package. In

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case you were wondering, they did get to keep their

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paychecks. Since one, they had proof

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they informed their boss they had no work

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and she clearly saw the email and responded. Two,

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they still showed up to work. Three,

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they did exactly what they were told. And

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four, it wasn't their job to make sure they actually had work. They

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both qualified for unemployment to boot. Neither

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of them used the unemployment since they both had

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been featured in the video. literally

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built on their property line. And

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they believed that because that's what the

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old lady probably told them when they

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moved in, but they never bothered to

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check. The surveyor informed them that it

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was actually a zero lot on her

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side, so all the land that they

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thought belonged to her actually belonged to

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them, and that included the

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land that she was using for her garden.

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So they won the lawsuit, the old

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lady paid the state assessed value of

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the tree, and then boom, in their

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permits for their property, they paid for

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a nice fence that cost almost exactly

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what they got for the tree. The

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fence was placed the minimum distance allowed by

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law from her house, which was 18 inches.

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So this time, the old lady was ready

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to fight that fight all over again just

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to get her 22 inches of yard back.

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Our next Reddit post is from Petit Peachpep.

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I'm a 31 year old woman, and at

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the time of this story, I was pregnant

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and one week away from my due date

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and working full time in a school administration

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position. At that time, I did have the

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capability to work from home if needed. When

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I accepted the position, prior to my pregnancy,

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I was told by my boss, Ronnie, that

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it was very flexible as long as I

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got my hours in. I very

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rarely worked from home, and typically only

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did so for an hour or two

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in the morning if, for example, I

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had a doctor's appointment. However, after I

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accepted the position, Ronnie told me that

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I had to try to limit my

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work from home days to two days

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a month, which is fine. But so

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close to my due date, I was

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experiencing physical hardships that made working on

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site more and more difficult, such as

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dizzy spells, a pulled tendon in my

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foot, and severe back pain. I

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was also scared of potentially going into

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labor while at work with it being

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so far away from the hospital that

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my OBGYN delivers at. To top it

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all off, my co-worker started asking more

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invasive questions about my pregnancy that made

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me uncomfortable. All in all, it

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was not a fun time. I explained

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all of this in an email to Ronnie

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and asked for her permission to almost exclusively

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work from home until I went into labor.

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I said that I thought this was a

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reasonable accommodation and I work really well from

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home. Ronnie responded a couple of

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days later, denying my request to work from

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home at all, and said that I needed

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to be there since we would be starting

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some of our busiest work in a couple

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of months. But during those

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months, I'd be gone on maternity leave anyways,

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so I'm not even sure why she brought

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that up. But she said that

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I could talk to HR about leaving options

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if I was truly having trouble working. Cue

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malicious compliance. I immediately

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went to HR and did just that.

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We talked about options and I found

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out that I could start my leave

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the very next day and still

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be paid state mandatory leave pay for

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the extra time. I informed

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Ronnie that I would be starting my

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maternity leave the very next day because

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I had to take care of myself.

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He said, I understand you need

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to do what's best for you, but you need

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to understand that I need to do what's best

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for the team. So after that,

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my team had a rough time because in

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my absence, most of my team wasn't qualified

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to do the work that I normally do.

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And people had to keep wasting time

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trying to learn my tasks. I left

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detailed procedure notes and workflow lists, but

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I later found out that Ronnie had

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to pick up all the extra work

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and a lot of it never got

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done because she didn't have the time.

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But it was the best for the team,

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right boss? That was our

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makes the car behind them. Oh,

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your