Breakups: The good, the bad, and the petty

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The Smile Breakfast team were talking about petty reasons people have gone through breakups. Lindy confessed to having dated someone for 3 years before breaking up with him because he had cracked heels. A lesson could be learned here though, you never know who might be listening to the radio:

The best way to describe his heels was that they looked like The Thing from Fantastic Four.

Your petty breakups

From annoying pet names, to the way someone pronounces things, and even song lyrics. Smile Breakfast listeners have experienced some unusual ways to be dumped.

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Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange is the producer of the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show and has been with Smile 90.4FM since it's inception in 2013. Through his work on the breakfast show he has won two national radio awards. He has been in broadcasting for 15 years and has honed his talent at 6 different radio stations. Outside of radio he is also a podcast producer and award winning stand-up comedian.

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