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Why Random Stuff Ends Up In The Fridge

• Chris Logan Media • Season 3 • Episode 56

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Your brain ever short-circuit so hard you put something where it absolutely does not belong, then later just stare at it like it came from another dimension? We’re leaning all the way into that reality, because “Why is this here?” is basically a lifestyle when you’re juggling kids, schedules, housework, and a thousand tiny tasks that never stop coming. 

We swap our most relatable mom brain moments, including the classic “walk into a room and forget why,” the never-ending mystery of pocket items that end up in the washing machine, and the gross surprises kids can hide in plain sight (yes, we’re talking milk cups). Then we read listener stories that are so specific they have to be true: phones in the fridge, food in places food should never be, and the VCR as a secret storage unit for kid treasures and snacks. 

And just when you think you’ve heard it all, we top it with a multitasking fail for the record books: cracking an egg straight into a fresh cup of coffee. It’s funny, it’s painful, and it’s a reminder that you’re not alone if your brain feels maxed out. Huge thanks to our June sponsor, Go Big Entertainment (GEAUX-Big.com), for bringing the fun to Louisiana weddings, reunions, and events. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs a laugh, and leave us a review. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever found in the wrong place?

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Cold Open Confession

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But I went like I was going to put it up there, and I'm like, what the hell am I doing? Like and then I put it in the fridge.

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Well, what did you do this morning? Girl, what did you do this morning? Call it hell, everybody. Thank you for bringing this up this morning.

Welcome And Sponsor Shoutout

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Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. Grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and let's dive into real conversations about life, motherhood, and a little inspiration to brighten your day.

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Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We have um such a funny episode for y'all.

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It's gonna be so funny.

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It's gonna be very relatable, I'm sure, for many of you mamas out there.

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Why Is This Here Mom Moments

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This episode is called Why Is This Here? Why is this here? Where is it and where why'd you put it there? And why is it? Why is it here? And it this is um times that you are looking for something, maybe, and you don't know where you put it, and then you find it somewhere and you're like, Why is that there? Why did I put it there? How did it get here? How did it get here? Might be a good time, uh a better title for this episode. But how um many times as a mom? Um, and even maybe some of our listeners that are not moms, or maybe their kids are gone, but you still like you forget why you walked into a room. Oh my gosh, all the time.

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All the time. I I find myself looking in the the refrigerator and like, what am I doing? Or I walked in. Why did I come in here? What the heck am I doing here all the time? Yes. But I have I I'm very deep in this right now because um not only do I find things I I'm losing things, and I'm like, where's that? You know, like I know I have another shoe that belongs like this one, but it's fellow. But you have two little, little ones too that are hiding, putting things everywhere. So yesterday when we decided to um do this episode, I was like, uh I was dumping out some dirty clothes into the washing machine, and out with the clothes come this Pringles cup in the case. Just you know what, I'm gonna throw this in here.

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This looks close enough to a trash can. Let me just throw it in there, is probably the thought behind it.

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But that happens so often with things that I find in the washing machine, you know. And sometimes I'm glad I find it before I start washing.

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Because it could be really how many times have you washed things that wouldn't supposed to be washed hot. Me too, and then it gets dried and then dry in your clothes.

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And then you gotta spray the dawn and wash it all over again. And I'm not gonna say, but it's not me putting the chapstick in the washing machine. It's not me. It ain't me neither.

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So it's the other adult that lives in the house.

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It is the other adult that lives in the house.

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In the pants pockets. Oh, yeah. And you know what? One time it was one of my good uh Lime Life ones that we don't have no more, them good lip bones, and it got melted

Laundry Surprises And Pocket Chaos

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everywhere.

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Oh man.

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Broke my heart.

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Yeah. And he liked that one too. He did, yeah. Oh, too bad. So man. Okay, well, you know, or for me, there's like always jelly all over everything. Okay. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches is Roz's favorite. So, like when she was smaller, she wanted to eat in the living room. That's the only other place you can eat in the house. Well, now she eats in my bed sometimes. And I just don't want to fight with her.

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Some days it does not work. Especially if it's probably you probably you know what? You know, I probably need to wash my sheets anyway. Oh, yeah. If it happens, it happens.

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Yeah, yes. Yeah, 100%. So that's it. So sometimes you find jelly in your bed. In the chair, uh-huh. In in the bed. Um, you know, but you know, I just don't know if it's worth a fight. That's that's something simple though. What's something like off the wall that you've have you found anything off the wall?

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I'm trying to think. I'm sure that I have, but my brain, see, my brain just don't work, you know, half the time, and I can't think that far. I know I have found milk cups. Oh, yeah, sure. Rotten ones, you know, in the car. Or one time, and oh, you like this story. Uh, when Rhea was little, she had to be about four or five. Um, I've milk cups everywhere. And like, I'm like, put your milk cup in the sink that get that stinks, you know. Well, one day I found one underneath her bed and it was a rock.

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Under the bed?

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Yeah, it but she probably didn't

Rotten Milk Cup Parenting Lesson

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put it there. Like it probably was on the floor and got kicked there or something. It is my thoughts, but that's regardless. Um, I said, I'm gonna get I'm teaching her a lesson this time. And if you know my she's eight now, but like I said, she was young at the time. And she don't like anything fuzzy or crawly or creepy or she hates frogs. Don't even put a frog within a mile from her, okay? So I I she was laying in her bed and I came beside her with the cup and I and I opened up the lid and I did like a big gasp, and she looked up. What? What is it? Like immediately her mind went to there's a frog in here or there's something in this cup.

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Oh, there's something scary in here.

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There's something scary. It was some rotten old milk, but I didn't let her on tonight. Uh-huh. I I said, Rhea. And she freaked out. Like, I didn't even have to say anything. And I I went to like show her what was in the cup, and I think she thought I was gonna like throw it at her. She shot out that bed and smoked back, started running. So what I did, I started chasing her with it. Remember, I said, oh no, I said, Come here, you said I want you to see what's in here. But poor little heart, she probably thought it was something not, she didn't put two and two together. And this all happened within a flash. And I'm like, before I knew what I was chasing her with, I would give to be a fly on the wall. So once you realize, I said, calm down. Like, there's nothing in here. It's milk, it's some old chocolate milk you left in here. And this is why I'm telling you, if you wouldn't have this laying around in your room and you put it in the sink, you wouldn't be scared right now. It's your fault. Your mom is chasing you with a cup of milk. It's your fault I'm scaring you with this milk right now.

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Oh my god, we find milk cups all over because like the kids they drink it, the sippy cup goes everywhere, it's in the living room, and the living room is the last place I'm picking up. So Chase was like, oh my god, there was a there was a cup that was probably been in there so long it don't even stink anymore. It's went through the whole cycle. Throw it in the trash.

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We don't even care about it.

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Oh man.

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I know some of y'all mamas out there are relating to the the especially the milk when they're little, you know, that it within half a day, it's starting to smell, you know. It don't take long in this Louisiana heat for sure. But I want you if you listen and uh leave us a comment and let us know what's what are some things that you have found that was either gross

Listener Finds And Wild Stories

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or just like, why is this here? Like what it's not even supposed to be here. Um, we I asked this on Facebook and got some pretty interesting answers.

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There are some good ones.

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So we're gonna read some of these to y'all and just let us know in the comments like if you have done any of these things or um your stories, because I think everybody would enjoy reading.

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What are you finding? And don't say pocket change in the washing machine. Let's do it. No, no, no.

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What are you finding that really just does not belong there? Yeah. Um, okay. I found my phone in the refrigerator one time. I have done this. Oh, yeah. I definitely have done that.

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Yes. So I think that's I don't I I we put I've definitely found things in my freezer because we put stuff on top of the refrigerator. And on top of the refrigerator. And when we open up the the freezer, it falls in. It just falls, yeah. And I just guess we don't notice. And by we, I mean chase. Yeah.

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So, you know. Right. Um, a hot dog on the bathtub. FYI, it wasn't. It wasn't my kids. So he was having a nice little hot dog in the bathtub. So maybe, maybe it was your husband eating up. That's my thoughts. If she said FYI, it wasn't my kids. Yeah. It was either her on a night, on probably a night, she might have had a few. Yeah. And she was having a snack. Or her husband.

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Yeah, or her husband. That's so funny. It's so something I would do.

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Right.

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You know, like a pizza, a piece of pizza or something. But see, the thing about me is I mean the whole thing. We're probably gonna have it. It's gonna be gone. There will be no evidence. I want to read this one to you. Please. Look down and notice my fake toenail was missing. Found it stuck to the dog the next day.

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Like a fake toenail. I could break this down so much. Yeah. My fake toenail was stuck to the dog. Yeah. Love it.

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Oh man, that's so funny. I laughed on that one. So did 13 other people right now.

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Yeah. This was a good one too. Um, a pair of my four-year-old daughter's panties was stuck to the bottom of my husband's pants as we were walking in late for mass. So not only was it not supposed to be there, uh, it oh wait. And it gets worse. As the door creaked open and the parishionist turned to see who it was late, I realized something was odd. I just thought maybe it was a drawer sheet. So I quickly grabbed it, only to realize it was a pair of my daughter's panties.

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You know how often that happens though? Like, I mean, panties get stuck. Like I always thought whenever I would I would do the mat stuff, you know, like the nap time stuff. Sometimes my drawers would get stuck on their stuff, and I was like, oh my God, wouldn't that be so embarrassing? To actually don't want them. Yeah. Can you imagine the teacher seeing my big constants coming out of the mat? Yeah. Oh, poor bit.

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Oh Lord. You take one next.

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Okay, when I was a kid, my friend and I, we they were about six years old, they took the eggs out the Easter Easter basket. You didn't remember?

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Remember, I had one that I love so much, and I didn't want my mama to pack it, so I put it in my jewelry box. And it started stinking up my whole room. I'm like, where's that smell coming from? And my jewelry box was ruined. Like I had to spray Lysol in it, and it still never got that smell out.

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Oh my god.

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So yeah, keep going.

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The eggs, the real eggs, they took turns finding them. Around Christmas, her mama looked for the terrible smell in the giving room and found an Easter egg under the couch cushion. From Easter to Christmas. From Easter to Christmas. That had to be. She smelled that before. Sitting on that couch. Oh, had to. And was just like, what? That's the smell. Let's have a find the bad smell party. And here we go. Here we go. Lois's mama is looking under and finding it. Uh-huh. Um McDonald's fries found behind the headboard of a bed two years after my son moved out. No mode, look fine. Maybe maybe it should be in that. Yeah. No, that is definitely French fries. We find in that all that's in the car.

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Yeah.

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That's normal.

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That's always in the car, yeah. Um, let's see. Oh my god. I went to bring my son to school. He was in elementary. When I got home, he was still in the car. I said, What are you still doing in here? He said, You never stopped for me to get down. What? She was going to bring her kid to school. Yeah, the kid was still in the car.

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No, like when she got home, she you never stopped. Oh man, that's right.

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But he was probably quiet and he was just waiting for his lim his mama to stop at school. She never did.

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Oh my goodness. That is so funny. Okay.

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Oh, I threw my actual plate in the garbage, not a paper plate in the garbage last night. I was washing dishes and confused because I couldn't find my plate. And I thought maybe I had washed and tried it out of habit. Uh while I was talking, my husband found it in the garbage. I think we have, you know, I don't know, I don't know if you like me, but like, have you noticed like one or two of your silverware is missing? Oh yeah. I really think it gets thrown away.

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Oh yeah. And we don't realize it. I caught one of them doing it the other day. I'm like, um, did you just throw away my fork? My silver one? Yeah. And she was like, uh no. I said, you better go look because it ain't in the sink. I think you did. Oh. And I like my forks. There's some old ones. You can't find that just anywhere. So okay, this is a good one, and I have a story link to it.

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Okay.

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She said, Miss Tammy said, when I worked at Floyd's, a lady brought in a VCR she had bought two days before. She was mad and fussing because it didn't work. But when they took the top off, it was full of gummy bears and G.I. Joe toys.

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The kids put that in there like the day when she got it.

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Yeah. Oh. Well, this is a prime example. So my my my mama, she still got a VCR at her house. Okay. She got one of those dual ones. The VCR and the DVD part. Alright, alright. Okay. And Cruzy went spent a night over there. And it's nighttime, time to go to bed. You know, he needs a noonie. He needs the new. And they cannot find that noonie anywhere. And I mean, it could be any crevasse there. So finally, Austin remembered that he had or that she looked in there and he had propped that thing in the VCR. Found the noonie.

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What is it about the the VCR? Like they're a door.

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It's like a little door. You don't remember whenever you go to the video store and they wasn't open, so you had to put the video in the little door slot. The little door slide. It's fun.

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It's a little mystery.

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Yeah, it is. Well, that was a mystery for my mama that night. I guess it was. A horror story.

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A horror because oh, they need it to go to sleep. Yeah. And they could not find one. Uh let's see. One day my husband swore up and down that somebody drank his Pepsi. None of us even like nasty Pepsi, but whatever. We just rolled on because it was nowhere to be found. Later that night I had a headache and I opened a cabinet where he kept the Tolano and vitamins, and lo and behold, there was his stolen Pepsi. We gave him crap about it for days.

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Oh man, that's some mom stuff to do, though. Yeah. That's that's some that's some stuff I would do. Oh, my son put a sandwich in a VCR back in the day. Yeah.

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Uh I found milk in the cabinet for the cups nowhere in the fridge. I've done that

Egg In Coffee Multitasking Fail

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before. Um, like open up the cabinet and went to save the milk. But I didn't actually do it because, first of all, the milk carton wouldn't fit in my cabinet. But I went like I was going to put it up there and I'm like, what the hell am I doing? And then I put it in the fridge.

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Well, what did you do this morning? Girl. What did you do this morning? Call it hell, everybody.

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Thank you for bringing this up. This morning, I had a little extra protein in my coffee this morning. And it wasn't from collagen powder. It wasn't. I cracked an egg into my coffee cup this morning. This is the epitome of multitasking fail. Okay. And my husband always says this, and I'm not, I don't even want to tell him that I did this because he's gonna be like, You see, you see, I told you you can't multitask. That's good. Uh-huh. I was watching a video that you sent me on my phone. I had a but my fresh, fresh cup of coffee. Can I show this? I don't like you right now. Can you see it?

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Can you see it? Okay.

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Egg and the coffee. It was a fresh cup. You, you, you proceed to send me a photo of it's still cracking. I was I I because I that's how shocked I was at myself. I was like, I cannot believe I just did this. So what did I do? Held the egg in one hand and took a photo with the other hand because I just had a document in it. Yeah, had a document. I had to. So I was watching a video. I had my phone on the counter. I was watching it. I had a bowl out to crack the egg into the bowl, and my coffee was right there. And my brain told myself that was the bowl. And when I looked down and realized I had cracked it in my coffee, I almost I was like, I cannot believe I just did that.

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I said, just drink it.

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Wasted a whole egg and a whole fresh cup of cinnamon roll community coffee. Oh, that's a good common.

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I like that one. I really like that. Well, I'll tell you my embarrassing

Milk Left In The Car Regret

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story. I was more pissed at myself than anything. So we went run, me and my daughter, we went run around the track on Sunday. And I said, listen, when we leave the track, remind me we need milk and honey. Okay. Easy. Bible. Milk and honey. Okay. We leave in the track. Mom, don't forget we need milk and honey. Sure. Got it. Go home. Forget the milk and honey in the back of the car until the next day when I'm trying to put honey in my coffee.

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Oh, God.

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Okay. And um, I'm like, where the hell's the honey? You know, like I know I need to do it. We just bought some. I'm looking in the pantry, it's not there, and I'm like, oh please don't tell me I forgot to take down all I forgot to take down milk. Milk is like I'm buying four or five gallons of milk a week. So maybe I should give myself some grace because You should. I am so You should. I'm good, mama, most of the other times. 99% of the time, but this one percent, I forgot the milk. And literally sinking feeling.

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I hate that.

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When I saw those two gallons of milk in the back of my car. I've done that with meat, which is probably worse. That is worse. But I don't know. That I had to pour $12 worth of milk down the drain. And I wanted to cry about it. Yeah, I did. There was crying over milk there. Because you know, once you squeeze out 12 books, you want to see that.

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They don't give milk away these days, baby.

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Should have taken some milk baths with that, maybe.

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Maybe made some soap with it.

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And something with it. Anyway.

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Somebody's gonna comment on here. You didn't have to throw it out. It could have been used for watering your plants. Oh, yeah.

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Well, yeah, there is another use for milk vacuum. Called milk, you know. Y'all please let us know because I would prefer not to throw it away next time. Oh my gosh.

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All right, anyway. What else we got? Uh finding your son's cup on Oh! Finding your son's cup on the breakfast table. And it's not the one you drink from.

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Oh no. Gee, thanks, son. Yeah. Uh-uh.

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Oh.

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Um, let's see. A pair of infant mittens in my car this week, and I don't have an infant. I have literally no idea where they came from.

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Wow. Now that's random. That is so random.

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That's so funny. Peanut butter sandwich in the VCR. Another one. VCRs.

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VCRs are a hot place to hide things, huh? Uh my purse in the refrigerator. I do not recall putting that in there. All the wild, all the random wildlife that ends up in my backyard, even though I live in the city, you must just, you were just blessed.

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Oh, well, this reminds me. I got one more and then can we we can wrap it up. So this week, when I was telling you, here's the popcorn bag. Yeah. Popcorn bag, the kid had left the pop half a popcorn bag with popcorn still out and had to be a possum that got up on the on the bowl or on the patio board and ate the rest of the popcorn out of that bag.

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You leave anything outside, there's a critter gonna find it.

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Oh, there's a critter gonna find it.

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Oh my lord. Even in the big town of Church Point. I mean, you live in the city, but they got critters.

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There's critters. Critters and more colours.

Laugh It Off And Wrap Up

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Oh god. So the point of this episode, maybe uh uh just maybe it was to entertain you, maybe it was to make you feel less like I'm losing my mind. Because we are losing our minds. Oh, our marbles have been long gone. You know, and we can't find them. No, and we just gotta choose to find humor in cracking an egg in your coffee. Yeah, just the Lord help.

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So y'all tell us what y'all have left somewhere. Yes, you know, in the comments of this video, y'all let us know what is the craziest thing. Have you had VCR experiences?

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I feel like every 80s, 90s kid has got to, got to something, something was in that VCR or like the old Nintendo's that you would put in. Oh god. You know, something was probably making air sick, huh? Yeah. Don't mess those things up.

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All right, yeah. Y'all let us know what y'all what y'all's stories are. We love to see them. And thank y'all so much for hanging out with us today. And we really want to thank Go Big Entertainment, our June podcast sponsor. They are the place to have the event. Yes. Whenever I think about having an event, it kind of makes me nervous, even though I don't have any events because I'm old and I'm done with my wedding and all that. Yeah, yeah. But you know, you know, graduation parties. Yeah. These are gonna be things that I'm gonna have to deal with. I love knowing that there is somebody out there that is that's got everything.

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