The Refreshingly Normal Podcast with Kēfla and Cree
The Refreshingly Normal Podcast
Welcome to The Refreshingly Normal Podcast, where real life meets real laughs. We are Kēfla and Lucrecia (Cree), a married couple of 22 years, long-time educators, and now stepping into the world of mental health counseling. Think of us as your favorite Unc and Auntie of the podcast world, keeping it honest, heartfelt, and hilariously human.
We’re also proud parents of twin young men who just turned 21 and are officially stepping into adulthood, which means paying their own bills (finally!). From raising kids to letting go, we’re navigating this new chapter with the same mix of love, humor, and a little side-eye.
Each week, we dive into the ups and downs of parenting, love, marriage, dating, and everything in between, served with a side of humor and practical wisdom. Whether we’re sharing lessons from the classroom, stories from our travels, or awkward moments at the gym or dinner table, one thing’s for sure, we keep it refreshingly normal.
So grab a cup of coffee (or a protein shake) and join the conversation. It’s therapy meets kitchen table talk… and you’re invited.
The Refreshingly Normal Podcast with Kēfla and Cree
From Blue Gloves to Bird Attacks: Educators Share Their Wildest Work Stories
Pull up a chair for an unfiltered peek into the lives of educators as we share our most jaw-dropping, hilarious, and sometimes shocking moments from the classroom. From confrontations with angry parents wearing blue plastic gloves (to avoid leaving fingerprints!) to being chased through school hallways by a vengeful bird, these stories capture the unpredictable nature of working in education.
The episode begins with nostalgic conversations about regional sayings, childhood memories of candy ladies, freeze cups, and five-and-dime stores like Woolworth and Ben Franklin. We reminisce about cherry sodas, blue light specials, and the unique aspects of growing up in different parts of the country before diving into our professional experiences.
At the heart of this episode are the extraordinary workplace stories that have shaped our careers. You'll hear about a parent who arrived prepared for physical confrontation, a colleague who contaminated a potluck dessert with bare fingers, unexpected classroom interruptions, and the community connections that make teaching in challenging schools so meaningful. These aren't just entertaining anecdotes – they represent the resilience, adaptability, and humor required to thrive in education.
Beyond the classroom tales, we discuss career transitions, side-eye moments of the week (including suspicious work assignments and financial requests from adult children), and our excitement for the upcoming fall break. Whether you're an educator who will recognize these situations all too well or someone curious about what really happens behind school doors, these authentic stories offer both entertainment and insight into the profession.
Join us for laughter, reflection, and a celebration of the unpredictable journey that is a career in education. These refreshingly normal conversations reveal the extraordinary moments that make teaching simultaneously challenging and deeply rewarding.
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the refreshingly normal podcast. Welcome back you guys. This is is Keeflup Welcome back.
Speaker 1:This is Kareem.
Speaker 2:And what are we?
Speaker 1:Refreshingly Normal Podcast.
Speaker 2:Thank you for joining us week in and week out. We hope that we have been entertaining, because I'm not going to lie, I listen to us on the way to work.
Speaker 1:Me too, and I be laughing.
Speaker 2:I be laughing too I like, I like those guys I think they're hilarious. Oh my gosh I could be friends with them me too they sound uh fun, a lot of fun and sound, and uh just a good couple to be around sure they do right and you say that now, until you get on your weekends, you wouldn't even want to hang around yourself. You'll be like I got to have my own privacy from me. Like who is it? It's Cresha. Oh child, what does she want?
Speaker 1:I just want to sit down. Act like we ain't here. She's going to be talking about that, anyhoo, who?
Speaker 2:said, you said anyhoo too much. Oh well, somebody no no, who's the main person? Malachi, yes.
Speaker 1:But today at work somebody said anyhoo, and then so they said they noticed it too.
Speaker 2:Oh, they were saying it, okay and so they say.
Speaker 1:Now they say any.
Speaker 2:Who like Cree would say yeah, I was like I don't even know.
Speaker 1:I said any who that much?
Speaker 2:but any, who, any, who, hey, you can say it. It's like people from Texas say already.
Speaker 1:Oh please, I'm so tired of that phrase.
Speaker 2:Detroit. What do the people from Detroit say?
Speaker 1:Oh, they say it on.
Speaker 2:BMF. What up though?
Speaker 1:What up though? Yeah, they say that on BMF.
Speaker 2:And down in New Orleans, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:What do people say in California?
Speaker 2:I don't know. Remember back in the day you'd say gnarly yeah, or when they say something dude yeah, gnarly dude yeah, dude yeah.
Speaker 1:But we know they don't say that.
Speaker 2:We ain't never heard that in California, not our part, not where we live in. Yeah, what do we say in Alabama?
Speaker 1:Hey y'all, what y'all doing.
Speaker 2:What do y'all say in Kansas? Hello, oh, okay, all right, yeah, okay, whatever. In Kansas, y'all don't say nothing. I'm not even going to say nothing wrong, because I don't want to mess up our listeners.
Speaker 1:We say pop instead of soda.
Speaker 2:We say drink.
Speaker 1:We say pop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if we say hey, give me something to drink, and then we say what kind Go get me a drink, what kind?
Speaker 1:Grape or red, go, get me a drink. What?
Speaker 2:kind Grape or red. Yeah, one of the best drinks, or drinks of all time.
Speaker 1:Guess what.
Speaker 2:Was the Czech black cherry. The greatest soda drink beverage pop of all time was Czech black cherry.
Speaker 1:We used to get them from Miss Heard in them house right across from the park. I don't know if we had Check, but we used to do more Shasta. I don't even know if we had Check, but I remember Shasta.
Speaker 2:Check used to always be in Piggly, wiggly and Winn-Dixie.
Speaker 1:We didn't have neither of those stores.
Speaker 2:What did y'all have?
Speaker 1:We had Safeway Dillon's I think that's what they were called Food for. Less came later, after Safeway.
Speaker 2:We had a store called Greer's G-R-E-E-R-S.
Speaker 1:We had a.
Speaker 2:Did y'all have? Okay, what about your five and dime stores, like if you was?
Speaker 1:a kid, we had Woolworth. Woolworth, that's just a five, and dime I thought Wool was a kid.
Speaker 2:We had Woolworth. Woolworth that's just a five. And I thought Woolworth me. When I heard people say stuff like Woolworth, I thought it was like a Sears or something no, it was like uh.
Speaker 1:Um, I think now we would think of it like uh.
Speaker 2:Dollar General or something?
Speaker 1:no, that's too upclad Dollar General it would be like a Walgreens, but it also had like a um, like a little sundae ice cream oh god and tgny what was tgny um? Kind of like k-mart, because we had k-mart okay, well, that's bigger.
Speaker 2:We didn't have a big source like that. Yeah, we had k, we had k-mart, we had a Ben Franklin With a blue light special.
Speaker 1:That was a real thing.
Speaker 2:Blue light special Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:That light go on.
Speaker 2:And you get a sale A sale was popping off Blue light special for us men run Police coming.
Speaker 1:Oh man, we had that too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but we had a. Ben Franklin was a five and dime.
Speaker 1:Never heard of that. Like we used to go get our marbles.
Speaker 2:We used to go get our little fish from you know. We would get a fish for our fish, our aquariums, uh, jacks and all that kind of stuff. We would get all those small small things there, Um, all of our candy. Uh, so was that Ben Franklin. Then, of course, we have family dollars. Then we had another thing called Fred's.
Speaker 1:It was similar to a family no, I was like I've seen, but I saw friends now with y'all no, they still got friends. Yeah, because when I used to run the rose garden trail oh, that's right.
Speaker 2:That's right, it's down at the end of the rose trail.
Speaker 1:That's right, I kept thinking but that was y'all not not yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right we used to have a candy lady and let me tell y'all my brother, oh, when I was little he found a place where he could get dollar candy. He would come back after a dollar, have a hundred pieces of candy, and I was like, oh man, where'd you get that candy from? He was like I can't tell you, just give me your money and I'll go get it for you.
Speaker 1:And he never, ever would tell me where the candy lady was, and he would just take my money, charge me a fee for riding his bicycle to go get it and then bring it back. But we always had some sort of candy lady, but he never would tell me who it was. And because we have a six year age gap I can't leave the block. So he just kind of did me dirty Gotcha, anyways look at him.
Speaker 2:What did y'all call? Kool-aid in a cup that?
Speaker 1:was frozen?
Speaker 2:I don't even know maybe we call them freeze cups maybe we call it a freeze cup flip them upside down, but we didn't do them in a cup, we did um.
Speaker 1:Now maybe we were fancy.
Speaker 2:Oh, my mom actually bought the ice pop I'm talking about like from the candy, ladies, or whatever. Oh, we ain't never bought that from the candy ladies.
Speaker 1:No, we did pickles like now later.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had pickles.
Speaker 1:That sort of thing, but I never bought ice cream Now.
Speaker 2:Later we had Star Crunch, nutter Butters.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I never bought no ice pop.
Speaker 2:Tony's mom used to sell freeze cups. No, we didn't buy freeze cups from the but she sold the big ones, so they was that would be called the ice cream man oh no, we had ice cream man too, but not cups, not the candy lady no, freeze cups were like no, there was people that sold freeze cups. There were people that sold candy and chips and but, like tony's mom, sold freeze cups. Uh, um, remember sililus. They used to sell the small ones, like in the, like the mouthwash cups.
Speaker 1:They used to sell small free stuff for like 10 cent no and um maybe y'all had that because it's so like hot, yeah, that was very. I mean we get hot in the summer in Kansas, but we definitely felt we got all the seasons like we didn't.
Speaker 2:We didn't do no, and all that yeah, we didn't do shaved ice, that was new orleans thing, um but we did have freeze cups and then of course, people would actually sell the actual, you know, the little pops and the little plastic thing. People would sell those to, um, we sold uh pears because we had, uh, my grand, my great-grandparents had pear trees and so we would sell pears, cause we had uh, my grand, my great grandparents had pear trees and so we would sell pears. And sometimes we would sell uh like those little small, uh moth wash cups filled with, uh, blackberries or any kind of berries. So some people would come and buy berries from us for like a nickel and stuff like that. But it was just a little, a little hustle. Everybody was selling something. Yeah, yeah, that was the good old days.
Speaker 1:Good old days so what about y'all?
Speaker 2:What did y'all sell out there in podcast land? What did y'all sell? Freeze cups, what did y'all call them? Did y'all call them freeze cups, freeze pops, frozen Kool-Aid? You know what did y'all call them? What else? Anything else called him um what else? Anything else. I don't know how we got on to what y'all sold and foley but we're talking about. I guess we'll use, I don't know, but anyway, those are good things, good time, yes, so what uh?
Speaker 1:what good has transpired.
Speaker 2:We went out for my um birthday.
Speaker 1:We did. It was a nice outing, but I don't know what was in that food.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It did not agree with my tummy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a little different this time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. I think that might be the last birthday there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it might be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, well, we'll go somewhere else, but it was still a good time. The way the staff is always super.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very good.
Speaker 1:Um and um. They even gave you some free goodies on the.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:Hook me up. Uh, oh, man, I wanted His name was. Did I say Sebastian? I do not Fabian. His name was Fabian. Okay, fabian Fabian at the Optimus. Yeah, top notch customer service at the front. But, like I said, we frequent there all the time. I got a stack of menus because on a menu they stamp your birthday. We got them down there by the laundry room on the particle board. But, yeah, he hooked me up with a nice, uh, trucker's hat and a shirt, um, and let's see what else uh. Saturday uh, I was glad kahari was able to get off work so that he and his brother can enjoy some uh personal time.
Speaker 2:he went with kimani to see pj morton I wanted to go to that concert because I love pj morton too, but I wanted to you know him and his brother to do some things you know together because, they've been kind of, you know, since his brother got to look girlfriend, they always do things themselves. I wanted them to have some way of school yeah, but I wanted them to have their little brother time yeah and they said, they said they enjoyed themselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I asked because Kihari's music is very eclectic. Yeah, he'll do some heavy metal and he'll do some rap.
Speaker 2:Still, yeah, and his music Because he likes Tyler the Creator.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and his music is just very eclectic. Yeah, it wouldn't be what would be in my, I guess.
Speaker 2:Neither one of their whole playlists would be in.
Speaker 1:No, here's something funny about Kimani. So Kimani likes jazz. And what's that? One man? He said when he got his car he was going to ride around with his. When he first, when he got his car, he was going to ride around and listen to Georgeorge benson george benson I said kimani, this was when he was 16.
Speaker 2:He was like when I get my?
Speaker 1:license. I'm gonna ride around friday night with my friends and we gonna listen to george benson. I said ain't nobody gonna ride with you and then one day he confessed to us and said that he used to love Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 2:He used to sing him in the shower.
Speaker 1:He's just all about this whole sophisticated vibe.
Speaker 2:He loves old stuff like nostalgia, old nostalgia. Yeah, he just loves it, but it's not nostalgic for him, because nostalgia is memories that one will relive, but for whatever reason he connects.
Speaker 1:Maybe in his previous life, yeah, he kind of was that you know like had the, the smoker's jacket, and he loves.
Speaker 2:He used to wear fedoras all the time. He's a kid. That might have been like his previous.
Speaker 1:Maybe he lived in the harlem renaissance yeah, and he was just like, yeah, that he might have his previous life, might have been in the harlem renaissance, yeah, so anywho um because even his little thing when he would say something.
Speaker 2:What was his little gesture? Wink and a gun baby.
Speaker 1:So he really enjoys PJ Morton and he has not well a concert of his choosing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let him tell it. He's been to one before. That was the uh jingle ball jam back when we jingle, yeah when we had our exchange student from japan with us hottaway and it was at uh state farm arena, uh-huh, and it was 10 years ago, right, maybe remember.
Speaker 1:We saw the thing said 10 years ago, hottaway was here okay and it was justin bieber uh nick jonas nick jonas, sixth degree, what are they called?
Speaker 2:fifth degree.
Speaker 1:Fifth harmony fifth harmony, and I forget some other people that were there and the main one was did we say justin bieber, justin bieber, yeah? And so our exchange student was just so excited about going she was in heaven. But never have I been to a concert field with teenage girls.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, me neither.
Speaker 1:And the pitch of their scream. I mean from the beginning to the end, they just screamed and the boys were miserable.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:They were like when are we leaving?
Speaker 2:so they were sitting like right underneath, like a family of them they were just, oh my god, they were screaming, screaming, screaming anywho um.
Speaker 1:So this, this concert, was, he felt like, was his first official concert that he'd gone to, so they got to go together. I asked kahari how was it? And he said you know it's not my typical music he goes, but it was a vibe, we had a good time. So he knew they had a good time and he even had a old drink.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, I asked mine. I go what drink did you have? A gin and tonic? I go okay, I don't think I've ever had a gin, I've never in my life had gin tonic and I don't plan on it and you know I like to experiment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, catch up on my 35 years of not drinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, nah.
Speaker 1:I don't need to do that. So they did the concert. Um, we just went, I guess, to dinner. Nothing big, but just had a local pizza place, went and did dinner. Yeah, we wanted to go to get some chicken Philly from the Philly spot yeah, but they were sold out sold out of chicken Philly, so I couldn't do that, so we knew that's what we did and yeah, that's that was our fun. That was our fun for the week that was our fun.
Speaker 2:We enjoyed ourselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So how's work? Everything's good.
Speaker 1:It's busy.
Speaker 2:Busy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, busy Creating new presentations or professional learning opportunities new presentations or professional learning opportunities. So I've been in the mix of updating, creating and delivering. So yeah, that's where work's been Super busy.
Speaker 2:I'm about to get busy, but like because I was preparing an IEP, but it comes right when we get back. So October is always a busy month for IEPs, for annual evaluations, and then I got a few re-evaluations to make sure that they're still eligible for services. But once I knock out October, I think I got four in October because I only have 10 kids in my caseload, and then I have one in December and I'm over half of my caseload for the rest of the year. But you gotta, I think we normally try to get them done by March, just in case kids transfer and all that stuff. You like to always try to have their stuff and so uh.
Speaker 2:But once I get this first one done and I because it's the verbiage that you have to say when you're in the meeting, you know, once I get that back, I think I'll be good Because, like last time when I was doing it, support man, I would, I would not IAPs out. I'm talking about boom, boom, boom, no problem, no problem at all. So I know I'll get back to that point and, like I said, I thought about it. I said, if they ask, you know, one of the teachers said so you're going back to PE. I said actually no, I think I'm good. I think this is where I'll be, because I love being able to come home from work.
Speaker 1:Praise Jesus child. Just let me tell y'all something Before the year started from April. When did he find out that there was going to be a change? April or May I?
Speaker 2:think it was before April. Anywho, I'm thinking about April. No, yeah, it was a little bit before April. There was so much angst. We're still in baseball, yeah.
Speaker 1:And sulking.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And just a gray cloud.
Speaker 2:I think it was the manner of it all.
Speaker 1:Just a gray cloud over his head.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so some days I just let him stay, because one time I tried to be positive and I got shut right on down. So I said you know what?
Speaker 2:Cause I listen. I'm not even gonna say it.
Speaker 1:I'll let you say that.
Speaker 2:No, I don't want to say it.
Speaker 1:Why Cause? I don't want to say it why. Is it going to be offensive, no, just keep talking. Um anyways, so I anyways. So I said let me not say nothing because those are his feelings, all feelings are valid and I can't get him out of what he's not ready to feel, and so just let him go through all the feelings. So I just didn't try to say things to help him to get out of the dark cloud. I just let him experience it and work through it on his own. So that's what I did.
Speaker 2:You did a good job with that too, because both you and I are both are fixers, and it's hard for us to just be a sounding board. You know what I mean. It's very hard for and I applaud you for that because sometimes we do need it, sometimes we don't need results, we just need to. Just let me get out what I'm feeling. Yep.
Speaker 1:You know, I realized that, so I said let me just let him work through all of his feelings.
Speaker 2:But it was just a matter of it all really, and because I would stay in PE if I could do middle, preferably elementary, because you know, once you're in middle and elementary I don't have to coach. But in high school you're required to coach per you know, principal's discretion and then, depending on your school, if you don't have enough coaches in the building, there are people that want to coach then yes, of course you're going to be coaching. But I didn't get into the profession to coach. Like there are some coaches, they'll tell you I'm not a teacher. I became a teacher so I could coach and I was like okay, I became a teacher primarily so I could have the summers off and audition in the summer.
Speaker 1:I was going to say, wait a minute.
Speaker 2:That's why I became a teacher to have the audition in the summer.
Speaker 2:But, but I also chose it because it was something that was in line with who I am as a person. You know what I mean and you know something that I do believe I'm good at, and I didn't do it to coach and even though I like, coaching is something that I'm good at. I'm good at being able to bring the least of the talented up to be able to perform, you know. But you know it's just different man, but I'm glad where I am right now. I'm blessed I got a job, especially in today's economy.
Speaker 2:I'm saying I got a job we can still keep the light on, you know. So, uh, let's see so today, speaking of work, that's why. That's why I kind of jumped in with work. Okay, uh, let's talk about some extraordinary moments on the job okay funny, scary, I can't believe it, or whatever. What are your moments that you can think of? We can go one for one, we can. You can start wherever you want to start. I got a few and many of the few are in the same school, same person, different scenarios.
Speaker 1:Yes, we share those together yes, we do. Um, let me see, I will share this one story, okay, and then I'm not gonna. I believe, if y'all don't know, we have had the opportunity of teaching in a variety of places, so, um, it'll be hard to decide where is this at, because I've taught in Kansas, I've taught in Texas, I've taught in California, I've taught in Georgia, so, anywho, one of these places when I was a school counselor.
Speaker 2:I may give it away no, because you was a school counselor in two counties oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right. So in one of these places, school counselor, um, we had a little family of children really struggling getting to school, doing all the things, getting school on time, behaving while they were at school, making good choices, all things. And so the social worker went out to figure out why are they late? Do they live where they say they live? And they did not live where they say they lived. So, um, I just keep going.
Speaker 1:And he said hey, miss Hare, I need you to call Miss such and such and let her know we did a wellness check. They don't live where they say they live. We are unenrolling their her children today.
Speaker 2:Now, was that your job, or that should have been something he should have done?
Speaker 1:no, it may be the social workers. That's the one who did the wellness check and I feel like it was initiation.
Speaker 2:I feel like yeah, that's what I said. Are you doing? Are you doing a dirty work?
Speaker 1:yes, I think so, because I also it was my first year as a school counselor and so you know, you just learn all the things and I'm like, okay, you said I got to do it, let me call. So I called, I was like, oh, thank goodness it's the voicemail. So I left the voicemail and said, hey, listen, give us a call back at the school. You know we've done a wellness check and realized that you all don't live at the address, so we need to figure out some enrollment things. Just know that, as of today, your children are unenrolled from our school.
Speaker 2:Okay, hold on, put a pin right there. Yeah, when you say voicemail.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that just made me laugh, because think about where we have taught yeah when that number shows up on caller id. They don't answer. It's gonna go what voicemail?
Speaker 1:because they that's what made me laugh.
Speaker 2:it's like, oh well, pretty much all our calls would go to voicemail whenever we yes.
Speaker 1:Because they know their children are challenging. So, anywho, so I didn't hear back from her the next day, the kids did not show up to school. And then the next thing I know, their front office says hey, Ms Hare, such and such is here to see you. And so I go up and who?
Speaker 2:was such as such. Was it the parent? Okay, there we go. The parent, the mama that you called and left a voicemail.
Speaker 1:So I really wasn't that nervous about it. But then when I got up there I said, oh, she pissed, and so um how could you tell just her demeanor?
Speaker 2:did she have a hand on her hip, with her hand backwards?
Speaker 1:I can't remember how it was cause.
Speaker 2:You know, when that hand backwards like this on that hip that's business.
Speaker 1:The one reason why I knew she was was because then she started walking like like George Jefferson, like yeah, yeah like she was like yeah, so I was like oh, like I might, I might be, getting ready to get whooped.
Speaker 1:So I just said okay. So I just said lord. So I said come on in, just come on in. Like I try to use my little high pitched country tone because that gets me out of everything. It helps, it helps, it does help this one teacher I work with. She said Cree, you think when you, if you use that high pitched country tone, that it's not offensive? But it is. But anywho, I I said come on, just come on in. So she came into my office and she was like what y'all mean? Y'all enroll my children. I said listen, now I will tell you. When I was in college and part of cause, I graduated early from high school, a semester early. So I started working at the bank.
Speaker 1:The biggest thing for the bank was customer service because you're dealing with people's money, and so the training on customer service for the bank has helped me with dealing with parents really yes, because money is as sensitive as their children. So the biggest thing is to listen to them and then to agree and then to say I'm here to help you.
Speaker 1:Let's figure this out together. We want the children here, but let's figure out what's going on, and so I try to keep that kind of tone, and so I could see her kind of just coming down, like I was bringing her down, bringing her down, bringing her down oh, bank teller yeah, my bank teller skills, okay, customer service. So I finally got her all the way down what bank was this?
Speaker 1:um interest banking oh interest interest bank, um, and so I brought her down and find, and so, anywho, later that day my principal said whew, I'm so glad everything went all right. I said what you talking about? You didn't see her with them blue plastic gloves on. I did see her with the blue plastic gloves, but I thought those gloves were. Maybe she worked, you know medical field, you know I was in the hood oh yeah so I was like I didn't know why she had them on.
Speaker 1:I mean I mean it's been. It was lots of craziness um and she and I said the problem is, they saw them. Yes.
Speaker 2:If it would have went left.
Speaker 1:So, that was the problem. And so then I said, no, why does she have on the blue plastic gloves? And you know, this person had the nerve to say to me he said it's funny now, but it would have been funny if it would have gone the other way. He said, because she said she didn't want to leave no fingerprints on your face. Y'all heard what I said.
Speaker 2:Y'all heard, I heard.
Speaker 1:And I said what?
Speaker 1:Hmm, she's going to leave some fingerprints on her face, so she brought them blue gloves. So she brought them blue gloves. But luckily I did have some sort of customer service, some sort of training, some sort of something, because I might have felt like I got to go toe-to-toe with her, she walking in here, like you know, and so, anywho, it worked out fine and all, but from that day moving forward, I was her girl and when she came to this school she didn't want to talk to nobody but Miss Hair. But yeah, that was crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we didn't want your third fight elbow to be in the hood. Oh child, we didn't want your third fight able to be in the hood. Oh child, we didn't want that to happen. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover, okay then, fighter lover All right. So let's see when should I start.
Speaker 1:Um you're talking about the one person in all the stories yes, okay, go with your, okay.
Speaker 2:So I mean, but then I don't mind saying where I went, where this happened, that for me we was in texas, and I don't know the order of the events, so I'm gonna give you one, all right. The first one that related to you was we used to have those potlucks and you know people would bring food and y'all know how we are. We need to know who's bringing what right, and so, but she wasn't the one that brought that one. I thought it was someone else that brought it.
Speaker 2:Oh she did. I just know I saw she brought it, you else that brought it? Oh, she did.
Speaker 1:I just know, I saw she brought it. You had gone before me.
Speaker 2:Yes, I went before you and I was in the break room and I was grabbing stuff that I knew who bought stuff, like Ms Holcomb brought something.
Speaker 1:It was all in the library. It was all lined up in the library. That's where it was.
Speaker 2:I thought it was right across the.
Speaker 1:Mm-mm.
Speaker 2:It was all lined up in the library. Remember that little break room we had right across from PE.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that wasn't what it was.
Speaker 2:I could have sworn. That's what it was. All the food was lined up in the library. It was during school, though.
Speaker 1:It was during school.
Speaker 2:Because I remember, wherever it was. I remember going in there and, like I said, I had a list of stuff that people had. They said I bought this, I bought this. I said, all right, cool, I'm going to go try it. And then I saw that cherry crunch and I was like, oh, that looks good. I wonder who bought that.
Speaker 2:Cherry crumble Crumble yeah, like apple crumble, is one of my favorites Any kind of crumbles, that's good. And so I saw this one teacher in there, this saying she's a piece of work, and so she was in there and she reached in there and there was spoons and serving stuff right in front of it and she reached her hand with her fingers like this, and pinched into the cherry crumble and said, mmm, it's good, this is fresh, and that's why I thought it was she made it. She made it, but I don't know if she made it. That's what I'm saying. I don't think she made it, I think she tried it.
Speaker 1:All this time you told me that she made it Listen.
Speaker 2:All right. Whoever I was at the time told her that she made it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But the person that went into the room saw her reach in there with her three fingers like this, pinch it and say this is fresh, I like this, this is so good. And I said, oh, and I took off running because I went before everybody went and I and she was especially a teacher I ran in there and I said don't nobody eat the crumble, please don't eat the crumble. Because Miss such and such just reached her hand in there, pinched it and put it in her mouth and ate it and they was like oh no, oh hell, no, I'm not gonna eat. That. That was one incident.
Speaker 1:Okay, another incident well, that, yeah, I remember coming down the hallway to go to the potluck and you was like wait, wait, wait. I was like what, what? I know you like cherry crumble. That's one of your favorite things. Don't eat the cherry crumble. I was like why, why? Oh, I was getting ready to say her name Miss such and such. Reached in there, reached in there and ate it with her fingers. I was like oh no.
Speaker 2:She reached in there Disgusting, disgusting, disgusting. And then another moment she was For the underwear, because I used to stay. No, not the underwear, I got to save that one for later, okay. But this one was like, because it was elementary school, but I always I love that school. We would stay after school and open the gym up to the people in the community, you know, like the dads and just some of the family, just to come and hoop, because it was, it was a a hard area. Yeah, you know, south Dallas, it was a rough area in South Dallas, but they love that school and so we will open the gym up and let people hoop and stuff and we would just sit there, I mean man, hours at a time, just, you know, chilling with people. So it was.
Speaker 2:It was like we got out like three something Right, and so it was. It was like we got out like three something right, and so it was like 5, 30 and she's still there and we like, why are you not going? So she was. She said um, my husband, he keeps driving past me and I was like what do you mean? See, I go out to the door and then I see him and I wave my hand. He just drives and just drives like he doesn't see me and so he did it for like an hour, so he would wait like 20 minutes and come back around and she was like and drives, and he just kept doing that to her and then eventually, like cause she called him on that's when people was just getting the cell phone. Everybody didn't have a cell phone. Those were the like because she had. She called him on that's when people just getting the cell phone, everybody didn't have a cell phone. Those are little flip ones. And she called him and she said I am right here. So she stood out instead of standing at the steps, she went out to the street, yeah, and she was like right there when he came by and she kind of surprised, oh I gotta stop now. And got in the car.
Speaker 2:And another moment with her was he was getting disability, right, and this joker had. He was out of work for going on two years. She found out that he was still getting disability, not sharing anything with her, and she was picking up extra jobs doing different things after school, tutoring stuff, like that. All right, um, what's the other incident? The other incident?
Speaker 2:Okay, so she had special ed kids and every now and then they would call the front desk to you know, say hey, because it was two, it was three coaches in the gym. And sometimes they would call in the gym, say, hey, coach, you know, can you? Uh, coach harry, can you go to such and such room? And you know, uh, cover their room while they go. Can you go to miss scott room and cover her room because she has diarrhea? You know something like that. And so, uh, just so happened, um, I'm at the front desk because I always went to the front desk with joke around with the latest miss, um, miss wall and miss McKee. And so, uh, I'm sitting there and miss, I won't say anything. She goes.
Speaker 2:She's like here, are you happy? Boom Puts a bag, um, like a little you know grocery bag, like a little plastic, set on the counter and we're like what is this? It's my clothes, my underwear. We're like, oh, and Ms Ball's like, get that off of here. It's like what I called up here and told you. I had to go to the bathroom. Nobody covered for me. Now I'm going to mess my pants. And I was like what? And she was like so I rushed to the bathroom and didn't make it in time and I messed up my pants here. Are you happy? And I was like if you don't get these clothes off my counter.
Speaker 2:I know something and so the whole time thing I said so now she walking around here with no drawers on In public Because they on the countertop now. So that was one incident. And then the last incident that I'll talk about, uh, was we had to go to a training somewhere and we were sitting there and she was like um, we, they had offered us something to drink and she was drinking, she was swishing it. I was like Mrs Suss, you all right? She was like, yeah, just this morning I was brushing my teeth and then noticed that my teeth felt funny and I was like yo, what happened? You got to go to Disney.
Speaker 2:No, I looked down and noticed that I was brushing my teeth with my diaper rash ointment and I was like what she said, because I'm real chafe up on this. She was rubbing like all this, I'm real chafe right here and my ointment was where my toothpaste was. I bet her husband did that on purpose, like put the diaper rash right there. And so she said she had brushed her mouth, her teeth, with her diaper rash ointment. And this is a grown lady teaching kids Grown grown.
Speaker 2:Yes, teaching kids. So I was like you know. That was my most exciting moments. Well, I guess fun moments on the job.
Speaker 1:I remember with her one day when I was in the maybe I was warming up my lunch or in the little lunchroom and she was eating and I noticed every day she was eating her lunch and she was drinking a Slim Fast and I was like, no, is she trying to lose weight? Well, I knew she was trying to lose weight.
Speaker 2:You look at her. You knew she was trying to lose weight.
Speaker 1:And I said hey, miss such and such. I said you know the the swim fast is a meal replacement shake. I was like, so you're just supposed to have that, not that, and a meal like you're supposed to have that by itself. She goes, I know, but I just get so hungry and I said okay.
Speaker 2:So her SlimFast was her sweet tea with her lunch.
Speaker 1:Yes, Child a mess.
Speaker 2:She was. She was that school alone man.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's a ton of stories.
Speaker 2:guys Like that lady who was in our department meeting. You remember the lady that told her I need to smoke. Smoke all day, like she just smoked all day and so we're in the meeting Next thing you know. She eating grapes and I'm all the way across the room. Tons of people, I'm like sitting by the door. She's way over there and all she said and she's choking, everybody looking at her, nobody pats on the back, nothing. And I'm across the room and everybody just looking at like oh oh lord, oh oh, oh lord. And it was like are you choking?
Speaker 2:and she couldn't talk, so you know, she was choking, choking, and so I'm like I'm looking like you know I did. I did just like I said and I got up and I ran across the room and I got behind her and that grape popped out, oh lord oh lord, that's not funny baby.
Speaker 2:You saved me. Baby, I was dying. I was dying. You saved me and I was like it's all right, it's all no, baby. I saw, oh, I saw I was looking at all y'all for the last time. You saved me. You said, and she promised I'm gonna take care of you. Oh, trust me, oh, I got something for you. What's?
Speaker 1:she brought you Nothing ever.
Speaker 2:No other thank you. After that it was back to as business as usual and I wasn't doing it for no things, but it's like dang, you know, could have brought a brother a gift card. I was a gift card king back in the days and that was it, but nothing.
Speaker 1:Nothing.
Speaker 2:You remember, was it? But nothing, nothing. You remember when bud we ever got in a fight? Yes, I do well, you remember. You remember when uh green ran from them bees during field field day and you remember I ran from that bird so crazy it was a bird it was. It looked like somebody's house bird, like a canary or something like that. It was outside where we would normally line up for pe. I'm lining up from lunch, coming back from the lunchroom, on the little what's that little causeway like thing like an awning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the awning uh-huh and so um the uh. I saw the bird over there by like that power box. You know, everybody has those little green power boxes or whatever you might have them in your front yard, but the school has a big one. It was the bird just sitting there, something looking, and all of a sudden it flew by me who's had a nest nearby I don't, I don't know, but I would.
Speaker 2:I've been there all the time and nothing. And then, all of a sudden, something flew behind me that way. I said what in the world? And I'm looking, I said this, and he's just sitting there as I move and he's just watching me, I move, he watched me again. I said this bird trying to come get me. And then he flew right, he's a, and I ducked and all of a sudden he came back.
Speaker 2:I took off, running, I'm. So I ran. I was outside already, so I ran on the side of the school and he was right there behind me. I I'm ducking, ducking, ducking, and I'm running by kids. I hope, you know, hopefully he'll run by the kids and get on them instead of me. And so then all of a sudden, I run to the side of the door and the door was like just getting ready to open. I dipped through the door, through the school. I'm running through the hallway the bird's right behind me the whole time. Through the hallway. I'm screaming get him, get him, get him, get him. And I don't know where. I think I dipped back through the gym and I ran back outside and he took off. I mean, everybody and their grandmama that was outside was laughing at me. Coach, yeah, you was running from that bird, you was running from that. You were right, I was running from that. But you're right, I was running from that bird.
Speaker 1:that bird was trying to attack me. It had a nest or something nearby. He had something, but whatever it was I I don't know, or maybe it was my shiny head I remember when I did my student teaching and it was so social is not my jam, but you know, you're an elementary teacher, you have to teach everything, and so I was still trying to work at the mall in the evening during my student teaching, so I didn't really prep well for my lesson and I forget what the lesson was about, but I went from one time period to a whole other time period.
Speaker 1:That was not what it was and I could see the kids kind of looking at me like what is she talking about? So then I looked am I saying something wrong? I look at my student teacher.
Speaker 1:She's like my supervisor teacher and she was like so she came up and she's like well, I'm going to help finish up this lesson. And so I was like so after that I I was like I cannot work. I got to be prepared, but like social studies was never my jam, like I have to teach all of that history. But from there I was like never again will that happen to me. And so to prepare myself during that. But that was like I was so embarrassed.
Speaker 2:Well, it was kind of didn't say nothing.
Speaker 1:No, the kids, they were just kind of looking like I don't know.
Speaker 2:And my kids told me Coach, you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:No, they didn't do that when I did student teaching.
Speaker 2:I said I really don't. And I said this is my first day student teaching and my supervisor teacher ain't even here.
Speaker 1:I was thrown in the fire. Oh, I had the best supervisor teacher.
Speaker 2:Because he was a coach. And when he finally had a student teacher. He literally left the lesson plan and dipped. Oh, yeah, and for the first week he was in bus driver training and then when he came back they was like Coach, he don't know what he talking about. I said I do. I said I do. I said I'm just teaching y'all something different. Nah, you ain't teaching like coach, because I had him doing work and stuff too, and you know football coaches a lot of times don't have him do nothing. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I will say I wasn't. I must have been pretty good, because the next year they tried to get me a job. But I had already gotten a job and they tried to talk me out of the job I took to come there. So in the end, there you go.
Speaker 2:You had the last laugh I did. I didn't even apply. You didn't I didn't apply when I graduated. I was trying to move. I moved to stay with Aunt Belle. I left.
Speaker 1:I didn't apply there. I was at my new school because I graduated college in December. So then it was a long-term sub position. So I was working the long-term sub position at another school and that principal from my student teaching called me in my classroom. She called me. She found me, however, and she called and she said we're interested. You know, take some time to think about it. And then I remember my principal at the school that I was doing my long-term sub. What does she want? And I go. What do you mean? She offered you a job, I said. She did. What are you going to do? I go. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, and so Did the principal there?
Speaker 2:offer you a job too. Yeah, they both offered she was like oh, I better jump on it before she go.
Speaker 1:The only reason that I chose the school I was subbing at was because it was Edison.
Speaker 2:School and they paid more money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, paid more, and you know, back then in the year 2000,. You know, teachers was making crumbs, I mean really now we still make crumbs.
Speaker 2:Was it less when you were there than it was at Dallas?
Speaker 1:Yes, so in Wichita I made 31. I think my first was 31,000.
Speaker 2:Because Dallas was 41, wasn't it? Yeah, that's why I moved to Dallas. That was $10,000 difference.
Speaker 1:Yeah, $10,000 difference, but my first teaching job was $31,500, and I thought I was doing it.
Speaker 2:Because Dallas gave me, because they started me at 41, but they gave me because they gave me my military.
Speaker 1:Okay, because I didn't have no teaching experience.
Speaker 2:so they gave me my military experience Same with when I went to Cobb in California. They they honored three years of military on the on the steps for the teaching standards.
Speaker 1:So yep, Though I remember that oh any other job? Uh yeah, in one of my schools I had um, I had a. I had a large class fourth graders. I had a large class Fourth graders. I believe I had somewhere between 32 to 35 students.
Speaker 2:That's a big class for little ones.
Speaker 1:That's a lot of kids. Not only that, there were no specials connections. I was the specials connections. I had to teach all the things, do all the things, yeah, do music. Yes, had to teach music, had to teach PE.
Speaker 2:What was the name of your school? Little House on Prairie.
Speaker 1:Had to teach PE, had to teach music. There were no specials.
Speaker 2:That's two classes. They failed.
Speaker 1:So yeah, we just talked about the history Jazz. I'd be like what, what am I going to do Jazz?
Speaker 2:do you know what jazz really was?
Speaker 1:Jazz was something like this they would count the Christmas program as like. Oh, okay, like stuff like that we would do, and so 32, 35 kids in this classroom and I had some challenging behaviors.
Speaker 2:Where was this at?
Speaker 1:California.
Speaker 2:Well, no, it had to be the one school, Because after that you was at the private school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, had some challenging behaviors. So one of my little ladies I called I think there was, yeah, her aunt. It wasn't her mom, I think was her aunt you want to say she wouldn't answer the phone? No, that's a different little child that same class yeah um, I called because she was misbehaving and just kind of letting her know that you know she was having a challenging day. You know, just kind of give informing her of that. So I'm going on with the day we're teaching and doing all things.
Speaker 1:All of a sudden my classroom door swings open and she's like um, got that belt like a sword. She went to that baby's desk and whipped her right up out of that desk, up out of that door, all the kids were like oh, and I was like oh, I've been there before.
Speaker 1:And I mean I promise it was like so fast, it was so fast, it was so fast. She got up and said I bet not have to come back and was gone. And so I called the front office and I was like um, did y'all know that such and such mama?
Speaker 2:or aunt or somebody came.
Speaker 1:They said, yeah, we saw her. I said, do y'all know? She came here and whooped her butt. And they're like, uh, no, I'm like why would y'all I'm in the middle of instruction why would you let her come in and then not even call and say, hey, miss hair, such and such mama's here, did you know she was coming? I don't know, did she sneak past? Right did she not pull the belt off till she got past him? But, honey, she tore her butt up.
Speaker 2:Did the girl behave after that?
Speaker 1:oh, let me tell you. Oh no, she was so embarrassed because then when we went to recess she had a sister and everybody was telling her sister about what happened and she was like I can't go, please don't make me go to recess, please don't make me go to recess. They gonna be talking about. And she was so upset. I said, sweetheart, you've got to go to lunch, you've got to go to recess because we had duty free. I was like I got to go eat my lunch. I said you're going to have to go and she said no, I'm okay, but I'm telling you, moving that day forward, no problem.
Speaker 1:Not a one, that's what it takes, sometimes Not all, but I had to write up a whole report. That's what happened to me. I got. Back in the day they wasn't going to. That was fine. I had to write up a whole report about this ant coming in and doing that and all the things and it was. It was just yeah 10 they had. Yeah, I was so shocked. I think that's the one, only time that's ever, because typically the front office will be like hold on yeah, or they'll call up here for they'll call and say answer the door yeah, um, that was.
Speaker 1:That was the only time I've ever had anything like that happen.
Speaker 2:What's her name? Mama whooped her at Blair, who I want to say it was. Was it her name? Dad? I want to say it was Mama, yeah whooped her at Blair.
Speaker 1:Now Blair was a special place. It was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she whooped in the gym. Wow, whooped in the gym. Well, whooped in the gym, mm-hmm During school.
Speaker 1:I've seen a lot of parents that well, what they'll say is, in all my many years of education, they'll just check their child out.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And go do their discipline.
Speaker 2:No, they got them, but Texas was different yeah.
Speaker 1:Texas was different.
Speaker 2:You could paddle and stuff too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was corporal punishment. Yeah, it was different.
Speaker 2:But she came and whooped her in the gym. That lady was something else, remember she?
Speaker 1:Well, anyway, we're not going to share that little story because that is a little bit vulgar. We'll talk about.
Speaker 2:But let's see, don't even say that, because we're going to tell the story one day, but it ain't you know.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you we could write.
Speaker 2:Just on that one.
Speaker 1:We could write for Abbott Elementary.
Speaker 2:Yes, of course, we definitely could.
Speaker 1:We could definitely With what happened at Blair.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we would be there.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was something.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But it was fun. So we were uh, eddie and janine, yeah, we were. We were eddie and janine, yeah, but it was, it was, it was it was and we did have mr johnson.
Speaker 2:We had a few of them, mr johnson's crazy sales, those custodians we had.
Speaker 1:Lord have mercy who would be barbara. Miss holcomb, that's what I was gonna say miss holcomb was barbara.
Speaker 2:Miss holcomb was barbara and green would be tyreek that would be tyreek yeah and uh what? What was uh my frat brother? He would be uh who my frat brother? That was uh in the trailer uh, yeah, what was his name? He taught sixth grade. I forget, real skinny, I forget he would be. Uh, eddie's friend, how he uh. Oh man, what's Eddie's friend? The white guy, what's his name? Oh god, but that's what he would be yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was really yeah oh man, yeah, we could, we definitely have, uh, our own abbott elementary, yeah, and uh, let's see anything else but our principal was not like ava, no, no our principal was amazing.
Speaker 1:she worked, she worked hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the back to school when you had the ponies and stuff, the ponies the jumping thing the bungee thing, a little merry-go-round thing, I mean, she did so many things to get those.
Speaker 1:Like for it to be a title one school.
Speaker 2:In the hood I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:I mean we have room parents yeah like I like for my, my mama, my room parent, miss moore, that was the best room parent ever and um, she would call certain days and say, miss scott, um, the kids said they wanted food today, ask them what they would like for me to bring, and I said, ms Morris, on the phone, y'all. She says what do y'all want for y'all's treat today? Church chicken. And tell her, don't forget the pampas, don't forget the pampas, and she would go and get my babies whatever they wanted, and her son For my students. I always wanted to feel like my classroom, no matter what, to always feel like family.
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:I made sure they felt like brothers and sisters and they, like you know, I just tried to make it feel that way and so I talk about my personal life and all the things with them and I remember mentioning, I think I said what'd you do over the weekend? He said, oh, after church we went to Golden Corral. I said, oh, I love those rows at Golden Corral. Oh, they my favorite. So next thing, I know he is trying to steal the next Sunday a whole bunch of rows from Golden Corral to bring them to me.
Speaker 1:She said bunch of rolls from golden corral to bring them to me. She said miss moore said my baby was trying to steal uh, those rolls from golden corral for you. I said, oh, I did tell him that I like him and so, um, she was like. I told him no, you can't bring you, you can't take rolls from golden corral, but anywho, it was.
Speaker 2:That was just a very special, sweet place it was it was yeah, I, I mean, if I think, if people could experience that, whether it was attending school uh, especially under the principle we had the leadership we had attending the school or teaching at that school, um, your life would be forever changed in some capacity. In some capacity like it was a rough area, because I remember somebody broke into one of the modulars, one of the trailers, and all they did was take the food out of the refrigerator. They didn't take the computers, they didn't take nothing, they just took the food out of the refrigerator. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I remember when I made paper mache globes and we hung them on the blinds and when I came back to school on Monday the rats had crawled up the blinds and ate through our paper mache. I said y'all these paper maches got to go. I said we will not have rats up in here and so I threw all those paper maches out.
Speaker 1:When I came back Monday those rats had eaten through our paper mache. Um, I mean we had painted them and everything they ate right on through them. I said, oh no, y'all these have got to go. I'm so sorry. I told y'all, y'all can have me, I don't want them.
Speaker 2:Anyways, rats been all over them at same school we had field day and the community used to come out. Oh, it was a big deal.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about field day, the community it was a first, second, even people that didn't have kids. First, second, third place yes, it was.
Speaker 2:It was a big deal, yep, and I remember.
Speaker 1:I remember for fair too.
Speaker 2:This was about the bees. So we're out there and they get ready to do the 100-yard sprint. So I'm at the finish line and Green was at the start line and we saw like a little cloud, like a little black cloud, and we saw it and I'm not paying attention to it. But then all of a sudden you can kind of it got quiet and you hear, and people was like what is that? Parents looking? And then Coach Green you know how extra he was. He said and he just took off, coach Green was about five four and he just took out, coach green about five four, one and yo and he just took out and he's at the start line. So he's taking off and I hear the bees but I'm not paying. I said, hey, you know he's just running. I said why? Maybe he racing somebody? Yeah, but then you see the swarm.
Speaker 2:And when you see the swarm, oh my black folks, just because they were standing on each side of the 100-yard line and you just saw black folks do this. Everybody just dipped and them swarm was chasing green all the way towards me and I just dipped. I went to the gym. I went to the gym because it's that side door by where the playground was. I dipped up in there and green kept running to the parking lot and I saw that swarm and it just dipped up in there and Green kept running to the parking lot and I saw that swarm and it just shot up in the air and everybody was like quiet and then also you just hear nothing but laughter. Everybody was just laughing and everybody running and everything. And we went back and finished the 100-yard relay. I mean it was a big deal.
Speaker 1:I remember, strategically, my class planning for field day and we were trying to figure out for the relay who was going to be our starter. And me trying to tell them no, no, we got to do it this way Because it was about winning, so it was just you know, yeah, them kids were fun. They were some fun kids they were fun and still now all on my on Facebook my baby's there, so yeah yep, roderick, roderick and. Brunelle and.
Speaker 1:Elsa Jennifer and Jennifer and yep, yeah, so many of them had a good time there, really had a good time there.
Speaker 2:Yep, alright, so you know we'll wrap it up. So let's talk about oh side eye of the week. What is your side eye of the week? All right, I'll start. My side eye of the week is I had to teach a homeroom class. Oh, last minute, they had to teach respect, you know. So they took me out of the thing. Yeah, I had to teach that and I was like what in the what was the teacher Absent? They pulled her to do something with some other stuff. Okay, so I think it's a setup. I think what is it? I think it's a what. I think it's a setup. What is it? I?
Speaker 1:think it's a what. I think it's a what.
Speaker 2:What'd they say? A scheme to what?
Speaker 1:I think it's a scheme that Ty set up to come to you with the bull.
Speaker 2:Bull-ish. I think it is Because I'm looking. I'm saying so instead of me being at this spot. They put me in this class and put her in this spot. So I think they're probably going to start giving me a homeroom during when we have character ed days. So I kind of side-eyed that. You know how they try to do things inconspicuous. Or then they'll say we heard you did such a great job. How about? Oh, you should have done terrible.
Speaker 2:You know, but you know I can't do it yeah and so that's one of my side, because I I feel some, uh, shenanigans, because they want to say if you shenan once, you shenanigans. Oh no, lord, y'all heard her say that I never heard of shenanigans.
Speaker 1:Oh shenanigans, I never heard of that, but it makes perfect sense Shenanigans, shenanigans twice.
Speaker 2:I never heard of that before. Shenanigans twice.
Speaker 1:I never heard of that.
Speaker 2:Alright, we'll leave it alone. I never heard of that. All right, we'll leave it alone. I never heard of that. Okay, all right. So that's my side eye of the week, and what is your side?
Speaker 1:eye of the week. I'm so sorry to this man that is my child. Here is my side eye of the week. So I get a text message that says hypothetically speaking, do you think you could send me $165 for my medical bill? I'm like, first of all, why are we saying hypothetically Right? And so when he does stuff like that I don't respond because I like to leave him kind of guessing, as you should so I didn't even respond, and so I was like what is he talking about?
Speaker 1:what this just sounds like foolishness. And so a day went by, and then I got another text message that said so what, you think about giving me the hundred sixty five dollars for my medical bill? And I said well, son, when you get home we can go online and pay it. He said I already paid it, so can you just cash at me Now?
Speaker 2:first, of all, since when have you ever paid?
Speaker 1:your medical bill, because right now you still in my pocketbook our wallet.
Speaker 2:Like Shamar said, he is in debt. He is in debt, he owes me and he owes his mama cause he is in debt. He owes me and he owes his mama cause he is in debt and he is not cable of paying his own medical bills so I was like son, where have you ever paid your own medical bills?
Speaker 1:so I was like he was like son, where have you ever paid your own medical bills. So I was like he was like well, yeah, you're right, I don't know, I was just trying. I said first of all, don't be paying stuff and thinking I just got it to give to you. But you know, they think that we got all the money in the world. Of course we all, yeah, that we got all the money in the world.
Speaker 1:Of course we all yeah we got all the money in the world, I was like, but listen, what in the world? And so he got a little extra money and so I guess he run around here, him and and his little girl his boo thing. They just run around, I guess acting grown, we paying medical bills.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And out eating expensive ramen. You know that's what we do. We got a little money. We got a little check. See, he ain't been home since he got a little check. No, since he got a little check we ain't saying no, no at all. So, anyways, that was my side. I like listen, child. You got money to pay medical bills law, right, right, oh my god so that that just tickled my little soul.
Speaker 2:All right, and so what are you looking forward to? Oh no, what is the why do you? What is the thing that you are most grateful for or looking forward to?
Speaker 1:Let's see, I am really grateful for this fall break that is coming Desperately needed. In a few days we have the week off. Yeah, and I can say this now, because this won't come out until they already are here, I believe.
Speaker 2:No, don't do it, Don't do it. Why? Oh yeah, I believe. No, don't do it, Don't do it. Why? Oh yeah, go ahead, oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1:So this Saturday our niece Deja she's the one we talked about before who came to visit for Labor Day weekend, they're doing a whole. I thought it was a surprise surprise, but it seems like a partial surprise. Anyways, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise. Anywho, I don't know what the surprise is, or even if it is a surprise, but there's a big thing set up for her celebration. It's going to be here in Atlanta that her boyfriend is putting all together with some people that she maybe will be surprised or that are there. Um, so we're going to stay. We were planning to go out Saturday. Saturday, we were planning to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we can spend the first part.
Speaker 1:Yeah To visit um, my in-laws, because I haven't been there in a while, so we wanted to spend some time with them, and so we were going to go Saturday. But we're going to stay here Saturday To enjoy her festivities, and then on Sunday we're going to head to Alabama.
Speaker 2:Foe Town.
Speaker 1:Now, out of the break, what I'm really looking forward to in the experience, because we decided that when we come back we're going to go to the Korean spa, day spa.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those day spas, day spa.
Speaker 1:So I'm excited about that. To get all scrubbed up and rubbed up and just to enjoy the spa. So yeah, I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's going to be good.
Speaker 1:Because I've been wanting to do that for a long time. Only thing that made me nervous is that they said you got to walk around naked.
Speaker 2:You don't have to walk around naked Like you. Can you get robes and stuff like that?
Speaker 1:Oh, because that made. I thought that I remember somebody saying but maybe the rules, I think the rules maybe have changed a bit. But I remember somebody saying but maybe the rules, I think the rules maybe have changed a bit. But I remember at one point people said you just people you have to run around naked.
Speaker 2:You talking about what? Nene was talking about, that one that was up in.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, listen.
Speaker 2:I know where it is, though.
Speaker 1:I'm not, I can't do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So anyways, I'm excited.
Speaker 2:Hey, we can go. We can go to Hedo. Hey, we can go we can go to Hedo.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to Hedo With all them old folks.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't feel bad dude.
Speaker 1:No, I can't do it.
Speaker 2:I don't care for the other old people.
Speaker 1:I'm not ready to expose all of this, all of this. So, anywho, I'm excited for that too. So, yeah, just break overall, excited for it. Yeah, so, um, yeah, so what about you?
Speaker 2:Well, I can't say the break, because somebody will say you know?
Speaker 1:he said that cause.
Speaker 2:I said that you can say it, but uh, I'm okay, I'm looking forward to not going to work, but I love my job, but I am. I am tired, Um, and the kids are tired at work. Ooh, when I tell you like today was a rough day, Um, teachers are at their wits wits end. You can see it in them. Um, it's just a lot of tension in the buildings, you know with with the climate of the world right now. You can see it in some of them's face.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, but I'm looking forward to a moment to just relax. I want to cut my grass and my hedges.
Speaker 1:When are you going to do?
Speaker 2:that.
Speaker 1:Before we go.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking I might do it Saturday morning Okay. Yeah, I'll do it Saturday morning. Okay, yeah, I'll do it Saturday, because I didn't go to the gym today, because I worked out hard Monday and Tuesday. So I probably work out hard Thursday, do it Friday and then work out Saturday morning and then enjoy myself with what's laying out.
Speaker 2:Okay, I said I'll probably do it like that, we'll see, but I'm just looking forward to relaxing. I'm looking forward to I always like going home just for the you know, see mom and dad and stuff, but I want to ride the new side-by-side. He got the little mule, the four-wheeler, but I want to ride the new side-by-side he got the little mule, the four-wheeler. I like being a country boy when I go home and I want to try to fish, because I didn't fish last time. That's really what I want to do. I want to fish and what else? That's really it. Yeah, I would. You know football, but I'm not even, because I don't even know who I want to watch. No more football. It's not as exciting like it used to be. I watch it a little bit, but that's it. It's like background noise when I watch it. But other than that, man, that is it. I'm looking forward to anything else. Yeah, that I'm getting closer to cool weather, yeah, oh, I am looking closer to cool weather.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I am looking forward to cool weather.
Speaker 2:I can't wait for the cool weather.
Speaker 1:I can't wait for the cool weather. Sweater weather, yeah, sweater weather, hoodie weather.
Speaker 2:Like to wear my hoodies, yeah, and other than that. That's it. So just gonna wrap this thing up, guys, and who knows, we may even do an episode at home with Mama and Daddy. Oh Lord, I think we could probably do a 30-minute episode with them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that would be fun.
Speaker 2:We can say the funniest things that happened with the kids growing up, because you know we got some stories that happened to us. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. That could go on, for oh my lord, and that's why I want to get my brother so we can talk about what went on, because everybody has a different version they do and it's everybody's life like their personal life and everybody has a different story of what happened to themselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's like I know better than somebody lying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's probably the person that it happened to, but it's, that's the good thing about it, yeah, so we'll, we'll get that done, but I think we'll, we'll bring the stuff and, um, I don't know if we'll do the video, we'll probably just do a voice, mom and dad, and just have them talking and laughing about the stuff that went down growing up. Other than that, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us. It is a pleasure, as always, I am your host. I'm your host, hostess.
Speaker 1:Well, in today's times we just say host, because we keep it neutral.
Speaker 2:Neutral Okay.
Speaker 1:So host.
Speaker 2:So have they changed the whole host? It's a paper mill company or something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, paper mill. Yeah, like you don't see hostess, you don't see actress, they just say actor. I'm an actor as well. Yeah, Stewardess, they don't say that Flight attendant.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They still say say that Flight attendant? Yeah, mm-hmm they still say miss and mister, though yeah, I think that goes all kind of ways. It'll probably go away too.
Speaker 2:It'll just be mm. Mm, mm, hey, mm. No, they not gonna listen to that. It'll be gender neutral, all right. So off on a tangent, as always, but thank y'all for joining us. I am Keefla, I am Anu, and this has been the Refreshingly Normal Podcast. We'll see you when we see you. Peace, peace. The Refreshingly Normal Podcast, the refreshingly normal podcast.