We’re Petty (Again): Aisle Blockers and Other Villains

In this episode, we return to our favorite pastime…. airing  our petty grievances.  Private behaviors in public, backing into parking spaces, and the mysterious inability of strangers to understand how lines work are just a few of the things that have us praying for more patience. Join us as we bravely complain about the minor inconveniences, baffling public behavior, and everyday annoyances that make being a citizen of the world far more exhausting than it should be. Petty? Absolutely. Wrong? We don't think so.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Hi Heather. Hi Gina. How are you? God, I'm trying to be crisper because when I watched this back, I'm always like, huh, Gina. Like, like, do I slur that bad? I don't think. I feel like I had like a mimosa before our brunch chat. It's gonna be a crisp. I'm gonna try to enunciate better. It's one of those things where you watch it back and you're like, ugh, do I talk like that? I didn't notice that. So sorry, I'm slurring my way through life. That's all right. Sorry. Um, how is your week?

SPEAKER_03 0:36

Hectic. My week is hectic. We're all, you know, end of school year, all that kind of stuff. Exciting, just hectic.

SPEAKER_02 0:43

Yes, busy but good. Same. Like we just wrapped up last week. So this week has actually been wildly different. Like nobody has anything to do. And it's amazing. Excuse me. But last week was that. It was every single day, it was just like this, that activity, a field trip. Yeah, the ceremony. Yeah. Enjoy it. It goes by really fast.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

You're doing good.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

Do we have a good week? Yeah. It was pretty. I mean, I've been like, the weather's great. And I'm telling myself based on our last couple episodes, like Summer Glow Up, like I deserve to just like hang out by my own pool. Like it is not there for the children, it is for all of us. So I'm trying to like give myself at least a short time every day where I'm just like outside in the sun. Relaxing. Right. Do you like are you a floater? I'm a floater. I like nothing more in the world than to just like float with music on. And then I close my eyes. And I actually fell asleep though. That scared me a little bit. Chris was like, what did you think was gonna happen? You were gonna drown? I was like, no, it just freaked me out. Well, I mean, um I think I could I would wake up from the water. I'm not like I'm not dealing with anything else going on with my body that would impair that. But I do feel like it freaked me out how quickly I fell asleep. I know because it's so relaxing, and I was just like zoned out. But no, that's my favorite thing in the world. Same floating. My Big Joe float feels like a mattress. It's like my favorite. I need to get some better ones. We're always just like ours are always trashed every year. I I started doing like adult only float. This is mom's float. Do not touch my float. It's a watermelon. I don't know, it never lasts. You'll have to send me, show me. It's the best one. Is it from Costco or Sam's Club? Uh straight up order it from Big Joe.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

The first one I think was from Sam's Club. I have not seen it since. This was like a few years ago. And then I ordered the other one from Big Joe because they'll have like a sale.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

Yeah, they do have the best floats too. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 2:35

And it's like it's got like the little tiny, like white, like beads. It's not like inflatable. Yeah. It's like, you know what I'm saying? I do know.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

They're filled with some kind of fluff or not fluff, but foam.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

And we have one for Ryan, one for me, and they are adult only. We keep them like no touchy. No, do not touch my watermelon. Mine's a watermelon, has its blue. Beautiful. It is, it feels like you're floating on a mattress in a place.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

It's a good segue because today we're gonna talk about all the things that bother us that rev us up. And this is why we need to just decompress on a float. Yes. And we did an episode way back at the beginning in the early days called We're Petty. Yeah. And it was all about our husband grievances.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

And like I feel like we've done two petty.

SPEAKER_02 3:14

Have we? Oh, we probably have. Or was husband like two parts? Yes. I don't even know. But I feel like we're super petty. We also just end up sometimes having a segment of any pod that ends up us being petty or complaining about something. Yes. But this one, I I don't know. We'll have to come up with a title, but I feel like it's just like the public. We're still petty. Citizens of the world. This is not about our home, our children, our wonderful husbands. This is just about everybody else out there. And so, I mean, let's get rolling. Let's get rolling. All right. Can I start us off with one that's a little bit disgusting? Yes, please. And a personal grievance. I was just at my wonderful ortho slash dentist office with my kids, where they attend and get all their braces and everything done. Cost us all the money. And I was waiting for an appointment. So my daughter was already back. I was just sitting there by myself on my phone, chilling. Somebody in the office, and I hate to say it, but like I wanted to turn around because usually it's a male that's an offender. It was a female, was really going through something physically. She was like digging something up and like making all kinds of gross, coughing. I'm not even trying to describe it. Coughing, snorting, clearing her throat. Noises. But like it really sounded like she was going through it. And I just felt like, but not in here. Step outside. Step into the restroom. Go outside, blow your nose, cough something up if you have. Like, I'm not gonna make the noises, but like it was really gross. Yeah. And all throughout that appointment. I mean, for like 45 minutes, I just sat there and listened to like every 30 seconds to a minute, like stare down. No, she was behind me, and I didn't even want to make eye contact because I did not trust my face. Yeah. What are you going like what are you going through that you can't do that in private? Go do that in your car. That would have been hard for me to not be like, you good? You want some water? Like a merchant top. Like I have I have allergy stuff in my purse. Like, what are you going through? That stuff grosses me out. Even when it is my family or anybody, I'm like real sensitive about noises. Right. I'm sorry. I know. It was it was just like, why? Why? I couldn't.

SPEAKER_03 5:36

I concur. That would bother me.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

You know the rest of us can hear it, right? You're not in like a bubble. Oh, I think a lot of things are making my stomach turn. Very like just unaware. Yeah, which is a lot of my list. Yeah, it is gonna be a good percentage of the list. But can I just tack onto that one? And this is usually men spitting. Are you ever just like outside and some guy standing there? I haven't seen it in a while, actually. My gosh. I don't know what's going on with men's bodies that are different than women, but why do they need to spit? I don't know any men in my life who do that. I only spit when I'm just fighting. Thank God. For the people I'm surrounded by, they don't spit. Yeah, I was gonna say. But it is so common. I don't know if it's because I'm like at sports games with dads. Maybe it's like a masculine thing. But when I see somebody spit, I don't care if we're like in the no, there's no like dip, it's just there's spit. I'm like, do you are you producing extra? What is happening? I can't stand that. Yeah. Oh gross out by it. Because I'm like, where did he spit? Like, let me make sure I'm not walking over that. Oh yeah. There's a comedian who has a really good bit about it. I haven't seen that in a while. Oh, thank God for that. Yeah. I have recently, and I'm sorry if anybody listening just spit in front of me and you're offended. But like, stop. Everybody's offended. I think you're good. I don't think you're gonna offend anyone. I don't think they would listen to this podcast. Cut it out anyway. Ugh, spitting, coughing, snorting. Get it under control. Do it in private.

SPEAKER_03 6:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:55

If you all got a stuffy day, you you do that privately.

SPEAKER_03 6:59

Agree.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

I'm sorry. Gross.

SPEAKER_03 7:01

I'd like to throw out um people who don't walk on the right side of the road. Oh I feel like I see it, or or the aisle, or whatever. Not just the aisle. Sidewalk, anywhere. I feel like why am I seeing it more recently where I want to say, like, you know, it's like a thing, right? Like if I'm walking down this way, I'm on the right. You're on the left. If you're in the middle or you're on the right, and I keep going, like, we're gonna run into each other, and I'm pretty stubborn. Like, we're gonna go. There will be a face-off. Like, I'm gonna go pretty far. Like, just move.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

You're just like I don't understand. I can see it in my mind's eye. Right.

SPEAKER_03 7:36

Like, is it not like a common thing?

SPEAKER_02 7:38

I don't think it is. Uh, I guess it could be different if it's like Disney and you're dealing with people who are maybe from other countries. But I say to my kids so many times a day right side of the road, right side of the road. Like we'll be walking in the neighborhood, or we'll be walking in like, you know, a city where we're traveling. Get on your own side of the road, get on your own side of the road. Because they're just like, uh it's just like driving. It makes everything work smoother. Yeah. Your side, my side. Agree. Passing lane should be because that's another one of mine. To jump off of that, one of my big ones, and it encapsulates so many things, is just people with no spatial awareness. Like you're talking in a group, move to the side. Right. You're walking really slow for whatever reason, for whatever reason, move a little to the side. You're stopping because you just saw your best friend at Costco and you want to catch up, move it to the side. Like, what why are how are you not aware of like the world around you? What everybody else needs to be doing. It's literally on my list. I know. It's like there's like five on my list that deal with people and they're like lack of spatial awareness. Yes. It gets really bad at like you know, airports or like crowded cities or something when there's tons of people and you're just like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 8:50

Or what about somebody standing when you're standing in line? Someone will be in line, and I like there have been times based on the you know, hormonal uh time of the month. I'll turn around and be like, I can feel you breathing on my neck. Oh, yeah. Like, what are we going?

SPEAKER_02 9:03

They just don't give you any personal space.

SPEAKER_03 9:04

No, it's like, you're not gonna get up there anyway. I'm here.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

You can't these these six inches between me and you is not gonna save you any time. Back up. We were just waiting for uh we were in Miami. We were waiting for like a tour bus thing or something, and they were younger girls, like teenagers, I would say. But the company, and it's a dumb system, was like, wait out on the sidewalk, the bus will come get you up. Well, it's a sidewalk in Miami. It's like South Beach. It is so busy, so touristy, so pedestrian. So, of course, the whole time, I'm like to my kids, like, back up, stand against the building, stand against the building. There were kids, teenagers, eating like a full meal, just like standing with like food in the middle of the sidewalk. Yeah. Like, not at the edge, not by the building. And I just kept saying to my kids under my breath, like, do you see why I why do you see why I'm on you all the time? Like, do you see how annoying those people are? Every single group that came by had a like um oh okay, like they like made a thing about it, and still they were just like clueless.

SPEAKER_03 10:03

They don't care.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

I don't know. Parents, do better. Tell your kids, yeah. Teach your kids, don't be those kids. Listen to this list. I know, please play it for your children. But it is, I don't know, just so many people are unaware of like what they're doing. We were just joking about that. I just bumped into your sister at Costco. Oh, did it? And I she had uh her husband, one of her kiddos, and I was like, okay, good good luck. Because I was like, we were like parting ways to go to our shopping. I was like, I'll see you out there. Good luck with everything. She's like, Oh, I know, right? Because like people will stop and eat the sample and talk to the lady, and their card is diagonal, and you're just like, you can eat the sample and talk to the lady. Nobody cares. First of all, read the box, move on, but also just be aware that there's a whole sea of people around you.

SPEAKER_03 10:52

That's literally like number two on my list. It's just people being unaware in a grocery store. It it gives, I don't care about anyone but myself. It gives, I'm the only person in this grocery store. Like you said, carts on a diagonal. I've had somebody's cart blocking an entire aisle. And she looked at me and said, You can wait. After I had said, excuse me, I just was like, excuse me. And she looked at me. Oh, that's so rude. You can wait. The things I run into in a grocery store, like I mean, we'll give her the benefit of the doubt.

SPEAKER_02 11:20

Maybe she was having a really bad day, but also I won't, I won't say what I said, but okay. She moved the cart, but like it was I can sometimes move people's stuff for that. You have to it's a grocery cart. Like, I didn't touch your purse, it's public property. Yeah, I'll just say, well, excuse me. Like, but I'll move it.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

Right? And you always start off polite, and you just to me, it's like, why isn't everyone else trying to be polite? Like, when you're in a grocery store, this is not like you're this isn't yoga. This isn't like, well, you're personal, you're mad, and you're peace, and this is your hour to like, no, we're all here in the public together, trying to get food. Waiting for our lives, necessities, like everyone, just be nice and think of other people.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

I do feel like there's two levels there's unawareness, which which is I don't even know if that's a word. Being unaware, right? You're just like blah, blah, blah. Yeah, lack of awareness. Or I don't care, they can chill. Yeah. And then I feel like, mmm. Right? Fix that.

SPEAKER_03 12:17

I know.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

Literally. I mean, that's fine. Some people, I don't know, maybe they're really miserable. They got messed up lives. Get myself revved up. I know. Sorry. Deep breath. Already started going. You have to go home and float. Uh, okay, this one I was talking to my husband about too, because I am ridiculously over the top with this, and I will yell at everybody in my party about it. But like bad line etiquette, not the crowding. But like, if you have been in the drive-thru, everybody in that car should know exactly what you're ordering. You didn't just roll up to McDonald's for the first time. Like, you've been here, you waited in line. I didn't see no man before. What is this? You didn't just like burger fries nuggets. What do you want? Or Starbucks, anywhere you are. Yeah. Like, I don't know. If you are this unaware about what's going on at Starbucks, like you should have checked the menu before you got here. Agree. They spend the whole time in line chatting or something, then they get up there and they're still not ready. I'm like, what were you doing? What were you doing the whole time? Like I was rehearsing my order in my head. Yeah. So I didn't say these Italian words wrong.

SPEAKER_03 13:22

Oh, that might be on my list.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

Also, wait, rehearsing your order?

SPEAKER_03 13:27

Pronouncing Italian words wrong.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

No, I mean, you know, I'm trying my hardest. But like also your payment. Like, don't don't wait for them to tell you and then start digging around in your purse for gosh, just be ready.

SPEAKER_03 13:39

Right. And imagine how frustrated they are. Like, that's what they do all day long.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

And they probably deal so much with they're just like or like explaining what something is, and people are just like, right? I don't know. I'm over-prepared. Yeah. But also being underprepared is pretty annoying.

SPEAKER_03 13:56

That's all right.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

I like being over-prepared. Well, I'm not costing anybody else any time, I can tell you that. Not on my watch.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

Well, speaking of drive-through lines, line etiquette, people who caught in line. And I'm not talking about the person who like didn't see that the lane merged on the ex, you know, on the road, which that annoys me too, but that's just more of me, like, you know, and my patience. I understand. People don't realize it. Look, whatever. An actual line where somebody like, and it happened to us several times in Disney World. Oh, yeah. Someone just comes and cuts. Or like, even today, I'm at the grocery store and I'm like trying to get eggs, and I'm waiting patiently behind a lady who's checking all the eggs. She was taking way too long for my liking, my problem, not hers.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Like, no, these ones are free range, but these ones are cageless. Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:44

I we're we're neither of us, we're not idiots. We realize when it's like a me problem. So I'm just like, Gina, just calm down. Let the lady look at her eggs. And these other two people walk up, they see that I'm waiting there. They caught right in front of the minute she leaves, and I'm like, what'd you think I was doing? Observing? Like I'm just the egg observer, like watching her, making sure she doesn't crack any eggs.

SPEAKER_02 15:05

Like, see, because in my mind, those people are like, you can wait. You're making me. It's the same thing. It's like, well, I mean, just get it done. Or too bad. Or like well.

SPEAKER_03 15:14

The Costco chicken, like when the chickens aren't ready, you gotta wait for your chicken.

SPEAKER_02 15:17

It's like And then you're standing around waiting, and you're my brain. It's so much like an OCD thing. I'm like, you were there, then I was there, and then you were there. Right. I know like everybody's positioned and so I'm like, What are you doing? What are you doing? You weren't here, you just walked up. You are three chickens away from getting a chicken. Man, it is every man for himself out there.

SPEAKER_03 15:35

Yeah. But like a line cutter, like when that happens, my kids look at me because they're like waiting for me to say something. And I'm trying to be better about not doing that. Because in the end, I just look like the idiot. But there have been so many times where I'm like, also you'll live longer. You good? Like you had to cut?

unknown 15:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:50

Seriously? Like blood pressure, everything. You'll be better off for just being like, whatever. I'm trying. But I don't have a lot of. I have zero chill. Yeah. Um, okay, so many like line and spatial awareness ones. Okay, this one is super weird left turn. When you're watching videos and people are like, Oh, and if you don't have a rolling pin, roll it out with like a wine bottle. Have you ever seen these? And I'm like, who doesn't have a rolling pin? Right. When they like use some weird kitchen implement, oh, it's the wine bottle for me. I'm like, what are you doing? Why are you making a video of yourself cooking if you don't have a rolling pen? Yeah, it's gonna sign you some. It's like not even a knife. And like, how many wine bottles you could have saved up and got yourself a rolling pen? Right. A wine bottle could potentially cost more than a rolling pen. I get that it's multifunctional. It's kind of dangerous. But I'm like, what are you doing? We all have rolling pen. I feel like I'd crack the nail. Yeah, it doesn't even seem like the best application. I don't know. I think people are trying to look like women's a call. Like, I don't I don't own a rolling pen. I'll just use this expensive wine bottle. And I'm like, you should get a rolling pen. Agree. I don't know if you've ever seen them, but it makes me furious, like nothing else. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

When people stir things with like something weird or something, I'm like, you don't own a whisk. Right? I don't know, maybe not, but these things are cheap and easily. Uh Amazon, it could be at your house by 11 a.m. Right? You could have thought about this before this video. Don't make it like we're not all living in like, I don't know, we're not like trying to make homemade bread at the playground. Like you, I have basic things in my kitchen. Like, I don't need all these weird alternative ways to do things.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

Just like tell me the most basic route. I get it. I'll give you my weird one. Ear, an ear sticking out of hair. I won't listen to you. We're done.

SPEAKER_02 17:39

Wait, what? Like when your eyes your head almost falls naturally so that your ears poke bad?

SPEAKER_03 17:44

I can see your ear. Wait, no, wait, I'm gonna leave it.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

Go home. I'm a good side of the ear too. You are gonna fixate on this kid at all.

SPEAKER_03 17:56

Oh my gosh. That's specific to women. I can't. I mean, unless you're, you know, a guy with longer hair. Talk.

SPEAKER_02 18:03

Could you imagine? If you're talking, I'm just gonna walk away. I can't listen to you. That might be the most unhinged one.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

I'm immediately like, that's all I can think about. That's all I can think about.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

What do you want to have then? You just want to cover up that ear. Is it the ear that upsets you or that it's like the hair should be look so dumb?

SPEAKER_01 18:22

Like the ear, I don't like. I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_02 18:25

This is gonna be some people are like, right now. But if you have ears that like stick out a little bit more, like that's completely out of your control. But they if they you just feel like the hair hitting your ear, and you're like, you wouldn't know it.

SPEAKER_03 18:39

Like, I mean, listen. Some people do stick out, but if it's sticking out in between your hairs, like you can fit the bed in the front or the bag. Okay, just yeah, in the middle of your hair, it just I can't really. I can't talk about it. I'm so sorry. Your ears took it. I just tapped your random one.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

That was it's pretty unhinged.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

It does. I'm so aware of that. Irrational anger. When my hair is down, I'm always like, or if I'm like in a hat, I'm always like feeling.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

But again, I'm like self-conscious about my ears, so I'm I'm forever like tucking hair and like checking things. Like you just feel like a breeze on your ear.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

I instantly feel like insecure. Like, I don't know that I know your ears. What if I had to pick you up out of a line? What are you talking about? Well, I'd be like, if they're like, is this her?

SPEAKER_02 19:21

Because I'm not showing me. Is this her ears? I'd be like, oh you would be upset with me. Would you tell me? Would you be like, fix that? I can't think about slap you. I can't think about our conversation right now because your ears are poking out. I would fix it. Oh no, I just have good size ears. That's why I always wear my hair down and not up. I'm feeling my ears are too noticeable. Oh. And I'm really sorry if they've at any point been being now unaware. I was unaware. It's usually kids. And you're fixated on it.

SPEAKER_03 19:46

There have been a couple adults, and I'm just like, fix that.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Fix your ear. Like that one might take the cake. Yeah. Alright, I feel like we could do a whole parking lot one. And I feel like we've also touched on many things about this just in our general discussions. But it just happened to me. So large pickup truck, who has to back in every single time. It's always like, no, after you, I I mean, by all means, take all the time. No worries. I'm not trying to grocery shop right now. I could just watch you park all day. Yeah. And then straighten out and then try it again. Like in the fourth spot. Like maybe go to the end of the parking lot and park your giant truck.

SPEAKER_03 20:25

Practice back there.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

Or get it so smooth that it is not eating into any of my time. Yeah. But always a pickup truck for me.

SPEAKER_03 20:34

Always a pickup truck. And if you're going to back in. A lot of dudes, girls are backing in. No. And you better be good at it. Like if you're because if you're not, I'm going to make fun of you.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

I know. I was, I think I had my husband in the car, but I was driving, and I was like, oh, here we go. Here we go. It's going to back up. Here we go. Watch this. Watch this. And then he took a while, and I was trying so hard to like not make a face because you know, people are crazy. And then when he got out, I was like, he, I could have described him with my eyes. I sit there like this. I knew exactly what he was going to look like. I'll be like, he spit right when he got out of the space. It was all the things. He was like a spitter. And he had, it was just everything I thought he was going to be. I was profiling really hard, and I'm sorry about that, but I'm saying I told my husband, I was like, that's exactly I could have described him before he got out of the space. His car you spit.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

And back into spots. Trying to think of the amount of times that I've been driving it like in with Ryan in the car. He doesn't let me drive.

SPEAKER_02 21:28

Oh, I love driving. I love well that's beautiful. I drive everywhere. I love driving. I don't want him to drive. When we go to a road trip, we split it. Or if we're just like running around town, we split it. Also he'll be like, Do you feel like driving? I love driving. Also have control issues. Yeah. I'll get everywhere faster, more efficiently. That's it. I'll purposely shame him. Like when the Waze is like, you'll arrive at 11 32. I'm like, you've already added three minutes to this trip. Like you're making everybody's life worse.

SPEAKER_03 21:53

Oh, I'm passengers. Poor Christ. Princess. I'm like, oh where we are. I'm like, I could have been, we could have been there already if I was driving. That's right. Ryan. That's me. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:02

Um, wait, yours, that was backing up so many parking spot ones, but that was my main one because it just I just experienced it.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

I actually don't have any parking ones. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

We have talked about them in the past. Also, people who just can't park in between the lines. And it makes it worse for me if it's a nice car because then I feel like they did it on purpose. A lot of times they do. And then I have double contempt. Like I just can't. Oh, I'm so sorry. They're so important. Right. I'm sorry I was trying to park my car next to your car. They do a lot, they do do that on purpose. We just were somewhere and it was like a lot of spaces like that. And I was like, what are people doing out here?

SPEAKER_03 22:37

Um, on the same like line though, of cars, and and I think I just said this like last week or the week before, but people people not going the speed limit. It's still an everyday battle. Yeah. I say it out loud. I almost took a video to send you. I was like, here I am on 25 miles. Oh yeah. Speed limit 50, I'm going 30.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

And was it like an exceptional situation? Was there something going on, or was it just like maybe an older person?

SPEAKER_03 23:01

Just somebody deciding that they were. They're not on everybody's name.

SPEAKER_02 23:05

They're not in a hurry. You are. Too bad the pull's out of it. Yeah. Wait, can you pass on 25 mile? Is it double line? I don't know. I'm not saying do you. I'm saying can you? I do not know. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:16

That's my answer. All right. We'll talk more off camera.

SPEAKER_02 23:20

Yeah. Uh, I have a work-related one. And I'm so sorry. I love all my colleagues. I'm excited. I mean, this happens in any group that you're in. Okay. Reply all when all you're doing is like thanks or good info. Or yeah, I can't stand it. I can't. It's the same on a group text, like, oh, here's a picture of the team, and then a hundred people have to like like the picture. And then it blows up your phone, and you're like, I don't know. You know I like that picture, right? But I don't want to cost anybody more time. Right. Like, I don't like the it's the group text slash group email thing where it just ends up being a lot of unnecessary notifications. Yes. It just happened to me with group email. And it was a reply all situation. And I replied specifically to the person that needed to hear my response. Nobody else needed to know that. Right. And I was just like, okay, thanks.

SPEAKER_03 24:08

You should do have you seen any of the reels where it's like unhinged, like um, ways to end a word.

SPEAKER_02 24:13

Like an email signature. Yes. You should do that.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

Like reply all.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

Sometimes in my brain I do. And then I just go like what I want to do is reply all and say, I will respond to you privately since that's all this requires. Right. But make that a reply all. And then maybe I'll rebel be like, oh, she's truly nuts. Jeez, somebody didn't need her weakness. She didn't want to read my thanks for the info. Oh, that stuff drives me crazy, though.

SPEAKER_03 24:40

Well, that actually reminds me of one that like really annoys me because it is. It's unnecessary. Also, unnecessary is um a Facebook group where somebody says, like, hey everyone, can everyone give me their best recommendation for whatever Thai food? Yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

I think I know where you're going.

SPEAKER_03 24:58

And people are writing, commenting so I can get the notifications. I just want to let everybody know. You can go up to the top right of the screen. Yeah. Click on the three dots and turn on notifications for that post. And every time someone comments, you'll get notified because a lot of times that poor person just wants to know where they can get pad CU. I thought you were gonna say people who are like, make it at home.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

It's easier and cheaper and better for you to get out of that. Did you read the post? Right. Did it say I want to take a Thai cooking class?

SPEAKER_03 25:27

Like, stay out of the comments. Also annoying. No, but the thing, it turns all it turns into is everybody saying, like, commenting. Yeah, like, hello, just do that. Turn out the thing. Nobody knows about the three dots. Now none of us know where to get good Thai food, but we all know we want to be notified.

SPEAKER_02 25:50

Now we told you I don't know any of that.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

Three dots, turn on notifications.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

Yeah, you can see everything that everybody posts on that feed. I'll just come up as a notification for you personally. Yeah, you're welcome. It's beautiful. Um, okay, this one um preface with I feel like I always heard about this, and then now it's in my awareness, and it just happened to me, and I was like, what the heck? You ever hear the term manspreading? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

The guy in my college class was everybody wasn't there. Like it's in the cave.

SPEAKER_02 26:23

I mean, I just saw the cute little I mean, not cute. It was a video of like Timothy Chalamet at like a Lakers game or something, and Tina Faye's next to him, and she is making her body as physically small as she can, and he's a teeny weeny little guy. Yeah. He's not the rock, and he's just like taking up all this space. So we just went to a very crowded church service for a friend, and uh just I mean, standing room only, but I had my daughter, it was just like a confirmation, and so it was like a bunch of schools, okay, tons of people. I was like, why wasn't I there? Okay, no, so I had my younger daughter with me, and I'm like, we're not standing. I know this will be a longer service. Like, I don't want her to be like my feet, you know, we're dressed up, it's warm. So I was being like aggressive about finding us a seat. Sure. And only like the last five rows on either side were even open to the public. It was like families and you know. So we get like a nice older couple, and they're kind of close to the end, but I'm like, me and Aria can for sure fit our box there. So I'm like, excuse me, are you holding these? Or no, no, you can sit. They scooch over. And then an older gentleman next to me, manspreading. At that age. Yeah, so it's not even just saying, like, it is like so deeply and br it's like they, I don't know, what is this? Yeah, you get to take up more space in the world. Yeah, like me and my cute little daughter just like crammed up against the wood pew because he was like as comfortable as he could possibly be.

SPEAKER_03 27:54

Like, you wanna let you wanna put your legs on my lap? You wanna lay down?

SPEAKER_02 27:58

Because for some reason, when I think about it, I think about younger guys or like attitudes, like he was an older gentleman at church, just doing the best he can.

SPEAKER_03 28:07

He wasn't a gentleman.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

I was a little bit upset about it. Yeah, and we went to the restroom, and somehow I came back. There was even less space. Yeah. And I was like, spread eagle. It's just the gender thing, too. Yes. I'm like, come on, give me a break.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

You can say like on screen.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

You can woman spread. I wanted to so bad I probably just ended up crushing Aria against the end of the pew. But like, it is such a thing. Like when you start looking and noticing, yeah, like what is with these guys? You're raising a son. I know. Talk to him about manspreading. I will. I will. And if you don't know what that means, it just means like they sit in a way where it's like they maximize space, spread eagle. And women are always like, you know, yeah, can I make myself physically any smaller to accommodate these people? And then it's like unaware. I'm guessing it's unawareness.

SPEAKER_03 28:56

Social unawareness. It's it's a phenomenon or a plague.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

Yeah, but I feel like there's a whole like social, like there's an undertone to it where it's like, yeah, men taking up as much space in the world loudly, and women just like, can I fit in here, please, sir? And it's like, I don't like it. I'm raising daughters, like, move over. Right. Yeah, that's an interesting. I didn't think about it. I think there's there's an undertone for me. But it might just also be really bitter about it.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

I'm gonna randomly and maybe I'll offend some people. Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

I'm gonna randomly. Sorry about the ear poker outers. Sorry if your ears stick out.

SPEAKER_03 29:28

That's kind of funny.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

What do you got next?

SPEAKER_03 29:30

Toes hanging over shoes.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

Ew. No, I think it's okay. I think we can have a firm stance on it.

SPEAKER_03 29:36

It's wrong. Don't do it. I can't do it. It's gross.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

Is it because their shoes are too small?

SPEAKER_03 29:41

Oh, like they're either too small or like I don't know, maybe sometimes I'm sure it's happened to me at some point. Your feet are sweaty and you're like in a super high heel and like sliding forward. But ultimately, it's that your your feet, your shoes are too small.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

And it's like, listen, I'm not placing picturing I'm like curling over the ends.

SPEAKER_03 29:59

It's usually guys in like slides.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

Like I see, I thought it would have been women. Let me see if I can picture. It's usually guys, it just looks like sloping like I don't know. Guys, let's let's figure out our shoe size. Be better. And let's not take up so much space. I'll walk away.

SPEAKER_03 30:15

Same thing. And if you have both, if your ears sticking out of your hair and your toes are like, why do you think the ear thing's a woman thing?

SPEAKER_02 30:20

Run. Do you have men whose ear is poking out? But they're like they have like a part where their ears stick out. Like longer hair. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 30:27

Do you see that? What is it? Like a um a meme or something where it's just like run. No. My kids used to like watch it. Oh, I think about it's just like a joke. They do it with like everything, and like people will dress up and like dress up like certain characters, even like biblical characters, and they'll just be like, run. And they just run.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

Oh, like just run like Moses.

SPEAKER_03 30:48

Yeah, and they're just like running randomly through like a crowd, and there's like music that plays. It's probably an old like cranky thing. Yeah, but that's what I think of. I'm like, I'm just gonna run away.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

This is horrible. Your ear, your toes. I can't handle it. I don't even know where to look. I can't look up, I can't look down. Okay. Uh the next one, and again, I feel like I could have a whole nother cell phone or tech related one, like a whole genre of that. But speak your phone in public. Oh yeah. Why are we doing this? Who said it's okay? It's not okay. Nobody. I do not, I don't need to hear you talk to your sister-in-law in Costco. Or I had to answer a phone call recently, like in the school pickup line, and I was so self-conscious about it. You could only even hear my end of the conversation, but I still like I hate listening to people's conversations. And like loudly, they don't even, I was like, Yeah, I'll pick it up. No worries. Like I don't, I don't understand why you think you should just like walk around in public blasting a two-way conversation, like public transit, grocery stores, anywhere you are. I just feel like people are like watching a video full volume, like on a bus or something, and you're like headphones, right? Or turn the volume down, read some captions. Yeah. I don't want to hear you.

SPEAKER_03 32:05

I think that's it. I think there's a general I think most people would agree with you. Because I was just watching a TikTok or a reel or something of a girl who was like, I had the longest day at work. I am treating myself to a pedicure. I was looking forward to this all day. And the woman next to her was on like a work uh Zoom.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

That's so annoying.

SPEAKER_03 32:24

And she like, you could hear it in the TikTok, and everyone in the comments was like, You should yell. Are you at a work meeting in the nail salon? Like caller, right? Because she's just like the whole my whole time.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

Did you pick a collar for your toes yet? Right to some thing that seems innocent. And she was so loud, too. I felt bad for this girl. It's not right. Headphones, and then lower your volume. If you have to have a phone call or something, that's fine. Talk quietly. We don't need to hear anything. That's fine. Certainly not both directions. I feel like we're teaching people manners. I hope so. I hope so. And if you it never occurred to you before that I don't want to hear your conversation with your sister-in-law Connie. Like, I don't. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 33:02

I will say though, though. Sometimes if I'm just like, oh, what else happened? Oh my gosh. Like you should be. So it doesn't want to like linger in the aisle.

SPEAKER_02 33:11

I mean, honestly, it'd be a great way to just check in and be like, you're having that conversation out louder. You'd be like, do you think she's gonna be okay? Just like check in with the person.

SPEAKER_03 33:19

I do I do be nosy sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

I love that uh reel. That's like uh I do be nosy sometimes, literally just coming around a corner.

SPEAKER_03 33:28

Like it was me yesterday in Target. I was like picking some things up, and there were all these kids. Ava's always like, Oh my friends, they go to Target, and like that's like that's like the meet the meetup nowadays because there's no malls, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

Like you gotta peruse Target, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 33:40

Right? So, like out here, like a lot of the local like kids from like you know, Romeo, Eisenhower, whatever, like they'll all like and I saw it firsthand. I'm like, oh wow, it's like a lot of kids walking around. Poor Target. And these two, like this group of guys came up and like introduced themselves to these girls, asked them what high school they went to, and the girls ended up going to the high school that my kids go to. And I I need to like calm down. Like, I feel like I'm still in high school. I get excited. I was like, well, then they were talking about they were talking about friends that like it's one of Ava's best friend, and she was like at that person's house when they were like talking about it, but they were like getting it all wrong.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

They were like talking, they were saying they've like what kind of psycho moms like actually Brian said he's like, Are you did you tell me you did not say no?

SPEAKER_03 34:27

They're not actually they're not twins, they're just brothers, and I was like, I want to do so bad. They're like, Who's mom? It was so nosy. I was just like, Your kids would have died. Oh in their like honor, I stayed very quiet, but I couldn't wait. I got in the car. I was like, You're not gonna believe this. They thought they were twins.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

Like they're clearly supposed takes gasket, too. It's not even like a hot relationship.

SPEAKER_03 34:51

It was so innocent. I'm like friends with the mom and everything. Who's dating who?

SPEAKER_02 34:55

Right? No, they're just brothers.

SPEAKER_03 34:56

I got so excited. I was like, they're brothers, they're not. Talking about people I know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

And it's fun though. When you're like out in the public and you're like, wait a minute, are they talking about something like that? Right? Yeah, I'm too nosy for me. Which makes me why would you walk around on speakerphone? I feel like it's a small world. And listen. Yeah. Also, somebody might be recording. I don't even know, but like the b blasting my business.

SPEAKER_03 35:17

Yeah, just no. Please know you are safe with both of us.

SPEAKER_02 35:19

Like, if I will never for me, um, first of all, I'm not gonna answer that call. Text me. It is like second, you got something urgent or you need to talk to me and hear my voice. We're secret agents. I'll be whispering. Yeah, even my house, because I got nosy little kids. Oh, yeah. There's ring cameras, or Chris will come in and be like, what'd they have to say? And I was like, I just do. Or he'll do it while I'm on the phone. You know, you're like reacting to somebody and you're like, wow, oh yeah. And they're in the background going, yeah. And I'm like, seriously. I'm like, it's a universal thing. I would do it to him in a hot minute. Oh, yeah. If you could just pick up the extra line like we could when we were back in the day, the landline, that was I would be doing that. Yes. I'll be like, I'll go downstairs and pick up the other line.

SPEAKER_03 36:03

I'd be doing that all day long. I know. All day long.

SPEAKER_02 36:05

Even though most of his calls are beautiful technology.

SPEAKER_03 36:08

I know.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

Wait, I jumped on that.

SPEAKER_02 36:10

Was that yours? I don't know. You got one? Let's talk about one. If you have one you'd like to get off your chest.

SPEAKER_03 36:16

Someone in front of me when I'm on my walk and they're also out for a walk. And I feel like a jerk saying this because they're enjoying their day too.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

Oh, is this like a certain person? No. Oh, I was like, is your neighbor gonna know this is them?

SPEAKER_03 36:28

Oh no, just any random person. Okay, okay. Yesterday there was a young girl, she was in front of me. She was far enough away from me, I was instantly annoyed. I was like, You going where I'm going? Oh, yeah. Every turn I was turning.

SPEAKER_02 36:37

If they're really close to you, then you feel like you're a creep and you're following them.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

Well, that's the other thing. Or like, you know, or well, what do I do? Now I gotta slow down my pace to have to like walk around. Then I feel like a jerk if I'm passing them. The what do I gotta go on the street and walk on the grass like an animal? Like, I it's just like, get out of my way.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

Get out of my way. I know it's not really gonna need to reserve this entire street for a minute.

SPEAKER_03 36:57

But these are petty grievances.

SPEAKER_01 36:58

They are petty. That's the whole point. And I'm I don't even have to make sense. Immediately makes no sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:03

And then, like, in my head, when I see them like turn the other way that I'm like a different way that I'm going, in my head, I go, bye. Fine, bye. Later.

SPEAKER_02 37:14

I don't know why it bothers me, but I'm not understand that. It's also irritated. I overthink all the things. So if somebody's coming at you, you have to decide at what point you look up and acknowledge or make eye contact or smile or say hi, and then sometimes they're on the phone or something and you feel like a creep.

SPEAKER_03 37:29

Do you know that I've changed your sunglasses?

SPEAKER_02 37:31

If you look up, no, but I wear sunglasses all the time for that same reason.

SPEAKER_03 37:35

Well, but my sunglasses were like see like you could see through. I changed the sunglasses that I wear on walks so that they can't see my eyes. Cause otherwise I feel like my eyes were like, when do I look?

SPEAKER_02 37:44

I don't know. How close do I have to be before I give them the quick like hi? And then I'll like go home and be like, Because you have to awkward, or I'll be like, hello.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Yeah, do you see all the ones that like when you're a bad um I'm the worst? Like awkward, like, hey, how's your day? Yeah. You think about it.

SPEAKER_02 38:01

Like at Starbucks, they're like, enjoy your coffee. And you're like, you too.

SPEAKER_03 38:05

Right?

SPEAKER_02 38:07

I know. No, but I'm so awkward about like walks, being out. Like, I mean, there's some neighbors we end up seeing all the time. But then there's somebody new, and you're like, look, how big do I see? Do I know them? Should I be like, How are you? Right? Because Chris's go-to is like, hey, how are ya? And I'm always like, just just hello. We're not getting into a conversation. I just go, I get like a real awful.

SPEAKER_03 38:26

I do like a real Midwestern, like nod.

SPEAKER_02 38:28

Yeah, that's good enough. That's enough. You acknowledge them, but then I get infuriated if they're like on a call or they're listening to an audiobook and they did not see me coming, and I like smile at them and they don't even acknowledge it. Oh, yeah. And then I'm like, oh, make me the fool. Right. You're being rude. You don't even look up. Also annoying. So many overthinking. All right. I have just one more. It's a really big one though. It's gonna apply to so many issues. And I feel like you're gonna meet me on this one. Do we just not clean up our messes anywhere we go in public anymore? Me and you do. We do. I know we do. I'm probably we're probably teaching our kids to. But the theater, not even the movie theater, but the movie theater is a big one. The theater theater. The theater. Where you can get like peanuts and wine. I don't know, whatever they're selling. Yes. Everybody just gets up and walks away and leaves all their trash. Oh, that's all right. All over the floor in the chairs. The movie theater has been like that for years. Yeah. And I cannot stand it. I yeah, I feel like I never understood. What are we doing with personal responsibility here? Like, I didn't ask you to vacuum the theater, but like you can't get your own popcorn bucket and throw it in the garbage. They put the two garbages right outside. It's everywhere we go. Stadiums, theaters. Nobody has to take any responsibility for their own trash.

SPEAKER_03 39:44

Yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 39:44

And I can't take it. It's rude. It is rude. And I feel like I get that other people's job is to clean up. To me, they're cleaning up the excessive mess. They shouldn't just be throwing away your garbage because you walked by a garbage, anyways. You did. I know you did on the way out. You couldn't carry that bucket and throw it in the garbage.

SPEAKER_03 40:01

Well, and again, it's giving no one else matters but me. Like, imagine what it makes me feel like. Like it would be such a better place if we all were, hey, we're all in this together. Like you want the guy cleaning up the theater, the theater. The theater. He's going to be the full agent. I mean, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

It just makes me feel like we you wouldn't run your home that way. No. Who comes in and like cleans up all your stuff? Okay, so you wouldn't, I don't know. Then when you get up after a wonderful experience, the theater, whatever, a stadium, the game, you look around and you're like, Animals! Like it just makes you feel bad about like the experience because you're just like, why couldn't anybody pick up their own trash? Yeah, I agree. And it does make it feel like somebody less than you has to do that for you. Like, oh, the guy that they pay seven dollars an hour will do it.

SPEAKER_03 40:48

And I'm like, you were walking away at garbage. I know. Oh my gosh. I always think about that. Or like a picture, like you know, a tiger's game or something, like how many chairs like those that takes like that's awful, and it's hard grueling work, and like you could have made their job just a little bit easier had not been an animal.

SPEAKER_02 41:06

Yeah, I agree. I don't like it. I feel like there's just like no personal responsibility, it's like somebody else's problem.

SPEAKER_03 41:12

I don't think this is pet, that's not petty at all.

SPEAKER_02 41:14

It's a little deep. Sorry. This is like a social commentary. Man spreading. There are there are many levels to that social. And also, could we just teach our kids to if you are walking out of the theater anyway, just grab your slurpee cock. I agree.

SPEAKER_03 41:26

Also, we need to start calling it theater. Theater.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

I mean, I've seen it at the movies, I've seen it at the stadium, but then we went to the theater to see a play. And I was like, we're doing it here, dude. Yeah, that's rude. Stupid empty wine goblet or whatever, and just take it to the garbage.

SPEAKER_03 41:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

I don't know. I got a lot of agree issues.

SPEAKER_03 41:44

I have a hard time even like when you're at a table where it's like, you know, you when you go up to a counter, like just like a sandwich shop picture or whatever, and they give you your walk-up. And it's kind of common practice, like, well, when you leave, like they will most likely clean your table. Yeah. They actually have to tell me, like, no ma'am, it's okay. Like, you can leave us because I'd rather be told. Yeah, like I don't like that either. Even if it's a little sandwich shop, I'm thinking, I'm still what? I gotta get up anyway.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

Also, I put my mouth all over like this food, these fries, whatever. It's no harm for me to just like walk by the garbage on my way out. But like, you have to come touch my trash. Like, yeah. If it's expected somewhere, that's lovely. But I feel like they would have to tell me, yeah, or I would make my kids, my husband, everybody like grab your cups, grab your stuff. Well, yeah, what is it? Walk by the trash on the way out, drop the tray where they tell you to.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

Yeah, I agree. I agree.

SPEAKER_02 42:37

All right, I got two more. All right, let's do it. People who don't I'll calm down over here. I'm like, I'm my heart. My Apple Watch is like, oh no. You just closed your ring.

SPEAKER_03 42:47

Yeah. Uh, people that don't cut their grass or pull their weeds. And I feel like I've said this before. This is not petty. This is again, you're if you live in a neighborhood, you are sharing a space with others. And I in no way am expecting you to have the most aesthetic home, the newest roof, like five colors of flowers every spring. I understand. Times are tough, like not everybody has the same, you know, finances. This has nothing to do with that. Pulling weeds are free, and I understand that people go through times of life, and maybe you are tired, maybe you're not gonna be a good one. Or you're older, you need to hire that out or find somebody. I understand. It's not always gonna look perfect. Yeah, I'm talking about the homes that they just don't do it. No, well ever.

SPEAKER_02 43:32

I was gonna say nobody walks around, but people do, especially if you have an association. I was gonna say nobody walks around a neighborhood and it's like three weeds in that yard. You know what I mean? It's usually if you're even noticing it, weeds this high, it's excessive, it's outrageous, like we're not looking for like oh yeah, you know, and I have a lot uh around cutting your grass, like cut your grass, also edge like edge, and if you don't edge, what's wrong with you?

SPEAKER_03 43:58

Because then the grass is growing all. The sidewalk also if you cut the grass and you edge and then you don't blow the grass or bag it and you just leave it all over the sidewalk, yeah, or you blow it in the street. Also, if you have a tree and the tree is overgrowing onto the sidewalk, and people who are my height can't even get by without ducking under the tree. Trim the tree, just trim everything.

SPEAKER_02 44:18

We've been walking our neighborhood so much lately, and I was just talking to my neighbor. I'm like, okay, what's this new practice? We have a tiny little dog and we take our bags, and if she goes poop, we pick it up and we carry it with us because we're humans, not animals. Right. But also, some people leave it, which is disgusting. And everybody's gonna ring him like, I don't know what you're doing, you're gonna get busted. Yeah, and I hope they call you out on the Facebook route. But also, new thing I keep seeing, they will bag it and they put it like on a storm drain. Come on. Like uh, no, uh, just off the sidewalk, and it's like, oh okay. And my neighbor's like, oh, they're gonna come back for it. And I was like, no, I'm walking the same route every night, and the same bag of poop is there. What is that? Why did you even would you take the effort? Well, leave it in the grass, it'll like biodegrade. Now you have like a bag of poop sitting on the whatever that thing is, you know, the cap or the gun. Multiple times. Mmm, sure, maybe. Okay. Yeah. I'll give them a match. But like we walk every night, pretty much, and I'm like, poop again. Yeah. Different colored bags, I don't even feel like it's the same people. I'm like, what do they think? The garbage company is getting it. Why would you do that? Yeah, that's weird. People are wild, man.

SPEAKER_03 45:30

People are wild. I just I just feel like come on, we're in a shared space, you know. And you're how you're doing things is affecting the rest of us. Yeah, I mean, it is. It's affecting like it could even affect your the value of your home. If someone's trying to sell a house and they're driving by and it looks like these three houses are abandoned because they don't like care for anything, like it is, it's annoying. Agree. And my last one is a Take Us out with a bang. It's a doozy. All right. It is two twofold. Okay. Companies sending Amazon specifically. Okay. Sending used dirty stained clothes.

SPEAKER_02 46:07

Like they were returned and then sent back to you.

SPEAKER_03 46:09

It has happened so many times. I mean, it's happened to me and Ryan Ryan's had like restaurant receipts in pockets. Oh my god. Actual stains, things smelling.

SPEAKER_02 46:18

I've had stuff smelling smoke. And I didn't know if it was the delivery driver. You know, sometimes people are delivering and like they're super.

SPEAKER_03 46:25

No. No. It it this was clearly worn returned, which I take issue with anyway. Worn returned and then shipped back out to me. Like, what happened there? No.

SPEAKER_02 46:38

Amazon beef then, really, because it's not on the person. The person did what they were supposed to. Like they returned it.

SPEAKER_03 46:43

And maybe they should have marked the bigger.

SPEAKER_02 46:45

The person packing it.

SPEAKER_03 46:47

You know what I mean? Like when you're packing it, you didn't to reship it out. You didn't see that the you know what I mean? Like, shouldn't there be some kind of a protocol? Like, especially with a company like Amazon.

SPEAKER_02 46:56

I wasn't thought there was. I thought they were burning everything, to be honest, which is not great because I return a hundred things to Amazon like a week. I'm the worst consumer. Same. But I thought there was some kind of like, okay, we'll donate it, or we'll run it through some industrial washers and then donate it. I didn't think they were just like sending it to your house after it came to my.

SPEAKER_03 47:13

Yeah, it's coming to me. Thanks.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

That's gross.

SPEAKER_03 47:15

Yeah. And then the second thing, and this happens so many times. I can't tell you. Specifically, it has happened with American Eagle and with Zara. I am calling them out.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

Call them out. We already got Amazon on the hook. Right? Amazon, American Eagle, Zara. I'm coming. A big dent in their profit this week.

SPEAKER_03 47:32

They will please, and this is actually a PSA. Check your stuff when it comes in from American Eagle and from Zara. Okay. Zara specifically has burned me several times. They will ship you things without a tag.

SPEAKER_02 47:48

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 47:49

It comes and it doesn't have a tag.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

And then you can't return it.

SPEAKER_03 47:51

You can't return it. And it says, well, you do it doesn't have a tag. And I'm like, but you never. And how do I prove that?

SPEAKER_02 47:56

You take a picture of it right when you opened it. It's like you pulled the tag off. But I didn't.

SPEAKER_03 48:00

Now immediately, the minute it comes in, before I even try it on, which is frustrating because I might just keep it. And then I'm going through all the trouble. I will call Zara and say, I just got my shipment. I ordered it on this day. This is what you can see with the tracking. It just arrived at my door. I want you to know these three items. I'm going to record this call. Like, oh, you're recording it? So am I.

SPEAKER_01 48:24

As am I. You're like, I will have my own copy and transcribe.

SPEAKER_03 48:28

Because I mean, I'm telling you, it has happened to me several times, and I'm like, it never had a tag.

SPEAKER_02 48:32

It never had a tag. Probably because it either popped off of the store or they're doing the same thing. Yeah. Somebody else returned it.

SPEAKER_03 48:38

It happens on Amazon, but on Amazon, you never know if it was supposed to have a tag or not. And then you go to return it and you have to choose like a thing. I always write in the comments product is unused, but there wasn't an option for me to click on. Like it never had a tag to begin with. Like I want you to know.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

Oh, you just made me think of uh not Amazon, but I was just at Marshall's. I won't say which location for my local Michiganders. But they're kind of infamous for taking stuff back to, and it's like very used. There was I needed a soap dispenser for my bathroom, and it it was slimy. And you could tell somebody had filled it with soap and then returned it. Oh no. And I like picked it up not knowing. And I had like somebody else's shampoo slime or soap slime on my fingers. And then also I was like, this could have been like in somebody's shower or something. Like this is so disgusting. And like, who wrapped that up and put a sticker on it and didn't know? Because all it took was for me to like reach for it on the shelf. And I had like Joe Schmo's shampoo slime on my face. Oh, from like somebody's bathroom. Oh, that really got me. It was in somebody's bathroom. Like oh my gosh. Yeah. Do butter, Marshall's, Amazon, Zara, American Eagle. Yep. Do butter.

SPEAKER_03 49:52

I'm calling you out.

SPEAKER_02 49:52

All right. We better just go home and like float.

SPEAKER_03 49:55

Okay. Take a combs forte. Magnesium and float. Okay. That's fun. It's always fun to get it out. We got it out. Those are not alone. Petty grievances. I'm sure we're not alone on these. Cover your ears, folks. Yeah. Sorry if I offended you with your toes.

SPEAKER_02 50:12

Stop the man with your ears. If I could leave you with any message today, it's make sure your ears aren't poking out. Don't you want spreading? Close your legs.

SPEAKER_00 50:24

All right. Well, it was fun. As always. As always. All right. We'll see you guys next time. See you later.