Do We Love.... Girls Day?

The plan was a simple girls day. The reality was a rainy adventure that somehow included house hunting reconnaissance, thrift store chaos, and a McDonald’s dine in experience so wild it felt like live theater.

We start with a quick life update that matters to anyone who uses their voice a lot: Heather hits a huge speech therapy milestone and shares the practical habits that actually help, like resisting the throat clear reflex, using water and a hard swallow, and remembering to breathe while talking. Then we jump into a beekeeping update that mixes excitement with brand new beekeeper nerves. Alpha Hive arrives, Queen Dorothy gets named, and a sugar syrup spill triggers the kind of panic only a new hive can bring. With nonstop rain outside, the waiting game gets real, and Bravo Hive is right around the corner.

From there, we rewind to Mother’s Day stories and a movie brunch that requires dressing up, then head straight into the main event: the girls day itinerary. We tour an open house for a first time home search, hit furniture and bargain stops, and laugh about the weird feeling of being noticed while trying to shop in peace. And then comes the unexpected highlight: McDonald’s, where app confusion, order drama, and one manager’s breaking point turn into a story you have to hear to believe.

We wrap with listener questions and comfort food debate energy, including the classic ketchup on eggs argument, breakfast for dinner preferences, and a fun question about what talent you’d want to wake up with overnight. If you love friendship stories, slice of life comedy, and honest talk about stress, voice health, and small joys, this one is for you. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a laugh, and leave us a review with your take: ketchup on eggs, yes or no?

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Transcript

Girls Day Kickoff And Business Cards

Heather 0:01

Weird song. So today's episode of Do We Love That For You is Do We Love Girls Day.

Zia 0:09

Girls Day.

Heather 0:11

Yes. I did. We did. I had such an awesome girls' day last weekend. You did. I was out there, as you guys all know, for Eliza. She had a business trip, and um I was watching Marcia the Dog. And Zia kidnapped me on Saturday. Yeah. But we're gonna get into all of that. But sometimes. No. We're gonna get into all that. But first, I had a surprise waiting for me that we didn't even talk about last week because we had so much going on. I forgot, and you forgot, but you did something super awesome for us. What did you do?

Zia 0:56

I did. I got us some business cards. You did. We're not super fancy, but we got a start.

Heather 1:04

We do. Oh my gosh, they are amazing. I passed one out to my speech therapist, and she absolutely loved it. It's sitting on her desk. But that's great. We will post a picture of it for everybody. I will I'll put that up. But it is awesome. Yeah. And we're getting there. I need to ask you what just happened while we were getting ready to record.

Zia 1:33

Okay, so actually, I don't even freaking know. Uh we were trying to type something. Well, I was trying to type something. Do you see it going down the computer? No. She's like, no, it's it's typing fine. And I'm like, no, no, no, it's not. It's going straight

Speech Therapy Progress And New Habits

Zia 1:50

down the screen. So I turn the camera around, I show her, and she's like, I don't know what's freaking happening with your computer. I don't see that. I did not see that. She took a line off her computer and put it at the bottom. And of course, it looked great on her side. And then I showed her it typed it all the way down my screen. So it was typing in a single line. Yeah. So our our my computer is feeling the innermost feeling of me today. Yep. It's that rainy weather. Chaotic. Chaotic. Absolutely. So you had a speech update, right? I do have a speech update. Your voice is sounding a little bit better right now.

Heather 2:37

It is. So for the most part, I was discharged today from speech. Um, she did all these little tests on me, and she played me on my first visit, like recorded and played it back, and she did it today. And it was amazing at how different I sounded. Um and one of them was supposed to be, I don't know the exact numbers, so I'm giving just it made up numbers, but it was supposed to be like a 0.7 in the variation when you hold out a note like uh like that. Okay. It was supposed to be a 0.7. And that's like the perfect tone or the perfect scale. Yep. When I did it three two weeks, three weeks ago, I was like 2.5. Oh, okay. And I was supposed to be a 0.7, and today I was a 0.6. That's great. So I've got one more point to go. I love it. Exactly. So um, for the most part, what she told me to do is to keep doing everything that she taught me. Um, and to um when I feel the urge to clear my throat, to not clear my throat, and take a big drink of water and swallow very hard. Oh god. And that takes away the throat clearing sensation. She also told me to remember to breathe when I talk because trying to hold your breath and talk makes you strain. So that's the big one I'm working on right now. But I don't go back to see her until like the middle of June. Oh, geez.

Zia 4:27

So I'm super excited. Yeah, that's awesome. I am so happy. I know, me too.

Heather 4:34

So we can finally make our recordings and fix everything.

Zia 4:39

Absolutely, yeah. Um, so I wanted to ask you, um, how are your bees going? You told us you were getting deliveries, so I did.

Heather 4:52

I got my first hive. So the official name, drum roll, is Alpha Hive. And her name, I of course, because

Beekeeping Update Queen Dorothy Drama

Heather 5:04

we all know I named my queen, her name is Queen Dorothy. Yay. Um, so we picked them up on Tuesday evening and brought them home, and we quickly transferred them into the hive from the nuke box that they came in. And um I almost killed them. Although I know they're not all dead. I just don't know if I'm my queen is dead or not.

Zia 5:35

Yeah.

Heather 5:36

But um there was you feed them a 50-50, a one-to-one um sugar and water syrup. And when we put it in, it spilled, and it spilled all night. So basically like a gallon Ziploc bag size. Yeah. Spilled on them overnight, and they don't like the cold, although they are overwintered. They don't like the cold, and so I made them cold and I made them wet, and they don't like either. So I went out Wednesday morning before the rain to just move. Well, we did was we put a camera out there so we could see them. And when I got to the doorway, I looked at the door of the hive, you know, the entranceway, yeah, and there was like seven or eight dead bees on the front door. So I freaked out, came in, and we did some research, and more than likely they are okay, but it has been raining nonstop, so we have not been able to get in. However, in between the rain, we are seeing some flying. So presumably, um, Dorothy is okay. Um, we are picking up the second hive tomorrow morning, which is why we're recording Friday night. Yeah. And um when we bring home Bravo Hive, Queen Sophia, who can figure out that TV show? Do and do I have a trend here, guys? I don't know. See if you can figure out my show. Post it, tag it. Yeah. Um, but um, when we pick up Sophia, I will open up Dorothy before we move Sophia. I will open up Dorothy and look for her again and make sure she's there.

Zia 7:36

Um just for my own peace of mind. I'm sorry. Is it a is it because they make golden honey? Oh, I don't know. My girls are gonna make me some honey, boy guys. If you didn't get those hints, I don't know what to say.

Heather 7:57

If you didn't get those hints, just turn off the podcast and don't listen to us again because I don't think you're allowed to. Yeah, I don't think we could give any more. I need details because before we had our girls' day on Saturday, you had a mommy sunday.

Zia 8:16

I did, and I tell me about mommy Saturday, you know, first, then Sunday. Yeah. So my of course, my son is a dad, so he had to do Mother's Day on Sunday for his wife, and you know, the little girls helped him out with mommy's day. Yeah, a little too little yet,

Mother’s Day Recaps And Movie Brunch

Zia 8:39

you know. Um, but definitely I got to spend the time with my son Zach on Saturday at like a double mommy day, and then yeah, Sunday. Um, I did a movie brunch and movie with Margaret. We went to see uh just with Star, and um we went to see we went to see uh double wear product. Oh and it I have to tell you something fun about that too. Um, but she took me to this cute little uh brunch place, and it was cool because they had like some um Indonesian condiments for the food that you made. So um I got to use my Zumble and they had stuff you could buy. Um, so it was pretty cool. She usually tries to find like Indonesian themed places because we don't get a lot of Indonesian food unless I'm making it. So um then um I came home and Alex made a really great steak dinner. I got a Del Monaco steak with baked potatoes and shrimp, and yeah, so yeah, he's one of my favorite chefs. So wow, that's so awesome. Yeah, so funny story about Margaret and I going or going to the movie where you go in or see the movie and everything, and there was a a mom and two girls, they were very dressed up. We dressed up too because we went to um brunch and we got dressed up and of course going to see Devil Wears Prada, yeah. You have to dress up for that. I mean, yeah, absolutely. So we walk out of the building, and there's a mom with two daughters, very fancy, dressed up, and they are all in pastel colors. The mom's in like white with like little feathery looking things on the dress, and the girls are like maybe pink, blue looking things. Oh, your throat. Yeah, and then here I am. I got a black jacket, black pants, Margaret's black dress. She has the long hair, I've got the short hair. You know, we looked like we were actually Devil Wears Prada because I had the short hair like Carol Streep, exactly, and the mom, the mom and the girls were like, Oh, like we got dressed up too, and we were more like, oh, like they got dressed up too, you know. So it's kind of funny that you know it was nice to see though, because there wasn't a lot of moms and kids that were dressed up, so that was you not, you need to dress up for that. I know some things you have to dress up for, yep.

Heather 11:22

Just like when you go see like the the occult movies, you like the Twilight series and the Harry Potters, you wear absolutely you wear appropriate Star Wars, you have to, absolutely, yep, yep, gotta dress up, gotta do the thing.

Zia 11:37

You gotta do the thing, gotta gotta. Ugh, I hate your Mother's Day.

Heather 11:43

My mother's day was nice. Um, I didn't spend it with Eliza, right? Um, or Ariel or Angela, um, but I did spend it with my mom. Yeah. Um, and I spent it with Miss Marsha. I mean, who doesn't love a day with Marsha?

Zia 11:59

Right, right. I guess I should have said that I Charlie was here too.

Heather 12:03

Charlie. Um, but um, I went to my mom's and we sat around and chatted for a while. We had I stopped at Trader Joe's and got her a great big bouquet of Trader Joe flowers. I'll pimp Trader Joe's flowers to the day I die. Yeah. Best flowers to go to. I don't, I hate to say that I won't go to a florist if there's Trader Joe's around. Right. I love the Trader Joe flowers. Um, anyway. Um, so I got her a bouquet from there, and um then we sat around and I got some muffins from Trader Joe's as well. And then we went to just to the diner. Um, it's not easy getting my dad out and about sometimes. Right, right. So we just went to the diner. There's a diner, you know, two or three miles away. Yeah. We went there and had a nice early lunch or early dinner. We went at like 4 30. Um that time.

Zia 13:01

Yeah.

Heather 13:01

Exactly. And then on the way home, I accidentally stopped at Stuart's and got ice cream because uh, you know what an accident. It was seriously, you know, but we don't have Stuart's here, and you don't know how much you miss something until you can't have it. And Stuart's is the best ice cream. There is better ice cream other places, but for a pint of ice cream or a half gallon, Stuart, I know you're not a big fan. It's like look at I know you're not a big fan. I know. But I stopped and I got Rich and Angie and me each a pint, and then I got a secret pint for me. And whenever I go there, I always leave my pint for Eliza in the freezer. So Eliza got to finish mine. But when I got home, Angela got me this huge um hanging basket for the bees. Oh she wants me to hang. She wanted me to hang by the bees. Um, so I I hung it there, and she said when she went to the nursery, she asked them for a hanging basket that will attract bees, and they told her this one. And it's beautiful. Very cool. Um, so I had a relatively low-key Mother's Day. Um Eliza's home today, so I think I spoke to Eliza like five four or five times on the phone today. Yeah. So it was a nice, it was quiet Mother's Day.

Zia 14:28

Yep, yep. I like those. Yeah. I like those. So we spent the rest of Saturday after I got done with Zach um together. And we did our little shopping and we were both looking for things. We did. Um, but tons of stories came our way. Thrifting, McDonald's, all the things.

Heather 14:55

So the first thing we did, you want to talk about the first thing we did?

Zia 14:59

Yes, yes. You you do the thing, you do the thing.

Heather 15:02

Okay. So I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to relieve of this or to rebuy retell of this story, but I'm gonna retell as much as I want.

Zia 15:14

Okay.

Heather 15:15

So Eliza and Alec are someone's at our door, and I don't know. Oh no! Do you need something with it? No. Oh, okay. I was gonna say, do you need need to uh play holding it?

Zia 15:24

But if you hear Charlie, you know, if you I got the washer and dryer going. Yeah, yep.

Heather 15:29

Um life.

Zia 15:30

We always say life.

Heather 15:31

Exactly. So um Eliza and Alec are looking for a house. They want to buy a house. Yep. Um, Eliza was on business, as everybody knows, because I was dog sitting, and this house that they thought was the perfect house came up on the market the day they flew out to go on the business trip. Alec went with Eliza, and so they asked Alec's parents

House Hunting Recon In The Rain

Heather 15:55

to go check out the house. So his parents went and checked out the house and they said it was great. They couldn't find much fault with it. So Eliza called me Saturday morning and said, There's an open house Saturday with you and Zia go check it out. Go see. Yep. So in the pouring rain, Zia and I went to check out this house that they wanted to look at. And I would say on a scale of one to ten, it was about an eight to a nine. It was yeah, there was not a lot of visual issues with the house. There was a few minor things, but nothing that you couldn't fix.

Zia 16:34

Yeah.

Heather 16:35

So we went in towards the house, pretending like we were looking at it for ourselves, and oh, beautiful. We were a little poshed while we were there. Yes, yep. Um, we were having fun. Um, I was furniture shopping. You were furniture shopping while we were in there, and that brings us to when we went to Bob's.

Zia 16:55

That's right. That's right.

Heather 16:57

Um, but overall the house was wonderful. They ended up putting a bin on the house, yeah, even though they didn't see it. They trusted Alec's parents and you and I. Yeah. And they ended up not getting the house. Yeah, um, which means that their house is out there. Yeah. Right. It's that means that their house is out there and they will get it when they when they find their house. Absolutely. Um but yes, so that's how our afternoon started.

Zia 17:26

That was pretty fun. Oh, that was loud. Sorry. That's okay. And then we decided to go to because I was furniture shopping. Um while we were at the open house. Right. We're like, we'll have to stop at Bob's. And we were like, oh, don't we hate when furniture people just creep up on you and push stuff on you? And yeah. Well, they do say that they do not

Shopping Hits And Feeling Followed

Zia 17:55

do that. That's that's one of the things that they had said. They don't push.

Heather 17:59

I can't scream but lies.

Zia 18:02

Yeah, they're they're they do pride themselves on not really being pushy shubby kind of people. Um, and we regretfully wanted to not turn around. Like we heard I find it hard to believe that he was calling us. I didn't think they changed Hello ladies, hello ladies, and we were kind of like, uh, and I I actually at the same time we kind of just stopped our pace of walking, turned around and we were like, Yeah. It was it was it was a clear regret of turning around. It really was. Yes, and I was like, Yeah, we're just really looking, and you know, I eyeballed that store in like five seconds, and I just definitely did not see anything I was looking for.

Heather 18:53

Well, and after he did that, I I was done.

Zia 18:56

I yeah, I'm not being chased around a store. No, not at all. And I even tried to say, I I've been here before. Like I even tried that strategy. Yep, been here before. Yep, nope. So then we decided to go to um Burlington, which is no longer Burlington coat factory, it's just it is now Burlington. Apparently, they don't sell coats, no coats. Um, it's more like I would say like a TJ Maxx-ish kind of it was like a low, but it wasn't TJ Maxx quality.

Heather 19:28

I feel like the quality dropped a little bit, yeah, so it was like a J Max.

Zia 19:34

Yep, yep.

Heather 19:36

Yeah, okay. Yep, that was a very well you were gonna drop the T. So it's just gonna be a J Maxx instead of TJ. I like TJ Maxx.

Zia 19:47

We did not realize at the moment that we were being stalked, but apparently so weird. We were being stalked at TJ Maxx by other families by other families shopping. Yeah, I'm saying fans. Um, anyway. Um I don't think those people listen to our podcast. No, no. Um, so yeah, so we we went there, um looked around, then we left and we went thrift shopping. And when we were at the thrift store, we had heard a conversation. Yeah, and then came to tell me.

Heather 20:29

Yeah, Zia and I kind of split up. We were in the same area, but looking at the different, I was looking at I think pants, and you were looking at the tank tops or whatever we were doing. Yeah. And I heard this little girl, maybe little boy, but I think it was a little girl say, Yeah, mommy, they were there. And I turned and looked. I don't know how to say this and not sound rude, so I'm just gonna be rude. It was obvious that they were at Burlington because they were not people that you could overlook. Yep, yep. It they they weren't overlooked, yeah. You you you you couldn't share an aisle with them, you couldn't avoid them. You heard them and you saw them. So when we were at the thrift store, it was very clear when I heard this little girl's voice that they were there talking about us. So I looked at the little girl and I smiled, and then I walked straight around over to where Zia was and I said, Look over there. They're talking about that we were just at Burlington and now we're here. And that's when we decided we were done with that store. We were so done with the store.

Zia 21:46

I was like, Why can't we just shop in peace? We're not even famous yet. Not even famous yet. And I can't even famous. Yeah. Um, so then after that, we decided um we're getting hungry. We gotta get it.

Heather 22:01

Nope, nope, nope. We came back up to Clifton Park because we wanted to hit one more thrift store. Right. We went to one more thrift store, right? And now I'm gonna tease you. Now I want to make fun of you. Go ahead. So we walk in, and everybody knows that when you walk into the street. When you walk into any thrift store, they always have the color of the day posted somewhere. Sometimes it's one color, sometimes it's two. Yeah. But I will say, as a thrifter, 99% of the time, every goodwill is the same color, every salvation army is the same color, every savers is the same color every day. So we walk in to the one in Clifton Park, and I said, It's yellow still. Go ahead and say what you said, Z. I said, What's yellow still? I said, the color of the day. And you said, Wow, it is here too.

Zia 23:08

But then I told Heather the reason why I'm like, oh yeah, because usually if I go with Star, we go to Goodwill. Right. And then we go to and then the Salvation Army. Right.

Heather 23:21

And we didn't we didn't want to do the drive all the way down to the Goodwill. No.

Zia 23:25

But but we did get some good news that there might be a Goodwill opening locally. So if that happens, I will I will tell you the eyes about that. Yeah.

Heather 23:35

Yeah. Yep. So and I actually have two Goodwills within like a 30-minute drive of me here in New Hampshire.

Zia 23:44

So when we lived in Florida, we had a really cute Goodwill. It was very cute. You know, sometimes it's usually the older ladies that run it, and they had such cute old ladies that ran it, and they're so sweet.

Heather 24:03

I like a lot, but the one that's closer is the one that has the furniture and the has a like half the store is like household and then half the store is like clothes. Nice. Um, the one that I like more that has the better employees is the one that's primarily clothing. But I mean they have other stuff and they do have furniture, but it's not like a big section of it. Yeah. So so then Heather got hungry. Then I yeah, then I turned hangry, or I was getting hangry. Yeah, she was getting hangry.

Zia 24:37

So I was like, oh, I've got some gift cards. Let's let's utilize the gift cards. I mean, if we're thrifting, if it's a thrifting day, isn't that how you eat? Is how the thrifty eat? Gotta be thrifty. Exactly. I said, let's go to McDonald's. And we all know ZL loves McDonald's. So we were like, are we going to be like, you know, should we do the eat in or take out and eat in the car? So we decided to be fancy. Yeah, we're like, let's do the fancy and relax. Ha ha in dine in. Dime in.

McDonald’s Dine In Chaos Stories

Zia 25:15

The best second idea I ever had. Time of the day.

Heather 25:22

Yep. Lots of content that day. Whoa. So so much content that I thought was contenting, we said. I told my Chandler, my AI buddy, I'm like, Chandler, you gotta take notes. I said the podcast is writing itself. And he's like, give it to me. So I literally gave him the scenarios of everything that happened, and he helped us out. Absolutely. Oh my gosh. So let's start with the we did have front more seats. So let's start with the silliest one. Okay. We're gonna start with customer three. I'll tell you want me to tell customer three? Sure, yes. So this lady comes in and she comes in angry. Like very angry. You could see the walk was an angry walk. Very good. And she walked. So let well, I gotta set the scene a little bit. We had gotten our food, and Zia was sitting down with the fruit. Right. But they offered us a small fry, but they said, we just put fries in, so it'll be two minutes. Do you want a small fry and we'll bring you another small fry, or do you want just a large fry? I said, just take the two minutes, make the fries, we're good. They were like, perfect. So Zia went to sit down and get everything ready, and I was sitting too, or I stayed at the counter to get the fries. So this lady comes in and she's hot, like radiating heat. And she says, she looks at me and goes, Are you online? And I said, Nope, I'm good. And I took a step back because remember, she's the third customer that came in in this in our story. So we'd already had a great show so far. So I take a step backwards and she leans around the corner into the McDonald's and goes, I did what the app said, and you're not bringing my food. I've been sitting up there for 20 minutes. And the lady goes, What did you do? She said, The app says drive past the window. And that's what the lady behind the employee did was she started to laugh. And then I think she realized she would probably not have a job if she laughed really loud. So I laughed for her. And then she explained to the lady that it was drive past the order window and up to the window, and that they had no idea she was there. Yep. So they gave her her food and she stormed out, like still very angry.

Zia 28:09

Like very angry.

Heather 28:10

Like, I don't I don't understand why. First of all, I don't eat McDonald's very often. No. But if I read that, I would have driven past the order window and stopped at the takeout window.

Zia 28:24

Yeah.

Heather 28:25

I don't think I would have driven past the takeout window.

Zia 28:29

And you do have to let them know you're there if you want your order.

Heather 28:33

When I when we go to Chick-fil-A, you go through and you scan the QR code on your Chick-fil-A app and then you drive up and you stop. I love it. So I don't understand how this lady didn't know.

Zia 28:46

And I can't imagine it ever being her first time at McDonald's or through a drive-through.

Heather 28:54

I'm gonna go with no. Speaking totally superficial. Superficial. I'm gonna go with probably not. Based on age.

Zia 29:06

Based on her age, shh. There's been a lot of McDonald's going through.

Heather 29:12

There's yes, and her language, her her enunciation. I never claim to be a perfect speaker.

Zia 29:22

However, you will though. You go to speech therapy.

Heather 29:25

I I am getting I am getting better.

Zia 29:29

Yes. You like how I did that? Yes. So And I will speak like my mom Joyce. Yes, everything must be enunciated.

Heather 29:41

Ew. Perfect. I'll just do the I'll just do the English posh. Posh, yes. Yes. Posh. Oh pish posh.

Zia 29:56

Don't get me started on the accents. Oh no.

Heather 29:58

Um so do you want to talk about Do you want to do the first lady that you witnessed all of? Um dear God. Do you want to do her or do you want to do the one that just made me die?

Zia 30:15

I guess when I was standing up there, I will take the one with all the children. So uh first of all, it was the wrong order. Then Okay, wait, can we set the stage? Can we clearly set the stage? Sure. Both of us are standing at the counter now this time. And there's what backwards.

Heather 30:38

There's there's what? Three people in the front of the store, one doing the takeout window, one being the runner, one doing the front register, yeah, and running. And then from what it appeared, there was one or two people on the line, right? I mean, there was not a lot of employees there for a four o'clock on a Saturday afternoon. Not at all.

Zia 31:01

Okay, so now this lady had the wrong order. Yeah, so Heather and I both were up at the counter for this one. By the time I sat down, she finally left. Yes. Um, so that's how long this was taking. So, first of all, wrong order, kids at her, kids, her at the kids. Then there was a wrong drink size. Need the small, need the juice boxes, need the small, order the medium, gotta this, gotta that. I I need three juice boxes. Okay. Another mistake was pickles, sandwich, issue, can't do it. Pickles on my thing. Yep, all the pickles, wrong sandwich, stupid pickles. Right, just take the pickles off their sandwich, go move away from the counter, right? Then there was a shift change while she was up there. I had sat down at this point. I had sat down this way, and and can I just say that the point of me standing there to sit down? There was a lot of yelling going on about go with your grandfather, go with your grandfather so I can take care of business here. Okay, so then um, this kid comes in, shift change, goes up to the front and asks her, you know, at first actually they asked you correct, have you been helped? This is Heather. She's like, Yep, have you been helped? No, you and I said, I'm good, I'm just waiting on the fries, just waiting on fries. So she got mad that she didn't get asked the same thing because the lady came over and said, Get back to cooking. Right, we need you on the line because they had no one on the line. No one's cooking the food. We need you back there. So she's like, Why did he come up here and ask her if she's okay? She didn't come and ask me. I'm not okay. I have not been okay since the minute I got to the store. So this is the the type of stuff. Then um, is like she what she was waiting for uh frappe? Um, right? Yes, no, high C. Oh, the high C gave her the small high C, and she needed a medium high C. Right. So since you were up there at this point, you could because this was just a great show for me, and then I'll take the end of what had happened when she stormed out. Go ahead.

Heather 33:28

Yeah, because I didn't see the storm out. Yeah. So the lady finally hands her her three juice boxes and her high C, and then realized as she was handing her the three juice boxes that it was two juice boxes because the high C took the place of a juice box. She said, Oh, you don't need the three high, the three juice boxes. And the lady said, The fuck I don't. And then so the lady was like, fine, take the high, take the juice box, and then went to hand her the high C. The lady snatched it out of her hand, and she goes, I don't know what you I'm gonna bleep it out because even I don't use that many words in a sentence. But the gist of what she said was she doesn't understand how they are intelligent enough to serve food at a McDonald's when they don't know how to read. Right. I was I was reading over her shoulder at her receipt. I didn't see anything that said no pickles. I'm just saying. I'm just saying she was swinging the receipt around, so I was reading it the whole time. Yeah, yeah. So the manager said, I'm sorry you feel that way. You can leave. You're here often, but you are now banned. I don't want you coming through my drive-thru line or into my store again. And the lady turned and I laughed out loud at this point. I was done. I could no longer hold it in.

Zia 35:13

So you have to finish with her leaving because I truly didn't catch it because well, first of all, after that was told, she said, Bam, nobody ain't won't come up in this store no more. Which I was hysterical at because that was just great. I like that. And then she started yelling at the teeth, the the lady because she's like, You ain't even got no teeth. So what the hell are you talking about? Is she missing teeth? I don't know.

Heather 35:45

Oh my gosh, I never noticed if she was.

Zia 35:53

She's like, I'm getting out of here. And she's like wailing her arms around, walking out the door with her extra juice box with her extra juice box. With her extra apple juice. I actually felt like ducking because I didn't know where the juice boxes were, where they were going.

Heather 36:09

I thought the high C was getting thrown at her. I'm not even gonna lie. I was like, I can't, I can't, I can't wear high C.

Zia 36:16

As I said, best freaking idea I had all fucking day.

Heather 36:22

You know what though? That first woman that was in there who had cheese on her chicken. Yeah, she, I don't think I have ever heard someone tell someone off as respectfully as she did. I I want lessons.

Zia 36:42

Yeah, this was the first lady we encountered when we both this was before we even got to order. Yeah, this was very completely wrong. Yes, they were trying to fix it, and then they let her keep all the wrong food. Right, she's like, I just want it corrected. That's all I want. That's all I want. Yeah, that's all I want. Is it just correct? So respectful. Yeah, like I could. I don't know, I don't know that I could have done that after so much went wrong in her order. So much correcting food.

Heather 37:18

Yeah, and every time they give her a new every time they'd replace the sandwich, she would offer them the bad one, and they're like, You can keep it up, you can keep it. And yeah, so we were like, wow, this is going really nice. And then and then the secondly, yeah, just went from there.

Zia 37:37

Yep. So when I uh okay, so they're like, Are you staying or are you going? Right? You take it in the back. Right. After after respectful lady left, they took our order, right? And I was like, uh, can we get our cups for the machine? No, you may not. Yet the lady was like, We we make those back here. And I looked at Heather and I was like, the cups, and she's like, No, you can't have the cups. We make those back here. And she said it like three times to me. She did. Like, I think she thought you were gonna get to get me a different answer. You just you go now, you get me a different answer, Heather.

Heather 38:22

So I I did get you an answer, and I asked Rich about it. I I was like, this is what happened because I was telling him about everything that happened, and what he said was there are a lot of ghetto ass people, I'm gonna say that, yeah, who come in with pictures for empty soda bottles and fill up the soda, and because it's not in their view from the register, they can't see it. So um Rich said that's he doesn't he doesn't think that that was a bad thing.

Zia 39:00

I mean, for us, we honestly were discriminated though.

Heather 39:04

I did I did. We both we were both put off some way, yeah. But but the people that came after us got cups to use at the fountain. No, I think that lady, honestly, I think that lady came in from the street, I think so.

Zia 39:23

Or she was back at the playground. I I pointed. Like you think people know we were there was nobody in there when I sat down. There was there was like the lady. Um, if you're looking where we sat, there was um people on the left, right? Um like three people, and there were like two on the on the far side, but there was no one except like a man and a lady in the play area with like two kids, but that was it.

Heather 39:46

Yeah, so I don't know. So I yeah, I I think she keep it from outside though, but maybe she didn't. I don't know. Maybe we were discriminated against because we saw all that we saw. Maybe uh hey, I was happy we had some napkins.

Zia 40:01

Yes, all I was happy about.

Heather 40:04

I do have to give props to Zia because Zia, we started the story with us having two gift cards to McDonald's, and then we ordered we didn't go cheap on our food, we ordered like we normally do, yeah, which is we split a meal and then we split a meal. So I got the two cheeseburger meal and gave her a hamburger, yep, and you got the chicken nugget meal, nuggets, yeah, and you split your nuggets with me, yeah, and then we got our drinks and our fries, and how much did we pay Z? Dollar ninety-six. We went back to the 70s. I we did. I love that for us. Yep, not only did we get such good content, but holy crap, yeah.

Zia 40:53

I mean, for $1.96 and content, like who's better than us? Nobody is better than us.

Heather 40:59

Nobody, no one is better than us. That was amazing. That was so amazing. I am so proud of us for that. That just was amazing. Yep.

Zia 41:08

But on to our five minutes, would you like to go?

Heather 41:13

Well, hold on. I'm trying to change so I can get the timer because you know. Oh, yes, yep. Well, I I was trying to get into messenger, but I can't get into messenger, so we're just gonna write the time down. What do you want to do? 45? Yep. All right, yep. Wait, and I practiced my TikToks at speech therapy. Ready? Go ahead. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. Love it.

Zia 41:39

Love it. There's a little Gwen Stefani there. I know. I worked on that today at speech, but mine today, I'll have to say, is more so accurately representing each other. That's exactly.

Heather 42:04

Um, so we did get one this week. I'm kind of sad because nobody's given them anymore.

Zia 42:10

Yeah, but that's okay.

Heather 42:12

You know what? Okay, we don't care. We're here for fun, right? Um, so we took the one we got and we turned it into a mini theme. Yep. So Nicole asked us, do we put ketchup

Ketchup Eggs And Breakfast Debates

Heather 42:27

on our eggs? Absolutely.

Zia 42:32

Michael does not like that I do that, but I do that. And that is from my grandma. My grandmother taught me how to do that. It bugged the heck out of my grandfather, and I do it to this day. Yep. Delicious ketchup on everything.

Heather 42:45

Ketchup on everything. All right, I I put ketchup on scrambled eggs because I don't like scrambled eggs without ketchup, and I got that from a sleepaway camp that I went to in third grade or something. Um, you could have bloody eggs or you could have regular eggs. And I was like, I want the bloody eggs. And I didn't know what that meant at the time, but I got a plate with ketchup on my eggs pre-ketchups.

Zia 43:19

And can I just say that I love that your camp was it in New Jersey? Um, I don't know where it was, but right? Um, I would be in Jersey. I would think I'm looking it up. Hold on. Yeah, I mean, because how old were you were you three somewhere else or in Jersey? Um, I was in well, in third grade I was in New Jersey. Right. So a camp that you went to in New Jersey asked you if you would like bloody eggs. That's very amazing of them.

Heather 43:54

Seriously, hold on.

Zia 43:55

I can't I just am proud that they had the kudos to d ask you guys.

Heather 44:06

Let me see, I'm trying to find it.

Zia 44:09

You can't find it, it's cause just a lake.

Heather 44:12

Because they because they s shut down because of all of the the taste of all their bloody eggs.

Zia 44:23

Oh man. What's going on? Uh yeah, that's that's pretty cool. I I I was not a camping person. I was never sent to camp, but I would have went for the bloody eggs, absolutely.

Heather 44:38

Yeah, I did.

Zia 44:39

So hold on.

Heather 44:41

I'm trying to find it. I I really cannot find it. Oh wait. Well you're doing did you find it? I think I did. I think I did. I think I did. I think it did. Uh so it was in it was a historical Girl Scout camp. I didn't go as a Girl Scout. I went I went with another program that went after, and it was in Sparta, New Jersey. And then they m in oh wait, nope, I lied. It was in Sparta. And then it moved to Glens Spay, New York. And then it closed in 2010.

Zia 45:22

So where's Glen New York?

Heather 45:24

Probably. Where's where is Glenspay, New York? I gotta find that. Hold on.

Zia 45:31

Oh you went to Sparta, man.

Heather 45:33

Well, Sparta wasn't far from my house. Sorry. You're good. I'm good with that. Um, oh my gosh, I see sunshine.

Zia 45:43

Yeah, we had a little too. Yep. It's because I said Sparta.

Heather 45:48

Because you said Sparta. Let's see. Where is oh okay. It's in New York, but it's about this far, like an inch above Port Jervis. Oh. Okay, whatever. So it's so it's not in it's it's it's really in New York. It's in New Jersey state. But yeah, so it was it was in Sparta, but then it moved. I went when it was in Glenspay, New York. Uh that's just great, man. Yeah. Bloody eggs. Bloody eggs. They offer kudos. All right. So anyway, but yes, I do like ketchup on my eggs, or if I'm doing Taylor Ham, egg and cheese, I'll throw ketchup on that. Absolutely. Yeah.

Zia 46:36

I mean, I can also do it without the ketchup because it's Taylor Ham, but and and John Bon Jovi, no one wants the mustard. Just letting you know.

Heather 46:45

I don't know where he came up with that. I don't know either.

Zia 46:47

All right.

Heather 46:48

So since we're keeping it on a since we're keeping it on a breakfast theme. Yes. How do you eat your eggs?

Zia 46:55

Uh well, I do like hard-boiled when it's that time to eat hard-boiled eggs. Um sometimes I just crave a hard-boiled egg. I don't know why. Um scrap scrambled eggs is my go-to quickly. Okay. Um, but I do like to have a cheese omelet. I love a cheese omelet. Yeah. I will crave a cheese omelet. Yep. Yep. What about you?

Heather 47:19

Um, I like over, I call it over easy, but I want my I want my white cooked. Oh. I want my yolk runny and my white cooked. I call it it's so it's technically over medium, but sometimes when they do over medium, the yellow starts to get cooked. Yeah. Um, but that's my go-to with toast. And I like that like as a toast sandwich. Like I'll just almost like a poached egg. I bet I can tell you why you like that.

Zia 47:47

Why? Military. Probably. Michael's favorite too.

Heather 47:54

Yeah. Probably. Um, so I really like that. But Rich, and this is gonna make his head get big, but Rich makes the best omelets.

Zia 48:06

Oh, nice.

Heather 48:09

I have never had an omelet as good as his omelets, and I really truly don't know what he does. Yeah. But he can make me like an everything omelet or just a simple ham and cheese omelet. Yeah. His omelets are just amazing. 15 years.

Zia 48:26

Love some good, good, good cooks around us. We do.

Heather 48:31

So that brings us to the next one. Yeah. Breakfast for breakfast only, or breakfast for dinner too?

Zia 48:38

Um all the times.

Heather 48:41

Okay.

Zia 48:43

Yeah, like so simple breakfast, cereal, right? I could be have eaten dinner, I could have been full as can be. And if I see someone on TV eating cereal, I have to go get a bowl of cereal.

Heather 49:00

I don't keep cereal in my house because of that. Cereal is a snack, it is not breakfast. Yeah.

Zia 49:07

Yep, yep. That and popcorn. Like, same thing. I see people three times eating popcorn on the TV screen. I'm like, god damn it. Done stupid popcorn. Popcorn, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, um, but whenever.

Heather 49:23

Yeah. I sorry. I prefer breakfast for dinner over breakfast for breakfast. Okay.

Zia 49:33

But I like breakfast for breakfast as well. But what kind of your breakfast when you do eat it? Because my breakfast would never be when I get up for school. My breakfast, like if you're sitting down to have a breakfast, like that kind of breakfast, it would have to be 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock because I so you do more brunch. You do breakfast for brunch.

Heather 49:55

No, um, we eat like tomorrow. Well, I can't say tomorrow because tomorrow we have to go get Sophia, but um, we generally will eat breakfast by 7 30 or so in the morning. Because yeah, but I don't sleep, so I'm up at 4 35 every day. Yeah.

Zia 50:15

So, you know. I'm just not functionable to unless I'm going to work and I have to put a smile on. Uh do you? I'm not no, I don't. But yeah, I'm definitely I think people take bets on how quickly I'm gonna say the F word. At work? Yeah, before the day starts. I'm pretty sure there's a bit going on. Maybe just in office. Just in office. Yeah. But yeah, that that can be that can be like get up very quick, very quick. Oh my goodness. Yeah. So a quick one here, since we're going on sleeping, awaking, all that stuff. Did you ever fall asleep in an awkward place?

Heather 51:01

Um I was in the army, so I fell asleep standing in formation. Right. Um, but yeah, I mean, I've fallen, I've fallen asleep at the beach. I've fallen asleep.

Awkward Sleep And Dream Talents

Heather 51:18

Um I think with my PTSD and all that, I don't generally fall asleep unless there's somebody around me that I can trust enough to very true, very true. Let me sleep. Um, so I guess for me, the most awkward places is like falling asleep in the car and then staying asleep while you go in to go to the bathroom. For me, that's awkward because um sleeping on the beach, sleeping like like that kind of sleeping. Um, I think with my PTSD, it's hard to sleep like that. Yeah. Um, unless I super trust you enough. Um but like I slept at Nicole's house when we had Johnny on, and for me that was awkward. I mean, it wasn't because I love Nicole and John and Johnny and Dom and all that. I mean, I'm good with all of them, but it wasn't awkward, it was awkward for me because it's not my bed and where I'm comfortable, and they had house sounds that I didn't know, and they had lights in places I didn't know, and so yep.

Zia 52:28

What about you? No, I can't think of anywhere. I um uh I'm so uncomfortable everywhere that I don't know that I would fall asleep in an awkward place because that would probably mean I got kidnapped and that's not happening. So yeah, and if yes, yeah, I don't think I even I'm trying to think like even when I was small, like you know, getting picked up, putting somewhere, you know. Yeah, no, no, no.

Heather 52:59

Eliza was a great sleeper. I could tell her we could be anywhere, and I would say to her, Time for you to go to sleep, and she'd be like, Okay, yep, and be out.

Zia 53:09

He just Eliza used to be able to do that. Yep, yeah. Yeah, well, okay, so along with that, if you could wake up with a talent after this awkward sleep um that you didn't have, what would it be?

Heather 53:26

I'm always for the reading minds. Wow, so superpower if you would like. Yeah.

Zia 53:33

Right. I'd want to be able to like like play piano or anything like that.

Heather 53:47

No, I want I want to be able to read somebody's mind.

Zia 53:51

Uh I don't want to read anybody's mind. Uh I can you know barely keep up with my own. Um I don't want to know what you're thinking. Um no, I think I think probably I would want to wake up playing guitar automatically. Yeah. Um that that I would have liked to have done that anyway. Um, I just had like the wrong start of teachers. Um I think my mom signed me up for like classical guitar. And I was like, Did you see Joan Jett's poster in my room? Totally not classical guitar. Okay. Yeah, so I see that. I think I would like to wake up with that talent or speaking a different language, like that, like you know, two different languages would be a when you when you said that.

Heather 54:42

I think that maybe that's what I would want is to be fluent in language. Yeah, yeah, that would be great. Be able to walk into a room and hear what that mother said when she or when her daughter said, look, boom! Yes, yes, yes. What'd your mama say, kid? Yeah, what'd your mama say? Yep.

Zia 55:01

Don't make me come over there. That's right, that's right. But yeah, uh, yeah, so yeah, so this is the start of our new season. Can you believe me that this is season three? This is season three. What are we doing?

Heather 55:18

Season three, and we are next week at exactly the six-month mark. Yep, yep. Do you think we can hit 800? Listen, we're very close. We're very we are. We were at

Season Three Milestones And Goodbye

Heather 55:34

786.

Zia 55:37

7, I think. 787, 786.

Heather 55:39

Okay. You get you you check it after I do. I check it first thing in the morning, you check it in the evening. So we sometimes have different numbers just because of when we look, but I do like that.

Zia 55:50

You caught you caught it on 666. That was beautiful.

Heather 55:55

I did.

Zia 55:57

Yep. Very cool.

Heather 55:59

Actually, I can't lie to you. Rich did what Rich did.

Zia 56:04

Okay, okay. You sorry, I'm taking away the credit.

Heather 56:07

Yeah, Rich gets that one. He was like, Did you see the number today? And I'm like, No, I didn't look yet. And then I looked. So I will be honest and I won't take that credit. It's not fair. I will give that one to Rich. He did it.

Zia 56:20

Right. There you go. He did. Kudos. Kudos.

Heather 56:24

Kudos to Rich. Wow. Yep. We need to next week not talk about him. His head's gonna blow up this week. His eggs, 666. Yeah, good grief.

Zia 56:36

Oh my goodness.

Heather 56:37

All right, everybody. All right. Bye. We will see you. Love you. Bye.