Oh No… I’ve Become My Parents

Have you ever turned down the music in your car to see better? Or walked into a room, felt a draft, and said, “close the door, were you raised in a barn?” If you nodded at any of that, this episode is for you. And don’t worry, you’re not alone. We’re all turning into our parents. The only question is how far along you are.

Transcript

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Welcome to the Cashley Show. We are Kevin and Ashley.

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Hello.

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We started this podcast after recent tragedies to take a break from negativity and discover the good news happening all around us.

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Get out of here, negativity.

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Today's episode is Oh no, I've become my parent.

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Oh nice.

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We put together the ultimate list of signs that you're becoming your parent. You might want to sit down for this. Actually, you're probably already sitting in your chair. Yep. The one no one else is allowed to use. Right, Gunnar? Sign number one.

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You're gonna be able to do this one. You need me to do this one by myself?

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Sign number one. You grunt when you sit down or stand up. We were downstairs and you did this, and I just laughed to myself. It's not on purpose. It just happens. Your body has started making sound effects, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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You have to give that little extra gusto, a little oomph, so you can get up and out.

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Sometimes your body just hurts. It's hard to get up or sit down.

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That's true. I blame inflammation.

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It's probably true. Sign number two. You have opinions about thermostats, strong ones. You walk into a room that's 71 degrees and say, Why is it so hot in here? But the energy of someone who has been personally wronged. Personally, I'd be okay with 71.

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What is your ideal thermostat temperature?

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Probably 71, 72.

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Yeah, I don't know if I necessarily have one. I just don't want it to be hot. So less than 80, but more than 60.

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So I are range. And the spring and fall is like the low 60 and like the high of 80.

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Right. Like if you're cold, put on a jacket or something. If you're hot, just wear shorts and a t-shirt. I don't need to be cooling and heating the house so that you're perfect in your little whatever you're wearing.

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Yeah.

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And I don't mean you, I just mean in general.

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Sign number three.

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I was gonna say that I don't have strong opinions because I'm like, it doesn't matter as long as it's between here, like it doesn't really matter. But I guess that is a strong opinion. So I'm like, just leave it so it doesn't kick on or off or do any, it doesn't heat or cool.

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Yeah, you definitely have strong opinions.

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I know, I guess I do apparently. Another one snuck up on me.

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That's why I have a I sleep with a heated blanket year-round. Sign number three. You find yourself saying, because I said so. And the terrifying part, it worked.

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You said this today.

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I do say this.

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Yeah, you say a lot. I actually try not to say it. Because as a as a kid, like because I said so. Like that doesn't mean anything.

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Yeah.

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So I was always trying to like not do that to like do something because I there's this reason, not just because I said so. But you can you can choose whatever you want to say.

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Sometimes I have too many things to do to sit there and argue about something. So I just like because I said so. Yeah. That's it.

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Right, that's true. That's how the military rolls too. It's like we don't have time to debate this. Like this jet's gotta get off the ground. Okay, go out there and do the work.

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Yeah, a couple of your kids will debate me forever. So I just sometimes need to end it.

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That's true. When you need an authority, I guess that works.

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Sign number four. You go to bed by choice by 9 30 p.m. Not only do you go to bed early, but you look forward to it all day.

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All day. I don't necessarily love going to bed early. I do like taking a little nap. Yeah. I actually want to stay up to like one o'clock still. Yeah. Like that's still, but I'm just, you know, kids come in at like 6 a.m. So five hours of sleep just does not cut it anymore. So yeah, I have to go to bed earlier.

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Yeah, when I was getting up at 4 30, yeah, 9 30, I was usually had fallen asleep before that. All right, next we have you tell people to drive safe every single time they leave. Every time, even if they're walkie.

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I mostly started doing this because your dad. That's what he would always say to us when we leave us out. So then I would just say it to him or say to other people. Like, and now it's kind of stuck a little bit.

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I say it just like round I do it to certain people just because I'm more worried a warrior.

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Yeah. I said it to be teasing and now I do it because of that.

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Side number six. You complain about how loud the TV is at a restaurant.

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Yeah, I don't know if I've ever done this.

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Oh, I I definitely do this like anywhere.

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Like the TV's too loud? You're always complaining that it's not loud enough and you need to turn on closed caption. Right, but like if you're how do your how does your old person hearing go away and you get super hearing at a restaurant?

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It's not like that. It's it's like when the kids are watching a show and then they're trying to talk to me, and I'm like, it's too loud. I can't I can't do both.

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Oh.

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You gotcha. I don't hear well, and you're mumbling, and that TV is not going together. So if you're anywhere and the TV's on, I probably can't hear anything else that's happening because that's too loud. Okay. So yes, it's loud everywhere.

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I I agree with you now.

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All right, number number seven, watching the news by choice. Not just watching, but having detailed opinions about it and you're ready to share them. This is your dad.

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It is my dad. I actually try and avoid the news mostly.

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I watch the news and have lots of opinions, but I generally don't say them.

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To who?

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I said I don't say them.

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I know. I'm saying who who don't you say them to? I feel like you say them to me. I feel like I get all those opinions.

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No, you don't get a lot of my opinions.

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Wow. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

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Sign number eight saying back in my day with complete seriousness.

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Well, because it is serious.

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So I actually tried to avoid saying this, and I say when I was younger, I'll say that with the kids. I don't I don't I say it this often, I feel like.

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So are you saying it so that you specifically aren't saying back in my day? But you're meaning the exact same thing. Yes. You're just using different words to say it.

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Okay.

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So I don't sound as old.

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Sure.

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No, if that's back in my day.

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Well, don't say it with that old person voice. That'll help.

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Number nine, getting genuinely excited about a new vacuum cleaner. You tell people, you showed them the section. I do like a good vacuum.

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It's important. And our vacuum is so old. Like I've thought about getting a new vacuum more than once. Like it's been on my mind. It's been something I've been weighing.

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You just gotta work around its its quirkiness.

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It does have a lot of quirks. Sometimes it just starts up. Plugged in, and it's just sitting there and it's like you gotta hit it. Yeah.

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To make it shut off because you push the button and it gets stuck. So then you gotta hit it. Yep.

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And the the hose has all sorts of holes and cuts and you gotta hold the hose.

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Yeah, you gotta like crank it up.

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Crink it up and then hold it with your hand. So the hose is like bunched up at the handle because otherwise all the suction just comes out there at the hose. It might be time. It's a good vacuum stuff. Or I wonder if we can just order parts. It's pretty old though. Yeah. It's a Dyson, but it's old.

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Yep.

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Might we probably got like what 10 years ago?

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Yeah. We gotta get the dog hair.

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Yeah, the animal one. Sometimes like the carpet downstairs is like plush and that vacuum can't handle it because it like sucks so hard and spins and everything, and it just like heats up and shuts itself off.

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Yeah.

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Our vacuum sucks too much.

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Alright, number sign number 10. Storing plastic grocery bags inside bigger plastic bags. It's a system.

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It just makes sense, okay? This isn't an old person thing. It's just how you do it.

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We use them in our garbage cans in our bathroom, so we have to keep them.

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So otherwise they're throwing away plastic bags and then going to the store and buying plastic bags.

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We don't live in California anymore, so we don't have to pay for them.

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Yeah. That helps. Yeah. I remember when I was young, back in my day, like uh paper bags were like a much bigger thing. Yeah. Right. And you'd have to like cover your textbooks, like your history in English and math textbooks with like just the brown paper bag. And then you could color on it and draw and do all sorts of stuff. But that's how you kept the books because math didn't change right back then. History was all set. There was no more history. So you needed to protect these books because they were in the school for like a decade.

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Because they would charge you if you brought it back and it had problems.

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Right.

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Yeah. You could also get the book covers, the little like plasticky stickery ones.

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But yeah, the I mean, I guess if you were a rich kid, you did.

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I think they were like 10 cents.

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Yeah, the rest of us use paper bags.

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They were like 10 cents.

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Okay. Okay.

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Which is cheaper. Well, I guess not cheaper than a bag in California.

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Whatever, Richie Rich. Go cash your blank check.

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I was not rich growing up. Divorced parents. Alright, sign a number 11. Saving every rubber band and twist tie just in case you're not sure what for. You're always prepared. You like to save the twist ties.

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I do, because they're so useful.

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And I hate them.

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Why?

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Because they need to be put in something because they're always just all over the place. Yeah, that one they're ready when you need them.

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They drive me nuts. There's some over there, there's some over here. Everywhere.

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Sometimes I just want to throw them all away. No comment.

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Do what you gotta do, I guess.

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Side number 12. Complaining about parking. Every place you visit, every outing starts with a parking story.

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This is not me.

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This is me.

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Yeah. I don't necessarily care about parking. Because like I my knees and hips are still good enough that like I can walk. So it's like it doesn't matter if it's 50 yards or 100 yards. Like I'll walk. That's fine.

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Well, it's harder to park the suburban than it is to park a smaller car. So when it's all filled up and there's like these tiny parking spaces, it's really frustrating. Like, sure. How am I supposed to fit this big thing in there? Alright. Next we have number 13. Treating your sleep schedule like it's part of your identity. I went to bed by 9.45. That never happens anymore.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Next, number 14. Knowing the weather forecast before anyone asks, before it's needed, even before it matters. You just know. You had the info since 6 a.m. this morning.

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Yeah, this also isn't me. This is me. Yeah. I mostly don't care about the weather. Yeah.

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Like I've Well, our kids are like shorts or pants today. Do I need a jacket? Do I not need a jacket? So it's just easier if I just know what's happening.

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Sure, I get that. I usually just wear like to work. I wear pants and a shirt and then I have a hoodie. That covers me from like 30 degrees to like 80 degrees. Yeah. Like unless it's yeah, like a freak snowstorm, which I'm gonna hear about anyways. Yeah. Or like a freak heat.

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You can see when you open the garage door.

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Yeah.

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Alright, tip number 15. Having a specific chair that's yours and only yours.

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I mean, I'm sitting in this chair, but it's not like this is my chair. Yeah. And if you were to use it, I would be totally fine. The cat sleeps in this chair. I don't care.

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Yeah. Gunnar's the only person I know that does this.

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I think my dad does this at his house. He has like his chair. Oh really? Yeah, I don't know if he's like anal about it or anything. But it's just that's like the one that he sits in. Yeah. And I think my mom does that at her house too. She's got her chair.

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Well, like with your mom, she's the only one there, so it's just like when people come visit, you don't sit in that chair.

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Yeah, maybe she runs over and sits in it really. Nobody sits here. No, I don't know.

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All right, number 16. Taking vitamin vitamins and announcing it like it's a big accomplishment. I took my D3 today.

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D3K2?

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Mm-hmm. It's an important one.

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Yep. I don't know if I I think you're maybe the only person I ever say anything about taking vitamins too.

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I give Jack a lot of vitamins every day. Try to produce his information in his body. Alright, sign number 17. Texting in full sentences with punctuation and purpose.

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This is you.

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And when someone replies with a K, you feel truly disrespected.

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This is so you.

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Yeah. So I didn't used to do this, and then You got old.

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No. Oh.

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We uh helped buy a business in California, and the person we bought it from lectured me pretty hardcore about the way I text. So I was like, okay.

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And so now it's just stuck or what?

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Yep. Now I just drive safe. Punctuations, capital letters, no short hand, anything.

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Yeah, I think the only thing that like for me, like a capital I when I say I versus like a lowercase. And I don't know why. Probably because when I was younger, someone like drilled that at me, right? And so like I as I'm typing or whatever, if I you know it's a lowercase I stop everything, back it up, make it an uppercase, and then move on. But yeah, like I a lot of my punctuation is missing, capital letters to start a sentence.

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Yeah. Well, you didn't get lectured like I did.

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Apparently not.

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Number 18, taking photos of your food and sending them to family with no context.

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I don't know if you do this per se, but you do send me pictures often, and there is no context. There's no words, there's just like this picture, and I'm just staring at it for like three minutes. Like, I don't is there more coming? I don't know what to do with this. What am I this is like one of those like the highlight magazines back in the day when we were young, right? Where you're trying to find like something in the picture. I'm like, I don't okay, what could this be?

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Most of the time I text you, like take a picture as I'm doing something, and then I'm like, I'll get back and text him about it, and then I generally forget.

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And I'm just left for hours sitting there staring, waiting, wondering.

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You should just text me, remind me to text you back. Sometimes I need reminders. Sign number 20. Using the full name when someone is in trouble. I do this.

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Yeah, you do with Jack.

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Mostly. I do it with the old our oldest as well, actually.

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Yeah, I don't I don't know if I do it. Oh, I do. I just raise my voice and she opens louder. I speak so everyone I speak loud enough that everyone can hear me. Not yelling.

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The whole house. Number 21, ending phone calls with okay, love you, bye. And then you realize you just said it to the dentist's office reminding you of your appointment. I do this because generally the only people I talk to on the phone are like you or family. Right. So when I talk to other people, I'm like, uh, oh, sorry. Didn't mean to say that to you. Love you.

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Yeah, I would maybe say it more, but like watching that one show with like the the Korean people who run the convenience store. Kim's Kim's Convenience, yeah. And I say, okay, by see you. So I say that a lot more often now.

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That's funny. Sign number 22 saying we'll see instead of just saying no. Yeah, you know what'll be mean no.

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Right?

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You do this, and I generally just say no.

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Yeah, you have no problem just saying no.

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All the time.

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Yep. And I partly because I I don't want to say no, like I kinda I do want it to happen. Like whatever they're asking for is like, yeah, I want to give that to you, or I want to do that, I want to participate. But it's like, uh, also we have all these other things we need to do, and we have all this other stuff. So it's like I'm in solidarity with you to want to do it, child, but we probably won't.

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Yeah. Sign number 23 saying, I'm not sleeping, I'm just resting my eyes.

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This is me, Lord of the Rings movie tonight.

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Yeah. Kevin's twitching, he's sleeping, and then like all of a sudden, he's like talking about the movie. What? You've been sleeping this whole time. No, I haven't. Like, what's going on? Someone's gonna die. Good guess.

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There's this ring, and that little guy's got it.

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It's saying careful. Every time someone does anything, they pick up a glass, careful. They stand up too fast, careful. I do this a lot.

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Yeah, you do. Because you're like you said, that's why you say drive safe. Because you're just worried about everything.

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Yeah, well, I do this, I think, mostly because I'm pretty accident prone, and so I don't want other people to have things that I've gone through happen to them. So I'm like, be careful, be careful.

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I'm sure our kids are annoyed with me, but they're probably not being careful just despite you because you always say that.

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Or they're probably overly cautious. All right, number 25. Keeping emergen a car emergency kit with things you'll never use.

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Like what?

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A lot of people have food and stuff in their kit.

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Food? Like what? Like beef jerky or something, or like dried granola bars and stuff.

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But the problem with that is that you have to change it out. Cause I would totally forget if I had that in my car.

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Yeah, I don't know, just like every six months or something.

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Yeah.

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Just have a little reminder on your phone or on your calendar.

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Yeah, I should do that.

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I didn't buy you that calendar for nothing. Put stuff on it.

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I do, put a lot of stuff on it. Side number 26. Feeling personally offended when someone doesn't use a turn signal. Not just annoyed, offended. Yeah, I know it's me.

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Yeah. You are a maniac driver.

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No.

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Yeah.

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I hate driving with all these people around.

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That's what I'm saying. The worst. You think everyone on the road is like out to get you personal vendetta? It's like you versus the other million drivers on the road. You're not in it together. Everyone's there to try and stop you.

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They're just there to cut me off and try to make me.

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Here we go. Here we go.

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Number 27. Keeping condiments from restaurants just in case this is you.

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Well, it's not just in case, it's to use.

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But do you ever use it?

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I use them all the time.

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No, we had a whole collection of Wendy's barbecue sauce in a silverware drawer that I threw away.

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Well, because I don't eat Wendy's enough. No one is. That's the problem. The problem isn't that I stored Wendy's barbecue sauce. The problem is that I didn't have enough Wendy's.

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We don't eat Wendy's much.

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See? We see the problem now, both of us together.

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You could just use it on your chicken.

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What chicken?

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Any chicken.

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We'll have barbecue sauce in the fridge for that.

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But you but you're saved up once.

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Those are for Wendy's.

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Alright, number 28. Having strong opinions about the right way to load a dishwasher. Yeah. Yeah. You have to scrub the dishes first. It is not a cleaning. It is a sanitizer, not a cleaner, not a scrubber.

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Um I'm mostly on board with that. And I do that.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

I more so mean like all loaded. And you'll reload it.

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Well, you you partially load it and then I have to finish doing dishes, so then I want it to be the way I want it. So I put it right. But if you just load it, I don't correct it. Like if you loaded it and started it, I wouldn't correct it.

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You wouldn't stop it.

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No, but if I have to fill half of it up, I'm gonna fix it so it's the way I want it to be.

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Okay.

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Number 29, insisting your version of a recipe is better. Even if you changed only four things, it's just me.

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Yeah. But this has probably been you.

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Okay, these are all me.

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This isn't because you got old. This is how just how you've been. Right? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

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I have I have a problem with recipes.

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Yeah, you do. And you like hoard them and keep them secret. If someone's like, oh actually that was good, can I get the recipe?

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You're just like No, I say, Yeah, I'll get it to you. And I never do.

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You just lie to their face.

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Yeah. I've spent twenty, I don't know, probably like twenty-eight years collecting recipes.

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Right, and you're gonna force everyone else to do that hard work?

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Yeah.

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Rather than helping them out.

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No, it's not. It really is.

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It's like you grew two pieces of corn and my corn died.

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No.

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You can share with me.

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Like I found this really good recipe, and then everyone's, oh let me have it so I can make it all the time.

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Stingy, Ashley.

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Right, number thirty. You turn down the music in the car to see better.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

What? That one doesn't even make sense.

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You turn it down. Yeah.

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I guess just because it's distracting.

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I've seen people do this. Yeah, because it's yeah, it's distracting. So turn it down because you're like Yeah. Alright, this one's me too. Narrating everything other drivers do wrong out loud in real time. Yeah. To no one. With full commentary and occasional sound effects.

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Sometimes I just want to hang up with on the phone with you. Like if I'm if if we're on the phone talking, you're talking to the other drivers who don't know you exist more than you're talking to me. I have as play by play. I could draw like a picture and a video and map of where you went and what happened where.

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I love to go where there's like no one driving.

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You go so far out of the way.

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And I love I love it. I love being on these long roads with fields and no people. But then I go to the into a city and I'm like, I hate this. This is awful. So many people. Don't know how to drive.

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It's only it's only 15 minutes away, but if you ride with Ashley, it's 35.

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Yeah, I I'm the queen of the back roads for sure. I would go way out of the way to go out a back road. Me again, number 32, saying this used to all be fields.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Every time you drive you to you just said it. Are you making these up as you go along based off of what you said in the previous sentence?

SPEAKER_03 23:08

Okay. But when you grew up in a place and it's like exploded with like population and stores and stuff, like this used to be fields. Alright, number 33. You say, Wear a jacket. It's colder than you think out, unprompted, with authority, because you check the weather, even though it's since 6 a.m. Yeah. I make our kids wear jackets a lot. Yeah. They won't wear coats in the winter, so I make them wear at least a hoodie.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Just let them wear shorts and a t-shirt in the winter if they want to, and then they'll be freezing and then they'll learn.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

No, then you won't have to tell you a terrible parent.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

You won't have to tell them all the time because they'll be like, oh yeah, it was really cold, and I got frostbite on my finger and we had to cut it off. Now I will wear gloves.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

Alright, number 34. You talk to people on speaker phone because your hearing isn't good enough to hear them from the speaker on the just the phone itself.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Yeah, right. Just the ear speaker. Yep. I am not there yet, and hopefully I never am. My dad is there.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

He doesn't have like personal phone conversations. He has everyone.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

It's awkward to be sitting there while he's talking to other people. But I have found that if I don't have the airpod in, sometimes it's hard to hear people on the phone.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

So you're getting there?

SPEAKER_03 24:35

Yeah, I'm getting there. For sure. But then people can't hear me in the airpod, so it doesn't really work very well.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

Yeah, I don't know what's up with your AirPods. Yeah. I I can tell when you're using them because it's just like hoarrh, hour.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

What did you say? Well, it's yeah, it's hard. It's hard to hear. If you laughed at any of that really laughed, it's because you saw yourself. And that's okay. Mostly we saw me. I'm the old one. It's actually kind of beautiful. Maybe a little scary, but mostly beautiful. The truth is becoming your parent isn't failure. It's an inheritance. All those things that used to drive you crazy, turns out they were wisdom in disguise. Deeply annoying, completely unsolicited wisdom. But wisdom the same. So next time you check the weather at six day six AM, save a twist tie, or tell someone to drive safe as they walk to the kitchen. Just remember, you earned it, they earned it. And somewhere they're smiling, probably from their chair that no one else is allowed to touch. Do you have anything else?

SPEAKER_01 25:39

My sense of style slipping away. Mm-hmm. I wear just a lot more like shorts and t-shirts or things. Like I don't I don't dress cool or fun or suave anymore.

SPEAKER_03 25:52

You haven't got anyone to press anymore.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

All my pants have elastic bands. No, they don't. Yeah, I haven't really like I don't I still don't necessarily need glasses. But it is a little bit more difficult to see like at night or when it's darker. I feel like I need more light to see. Not necessarily that I like things are fuzzy or out of focus or whatnot. It's just like I just need more light.

SPEAKER_03 26:18

Maybe you just need better headlights.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

Well, I also in our room or in the kitchen or wherever. Like I just need more light. Like I'll use my phone often to just turn the flashlight on so there's light and then I can read it. So I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_03 26:32

Yeah, your your eyesight's gone.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

Right, but yes, I'm old something, I'm sure. But so like I can't put glasses on. Like my glasses wouldn't actually have any prescription in them, they just have little flashlights on them. Like little light goggles.

SPEAKER_03 26:46

It's light goggles. Light goggles.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Okay, yeah, I think I'm good.

SPEAKER_03 26:51

Okay. That's all for today. Drive safe. Remember, even a small act of kindness can be someone's beacon in their darkest moment. Choose kindness every day. Reach out to someone today. You have the power to change your life. Be the signal of hope this world needs.