Living in Lavender

Caller #90 🎉

• Jonathon & Shannon • Season 1 • Episode 8

Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.

0:00 | 54:14
SPEAKER_06

Welcome to Living in Lavender.

SPEAKER_03

It's controversial.

SPEAKER_06

It belongs in the pond.

SPEAKER_01

Always where the heart is, babe.

SPEAKER_06

Do you smell the toast?

SPEAKER_01

Is that supposed to be a reader? Then one thing led to another.

SPEAKER_06

Don't waste it, though too much.

SPEAKER_01

You make the schedule.

SPEAKER_06

Don't be fucking rude. I was gonna say happy Tuesday. Because that's when all of you will hear this, but it's really the Thursday before Happy Thursday.

SPEAKER_01

Happy Thursday.

SPEAKER_06

Thirsty Thursday. Whatever the children call it these days. I'm fucking geriatric and don't partake in the shenanigans anymore. Right. How you doing, babe? How you doing?

SPEAKER_03

I'm a little flustered, but we are recovering slowly. How are you?

SPEAKER_06

You know, I'm coming fresh off a 72-hour hold.

SPEAKER_00

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_06

Or shall I say I should be on a 72-hour hold?

SPEAKER_03

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06

I I'm done. I'm done. I do not want to see another out-of-state plate. Yeah. I do not want to see another line. I do not want to be here anymore. Okay. It's not the one. It's not cute. Quack, quack. Get the fuck off my island.

SPEAKER_03

I just no, and I do get it. I I definitely do get it.

SPEAKER_06

I had a surprise day off today. Because I have an amazing boss. Shout out to Jen. Love you, Queen. Thank you. I think she knew I needed a mental health day.

SPEAKER_03

She knew that you were on the brink of the city.

SPEAKER_06

She knew that I was asking for a 72-hour haul. But um, you know, spent the morning doing house chores, woke up feeling like a crackhead, and was like, get up, Matt. We're deep cleaning everything, we're moving the bedroom around. It was giving like middle school sleepover. Let's move everything around. Let's hang my posters. And that is what we spent our morning doing.

SPEAKER_03

Is that why we've changed locations of our filming?

SPEAKER_06

That would be correct. That would be correct. You were picking up on a theme here where I needed some shaking up because I'm so sick of being stuck in the house because of all of these tourists. I can't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_03

I can't move through the cabin. I can't do anything. And now I fully understand. Because I want y'all to know I was met with when I arrived a fucking time. Late. Make yourself fucking comfortable.

SPEAKER_06

I did ask if you wanted a water or a dining coke. I did ask if the temp was okay in the household for you. But I did have the blind open, staring out the driveway, waiting for her arrival. Even though I do have her location. I was watching the pin move.

SPEAKER_03

You also knew where I was all day. Because I did not get the fucking surprise day off, Jen.

SPEAKER_06

When you've been doing it as long as I have.

SPEAKER_00

Oh.

SPEAKER_06

I'm just gonna yeah. I needed a little extra mental health day to just kind of like reset. Reset. Not hear the Ray, you don't have anything sooner. Really, it takes two seconds to do my haircut. I come washed. I come, I come washed. Or my favorite. Um I got that today. Someone walked in this week and was like, this used to be great clips, right? That is so ignorant.

SPEAKER_04

Could you like honey?

SPEAKER_06

Do you not see the flower beds outside? Supercuts could never they could do you not see the window displays. I'm offended.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_06

We've been in this bitch for 30 years. Supercuts wishes. Okay. That is so fucking real. I go try three doors down. Like, bye. Stay home. Bye. Stay off the road. Yeah. Learn how to use a rotary. I did scream at someone in the parking lot of Walmart today. Right. Well, it I shall say it was a very tame scream because, like, usually I'm very vocal. And today it was just a head snap. Are you gonna slow the fuck down?

SPEAKER_03

Did they hear you?

SPEAKER_06

Or they were- Oh, they did. Yeah, their window was down. They were they were listening. Because then I heard a and I go, fucking idiot. As a family was trolling behind me into Walmart, too. Well, I mean, goddamn. I'm just here protecting the people. Okay. I'm doing the most. I should be at the bus stop with a fucking stop sign. Oh, yeah. Fucking guarding the children.

SPEAKER_03

That's where you can catch Jonathan in September guarding the children in the crosswalk.

SPEAKER_06

Not even because those little shits talk back. Hell to the no.

SPEAKER_03

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06

So, you know, here we are. Right.

SPEAKER_03

Well that.

SPEAKER_06

Excited to be sitting with my girly. Yes. Divulge.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, what is there to say? Where do I begin? You know, I had a beautiful morning by myself, opening the salon. Silencio. Gorgeous. It's exactly what I needed and wanted. I um did my little, you know, opening routine, sat down, had, you know, um, you know, folded the towels, had enough time to, you know, organize my personal life in my calendar and my phone.

SPEAKER_06

She's booked and busy.

SPEAKER_03

Yes. I was I was on it. I was on it this morning. And then people started to arrive, and it just slowly deteriorated, if you will. Um, where do I begin with that? I'm not sure. Um met with a lot of really, she really can't do me today. Baby Girl we're booking two weeks out. Even longer, you know.

SPEAKER_06

I want to buy um. Do you remember back in the day, Staples? They had the bad. Okay. I want to, we need to Google. We're at a Google.

SPEAKER_03

We could probably get it on eBay. Something real cheap.

SPEAKER_06

Or maybe even find one that can like record, you know, like build-a-bear. Like one of those moments. Yeah. Where it's like, ding, ding, ding, caller 90. You are the winner. We have a secret appointment waiting for you.

SPEAKER_00

Just because you asked.

SPEAKER_06

Like, like, I've been sitting here six hours waiting for one lucky caller to call with that question.

SPEAKER_00

Who the fuck? Like, holy fuck. It's just fucking availability.

SPEAKER_06

I bonus out by not giving you appointments. Like, what? You're all in on it now. Everyone knows I make a bonus at the end of the year by not giving you appointments.

SPEAKER_00

What the fuck do you think I'm doing behind this?

SPEAKER_06

Like, we open cabinets and money just appears and we pay the bills that way. Oh dumb questions.

SPEAKER_00

Also, don't get mad at me that I don't have a fucking appointment available during the busiest time of the year.

SPEAKER_03

You've lived here for long enough, and or you've summered here for long enough, you should know. Book your motherfucking appointments in advance. Please. Listen, if you ain't shining, get off the pot.

SPEAKER_06

Exactly. It's not my fault that you didn't plan accordingly. Thank you. That's a you problem. Procrastination.

SPEAKER_03

Right. You can try great clips.

SPEAKER_06

Girl. I bet your school progress report said he's a pleasure to have in class, but he's a procrastinator. Like, that sounds like a you problem. Not a us problem. A you problem.

SPEAKER_03

I was very close to looking at this lady in front of me and being because they walked in. They didn't call. They walked out.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, that's my favorite.

SPEAKER_03

To ask.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

unknown

Yep.

SPEAKER_03

Can't wait to tell you who it was.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, I can't. I can only imagine. I could actually probably name it two guesses.

SPEAKER_03

Maybe.

SPEAKER_06

Maybe three.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, maybe.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Um, slams on the desk. Really? I said Where's the button? I'm like, really? Walk in number 91. Like, girl. Like, sit your ass down. Girl. You could try Stop and Shop and fucking get yourself some motherfucking box dye for all I care.

SPEAKER_06

Go to Sally's. No, just kidding, because that's more of a headache for us. Don't do that.

SPEAKER_03

You could try Ulta.

SPEAKER_06

You know, I thought by by the way, I'm wearing new glasses in case anyone hasn't noticed, but you probably did because I um posted on my Instagram follow the socials. Um Zaddy's got a new pair of glasses. She's feeling educated. She's feeling spicy. She's feeling what I thought was reform, but nope, she's still a bitch. Um you know, I thought with the glasses I was really gonna be like changed, reel it in, possibly less swearing. Fuck that.

SPEAKER_03

No, absolutely not.

SPEAKER_06

No, I've been pushed.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and I get it. Um anyway, back to my day. Fucking so that happened, met with that. Um one of your favorite clients called to be like, I come washed. Like, all she has to do is blow dry me. It takes her like 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_06

And if you've been listening, I did reference this in the last episode. I think so, yeah. Um is she gonna be much longer? She's just finishing. I was just asking in case I needed to wrap my hair back up. Um get you know what's a thing.

SPEAKER_03

And it was interesting because she asked for you.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, I know, yeah, because I love, first off, I remember a voice.

SPEAKER_03

I that's a hard voice to not remember.

SPEAKER_06

True. Very true. There are some that just have a um voice that is nails on a chalkboard. But I am very good at remembering a face, remembering a voice, because I clock it. The second you start to be a bitch, I clock that tone. It's like photographic memory. Click, saved into the archive, bitch file. So, and plus caller ID. I mean fucking anything. I mean hello. Thank you. True, thank you. So I can already um, you know, uh even pick up the phone. Um, yeah, so I know exactly who you're talking about, and I've now started using her name like every other word. That's how like I address her. Yeah. So and then I think she caught on to that because then she was like, what's your name? And I go, Jonathan. I'm the manager. You might want to wrap that up. She's gonna be a few minutes. Rude ass.

SPEAKER_03

With your fucking already washed hair. I don't give a damn.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, my favorite when they come pre-wash. I'm I didn't get a wash. Is it any cheaper? Girl, no. Girl, the wash is complimentary. You're you're skipping out on the best part. You should have saved it. Save your swab, okay, girl? Because the price ain't gonna be no different. Let us wash you. Let us wash you. It's a treat, it's a delicacy. Let it let it happen.

SPEAKER_03

It's part of the fucking experience.

SPEAKER_06

It's part of the experience. Uh some of you might want a waterboard, but that's another topic.

SPEAKER_03

But we don't.

SPEAKER_06

Oh no, we don't, because I'd be in there like grind on me. Take your time.

SPEAKER_03

Like, he likes to get it real wet in there.

SPEAKER_06

I know because uh these ladies, let me tell you, wet and gushy. It may be tippin'. Maybe tipping, mama. Sometimes well, sometimes. Tip your service providers and your scalp massager.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Someone threw a fing bill at fucking Jen today to tip her, and I was like, I think that's Shannon's biggest pet peeve. I hate it.

SPEAKER_06

Which is like so interesting to me because you like so want to be a stripper. Oh struck a chord.

SPEAKER_03

We don't need to share all of my secrets. Oh, babe. There's a time and a place for everything, okay? Me sitting at a desk decent.

SPEAKER_04

Oh no.

SPEAKER_03

After providing you a lovely, beautiful, relaxing service, and you're gonna fucking attention to the city.

SPEAKER_06

See that makes me feel even better than I mean when my husband throws money at me with my clothes off.

SPEAKER_07

I feel like when he's like, I loaded the card.

SPEAKER_06

And I'm like Thank you. But I was like, kiss me on the cheek. Don't you love me? Just kidding. Just kidding. It's all for the dramatics, all for the entertainment. Oh god, Matthew. Matthew. Back into the other room.

SPEAKER_03

He said, back into your cage.

SPEAKER_05

Back in the placement.

unknown

Oh God.

SPEAKER_06

Oh no. Um So how did Jen like the money being thrown at her?

SPEAKER_03

You know, I didn't I didn't ask her. She was just like, oh, thank you. Well, she was on the phone.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03

And I was cashing this lady out. And then um, and the lady just goes in front of Jen, throws her a fucking five, first of all. I can do better. I know the rings you got on, baby girl. I can do better.

SPEAKER_06

I do have to say that is that's decent, seeing how I have gotten a dollar. Three whole toolets on the credit card and have to pay tax on it. Right. I can't even buy a pack of Trident with that. Not even juicy fruit. Okay, which by the way loses fucking flavor in 2.2. But so I'll take the cash. That's generous. Cash is king.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, you know what? We're grateful for everything, however. Don't throw it! So why are we throwing it? Whatever. Anyway, I'm not gonna harp on it.

SPEAKER_06

She is she is not having the money throwing.

SPEAKER_03

No, I'm just not. There's a time and a place. Like I said, there's a time and a fucking place. If somebody fucking came no, I would be offended if somebody came into the salon with a money gun and started being like, ooh, I'd be like, what do you think this is?

SPEAKER_06

Because I was about to like load up the fucking gun and hit my butt. Call our number 20 and start spraying you with money.

SPEAKER_03

We should do that, but we should start spraying them with fucking 20 vol with fucking 7NN. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

To cover them roots and be like, yeah, this is later.

SPEAKER_06

Some fucking blonde me later. Because we need to dull the attitudes. We need to dull the attitudes. We need to use bleach, break through the follicle, get to the attitude, blow that follic out, neutralize it, and hit it with a little tona. Okay. And then a gorgeous blowout.

SPEAKER_03

And then a gorgeous last night. Shout out to Jackie. Last night, Jackie was like, all right, she was in the sink. She's like, Alright, hun, let's go blow it up.

SPEAKER_00

And I looked at her and I was like, did you just say that you're gonna go blow it up? Yeah. She goes, I think I did just say that.

SPEAKER_06

Sometimes like the shit we say is just so funny.

SPEAKER_00

It's like it's off the cuff.

SPEAKER_06

Did I ever tell you about the time that I told one of um Jess's clients that she gives great blowjobs? This little lady. Oh my god. And I was mortified. And she was mortified too. But we both looked at each other and started laughing because we both know. She got the cutest little thing came up to check out, had just gotten a blowout. She's raving about it. And I literally just go, Oh, doesn't Jessica give the best blowjobs? And just immediately I was a tomato. I couldn't believe it.

SPEAKER_03

And I know that you were because you would turn red like that.

SPEAKER_06

No one. I mean, it's a high blood pressure, but also nerves. I couldn't breathe. I was like, oh my god. And then she just looked at me and I was like, I like started to tear up, and I was like, I'm so fucking embarrassed. And then we both just started laughing, and I was like, I'm so sorry. She's like, I knew what you meant, honey. I was like, that's she does give good ones too. I believe it. Like, oh, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god, I wish I had been present.

SPEAKER_06

That was definitely not one of my finest moments.

SPEAKER_03

That's iconic.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

No, that's that's fierce.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Or how about the time that my timing is impeccable at our previous employer together? You and I like at the desk doing our whole shenanigans as we usually do, thinking that we're like alone, and I called you a fucking cunt.

SPEAKER_07

And a client walks right around the corner. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Which, by the way, a male client.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

And we all like had the hots for him.

SPEAKER_00

Like we all looked at each other like and he's he died laughing.

SPEAKER_06

And he was like, Well, now I see how you treat each other. And I was like, like, so embarrassed.

SPEAKER_00

And then I was embarrassed because I was like, I promise I'm not really. I'm fucking kidding.

SPEAKER_06

And I'm like, she is the kind. Can I see your big black truck? Oh. Remember? Do you him? He would show up to I I know his ass saw us in the windows.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah. And we don't know how to do that.

SPEAKER_06

That's why he did, but baby grind on me. And I know that's why he was backing that truck up into a parking spot with the trailer being so extra.

SPEAKER_03

Reving that fucking engine coming across. Oh man.

SPEAKER_00

And we were straight up licking the window like Jonathan was, and there's fucking blinds.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, literally like licking the window, like hello. Yeah. He could get it still, I'm sure. I wonder how he is. We're gonna be doing some stalking after this, I fear. I thought for a moment he was homosexual because um he was getting like frosted tips. It was giving Ryan C press.

SPEAKER_03

It's giving Clay Aiken.

SPEAKER_06

But it was just because his psycho ex-wife, who was a client as well.

SPEAKER_03

A client of mine.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, that's right. Yes. She was like forcing him to bleach his tips.

SPEAKER_03

Really turned her on, I guess.

SPEAKER_06

That K plus 8 haircut, though.

SPEAKER_00

Oh that color, that colour on that colour.

SPEAKER_06

She was coming down from that haircut to check out.

SPEAKER_00

That color.

SPEAKER_06

That cut. That cut though. Let me tell you. It was giving it wedge salad, remember. Wedge salad. Extra blue cheese crumble, please. That's what it was giving. That shit was serious. It was sharp. It was precision.

SPEAKER_03

It was a let me get the protractor.

SPEAKER_06

Let me get the compass. We're going in deep, y'all.

SPEAKER_03

It was It was giving the Iron Throne. It was giving.

SPEAKER_06

But wedge salad, remember. Yeah. If you've never had one, oh.

SPEAKER_03

If you know, you know. If you don't, you missed the couple.

SPEAKER_06

Buffalo tenders on the side.

SPEAKER_03

Or a little bit of buffgar.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, oh. Bufgar. But they are stanky. Stanky. Delicious. But you do not want to see someone two days after eating those. I promise you. He would get I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_02

We would get into bickering.

SPEAKER_06

That was a Saturday afternoon treat when we knew we were off Sunday, Monday. To air out the building. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Well, no people would fucking bicker and be like, who got the punk and buff bar?

SPEAKER_06

Literally. Be like, oh, you stinky bitch.

SPEAKER_00

Like, you're gonna touch your fucking clients after that.

SPEAKER_06

Oh my god, what I would sue for a wedge salad now.

SPEAKER_02

They're fucking you put a little bit of chicken, the chicken with the teriyaki.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, their teriyaki chicken is so good. Haven't been there in so long.

SPEAKER_03

I haven't heard good things, but I think we need to make a little visit.

SPEAKER_06

We'll be the judge of that.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Never had a bad meal there. I have. Did you? Oh, that's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_03

I would I've had a bad pizza there.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. I feel like pizza's like because for me personally, if it's too crispy.

SPEAKER_03

If it's too burnt, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I can't know. I need it like doughy still.

SPEAKER_03

I need a little bit of slight crunch. Slight crunch on the crust, slightly golden on the outside.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Still kind of doughy on the inside. For me. Yeah. I know that's not everyone's kind of.

SPEAKER_03

I don't love that like because they do wood fired pizza, but it's like charred.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So I've never had a good experience with their pizza. Their apps are their like other items on their menu. Great.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

No qualms.

SPEAKER_06

Yep.

SPEAKER_03

The pizza.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

That's where all the cool kids go. Brad and Chad.

SPEAKER_03

The Brads and the Chads really love hitting Emba up, but love it.

SPEAKER_06

They love a patio.

SPEAKER_03

They love a patio with a cockpit.

SPEAKER_06

And a fucking birthday spritza.

SPEAKER_03

They love an Aperol spritz, a fire pit, and a patio.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So anyway, one more thing I wanted to add about my day, and then I'll then I'll just leave it there because honestly, why put y'all through the misery? Because they're doing it to us. No, you are right.

SPEAKER_06

When aren't I? Name a time. Name a place. Set the scene for me. You can't. You can't. Caller number 90. You're welcome. That's gonna be the title.

SPEAKER_03

And it's gonna be clipped.

SPEAKER_06

Yep. That's a bit.

SPEAKER_03

Congrats! You're caller number 90. Yep. Um that's what it is. I had um an older woman fall right in front of me today that was jarring. Let me tell you how it went down. So this woman arrives. I know that at like off the top of my head when I first saw her, like I she was dropped off at the curb, and I remembered seeing her at her last appointment. I was like, oh, somebody told me that there's something going on there, a medical situation.

SPEAKER_06

Yep.

SPEAKER_03

But I couldn't remember. I was like, oh, she she's walking fine, everything's good. Comes in, she checks in. I'm like, good to see you, have a seat. Um, she'll be right with you. She does her appointment, she comes up to the desk, and her provider walks her up to the desk and says, um you bored?

SPEAKER_06

No. Don't don't don't.

SPEAKER_03

No, you don't.

SPEAKER_06

I was listening.

SPEAKER_03

Right.

SPEAKER_06

Comes up to the desk checking in for her provider.

SPEAKER_03

A provider. I multiply task, okay. To ch to, you know, to be like, this is so and so, and we did so and so. Yeah. Great. I go to cash her out, I tell her the price. This woman is just standing behind my computer and looks like this. Like is like looking up to the corner, and I'm like, she saw the light. Yeah, I was like, oh my god. I was like, um, 65. Um, so I'm looking at her like, are you gonna hand me a form of payment? Are you waiting for someone? And as that thought hit my head, in comes husband or somebody, son, I don't know, um, comes walking in, looks looks at her, and is like, did you pay yet? And she goes, No. And he I didn't know that she had a card in her hand. He rips the card out of her hand and like throw like no doesn't throw it at me.

SPEAKER_06

We know how you love that.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, if he had especially, especially after what comes next. He like whips the card like toward me, and I take it from him, and I'm about to like tap the card. Next thing you know, in my peripheral, I see down she goes, hits her fucking head. Oh, where'd she on like the ledge?

SPEAKER_06

On the desk?

SPEAKER_03

No. On the ledge of um, you know, behind the chairs, the waiting chairs, like the ledge of the window.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, she had her head on that.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_06

Was her blood?

SPEAKER_03

No. No, she just poop and then was there like a noise?

SPEAKER_06

A sound effect?

SPEAKER_03

It was definitely like you could a thunk? Yeah. Oh and I was like, oh my god. Mind you, boss Jen walks away um to do a wash. I hear Gina or bleep that.

SPEAKER_00

I hear I hear Gina. Shout out to Gina. Please cut all of that out.

SPEAKER_06

We're gonna have to do some hard editing on this one.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, one of the silents.

SPEAKER_03

Jen, someone fell, like screaming down the thing. And I'm like, okay, let's go.

SPEAKER_05

Thank God I'm not there.

SPEAKER_03

Like, oh my god, I step over our little like barricade that we have, and I'm trying to like facilitate something. Is the husband there? Yeah, he's like picking her up, stay stands her up, goes, You okay? And she doesn't say anything.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, she doesn't talk much.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And I was like, Do you why don't we have a seat? Like, let's sit down for a minute, like take a take a beat.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

He sits her down. I'm like, maybe we get her some water. Somebody goes and grabs her some water. I'm standing there now, like, do it, like, sh is this comped now? Like this has nothing to do with car.

SPEAKER_06

We didn't do it.

SPEAKER_00

So I'm like, anyway, so it's gotta be 65. Would you like to do it? Do you want a receipt? No. I was like, did you want to put tip on the car?

SPEAKER_06

What? 10%. Oh, 10%. I can't. I can't.

SPEAKER_03

10%. I had to.

SPEAKER_06

We'll send you the bill for our new window ledge.

SPEAKER_03

Like, what the fuck? So I'm doing this, and she's she ends up like um. I don't know. She ends up being like, sorry to me. And I was like, oh my god, please don't be sorry. Like this happened. It's okay. Mind you, this man, and as I'm like putting his the card through, he goes, um, huh, I'm usually quicker than that. Man, bling twice.

SPEAKER_06

Blink twice if you need us to call someone.

SPEAKER_03

And then when after I'm like, it's okay, please, like, don't be sorry, it happens, he goes, Yeah, it happens all the time. She's got Parkinson's.

SPEAKER_00

I'm like, so this is not a fucking this is a regular occurrence, and you're just gonna drop her off at the curb by your fucking hair appointment?

SPEAKER_03

Are you serious? If you are a fall risk, perhaps you need an aid or a family member, or maybe let the business know, hey, fall risk, maybe you want to help her.

SPEAKER_06

At least a bracelet, a hospital bracelet. We are not a medical facility. We are not a medical facility. Terrible.

SPEAKER_03

Awful. I was like, really?

SPEAKER_06

I uh yeah, this kind of reminds me we have a few clients that get dropped off. And shouldn't that should not, they should really be attended to. Yeah. Like have somebody with them. Or have I did not go to school for medical. I literally said this. I'm not a LPN, I'm not a nurse's aide, I'm none of the sorts. I run a business. Okay. I said to Jen, I was like, we are not pull up out of wheelchairs. I'm saying. Tell me how they have an aid and the aide can't lift them. How do you have that job? Or why why is the aide sitting down while I'm doing while I'm lifting them out of the chair, putting them in a shampoo bowl and into a stylish chair. Why?

SPEAKER_03

Make it make sense.

SPEAKER_06

And they're not getting tipped for it.

SPEAKER_03

I literally said to Jen, I was like, we are not CNAs that just happen to know how to do hair. So I don't know why you're dropping them off at like daycare right now. Oh. Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_06

Or the shitting themselves.

SPEAKER_01

Do you remember it?

SPEAKER_06

Wait, was it you? What? Was it you doing the service? Or no, it wasn't. Who was it?

SPEAKER_03

Umone that.

SPEAKER_06

Just give me the first initial.

SPEAKER_03

I think so.

SPEAKER_04

Was it?

SPEAKER_03

I think it was her.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. We'll have to recap it.

SPEAKER_03

It was either J or C, it wasn't me.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

The name doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_03

It happened.

SPEAKER_06

It happened. There was a client getting a pedicure. And in the middle of her pedicure. All over herself.

SPEAKER_03

And wait, so there was a second, there was another one, because I'm thinking. Because there was another incident where somebody was getting a fucking pedicure and they pissed themselves.

SPEAKER_06

Oh no, okay. So this. Do you know which one I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_03

I I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

I think I remember you telling me about it, but I don't think I was even there for that.

SPEAKER_06

Family member. I feel like we're playing charades. I love it.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god, we're playing fucking dictionary. Get the whiteboard!

SPEAKER_06

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Um, yes.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. Yeah, you know who yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03

Still was not me that did the service.

SPEAKER_06

I didn't think so. Yeah. Because I know you would not.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I would not have been well. I would have quit.

SPEAKER_06

Shout out to and I honestly can't even remember who it was doing this service at the time. We're gonna have to visit that off camera. I know. Um wish we could go back already.

SPEAKER_03

Sorry, can we promise to God we're gonna have to go in and bleep some shit?

SPEAKER_06

I feel bad. Oh no ID.

SPEAKER_03

We should just dub that over.

SPEAKER_06

Honestly, everyone's gonna fucking hate me. If you listen to this with AirPods, my apologies.

SPEAKER_03

If you listen to this with AirPods, take them out.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Take them out, turn it down, I apologize. If you have hearing aids, God bless.

SPEAKER_03

Um babe, you'd be surprised.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. You'd be surprised. Because I mean, some of the people that have reached out to say that they listen, I'm like, wow. Fucking, we're really we're grabbing attention. We're grabbing attention. I love the points. We're hitting it, babe. So this person doing the service um smelt the situation and continued to fulfill the service, complete a whole pedicure. Okay person gets out of the chair all over the chair.

SPEAKER_03

I have a feeling I know who it was. And like I know who did the service.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. I think I can't remember. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

You have to always do her services. Like hair and nails.

SPEAKER_06

No. No, no. I don't know what you're talking about, but no. Just started kind of training.

SPEAKER_04

Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_06

It's now back in the game.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Okay. Was the one that smelled it?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Okay. And continued. Okay. Which sense because she is an angel. She oh my god, she is an angel. She's an angel. She's an angel pie. Yeah. We don't deserve her.

SPEAKER_07

No. And she didn't deliver.

SPEAKER_06

Did not deserve that.

SPEAKER_07

She did not deserve that.

SPEAKER_06

She did not deserve that. But people, you know, this brings me to a little bit of a segue. People are foul, okay? Because this kind of I want to touch on two things because the fall, the shitting of it all brings me back to a time when I worked for Macy's and Bloomingdales, okay?

SPEAKER_03

Really going deep in the archives. Deep in the archives.

SPEAKER_06

We'll attach some photos because those were also sent to me today, too, from my dear friend Ariana. Shout out to you, babe. Love you. Sent me some photos from the archives.

SPEAKER_03

Really a blast from the collective.

SPEAKER_06

And all I have to say is fuck anyone that was in my friend circle that did not tell me I was fat. You were not a friend.

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06

Because one of the photos she sent me, I literally showed Shannon and I go, where's my neck? I have no neck.

SPEAKER_03

It straight up just doesn't look like you.

SPEAKER_06

It's it's something mind-blowing. But back at Mises when I worked there, two of the brands that I worked for were right near the escalator.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I remember one of the stories you told me.

SPEAKER_06

I'm hearing one incident right now replaying in my head.

SPEAKER_03

That's the one I'm thinking of, too.

SPEAKER_06

This woman went up the escalator on a scooter, which What the fuck are we doing? She got halfway up on the scooter and it What are we doing? Oh ghetto teetered straight back. Oh, I wish I had um um wooden bat right now because this is not even gonna come close to the sound, but just think of like, you know, when you hear a baseball like crack home run.

SPEAKER_00

No.

SPEAKER_06

Her skull fucking cranked the escalator so hard, it was a shockwave through the store. It went to the music from Mac paused because of this, okay? We all screaming, running towards the escalator, pulling the panic button to shut it off. Like, we're running up the escalator, get up the escalator. I'm like covered in this woman's blood. Like I can't tell you how many times an accident, but that one in particular, that sound.

SPEAKER_03

Why are we going up an escalator on a fucking scooter? You fucking oh my god.

SPEAKER_06

And then the best part is she tried to sue Macy's. I had to You can't make that shit. I had to like testify, or I had to give a statement, like Macy's like fucking lawyers, like headquarters calls me and they're like, hi, you're on a recorded line. We need you to give a full statement as to everything that you witnessed, and so I had to like, gosh, she zoomed by on a fucking scooter after we had told her an escalator. I mean, the elevator was in the back, and she totally disregarded us and zoomed right up. She ran at it, common.

SPEAKER_00

Like, but also why are you on an fucking scooter in the middle of the mall? Why are you weaving through all the fucking kiosks like Macy's?

SPEAKER_06

Not like a razor scooter. She was like decrepit? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god. She doesn't want to be a good one.

SPEAKER_00

She was disabled.

SPEAKER_06

She was on like one of those things that you see in the grocery store where it's like Oh my god! Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Even worse.

SPEAKER_06

An ankle miner, basically.

SPEAKER_00

Why are you thinking, first of all, how did that fit the fucking?

SPEAKER_06

Well, it wasn't like the big stop and shop like dome car. It was like, you know, like the little red one that has like the sweet little fucking came in.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Somebody came into the store that I work at.

SPEAKER_06

On one of those.

SPEAKER_03

On one of those the other day.

SPEAKER_06

It was like one of those little fucking stupid blowover fucking scooters when r like this is really ignorant, but I'm just gonna say it. I doubt you really had any element elements, whatever. You just are fat. But anyways, I'm gonna get canceled.

SPEAKER_00

We're gonna be bleeping out more than we're We're gonna need to get on.

SPEAKER_06

I don't think a shit. Anyways. So she fucking zoomed up and she had it coming.

SPEAKER_00

Why? No. You see, there are stairs that move.

SPEAKER_06

Another time, like I watched a little girl. We had asked her several times to stop playing on the escalator, like running up one, running around the store, coming down the other one. Like a fucking Yeah, like it's a jungle joke. Like, you know the show, um, what was it, Mash or whatever? The obstacle course. Do you remember that back in the day?

SPEAKER_03

Like, yeah, like my dad would have watched it.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, but it's like the obstacle course, and they're it's like supposed to be funny.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That was a weird poll, but okay.

SPEAKER_06

You're rude. You're ignorant. Don't don't do that to me. You're rude. It was funny.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Shark. Anyways. This little fucking viage is running up and down the escalator. Well, she had it coming. Because her fucking flip-flop got caught in the base. Yeah. Shredded. Yep. And it almost yanked her foot off.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Asked you nicely five times. Or my favorite. Oh, I would like to come to the base and fucking deadlock eyes with them. Where are your parents? And they would get the fuck out of here. Bye. So escalator, head cranked. She had it common. And then the shitting of it all. Please tell me how grown women use a fitting room. Oh no. And shit in the corner of a fitting room.

SPEAKER_03

Get out of here.

SPEAKER_06

Deadass. Deadass. Literally dead ass.

SPEAKER_02

Stop.

SPEAKER_06

In the fitting room of the bathing suit area, too. You're gross. You're gross.

SPEAKER_03

She had bad seafood. Like she had bad fried seafood and couldn't make it to the restroom.

SPEAKER_06

Honey, put the one piece back on. Get the fuck out. Disgusting. That is horrid. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Like, what are we doing?

SPEAKER_06

Foul. Foul. The things I have seen at Macy's. Now I know it's like bottom level. I mean, we weren't Kmart, but it was bottom tier department store. Like when I would go to training seminars, like there would be everyone, Sax. I'm Lord and Taylor. Like, which ha, you're out of business. But the underdog Macy's, we're here to save the day.

SPEAKER_07

Oh god.

SPEAKER_06

With a fucking one-day sale that lasts three days, and we're fucking open until one o'clock in the morning, wasting payroll, but what do we know?

SPEAKER_03

Sax doesn't have a fucking Macy's Day parade.

SPEAKER_06

This is true. I have walked that.

SPEAKER_03

Have you?

SPEAKER_06

I have.

SPEAKER_03

That's so fun. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Part of being an employee, you get you get the option to go.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna walk in it this year.

SPEAKER_06

Uninvited.

SPEAKER_00

Uninvited, but I'm gonna fucking do it. I'm just gonna hop in.

SPEAKER_06

It's gonna be Shannon pumping me up on strings.

SPEAKER_00

I'm like, deal with the staples. Yeah. I love it.

SPEAKER_06

I'm obsessed with that. That's a um that's a collab that we need to make happen. Macy's if you're listening.

SPEAKER_03

Baby girl, Jonathan is still a big fan of your work.

SPEAKER_06

I mean. You served me right. You couldn't have been too bad. I went back twice.

SPEAKER_03

So moved across the states for you.

SPEAKER_06

I did. I moved to Texas FOIA. Turn that business right around for you. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_03

Love that.

SPEAKER_06

Um truly iconic.

SPEAKER_03

So the moral of the story is No, we're not in healthcare.

SPEAKER_06

I really don't know what the moral of the story or what this episode is.

SPEAKER_03

It's chaos, and that is what we fucking deal with on a daily day.

SPEAKER_06

That's what I feel like my life is.

SPEAKER_00

And I think that's why my fucking cortisol is so high, and that's why I'm fucking moonfaced. Shannon's been having like fucking heart palpitations being like I've had a headache for five days straight.

SPEAKER_03

I have random body aches that have never experienced.

SPEAKER_06

I think you're dehydrated. Did you drink water?

SPEAKER_03

Yes, actually, I drank an entire smart water today.

SPEAKER_06

A brand new one or the one I gave you yesterday?

SPEAKER_02

I refilled the one you gave me yesterday.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, I love that. Oh, don't refill. Don't refill. What is that? What's that chemical? What do they say?

SPEAKER_03

I'm still here, aren't I, bitch?

SPEAKER_06

No. Definitely not. Bioplastics, is that what they say?

SPEAKER_03

Microplastics?

SPEAKER_06

Micro. Oh, she thinks she's fucking smarter than me.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Okay. If you refill it one time, is that gonna really kill me? No. Fucking grew up in the fucking 90s. I was eating fucking polypocket clothes. I mean, I have blown things up my nose. I mean, I'm saying I'm saying I have no room to be one of those people who's like, have um, is this a BPA free? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06

Fuck you. If I could go back. Simpler time.

SPEAKER_03

It's a simpler time. I feel better.

SPEAKER_06

I feel lighter.

SPEAKER_03

This is really therapeutic.

SPEAKER_06

So therapeutic. Um you know. I guess you know that article that I sent you earlier in the week about like if you go to a psych ward to they'll clear your debt or whatever. Yeah. I was looking into it. Like, fuck, let's run up every credit line we have. Yeah. Run it up.

SPEAKER_03

Already done. We'll just check it. I'm there.

SPEAKER_06

I'm not, thankfully. For once in my life, thank god.

SPEAKER_03

That's another reason why my cortisol is so fucking high.

SPEAKER_06

God bless. But yeah, so I read this article in the beginning of the week that was like, you can check yourself into a psych word and it will clear your debts.

SPEAKER_03

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_06

Don't know how true that is, but maybe they're just trying to like entice people to check in.

SPEAKER_03

To work on their mental health, and honestly.

SPEAKER_06

Or maybe like to run up the credit and then realize that's not a thing.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, maybe.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, I see you. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

We're cracking the fucking coder out here.

SPEAKER_06

I see you, Morgan Stanley. Come on, Capital One. Fucking with us.

SPEAKER_03

Come on, Amex.

SPEAKER_05

Oh my god, oh, don't fuck with Amex. Don't fuck with Amex. Do not play with you in the clink clank. They don't fuck around.

SPEAKER_06

They do not fuck with fuck around.

SPEAKER_03

I am not, I'm not falling victim to AMX.

SPEAKER_06

No, I have not. I'm not on. I mean, I have a Amex business card, but that's like not even mine. But I don't fuck with AMX just because of like fees and bitch. Why am I paying you to have the card? You should be paying me. And shout out to Capital One because they've been doing the bad. She's that girly. She's buying everything up. If they want to do some sort of girl. Capital One, if you want to sponsor us, we love you.

SPEAKER_03

We love you.

SPEAKER_06

But yeah, no, Capital One's that bitch. Yeah. Points, cashback, um, like rewards for opening a new car. Like, yeah, like a fucking what is it?

SPEAKER_03

Like the $500 bonus or whatever if you get someone to sign on. $500 bonus if you open like a checking account. Like, please.

SPEAKER_06

Honey, we love you. She's that bitch. No hidden fees. And they're buying up everyone. They bought out Discover. They're buying up everyone.

SPEAKER_03

They did. I just realized that the other day. Yes. Because I got my new Capital One card. And I went to put it in my Apple wallet.

SPEAKER_06

And it was like Discover.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. And I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_01

Come on, Discover.

SPEAKER_06

I have like 12 cards with Capital One. Love them.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

You are the real One Queen. Paving the way. We'll be in touch. We'll be in touch. We're also researching our um psychoard. Maybe we'll go. Maybe we won't. Maybe we'll be caller number 90. I don't know. And honestly, thank you. Thank you for listening.

SPEAKER_03

To the bullshit.

SPEAKER_06

To the bullshit. Kikiing.

SPEAKER_03

I hope it stresses you out as much as it stresses us out. All of our stories.

SPEAKER_06

And if you're working on the frontline.

SPEAKER_03

God bless you.

SPEAKER_06

God bless you.

SPEAKER_03

Honest to God. Especially on Cape Cod. During this time of year, especially.

SPEAKER_06

And the tourists don't deserve us.

SPEAKER_03

Mm-mm.

SPEAKER_06

Over and out.

SPEAKER_01

Bye.