January 22, 2025 • 27 mins
In this engaging episode of the Dysfunction Junkies podcast, hosts Chrisy and Kerry embark on a journey through the intricacies of family dysfunction and the ways in which the quirks of our parents live on in us. From superstitions to childhood sayings, they unpack the sometimes humorous, often poignant patterns that shape our behaviors and beliefs. The central theme is the recognition of how much of our upbringing influences our adult lives, and the myriad ways these manifest in our daily routines, often unexpectedly.
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DJ Nick (00:07):
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast,
where we may not have seen itall, but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,chrissy and Keri.
Kerry (00:19):
Hello, junkies, welcome back.
I'm Kerry
and I'm Chrisy.
Ah, Chrisy, we had a pretty interesting episode last
week.
We were diving down the rabbithole of our aging parents.
How are you feeling?
That's a long pause.
Yeah, I'm trying to think howI'm feeling about that, you know
it feels good to talk about it.
(00:42):
Yes.
Chirsy (00:43):
And I think it is good to talk about it, especially
somebody who totally think it isgood to talk about, especially
somebody who totally gets it.
Yes, but it also is a littledraining.
Kerry (00:50):
It's very draining we need to pick me up on this topic
, because, really, where doesall of?
Chirsy (00:55):
our dysfunction stem from, and we're not trying to
point fingers.
No judgment no blame, no no.
But it kind of does start withthe mom and dad a little bit
yeah.
And then their mom and dad.
Kerry (01:07):
It's an endless cycle.
It is, it is, it is and that'swhat worries me is like OK, that
means I'm the cycle that's next.
So am I becoming like myparents?
Chirsy (01:17):
You got to really fight, not to, I know.
Kerry (01:19):
But there I mean come on.
Chirsy (01:21):
We can't be liars to ourselves and say that sometimes
we don't catch that.
Oh my God, it's sort of likewhat my mom and my dad would do.
Why am I being this way,exactly, but I guess recognizing
it is the first step that'strue To bettering it, that's
true.
Kerry (01:37):
I hope.
Yeah, that's very true.
That's very true.
What were some of the sayingsthat your mom or dad would say
that like you might catchyourself saying now, or that you
were like, oh, I'm never goingto use that one as an adult?
Chirsy (01:47):
Well, there's quite a few things my father used to say
, but I can't.
Kerry (01:52):
Now my mom used to always say it's going to get worse
before it gets better.
Oh yeah, and.
Chirsy (01:58):
I that one.
Kerry (01:59):
Well, I told you my whole philosophy was just going to
get right, right, right, right,right, right, right, right,
worse and worse and worse.
Chirsy (02:05):
But yeah, my mom, no quiet.
She made me do crazy things,but not really any sayings.
Now, my husband's mom, a lovelylady, he always reminds me of
things that she used to say andwas Well, one was you need to be
the better person.
So when you're like, well, youknow somebody's doing this to me
, so I'm going to do this, andmy husband will always come at
(02:25):
me and go, chrissy, you got tobe the better person.
And I'm like wait a minute, doyou remember who you married
Nick?
Well, yeah, there's one and twowho the hell told this lie.
And again, I think it'ssomebody who probably was not
the person getting screwed over.
True, it was somebody sayingI'm doing this horrible thing to
(02:49):
you.
Kerry (02:50):
You're going to be, the better person.
Chirsy (02:51):
Right Be the better person who's judging this?
Yeah, really.
And the other one that myhusband told me recently that I
freaked out about because I'mlike another stupid rule.
Where did this come from?
Two wrongs don't make a right.
First of all, this encompassestwo things.
I hate math and bullshit.
(03:11):
Two wrong who says two wrongsdon't make a right?
Maybe if I take two wrong turns, I might still get right where
I need to be.
Well, this, this is true, thatwoman on the GPS that's always
annoying the hell out of me.
Kerry (03:28):
We call her MapLissa.
Chirsy (03:30):
Oh my God, one time I was in a car test drive in a car
with a guy and the sales guywas in the back and that thing
was on and I said this is sohorrible and I'm going to offend
women.
I don't know I might offend men, I'm going to offend everybody
right now.
But I told him.
I said I can see why you guysblock us women out.
I said because listening tothis woman give me directions is
(03:53):
annoying the hell out of me.
I'm like, can you change up thevoice?
Maybe you know to an accent ormaybe a little kid could give me
directions.
I would love a little kid totell me where to go.
Go down this road for two moremiles, Are you sure?
Two more miles?
How many Tonka trunks is itbefore I get to my destination?
Kerry (04:17):
That's like the Alexas how you can change the voices on
those.
We have a couple Alexas aroundour house and in our barn and
stuff.
One of them is like anAustralian accent guy and I love
it.
It's the same thing you'resaying, but then we have some of
them that are the woman's voice.
Chirsy (04:32):
Well, it could be a woman or but I mean, she's very
authoritarian.
I mean, and what's funny is theAlexa we have in our house.
Yeah, it likes everybody but me.
Oh, that's my husband.
Kerry (04:43):
He doesn't listen to him.
It will not.
Chirsy (04:45):
I'll tell it.
Set a timer, you know, playthis song, crickets, dead
silence, and then my daughter ormy husband will talk to her
right away.
Yeah, okay, setting a timer.
Kerry (04:59):
Mine will say good morning Carrie.
In the male, sexy voice andthen it won't talk to my husband
.
He'll be like good morningCarrie, in the male sexy voice,
and then it won't talk to myhusband.
He'll be like good morningCarrie.
Chirsy (05:09):
Like it's so annoying because the Alexis said good
morning.
Well, mine says good morningwhen I tell it, or good
afternoon or good eveningwhenever I'm asking it to do
something.
If it does listen to my command, it doesn't acknowledge me at
all.
Kerry (05:21):
It always says my daughter's name.
Chirsy (05:24):
Oh, it says her name.
Oh, it says her name.
Oh, that's so funny, and I justget this.
I scrunch my face up and snarka little to myself but I'm just
like, look, just do what I want.
I don't care what you want tocall me today Just do it?
Put the timer on please, so Iknow what time to take this
stupid dinner out.
Kerry (05:44):
Oh my, you know, time to take this stupid dinner out.
Oh my, you know one of thethings, uh, growing up we had,
there was a girl you might know.
Were you ever a girl scout?
As soon as I said that, Iwanted to suck the question back
in wow, you really went thereand you asked me about a Girl
(06:04):
Scout.
I regretted it as soon as itwas coming up.
I thought maybe your mom madeyou or something Well come on
Mom.
Chirsy (06:12):
Mom would have told me to do it.
Kerry (06:14):
Does it require her to?
Chirsy (06:15):
be involved, not happening but you do it, chrissy
, and.
I'll show up every once in awhile.
Yeah, no.
Kerry (06:22):
No Girl Scouts here, no Brownie.
No, no, and I'll show upeveryone's, yeah no, no girl
scouts here, no brownie, no, no.
Okay.
Well, we had a girl scout campnot far from where growing up,
where I lived, but now it'sactually like literally a mile
around the corner from my housenow and, oh gosh, where was I
even going with the girl scout?
Oh, okay, crazy kate.
So, anyways, right before yougot to the entrance of the girl
scout camp, this was like wayout in the country.
(06:43):
So there was this house, thisfarmhouse, and it had this lady
in her.
Everyone knew her as Crazy Kate.
I don't know if Kate was herfirst name, I don't know, but
that was the legend of CrazyKate and this lady, like
everyone talked about herbecause of all like the weird
things that she did.
Well, when we moved back to Ohioand we got our farm, I quickly
(07:04):
started realizing like, oh myGod, I'm turning into Crazy Kate
, because I found myself doingsome of the things that we would
see Crazy Kate do.
What was she doing?
And now it made sense to me.
One of the things that shewould do is be like in the
middle of the field, la, la, la,la, la, like and around at the
sky and like you know, whatever.
And so well, when we move toour farm we have barn swallows,
(07:27):
just a little bird oh, you'relooking at me like, and it
sounds like a huge entertainmentokay, barn swallows are a
little bird.
Okay, a living bird, yeah it's aliving bird and they catch like
little bugs and I love theselittle birds like I.
They just fascinate me.
(07:48):
So if we're mowing the grass,that like stirs up all the bugs
so they get real active andthey'll start swarming.
I'll be mowing the grass andI'll like realize I'm looking at
the birds swarming and my linesare no longer straight.
Oh, boy.
Chirsy (08:03):
good thing you're out in the country.
You get somebody who'll totallyticket you if you did that in
our neighborhood, oh yeah yeah,yeah, yeah.
Kerry (08:12):
Well, needless to say, jim Woff didn't have to come and
re-mow what I did because thelines weren't straight.
I realized one day when I wasout there and I was like, oh,
look at the birds.
Nobody else could see littlebirds swooping around, but I'm
out there mowing in this crazypattern because I'm like, oh,
maybe crazy kate was looking atthe little birds might be.
And then we put a flagpole upand it's kind of in the middle
(08:36):
of this big field that's rightnext to our house.
When the concrete was curing wewanted to, you know, put our
initials and stuff in it.
Well, we poured the concrete,like the night before Six in the
morning, I got out to do choresand I thought, oh, let me go
check the concrete.
Well, it was almost alreadyhardened up.
So here I am, six in themorning, carving our initials in
(08:58):
the middle, like, but no onecould see that because the pole
wasn't in the ground.
So you just see this lady, sixin the morning, in the middle of
this field digging up somethingor whatever.
And I'm like who?
I'm sure it looked crazy to allthe people on 224 driving by
our farm.
So again my thought was oh yeah, crazy kate.
Crazy kate was probably diggingin the grass doing something.
(09:20):
You know and so, but you didn'tknow the whole story.
You know, and so well when youdidn't know the whole story.
Chirsy (09:24):
You know, and so well when you're a kid to exactly the
storytelling right, right justwant to totally make it
fascinating right, right, you dolike sort of amplify it create
these fantastic scenarios.
Kerry (09:37):
The other thing I found myself doing was we had a little
goat and a little sheep walking.
We have six, seven acres and soI had them out and I was
walking around the property andall these little animals like I
was like the Pied Piper, and allthese little animals were
following me and so again I waslike this is crazy, kate.
You know, it's kind of funny.
I catch myself doing things andthen I'll ask the same thing
like, oh, what am I doing?
(09:58):
That was my parents.
But the crazy Kate thing alwaysgets me.
When I'm at my house and I'mdoing something silly outside,
or prospectively silly, I'll belike, oh yeah, I'm crazy Kate,
I'm the new crazy Kate and I'monly a mile from the original
crazy Kate, crazy Kate 2.0.
Chirsy (10:15):
Yes, when you were talking about this lady living
sort of like that right away, Iwas like sounds a little bit
like the Blair Witch.
Kerry (10:28):
I've only seen snippets of it because I don't like that
movie.
Chirsy (10:30):
I know, oh, my gosh, you know how I feel.
Yeah, I know.
Oh well, we'll talk about thatanother time.
Kerry (10:35):
What were some of the things that your, your moms and
dad did growing up that catchyou?
Chirsy (10:41):
Well, superstitions, yeah, are crazy thing, and I
think at some point everybody'sa victim to that.
My mom has some.
That is very crazy, I guess, tosay the least, although maybe
some people also have these.
So one of them is that's alwaysa problem and sometimes it
affects everybody else too.
(11:02):
According to my mother, youcannot exit the door of
someone's house that you didn'tcome through when you came there
, so you must exit the same dooryou entered.
Okay, so if you're at someone'shouse and all of a sudden that
door is no longer available orit's more convenient for them to
let you out a different way,uh-huh, my mom is in full panic
(11:24):
for them to let you out adifferent way, uh-huh.
My mom is in full panic.
Or if you try to exitsomebody's house, she remembers
oh, she catalogs Broke the rules.
Kerry (11:33):
Well, she knows where you came in.
Oh, and how does she like hurryup and escort you to the right
door?
Chirsy (11:38):
She's like no no, we need to go out that.
You need to go out that door.
I don't know what's going tohappen.
Wow, if you.
But there's a, there's a sidenote, there's a caveat.
If it's your house, okay, youcan come and go any door you
want.
You could jump out the window,jump off the roof, do whatever
you want.
Kerry (12:00):
But if you're visiting that rule applies.
So if I came to your house andI went in the front door and
then say we went outside to yourbackyard and I was going to
leave, I couldn't just go outthe gate to the car, I'd have to
go back in through the houseand back through the front door.
If my mother was hosting you.
Chirsy (12:13):
yes, she would shuffle you.
I mean, I would tell you ifshe's there.
I mean she's here now, we cantry it after when you go to
leave.
Kerry (12:20):
But she didn't see what door I came in.
Well, she knew, we told youguys to come through the other
door because where she's at, wedidn't want the cold air to hit
her Right, right, right.
Chirsy (12:29):
Delicate little sweetheart.
Another one was you can't gohome after a funeral, don't go
straight home.
Where are you supposed to go?
You know the home after afuneral.
Don't go straight home.
Where are you supposed to gosomething?
You know the saying you don'thave, you don't have to go home,
but you can't stay here.
Well, you can't go home, butyou can go wherever the hell
else you want.
Kerry (12:48):
That's not your home.
So after a funeral, what wouldyou have to go do?
All of us, because generallyyou're not going to a funeral by
yourself yeah chances are ifyou're by yourself you're gonna
be like look, I'm just gonna dowhatever I gotta get home I
can't be doing this damn anysuperstition, but generally
you're with a group, my shoulderand I'll be fine yeah right,
you hope.
Chirsy (13:07):
But so you're in a group of people, you're all in the
same car.
You, you know you're going home.
Oh no, no, no, we gotta go here.
I mean, it was just, andeverybody participated in this.
We would normally stop at a gasstation, okay, and maul around
in funeral clothes like thenight of the living dead in
there, because we just came from.
Kerry (13:27):
So if you pulled into the gas station on the way home, if
your dad went into the store no, no you all had yeah everybody
had.
Everybody had to physicallycross another threshold.
Chirsy (13:37):
Yes, and I'm guessing you had to drop off any sort of
dead spirits that you hadattached to you.
So I would tell everybody nowthat this is a warning when you
go to the gas station there'sprobably a bunch of dropped off
dead spirits just roaming theaisles getting gas, getting a
(14:01):
slurpee, maybe robbing the joint.
Kerry (14:05):
But if you stopped and got gas and you all got out of
the car but didn't go into thestore, would that still count?
Like say you just got out ofthe car and had a cigarette
break or whatever.
No, you had to physically gointo another building.
Yeah, you had to cross, go intoanother building.
Chirsy (14:19):
Yeah, you had to cross another threshold and make sure
you exit that door the same wayyou went yeah, if there's two
exits, don't you dare so.
The in and out rule didn't makejust home, it was everywhere
yeah well, you mean, oh well,you mean you could go to like jc
pennies or something.
Kerry (14:34):
Yeah, if I went into the east entrance at jc pennies, did
I have to leave the eastentrance or could I go through
the north?
Chirsy (14:39):
entrance?
Yeah, probably, because, likebecause.
Kerry (14:41):
I wasn't over there.
Unless you're getting picked up.
Unless you get picked up, okay,there's caveat.
Chirsy (14:46):
Well see now, this isn't a residence now.
Kerry (14:48):
That's what I'm asking.
Yeah, commercial or residence,it was residence, it was only
Okay.
We got to get the rules right.
Chirsy (14:58):
I know, and you know what's really terrifying is that
you're sitting here asking mequestions.
I've never been asked and yet Iknow the answers and there is
nothing written anywhere youdon't get a booklet on this.
You just get it ingrained inyourself, your soul, and it's
like what, why?
So?
(15:18):
Then my mom added anotherfootnote years later, uh-oh,
because then she's like well,you can't even go home after you
go to the cemetery.
And for some reason my familyloved to go to the cemetery and
stare at stones with people'snames on it.
Let's stop off at the cemetery,stop at so-and-so's grave.
And my mom's like, well, wecan't go home.
Kerry (15:35):
And I was like stop, oh, so even if it wasn't from a
funeral, so it wasn't likefuneral cemetery, you're talking
like, hey, we're just going togo to the cemetery and pay our
respects Then that rule alsoapplied.
Chirsy (15:45):
It started to oh, it didn't always seem to be that
way, but then something happened.
Kerry (15:51):
I don't know if like that was a Jane rule 2.0.
Chirsy (15:53):
Yeah, and it's like wait a minute.
I don't remember this being therule, and guess what?
Kerry (15:58):
No we're not doing this.
Chirsy (16:00):
Guess what Just won't go to the cemetery.
I understand people get somesatisfaction and that's the way
they can relate and that's fine,Absolutely.
But with my mom you're justgoing to learn to not go places
anymore, because these rulesmight pop up, because you just
can't deal with it.
Another thing was you couldn'thave live fish in the house.
(16:23):
What I mean?
Dead fish game on.
Kerry (16:25):
Well, yeah, we talked about that.
Yeah, night of the seven fishes, More fish, the merrier, as
long as they're dead.
Chirsy (16:31):
But if you have fish as a pet.
So you never had a pet fish, notime.
My sister took me long time ago.
Used to be a store a long timeago called gc murphy's and real.
I mean we're talking.
I don't even know if that onecracked the 80s as far as its
existence it was it's an oldstore.
They had a little pet section.
(16:51):
You know, I think my sister gotme a pink and a blue goldfish.
Oh, and I was so, was soexcited oh, these lovely fish,
because they kind of look liketoys and brought them home.
And my mom came home and saw alittle fishbowl with these
swimming fish in them.
Oh, my gosh, freaked out, no,freaked.
Get those out of the houseright now.
(17:11):
Made my sister take them back.
Kerry (17:13):
I don't know if she even made it back.
Chirsy (17:14):
She it back.
She might have dumped him downthe toilet.
I don't know what happened tohim so horrible, but my mother
would not allow him in the house.
I, I don't.
Kerry (17:21):
It's bad luck, it's bad so it wasn't if she didn't want
pet fish.
It was just because you cannothave fish in the house, right?
Chirsy (17:27):
oh my gosh but isn't fish a symbol of the original
fisherman jesus?
Kerry (17:34):
our lord.
Yeah, they do the fish symbol.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he was afisherman, but he obviously
wasn't taking live fish home.
Chirsy (17:40):
He didn't have a pet fish, no.
Kerry (17:43):
He was doing it for food no beta fish for him?
Chirsy (17:45):
No so whenever I go and it's still to this day, carrie
if I go to somebody's house.
And they have pet fish and theyhave fish, a fish tank.
I get a little sweaty, you ptsd, because I'm like, oh my god,
how's your luck going here?
Everything going good, you guys, everybody, nobody's gotten
(18:05):
hurt dead anything now okay, wow, oh, my god, the bullet on that
.
Kerry (18:07):
Yeah, I gotta get out of here, though, because it's a
ticking time bomb here.
People, I don't know good thingI didn't have any fish in my
house when you started, oh, andyou know what's funny is, I
think both of my sisters,especially my one sister, had
like aquariums all over herhouse and they and they're
beautiful yeah I do like, reallylike them.
Chirsy (18:27):
They are, yeah, lovely to watch and I know they're a
little bit to maintain.
I'm guessing.
Kerry (18:32):
Yeah, you have to keep them clean.
Chirsy (18:33):
And yeah, I mean they're relaxing my, my son, he, when
he we go anywhere and they haveuh, yeah, he's like a fascinated
of course you are.
They're fun.
My son, when we go anywhere andthey have, he's like fascinated
.
Of course you are they're funto watch.
Kerry (18:43):
Now, okay, so here's another.
Going back to like the questionwe had on the gas station there
If you go to a retailestablishment that has an
aquarium like if you went toBass Pro Shop where they have
all that would your mom beequally freaked out or it was
only residential, that youcouldn't have pet fish?
Oh yeah, no, just again,residential, it's just
(19:03):
residential.
Chirsy (19:04):
That's effective, it's a residential yeah, retail seems
to be exempt from all of theserules.
Thank goodness, because it'd belike, well, I can't go here.
I can't go there, I can't gohere, I can't go here and I
unfortunately am a victimbecause I do watch a lot of
movies yes of a superstitionthat my husband gets very mad at
me because I freak out if I seethis happen here, and if I
accidentally do it, I freak outon myself.
(19:24):
What do you do?
Don't ever have a hat on a bed.
Kerry (19:30):
Oh yeah, that's a big cowboy thing.
Is it a cowboy thing?
It is a big cowboy thing.
Chirsy (19:34):
It makes sense because the movie that I learned that
from Drugstore Cowboy oh, Idon't know it it's about people
who rob drugstores.
Oh, I think it's actual, basedon a true story.
They rob drug, they're drugaddicts okay, so they're
drugstore cowboys.
Oh, and Matt Dillon andsomebody my age yeah, yum, gotta
love Matt Dillon.
(19:54):
If Matt Dillon tells me, don'tput a hat on a bed, no way, dude
, I will not put a hat on a bed.
Kerry (20:03):
Thank you, Matt Dylan.
Chirsy (20:04):
My husband will sometimes get very mad at me
because I will see one of hisball caps on the bed or even on
the foot of the like on therailing.
Kerry (20:12):
Okay, oh, it can't even hang on the.
Chirsy (20:15):
Well, technically it probably could, because it's not
on the bed but sort of it kindof is on the bed.
No, I will grab that thing andwhip it.
I was like out of here, goodbye, no hats anywhere near this bed
.
Kerry (20:25):
That is so funny that you say that you must not be a
Yellowstone fan.
Chirsy (20:29):
That I watched some of it and it's a good show.
Ok, yeah, I did watch some ofit.
Kerry (20:36):
There was not too long ago an episode on Yellowstone in
the final season-ish here, andone of the characters passes
away and when they went to hisbunk in the bunkhouse to clean
things out, his hat was on thebed.
Oh no, yeah.
And the one character was likeisn't wait, isn't that bad luck?
(20:57):
And the other character waslike isn't wait, isn't that bad
luck?
And the other character is likewell, it doesn't matter now,
because the guys, because theguys did.
Yeah, oh but it's interestingthat you bring that one up,
because that was just on theyellow.
Chirsy (21:07):
Wow, yeah, yeah, well, death was related to the
incident in the drugstore cowboytoo, that they kind of
connected because there was adisbeliever in their group.
They kind of connected becausethere was a disbeliever in their
group, somebody they had pickedup that was part of their
little posse, and the characterwas just sort of a pain in the
butt through the whole.
Kerry (21:23):
Thing.
Chirsy (21:24):
And just to prove everybody wrong, she tossed her
hat on the bed and said this isstupid.
You people are stupid.
Why do you believe this stupidstuff?
And then she died.
They found her dead Again.
That's another reason toreinforce me.
Oh my God, god, don't put thathat on the bed.
Don't put that on the bed.
Well, I do.
You have any superstitions?
Kerry (21:45):
there wasn't necessarily superstitions, but there was
definitely idiosyncrasies.
Chirsy (21:51):
Let's call them idiosyncrasies okay, if you want
to go ahead.
Kerry (21:55):
My dad was, like, so addicted to salt.
He salted everything, anythinghe would just like, and he was
one of those.
He wouldn't even taste his food, he would just automatically
start pounding the salt on it soit didn't matter, did it need
it or not, exactly he just salt,salt, you know.
Which is why I think a lot oftimes, like I don't cook with a
(22:17):
lot of salt, like I might put alittle tiny bit in, but then I
leave it for whoever's eating totaste it, because if he made
anything, it was so salty soright, this is how you know you
may have a salt addiction.
So my dad was in the hospitalbecause of some heart issue.
I wonder why too salt.
Anyway, they put him on a nosalt diet.
(22:40):
So no sodium for him, as he's inthe hospital and he was there
for like I don't know a coupleof days or whatever, and he was
going through so much saltaddiction and he wore contacts.
I told my mom well, when youcome and visit me, I need saline
solution for my contacts.
So my mom brings in, you know,a bottle of saline solution, he
opens it up and he startsputting it on his food.
(23:01):
Oh my God, he was using thesaline solution to get salt on
his food because they put him ona nose all the time.
Chirsy (23:08):
Oh my gosh.
I know it was bad.
Kerry (23:11):
It was To this day.
I remember being in thehospital going.
I don't think you're supposedto be doing that it kind of defe
this day.
I remember being in thehospital going.
I don't I don't think you'resupposed to be doing that kind
of defeats the nose and ew,you're putting salt or saline
solution on your lettuce.
Chirsy (23:26):
Oh my god anybody here wear contact lenses.
Do not go into room.
256, 256, don't enter with yoursaline solution.
Wow, that is not bad, that'sbad, that's bad yeah.
Kerry (23:41):
My brother-in-law and I were just recently talking about
this, the other day while wewere having lunch with my mom,
and because I think he wassalting something, and I'm like,
oh, I can't even, and we weretaught this reminisce and
brought this subject up.
So, anyways, he goes.
I'll never forget your dadwould go get pizza, pepperoni
pizza full of pepperoni, and thefirst thing he would do is come
home and he'd salt it and it'slike pepperoni, come on, like
(24:03):
there's how much salt in that?
You know he would be adding thesalt to it.
So I looked at my mom.
I'm like, mom, do you rememberdad doing these things?
She goes and she goes.
Well, it's crazier is that Imarried him.
Chirsy (24:21):
Well, well, she might have a point there.
Kerry (24:22):
Oh my god that was the cutest little, most innocent
thing.
Chirsy (24:23):
But yeah, yeah, salt salting, salting, so well my dad
likes salt, yeah, and I thinkwhen kids he did have high blood
pressure we did have like asalt substitute thing going on,
oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahright, it's like I can't believe
it's not butter.
Kerry (24:37):
Yeah, I know what is it?
Chirsy (24:39):
I don't know.
I don't like anything thattells me it's not something that
it's trying to be Salinesolution.
Kerry (24:42):
Well, yeah.
Chirsy (24:44):
What are they advertising?
But one thing, and I guess Ifound out that this actually
wasn't that unusual even if youwere or were not a salt addict,
my dad would salt watermelon.
Oh, my husband loves that yeah.
So I think that's a thing.
It's certainly not to the levelof whatever your dad had.
Kerry (25:00):
He was obviously suffering from some sort of
deprivation of salt, and heneeded it in his diet as quickly
as possible.
Chirsy (25:07):
The other thing I remember when I was little I had
a friend over and we wereeating something and obviously
it required some salting, andshe must have dropped some salt
on the table when she wassalting her food, okay, so she
grabbed like a handful and shethrew it over her shoulder.
Kerry (25:22):
Oh yeah, the whole throwing the salt over the
shoulder.
Chirsy (25:24):
I was like what did you just do?
Why are you throwing stuff onthe floor?
What the hell was that?
Why are you throwing food in myhouse?
She's like, oh you know,because I spilled salt, you got
to do another super crazysuperstition If you spill salt
Whipping salt, what?
Who the hell told you to do that?
The salt ended, morton.
Yes, because you know how oftenyou spill salt.
(25:45):
All the time it's little, itgoes all over.
So they probably just figurewe'll tell everybody that if you
spill it, yeah, spill more,yeah, and then you have to buy
more.
What a fantastic marketing idea.
Hey, they made millions.
Be paranoid about what peopletell you to do.
It's really really got anunderhanded reasoning behind it.
Kerry (26:07):
Oh my gosh.
So yeah, I think every littlebit, every day, I find something
little that I do.
I go, yeah, as much as I try todo better, that's the other
thing.
We're all here trying to dobetter, I still catch myself
doing these things.
Yeah, yeah, they are with usall the time.
Good time, good memories.
Chirsy (26:27):
Yeah.
Kerry (26:28):
All right, well, I think that probably wraps up today's
show.
Chirsy (26:31):
Yeah, yeah, I got to get to a funeral and then go get
some gum at the conveniencestore.
Kerry (26:38):
So we want to hear what crazy superstitions or things
that your family maybe did orthat you catch yourself doing,
or maybe what do you findyourself doing that's
reminiscent of your parents.
That used to make you go, oh mygosh, I'm never going to do
that.
And then now you're doing it.
Chirsy (26:54):
So let us know, please, please, give me something else,
because the ones I have, I needto change it up.
Kerry (27:01):
All right, everybody, have a wonderful week.
We'll see you next week.
Bye, bye-bye.
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast,
where we may not have seen itall, but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,chrissy and Keri.
Kerry (00:19):
Hello, junkies, welcome back.
I'm Kerry
and I'm Chrisy.
Ah, Chrisy, we had a pretty interesting episode last
week.
We were diving down the rabbithole of our aging parents.
How are you feeling?
That's a long pause.
Yeah, I'm trying to think howI'm feeling about that, you know
it feels good to talk about it.
(00:42):
Yes.
Chirsy (00:43):
And I think it is good to talk about it, especially
somebody who totally think it isgood to talk about, especially
somebody who totally gets it.
Yes, but it also is a littledraining.
Kerry (00:50):
It's very draining we need to pick me up on this topic
, because, really, where doesall of?
Chirsy (00:55):
our dysfunction stem from, and we're not trying to
point fingers.
No judgment no blame, no no.
But it kind of does start withthe mom and dad a little bit
yeah.
And then their mom and dad.
Kerry (01:07):
It's an endless cycle.
It is, it is, it is and that'swhat worries me is like OK, that
means I'm the cycle that's next.
So am I becoming like myparents?
Chirsy (01:17):
You got to really fight, not to, I know.
Kerry (01:19):
But there I mean come on.
Chirsy (01:21):
We can't be liars to ourselves and say that sometimes
we don't catch that.
Oh my God, it's sort of likewhat my mom and my dad would do.
Why am I being this way,exactly, but I guess recognizing
it is the first step that'strue To bettering it, that's
true.
Kerry (01:37):
I hope.
Yeah, that's very true.
That's very true.
What were some of the sayingsthat your mom or dad would say
that like you might catchyourself saying now, or that you
were like, oh, I'm never goingto use that one as an adult?
Chirsy (01:47):
Well, there's quite a few things my father used to say
, but I can't.
Kerry (01:52):
Now my mom used to always say it's going to get worse
before it gets better.
Oh yeah, and.
Chirsy (01:58):
I that one.
Kerry (01:59):
Well, I told you my whole philosophy was just going to
get right, right, right, right,right, right, right, right,
worse and worse and worse.
Chirsy (02:05):
But yeah, my mom, no quiet.
She made me do crazy things,but not really any sayings.
Now, my husband's mom, a lovelylady, he always reminds me of
things that she used to say andwas Well, one was you need to be
the better person.
So when you're like, well, youknow somebody's doing this to me
, so I'm going to do this, andmy husband will always come at
(02:25):
me and go, chrissy, you got tobe the better person.
And I'm like wait a minute, doyou remember who you married
Nick?
Well, yeah, there's one and twowho the hell told this lie.
And again, I think it'ssomebody who probably was not
the person getting screwed over.
True, it was somebody sayingI'm doing this horrible thing to
(02:49):
you.
Kerry (02:50):
You're going to be, the better person.
Chirsy (02:51):
Right Be the better person who's judging this?
Yeah, really.
And the other one that myhusband told me recently that I
freaked out about because I'mlike another stupid rule.
Where did this come from?
Two wrongs don't make a right.
First of all, this encompassestwo things.
I hate math and bullshit.
(03:11):
Two wrong who says two wrongsdon't make a right?
Maybe if I take two wrong turns, I might still get right where
I need to be.
Well, this, this is true, thatwoman on the GPS that's always
annoying the hell out of me.
Kerry (03:28):
We call her MapLissa.
Chirsy (03:30):
Oh my God, one time I was in a car test drive in a car
with a guy and the sales guywas in the back and that thing
was on and I said this is sohorrible and I'm going to offend
women.
I don't know I might offend men, I'm going to offend everybody
right now.
But I told him.
I said I can see why you guysblock us women out.
I said because listening tothis woman give me directions is
(03:53):
annoying the hell out of me.
I'm like, can you change up thevoice?
Maybe you know to an accent ormaybe a little kid could give me
directions.
I would love a little kid totell me where to go.
Go down this road for two moremiles, Are you sure?
Two more miles?
How many Tonka trunks is itbefore I get to my destination?
Kerry (04:17):
That's like the Alexas how you can change the voices on
those.
We have a couple Alexas aroundour house and in our barn and
stuff.
One of them is like anAustralian accent guy and I love
it.
It's the same thing you'resaying, but then we have some of
them that are the woman's voice.
Chirsy (04:32):
Well, it could be a woman or but I mean, she's very
authoritarian.
I mean, and what's funny is theAlexa we have in our house.
Yeah, it likes everybody but me.
Oh, that's my husband.
Kerry (04:43):
He doesn't listen to him.
It will not.
Chirsy (04:45):
I'll tell it.
Set a timer, you know, playthis song, crickets, dead
silence, and then my daughter ormy husband will talk to her
right away.
Yeah, okay, setting a timer.
Kerry (04:59):
Mine will say good morning Carrie.
In the male, sexy voice andthen it won't talk to my husband
.
He'll be like good morningCarrie, in the male sexy voice,
and then it won't talk to myhusband.
He'll be like good morningCarrie.
Chirsy (05:09):
Like it's so annoying because the Alexis said good
morning.
Well, mine says good morningwhen I tell it, or good
afternoon or good eveningwhenever I'm asking it to do
something.
If it does listen to my command, it doesn't acknowledge me at
all.
Kerry (05:21):
It always says my daughter's name.
Chirsy (05:24):
Oh, it says her name.
Oh, it says her name.
Oh, that's so funny, and I justget this.
I scrunch my face up and snarka little to myself but I'm just
like, look, just do what I want.
I don't care what you want tocall me today Just do it?
Put the timer on please, so Iknow what time to take this
stupid dinner out.
Kerry (05:44):
Oh my, you know, time to take this stupid dinner out.
Oh my, you know one of thethings, uh, growing up we had,
there was a girl you might know.
Were you ever a girl scout?
As soon as I said that, Iwanted to suck the question back
in wow, you really went thereand you asked me about a Girl
(06:04):
Scout.
I regretted it as soon as itwas coming up.
I thought maybe your mom madeyou or something Well come on
Mom.
Chirsy (06:12):
Mom would have told me to do it.
Kerry (06:14):
Does it require her to?
Chirsy (06:15):
be involved, not happening but you do it, chrissy
, and.
I'll show up every once in awhile.
Yeah, no.
Kerry (06:22):
No Girl Scouts here, no Brownie.
No, no, and I'll show upeveryone's, yeah no, no girl
scouts here, no brownie, no, no.
Okay.
Well, we had a girl scout campnot far from where growing up,
where I lived, but now it'sactually like literally a mile
around the corner from my housenow and, oh gosh, where was I
even going with the girl scout?
Oh, okay, crazy kate.
So, anyways, right before yougot to the entrance of the girl
scout camp, this was like wayout in the country.
(06:43):
So there was this house, thisfarmhouse, and it had this lady
in her.
Everyone knew her as Crazy Kate.
I don't know if Kate was herfirst name, I don't know, but
that was the legend of CrazyKate and this lady, like
everyone talked about herbecause of all like the weird
things that she did.
Well, when we moved back to Ohioand we got our farm, I quickly
(07:04):
started realizing like, oh myGod, I'm turning into Crazy Kate
, because I found myself doingsome of the things that we would
see Crazy Kate do.
What was she doing?
And now it made sense to me.
One of the things that shewould do is be like in the
middle of the field, la, la, la,la, la, like and around at the
sky and like you know, whatever.
And so well, when we move toour farm we have barn swallows,
(07:27):
just a little bird oh, you'relooking at me like, and it
sounds like a huge entertainmentokay, barn swallows are a
little bird.
Okay, a living bird, yeah it's aliving bird and they catch like
little bugs and I love theselittle birds like I.
They just fascinate me.
(07:48):
So if we're mowing the grass,that like stirs up all the bugs
so they get real active andthey'll start swarming.
I'll be mowing the grass andI'll like realize I'm looking at
the birds swarming and my linesare no longer straight.
Oh, boy.
Chirsy (08:03):
good thing you're out in the country.
You get somebody who'll totallyticket you if you did that in
our neighborhood, oh yeah yeah,yeah, yeah.
Kerry (08:12):
Well, needless to say, jim Woff didn't have to come and
re-mow what I did because thelines weren't straight.
I realized one day when I wasout there and I was like, oh,
look at the birds.
Nobody else could see littlebirds swooping around, but I'm
out there mowing in this crazypattern because I'm like, oh,
maybe crazy kate was looking atthe little birds might be.
And then we put a flagpole upand it's kind of in the middle
(08:36):
of this big field that's rightnext to our house.
When the concrete was curing wewanted to, you know, put our
initials and stuff in it.
Well, we poured the concrete,like the night before Six in the
morning, I got out to do choresand I thought, oh, let me go
check the concrete.
Well, it was almost alreadyhardened up.
So here I am, six in themorning, carving our initials in
(08:58):
the middle, like, but no onecould see that because the pole
wasn't in the ground.
So you just see this lady, sixin the morning, in the middle of
this field digging up somethingor whatever.
And I'm like who?
I'm sure it looked crazy to allthe people on 224 driving by
our farm.
So again my thought was oh yeah, crazy kate.
Crazy kate was probably diggingin the grass doing something.
(09:20):
You know and so, but you didn'tknow the whole story.
You know, and so well when youdidn't know the whole story.
Chirsy (09:24):
You know, and so well when you're a kid to exactly the
storytelling right, right justwant to totally make it
fascinating right, right, you dolike sort of amplify it create
these fantastic scenarios.
Kerry (09:37):
The other thing I found myself doing was we had a little
goat and a little sheep walking.
We have six, seven acres and soI had them out and I was
walking around the property andall these little animals like I
was like the Pied Piper, and allthese little animals were
following me and so again I waslike this is crazy, kate.
You know, it's kind of funny.
I catch myself doing things andthen I'll ask the same thing
like, oh, what am I doing?
(09:58):
That was my parents.
But the crazy Kate thing alwaysgets me.
When I'm at my house and I'mdoing something silly outside,
or prospectively silly, I'll belike, oh yeah, I'm crazy Kate,
I'm the new crazy Kate and I'monly a mile from the original
crazy Kate, crazy Kate 2.0.
Chirsy (10:15):
Yes, when you were talking about this lady living
sort of like that right away, Iwas like sounds a little bit
like the Blair Witch.
Kerry (10:28):
I've only seen snippets of it because I don't like that
movie.
Chirsy (10:30):
I know, oh, my gosh, you know how I feel.
Yeah, I know.
Oh well, we'll talk about thatanother time.
Kerry (10:35):
What were some of the things that your, your moms and
dad did growing up that catchyou?
Chirsy (10:41):
Well, superstitions, yeah, are crazy thing, and I
think at some point everybody'sa victim to that.
My mom has some.
That is very crazy, I guess, tosay the least, although maybe
some people also have these.
So one of them is that's alwaysa problem and sometimes it
affects everybody else too.
(11:02):
According to my mother, youcannot exit the door of
someone's house that you didn'tcome through when you came there
, so you must exit the same dooryou entered.
Okay, so if you're at someone'shouse and all of a sudden that
door is no longer available orit's more convenient for them to
let you out a different way,uh-huh, my mom is in full panic
(11:24):
for them to let you out adifferent way, uh-huh.
My mom is in full panic.
Or if you try to exitsomebody's house, she remembers
oh, she catalogs Broke the rules.
Kerry (11:33):
Well, she knows where you came in.
Oh, and how does she like hurryup and escort you to the right
door?
Chirsy (11:38):
She's like no no, we need to go out that.
You need to go out that door.
I don't know what's going tohappen.
Wow, if you.
But there's a, there's a sidenote, there's a caveat.
If it's your house, okay, youcan come and go any door you
want.
You could jump out the window,jump off the roof, do whatever
you want.
Kerry (12:00):
But if you're visiting that rule applies.
So if I came to your house andI went in the front door and
then say we went outside to yourbackyard and I was going to
leave, I couldn't just go outthe gate to the car, I'd have to
go back in through the houseand back through the front door.
If my mother was hosting you.
Chirsy (12:13):
yes, she would shuffle you.
I mean, I would tell you ifshe's there.
I mean she's here now, we cantry it after when you go to
leave.
Kerry (12:20):
But she didn't see what door I came in.
Well, she knew, we told youguys to come through the other
door because where she's at, wedidn't want the cold air to hit
her Right, right, right.
Chirsy (12:29):
Delicate little sweetheart.
Another one was you can't gohome after a funeral, don't go
straight home.
Where are you supposed to go?
You know the home after afuneral.
Don't go straight home.
Where are you supposed to gosomething?
You know the saying you don'thave, you don't have to go home,
but you can't stay here.
Well, you can't go home, butyou can go wherever the hell
else you want.
Kerry (12:48):
That's not your home.
So after a funeral, what wouldyou have to go do?
All of us, because generallyyou're not going to a funeral by
yourself yeah chances are ifyou're by yourself you're gonna
be like look, I'm just gonna dowhatever I gotta get home I
can't be doing this damn anysuperstition, but generally
you're with a group, my shoulderand I'll be fine yeah right,
you hope.
Chirsy (13:07):
But so you're in a group of people, you're all in the
same car.
You, you know you're going home.
Oh no, no, no, we gotta go here.
I mean, it was just, andeverybody participated in this.
We would normally stop at a gasstation, okay, and maul around
in funeral clothes like thenight of the living dead in
there, because we just came from.
Kerry (13:27):
So if you pulled into the gas station on the way home, if
your dad went into the store no, no you all had yeah everybody
had.
Everybody had to physicallycross another threshold.
Chirsy (13:37):
Yes, and I'm guessing you had to drop off any sort of
dead spirits that you hadattached to you.
So I would tell everybody nowthat this is a warning when you
go to the gas station there'sprobably a bunch of dropped off
dead spirits just roaming theaisles getting gas, getting a
(14:01):
slurpee, maybe robbing the joint.
Kerry (14:05):
But if you stopped and got gas and you all got out of
the car but didn't go into thestore, would that still count?
Like say you just got out ofthe car and had a cigarette
break or whatever.
No, you had to physically gointo another building.
Yeah, you had to cross, go intoanother building.
Chirsy (14:19):
Yeah, you had to cross another threshold and make sure
you exit that door the same wayyou went yeah, if there's two
exits, don't you dare so.
The in and out rule didn't makejust home, it was everywhere
yeah well, you mean, oh well,you mean you could go to like jc
pennies or something.
Kerry (14:34):
Yeah, if I went into the east entrance at jc pennies, did
I have to leave the eastentrance or could I go through
the north?
Chirsy (14:39):
entrance?
Yeah, probably, because, likebecause.
Kerry (14:41):
I wasn't over there.
Unless you're getting picked up.
Unless you get picked up, okay,there's caveat.
Chirsy (14:46):
Well see now, this isn't a residence now.
Kerry (14:48):
That's what I'm asking.
Yeah, commercial or residence,it was residence, it was only
Okay.
We got to get the rules right.
Chirsy (14:58):
I know, and you know what's really terrifying is that
you're sitting here asking mequestions.
I've never been asked and yet Iknow the answers and there is
nothing written anywhere youdon't get a booklet on this.
You just get it ingrained inyourself, your soul, and it's
like what, why?
So?
(15:18):
Then my mom added anotherfootnote years later, uh-oh,
because then she's like well,you can't even go home after you
go to the cemetery.
And for some reason my familyloved to go to the cemetery and
stare at stones with people'snames on it.
Let's stop off at the cemetery,stop at so-and-so's grave.
And my mom's like, well, wecan't go home.
Kerry (15:35):
And I was like stop, oh, so even if it wasn't from a
funeral, so it wasn't likefuneral cemetery, you're talking
like, hey, we're just going togo to the cemetery and pay our
respects Then that rule alsoapplied.
Chirsy (15:45):
It started to oh, it didn't always seem to be that
way, but then something happened.
Kerry (15:51):
I don't know if like that was a Jane rule 2.0.
Chirsy (15:53):
Yeah, and it's like wait a minute.
I don't remember this being therule, and guess what?
Kerry (15:58):
No we're not doing this.
Chirsy (16:00):
Guess what Just won't go to the cemetery.
I understand people get somesatisfaction and that's the way
they can relate and that's fine,Absolutely.
But with my mom you're justgoing to learn to not go places
anymore, because these rulesmight pop up, because you just
can't deal with it.
Another thing was you couldn'thave live fish in the house.
(16:23):
What I mean?
Dead fish game on.
Kerry (16:25):
Well, yeah, we talked about that.
Yeah, night of the seven fishes, More fish, the merrier, as
long as they're dead.
Chirsy (16:31):
But if you have fish as a pet.
So you never had a pet fish, notime.
My sister took me long time ago.
Used to be a store a long timeago called gc murphy's and real.
I mean we're talking.
I don't even know if that onecracked the 80s as far as its
existence it was it's an oldstore.
They had a little pet section.
(16:51):
You know, I think my sister gotme a pink and a blue goldfish.
Oh, and I was so, was soexcited oh, these lovely fish,
because they kind of look liketoys and brought them home.
And my mom came home and saw alittle fishbowl with these
swimming fish in them.
Oh, my gosh, freaked out, no,freaked.
Get those out of the houseright now.
(17:11):
Made my sister take them back.
Kerry (17:13):
I don't know if she even made it back.
Chirsy (17:14):
She it back.
She might have dumped him downthe toilet.
I don't know what happened tohim so horrible, but my mother
would not allow him in the house.
I, I don't.
Kerry (17:21):
It's bad luck, it's bad so it wasn't if she didn't want
pet fish.
It was just because you cannothave fish in the house, right?
Chirsy (17:27):
oh my gosh but isn't fish a symbol of the original
fisherman jesus?
Kerry (17:34):
our lord.
Yeah, they do the fish symbol.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he was afisherman, but he obviously
wasn't taking live fish home.
Chirsy (17:40):
He didn't have a pet fish, no.
Kerry (17:43):
He was doing it for food no beta fish for him?
Chirsy (17:45):
No so whenever I go and it's still to this day, carrie
if I go to somebody's house.
And they have pet fish and theyhave fish, a fish tank.
I get a little sweaty, you ptsd, because I'm like, oh my god,
how's your luck going here?
Everything going good, you guys, everybody, nobody's gotten
(18:05):
hurt dead anything now okay, wow, oh, my god, the bullet on that
.
Kerry (18:07):
Yeah, I gotta get out of here, though, because it's a
ticking time bomb here.
People, I don't know good thingI didn't have any fish in my
house when you started, oh, andyou know what's funny is, I
think both of my sisters,especially my one sister, had
like aquariums all over herhouse and they and they're
beautiful yeah I do like, reallylike them.
Chirsy (18:27):
They are, yeah, lovely to watch and I know they're a
little bit to maintain.
I'm guessing.
Kerry (18:32):
Yeah, you have to keep them clean.
Chirsy (18:33):
And yeah, I mean they're relaxing my, my son, he, when
he we go anywhere and they haveuh, yeah, he's like a fascinated
of course you are.
They're fun.
My son, when we go anywhere andthey have, he's like fascinated
.
Of course you are they're funto watch.
Kerry (18:43):
Now, okay, so here's another.
Going back to like the questionwe had on the gas station there
If you go to a retailestablishment that has an
aquarium like if you went toBass Pro Shop where they have
all that would your mom beequally freaked out or it was
only residential, that youcouldn't have pet fish?
Oh yeah, no, just again,residential, it's just
(19:03):
residential.
Chirsy (19:04):
That's effective, it's a residential yeah, retail seems
to be exempt from all of theserules.
Thank goodness, because it'd belike, well, I can't go here.
I can't go there, I can't gohere, I can't go here and I
unfortunately am a victimbecause I do watch a lot of
movies yes of a superstitionthat my husband gets very mad at
me because I freak out if I seethis happen here, and if I
accidentally do it, I freak outon myself.
(19:24):
What do you do?
Don't ever have a hat on a bed.
Kerry (19:30):
Oh yeah, that's a big cowboy thing.
Is it a cowboy thing?
It is a big cowboy thing.
Chirsy (19:34):
It makes sense because the movie that I learned that
from Drugstore Cowboy oh, Idon't know it it's about people
who rob drugstores.
Oh, I think it's actual, basedon a true story.
They rob drug, they're drugaddicts okay, so they're
drugstore cowboys.
Oh, and Matt Dillon andsomebody my age yeah, yum, gotta
love Matt Dillon.
(19:54):
If Matt Dillon tells me, don'tput a hat on a bed, no way, dude
, I will not put a hat on a bed.
Kerry (20:03):
Thank you, Matt Dylan.
Chirsy (20:04):
My husband will sometimes get very mad at me
because I will see one of hisball caps on the bed or even on
the foot of the like on therailing.
Kerry (20:12):
Okay, oh, it can't even hang on the.
Chirsy (20:15):
Well, technically it probably could, because it's not
on the bed but sort of it kindof is on the bed.
No, I will grab that thing andwhip it.
I was like out of here, goodbye, no hats anywhere near this bed
.
Kerry (20:25):
That is so funny that you say that you must not be a
Yellowstone fan.
Chirsy (20:29):
That I watched some of it and it's a good show.
Ok, yeah, I did watch some ofit.
Kerry (20:36):
There was not too long ago an episode on Yellowstone in
the final season-ish here, andone of the characters passes
away and when they went to hisbunk in the bunkhouse to clean
things out, his hat was on thebed.
Oh no, yeah.
And the one character was likeisn't wait, isn't that bad luck?
(20:57):
And the other character waslike isn't wait, isn't that bad
luck?
And the other character is likewell, it doesn't matter now,
because the guys, because theguys did.
Yeah, oh but it's interestingthat you bring that one up,
because that was just on theyellow.
Chirsy (21:07):
Wow, yeah, yeah, well, death was related to the
incident in the drugstore cowboytoo, that they kind of
connected because there was adisbeliever in their group.
They kind of connected becausethere was a disbeliever in their
group, somebody they had pickedup that was part of their
little posse, and the characterwas just sort of a pain in the
butt through the whole.
Kerry (21:23):
Thing.
Chirsy (21:24):
And just to prove everybody wrong, she tossed her
hat on the bed and said this isstupid.
You people are stupid.
Why do you believe this stupidstuff?
And then she died.
They found her dead Again.
That's another reason toreinforce me.
Oh my God, god, don't put thathat on the bed.
Don't put that on the bed.
Well, I do.
You have any superstitions?
Kerry (21:45):
there wasn't necessarily superstitions, but there was
definitely idiosyncrasies.
Chirsy (21:51):
Let's call them idiosyncrasies okay, if you want
to go ahead.
Kerry (21:55):
My dad was, like, so addicted to salt.
He salted everything, anythinghe would just like, and he was
one of those.
He wouldn't even taste his food, he would just automatically
start pounding the salt on it soit didn't matter, did it need
it or not, exactly he just salt,salt, you know.
Which is why I think a lot oftimes, like I don't cook with a
(22:17):
lot of salt, like I might put alittle tiny bit in, but then I
leave it for whoever's eating totaste it, because if he made
anything, it was so salty soright, this is how you know you
may have a salt addiction.
So my dad was in the hospitalbecause of some heart issue.
I wonder why too salt.
Anyway, they put him on a nosalt diet.
(22:40):
So no sodium for him, as he's inthe hospital and he was there
for like I don't know a coupleof days or whatever, and he was
going through so much saltaddiction and he wore contacts.
I told my mom well, when youcome and visit me, I need saline
solution for my contacts.
So my mom brings in, you know,a bottle of saline solution, he
opens it up and he startsputting it on his food.
(23:01):
Oh my God, he was using thesaline solution to get salt on
his food because they put him ona nose all the time.
Chirsy (23:08):
Oh my gosh.
I know it was bad.
Kerry (23:11):
It was To this day.
I remember being in thehospital going.
I don't think you're supposedto be doing that it kind of defe
this day.
I remember being in thehospital going.
I don't I don't think you'resupposed to be doing that kind
of defeats the nose and ew,you're putting salt or saline
solution on your lettuce.
Chirsy (23:26):
Oh my god anybody here wear contact lenses.
Do not go into room.
256, 256, don't enter with yoursaline solution.
Wow, that is not bad, that'sbad, that's bad yeah.
Kerry (23:41):
My brother-in-law and I were just recently talking about
this, the other day while wewere having lunch with my mom,
and because I think he wassalting something, and I'm like,
oh, I can't even, and we weretaught this reminisce and
brought this subject up.
So, anyways, he goes.
I'll never forget your dadwould go get pizza, pepperoni
pizza full of pepperoni, and thefirst thing he would do is come
home and he'd salt it and it'slike pepperoni, come on, like
(24:03):
there's how much salt in that?
You know he would be adding thesalt to it.
So I looked at my mom.
I'm like, mom, do you rememberdad doing these things?
She goes and she goes.
Well, it's crazier is that Imarried him.
Chirsy (24:21):
Well, well, she might have a point there.
Kerry (24:22):
Oh my god that was the cutest little, most innocent
thing.
Chirsy (24:23):
But yeah, yeah, salt salting, salting, so well my dad
likes salt, yeah, and I thinkwhen kids he did have high blood
pressure we did have like asalt substitute thing going on,
oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahright, it's like I can't believe
it's not butter.
Kerry (24:37):
Yeah, I know what is it?
Chirsy (24:39):
I don't know.
I don't like anything thattells me it's not something that
it's trying to be Salinesolution.
Kerry (24:42):
Well, yeah.
Chirsy (24:44):
What are they advertising?
But one thing, and I guess Ifound out that this actually
wasn't that unusual even if youwere or were not a salt addict,
my dad would salt watermelon.
Oh, my husband loves that yeah.
So I think that's a thing.
It's certainly not to the levelof whatever your dad had.
Kerry (25:00):
He was obviously suffering from some sort of
deprivation of salt, and heneeded it in his diet as quickly
as possible.
Chirsy (25:07):
The other thing I remember when I was little I had
a friend over and we wereeating something and obviously
it required some salting, andshe must have dropped some salt
on the table when she wassalting her food, okay, so she
grabbed like a handful and shethrew it over her shoulder.
Kerry (25:22):
Oh yeah, the whole throwing the salt over the
shoulder.
Chirsy (25:24):
I was like what did you just do?
Why are you throwing stuff onthe floor?
What the hell was that?
Why are you throwing food in myhouse?
She's like, oh you know,because I spilled salt, you got
to do another super crazysuperstition If you spill salt
Whipping salt, what?
Who the hell told you to do that?
The salt ended, morton.
Yes, because you know how oftenyou spill salt.
(25:45):
All the time it's little, itgoes all over.
So they probably just figurewe'll tell everybody that if you
spill it, yeah, spill more,yeah, and then you have to buy
more.
What a fantastic marketing idea.
Hey, they made millions.
Be paranoid about what peopletell you to do.
It's really really got anunderhanded reasoning behind it.
Kerry (26:07):
Oh my gosh.
So yeah, I think every littlebit, every day, I find something
little that I do.
I go, yeah, as much as I try todo better, that's the other
thing.
We're all here trying to dobetter, I still catch myself
doing these things.
Yeah, yeah, they are with usall the time.
Good time, good memories.
Chirsy (26:27):
Yeah.
Kerry (26:28):
All right, well, I think that probably wraps up today's
show.
Chirsy (26:31):
Yeah, yeah, I got to get to a funeral and then go get
some gum at the conveniencestore.
Kerry (26:38):
So we want to hear what crazy superstitions or things
that your family maybe did orthat you catch yourself doing,
or maybe what do you findyourself doing that's
reminiscent of your parents.
That used to make you go, oh mygosh, I'm never going to do
that.
And then now you're doing it.
Chirsy (26:54):
So let us know, please, please, give me something else,
because the ones I have, I needto change it up.
Kerry (27:01):
All right, everybody, have a wonderful week.
We'll see you next week.
Bye, bye-bye.
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