January 30, 2024 • 34 mins
Ever had a moment when you looked back at old college photos and had to laugh at the fashion disasters you once thought were peak coolness? We sure have and this Tuesday we're not holding back on the nostalgia, or the humor, as we take a whimsical look at the evolution of college fashion trends. From the iconic bubble necklaces to today's sorority staples, join us as we dissect the quirky uniformity of campus 'going out' attire and share our own style missteps that time-stamped our college years.
But it's not all throwbacks and chuckles—we're also sharing the latest from our Lowe's Home Improvement saga, where a DIY shelving project becomes an epic quest featuring a feisty four-year-old sidekick. Brace yourself for tales of aisle confusion, checkout standoffs, and the surprising gender assumptions we bump into when venturing into the world of power drills and plywood. It's the kind of day that tests your patience, yet somehow leaves you with a story worth telling and a smile on your face.
And just when you think you've heard it all, we'll wrap up with a teaser of our next episode that promises to be a riot. Prepare for a deep dive into the world of dating mishaps and the boyfriends we'd rather forget. So, grab your pals, settle in, and get ready to laugh, cringe, and maybe even find some comfort in our shared misadventures. Remember, you're not alone in this crazy journey—we're right here with you, and we'll see you next time for another round of stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, welcome to Tuesday.
You need to get it together.
We need to practice beforehand.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What happened to?
Our like intro where we'd sayI'm Meredith, I'm Caroline and
welcome to sister shit.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We probably need to there.
It was there.
It was Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Happy Tuesday, I think we're going to be able to
get it together.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I think we're going to be able to get it together.
I think we're going to be ableto get it together.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I think we're going to be able to get it together.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Happy Tuesday.
I feel like it's been a longtime since last Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, it feels like a freaking For me.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Quarantine.
They were sick.
So it really has been a centuryfor you guys.
Yeah, tomorrow's like my firstday out of my flu quarantine and
I am counting down.
Almost there, almost there.
But the weather is in my home.
It's the best.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'm just tired.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm on the right side , I'm always.
Well, we did go to Target toget some essentials and I
literally felt like I was likestepping back.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It felt like COVID days again, where I like, oh,
it's been rough.
Well, I'm glad you guys arefeeling better.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, I feel like everyone is sick right now.
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I hope you're all right.
I know the weather's been niceafter it wasn't for a long.
It was like really rainy, andtoday was nice.
Yeah, yeah yeah, but anyway,okay, tonight, today we have two
really random topics, butthey're both things that have
happened in the past week when Iwas out in the world, because
Caroline wasn't out in the world.
(01:41):
But first we wanted to talkabout this with you guys because
I went out to dinner with myfriend.
We were leaving the restaurantat the time.
That like five points, which islike all the college bars.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Let's preface that we live in a college town.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We live in a college town Five points is where all
the college bars are, but thereare a few restaurants that like
non-college, like full grownadults go to at normal hours,
and so I went to.
We went to the restaurant wewere leaving at.
I guess it was probably like9.30, 10 when we were leaving,
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maybe even earlier, so it wasstarting to.
Five points was starting tolike wake up a little bit.
People were out and about andlet me tell you, I took a
picture we will post onInstagram.
I took a picture when I wasstanding waiting for to cross
the road at the three girls infront of me and every single one
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of them was wearing and I'm notexaggerating, every single one
of them was wearing what lookedlike identical jeans, wide leg.
High waisted wide leg Highwaisted yeah, light wash white
sneakers, and on the top theyeach had a spandex, lace
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boostier lingerie top on, andall their hair was on the same
too.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Also, let's remind everyone, it's January.
It was warm, it was like 60.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That day it was warm.
Oh, okay, okay, I was wearinglike a summer dress with like a
sweater around my shoulders,like it was like not, I was like
in a short sleeve as well, soit wasn't they weren't like
freezing.
But and I sent the picture toCaroline and I was very tempted
to ask them like hey, do youguys have an event that you all
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had to match for?
Or like I just wanted to trollthem so bad, because I know that
every generation of collegestudents has had their like
going out uniform, but like hasit gotten more uniform?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, and the thing that stinks is like I just feel
like jeans and a black top is soclassic and they're wearing it
every single Friday and Saturdaynight, to where now it's not
gonna be fricking classicanymore, or does it?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
always and always classic, and there's a lot of
variation within jeans and ablack top.
Yes, but so the fact that thereis so much variation in jeans
and a black top and they wereall wearing the exact same thing
.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But they all still are wearing the exact same thing
.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That's what I wanna talk about, because I feel like
when we were in college everyonewas wearing like the same type
of thing.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It was like jeans and a going out top with heels, or
like in the bubble of necklaces.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh my gosh, like it was bad.
It wasn't any better, it wasn'tany better.
I'm not trying to say that.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But I do feel like people were wearing like
different colors, differentcombinations of the same things.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, we all like borrowed each other's bubble
necklaces.
We didn't all have the samebubble necklaces your tones were
making a joyous, were making ajewel tones.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It was Arabian nights out there every, every weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Oh yeah, I had purple ballet flats.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You loved a colored tight too.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I did.
But that was the thing too waslike in my era of college, like
all the girls had freaking JackRogers, which like what yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I don't know why that was the shoe.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That was the going out shoe, that was the shoe.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It was the shoe, it was the class shoe, it was the
going out shoe it was the shoeJack Rogers with like Nike
shorts.
Yes, yes, and a sorority shirt,yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So, I do think what we're talking about here.
It's like not you, you did notknow when.
I sent you that picture, youwere like it's.
I was like what is happening?
And you're like it's sororitygirls.
So it's like not all collegegirls.
It's just like I guess sororitygirls have always had like a
uniform a uniform a true uniform, but like I don't, know, I
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think, the times that I've beenout and about on the streets of
five points when it's popping, Ifeel like, as of late in my 30s
, late 20s, I'm like I thinkthey're all it's like become way
more.
Yeah, because less diverse, Imean.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I feel like in in most circles, it's like you all
get ready together.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And you're like, oh shoot, we match, I'll change.
Where is that moment?
Oh my gosh, let's all wear theexact same outfit.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Do you think it's this Okay?
This is my question too.
Do you think it's like?
Are they cognizant of the factthat they're all matching, or is
it?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
so subversive.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
They're subversive.
That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's why I wanted to ask those girls I wanted to
be, like, did you guys know thatyou're all matching?
Like, did you go shoppingtogether, like what is happening
?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Sixth grade me would be thriving.
I lived for a matchy match.
Love to match Me and my friend,we would literally like go
shopping over the weekend by allthe same things.
We would be like oh my gosh, wemet.
Wow, the length that you wentto for that moment, and then we
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had another friend that wouldalways get mad.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh, you left her out.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
She wasn't in the matching crew.
Classic middle school.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I know Classic middle school.
Classic, classic middle schoolI have intentional Were you
being mean.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
No, no, it really was like.
Oh, I'm spending the night ather house this weekend and we're
stumbling upon a Bobby, a new,fresh Bobby Jack shirt at the
JCPenney.
Was that the monkey?
Yeah, and some clad Bermudashorts.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The monkey before that was Paul Frank.
Yep, that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It was like.
I mean, it was really like likemore cartoony, Lower income she
.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Lower and.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Like we freaking loved it, Like I mean, it was
literally like six to $12 shirtsat JCPenney, so was.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Paul Frank happening that.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And you guys were just like we're Bobby, we're on
about Bobby Jack budget I don'teven know.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I had.
No, that's the thing with sixthgraders now.
I had no awareness of like, oh,this is cheap.
Oh, you know what I mean.
Like it wasn't even like, oh, Ineed the budget version of this
.
I just was buying it becauseother people were buying it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And I didn't give a shit that I was like shopping at
JCPenney.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So the trend was Bobby Jack, that it wasn't like,
the trend was Paul Frank andyou guys were like we're going
to get Bobby Jack at my schoolit was Bobby Jack.
Okay, well, we're income Queens.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Not that, like no, I think it was a time thing, I
think.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I think that was after the other monkey Anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And then I was like I really wanted to be a rock see
girl too, but I don't think Iunderstood that was.
I also didn't understand thatlike rock sees expensive, and
that's why I couldn't actuallybe a rock see girl.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So we got the old Navy Hawaiian Hawaiian flower
shirts.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, and not that, and I'm also saying low income
sheep, we were not like lowincome, but I I didn't know, I
had no concept of money at all,so I was just like yeah, this
looks kind of like the thingI'll do it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yep, totally.
I just wanted to pair a Sophieshorts, so bad and mom would not
buy them.
I think because they were like$24 cotton shorts although I
don't know how much they were,but mom was like absolutely not.
Those are way too expensive forwhat they are and it's honestly
fair by the time I was likeSophie was everywhere by the
time I I don't know, I feel likeI had a lot of Sophie shorts.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I also had some limited to Sophie shorts.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, I don't know why mom said passed on me.
I don't know if it was a budgetthing or if it was like a no,
because I know that you're goingto roll those up four times.
Oh my gosh, did we roll?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
some Sophie's.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I know with the hair band on the T-shirt.
Jim class.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Jim class is so great Camel toes.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I was like I was just not prepared, like I went like
again, this is the year I rolledup in that place with my willy
backpack and girls were rollingtheir shorts and I was like,
where am I?
What is this?
I am not ready.
I don't even have a pair ofthese shorts.
I want to give that girl a hug.
I didn't, I did not, I know.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Me too, because I had a very different sixth grade
experience.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I was thrown to the wolves.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
My sixth grade was very wholesome.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I wish mine was.
I mean mine was, but I wasalone in my wholesomeness.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh yeah, your school was a little Little wretched.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Um, okay, Well, yeah, so I don't know.
I would love.
I like we need to read.
We really need a Gen Z guest,because I want to ask about
Shrek.
I want to ask going out uniform, and I'm sure I can think of
other questions too.
Yeah, I have so many to solveworld hunger, yeah, um.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
But yeah, are Hannah and Ben considered Gen Z I don't
know, they might borderline.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
They might.
They might be like the eldermillennials of Gen Z.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Oh my gosh, they're going to be the elder gen Z.
I would love to do that itwould be really funny.
Oh man, I know cause I'm like,do they?
These are friends that?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Caroline was in grad school with, but they were no,
no.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I was in undergrad, but I went back after like a
million years.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So they were like a baby and was a fully grown adult
and they were just normalcollege student ages.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yes, and they took me under their wing and wrapped me
up and keep us young.
Um, okay, so the next thing youwant to talk about.
I go ahead because I have noidea what you have to say, but
you've got big feelings becauseyou've already texted me about
how much you want to hate on it.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Big feelings and I think I've they've always been
there.
But today I was like wait aminute, what is going on at
Lowe's?
Because, okay, okay, I had togo to Lowe's.
The anxiety sets in.
You're like I'm not, I don'tknow what I need, I'm not going
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to be able to find what I like.
I just I'm like I go in knowingI'm going to have to come back.
That's just the default.
You go in.
I go in and like like not goingto be able to find what I need,
like not confident.
So I was building some shelvesin a closet Like I wanted to do,
like built in shelves, where Iwas going to do like a wooden
bracket around the walls andthen I was going to place a 12
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by one on top, just like basicshelves.
So I go in and I think thepoint where I lost it why also
brought my topler.
We walk in, she's immediately.
Like I have to go to thebathroom.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
The bathroom is a my Never also never fails with that
one.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh, what kit.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh, I know, I know he always has to go to the
bathroom.
The second you get some, soimmediately walk in the door.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
We're going to the bathroom.
We have to walk all the way tothe back.
Then we have to get lumber.
The lumber is also all the wayin the back.
We don't.
We're not getting enough lumberto get the giant cart that like
has a mind of its own, whereall the wheels are spinning at
different.
I hate that thing.
I do too.
We don't have enough lumber forthat, but we have too much for
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a normal size shopping cart.
So we're in that.
I'm pushing the cart.
I know are you stressed, theimagining this.
It's the worst.
What?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
is not enough for the big car.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, I had two, two by ones, that were six feet long
.
I had every.
Nothing was longer than sixfeet and I just feel like that
car is like, it just doesn't,it's too big.
I had total four pieces oflumber.
Okay, I had two, two by ones,one 12 by one by four and one 12
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by one by six.
Okay, I'm just, I'm gettinglike flustered, I'm like, oh my
God, this it was too soon, itjust happened today.
So then, just keep in mind,during this whole scenario, I
have a four year old who wasjust doing laps around the cart
and my vision is compromisedbecause the the freaking boards
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are sticking up over my head andI have to.
Just I'm pushing the cart, Ihave to keep looking from side
to side around the boards to seewhere I'm going Uh huh.
Then.
So you're walking from the veryback of the store with all the
lumber.
There's a four year oldcircling the cart.
I'm have to get other stuff.
In every single aisle there'sone of those freaking electric.
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Oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That take up seven eighths of the aisle.
So I'm having to like standthere and wait for this clunky
machine to do its thing so I canwalk around it, and then I have
to go in.
I have to go find a drill bit Idon't know what size drill bit.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I don't, I don't want to have to do that that aisle.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh, I know I already have the lumber.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I, I, so I leave my cart in the main aisle.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I didn't think I was going that far to get the drill,
but anyway I won't go throughall the nitty gritty details.
So basically, once you have thelumber, you can't go in the
drill bit aisles because they'retoo small and the perpendicular
to the regular aisle.
So you're having to turn thecar every which way, and so I'm
going to go in the drill bit,I'm going to go in the car every
which way, and so then I haveto get wood glue and then I get
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a plant and blah, blah, blah.
So I'm like also, I get to thecheckout and there's a man in
front of me who's like I want toget this plan, it's a dollar.
And the guy's like the guy atthe checkout is like okay, it
doesn't say that in his tag andI don't even know how to start
to like look that up in thesystem.
Do you have a minute so I cango?
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Like price check?
I don't.
And he was like you don't mindwaiting or you don't have a
minute, and he's like I don'thave a minute.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Okay, then you can't get this plant for a dollar.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
He was just like no, and so the guy at the checkout
was like, oh okay, so do youlike it was just?
The guy ended up leaving it.
But I just was like man respect, he was just like I'm just
going to have to leave it here.
I'm not going to walk it back,but I'm also not going to buy it
oh my gosh.
And the last thing I'll sayabout woes, it's also not only
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is it just like so you, I don'tknow where anything is.
I don't know where anything is.
Why is the wood glue not withthe wood?
Is what I want to know?
The paint?
Why is it with the paint?
I don't know.
So then you're trying to make itto the checkout and there's so
much shit in the main aisle,like yeah, the main place where
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people are walking, and thenthey have all of these stacks of
merchandise, just like in the,the potentially largest walkway.
So there's like just no room.
I just don't understand.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Well, and the thing that stinks is like I feel like
with like hellos or Home Depot,any home improvement store, you
want, as a woman, you want to goin there with confidence,
because you don't want to getasked do you need any help,
ma'am?
And so you like go in therelike.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You're like, I can do this.
I'm a feminist bitch yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And then you get in there and you're like, should I
do me now?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
No, I asked the same girl two times where the wood
glue was and she looked at melike are you able to care for
this child?
She looked at me like are yougood?
So yeah, I know, and then I'mlike it didn't happen today, but
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it's happened countless timeswhere people who do not work
there men who do not work thereask me if I need help.
I know, sorry, if this was anyother store, would you feel like
you had the authority?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, if we were in a freaking target, would you ask
me that If I needed help?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
No, you wouldn't, so can you please Like?
Yes, I do need help, but youdon't work here.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I don't want it from you.
I will ask someone in the red,I mean in the orange apron.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
If I was a dude, which they don't know.
That's the thing.
The men who don't work thereactually do know more than the
people who do work there.
So it's just a whole conundrumand I just am like if I was a
dude looking lost, you wouldn'task, like it's just the whole
experience.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That's what I mean.
That's what I mean.
You want to go in there like Idon't need anyone's freaking
help.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
But you do.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You do Because it's low and Home.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Depot, single-handedly holding up the
patriarchy.
Like is it like.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Just putting us in these compromising situations
where we need to be organized.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
A man who has no right to authority to guide us.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
They keep it unorganized on purpose so that
we have to ask for help.
They're like we're neverputting the wood glue with the
wood.
We're going to put it with thepaint.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Women love the paint aisle, oh my gosh.
Anyway, so that was myafternoon, but I will finish it
out by calmly telling you thisvery sweet ending to my
afternoon.
I got home I already knew I wasgoing to have to borrow my
neighbor, miter Saw he brings itover immediately.
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And then he's like do you needhelp with the project?
And I was like honestly, ed,yes, like, if you want, he's
retired, he used to work.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Which one is?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Ed he, the one that moved in right after like a year
after us.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh, in the.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
With the teal door.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
But they.
He used to be a Mason and whenhe moved in he said listen.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I got a lot of tools, so it wasn't like a person
she'd like that's so sweet, youdon't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It was like I had.
I have previously asked himlike I'm going to need some help
with some things he like knew.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So I was like, honestly, that would be a huge
blessing, and he helped me buildthe entire shelving system.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Like we worked together.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
He was, so it was lovely.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
That's how neighbors like I love.
I love a good neighbor.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I know they're in.
Like his wife came over, wewere chatting it up in the
garage.
Like it was just the mostwholesome, delightful end to my
afternoon.
And I was like Ed, if it wasn'tfor you, I'd be going back to
Lowe's four more times and Ithis project would never get
finished.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
So no, thank you so much.
That's my thing is like webought this ancient house that
needs so many projects and everyproject we do.
I just realized I'm not aproject gal.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I know it is not for me, but you know what I realized
today, I think, if I had thetools at my disposal, I could be
it's really only.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And I could like, really like it's the going to
Lowe's, it's truly the going toLowe's, and like trying to
figure out what.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I need and knowing you'll have to be back.
I mean, that's the, that's likethe biggest thing that prevents
me from doing projects, becauseI am the money.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's like you had to spend so much money every time
you go to Lowe's.
I know if I had all this stuff,I know which.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I know you got to spend money to get all this
stuff, but I always think aboutasking for it for my birthday,
like for event.
You know, I don't know I'm like, but I'm like, I know I don't
want a power tool for mybirthday, but I need them.
I need to start collecting them, but I don't yeah, maybe like
one power tool of a Christmas.
A Christmas, I know, but Idon't know.
Anyway, we literally have likea drill and a Sawzall and that's
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it.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
See, Jay has some tools, but he does, doesn't he?
Yeah, but like I don't think hehas like a ton of indoor type
tools, he has a lot of likeoutdoor type tools I want one of
those little tiny nail guns.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I have one.
Oh, you do a Bradgun.
Yeah, I just bought one.
Do you need it?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
If I ever ever start a project yes, I will need it.
I want to finish my footboard.
What do you call that?
The quarter round the baseboardtrims, whatever it's called.
Upstairs in my guest room.
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This is so, this is so boring.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I know we say that every week.
Thanks for coming back, youguys.
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone still listening?
We need Walker to pull ournumbers.
We're still showing up.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Can you, imagine?
If like?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Mom, Mom's the only one left.
Mom, we love you.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
No, I know that some people are listening, because
they text me about it every week, but we love you guys.
Oh my gosh, she keeps calling.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Well, yeah, anyway.
I will say I'm sorry, I just Iy'all.
I just wasted your 20 minutesjust venting about my lows, but
I hope it.
I hope it resonated.
You're not alone.
You're not alone.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So I had a girl we like we're from middle school
slash high school.
We were talking on InstagramBecause she like said she was
saying that she was like LOL,the girl that just voted this on
my static or on my poll on myInstagram story, who was like
such a bitch to me in highschool and I was like girl, I'm
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sorry but I have to know who itis.
And like we were just dyingabout it.
And she was like I didn't knowthat you had a podcast, blah,
blah, blah.
And then she texted me or shemessaged me a couple days later
and was like I am dying,laughing at the.
I had a boyfriend for a minuteone, because at one point our
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boyfriends were roommates.
We need to do another.
We need to do another.
I had a boyfriend for a minutebecause give us some context.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Which boyfriend for a minute was this?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
The one that got arrested for stealing out of the
cash drawer at the seafoodrestaurant.
Okay, because her boyfriendworked at the same seafood
restaurant and they livedtogether.
The house smelled like shrimp,like all the freaking time they
would both get off work andliterally reek and for some
reason we dated them for anextended period of time, but we
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were just rolling.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Do it.
What's the stinkiest job?
Like I've had like a few jobsthat you like.
Come home smelling of what'syour like stinkiest job?
Did you ever have one?
Mmm, I guess you didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The tanning bed.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh my gosh, that could be a whole episode,
caroline, when I worked in a tanbed.
Yes, that was the weirdestphase of your life.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I know a friend got me a job and I was like I'm not
passing this up, but then Iliterally quit because they
wouldn't get off my butt aboutbeing pale.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, they told you that tanning beds weren't bad
for you.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, they taught me that, like tanning beds aren't
bad for you, that they actuallyfilter out the bad rays and they
also like a 15 year old tellingyou.
There's like a 15 year oldmanager telling you this no, and
then they know it's literallyin their training guide.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Like, I'm like this is illegal.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Right, you guys are straight up lying, yeah.
But I always think about onetime, whenever I was working
there, this girl came out of theroom and was like you guys
really need to change yourplaylist.
And I was like why?
And she was like because I waslaying in the tanning bed and
the elite golden gonna let itburn song was playing and I was
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just laying there like thinkingabout how I was going to like
die in this tanning bed from ohmy gosh, that is so funny.
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
That's really funny.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I had some interesting jobs.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
My stinkiest was Well the coffee shop.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I was going to say coffee shops always stay.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
But the coffee shop and the cupcake place were both.
I would come back smelling andyou'd think cupcakes was like a
good thing to smell like, but itwas like so like I would make
the icing so just be like somuch powdered sugar going in a
giant mixer and I think it wasjust like like the sugar on my
skin mixed with like just eighthours of work.
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It was gross.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Did you like working at the cupcake place?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, I loved it.
It was so fun.
I mean I we had a great groupthat worked there and I was
known for always eat all thelike, extra stuff like we would
peel the apples for the applecupcakes and I'd eat the peels.
I was like a freaking garbage.
I always have like all thetoppings like in my pockets,
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like stored in my pocket, solike someone would get an apron
after me and be like GodMeredith had this before me.
There was like melted chocolatecovered almonds in the box.
Mara I ate so many chocolatecovered almonds.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Okay whenever I worked at the ice cream place
where the lady choked on the hotdog.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Oh, what did you say?
Like after that job, you smelllike hot dogs Probably.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Probably, but I worked with, nevermind, I was
just I think I already told thisabout the girl that I worked
with.
That was like very stinky andour boss had to tell her like
you're stinky, okay.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
So I think that's the only smell that I remember from
that job.
Oh, that's sad.
I know she was my friend,though she was very nice, so I
think that's the only smell thatI remember from that job.
I was like oh, speaking of her,and like everyone else that I
worked with whenever thewhenever the owner wasn't there,
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we would make Sundays in aspoon.
So, you'd like get a spoonful ofa plastic spoon Gosh, so much
waste, cause we'd get a plasticspoonful of ice cream and then
put like a bunch of toppings onit and then take the bite really
fast and then throw the spoonaway.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So, like you don't?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That just reminded me of my actual stinkiest job,
Mo's.
Oh my gosh, I reaped after thatjob.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I forgot.
You worked at Mo's.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I used to grip but I reminded me because we used to
wrap the cookies.
This is before the cookies wereindividually wrapped.
This is probably why theystarted individually wrapping
them.
They were like frozen cookies.
You'd let like thaw, but wewould.
We would wrap them in tinfoiland put them on the quesadilla
like griddle, and they get alllike warm and toasty.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That's how I love the chick-fil-a cookies how they
like.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
put them on the little warmer light.
Yes, yeah that.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I smelled like straight up garbage when I got
home from that job and this.
They still use the samecleaning product because, like
whenever I we don't get a Mo'sout often, but whenever I do,
it's like the smell of the likecleaning product in the
bathrooms makes me like think ofcleaning the bathrooms at Mo's.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Okay, I was going to say, have we talked about our?
I don't know why I just thoughtabout this.
Maybe we can end on this, ourchick-fil-a order that we forgot
about and recently remembered.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
The milkshake?
Yeah, no, go get it to themOkay.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
If you guys have not tried this yet, you've got to
get the frosted coffee.
Add cookie crumbles.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
It is so good.
We married a ton of well, yeah,we.
You can tell us about the?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
frosted coffee.
Yeah, we had a friend that usedto get a frosted coffee every
single day on her way to workbecause she didn't realize it
was like ice cream.
So she, she thought it was justlike.
I mean, I guess it's nodifferent than having like a
frappuccino every day.
But you thought she was justhaving like a blended ice coffee
.
And then she saw the make itone time it was like oh my gosh,
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I've been eating ice cream forbreakfast for like three months.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Oh, but the cookie crumbles oh, another hack that I
love.
We're chick-fil-a.
How did we get here?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Maybe because.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I was subconsciously thinking about how I also had a
job at chick-fil-a.
I had to work for one month,yeah, and I had to wear the red
polo and I just the whole time Iworked there I was like I just
want to be on the other side ofthe counter again.
I would literally think thatevery Saturday morning that I
had to work and people would beordering chicken minis and iced
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coffees.
I would just think I want to bethe one ordering a chicken mini
and iced coffee hung over in mypajamas.
That's what I want to be doing.
I don't want to be wearingthese stupid ass pants and my
red polo Black knuckles Did shejust, oh man, but okay.
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the other thing that I lovegetting there is I do the
grilled nugget meal with a sidesalad, and then you toss the
grilled nuggets in buffalo sauceand then you put them on the
salad and then you drizzle ranchover it.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I always forget this hack because it's a little
complicated, but I it's.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
very good, it's so good Because the grilled nuggets
alone not good.
Oh, I don't know.
On top of the salad delicious.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Oh yeah, I see what you're saying.
Well, guys, that's all we gotfor you.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Okay, next week we're going to talk about bad dates
or boyfriend for a minutesomething, Because we have so
many stories that we need to gothrough.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Let's do it All right next week.
We're delivering, we'redelivering.
Please come back.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
We promise we won't talk about hardware stores ever
again.
Bring a friend.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Hardware stores, I know, oh my gosh, I'm sorry you
guys.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Okay, it's okay, it was traumatizing.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
It was gosh.
I'm going to have nightmarestonight.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
But, your shelf is done.
Your bathroom runnows almostfinished.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
That's great.
It's doing great.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Things are good, I hope you guys have a great week.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Love ya, love ya.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Love ya and we will see you next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Okay, bye.
Hello, welcome to Tuesday.
You need to get it together.
We need to practice beforehand.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What happened to?
Our like intro where we'd sayI'm Meredith, I'm Caroline and
welcome to sister shit.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We probably need to there.
It was there.
It was Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Happy Tuesday, I think we're going to be able to
get it together.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I think we're going to be able to get it together.
I think we're going to be ableto get it together.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I think we're going to be able to get it together.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Happy Tuesday.
I feel like it's been a longtime since last Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, it feels like a freaking For me.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Quarantine.
They were sick.
So it really has been a centuryfor you guys.
Yeah, tomorrow's like my firstday out of my flu quarantine and
I am counting down.
Almost there, almost there.
But the weather is in my home.
It's the best.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'm just tired.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm on the right side , I'm always.
Well, we did go to Target toget some essentials and I
literally felt like I was likestepping back.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It felt like COVID days again, where I like, oh,
it's been rough.
Well, I'm glad you guys arefeeling better.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, I feel like everyone is sick right now.
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I hope you're all right.
I know the weather's been niceafter it wasn't for a long.
It was like really rainy, andtoday was nice.
Yeah, yeah yeah, but anyway,okay, tonight, today we have two
really random topics, butthey're both things that have
happened in the past week when Iwas out in the world, because
Caroline wasn't out in the world.
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But first we wanted to talkabout this with you guys because
I went out to dinner with myfriend.
We were leaving the restaurantat the time.
That like five points, which islike all the college bars.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Let's preface that we live in a college town.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We live in a college town Five points is where all
the college bars are, but thereare a few restaurants that like
non-college, like full grownadults go to at normal hours,
and so I went to.
We went to the restaurant wewere leaving at.
I guess it was probably like9.30, 10 when we were leaving,
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maybe even earlier, so it wasstarting to.
Five points was starting tolike wake up a little bit.
People were out and about andlet me tell you, I took a
picture we will post onInstagram.
I took a picture when I wasstanding waiting for to cross
the road at the three girls infront of me and every single one
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of them was wearing and I'm notexaggerating, every single one
of them was wearing what lookedlike identical jeans, wide leg.
High waisted wide leg Highwaisted yeah, light wash white
sneakers, and on the top theyeach had a spandex, lace
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boostier lingerie top on, andall their hair was on the same
too.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Also, let's remind everyone, it's January.
It was warm, it was like 60.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
That day it was warm.
Oh, okay, okay, I was wearinglike a summer dress with like a
sweater around my shoulders,like it was like not, I was like
in a short sleeve as well, soit wasn't they weren't like
freezing.
But and I sent the picture toCaroline and I was very tempted
to ask them like hey, do youguys have an event that you all
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had to match for?
Or like I just wanted to trollthem so bad, because I know that
every generation of collegestudents has had their like
going out uniform, but like hasit gotten more uniform?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, and the thing that stinks is like I just feel
like jeans and a black top is soclassic and they're wearing it
every single Friday and Saturdaynight, to where now it's not
gonna be fricking classicanymore, or does it?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
always and always classic, and there's a lot of
variation within jeans and ablack top.
Yes, but so the fact that thereis so much variation in jeans
and a black top and they wereall wearing the exact same thing
.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
But they all still are wearing the exact same thing
.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That's what I wanna talk about, because I feel like
when we were in college everyonewas wearing like the same type
of thing.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It was like jeans and a going out top with heels, or
like in the bubble of necklaces.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh my gosh, like it was bad.
It wasn't any better, it wasn'tany better.
I'm not trying to say that.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But I do feel like people were wearing like
different colors, differentcombinations of the same things.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, we all like borrowed each other's bubble
necklaces.
We didn't all have the samebubble necklaces your tones were
making a joyous, were making ajewel tones.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It was Arabian nights out there every, every weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Oh yeah, I had purple ballet flats.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
You loved a colored tight too.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I did.
But that was the thing too waslike in my era of college, like
all the girls had freaking JackRogers, which like what yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I don't know why that was the shoe.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That was the going out shoe, that was the shoe.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
It was the shoe, it was the class shoe, it was the
going out shoe it was the shoeJack Rogers with like Nike
shorts.
Yes, yes, and a sorority shirt,yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So, I do think what we're talking about here.
It's like not you, you did notknow when.
I sent you that picture, youwere like it's.
I was like what is happening?
And you're like it's sororitygirls.
So it's like not all collegegirls.
It's just like I guess sororitygirls have always had like a
uniform a uniform a true uniform, but like I don't, know, I
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think, the times that I've beenout and about on the streets of
five points when it's popping, Ifeel like, as of late in my 30s
, late 20s, I'm like I thinkthey're all it's like become way
more.
Yeah, because less diverse, Imean.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I feel like in in most circles, it's like you all
get ready together.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And you're like, oh shoot, we match, I'll change.
Where is that moment?
Oh my gosh, let's all wear theexact same outfit.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Do you think it's this Okay?
This is my question too.
Do you think it's like?
Are they cognizant of the factthat they're all matching, or is
it?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
so subversive.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
They're subversive.
That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's why I wanted to ask those girls I wanted to
be, like, did you guys know thatyou're all matching?
Like, did you go shoppingtogether, like what is happening
?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Sixth grade me would be thriving.
I lived for a matchy match.
Love to match Me and my friend,we would literally like go
shopping over the weekend by allthe same things.
We would be like oh my gosh, wemet.
Wow, the length that you wentto for that moment, and then we
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had another friend that wouldalways get mad.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh, you left her out.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
She wasn't in the matching crew.
Classic middle school.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I know Classic middle school.
Classic, classic middle schoolI have intentional Were you
being mean.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
No, no, it really was like.
Oh, I'm spending the night ather house this weekend and we're
stumbling upon a Bobby, a new,fresh Bobby Jack shirt at the
JCPenney.
Was that the monkey?
Yeah, and some clad Bermudashorts.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
The monkey before that was Paul Frank.
Yep, that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
It was like.
I mean, it was really like likemore cartoony, Lower income she
.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Lower and.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Like we freaking loved it, Like I mean, it was
literally like six to $12 shirtsat JCPenney, so was.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Paul Frank happening that.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
And you guys were just like we're Bobby, we're on
about Bobby Jack budget I don'teven know.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I had.
No, that's the thing with sixthgraders now.
I had no awareness of like, oh,this is cheap.
Oh, you know what I mean.
Like it wasn't even like, oh, Ineed the budget version of this
.
I just was buying it becauseother people were buying it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And I didn't give a shit that I was like shopping at
JCPenney.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So the trend was Bobby Jack, that it wasn't like,
the trend was Paul Frank andyou guys were like we're going
to get Bobby Jack at my schoolit was Bobby Jack.
Okay, well, we're income Queens.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Not that, like no, I think it was a time thing, I
think.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I think that was after the other monkey Anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And then I was like I really wanted to be a rock see
girl too, but I don't think Iunderstood that was.
I also didn't understand thatlike rock sees expensive, and
that's why I couldn't actuallybe a rock see girl.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So we got the old Navy Hawaiian Hawaiian flower
shirts.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, and not that, and I'm also saying low income
sheep, we were not like lowincome, but I I didn't know, I
had no concept of money at all,so I was just like yeah, this
looks kind of like the thingI'll do it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yep, totally.
I just wanted to pair a Sophieshorts, so bad and mom would not
buy them.
I think because they were like$24 cotton shorts although I
don't know how much they were,but mom was like absolutely not.
Those are way too expensive forwhat they are and it's honestly
fair by the time I was likeSophie was everywhere by the
time I I don't know, I feel likeI had a lot of Sophie shorts.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I also had some limited to Sophie shorts.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, I don't know why mom said passed on me.
I don't know if it was a budgetthing or if it was like a no,
because I know that you're goingto roll those up four times.
Oh my gosh, did we roll?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
some Sophie's.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I know with the hair band on the T-shirt.
Jim class.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Jim class is so great Camel toes.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I was like I was just not prepared, like I went like
again, this is the year I rolledup in that place with my willy
backpack and girls were rollingtheir shorts and I was like,
where am I?
What is this?
I am not ready.
I don't even have a pair ofthese shorts.
I want to give that girl a hug.
I didn't, I did not, I know.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Me too, because I had a very different sixth grade
experience.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I was thrown to the wolves.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
My sixth grade was very wholesome.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I wish mine was.
I mean mine was, but I wasalone in my wholesomeness.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh yeah, your school was a little Little wretched.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Um, okay, Well, yeah, so I don't know.
I would love.
I like we need to read.
We really need a Gen Z guest,because I want to ask about
Shrek.
I want to ask going out uniform, and I'm sure I can think of
other questions too.
Yeah, I have so many to solveworld hunger, yeah, um.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
But yeah, are Hannah and Ben considered Gen Z I don't
know, they might borderline.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
They might.
They might be like the eldermillennials of Gen Z.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Oh my gosh, they're going to be the elder gen Z.
I would love to do that itwould be really funny.
Oh man, I know cause I'm like,do they?
These are friends that?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Caroline was in grad school with, but they were no,
no.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I was in undergrad, but I went back after like a
million years.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
So they were like a baby and was a fully grown adult
and they were just normalcollege student ages.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yes, and they took me under their wing and wrapped me
up and keep us young.
Um, okay, so the next thing youwant to talk about.
I go ahead because I have noidea what you have to say, but
you've got big feelings becauseyou've already texted me about
how much you want to hate on it.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Big feelings and I think I've they've always been
there.
But today I was like wait aminute, what is going on at
Lowe's?
Because, okay, okay, I had togo to Lowe's.
The anxiety sets in.
You're like I'm not, I don'tknow what I need, I'm not going
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to be able to find what I like.
I just I'm like I go in knowingI'm going to have to come back.
That's just the default.
You go in.
I go in and like like not goingto be able to find what I need,
like not confident.
So I was building some shelvesin a closet Like I wanted to do,
like built in shelves, where Iwas going to do like a wooden
bracket around the walls andthen I was going to place a 12
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by one on top, just like basicshelves.
So I go in and I think thepoint where I lost it why also
brought my topler.
We walk in, she's immediately.
Like I have to go to thebathroom.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
The bathroom is a my Never also never fails with that
one.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh, what kit.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oh, I know, I know he always has to go to the
bathroom.
The second you get some, soimmediately walk in the door.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
We're going to the bathroom.
We have to walk all the way tothe back.
Then we have to get lumber.
The lumber is also all the wayin the back.
We don't.
We're not getting enough lumberto get the giant cart that like
has a mind of its own, whereall the wheels are spinning at
different.
I hate that thing.
I do too.
We don't have enough lumber forthat, but we have too much for
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a normal size shopping cart.
So we're in that.
I'm pushing the cart.
I know are you stressed, theimagining this.
It's the worst.
What?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
is not enough for the big car.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, I had two, two by ones, that were six feet long
.
I had every.
Nothing was longer than sixfeet and I just feel like that
car is like, it just doesn't,it's too big.
I had total four pieces oflumber.
Okay, I had two, two by ones,one 12 by one by four and one 12
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by one by six.
Okay, I'm just, I'm gettinglike flustered, I'm like, oh my
God, this it was too soon, itjust happened today.
So then, just keep in mind,during this whole scenario, I
have a four year old who wasjust doing laps around the cart
and my vision is compromisedbecause the the freaking boards
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are sticking up over my head andI have to.
Just I'm pushing the cart, Ihave to keep looking from side
to side around the boards to seewhere I'm going Uh huh.
Then.
So you're walking from the veryback of the store with all the
lumber.
There's a four year oldcircling the cart.
I'm have to get other stuff.
In every single aisle there'sone of those freaking electric.
(15:57):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That take up seven eighths of the aisle.
So I'm having to like standthere and wait for this clunky
machine to do its thing so I canwalk around it, and then I have
to go in.
I have to go find a drill bit Idon't know what size drill bit.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I don't, I don't want to have to do that that aisle.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh, I know I already have the lumber.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I, I, so I leave my cart in the main aisle.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I didn't think I was going that far to get the drill,
but anyway I won't go throughall the nitty gritty details.
So basically, once you have thelumber, you can't go in the
drill bit aisles because they'retoo small and the perpendicular
to the regular aisle.
So you're having to turn thecar every which way, and so I'm
going to go in the drill bit,I'm going to go in the car every
which way, and so then I haveto get wood glue and then I get
(16:50):
a plant and blah, blah, blah.
So I'm like also, I get to thecheckout and there's a man in
front of me who's like I want toget this plan, it's a dollar.
And the guy's like the guy atthe checkout is like okay, it
doesn't say that in his tag andI don't even know how to start
to like look that up in thesystem.
Do you have a minute so I cango?
(17:11):
Like price check?
I don't.
And he was like you don't mindwaiting or you don't have a
minute, and he's like I don'thave a minute.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Okay, then you can't get this plant for a dollar.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
He was just like no, and so the guy at the checkout
was like, oh okay, so do youlike it was just?
The guy ended up leaving it.
But I just was like man respect, he was just like I'm just
going to have to leave it here.
I'm not going to walk it back,but I'm also not going to buy it
oh my gosh.
And the last thing I'll sayabout woes, it's also not only
(17:45):
is it just like so you, I don'tknow where anything is.
I don't know where anything is.
Why is the wood glue not withthe wood?
Is what I want to know?
The paint?
Why is it with the paint?
I don't know.
So then you're trying to make itto the checkout and there's so
much shit in the main aisle,like yeah, the main place where
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people are walking, and thenthey have all of these stacks of
merchandise, just like in the,the potentially largest walkway.
So there's like just no room.
I just don't understand.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Well, and the thing that stinks is like I feel like
with like hellos or Home Depot,any home improvement store, you
want, as a woman, you want to goin there with confidence,
because you don't want to getasked do you need any help,
ma'am?
And so you like go in therelike.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You're like, I can do this.
I'm a feminist bitch yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And then you get in there and you're like, should I
do me now?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
No, I asked the same girl two times where the wood
glue was and she looked at melike are you able to care for
this child?
She looked at me like are yougood?
So yeah, I know, and then I'mlike it didn't happen today, but
(19:13):
it's happened countless timeswhere people who do not work
there men who do not work thereask me if I need help.
I know, sorry, if this was anyother store, would you feel like
you had the authority?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, if we were in a freaking target, would you ask
me that If I needed help?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
No, you wouldn't, so can you please Like?
Yes, I do need help, but youdon't work here.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I don't want it from you.
I will ask someone in the red,I mean in the orange apron.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
If I was a dude, which they don't know.
That's the thing.
The men who don't work thereactually do know more than the
people who do work there.
So it's just a whole conundrumand I just am like if I was a
dude looking lost, you wouldn'task, like it's just the whole
experience.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
That's what I mean.
That's what I mean.
You want to go in there like Idon't need anyone's freaking
help.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
But you do.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You do Because it's low and Home.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Depot, single-handedly holding up the
patriarchy.
Like is it like.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Just putting us in these compromising situations
where we need to be organized.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
A man who has no right to authority to guide us.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
They keep it unorganized on purpose so that
we have to ask for help.
They're like we're neverputting the wood glue with the
wood.
We're going to put it with thepaint.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Women love the paint aisle, oh my gosh.
Anyway, so that was myafternoon, but I will finish it
out by calmly telling you thisvery sweet ending to my
afternoon.
I got home I already knew I wasgoing to have to borrow my
neighbor, miter Saw he brings itover immediately.
(20:54):
And then he's like do you needhelp with the project?
And I was like honestly, ed,yes, like, if you want, he's
retired, he used to work.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Which one is?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Ed he, the one that moved in right after like a year
after us.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Oh, in the.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
With the teal door.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
But they.
He used to be a Mason and whenhe moved in he said listen.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I got a lot of tools, so it wasn't like a person
she'd like that's so sweet, youdon't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It was like I had.
I have previously asked himlike I'm going to need some help
with some things he like knew.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So I was like, honestly, that would be a huge
blessing, and he helped me buildthe entire shelving system.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Like we worked together.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
He was, so it was lovely.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
That's how neighbors like I love.
I love a good neighbor.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I know they're in.
Like his wife came over, wewere chatting it up in the
garage.
Like it was just the mostwholesome, delightful end to my
afternoon.
And I was like Ed, if it wasn'tfor you, I'd be going back to
Lowe's four more times and Ithis project would never get
finished.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
So no, thank you so much.
That's my thing is like webought this ancient house that
needs so many projects and everyproject we do.
I just realized I'm not aproject gal.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I know it is not for me, but you know what I realized
today, I think, if I had thetools at my disposal, I could be
it's really only.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And I could like, really like it's the going to
Lowe's, it's truly the going toLowe's, and like trying to
figure out what.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I need and knowing you'll have to be back.
I mean, that's the, that's likethe biggest thing that prevents
me from doing projects, becauseI am the money.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's like you had to spend so much money every time
you go to Lowe's.
I know if I had all this stuff,I know which.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I know you got to spend money to get all this
stuff, but I always think aboutasking for it for my birthday,
like for event.
You know, I don't know I'm like, but I'm like, I know I don't
want a power tool for mybirthday, but I need them.
I need to start collecting them, but I don't yeah, maybe like
one power tool of a Christmas.
A Christmas, I know, but Idon't know.
Anyway, we literally have likea drill and a Sawzall and that's
(23:17):
it.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
See, Jay has some tools, but he does, doesn't he?
Yeah, but like I don't think hehas like a ton of indoor type
tools, he has a lot of likeoutdoor type tools I want one of
those little tiny nail guns.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I have one.
Oh, you do a Bradgun.
Yeah, I just bought one.
Do you need it?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
If I ever ever start a project yes, I will need it.
I want to finish my footboard.
What do you call that?
The quarter round the baseboardtrims, whatever it's called.
Upstairs in my guest room.
(24:07):
This is so, this is so boring.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I know we say that every week.
Thanks for coming back, youguys.
Is anyone out there?
Is anyone still listening?
We need Walker to pull ournumbers.
We're still showing up.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Can you, imagine?
If like?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Mom, Mom's the only one left.
Mom, we love you.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
No, I know that some people are listening, because
they text me about it every week, but we love you guys.
Oh my gosh, she keeps calling.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Well, yeah, anyway.
I will say I'm sorry, I just Iy'all.
I just wasted your 20 minutesjust venting about my lows, but
I hope it.
I hope it resonated.
You're not alone.
You're not alone.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
So I had a girl we like we're from middle school
slash high school.
We were talking on InstagramBecause she like said she was
saying that she was like LOL,the girl that just voted this on
my static or on my poll on myInstagram story, who was like
such a bitch to me in highschool and I was like girl, I'm
(25:22):
sorry but I have to know who itis.
And like we were just dyingabout it.
And she was like I didn't knowthat you had a podcast, blah,
blah, blah.
And then she texted me or shemessaged me a couple days later
and was like I am dying,laughing at the.
I had a boyfriend for a minuteone, because at one point our
(25:43):
boyfriends were roommates.
We need to do another.
We need to do another.
I had a boyfriend for a minutebecause give us some context.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Which boyfriend for a minute was this?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
The one that got arrested for stealing out of the
cash drawer at the seafoodrestaurant.
Okay, because her boyfriendworked at the same seafood
restaurant and they livedtogether.
The house smelled like shrimp,like all the freaking time they
would both get off work andliterally reek and for some
reason we dated them for anextended period of time, but we
(26:19):
were just rolling.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Do it.
What's the stinkiest job?
Like I've had like a few jobsthat you like.
Come home smelling of what'syour like stinkiest job?
Did you ever have one?
Mmm, I guess you didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The tanning bed.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh my gosh, that could be a whole episode,
caroline, when I worked in a tanbed.
Yes, that was the weirdestphase of your life.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I know a friend got me a job and I was like I'm not
passing this up, but then Iliterally quit because they
wouldn't get off my butt aboutbeing pale.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, they told you that tanning beds weren't bad
for you.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, they taught me that, like tanning beds aren't
bad for you, that they actuallyfilter out the bad rays and they
also like a 15 year old tellingyou.
There's like a 15 year oldmanager telling you this no, and
then they know it's literallyin their training guide.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Like, I'm like this is illegal.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Right, you guys are straight up lying, yeah.
But I always think about onetime, whenever I was working
there, this girl came out of theroom and was like you guys
really need to change yourplaylist.
And I was like why?
And she was like because I waslaying in the tanning bed and
the elite golden gonna let itburn song was playing and I was
(27:45):
just laying there like thinkingabout how I was going to like
die in this tanning bed from ohmy gosh, that is so funny.
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
That's really funny.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I had some interesting jobs.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
My stinkiest was Well the coffee shop.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I was going to say coffee shops always stay.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
But the coffee shop and the cupcake place were both.
I would come back smelling andyou'd think cupcakes was like a
good thing to smell like, but itwas like so like I would make
the icing so just be like somuch powdered sugar going in a
giant mixer and I think it wasjust like like the sugar on my
skin mixed with like just eighthours of work.
(28:31):
It was gross.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Did you like working at the cupcake place?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, I loved it.
It was so fun.
I mean I we had a great groupthat worked there and I was
known for always eat all thelike, extra stuff like we would
peel the apples for the applecupcakes and I'd eat the peels.
I was like a freaking garbage.
I always have like all thetoppings like in my pockets,
(28:59):
like stored in my pocket, solike someone would get an apron
after me and be like GodMeredith had this before me.
There was like melted chocolatecovered almonds in the box.
Mara I ate so many chocolatecovered almonds.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Okay whenever I worked at the ice cream place
where the lady choked on the hotdog.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Oh, what did you say?
Like after that job, you smelllike hot dogs Probably.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Probably, but I worked with, nevermind, I was
just I think I already told thisabout the girl that I worked
with.
That was like very stinky andour boss had to tell her like
you're stinky, okay.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
So I think that's the only smell that I remember from
that job.
Oh, that's sad.
I know she was my friend,though she was very nice, so I
think that's the only smell thatI remember from that job.
I was like oh, speaking of her,and like everyone else that I
worked with whenever thewhenever the owner wasn't there,
(29:53):
we would make Sundays in aspoon.
So, you'd like get a spoonful ofa plastic spoon Gosh, so much
waste, cause we'd get a plasticspoonful of ice cream and then
put like a bunch of toppings onit and then take the bite really
fast and then throw the spoonaway.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
So, like you don't?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That just reminded me of my actual stinkiest job,
Mo's.
Oh my gosh, I reaped after thatjob.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
I forgot.
You worked at Mo's.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I used to grip but I reminded me because we used to
wrap the cookies.
This is before the cookies wereindividually wrapped.
This is probably why theystarted individually wrapping
them.
They were like frozen cookies.
You'd let like thaw, but wewould.
We would wrap them in tinfoiland put them on the quesadilla
like griddle, and they get alllike warm and toasty.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That's how I love the chick-fil-a cookies how they
like.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
put them on the little warmer light.
Yes, yeah that.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I smelled like straight up garbage when I got
home from that job and this.
They still use the samecleaning product because, like
whenever I we don't get a Mo'sout often, but whenever I do,
it's like the smell of the likecleaning product in the
bathrooms makes me like think ofcleaning the bathrooms at Mo's.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Okay, I was going to say, have we talked about our?
I don't know why I just thoughtabout this.
Maybe we can end on this, ourchick-fil-a order that we forgot
about and recently remembered.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
The milkshake?
Yeah, no, go get it to themOkay.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
If you guys have not tried this yet, you've got to
get the frosted coffee.
Add cookie crumbles.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
It's so good.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
It is so good.
We married a ton of well, yeah,we.
You can tell us about the?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
frosted coffee.
Yeah, we had a friend that usedto get a frosted coffee every
single day on her way to workbecause she didn't realize it
was like ice cream.
So she, she thought it was justlike.
I mean, I guess it's nodifferent than having like a
frappuccino every day.
But you thought she was justhaving like a blended ice coffee
.
And then she saw the make itone time it was like oh my gosh,
(32:13):
I've been eating ice cream forbreakfast for like three months.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Oh, but the cookie crumbles oh, another hack that I
love.
We're chick-fil-a.
How did we get here?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Maybe because.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I was subconsciously thinking about how I also had a
job at chick-fil-a.
I had to work for one month,yeah, and I had to wear the red
polo and I just the whole time Iworked there I was like I just
want to be on the other side ofthe counter again.
I would literally think thatevery Saturday morning that I
had to work and people would beordering chicken minis and iced
(32:48):
coffees.
I would just think I want to bethe one ordering a chicken mini
and iced coffee hung over in mypajamas.
That's what I want to be doing.
I don't want to be wearingthese stupid ass pants and my
red polo Black knuckles Did shejust, oh man, but okay.
(33:08):
the other thing that I lovegetting there is I do the
grilled nugget meal with a sidesalad, and then you toss the
grilled nuggets in buffalo sauceand then you put them on the
salad and then you drizzle ranchover it.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I always forget this hack because it's a little
complicated, but I it's.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
very good, it's so good Because the grilled nuggets
alone not good.
Oh, I don't know.
On top of the salad delicious.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Oh yeah, I see what you're saying.
Well, guys, that's all we gotfor you.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Okay, next week we're going to talk about bad dates
or boyfriend for a minutesomething, Because we have so
many stories that we need to gothrough.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Let's do it All right next week.
We're delivering, we'redelivering.
Please come back.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
We promise we won't talk about hardware stores ever
again.
Bring a friend.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Hardware stores, I know, oh my gosh, I'm sorry you
guys.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Okay, it's okay, it was traumatizing.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
It was gosh.
I'm going to have nightmarestonight.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
But, your shelf is done.
Your bathroom runnows almostfinished.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
That's great.
It's doing great.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Things are good, I hope you guys have a great week.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Love ya, love ya.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Love ya and we will see you next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Okay, bye.
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