May 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Summer brings unique challenges for parents as they navigate planning activities, managing increased expenses, and keeping kids constructively occupied during the break. From sports commitments that don't pause for summer to the mysterious phenomenon of children who suddenly develop insatiable appetites the moment school ends, this episode tackles the realities of summer parenting with humor and practical advice.
• Summer sports programs can provide structure but require significant time and energy from parents
• Summer camps offer engagement but require early registration (February/March) and budget planning with costs ranging dramatically
• Boys and Girls Clubs and YMCAs often provide affordable summer programming with scholarships available
• Teen employment opportunities (available from age 14 in many areas) teach valuable life and communication skills
• Many counties offer special career and leadership programs for teens paying $10-15 hourly
• Free or low-cost academic enrichment programs can prevent "summer slide" in critical subjects like reading and math
• Children's increased appetite during summer often stems from boredom rather than actual hunger
• Setting clear expectations about meals and snacks helps manage the summer food budget
• Utility bills may increase unexpectedly—review statements carefully and challenge questionable charges
• Document meter readings and be prepared to advocate when utility companies estimate rather than read meters
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, welcome back to the Gag Is Pod.
I am your girl, charli Shante.
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And let's go ahead and getstarted.
I cannot believe that school isgetting ready.
How did we get here?
I feel like school just startedand I feel like I was just
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doing an episode about back toschool, which was my biggest
episode last year.
So I'm definitely definitelygoing to have to put some time
and some logistics into thatepisode, because y'all really,
really love that episode.
So I gotta make sure that Istart planning that out now, um,
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and getting everything togetherfor that.
That way I can put it out early, that way y'all can listen to
it and then you know, um, justbe ahead of the game a little
bit so y'all can see how Charliedo things in her house.
But I cannot believe thatschool is getting ready to be
over, like OMG, how do we gethere?
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I have a child who is going tobe a sophomore in high school
and he does dual enrollment.
So he's kind of still in hisfreshman year of college because
they take classes slowly.
And he does dual enrollment, sohe's kind of still in his
freshman year of college becausethey take classes slowly, like
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he doesn't take a full load.
So I say he in his secondsemester of his freshman year of
college.
Well, he's going into it and Iam just, I don't know.
I don't know.
I have all the feels and thensome.
So you know there's a littlebit more, a few more days left
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of school.
You know some testing andeverything going on, so we're
not quite there yet, but yeah.
So today we're going to talkabout you know it's summertime,
like what do we do over thesummer?
Summer expectations, you knowfeed these kids.
You know electricity, waterbill, all the bills, all the
feels.
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That's what we're going to talkabout today, because I know
y'all going to relate.
I know y'all going to relateand you know I'm going to hit
the nail on the head.
I had to think for a second.
I was like, well, how does thatsaying go hit the nail on the
head?
Okay, so the first thing I wantto talk about is what are we
doing when we get out of school?
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Because I'm gonna say that foodfor last, because that's that
could actually be a wholeepisode in itself.
But you know, I just throw itin this one.
But what are you going to do?
Are you going to do vacations?
Are the kids going to do someschool enrichment?
Are they going to go to camp?
Are they going to do programs?
So let's just talk about someideas.
So everybody's going to bedifferent.
This is not a one size fits all.
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I hate when y'all be at meabout that's not everybody.
I ain't saying it was foreverybody.
This is just the stuff that Ido.
You can like it, you can loveit, you can pass it along.
You could just not do none ofthat.
You just continue to be a hater.
Whatever, it don't matter to me.
Thank you for the listen, but alot of times you know, kids
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have sports and they do stufflike that.
I this year for our summer.
Our summer is a little morerelaxed this summer because, if
you remember, new faces comingoff of an injury and so he's
been in, he's been rehabbing andphysical therapy for the past
five months.
It's finally coming, going tocome to an end next month so he
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can be back.
Actually, in a couple of weekshe's going to be competing back
for the first time.
We didn't think that he wasgoing to get to compete this
summer.
Well, he's not going to go tothe big junior Olympics, he's
not going to go to that but wewere unsure if we was going to
get the chance to compete at anyof like the local meets or
anything like that.
But I'm happy that he's goingto get to do one this summer
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just to kind of see where he'sat.
I know he's not going to be100% when he gets out there.
I know he's not going to havehis good best time, but he told
me he's ready to get back outthere.
The coach has approved it, sowe're going to do that.
So his summer is going to bebasically doing swim and doing
his sport and kind of likebuilding his endurance up and,
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you know, getting thingstailored and getting things
together for um, for the seasonto start in August.
Um, it, it.
It kind of takes.
It takes up a lot of time, butnot a lot of bad time.
Where he swims at I love, love,love.
Where he swims at the club thathe swims for, because their
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schedule is very flexible.
They have morning practice andthey have afternoon practice.
The level that he's on, he'sonly required to do one.
So we can either do morning orwe're going to do afternoon and
we're going to do a mixture ofthat.
And then, when he doesn't dothat he does, he goes to the gym
for what we in the swim worldis called dry land but the
regular world is called workingout.
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So we go to the gym and me andhim we do some of that kind of
stuff and then he does have atrainer at the gym kind of help
him get a little bit stronger.
So you know that, so he cankind of get faster and have
better endurance.
And I know a lot of parentsduring the summer this is like
their break from sports.
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And then you do have somesports, especially kids that
play football, and I'm not sure,I'm not real sure what other
sports practice over the summer.
I know swim does they start inlike July, I think, cheer and
different stuff like that.
So you know sports, some peopledon't get a summer.
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Families don't get a summerbecause of sports, which is okay
, you know, because they'redoing something.
The kids are not sitting idle.
I strongly, strongly, this isjust me, don't at me, don't come
for me.
I just don't like it when kidssit idle over to someone.
So if they're doing something,you know I'm good, I'm okay with
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that.
Now this year New Face is oldenough to work, so he did apply
for a job.
I'm so proud of my baby so he'slike I can do sports and work
at the same time and I was like,all right, cool, you know, but
I'm not pressuring him to doanything else because he is
doing his sport, so I'm notgoing to be like, well, you got
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to go do this, you got to dothat, I do, well'll get to that
in um in the next segment, butthat's pretty much all that he's
going to do.
So shout out to all theyear-round parents that that do
sports year-round, like wegoaded for real because we tired
, we tired, but to see the lookand the smile on our kids faces
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like I wouldn't trade, like newfaces.
Look for the world.
It'd be hot out there becauseit's swim Y'all.
They got bleaches, but it'soutside, it ain't air
conditioned.
And even when they swim in theplaces that's inside, it ain't
air conditioned because thewater can't get cold, and then
you had a chlorine fumes.
So ain't no cool rest andrelaxation in swim.
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It's hot, it's hot as hell.
So water, just plenty of water,but that's for another time.
The second thing that you can dowith your kids during the
summer is and this is for olderkids, I'll just go ahead and
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kind of tie it into the both.
They have summer camps for kidsand what I've learned is you,
when it comes to these summercamps, you got to it's May.
You got to start jumping onthese summer camps in like
February, march timeframebecause they fill up so freaking
fast.
And then you also got to savefor them because they are so
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expensive, like in addition toswim, like I wanted to put New
Face in like a camp by where Iwork and I was like, oh my God,
this is what he wants to majorin in college and they have like
a college course thing orwhatever.
I think it would be good forhim, y'all for 10 days.
Was it 10 days For him to gofor 10 days?
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I want to say it was like$2,900.
For 10 days.
I can't justify that cost.
Now, when it comes to summercamps, I always keep a budget.
I always have a budget in mind.
I'm not going to spend over Xamount of dollars, especially
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the time and the cost.
It got to make sense becausethis camp costs $2,900.
It don't include food, it's notall day, they don't include
transportation.
No, I mean, there's not to saythat the person that's teaching
it shouldn't be compensated, butif you have, if they're going
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for 10 days and the max is 25kids at $2,900, that's a lot of
money Like you trying to paythese people like a year salary
in like a month, like that's not, that's not no.
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So you know you got to startlooking at these summer camps
early.
And then also, one of thebiggest um things you do like
there's the boys and girls club.
I'm not sure how big they arenow because I haven't been since
I was a kid.
New Face has never been, so I'mnot even sure how they even
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operate.
But I know when I was growingup the Boys and Girls Club used
to be lit during the summer.
Me and my brothers, we used towalk to the Boys and Girls Club
and it used to be lit.
Walk to the Boys and Girls Club, it used to be lit.
So just check your local area,see what the Boys and Girls Club
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has to offer.
Another alternative will be theYMCA.
I know in most areas there is aYMCA.
You can go look at that.
They have plenty of programs.
I'm starting to see swimprograms pop up at these
different places to try tocombat childhood drowning and
teach swim safety schools.
So Boys and Girls Club and theYMCA are two good options for,
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if for, and I believe thatthey're pretty low cost compared
to some of the other camps thatI see.
I feel like the Boys and GirlsClub and the YMCA are pretty low
cost depending on yourfinancial situation.
I know they do offerscholarships and different stuff
like that for your child toattend If you need a little
assistance with sending yourchild to a summer camp while you
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work.
And now for my older kids whereI live I'm not sure if it's like
this across the whole UnitedStates or, however, at 14, kids
can work at certain places Iknow, like grocery stores.
They can work as baggers anddifferent stuff like that.
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The hours may be limited butthey are still able to work.
This is a good option if youwant your child to get like some
good real world experience overthe summer.
Just show them like how to beout and you know how to
effectively communicate withpeople outside of their normal
realm of people that they seethe people that they see at
normal realm of people, thatthey see the people that they
see at school, the people thatthey see at sports or have you.
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It gives them an opportunity tointeract with different people
on a different level.
It also is an opportunity toshowcase that they're able to
work, be effective notleadership, but to just kind of
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start establishing their selfout there.
Where I live in HillsboroughCounty, florida, there are
programs.
Now, I don't the programs thatI'm speaking on are specific to
where I live.
You will definitely have tocheck out where you live to see
what kind of programs they offer.
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But I know in the county I livein I got a flyer a few weeks
back but they have careeropportunities for kids that are
between 14 to 21, and it's only21.
If your child has adevelopmental delay they're
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autistic or something like thatthey give them the ability to
still work and make money.
I've seen a couple of programs.
They had like a leadershipprogram where the kids would
make like $300 a week orsomething like that and it runs
for like six weeks.
So you know, put a little bitof money in their pocket.
Over the summer they have theopportunity to go and be like a
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lifeguard or something, learnCPR training skills.
They have the opportunity to goand help facilitate at a youth
camp that's put on by the cityand make some money like that.
They do also, from what I'veseen, have other programs that
are a little bit more intensefor those that are like 16 to 18
.
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You can work with the city,working in like an
administrative building,learning administrative skills,
or they have like classes forlike welding or learning
computers or just differentstuff like that.
I think I've seen somethingwhere you can go work at a
community center with agingpopulation services.
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You can make like 12 bucks anhour doing that.
There are a lot of differentopportunities out there.
Unfortunately, theseopportunities get missed very
often because we like to.
We like stuff brought to us.
Like if you don't put it in myface, I don't sometimes you have
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to go look for this stuff.
And one thing that I like hereis when your child is enrolled
in school here, if you sign upfor email notifications, they'll
send you flyers through youremail and it advertises this
stuff.
You know.
You just have to take likethree, four minutes out your day
when you get the email and justkind of look through, because
there are a lot of programs.
They do have income-basedprograms.
So if you see that your childwants to attend this or you
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think that would be beneficial,look at those newsletters
because it gives you so muchinformation and a lot of time I
always go back at the end of thesummer and look at how many of
those scholarships wereunderutilized because people did
not use them, because eitherthey didn't know about them or
they registered too late orwhatever the case may be.
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You just got to do just alittle bit of research, just a
little bit of red legwork.
It can be very rewarding for you, your children.
It's the opportunity for themto make friends, for them to
branch out and, like I said, getto know people.
That's outside of their network.
One thing they do do here Ithink they still do, I have to
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check into it but during thesummer, like, all the kids get
student IDs and they're able toride the city bus for free, and
riding the city bus like theycan go to the mall, and riding a
city bus, like they can go tothe mall.
It has a, they have a hub rightwhere, like if you live where I
live, then you can go, catchthe bus and go to the hub and,
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you know, take it around townand stuff like that, as long as
you have your student ID.
And then, like a certain period, like when school starts to
pick back up and stuff, you knowthey may change a little fee.
It might be 25 cent orsomething like that, or you can
get like a little unlimitedpunch card for the summer, um,
and different things as such,but there's so much out there.
People just have to, kind of,like I said, you kind of got to
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do the legwork and I know forthe littles, for like I think
it's five and under or somethinglike that, we have the zoo here
, they have programs, bushgardens, there's programs where
you can go and the kids canlearn about the animals and they
could just have different typesof fun.
And last but certainly, I gotto watch my time.
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Lastly, but certainly not least,academically, kids lose so much
of their knowledge over thesummer.
I forget the I forget the termthat they use, for my kids lose
a little, you know, playing alittle bit too many video games.
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They lose a little bit ofknowledge over the summer.
I think it's called like summergap, summer lapse or something
like that.
They lose a little bit of thatover the summer, you know, and
no fault of their own, you know,it's just.
You know you don't use it, youlose it.
There are many, many programsout there, parents.
There are so many programs outthere If your child was
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struggling during the schoolyear.
There are reading programs.
There are math programs outthere that are free and if they
are not free, they havescholarships available, they
have funding available orthey're very low cost, like $10,
$15.
There are programs out there,from what I've seen, from pre-K
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to eighth grade, to help withmath and reading, which are the
two subjects that kids strugglein the most, which are the two
subjects that kids struggle inthe most.
Parents, I beg of you, please,if your child is struggling or
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has struggled, please utilizethese programs.
They are amazing programs.
They can help your childsucceed.
You can take the summer andhelp them to bridge the gap and
give them a leg up for the nextschool year.
Oftentimes, as parents, we don'tintervene in our children's
education until it becomes aproblem and they're already
behind.
I know during the summer you'veripped and ran for 10 months
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getting these babies to school,getting them, picking them up
from school.
I do know you're tired, but I'mnever too tired for my child's
education and if I got to takefour weeks out the summer to
make sure that my child goes toget the help that they need so
that they can be successfulgoing forward.
I'm going to do it.
Am I going to complain?
Probably, but I know I'm goingto complain more if I go talk to
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my child's teacher during theschool year and find out that my
child is behind and my child isstruggling in real time.
He he's good in math, but he'snot.
He's not behind, but he coulduse a little extra work.
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And so me and him talked aboutit already, we already talked
about you know, there are many,many things online that you can
utilize, many little mini stufflike self-paced kind of things,
um, that you can do, and youknow, kind of like an
introduction and stuff like that.
I mean we got to give our kidsthe best chance, the best
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fighting chance, regardless,because we want our kids to
succeed, and sometimes it's aninconvenience, but we have to do
it to allow our children tosucceed.
And last, I think I said thisalready, last but not least, I
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think I said it like already,but I'm gonna say it again Cause
, last but not least, we finnatalk about what we finna do.
Lord, I just, it justinfuriates me when I get ready
to talk about we're going totalk about these kids and this
food.
Okay, we're going to talk aboutit because it seemed like on
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the last day of school, thesekids summer stomach come on and
I'll be like oh my God, you arenot that hungry.
Because here's my say, this ismy mind frame how, now, them 10
months you was in school, youwasn't this hungry.
So how, all of a sudden, youjust hungry.
So my rationale is I don'tchange how I grocery shop for
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the summer compared to the restof the year.
Because why?
Because kids at home all dayand they bored and they gonna
eat.
They be like oh we got gummybears, oh, I'm gonna go get some
gummy.
Oh, we got beef jerky, so I'mgonna get some.
Oh, we got juice box, oh, I'mgonna go get that.
You can't eat what you ain't.
You can don't see, you can'teat what we ain't got.
So, yes, we got the three mealsbreakfast, lunch and dinner and
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then you can either have amorning snack or afternoon snack
.
You're not getting no.
Breakfast snack, lunch snack,dinner potential snack.
We're not, finna, do that.
You're not that hungry.
What was you fasting during theschool year and now you're
trying to make it up during thesummer?
No, we're not, finna, do that.
We're going to keep this samefood going.
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No, you're not that hungry, youhungry.
Drink some water.
Because guess what Water hungercan be?
Dehydration.
Okay, so drink some water, seeif it kill your hunger.
You're not that hungry.
Okay, I promise you you're notthat hungry.
Okay, I promise you you're notthat hungry.
Then they get picky.
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I'll be like, well, if you'rehungry, eat a peanut butter.
Jelly, say, I want a peanutbutter, just well, you ain't
hungry.
Then you, you won't like can wego to zaxby's?
Can we go to mcdonald's?
No, because if you're hungry,you're gonna eat some sensible
food, you know.
No, we can't go to zaxby's ormcdonald's, but there's some
uncrustables in here.
We got grape, because if you'rehungry, you're going to eat
some sensible food.
No, no, we can't go to Zaxby'sor McDonald's, but there's some
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Uncrustables in here.
We got grape and we gotstrawberry.
Like, yeah, mm-hmm, you're notthat hungry.
I don't know what to tell you.
Drink some water, gatorade.
I don't know what to tell youBecause I ain't finna go, I
ain't finna.
Buy no extra so that you caneat it up tomorrow.
Not finna, do that homie, notfinna, do that.
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And to close this thing out, Iactually have a.
You cannot make this up andparents, this is for you.
Now, most of the time I don'tget paper bills right.
Send me an electric bill, Imean, email it to me, you know
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what I'm saying.
Give me a paperless billing.
And so most of my bills arepretty constant.
My light bill run pretty muchthe same, my water bill run the
same.
So a couple months ago I get mywater bill and I was like damn,
my water bill high.
Now my water bill run about $60, $65.
That's about average.
I got my water bill a couplemonths ago and it was $140.
I was like damn.
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And I was like, ok, I ain'tthink nothing of it, because I
have a pool and I was puttingwater back in the pool and I
left it on overnight.
So it was running for about six, seven good hours.
So I said you know what I said,this is my fault because I left
the water running.
So you know it's a fluke.
And then I was like, but dang,when you filled up the pool and
you left it running for 17 hours, your bill was $140.
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And that's when you filled upthe pool.
If you left the pool, somethingain't right.
I was just like I'm going topay anyway.
I ain't finna argue.
I got my bill the next month.
Then I was like, okay, do Ihave a leak?
I was like hopefully I don'thave no leak.
Then the next month my bill wasreal low $54.
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I was like real low, like $54.
And I was like, oh, okay, cool,like we back to where we need
to be Cool, cool, cool.
So the other day I guess, mybill, my bill $140.
And I was like ain't no way.
I was like ain't no way thatthis bill is this high, like
this is crazy.
So I called the water company.
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I said ma'am.
I said I ain't got no leaks.
I ain't filling up no pool.
Ain't nobody stealing my water.
Ma'am, y'all got to come outhere.
I said because I don't thinky'all are reading the meters.
And I said I would hate to goback through my camera 30 days
on my camera to verify thaty'all read the meter.
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I said ma'am.
I said there's no way they'rereading the meter, absolutely no
way they're reading the meter.
I said because I said you cango back in the entire time I
lived in this house that I'venever used this much water and
she's like well, I don't know,and just nasty.
So she was like we'll sendsomebody out.
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So they sent somebody out hereearly this week.
I said okay.
So then I got the little tagand I was looking at it and I
said okay.
I said, well, this is, thisseemed like positive news.
So I called the lady and I got avery nice letter.
She was like well, this is whatthis means.
And she said well, this is anerroneous bill man, I'm already
aware of that.
And I said I can tell you thatthey didn't come check the meter
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.
I said I have cameras and she'slike you know.
And I said well, how do we?
So, long story short, theydidn't read the meter.
Didn't take Stevie Wonder tosee that.
So what happens was?
She told me how to read themeter and then how they get the
number that they get to.
Well, she told me how to readthe meter and then how they get
the number that they get to.
And she said, you know, basedon because they give you the
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current reading from the daywhen they came out.
She said, well, based on this.
She said you know you're goingto fall within your normal range
, so whatever.
So say, for instance, it's a 15.
Right, in the next month theycome out and read it, they say,
okay, that's gonna give me anormal bill, so say it's at 30.
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Now they don't come out.
And then the next time theycome out and read it it's a 65.
Well, that 30 to 6, that 65minus 30 is how much water I've
used, but for two months insteadof one month because they
didn't read the meter, which isgoing to generate a higher bill.
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And I said well, ma'am, how dowe prevent this?
And she was like well, you cango out there and read the meter.
And I said well, why I got todo all that?
That's your job.
And I said it sucks that y'allare dishonest.
I said because what if I was ona fixed income?
So I don't mind paying the billbecause I use the water, but
you're pretty much making meevery other month, you're making
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me pay double my bill, which isnot okay.
And I said that's fine, ma'am.
I said because I have cameras.
And I said I'll start going outthere taking a picture of the
meter myself and um, and keepingtrack, like that.
And I said so, pleaseunderstand that I'm filing a
complaint.
I said because this isdishonest.
And so what I do this morning?
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I go across the street and talkto my neighbor.
He said I was wondering why mywater bill was real high.
I said go ahead and call him.
I said they didn't come out andread the meters.
He was like thank you.
And I was like because that'snot right, that that's very
dishonest.
So my takeaway from that is,even if you have your bills on
automatic draft because thewater bill is on automatic draft
um, check your bill.
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And the only reason why Iunfolded it and looked at it
because when I looked at howmuch was due, it was, it was
crazy.
And when I tell you it's fourpeople in my house we have three
bathrooms, we wash clothes, weclean, we bathe, so you know it
ain't like we're not using water, we using water.
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And and I told him, I was likebecause he said it's just him
and his wife.
And he said they water bill waslike almost two hundred dollars
.
And I was like that's crazy.
He said they water bill waslike almost $200.
And I was like that's crazy.
So, um, check out bills.
That's my takeaway.
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Um, check y'all bills.
And yeah, start holding thesepeople accountable, because now
y'all like y'all, y'all crazy.
So, but but that joke will beriding around here early in the
morning four, four, 35 o'clockin the morning trying to see who
using a sprinkler system on aday that ain't supposed to, but
you can't get out and check themeter.
Okay, cool, got something foryou, cause every month I'm be
down there calling show is allright, so let's go ahead and get
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I cannot believe that school isgetting ready.
How did we get here?
I feel like school just startedand I feel like I was just
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doing an episode about back toschool, which was my biggest
episode last year.
So I'm definitely definitelygoing to have to put some time
and some logistics into thatepisode, because y'all really,
really love that episode.
So I gotta make sure that Istart planning that out now, um,
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and getting everything togetherfor that.
That way I can put it out early, that way y'all can listen to
it and then you know, um, justbe ahead of the game a little
bit so y'all can see how Charliedo things in her house.
But I cannot believe thatschool is getting ready to be
over, like OMG, how do we gethere?
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I have a child who is going tobe a sophomore in high school
and he does dual enrollment.
So he's kind of still in hisfreshman year of college because
they take classes slowly.
And he does dual enrollment, sohe's kind of still in his
freshman year of college becausethey take classes slowly, like
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he doesn't take a full load.
So I say he in his secondsemester of his freshman year of
college.
Well, he's going into it and Iam just, I don't know.
I don't know.
I have all the feels and thensome.
So you know there's a littlebit more, a few more days left
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of school.
You know some testing andeverything going on, so we're
not quite there yet, but yeah.
So today we're going to talkabout you know it's summertime,
like what do we do over thesummer?
Summer expectations, you knowfeed these kids.
You know electricity, waterbill, all the bills, all the
feels.
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That's what we're going to talkabout today, because I know
y'all going to relate.
I know y'all going to relateand you know I'm going to hit
the nail on the head.
I had to think for a second.
I was like, well, how does thatsaying go hit the nail on the
head?
Okay, so the first thing I wantto talk about is what are we
doing when we get out of school?
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Because I'm gonna say that foodfor last, because that's that
could actually be a wholeepisode in itself.
But you know, I just throw itin this one.
But what are you going to do?
Are you going to do vacations?
Are the kids going to do someschool enrichment?
Are they going to go to camp?
Are they going to do programs?
So let's just talk about someideas.
So everybody's going to bedifferent.
This is not a one size fits all.
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I hate when y'all be at meabout that's not everybody.
I ain't saying it was foreverybody.
This is just the stuff that Ido.
You can like it, you can loveit, you can pass it along.
You could just not do none ofthat.
You just continue to be a hater.
Whatever, it don't matter to me.
Thank you for the listen, but alot of times you know, kids
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have sports and they do stufflike that.
I this year for our summer.
Our summer is a little morerelaxed this summer because, if
you remember, new faces comingoff of an injury and so he's
been in, he's been rehabbing andphysical therapy for the past
five months.
It's finally coming, going tocome to an end next month so he
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can be back.
Actually, in a couple of weekshe's going to be competing back
for the first time.
We didn't think that he wasgoing to get to compete this
summer.
Well, he's not going to go tothe big junior Olympics, he's
not going to go to that but wewere unsure if we was going to
get the chance to compete at anyof like the local meets or
anything like that.
But I'm happy that he's goingto get to do one this summer
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just to kind of see where he'sat.
I know he's not going to be100% when he gets out there.
I know he's not going to havehis good best time, but he told
me he's ready to get back outthere.
The coach has approved it, sowe're going to do that.
So his summer is going to bebasically doing swim and doing
his sport and kind of likebuilding his endurance up and,
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you know, getting thingstailored and getting things
together for um, for the seasonto start in August.
Um, it, it.
It kind of takes.
It takes up a lot of time, butnot a lot of bad time.
Where he swims at I love, love,love.
Where he swims at the club thathe swims for, because their
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schedule is very flexible.
They have morning practice andthey have afternoon practice.
The level that he's on, he'sonly required to do one.
So we can either do morning orwe're going to do afternoon and
we're going to do a mixture ofthat.
And then, when he doesn't dothat he does, he goes to the gym
for what we in the swim worldis called dry land but the
regular world is called workingout.
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So we go to the gym and me andhim we do some of that kind of
stuff and then he does have atrainer at the gym kind of help
him get a little bit stronger.
So you know that, so he cankind of get faster and have
better endurance.
And I know a lot of parentsduring the summer this is like
their break from sports.
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And then you do have somesports, especially kids that
play football, and I'm not sure,I'm not real sure what other
sports practice over the summer.
I know swim does they start inlike July, I think, cheer and
different stuff like that.
So you know sports, some peopledon't get a summer.
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Families don't get a summerbecause of sports, which is okay
, you know, because they'redoing something.
The kids are not sitting idle.
I strongly, strongly, this isjust me, don't at me, don't come
for me.
I just don't like it when kidssit idle over to someone.
So if they're doing something,you know I'm good, I'm okay with
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that.
Now this year New Face is oldenough to work, so he did apply
for a job.
I'm so proud of my baby so he'slike I can do sports and work
at the same time and I was like,all right, cool, you know, but
I'm not pressuring him to doanything else because he is
doing his sport, so I'm notgoing to be like, well, you got
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to go do this, you got to dothat, I do, well'll get to that
in um in the next segment, butthat's pretty much all that he's
going to do.
So shout out to all theyear-round parents that that do
sports year-round, like wegoaded for real because we tired
, we tired, but to see the lookand the smile on our kids faces
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like I wouldn't trade, like newfaces.
Look for the world.
It'd be hot out there becauseit's swim Y'all.
They got bleaches, but it'soutside, it ain't air
conditioned.
And even when they swim in theplaces that's inside, it ain't
air conditioned because thewater can't get cold, and then
you had a chlorine fumes.
So ain't no cool rest andrelaxation in swim.
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It's hot, it's hot as hell.
So water, just plenty of water,but that's for another time.
The second thing that you can dowith your kids during the
summer is and this is for olderkids, I'll just go ahead and
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kind of tie it into the both.
They have summer camps for kidsand what I've learned is you,
when it comes to these summercamps, you got to it's May.
You got to start jumping onthese summer camps in like
February, march timeframebecause they fill up so freaking
fast.
And then you also got to savefor them because they are so
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expensive, like in addition toswim, like I wanted to put New
Face in like a camp by where Iwork and I was like, oh my God,
this is what he wants to majorin in college and they have like
a college course thing orwhatever.
I think it would be good forhim, y'all for 10 days.
Was it 10 days For him to gofor 10 days?
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I want to say it was like$2,900.
For 10 days.
I can't justify that cost.
Now, when it comes to summercamps, I always keep a budget.
I always have a budget in mind.
I'm not going to spend over Xamount of dollars, especially
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the time and the cost.
It got to make sense becausethis camp costs $2,900.
It don't include food, it's notall day, they don't include
transportation.
No, I mean, there's not to saythat the person that's teaching
it shouldn't be compensated, butif you have, if they're going
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for 10 days and the max is 25kids at $2,900, that's a lot of
money Like you trying to paythese people like a year salary
in like a month, like that's not, that's not no.
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So you know you got to startlooking at these summer camps
early.
And then also, one of thebiggest um things you do like
there's the boys and girls club.
I'm not sure how big they arenow because I haven't been since
I was a kid.
New Face has never been, so I'mnot even sure how they even
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operate.
But I know when I was growingup the Boys and Girls Club used
to be lit during the summer.
Me and my brothers, we used towalk to the Boys and Girls Club
and it used to be lit.
Walk to the Boys and Girls Club, it used to be lit.
So just check your local area,see what the Boys and Girls Club
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has to offer.
Another alternative will be theYMCA.
I know in most areas there is aYMCA.
You can go look at that.
They have plenty of programs.
I'm starting to see swimprograms pop up at these
different places to try tocombat childhood drowning and
teach swim safety schools.
So Boys and Girls Club and theYMCA are two good options for,
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if for, and I believe thatthey're pretty low cost compared
to some of the other camps thatI see.
I feel like the Boys and GirlsClub and the YMCA are pretty low
cost depending on yourfinancial situation.
I know they do offerscholarships and different stuff
like that for your child toattend If you need a little
assistance with sending yourchild to a summer camp while you
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work.
And now for my older kids whereI live I'm not sure if it's like
this across the whole UnitedStates or, however, at 14, kids
can work at certain places Iknow, like grocery stores.
They can work as baggers anddifferent stuff like that.
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The hours may be limited butthey are still able to work.
This is a good option if youwant your child to get like some
good real world experience overthe summer.
Just show them like how to beout and you know how to
effectively communicate withpeople outside of their normal
realm of people that they seethe people that they see at
normal realm of people, thatthey see the people that they
see at school, the people thatthey see at sports or have you.
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It gives them an opportunity tointeract with different people
on a different level.
It also is an opportunity toshowcase that they're able to
work, be effective notleadership, but to just kind of
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start establishing their selfout there.
Where I live in HillsboroughCounty, florida, there are
programs.
Now, I don't the programs thatI'm speaking on are specific to
where I live.
You will definitely have tocheck out where you live to see
what kind of programs they offer.
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But I know in the county I livein I got a flyer a few weeks
back but they have careeropportunities for kids that are
between 14 to 21, and it's only21.
If your child has adevelopmental delay they're
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autistic or something like thatthey give them the ability to
still work and make money.
I've seen a couple of programs.
They had like a leadershipprogram where the kids would
make like $300 a week orsomething like that and it runs
for like six weeks.
So you know, put a little bitof money in their pocket.
Over the summer they have theopportunity to go and be like a
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lifeguard or something, learnCPR training skills.
They have the opportunity to goand help facilitate at a youth
camp that's put on by the cityand make some money like that.
They do also, from what I'veseen, have other programs that
are a little bit more intensefor those that are like 16 to 18
.
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You can work with the city,working in like an
administrative building,learning administrative skills,
or they have like classes forlike welding or learning
computers or just differentstuff like that.
I think I've seen somethingwhere you can go work at a
community center with agingpopulation services.
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You can make like 12 bucks anhour doing that.
There are a lot of differentopportunities out there.
Unfortunately, theseopportunities get missed very
often because we like to.
We like stuff brought to us.
Like if you don't put it in myface, I don't sometimes you have
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to go look for this stuff.
And one thing that I like hereis when your child is enrolled
in school here, if you sign upfor email notifications, they'll
send you flyers through youremail and it advertises this
stuff.
You know.
You just have to take likethree, four minutes out your day
when you get the email and justkind of look through, because
there are a lot of programs.
They do have income-basedprograms.
So if you see that your childwants to attend this or you
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think that would be beneficial,look at those newsletters
because it gives you so muchinformation and a lot of time I
always go back at the end of thesummer and look at how many of
those scholarships wereunderutilized because people did
not use them, because eitherthey didn't know about them or
they registered too late orwhatever the case may be.
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You just got to do just alittle bit of research, just a
little bit of red legwork.
It can be very rewarding for you, your children.
It's the opportunity for themto make friends, for them to
branch out and, like I said, getto know people.
That's outside of their network.
One thing they do do here Ithink they still do, I have to
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check into it but during thesummer, like, all the kids get
student IDs and they're able toride the city bus for free, and
riding the city bus like theycan go to the mall, and riding a
city bus, like they can go tothe mall.
It has a, they have a hub rightwhere, like if you live where I
live, then you can go, catchthe bus and go to the hub and,
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you know, take it around townand stuff like that, as long as
you have your student ID.
And then, like a certain period, like when school starts to
pick back up and stuff, you knowthey may change a little fee.
It might be 25 cent orsomething like that, or you can
get like a little unlimitedpunch card for the summer, um,
and different things as such,but there's so much out there.
People just have to, kind of,like I said, you kind of got to
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do the legwork and I know forthe littles, for like I think
it's five and under or somethinglike that, we have the zoo here
, they have programs, bushgardens, there's programs where
you can go and the kids canlearn about the animals and they
could just have different typesof fun.
And last but certainly, I gotto watch my time.
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Lastly, but certainly not least,academically, kids lose so much
of their knowledge over thesummer.
I forget the I forget the termthat they use, for my kids lose
a little, you know, playing alittle bit too many video games.
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They lose a little bit ofknowledge over the summer.
I think it's called like summergap, summer lapse or something
like that.
They lose a little bit of thatover the summer, you know, and
no fault of their own, you know,it's just.
You know you don't use it, youlose it.
There are many, many programsout there, parents.
There are so many programs outthere If your child was
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struggling during the schoolyear.
There are reading programs.
There are math programs outthere that are free and if they
are not free, they havescholarships available, they
have funding available orthey're very low cost, like $10,
$15.
There are programs out there,from what I've seen, from pre-K
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to eighth grade, to help withmath and reading, which are the
two subjects that kids strugglein the most, which are the two
subjects that kids struggle inthe most.
Parents, I beg of you, please,if your child is struggling or
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has struggled, please utilizethese programs.
They are amazing programs.
They can help your childsucceed.
You can take the summer andhelp them to bridge the gap and
give them a leg up for the nextschool year.
Oftentimes, as parents, we don'tintervene in our children's
education until it becomes aproblem and they're already
behind.
I know during the summer you'veripped and ran for 10 months
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getting these babies to school,getting them, picking them up
from school.
I do know you're tired, but I'mnever too tired for my child's
education and if I got to takefour weeks out the summer to
make sure that my child goes toget the help that they need so
that they can be successfulgoing forward.
I'm going to do it.
Am I going to complain?
Probably, but I know I'm goingto complain more if I go talk to
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my child's teacher during theschool year and find out that my
child is behind and my child isstruggling in real time.
He he's good in math, but he'snot.
He's not behind, but he coulduse a little extra work.
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And so me and him talked aboutit already, we already talked
about you know, there are many,many things online that you can
utilize, many little mini stufflike self-paced kind of things,
um, that you can do, and youknow, kind of like an
introduction and stuff like that.
I mean we got to give our kidsthe best chance, the best
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fighting chance, regardless,because we want our kids to
succeed, and sometimes it's aninconvenience, but we have to do
it to allow our children tosucceed.
And last, I think I said thisalready, last but not least, I
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think I said it like already,but I'm gonna say it again Cause
, last but not least, we finnatalk about what we finna do.
Lord, I just, it justinfuriates me when I get ready
to talk about we're going totalk about these kids and this
food.
Okay, we're going to talk aboutit because it seemed like on
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the last day of school, thesekids summer stomach come on and
I'll be like oh my God, you arenot that hungry.
Because here's my say, this ismy mind frame how, now, them 10
months you was in school, youwasn't this hungry.
So how, all of a sudden, youjust hungry.
So my rationale is I don'tchange how I grocery shop for
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the summer compared to the restof the year.
Because why?
Because kids at home all dayand they bored and they gonna
eat.
They be like oh we got gummybears, oh, I'm gonna go get some
gummy.
Oh, we got beef jerky, so I'mgonna get some.
Oh, we got juice box, oh, I'mgonna go get that.
You can't eat what you ain't.
You can don't see, you can'teat what we ain't got.
So, yes, we got the three mealsbreakfast, lunch and dinner and
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then you can either have amorning snack or afternoon snack
.
You're not getting no.
Breakfast snack, lunch snack,dinner potential snack.
We're not, finna, do that.
You're not that hungry.
What was you fasting during theschool year and now you're
trying to make it up during thesummer?
No, we're not, finna, do that.
We're going to keep this samefood going.
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No, you're not that hungry, youhungry.
Drink some water.
Because guess what Water hungercan be?
Dehydration.
Okay, so drink some water, seeif it kill your hunger.
You're not that hungry.
Okay, I promise you you're notthat hungry.
Okay, I promise you you're notthat hungry.
Then they get picky.
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I'll be like, well, if you'rehungry, eat a peanut butter.
Jelly, say, I want a peanutbutter, just well, you ain't
hungry.
Then you, you won't like can wego to zaxby's?
Can we go to mcdonald's?
No, because if you're hungry,you're gonna eat some sensible
food, you know.
No, we can't go to zaxby's ormcdonald's, but there's some
uncrustables in here.
We got grape, because if you'rehungry, you're going to eat
some sensible food.
No, no, we can't go to Zaxby'sor McDonald's, but there's some
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Uncrustables in here.
We got grape and we gotstrawberry.
Like, yeah, mm-hmm, you're notthat hungry.
I don't know what to tell you.
Drink some water, gatorade.
I don't know what to tell youBecause I ain't finna go, I
ain't finna.
Buy no extra so that you caneat it up tomorrow.
Not finna, do that homie, notfinna, do that.
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And to close this thing out, Iactually have a.
You cannot make this up andparents, this is for you.
Now, most of the time I don'tget paper bills right.
Send me an electric bill, Imean, email it to me, you know
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what I'm saying.
Give me a paperless billing.
And so most of my bills arepretty constant.
My light bill run pretty muchthe same, my water bill run the
same.
So a couple months ago I get mywater bill and I was like damn,
my water bill high.
Now my water bill run about $60, $65.
That's about average.
I got my water bill a couplemonths ago and it was $140.
I was like damn.
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And I was like, ok, I ain'tthink nothing of it, because I
have a pool and I was puttingwater back in the pool and I
left it on overnight.
So it was running for about six, seven good hours.
So I said you know what I said,this is my fault because I left
the water running.
So you know it's a fluke.
And then I was like, but dang,when you filled up the pool and
you left it running for 17 hours, your bill was $140.
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And that's when you filled upthe pool.
If you left the pool, somethingain't right.
I was just like I'm going topay anyway.
I ain't finna argue.
I got my bill the next month.
Then I was like, okay, do Ihave a leak?
I was like hopefully I don'thave no leak.
Then the next month my bill wasreal low $54.
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I was like real low, like $54.
And I was like, oh, okay, cool,like we back to where we need
to be Cool, cool, cool.
So the other day I guess, mybill, my bill $140.
And I was like ain't no way.
I was like ain't no way thatthis bill is this high, like
this is crazy.
So I called the water company.
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I said ma'am.
I said I ain't got no leaks.
I ain't filling up no pool.
Ain't nobody stealing my water.
Ma'am, y'all got to come outhere.
I said because I don't thinky'all are reading the meters.
And I said I would hate to goback through my camera 30 days
on my camera to verify thaty'all read the meter.
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I said ma'am.
I said there's no way they'rereading the meter, absolutely no
way they're reading the meter.
I said because I said you cango back in the entire time I
lived in this house that I'venever used this much water and
she's like well, I don't know,and just nasty.
So she was like we'll sendsomebody out.
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So they sent somebody out hereearly this week.
I said okay.
So then I got the little tagand I was looking at it and I
said okay.
I said, well, this is, thisseemed like positive news.
So I called the lady and I got avery nice letter.
She was like well, this is whatthis means.
And she said well, this is anerroneous bill man, I'm already
aware of that.
And I said I can tell you thatthey didn't come check the meter
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.
I said I have cameras and she'slike you know.
And I said well, how do we?
So, long story short, theydidn't read the meter.
Didn't take Stevie Wonder tosee that.
So what happens was?
She told me how to read themeter and then how they get the
number that they get to.
Well, she told me how to readthe meter and then how they get
the number that they get to.
And she said, you know, basedon because they give you the
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current reading from the daywhen they came out.
She said, well, based on this.
She said you know you're goingto fall within your normal range
, so whatever.
So say, for instance, it's a 15.
Right, in the next month theycome out and read it, they say,
okay, that's gonna give me anormal bill, so say it's at 30.
(27:36):
Now they don't come out.
And then the next time theycome out and read it it's a 65.
Well, that 30 to 6, that 65minus 30 is how much water I've
used, but for two months insteadof one month because they
didn't read the meter, which isgoing to generate a higher bill.
(27:57):
And I said well, ma'am, how dowe prevent this?
And she was like well, you cango out there and read the meter.
And I said well, why I got todo all that?
That's your job.
And I said it sucks that y'allare dishonest.
I said because what if I was ona fixed income?
So I don't mind paying the billbecause I use the water, but
you're pretty much making meevery other month, you're making
(28:18):
me pay double my bill, which isnot okay.
And I said that's fine, ma'am.
I said because I have cameras.
And I said I'll start going outthere taking a picture of the
meter myself and um, and keepingtrack, like that.
And I said so, pleaseunderstand that I'm filing a
complaint.
I said because this isdishonest.
And so what I do this morning?
(28:38):
I go across the street and talkto my neighbor.
He said I was wondering why mywater bill was real high.
I said go ahead and call him.
I said they didn't come out andread the meters.
He was like thank you.
And I was like because that'snot right, that that's very
dishonest.
So my takeaway from that is,even if you have your bills on
automatic draft because thewater bill is on automatic draft
um, check your bill.
(29:00):
And the only reason why Iunfolded it and looked at it
because when I looked at howmuch was due, it was, it was
crazy.
And when I tell you it's fourpeople in my house we have three
bathrooms, we wash clothes, weclean, we bathe, so you know it
ain't like we're not using water, we using water.
(29:20):
And and I told him, I was likebecause he said it's just him
and his wife.
And he said they water bill waslike almost two hundred dollars
.
And I was like that's crazy.
He said they water bill waslike almost $200.
And I was like that's crazy.
So, um, check out bills.
That's my takeaway.
(29:41):
Um, check y'all bills.
And yeah, start holding thesepeople accountable, because now
y'all like y'all, y'all crazy.
So, but but that joke will beriding around here early in the
morning four, four, 35 o'clockin the morning trying to see who
using a sprinkler system on aday that ain't supposed to, but
you can't get out and check themeter.
Okay, cool, got something foryou, cause every month I'm be
down there calling show is allright, so let's go ahead and get
(30:04):
up out of here.
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