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Speaker 1 (00:13):
You know, sometimes you wish that you had camera rolling
when something happens to you outside of the show that
you want everybody to see. I wish that there was
a camera rolling on Shannon at the swim meet that
she went to in Ohio this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yesterday? Was it yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
There are a ton of listeners at these meets. This
was zones if if you have a competitive swimmer, swimmer,
you know what that is. And so we were at
Bowling Green, Bowling Green.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes your station.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Jesus, helcome mat for not telling you write the nadatorium
all weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm so mad at you. I passed a frickers. I
thought of you on the way.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
That all weekend you were well okay.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So that's where I spent yesterday for Luce who killed
it in the fifty backstroke. But these things are so
packed once you get to the end of the season
and it gets like, like really competitive, especially in this
situation where you have swimmers from all of the surrounding states.
Their families have driven in grandma, Grandpa's there there is
(01:15):
not a lot of room in these natatoriums, and so
they are just like you are packed in their like sardines.
And so I drove down with Lucy and Smith yesterday
and I'm like, you, guys, I am learning how this goes. Finally,
I'm getting the hang of this. I'm getting smart. We
are going to get there an hour early so that
mom can get a good seat, and Lucy, you'll know
(01:38):
where I am so I can cheer for you and
you can look up or whatever. And so we get there,
Lucy goes to meet all of the swimmers. Smith and
I go to stake out our seat. And I thought
we were good, but I swear people do not give
two spits when it comes to situations like this. Because
so there's me and again it is packed. Me and
(02:01):
then one on the left to my left, I have
my iPad, Smith's iPad, a book. He got a cookie,
a bag of flamin hot Cheetos, and we had a
bottle of water. So that's what I had to save
his seat because as soon as we sat down, he's like,
I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna go see if
I saw they had a sign for Crumble cookie. So okay, fine,
Like he gets up, this lady comes into the bleachers.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And I'm talking, sits.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Right on all of the stuff that I have next
to me, smooshing the flamin hot cheetos, the cookie that
he already had, you know, all the stuff that we
had right there on top of it.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So I say to her my jacket.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I say to her very politely, by the way, oh,
I'm so sorry my son is sitting there. And she
looks right at my face and she goes, well, he's
not here now, you guys, But you know in those
moments where you're like like the words that I wanted
to say.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So I like.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
She was on my stuff to the point where I
couldn't even pull my purse and my coat out from
under her, and like I was thinking of like twenty
different things, like smart ass things that I could.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Say to her. This was a big lady. She was
a bigger lady. I did not want I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That was my nice way of saying that I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Say something not so bad.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And then I remember, uh, could you please move your
ass so that I could.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Get all my your fat so I could get my
stuff then and at least move it to my lap.
I remembered, I'm wearing my God is Good all the time,
so I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Say what I really wanted to say to her, Yeah,
what what is it? Can't be mean when you were
in Jesus hat?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So could she see I'm trying to picture this. She
she could see the stuff. She could she see that
she sat she fel but could she see that she
sat on on the cheetos and all that stuff?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Did not care? She just wanted a spot.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So was it actually said to me, well, he's not
here now when I said this is my I'm saving
the seat for my son.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, sports parents, do you think if Smith was still
sitting there, she would have sat on him?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Probably she would. She would probably put her big fat
right on top of her. Is it a sports parent thing?
Do you feel like these parents are a little bit
more aggressive than other parents?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I think in the situations where it's something like this,
where you're to the end of a season and it's
like a championship or whatever, like people just they they're
they changed.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Which was this lady? Where do you think she was from?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
She was wearing red, So if you were there and
you were one of the teams wearing red.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It was you you can't tell, like what team she's from?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
All I probably could have if I actually looked at her.
But I'll be honest with you, I was so mad
I couldn't even look up.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The funny Uh, the funny thing is when you have
like sporting events go and you're sitting, you're in the stands,
A lot of times people will bring those chairs with
that have the backs.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
You ever bring those at all?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, after yesterday, Wes went out to Dick Sporting Goods
and bought two of them because he said, this will
this will never happen again, because if you have the
chair there, that can't.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, they can't sit on it.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We had one of Luke's baseball teams that he was on.
One of the parents got into a fight with another
of people from another team because we had it with
our team's name on the thing. And they set up
the chairs and these people went up there and took
them and moved them because they said that we took
up too much space. We had a you know, a
(05:36):
good sized crowd that would come to these games, grandparents,
stuff like that, and they felt like we took too
much space. And usually it's like you go visiting team
one side, you know, opponents you know on the other side.
It was one of those ones where the stands were
right behind home plate and they were upset, so they
started moving them. They said, pick them up, and started
moving them and moving the other ones up there.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So that was happening yesterday. People were getting there very
very early in the morning. I thought an hour or
early was sufficient.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It was not.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I guess people had like stayed the night in a
hotel the night before, if they were coming from out
of town, and they got their first thing in the
morning and they were laying out blankets, which, okay, if
you're going to have your whole family there, I completely
understand that. But what people were doing so they would
lay out a blanket for the chunk of bleacher where
they were like okay, mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, you know,
Susie whatever. People were going up to those spots and
(06:22):
folding the blankets in half, oh, so that they wouldn't
have I mean, it was getting just.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You know where this happens. Also, it happens at two
other places. It happens when you're going down to the
bell Aisle fireworks, the Detroit fireworks. People will lay out
their blankets and everything like that for the you know,
big fireworks display that they do over Canada, in June.
People will move those and they'll get all upset, like
(06:49):
the hey, I went down there early in the morning
to set it up and they're like, I don't give rest. Ask.
The other one is church. You ever go to church,
and you go to church and you get there and
people will get there early so that they have the
absolutely like full row, and they'll say at some churches
they won't let you do it. They're like, you can't
save it, move in. And I always I hated I
(07:12):
my thing I used to hate when I would go
to the Strip Mall church. I hated going to that,
to the one church that was by my house because
they would make you all move in and I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Like, you'd have to crunch into the center so that
people could take the aisle seat.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And I would say, I want the aisle if I
have to go to the bathroom. I got to crawl
all over these people. Why move it to like a
bigger venue? Though, well they don't you mean for the swimming. Yeah,
I don't know that if they could, or if I
know that this is a college campus, isn't big that's
a big man.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I ended up getting up and moving because I'm like
I can't sit next to the slave people.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Whole time.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I was so upset, so I moved and I sat
on like the ledge of a window sill that faced
out to the gym.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Just, Jim, what was your question for Shannon? I was
just wondering if that bat lady would move? Word? Did
Smith end up hitting and happened with the kids that
we eat the power? We ended?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
He got new cheetos? Uh, and we ended up moving.
That's what I was just saying. I ended up before
the meat even started. I moved because I just didn't
want to be there anymore. So I gave her planning
your space.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Do you, hey, Jen here, this isn't don't you think
Shannon should have made her pay for the new Cheetos?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Like I said there, I would have scoozed right next
to her, or I would have sprayed something strong. I
would have done anything. I would have about it.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
But you know, in that moment, you think of like
and then even the rest of the day, I was like,
I could have said this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I could have said this, yeah, of course, like cough
all over, like put the cheetos and fire in or
dusty stand out of then a cough all over and
get right all over you know where.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
This would never happen. It would never happen if your
kid was a hockey player. Hockey parents, no, they would.
They would punch.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, that's why they're crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But they would know not to do that to another
hockey parent because they would just think you're psychotic, just
like they are like a swimming parents, they seem more
refined than hockey yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
No, how many swimming parents have you seen get arrested
at the event? Okay, never, zero. I've seen quite a
few hockey parents get arrested. Oh yeah,
You know, sometimes you wish that you had camera rolling
when something happens to you outside of the show that
you want everybody to see. I wish that there was
a camera rolling on Shannon at the swim meet that
she went to in Ohio this weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yesterday? Was it yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
There are a ton of listeners at these meets. This
was zones if if you have a competitive swimmer, swimmer,
you know what that is. And so we were at
Bowling Green, Bowling Green.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes your station.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Jesus, helcome mat for not telling you write the nadatorium
all weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm so mad at you. I passed a frickers. I
thought of you on the way.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
That all weekend you were well okay.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So that's where I spent yesterday for Luce who killed
it in the fifty backstroke. But these things are so
packed once you get to the end of the season
and it gets like, like really competitive, especially in this
situation where you have swimmers from all of the surrounding states.
Their families have driven in grandma, Grandpa's there there is
(01:15):
not a lot of room in these natatoriums, and so
they are just like you are packed in their like sardines.
And so I drove down with Lucy and Smith yesterday
and I'm like, you, guys, I am learning how this goes. Finally,
I'm getting the hang of this. I'm getting smart. We
are going to get there an hour early so that
mom can get a good seat, and Lucy, you'll know
(01:38):
where I am so I can cheer for you and
you can look up or whatever. And so we get there,
Lucy goes to meet all of the swimmers. Smith and
I go to stake out our seat. And I thought
we were good, but I swear people do not give
two spits when it comes to situations like this. Because
so there's me and again it is packed. Me and
(02:01):
then one on the left to my left, I have
my iPad, Smith's iPad, a book. He got a cookie,
a bag of flamin hot Cheetos, and we had a
bottle of water. So that's what I had to save
his seat because as soon as we sat down, he's like,
I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna go see if
I saw they had a sign for Crumble cookie. So okay, fine,
Like he gets up, this lady comes into the bleachers.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And I'm talking, sits.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Right on all of the stuff that I have next
to me, smooshing the flamin hot cheetos, the cookie that
he already had, you know, all the stuff that we
had right there on top of it.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
So I say to her my jacket.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I say to her very politely, by the way, oh,
I'm so sorry my son is sitting there. And she
looks right at my face and she goes, well, he's
not here now, you guys, But you know in those
moments where you're like like the words that I wanted
to say.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So I like.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
She was on my stuff to the point where I
couldn't even pull my purse and my coat out from
under her, and like I was thinking of like twenty
different things, like smart ass things that I could.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Say to her. This was a big lady. She was
a bigger lady. I did not want I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
That was my nice way of saying that I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Say something not so bad.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And then I remember, uh, could you please move your
ass so that I could.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Get all my your fat so I could get my
stuff then and at least move it to my lap.
I remembered, I'm wearing my God is Good all the time,
so I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Say what I really wanted to say to her, Yeah,
what what is it? Can't be mean when you were
in Jesus hat?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So could she see I'm trying to picture this. She
she could see the stuff. She could she see that
she sat she fel but could she see that she
sat on on the cheetos and all that stuff?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Did not care? She just wanted a spot.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
So was it actually said to me, well, he's not
here now when I said this is my I'm saving
the seat for my son.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, sports parents, do you think if Smith was still
sitting there, she would have sat on him?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Probably she would. She would probably put her big fat
right on top of her. Is it a sports parent thing?
Do you feel like these parents are a little bit
more aggressive than other parents?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I think in the situations where it's something like this,
where you're to the end of a season and it's
like a championship or whatever, like people just they they're
they changed.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Which was this lady? Where do you think she was from?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
She was wearing red, So if you were there and
you were one of the teams wearing red.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It was you you can't tell, like what team she's from?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
All I probably could have if I actually looked at her.
But I'll be honest with you, I was so mad
I couldn't even look up.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The funny Uh, the funny thing is when you have
like sporting events go and you're sitting, you're in the stands,
A lot of times people will bring those chairs with
that have the backs.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
You ever bring those at all?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, after yesterday, Wes went out to Dick Sporting Goods
and bought two of them because he said, this will
this will never happen again, because if you have the
chair there, that can't.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, they can't sit on it.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We had one of Luke's baseball teams that he was on.
One of the parents got into a fight with another
of people from another team because we had it with
our team's name on the thing. And they set up
the chairs and these people went up there and took
them and moved them because they said that we took
up too much space. We had a you know, a
(05:36):
good sized crowd that would come to these games, grandparents,
stuff like that, and they felt like we took too
much space. And usually it's like you go visiting team
one side, you know, opponents you know on the other side.
It was one of those ones where the stands were
right behind home plate and they were upset, so they
started moving them. They said, pick them up, and started
moving them and moving the other ones up there.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
So that was happening yesterday. People were getting there very
very early in the morning. I thought an hour or
early was sufficient.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It was not.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I guess people had like stayed the night in a
hotel the night before, if they were coming from out
of town, and they got their first thing in the
morning and they were laying out blankets, which, okay, if
you're going to have your whole family there, I completely
understand that. But what people were doing so they would
lay out a blanket for the chunk of bleacher where
they were like okay, mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, you know,
Susie whatever. People were going up to those spots and
(06:22):
folding the blankets in half, oh, so that they wouldn't
have I mean, it was getting just.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You know where this happens. Also, it happens at two
other places. It happens when you're going down to the
bell Aisle fireworks, the Detroit fireworks. People will lay out
their blankets and everything like that for the you know,
big fireworks display that they do over Canada, in June.
People will move those and they'll get all upset, like
(06:49):
the hey, I went down there early in the morning
to set it up and they're like, I don't give rest. Ask.
The other one is church. You ever go to church,
and you go to church and you get there and
people will get there early so that they have the
absolutely like full row, and they'll say at some churches
they won't let you do it. They're like, you can't
save it, move in. And I always I hated I
(07:12):
my thing I used to hate when I would go
to the Strip Mall church. I hated going to that,
to the one church that was by my house because
they would make you all move in and I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Like, you'd have to crunch into the center so that
people could take the aisle seat.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And I would say, I want the aisle if I
have to go to the bathroom. I got to crawl
all over these people. Why move it to like a
bigger venue? Though, well they don't you mean for the swimming. Yeah,
I don't know that if they could, or if I
know that this is a college campus, isn't big that's
a big man.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I ended up getting up and moving because I'm like
I can't sit next to the slave people.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Whole time.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I was so upset, so I moved and I sat
on like the ledge of a window sill that faced
out to the gym.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Just, Jim, what was your question for Shannon? I was
just wondering if that bat lady would move? Word? Did
Smith end up hitting and happened with the kids that
we eat the power? We ended?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
He got new cheetos? Uh, and we ended up moving.
That's what I was just saying. I ended up before
the meat even started. I moved because I just didn't
want to be there anymore. So I gave her planning
your space.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Do you, hey, Jen here, this isn't don't you think
Shannon should have made her pay for the new Cheetos?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Like I said there, I would have scoozed right next
to her, or I would have sprayed something strong. I
would have done anything. I would have about it.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
But you know, in that moment, you think of like
and then even the rest of the day, I was like,
I could have said this.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I could have said this, yeah, of course, like cough
all over, like put the cheetos and fire in or
dusty stand out of then a cough all over and
get right all over you know where.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
This would never happen. It would never happen if your
kid was a hockey player. Hockey parents, no, they would.
They would punch.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, that's why they're crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But they would know not to do that to another
hockey parent because they would just think you're psychotic, just
like they are like a swimming parents, they seem more
refined than hockey yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
No, how many swimming parents have you seen get arrested
at the event? Okay, never, zero. I've seen quite a
few hockey parents get arrested. Oh yeah,
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