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Jump in, let's go. Are you here? I'm here, let's go. It's time for another episode of who's Driving. Welcome to who's Driving. I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2:And I'm Stephen Merck. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1:Who's Driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business.
Speaker 2:These are the stories we share and topics we discuss as two best friends would on a long road trip Along the way we'll, and topics we discuss as two best friends would on a long road trip.
Speaker 1:Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media and all things home and garden.
Speaker 2:Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1:You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride. Well, this week you're in Florida, I'm in Florida and I hope I'm having a good time. I hope you're having a great time too. So we're having to pre-record because someone's taking a little birthday trip with their boo. I am, you got your thong ready?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to see you, that would clear the beach.
Speaker 1:I want to see you strutting, that would clear the beach. I want to see you strutting down South Beach.
Speaker 2:That would be funny as hell to video that.
Speaker 1:It would be, that would be God. We'd have to pixelate and blur out most of it.
Speaker 2:Oh God, oh my goodness Need a weed eater down there before I try. What is that?
Speaker 1:My goodness.
Speaker 2:Need a weed eater down there before I oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:How much would I have to pay you and pay for it, for you to go get a Brazilian wax, a full wax? Tell us about it.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'll do it. I'll do it for 10,000 cash.
Speaker 1:No, girl get out. No, well, that's my number. Why Get up on that table and let them wax you? No, take one for the team.
Speaker 2:That lady told me one time that when I was getting my whatever salon I was going to for haircuts, this redneck lady did the waxing. I'll never forget this. And she was like not far from. She lives in Greenville. Now she was. She grew up not far from where I was from need I say more? And so she was talking to me about it and I was like gosh, you know, do women really come in and get brazilians? And she's like oh, hell, yeah. She said, one woman came in and I had to do. She was so hairy I had to do her after hours and I had to put her on all fours.
Speaker 1:I thought that's what they did anyway.
Speaker 2:I was like I don't even know what my face did.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh my gosh well, remember we had ashley from the sassy barn on. Remember she had a major disaster getting a wax?
Speaker 2:yeah, it was horrible.
Speaker 1:I think there was some missing something.
Speaker 2:She left with half of her cooter waxed Right. I don't remember. Yeah, she left with half and half.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we need to have her back on to tell that story All over again.
Speaker 2:We can dig deeper now I feel like I think she said she would Never do that again. I think the wax Too hot.
Speaker 1:She was, I think, burned and red and scarred and things were missing. I don't know what goes on down there.
Speaker 2:I can't imagine I want you to get a Brazilian. Come on, if I had my dad's dark skin, I would do it just for a great story. Yeah, but I don't. I have my mother's white, pasty german skin and no, no, no, no, no your sense, your skin is sensitive anyway you would be red. I mean, I can't use a different deodorant without a breakout.
Speaker 1:listen, he talks about that. His skin is sensitive. He's pale. You can see. If he gets a cut, you're going to see it for 10, 12 months, but this fool wants to get a facelift at some point. Oh, I'm going to, and you're going to be able to see the whole line around your scalp, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2:Doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1:I'm good with it.
Speaker 2:You just I'm good with it. I'm good with it. I don't care when people are like hell, yeah, I did Yep.
Speaker 1:I don't care. I mean, there's no shame in getting a facelift.
Speaker 2:I don't care, I would rather. No. It's not the only scar I have. I've got a scar going across the back of my head and it's funny when I get my when they when he cuts my hair a little too short sometimes and it's funny. One time he cut it so short. Dylan was like I can stand here and I see your scar across the back of your head from your hair transplant. That's funny.
Speaker 1:I don't care.
Speaker 2:You know it is what it is. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, I mean I would rather have a little scar around my ears than, you know, my face hanging down about my belly button. Well, it's on its way.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I mean I don't.
Speaker 1:Do you have a target? I mean because you'll be very open about getting a facelift or whatever. I mean and I would say about I'm not. I don't think I will get a facelift. I'm not saying I wouldn't, but I would be very open. It's like I go get Botox.
Speaker 2:I don't care. Am I thinking a year? Yeah, do you have 2027? I think I'm going to do it, you?
Speaker 1:do January 27th You'll be mid-50s Be a good time to get it done.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, Y'all are going to get to see the whole thing, so you got to stick around that long.
Speaker 1:Y'all are going to get to see the whole thing.
Speaker 2:This is like a two-year cliffhanger. There's no need to try to hide it.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:That's what saying. I would be very open if I had something. Now I will I do, or I will say I'm not doing an upper, I do not. Really, a lot of my personality is in my eyes. I don't. I'm fine with the little wrinkles there, I'm fine with that, and I kind of, when I had my hair transplant, kind of had a brow lift, you know, because that tightens your whole head, yeah, so I don't really need that, so I'm just focusing more on lower. Okay, just pick, picking this up and your chin, yeah, under there, yeah, just tighten all this up. Yeah, just, I'm gonna have the deep planing done, I'm gonna have lipo and yeah well, it sounds like a good time I mean I'm sure it's going to be a blast and I'm sure I hope dylan's still around sticking around
Speaker 1:oh yeah, he's not. Oh my gosh, when he had his hair transplant done, he wasn't dating anybody at the time I asked him to bring me food. Never did I hope we've told this story before, because I was mad Are you going to hang on to this story?
Speaker 2:I was pissed. We didn't have DoorDash in that country.
Speaker 1:I don't care, you're fine. I'm not even rehashing it again. You shouldn't have called me at an inconvenient time to ask for food.
Speaker 2:That's how he is y'all. That is how he left me.
Speaker 1:He should have prepared and had some food in your damn house.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was supposed to be a piece of cake. It wasn't even supposed to be an issue. It's easy. It's easy. You have just a few down days and you're good Lies.
Speaker 1:Daniel keeps saying he might get a hair transplant one day. I hope you don't mind me saying that. Well, I already said it.
Speaker 2:Well, you might not want to wait too much longer, because at some point you can't. Oh, because you lose too much donor hair.
Speaker 1:And I don't think he would care talking about that either getting that done. I mean, I don't think he has anything, I don't think he's bothered by talking about it. He just said I think I'm going to do that one day, so in case we.
Speaker 2:If you're going to do it, do it mid-30s. Yeah, Because the longer you wait, the less donor hair you have and they can't do it Well. So if I had my time to go over, I would have done even more, go all out.
Speaker 1:The only thing daniel's worried about is, you know they don't put you to sleep or whatever, and he passes out from getting shots. Sometimes it was horrible.
Speaker 2:He will make it through that.
Speaker 1:I'm just telling you well, he can just, you'll just pass out and you'll be fine, and then you'll come to and pass out. I got sick twice.
Speaker 2:It was horrible. It was eight in my mind, but you know technology has changed a lot in 15 years. My surgery was eight and a half hours long and they made 4,000 hairs.
Speaker 1:And I don't think it's that intense anymore, I think it's improved. Since you've done that and so many people go to like Turkey to get it done, I'll have to ask our.
Speaker 2:I'm not. I would not go out of country to have it done. Because the reason you have to be careful going out of the country I know you can do things, they do it well, the results look good and it's cheaper. But you have to be very careful doing things out of the country and I would never promote that because when you come back to the United States if you've had some kind of complications, no doctor's going to touch you, You're screwed, it's a liability issue and you could die and people do.
Speaker 1:Well, you've got infection set in. You want to risk it or not? Yeah, yeah, but see sometimes going out of that country, like I feel like turkey and I'm not promoting any of it, but that is there. They've put a lot into that industry so they're on the forefront of doing it.
Speaker 2:Listen, I know I know I have friends here in Greenville. The fools went and I will say it, I don't care who, whatever went to Mexico and had gastric bypass surgery. Right, nothing against Mexico or anywhere. I'm not going and having something like that done In a foreign country where you can't be at home.
Speaker 2:If it's France or Italy. No, no, no, no, and that's a surgery where people have had complications. Then a doctor here won't touch you because you know, Wow, I mean I don't know, but a lot of people are going to Turkey and I have to say, they do good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they do good work. So our brother-in-law, daniel's middle brother's husband, he just got hair transplant done in brazil. I mean, he just had it done like last week, so I guess I don't know. I had to talk to him and see him soon. So so I had to talk to him and ask him about it and if you're thinking about a hair transplant or whatever?
Speaker 2:research, research research.
Speaker 1:He got his done in Brazil, but that's where he's from. Yeah, so that makes sense. Yeah, and he was able to stay with family and that sort of thing. So I can't wait to talk to him and see like how it was there.
Speaker 2:And I really researched. I learned way too much about hair follicles that I ever wanted to know. But, um, and I don't want to bash any companies on here, but I would just say, if you're ever thinking about it and a lot of a lot of women are doing it nowadays um, I highly recommend it. If, if your hair bothers, you highly recommend doing it, and technology is a lot better now than when I did mine. Um, but just research.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Research, research, research, and look at the lawsuits pending against various companies.
Speaker 1:Well, you, know it used to be one main company we won't name, but they were kind of the ones that started, or mass started it, and now their way is so out. Are they even around anymore? I'm sure they are in some sense. But so Stephen had his done locally. Back to let me clear my name Now.
Speaker 1:I think we've talked about this before and it was supposed to be easy breezy blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he had it done and it ended up being on a weekend of us I think it was our spring open house, or no, it would have been Christmas open house, because he had it done right before Christmas and it was very busy at the stores, christmas open house. And he calls me in the middle of it and was like hey, can you bring me some food? And I was like, yeah, but it's going to be a while. You know whatever it was. And listen, it was probably two o'clock when he called. It was in the middle of the day and we close at six, so it wasn't like poor little thing over here was going to starve to death. I was starving.
Speaker 1:Well, but anyway, yes, I couldn't bring him the food, and he's never let me live.
Speaker 2:So I chose to have a plastic surgeon do mine. Yeah, but here's the thing a plastic surgeon do mine. Yes, but here's the thing Plastic surgeon cut me and did my stitching and all that. But then she flew a hair tech in from Beverly Hills and did my hair transplant. Oh so he was exceptional and I really didn't know all the details of that until I got there. And you know, you spend eight and a half hours with somebody. You kind of learn all kinds of stuff, but his head of hair was unbelievable. But now you know he also does that for a living.
Speaker 2:But it was like just like fabio or something I was like that's crazy yeah yeah it was interesting well, you know get a little. You know get a little nip, tuck and pull the most important thing, I think, with a hair transplant and, um, they did great with mine is don't lower your hairline so that it's awkward yeah, you don't want it to look too. Just fill it in. It's not going to. You're never going to look like you're 18 and you don't want to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause it looks weird.
Speaker 2:if you have a perfect, just fill it in a little, yeah, color it in a little, yeah, little little filler. It is traumatic because they do the transplant and then it's traumatic because they do the transplant. And then it starts growing and then all of it falls out. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And then over a year it comes back. But now, when they did yours, they didn't shave your whole head, did they? I don't remember them doing that. I mean they shaved where they were doing it, but not the whole head. Like I feel like now they shave the whole head. Oh really, and I'm going to have have to ask did they do the cut across the back?
Speaker 2:no, no, a lot of what they're doing now is they. Are they, like I said, technology's so advanced.
Speaker 1:They're just like taking out a follicle and then putting it in so maybe that's why they shaved the whole head yeah, so they can see. So they're dispersing it. They're not taking a a section, they're, yeah, doing it evenly they took a half an inch.
Speaker 2:That's a ribbon out of my. It is a lot. That's why I'm saying I had my, my brow lift. I could not been. I could not look down like this for weeks it felt like it was going to rip my head.
Speaker 1:It was so tight from getting stretched.
Speaker 2:If I wanted to wipe my ass, I just had to look down just a little bit and it was right there. I could just go. You're saying, it pulled your ass up. My asshole ended up right there on my shoulder. If I just looked down a little, it was like right here I could just you are nuts yeah. So I don't think they do the the cutting, but honestly I wouldn't change that necessarily because it it like I said.
Speaker 1:It did give me a little bit of a brow lift yeah, I was like kind of two for one little action and it wasn't it.
Speaker 2:It's not painful at all, it was just uncomfortable yeah, and that's all yeah, it's not painful at all, it was just.
Speaker 1:but you said afterwards too, you know, after you were in the bed for a few days and then it was the holiday season, so you were, you had to go out like shopping and stuff and people you were like you were bruised, I was bruised and I and I kept it wrapped, cause that was the one thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was like you have open wounds at the cut in my head. You have to keep the medicine on it. You have to keep it covered if you're out. So I did look like I had had brain surgery, I'm sure, but it's just these dumbasses. You know, I would be, you know, at the mall or wherever, christmas shopping, yeah, and I couldn't wear a cap. So I had to have my head bandaged and I just kind of just fluffed my hair over it as much. You can't, you could see. And the medicine, I don't know if it's still the same, but the medicine then was like electric blue.
Speaker 1:Oh Lord.
Speaker 2:So the electric blue was seeping through the bandages. I mean, I'm sure I look like a damn hot mess, but I didn't care at that point. And you know, go to pay what happened to your head. And I was with a friend of mine, josh, and I said you know the next person that asked me what happened to my head. They're going to get one hell of a story.
Speaker 1:And he's like oh my God, because this is what Stephen will do in real life.
Speaker 2:You're going to ask me, in front of a million people, what happened to your head. So the next time I go to pay. And then that person said what happened to your head? I mean, who asked that? I said, oh my gosh, I was driving and my meth lab blew up in the back of my Ford Explorer and they were like this is how pitiful they were. They were like, oh damn.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's too funny.
Speaker 2:That's a true story, oh my gosh. That's too funny. That's a true story, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:That is too funny.
Speaker 2:So yeah, when I have my facelift, I'm sure that those when I go what happened to your face? We'll go. Well, I was really ugly, so I had that shit cut off and this one put on. Let's hope it sticks.
Speaker 1:Let's hope it sticks the other day. Uh, so well, we'll move on from that. So you're gonna get a face transplant eventually. Transplant facelift a complete.
Speaker 2:We're gonna start calling it a transplant. I'm going in for my face transplant.
Speaker 1:A complete tear down and rebuild? Yes, a transplant eventually, but we got a couple of years. I can't wait to watch through that process. But the other day you were telling a funny story and I was like you got to tell this on.
Speaker 2:The podcast is about your a your neighbor's cat hell, y'all lord oh my goodness so okay, y'all know I'm crazy and ocd and just a lunatic in general, and one one of my many pet peeves is I cannot stand damn notes this is a thing for both of us. I can't stand notes and signs, taped and junked windows.
Speaker 1:Yeah and just like at our retail stores. You know how you'll go into a retail store and there's that. Do not do this and do that than this and you must do this like signs everywhere. That drives me crazy. Like no food or drink allowed, yeah, like and they and what I really love.
Speaker 2:I mean that really just gets me going, I mean I just love it. Like if you go to a McDonald's, you know, and you're about to pee your pants and you go to open the door and it says we are closed due to equipment issues. Sorry for the incontinence.
Speaker 1:Incontinence instead of inconvenience.
Speaker 2:Handwritten. You know, it looks like they had the paper turned cockeyed and something is just going to be spelled. Completely wrong, yeah.
Speaker 1:But I hate going into a store and there's all these signs. It just drives me crazy. And that's one thing we've always been like no, and you know what it is is some retail owners, store owners, business owners can be for anything. They think every issue that comes up along the way and we've had employees like this We've had to be like no, take it down, take it down Is any issue that comes up, we're going to make a sign for it, like it's going to stop it from occurring again. And then you end up with like 75. We're addressing everything.
Speaker 2:It's like I bought one McDonald's and this is seriously and this was my, this is an all-time favorite. So back in the day, in McDonald's, like for special sandwiches, cheeseburger, no onions, we used a sticker to hold that on there. And I bought this McDonald's and they used the stickers instead of tape for all their notes, so they just have those stickers stuck around everywhere.
Speaker 1:They were everywhere.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I mean stickers, like you couldn't even see the cabinet doors because they had just kept putting them up there yeah so my mother, her job her job was. She was like what do you want me to do? And I said I want you to go buy a gallon of goo gone and clean the stickers and take down every note, every sign and get stickers off of everything. Yeah, I'd never seen anything like it. Yeah, and she did. It took days.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it did, so that's where this story starts.
Speaker 1:Okay, so back to the cat.
Speaker 2:So I go home, yeah, and I'm driving in the gate, in my gate, to go to the cat. So I go home, yeah, and I'm driving in the gate, in my gate to go in the back, you know, have to stop and swipe my card and there's a sign hanging, and we've already covered how much I love that and it's laminated. I mean it's done very well if you're going to do one.
Speaker 2:It was done very well. Somebody took a lot to do one. It was done very well. Somebody took a lot of time and spent a lot of money on these sons and it was a lost cat from the neighborhood next door.
Speaker 2:Not even ours. Yeah, and I'm like, okay, and you know, and I'm talking to myself, I'm like okay, stephen, they've lost their cat. Don't be an asshole. Just, it's not hurting anything out here on this, you know, pole, yeah, so I left it. Yeah, well, I don't know how the heifer got onto our property. She obviously crawled a fence somewhere. They were on every entrance door into the building.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like have you seen this cat? And it wasn't even someone from your building no, yeah, so those got taken down.
Speaker 2:I'm like, okay, this is ridiculous and this isn't your property, like you have no way. No, yeah. And my God, this went on for like five or six weeks.
Speaker 1:And you said they just kept appearing everywhere. Just sign after sign.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dylan was like what is up with this? I'm like I don't know, but somebody needs to tell her the cat is dead with this. I'm like I don't know, but somebody needs to tell her the cat is dead, it's dead, it's gone, it ain't coming back. I mean, I was over the cat, yeah, okay. So this goes on and on and on, and then finally, one of the other board members is verbally communicating with this lady and the cat was home after like six weeks. Yeah, so this all happened right after Christmas. So this has been. You know, this is all recent. So they had family visiting for the holiday at Christmas from Lake Lanier.
Speaker 1:Georgia In Georgia, so it would be a couple Christmas from Lake Lanier, georgia In Georgia, so it would be a couple hours from us.
Speaker 2:A couple hours Several peace stops, a gas stop, probably a food stop, and you know major interstate, yeah, you know 80 mile an hour travel.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess they were talking, you know.
Speaker 1:The two family members the two family members.
Speaker 2:They were catching up.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And the people on Lake Lanier said you know, we had this little cat, take up here, take up here. We got a cat now, oh up here.
Speaker 1:Take up here we got a cat now.
Speaker 2:Oh, and sent the other person a picture. You know how we all send pictures, isn't fluffy?
Speaker 1:cute. Look at Miss Puss. It was their cat.
Speaker 2:The cat had gotten in the engine of the car. Yeah, Somehow crawled up from the tire into the engine of the car. Yeah, Somehow crawled up from the tire into the engine in a safe spot and had I guess where it was warm, and had ridden in that car all the way to Lake Lanier Isn't that crazy. And then was crawled out and was like hello. Well, they didn't know that they were looking for their cat.
Speaker 1:But how did they not know? Like that's Sharon, we'll call her. I don't know her name, but that's Aunt Sharon's cat.
Speaker 2:But I'm guessing the cat was outside and it climbed in and they just left.
Speaker 1:Yeah, didn't know, maybe they never saw Sharon's cat or something, I don't know. That's so, and now they've been loving on this cat for six weeks.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:That's done and showed up at their house and they got to give the cat back, and now they got to give the cat back. So now that's awkward.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:But the sign stopped, I guess. Yeah, that's funny, that's awkward.
Speaker 2:It was weird. That's funny, that's awkward, it was weird. The whole thing was weird. And listen, I love dogs and cats and emus and goats and I love them all, but at some point, when do you say, the cat's gone right?
Speaker 1:well, look, she didn't give up hope and she's got her cat back.
Speaker 2:She loved. Let me tell you that cat is loved.
Speaker 1:But so weird for it to be an outside cat.
Speaker 2:I mean you would think with that much into it that would have been an inside cat that never.
Speaker 1:You would think that was the inside cat that escaped somehow. And now, you're.
Speaker 2:Maybe that was the case, maybe it escaped during the, I don't know. But then you would think the family member would have been like oh, is this the cat you're looking for?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's what's so weird about it.
Speaker 2:But in all fairness, but if we drove from Atlanta and a cat appeared, we wouldn't think that cat is really from Atlanta.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Because that's so far-fetched?
Speaker 2:I guess that's true too. I mean, no one would think that. Have you guys ever had anything like that happen?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, and you hear stories where cats make it back home or you were talking a few episodes ago and that was different but homing pigeons can fly. But you know, you've heard like dogs get lost and then show up years later and that sort of thing. Do you have a funny story like that? Text us or call us and leave us a voicemail on our hotline 864-982-5029. But wouldn't it get?
Speaker 2:awkward, like if your dog or your cat had been missing for like two and a half years and you'd kind of moved on. Yeah, you moved on, and gotten a new dog or a cat and then your old one shows up and you're like Like we really don't have a place for you anymore. This is so awkward, I mean.
Speaker 1:It's true. Are you just so happy to see it.
Speaker 2:Or we were like yeah, we really were happy, you were gone. Yeah, like we kind of missed you for a minute, but then it's really like fluffy over here is way better. You know, right?
Speaker 1:I always wonder that too when I hear those stories.
Speaker 2:You know we missed you, but now that we have Fluffy, you know, and sometimes it's like six years later, I mean six years ago One lady I watched something on TV, it was 11 years and she got her cat back.
Speaker 1:And then you got to take care of it when it's old, after being gone. For If I get another, dog or cat.
Speaker 2:I'm not doing that chip. I mean, listen, if you're gone after a certain amount of time, you're gone. Oh my God, You're not coming back. This isn't no. Those chips can be bad, that's true.
Speaker 1:That is true, caw, if you do move on and you don't have the room for it, and then it's like, oh, I don't really want this one anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we moved, we downsized, you know this is.
Speaker 1:You have some funny things happen at the loft, which just reminded me oh God, Is this like let me see how many torturous things we can talk about.
Speaker 1:Two episodes in a row. We're going to do awkward, Steven, things you have I guess mine are just so much more boring than yours. Or, like I said, you have to pull it out in the other person, so I don't think you're good at like I don't know having good things and we're out here on the farm so it's not as much awkward. But you know how, Stephen, this is a good story. Have we ever told this story? I don't know. Hold on, you know how Stephen is in very particular and very surprising for me that he has made it in this community living situation, loft living, you know where you've got neighbors on top of you. You know, because he's particular, Like you said, hanging the sign, you know.
Speaker 2:But we really don't hear. It's so quiet. We really don't hear anyone being on, like the back corner of the building.
Speaker 1:I know, but you still have to deal with like a board and you have to deal with people complaining and putting up signs and that sort of thing Pain in the ass, people Ugly wreaths on their door that you have to walk by.
Speaker 2:There's some ugly shit y'all on these doors Y'all I need. I really need to. I need to do a whole Instagram thing on that, but you know, some of them follow us. It's going to get on court but they need to get. I even thought about leaving them like a note and a gift card like $25 off or any wreath toward a wreath because you need one bad Bad off, or any wreath toward a wreath because you need one bad. I mean, there's one door y'all and it has. I need to start taking. I'm going to start posting these. It is a cotton, real cotton wreath, you know, and I used to love those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, cotton had its moment.
Speaker 2:I loved it. This one is literally probably about 10 to 12 years old.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it's getting ratty, it looks like you have, like, made it oval.
Speaker 2:You've pushed it back, we made it square. We mean it is just it, don't know which way, and it's just kind of given. You know it is just it don't know which way, and it's just kind of given.
Speaker 2:You know, it's just flop, they put, they use, they decorate this damn thing for every holiday. So Christmas we get a Christmas bow, and it's one of those bows that they've had in a box in their dresser that's been mashed up and then fluffed out. And listen, I'm making fun of them. They're not poor, very far from it. Okay, let's just go ahead and put it out there. Ain't nobody that lives in that building that cannot afford.
Speaker 1:A $100 re, exactly so you deserve to get made fun of.
Speaker 2:Exactly yeah, they can, so they, you deserve to get made fun of, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Cause I know, I know what you paid. We're not working on limited resources. No we're not. We're not. It's limited resources, but it ain't money.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Let's go ahead. It's limited resources and so you had to bring that up. That brings out the rage in me when we talk about the reason.
Speaker 1:This hasn't even gotten to the story I want to bring up, but we'll keep going.
Speaker 2:Oh, it just makes me mad sometimes.
Speaker 1:I think you should go through and take them and say leave a note and say I'm helping you out. As you know, community beautification I have removed your door decor because it did not meet the standards. However, here is a and give them like a $50 gift card to the nested pig.
Speaker 2:It would be so worth it, you know, and it would help everybody out and you wouldn't get not. At least I know what they went, and it would help everybody out and you wouldn't get not. At least I know what they went and picked would be great.
Speaker 1:We could even do it online and do a collection of ones that you approve and put that link on there with the QR code, so when they scan it, they could be shipped right to their door and it brings up that collection, the approved mealsals Meal collection you know, I think it probably needs to be a thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it probably does. And Dylan, we were walking in last night and it was funny, you bring this up. Dylan was looking at one and they just leave this son of a bitch up here year round and it is. I don't even know what it is it's like. It's like a fake lemon leaf. It has got one red flower on it.
Speaker 1:Just right there.
Speaker 2:And it's on a white command hook and you see, it's like hello.
Speaker 1:That's even worse when it's on the command hook. Fyi, you shouldn't be able to see the command hook. If you're hanging anything on the command hook, you don't want to see the command hook.
Speaker 2:You just got my blood pressure up, Well good.
Speaker 1:So let's keep going, see how, see, okay, right there you can hear the tone in his voice.
Speaker 2:Well, but I had these issues in my old neighborhood.
Speaker 1:You can see.
Speaker 2:But in my old neighborhood I addressed it a lot more than I do here Because it's a little. When you're connected, it's a little.
Speaker 1:A little more awkward if you were to call someone out here, versus With my neighbors in my old neighborhood.
Speaker 2:I would just like you know. When I was getting in my car I was like you need to get rid of that wreath, yeah you would.
Speaker 1:You need to take that old thing down.
Speaker 2:It's looking, it looks bad, and they would, or, or what we had this. I forgot about this. Do you remember when I would tell people, mm-mm, that door, that paint on that door is wrong and I would leave the paint samples? Ha ha ha. I can't believe I did that.
Speaker 1:You would do it again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank God we don't have paint.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, if y'all had doors that were painted. So anyway, you can see or hear by the tone of this voice what I'm talking about, that I'm surprised he's lasted this long living in such tight quarters, although you said like you don't see them. But you have to deal with things like that, the cat sign appearing and you know, just simple frustrations. But the biggest thing is like when someone has a leak above your loft and it drips down into your kitchen?
Speaker 2:Yes, because my floor plan is not like anyone in the building, which means I had to study the floor plans above me to know where everything is. Yeah, so I know where. Every now I know where. So so I came home years ago. Oh, it's been six he was coming home seven years ago and there would be water on your soapy water kitchen counter on my island, mm hmm, soapy water is important.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not water Soapy water would be on your kitchen island. This went on for a little while and he was pissed, because it was he found the unit.
Speaker 2:It was a doctor. A doctor owns the unit above me. They no longer live there, they rent it. And I called them and said I have this issue. Yeah, you need to come over here. We got and they did. They did and they jackhammered, they tore the whole bathroom out Because it went on for a while.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like oh, let's try to unstop it.
Speaker 2:So they just said you know, we're just tearing out the whole bathroom. I mean, they jackhammered the floor, they gutted the bathroom, put a whole new bathroom in. I was like, okay, this is good. Then, like six months later, poof back. I was like what in the hell? And I called them and they're like it's not possible. And I'm like it's possible it's right here on my I've got the the photos, you know, and they were like, so they brought their contractor over the people upstairs.
Speaker 1:That were renting that were renting.
Speaker 2:Y'all wait wait for it. They, the contractor, came back and told me so the doctor that owns the unit is they're from India, so the you know there's a language barrier that owns the unit is they're from India, so the you know, there's a language barrier. And so the contractor came and was telling me and she was with him they had taken caulk and stocked up the overflow valve the renters.
Speaker 1:The renters had Because they liked hanky-panky in the bathtub and they were flooding, flooding it over and flooding my kitchen so they had to be clear the renters, even after they had put in a brand new whole bathroom. Which means they didn't even need that bathroom. Yeah, they had taken and filled up so that the overflow didn't work and so that they could get it on in the bathtub.
Speaker 2:They wanted the water level higher. Yeah, it was too chilly. You can't make this shit up.
Speaker 1:Is that what they told them? That's what they told the? And so they were wanting the water level higher. But then, during hanky panky time, the water was overflowing because the drain was stopped Coming in my kitchen, dripping down on your kitchen counter.
Speaker 2:That is gross on so many levels. But the story gets better. I don't even know if you remember this. So then, like five years I don't know if it was five years ago we were on vacation. The four of us were on vacation somewhere Maybe it's in hawaii and um, we come home and there's soap suds in the kitchen floor different and I'm like where, what in the hell? Yeah, so I go up to the condo above me and I'm like that's, this is a whole new renter. I check, I personally check there's no leaks, like what is this.
Speaker 2:So I'm like well, let me go to the fourth floor. So I went up to the next floor, didn't know, the guy was like and young professional guy, and I was like, um, because it happened, like the night it happened again. Yeah, I went upstairs and I was like hey, um, you know I'm Steven, um, you know I live blah, blah, blah and I was like, I know this is a weird question, but did you just take a bath? And he was like yeah, I did. I was like a bath, not a shower a bath. He was like uh, yeah, I did, I was like a bath, not a shower a bath.
Speaker 2:He was like a bath and I was like well, we have a problem because you seem really nice, but I don't care to take a bath with you. And right now we're bathing together.
Speaker 1:How did that end? What was the problem there?
Speaker 2:Well, the overflow in that unit was never connected. So he would get in the master bath and take a bath and the water would come over and it was going into the overflow valve, but it wasn't connected to anything. So it was just running through the building and it made its way into my kitchen.
Speaker 1:Oh, I remember, because that one took a while to figure out.
Speaker 2:Yes, but luckily you know he used another bathroom till they figured it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then it's been fine oh my gosh Random.
Speaker 1:I just love the ones having sexy time knowing they're sloshing that water on your kitchen.
Speaker 2:I wish you could have seen the owner's face, she was like, oh my gosh, she was like oh, I mean.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's crazy. That's some good stories, see. I knew you were full of good awkward moments, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, they're just abundant in my life. Oh, they're abundant in my life.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness. Well, I think we're going to wrap it up, since it's your birthday week. You'll be back. I can't wait to hear about your time. Please bring back some awkward moments from South Beach, oh my gosh, Please don't.
Speaker 2:I just want it to be just an uneventful trip. South Beach oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Please don't.
Speaker 2:I just want it to be just an uneventful trip and just calm and relaxing.
Speaker 1:No pants pooping or getting lost, oh my gosh. Well, I hope it's the best time and we're going to wrap it up. Remember, though, you can join our members-only community at whosedrivingpodcastcom. That's where you can watch our podcast. Every week, we post every episode there so you can watch it. It's at whosedrivingpodcastcom. You can also listen for free wherever you can listen to podcasts, and you can listen for free on the whosedrivingpodcastcom website as well. You don't have to be a member to listen on there. You just have to be a member to join the video version of our podcast, and we would really appreciate if you would share us with your friends and leave us a review wherever you're listening.
Speaker 2:And feel free to Venmo me for therapy, because I feel like I've been picked on.
Speaker 1:I thought you were going to say Venmo you for your birthday and I was like damn girl, Do you need that?
Speaker 2:No, we don't need that. No, well, I mean, you can do that too, but you don't feel like I need some therapy after this?
Speaker 1:Oh well, it's fine. My birthday's coming up too. So don't Venmo me, don't Venmo us anything. Just join our members-only community at whosedrivingpodcastcom. We'll see you next week. Bye y'all, bye.