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Who's Driving-Dust, Drama, and Dylan Hiding in the Corner S3E11
This week we dive into awkward confessions from our listeners and share our own cringe-worthy moments that made us want to crawl under a rock. From Steven's epic bathroom renovation meltdown to Wesley's strong opinions on vague social media prayer requests, we're getting real about life's most uncomfortable situations.
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Hell, I got to get myself together. Get it together. I'm here, goodness, back from continuing last week, still in my PJs.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. We had to do a little continuation because I had to. Next Monday, I have to do a little talk on the Ronald McDonald House.
Speaker 1:I know that's exciting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's important, it's good stuff.
Speaker 1:You haven't done any talks in a while, so it's about time for you to do one. Last week I forgot.
Speaker 2:We didn't even say oh wait, it's time for another episode of who's Driving.
Speaker 1:We're back. I was just getting to it, girl, so I do that little intro and then, if you listen to the podcast, I still put in our little intro and music and that sort of thing and whatever I don't do that on the video version thing and whatever I don't do that on the video version. But last well, it'd be two weeks ago Now when we were at the Atlanta market I was editing and uploading the podcast and everything I totally forgot to do. That, daniel, was like you really got to the point in this week's episode.
Speaker 1:You didn't I was like oh, I totally forgot to put that in there because it's all these additional steps, and I was trying to do it from the hotel room bed. He was like I kind of like it better, it just got right into it. So I was like, well, maybe, sometimes, maybe we should mix it up, skip it whatever flows.
Speaker 1:Naturally, last week I did forget to go over the the national days of the week. Oh, I forgot. But before we get to that it reminded me I wanted to go back to my Instagram. I had put up several weeks ago, when it was awkward day, something it was like tell your awkward moment day or whatever, embrace it, I don't know. I put up a box asking what is your most awkward moment, and so I have some confessions to talk about in here.
Speaker 2:Oh, I can't wait to hear these. I know I love awkward moments when they're not about me.
Speaker 1:Right, we did a few episodes all about you. Yeah, because you're kind of awkward. I mean, you're not awkward, is the thing.
Speaker 2:no, I'm not awkward, but you if anything can happen to someone, it will happen to me. You do manage to get yourself in um predicaments, awkward predicaments and you know, when we went to miami I was completely, wholeheartedly like I. I'm probably going to get into something Right, it just happens to me I didn't.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of Miami, I meant to bring this up personally to you. I listened back that was the episode that I had to edit in the hotel room, talking about Miami, and you talked about you got into a little road rage incident in there. But when I was listening to it back as a listener, I realized something that I didn't realize in the moment, and that is you were the instigator of the road rage incident. No, I don't think I was. Yes.
Speaker 2:You said you started cussing and flipping this man off. No, no, don't think I was.
Speaker 1:Yes, no, you said you started cussing and flipping this man off.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. And I'm like well, he was no, no, no, no, no, he was in. I was in my Mustang. You had rented a Mustang, my Mustang, and he was in the large, the largest Mercedes SUV. So to my Mustang, it was really big and he was just on my ass constantly and I'm like I don't know where he thinks I can go. Yeah, but there's nowhere. I mean it was. It was very aggressive in him giving that.
Speaker 1:Just Just aggressive. Yeah, and you had to handle it by doing hand gestures in person and Dylan yelled at me.
Speaker 2:He was like are you crazy? We are in. We were technically in Fort Lauderdale. Then he said they will shoot you. You got to. And I was like, well, he needed to be told blankety blank blank Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So you, I defended myself. Oh, is that what it was? Okay. And if you say so.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not a road rage aggressor, I'm not like that but I mean, if you get all. I mean I will tell you to back it up, calm down, but I really shouldn't have done that there, because I mean there's there's a lot of crazy there there's crazy everywhere well, there's crazy right here in greenville okay.
Speaker 1:So, uh, that was awkward moment or whatever. So I got some funny ones in here that I thought we I haven't read all of them, so I'll just scroll through the first one that I'm going to talk about. I got from several people. I feel like most people have done this at some point in their life and, if not, maybe you learn not to like. I learned not to do this. Okay, not. Maybe you learn not to like. I learned not to do this, okay, uh. This person said their most awkward moment was when I asked a lady when her baby was due and she said I'm just fat. So that is one thing. I think my mom taught me this my mom did.
Speaker 1:Don't ever say that I, I mean you literally. I have to see like an arm go across your belly and then I'm like, okay, she's pregnant and I will mention it. I will act like I don't, I don't. If I don't know you, I don't need to know about your baby. I just don't even bring it up. I mean you could be about to pop and I'd be like I don't see nothing, because my mom also did this.
Speaker 1:So, you know, my stepdad's a doctor and my mom worked in the office and she did all the office things. Well, one day I think one of the nurses I don't know what, like someone, was busy or something, I don't know. So this lady came in with the baby and I guess my mom was just walking by and they the nurse was going to weigh the lady and my mom's like, oh, I'll hold, I'll hold the baby, or whatever. So my mom was holding the baby and she was getting weighed and the lady was not happy with like, like, with their weight or whatever. And my mom was like, oh, it's okay, it took nine months to, you know, put it on and to take nine months, whatever to take it off. And the lady whipped around and was like, that's not my baby, so she was, she hadn't been pregnant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that wasn't so bad. Your mom was trying to make her feel better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I guess then she's like well, you know that didn't help because she hadn't been pregnant. So that's what I remember, like just don't never, never assume and never ask no, I don't.
Speaker 2:I learned that because I was with a McDonald's group and you know I kept my mouth shut Right and our waitress was pleasantly plumpish, you know, and one of the owners said so when's your baby due? Oh God, she wasn't pregnant.
Speaker 1:Oh, that is so.
Speaker 2:And I secondhand embarrassment wanted to die.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's just. Oh, because how do you come back from that? I mean, there's no like. I mean, basically you just called her fat, yeah, and there's no excuse for it because there's not a baby. No, oh, that is secondhand embarrassment.
Speaker 2:I just wanted to crawl under something.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, I need to hear your awkward moments. Remember we have our hotline 864-982-5029. Call or text us or, in the members only community, leave it in the you can comment below each show. The next one is I slipped in the kitchen and fell while being introduced to my now husband's family.
Speaker 2:I mean that is your heart, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's awful. That is awful Cause you know you're already nervous about meeting the family. That would be awful. At least they ended up married. This person said most awkward moment, calling my daughter's live-in boyfriend by the name of her ex-husband. I think we've all done that.
Speaker 2:And I've done that so many times I forget you have, I all done that and I've done that so many times I forget you have. I have done that and I'm trying to think who I did that with. Oh no, oh yeah, I called them. I called by the ex-husband's name. Oh my, who was it? And then they finally said something. I was like I am so sorry, but then I did it again and again.
Speaker 1:you know how we are with names, I mean I can't help you, Listen.
Speaker 2:you married them. They're going to get called that.
Speaker 1:Especially if they were together, you know, like a long time or whatever. This next one I thought I had a nasty customer on hold and called him an asshole. He wasn't on hold. He was not on hold. He probably needed to hear that, probably you know, sometimes that's yeah, that's, that's acceptable.
Speaker 2:That was god's way of letting him know he needed to be nice was this one's kind of awkward and funny.
Speaker 1:At the grocery store woman fell behind me, swore her leg flew off. It did, it was an artificial leg and she screamed Like the woman. Not the woman that fell, screamed the shopper. This person screamed oh, you know how I am with awkward things like that too.
Speaker 2:I know that makes me. I have flashbacks to when I threw the lady out with the wooden leg.
Speaker 1:Out of the store.
Speaker 2:That had nothing to do with the wooden leg. It needed to happen.
Speaker 1:We talked about that. That was on a previous. That was like last year. A long time ago I came out of the bathroom and my dress was partially tucked into my tights. That's funny as shit.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to tell you that's funny as shit and I would laugh if I saw that. I would tell you.
Speaker 1:But at least it was your tights and not your panties. Yeah, with your ass cheeks hanging out or something. Ass cheeks hanging out or something, asking someone how their parent was, because I forgot they passed away.
Speaker 2:That does not bother me, yeah but it's still kind of awkward.
Speaker 1:It's awkward. I always tell people it's probably not as awkward as it really is to the person asking it.
Speaker 2:Like that one's not as awkward. You're like oh yeah, they passed away. I'm just, you know, I'm like it's fine. You, you're like, oh yeah, they passed.
Speaker 1:I'm just that, you know, I'm like it's fine you didn't know yeah, it's not a big deal thank you for asking, talking shit about someone not realizing I had butt dialed her and she could hear me. You know, back in the day, with cell phones, I feel like butt dials are a lot less now, now that I say that it happened to me, um, but I feel like they're a lot less than they used to be on different models of phones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if that happens, you should just hang up.
Speaker 1:You don't need to hear what they're saying Well, unless you want to know what they're saying about you, but what's the chances? You must have just talked to them and then you're talking shit about them and then phoned out. That's awkward.
Speaker 2:See, I'm glad I just say shit right to people's face, then they're not surprised.
Speaker 1:It's true, you are good about that. Yeah, this person had a pair of underwear stuck from static clean to the outside of my jeans.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's funny too. That's not horrible, that's funny.
Speaker 1:I have had. I don't know if I've ever had underwear Socks. Socks come out of my jeans, like walking in socks that fall out of it from being in the washer or whatever. Oh, that's funny. That is, that's too funny. So you need to tell us your awkward moments. I have a bunch more. Let's see Knocking over a flower arrangement at a funeral, causing a domino effect.
Speaker 2:That would be awful, that would be awful. See, that is something that would happen to me. That right there is something that would happen to me.
Speaker 1:Have we talked about the time I did the casket spray and we talked about the time I did the casket spray? That's an awkward moment, but that's just between me and the person that passed away. I did a casket spray one time.
Speaker 2:Don't give too many details because I'm afraid they listen.
Speaker 1:I will not. They would probably laugh too. Anyway, I did a casket spray for someone.
Speaker 2:It was beautiful.
Speaker 1:It was gorgeous and they had told me that the person would be. It would be closed, so they wanted it. You know large. Well, when I got there, it was open and I was putting the spray on.
Speaker 2:And I couldn't go with you to help you, because I was working.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I had to go by myself to take this extra large.
Speaker 2:It was my fault at the time.
Speaker 1:I got an opposition and I looked down and there was a piece of curly willow going on the person's nose. I was like, oh, I'm so sorry. Oh gosh, you know, just keep this down.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh.
Speaker 1:You know it was gorgeous. It wasn't intentional, no, it just happened.
Speaker 2:It just happened and you know that stuff can just get everywhere, it can.
Speaker 1:It was just going right up the little nostril. I was like, oh my gosh Goodness, let me readjust this. It was just me in the room, so it was just going right up the little nostril. I was like, oh my gosh Goodness, let me readjust this. It was just me in the room, so it was fine.
Speaker 2:Oh God, yeah, that was pretty that was pretty bad.
Speaker 1:This is this one said. Went to a job interview with the bottom part of my skirt tucked into my underwear. I got the job, really, yes, oh my gosh. Got locked out of my house only wearing a robe which isn't as bad as just in your underwear or naked. Like what if you went out the back door in a you know in your neighborhood or whatever, and you went out the back door and got locked out? You know like, oh, I'm just going to grab something and you're completely naked or something.
Speaker 2:I'd be breaking a window, that would be so awkward.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, there's a lot of the baby ones.
Speaker 2:I have opened the door at the condo, you know, because my old house had a glass. My front door was all glass pretty much, and you know it was a house, but it was a small neighborhood and the sidewalk was not that far, so everybody had seen me in my panties running around. I took my trash to the street, my underwear, but I check every now and then I'll open my door to see if there's a package, and sometimes I'm just in my panties at home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's your doors you can't see out of it well, there's a peephole, but I don't see if there's a package. No, but I don't look before to see if anybody's out there I just open the door and like three times I've opened the see if there's a package or something. No, but I don't look before to see if anybody's out there. I just open the door and like three times I've opened the door and there's been someone walking up the hallway and they're just facing you.
Speaker 1:Just facing me and I'm sure your hair's just a mess.
Speaker 2:That marshmallow mudslide going on Just a mess.
Speaker 1:Probably some ratty boxerers hole in it no.
Speaker 2:That's the part you got wrong. I don't wear that. But no, it was like, oh God, somebody's going to be thinking I'm a pervert.
Speaker 1:This one said it was talking about someone in another room and the baby monitor was on. That's some awkward shit, because you're in the house with them. It's not like just hang up and cringe.
Speaker 2:That's one thing, guys, if you're a realtor out there or you're shopping for a house.
Speaker 1:If you're shopping for a house.
Speaker 2:Watch your mouth. Like everybody has ring cameras at their, at their doorbell now, and if they've had a baby, I promise you their cameras in there, and then there's probably cameras in there anyway. So do not do not discuss anything when you're in the property, because you're just gonna, you're gonna, and it doesn't help. You're good, yeah, because you're just going to, you're going to, it doesn't help your negotiation, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because you could be talking crap about that. Look what they did here. Or you might be talking about how much you love it.
Speaker 2:And yes, I want this, I want this. And then, if they're- listening they?
Speaker 1:it gives them the power of like we're not negotiating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the negotiating is is now skewed, so don't don't do that. Yeah, you have to look at it both ways. Oh, I had something crazy happen. Here's a. It wasn't my awkwardness, this happened with a, a client, uh-huh, oh, my goodness, I think I can tell this. And so I was. This was a long time ago. This was years ago. I was showing houses and it was very remote. It was a lake, it was a lakefront property and it was very remote. Well, I was like on time, but they kept messaging me Are you close? Are you Are you? Are you close? Are you close? Are you close? I'm like oh, my word, like. First of all, I've driven an hour to show you this and I'm in the parking.
Speaker 1:Were they like I'm in the neighborhood?
Speaker 2:Well, he was having an issue. He needed to use the potty, yes. So I was like, okay, you know, and let him in, and he used it and you know it was a situation. Yeah, there was no water on in the house.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh so just FYI, when you're looking at homes homes you may want to turn on a faucet before you before you go. Luckily, my country boy brain kicked in and I was like we're on the lake, go get some water. So I went to the garage and God was watching out for me. There was a bucket. Yeah, went to the lake, filled up the bucket, brought it up, filled up the toilet, flushed the toilet. All was good the day was saved.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, that's see, that seems like something that would have been a you story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I resolved that one and, um, I felt so bad for my client, I mean it was yeah, it happens, yeah, it does okay.
Speaker 1:So this week in national day, something to celebrate every day. Um well, this will be on the 15th, but on the 14th was Gardening Day. Look up at the Sky Day. There's a lot on here that are dumb. Dolphin Day, pan American Day, pecan Day Reach as High as you Can Day. That's all on the 14th. I'm just going to hit some of the highlights. This week is packed of days.
Speaker 2:Wait, what's on the 14th? Let me see that the 14th. That's what I was just reading OX Spouse Day.
Speaker 1:I don't know. What are you celebrating On the?
Speaker 2:15th is. Should we send them an invoice? Probably.
Speaker 1:Laundry Day is on the 15th. Need to give Dylan some Some of this shit is so stupid Rubber eraser day. What the hell are you going to do with that?
Speaker 2:That's weird.
Speaker 1:Take a wild guest day. This is dumb Glaze spiral ham day.
Speaker 2:Somebody that is in that business, that industry. They've paid to have that Registered. Yeah, Tax Day.
Speaker 1:We know that the 16th is Eggs Benedict Day.
Speaker 2:I don't like that Orchid Day Orchid Day. We should do something for Orchid Day.
Speaker 1:I am celebrating right now. Wear your Pajamas to Work Day is on the 16th and Banana Day.
Speaker 2:We should wear pajamas on that day. But I think we should do something for National Orchid Day. We should, we should do a little special.
Speaker 1:We should promote, yeah, at the garden store. We won't remember by then, but anyway, that's on the 15th.
Speaker 2:That's the 16th. Oh, it's the National Orchid Day. That would be good.
Speaker 1:Put it in your notes. The 17th is Cheeseball Day. We should have a cheeseball, nothing else good. 18th is Exercise Day, ironman Appreciation Day and the 18th will also be Good Friday. The 19th is Record Store Day, garlic Day, auctioneer's Day, hanging Out Day, north Dakota Day and Oklahoma City Bomb bombing commemoration day. God can you that was. I can remember that as a kid. I remember exactly where I was.
Speaker 2:I don't remember that one.
Speaker 1:I don't remember where I was then. I was on spring break, I don't remember how old I was, and my cousin, brittany had just been born. Renee, my aunt, and I was down there and I remember I was spending spring break there. She had a new baby from I guess she'd been born in February. Where did they live? In Memphis? Oh yeah, and I was down there on spring break and I remember watching on TV anyway, but gosh, that was so long ago now. So that's this week's lineup here. The 21st, which is a Monday, is Chocolate Covered Cashews Day. Oh, I support that day, me too. Okay, so that's some of the days coming up. Bunch of dumb ones this week. I mean I need to get something better than that. So what else Awkward dumb ones this week? I mean I need to get something better than that. So what else awkward? I have an awkward story we need to talk about. Oh gosh, this one has to do with you.
Speaker 1:I don't know why.
Speaker 2:Of course they do.
Speaker 1:I don't know why and I don't even know what made me think of this, but I do know when it comes up it really hits a nerve with you it really gets them going. So I think we told the story one time. On here we're gonna do a little backstory. I think we told the story. You know, steven is ocd and he's very besides ocd. Okay, he's very and he's very besides OCD.
Speaker 2:Okay, he's very particular, he's very particular.
Speaker 1:This is an OCD thing, but one time you were very particular and you ended up giving your accountant, like someone in the accounting office, an anxiety attack. Yes, and I didn't know it, because you chewed him up and spit him out. Oh, I, we talked about that on here. It was bad.
Speaker 2:I can't remember what said it all something he wouldn't he would not give me, he would not give me sales numbers on the store, the restaurants that I bought yeah and he was like well, you had to have written permission from that client. I said, well, we have written permission because I purchased the stores Right. We share the same CPA firm Right.
Speaker 1:You already have it, I own the stores and you were needing it. You were like somewhere needing it, I was an hour away from home.
Speaker 2:I was in Newberry and I was like I need these numbers and he was not giving them to me, right, and I and he's the sweetest person I ripped into him like a crazy person and I didn't know this. But like six months later I found out he had had a panic attack and they had to call EMS.
Speaker 1:After you hung up because he thought he was having a heart attack.
Speaker 2:Okay, I can be like if you push me, I mean I will give you the shirt off my back, I will do anything for you. But when? When we just get asinine about something that just sends?
Speaker 1:me Over the top. Yeah, and you will snap. Both of us are very calm, but when we snap, you do not want to be the person that we snapped on. It's like years of built up tension, that where we've swallowed it for all the other things, it just comes rolling out and sorry asshole, you're the one that's going to take it kind of situation. But speaking of that, so that name I don't know why all this came to my mind, but that led me to thinking about similar situation was a few years ago. Well, it's probably been like five years ago, seven years, I don't know. You'll tell me Steven remodeled his bathrooms at his loft.
Speaker 2:That was four years ago. It's only been four years ago 22.
Speaker 1:Okay, no, it was 2020, actually.
Speaker 2:No, no, no no.
Speaker 1:Because you were remodeling and I started my patio project at the same time and my project took like three years because I ended up putting my delay.
Speaker 2:No, it was 21. It was, we were further in because I pre-ordered, I collected. It was 21. Okay, 21.
Speaker 1:pre-ordered. I collected it was 21, okay, 21. So, um, so steven being if you have not seen his loft, then you can. You know, check him out on instagram. Uh, his handles in the, the show notes, it's keeping up with steven. No g, no g in the keeping um, keeping up with steven, uh, and you can see his loft, his condo, his gorgeous home. It's amazing. Well, you're sweet, go ahead and lay me out. He's very particular. And when you see his home on Instagram, that is the way you truly live. It is always clean, like someone could call him tomorrow and say we need to do a, we need to do a Southern living photo shoot in your home tomorrow, and he could say, okay, I just said you could be ready, let me grab some fresh flowers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you could be ready in an hour, because your home is very particular.
Speaker 2:Literally, literally, at my last home I had a photo shoot and you set it up with the magazine and they were like, well, how much notice does he need? And you were like an hour.
Speaker 1:They were like what I'm like? No, literally, he just needs like an hour Just make sure he's ready. It's not the home, it's him that needs to be ready. So, very, very particular, very gorgeous, organized, clean, you know. So, I know what you're going to tell. So he decides to get his bathrooms remodeled and the day comes to start, demo, demo. Well, also, on being top of particular, steven we've talked about will tell you something If something gets in his mind. This is where it went wrong, because if something gets in his mind, he will remind you 500 times that it's very important We've talked about it.
Speaker 1:Are we going to do this on this day? Yes, Stephen, I'm going to meet you at this time.
Speaker 2:We're going to do it on this. It's very important that we do this. Yes, I got it.
Speaker 1:I do not want this to happen. He'll call you back. Are you sure we're going to be able to do this on this day? Yes, yes, a loop.
Speaker 2:well, and and if it's important, it's important, right.
Speaker 1:So, and this was important, so steven had told the project manager we will not name any names or company.
Speaker 2:The company is great and I will use the company again that that was not the issue. The issue were the subs, yeah, and not following directions. So I had said and you know, we have 16-foot ceilings. It's challenging, I know that Right, but I was like this is going to be. I mean, you're jackhammering up floors, tile On concrete Mm-hmm, it's a mess man taking out cabinets.
Speaker 1:it was taking it down literally to the studs in a condo you're living in.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I said we have to get the plastic up all the way to the ceiling and the floor is covered, and I went, went over that literally at least 30 times, yeah, and I needed to leave.
Speaker 1:I was working. You were at the garden store or something. I was with you. You were working. I don't know what we were doing, but you were working.
Speaker 2:And I got a call. Dylan got home and he was like, oh my God, stephen, this is bad. And I was like, oh my god, steven it, this is bad. And I was like what? And he said this whole place is covered in white dust. And I said, did they not? Not only did they not put the plastic to the ceiling, they didn't cover my floors. Yeah, it was a disaster.
Speaker 1:I cannot imagine how much you know. I sanded my kitchen island a few weeks ago, a couple of months ago, and just that little bit was everywhere downstairs and I had the vacuum on. I was trying to wipe it down every minute and there was dust everywhere.
Speaker 2:And I lost it. I should be embarrassed, but I'm not. I lost it on the project manager and, like I said, I should feel bad. I should be embarrassed, but I'm not, because I you know, and I'm not going to feel bad when I tell you 30 times, literally to make sure something doesn't happen, and I'm paying you, and I tell you 30 times.
Speaker 1:Which is probably a hundred.
Speaker 2:Yes, and then you still do it. I didn't feel bad, but I lost my shit and it was so bad, it was bad, y'all. It was bad, like when I lose it like that I don't even know. And for you know, my family listening they're like you know, that's true, I don't even know what's happening. Yeah, it was so bad. Poor little Dylan and y'all everybody. Dylan is genuinely as sweet as he seems on Instagram. He's truly that sweet of a person. He was so wrecked.
Speaker 1:Stephen was like what happened to Dylan.
Speaker 2:He was hiding in the guest bedroom.
Speaker 1:On the other side of the bed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the floor, huddled up in a ball in the floor.
Speaker 1:He's like I'm just going to sit this one out.
Speaker 2:He was like uh-uh, this is crazy.
Speaker 1:That is so funny because I can just picture poor little Dylan being like oh he has lost his shit. I got to go and don't.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing, when I'm in the middle of losing it and Dylan knows this.
Speaker 1:Don't say it's the thing when I'm in the middle of losing it and Dylan knows this.
Speaker 2:Don't say it's okay. Yeah, dylan.
Speaker 1:Or calm down. You better let it go, because if someone says it's okay or calm down, it's not that big of a deal. Oh shoot, I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 2:And, like I said, I you know and you guys, you guys really know my personality. You've listened to this long enough. I will give you the shirt off my back.
Speaker 1:Don't try to cover up how nice you are, don't just ignore yeah. So the project manager went out and got stuff to start cleaning, right, yeah. And then the owner of the company came over and was like well, you don't have to call her dumbass anymore that's a nice.
Speaker 2:That was a nice cleaned up version.
Speaker 1:Yeah and I think it was effing dumb dumbass.
Speaker 2:With a few extra.
Speaker 1:He was like you can stop calling her that now. And you were like well, that's what she obviously is.
Speaker 2:I know, and she quit her job that day Well, I'm, you know, listen. So she quit, like quit the company. No, she just quit the job, she just went back to doing a worker. Not being a project manager, she's very nice, but you know if you can't follow up on that, but again, the company is phenomenal and I would use them again, yeah.
Speaker 1:And your bathrooms are gorgeous yeah.
Speaker 2:It all worked out and you know there is. Truthfully, now I can say there's always going to be something in a project that big. There's going to be something that goes catty wonkas and it's all how, how you deal with it. I obviously didn't deal with it too well and I'll call myself out on that.
Speaker 1:I don't know, though, but that is one thing that could have been prevented easily. I mean, that is a first of all, when you, this company, works with high end, um, you know, homes, it's not like they're doing a flip house that's empty, um. So there's a level of kind of a white glove service that's expected when you're paying a premium and someone's coming in and there's a project manager. So it was kind of a big deal, but I just thought that was so funny, because you were like I was looking for Dylan and he was over in the corner sitting there, yeah, it was, and I wish you know, know, I wish I didn't have that.
Speaker 2:That is a flaw, I guess, of mine, and I can admit that, and I wish I didn't have that. But I just I have no patience when I've told somebody a million times like there's a pothole there's a pothole, don't fall in it. There's a pothole, there's a pothole, and we just go in it. There's a pothole, there's a pothole, and we just go jump right in it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:That is my biggest. I will keep my cool and calm pretty much on. I'm pretty, you know, patient and whatever. My biggest button Well, it's just to explode is when I have tried to prevent something like I know this is going to happen and I have tried and tried to prevent it and directly told someone this is this, you know, don't do this. Here's the whatever. Laid it out directly to them and then they still do it.
Speaker 1:I have that is that's when I flip, that's when I flip to and that's when I have flipped a couple of times on employees and you know the one, like at the warehouse, I was like hey, told every employee this item is coming in, do not do this with it because of blah, blah, blah. I've written it down, I've texted you, I've told you Comes in, does exactly what I told you not to do. You're getting a cussing at that point. You are going to remember the situation when I'm done with you.
Speaker 2:I was remodeling. I don't know if you remember this story. I was remodeling at McDonald's and I mean I remember where I was sitting on paperwork looking out onto the parking lot and they were cutting up the parking lot.
Speaker 1:well, I knew where the water line or?
Speaker 2:something sewage, a sewer I knew where the line ran right, it's right. So I get my ass up. I walk out there in the middle of the construction mess and I said I went out there and said there's a sewer line right here, please, we cannot hit that Right, we will have to close the store. It will be a disaster.
Speaker 2:Right, you know like eight times it's right here. We got to be real careful, right. You know, like eight times it's right here we have. We gotta be real careful, right. I know more. When Ian sat down, they came in, we hit the sewer line, we hit it. It's a mess.
Speaker 1:That's the kind of thing that that is my biggest hot button that you can do.
Speaker 2:I was speechless at that. I was like am I being punked?
Speaker 1:You're going to have to wait in the shit yourself. We ain't closing. If you had to dig it out with your hands.
Speaker 2:Another time I went ballistic. And it was already done then, and it doesn't do any good to go ballistic. I know that I get it, the damage is done, but damn.
Speaker 1:No, it does do good, because I feel like it's a teaching moment and you're going to remember it. You are going to remember it at that point.
Speaker 2:It's the damnedest thing. I mean literally. I walked back into the restaurant.
Speaker 1:It's so much worse because you've put in all the effort to stop it it makes it so much worse because you've put in all the effort to stop it.
Speaker 2:I even stayed there and sat there watching them and I was like we're getting a little close.
Speaker 2:I'm going to walk out there. So I walked out there again you know I'd already done this with the project manager, the superintendent, everybody. I walk out there again. I'm there just to make sure this doesn't happen. And I'm like okay, guys, there's a big sewer line running right here. I don't know if they just thought I was stupid. I didn't know what I was talking about. Literally no more guy in sat down and I was like they look like they're close to that. You know, a few minutes later, well, we, we hid the sewer Like oh my God, I mean, it was within 20 minutes.
Speaker 1:That happened with our patio. So we have, we have two breaker boxes, so like a main panel that's in our garage and then we have a, I guess, a sub panel that's on the back of our house, on the back of our back corner anyway of our house, and there is a huge power line that is buried between the two boxes. And we were like, hey, there's this line here, because when you call the power people, they don't mark that line, because it's they only mark from the pole to the to the where the meter is.
Speaker 1:So this would be between the meter to this other box. So it's your problem, so it's our problem. Hey, there's a power line here. There is a power line here. There is a buried power that goes from that box to this box. So it's got to be like right here, chopped, chopped, right through it, just just. I mean right through it.
Speaker 2:Yeah there was a line here yeah, what, who the?
Speaker 1:hell knew, I know Got to turn off the power, got to get this. Just blows my mind.
Speaker 2:I remember when that happened. You called me. I was already irritated, you were so disgusted.
Speaker 1:I was already irritated with the whole project and the people that we used in the whole thing and then to do that I was just like.
Speaker 2:I have a riddle for you. We haven't done a riddle in a while. Well, tell it Okay.
Speaker 1:I kind of feel like maybe I've done this one before, now that I'm reading it again. But I'm covered with eyes, but I can't see, and I live mostly in the dark. What am I? Covered with eyes, but I can't see, and I live mostly in the dark. What am I? Eyes Covered with eyes, but I can't see and I live mostly in the dark. What am I?
Speaker 2:Covered in eyes. Stove Oven Stove Range top.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but that's a good potato, oh.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess a range doesn't live mostly in the dark. Oh, that's true, it's a potato. Is it a potato or a potato?
Speaker 1:Potato, that's one that do people confuse, that one. No, tomato tomato.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I say tomato Pecan pecan. Tomato mater tater Peony, peony, Peony. Now growing up, all I said was peony, Did you? Yeah, that's all peony. That's all we said in the country.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have a little something. I think we're on the same page about this, but we're going to talk through this one, something that drives me crazy. First part of it is if you are on social media and you are posting that you need prayer requests, I cannot stand when people put on their prayer requests and don't give any details, and then it seems attention grabbing to me, like if something. So I'm telling you, as my bestie, if something happens to me we've talked about this there's two things. One, if something happens to me and you're like y'all, we need some prayers for Wesley, you know, please put that out there. Tell them why. You know Romeo stepped on out there. Tell them why you know Romeo stepped on his foot and chopped his big toe off.
Speaker 2:He's in bad shape.
Speaker 1:Tell me, tell I want my info told, and the same thing if or when I die, I want it to be told how or what happened to me.
Speaker 2:It was a car wreck going to market. Yes, bad it was bad it was bad.
Speaker 1:You know, I want the detail. I don't want anyone to go, I want it to be like you know, something happened and he passed away. You can clean it up and he passed away instantly. Well, in prayer.
Speaker 2:I think prayers are great yes, I do too, but I'm a person and this is just me. Everybody can do what they do. I don't like to put a lot of personal stuff like personal personal when I'm going through it. When my mother was sick with cancer, I put nothing out there, right. And for me I was having such a hard time, I mean, I needed prayers, I needed lots of prayers, but I could not discuss it with one other person Like it was. So I was so raw, right, emotions were so raw. It couldn't be out there Like, I couldn't deal with it. My mother really didn't like that, didn't want that kind of attention.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, and I just couldn't deal with it.
Speaker 1:But you also you just so, you just did nothing.
Speaker 2:I did nothing.
Speaker 1:You didn't say please pray for my mom, and then no details. No, and other people Because that I feel like creates more.
Speaker 2:Drama.
Speaker 1:Drama and what's wrong. What's going on when just go ahead and say they're just?
Speaker 2:having a hard time, okay, yeah, well, I can deal with that, right, yeah, well, I can deal with that, right yeah, they're just, you know, been depressed, stressed, okay. I mean, I get it, I live that Right. Yeah, I mean and I think that's a personality thing and hell, maybe I should be more open at the time of things, but I'm just not. You should be.
Speaker 1:Well, and also I feel like if you put it out there, you know, people know what to pray about, people know like what you're going through how they may help.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how they may help. Or maybe, okay, take a step back. You know they're going through this or whatever. I feel like if you're going to put it out there, you're going to get attention from it anyway. Yeah, so go ahead and put it out there. So if one day I'm laid up in the hospital, put it out there. You know, please pray for Wesley. Such and such has happened. He's going to have to have such and such surgery. May or may not survive. Put it out there, I do not. I'm telling you.
Speaker 2:I put it out there. Oh, I do not. I'm telling you, I want it out there.
Speaker 1:I think this could be it yeah, whatever it is, and if I pass away for some reason, I want it to. I hate when you have to go digging to find out why someone everyone does it. Every one of you listening knows when you hear someone pass away, you're like what happened to them. You're trying to go back on their social media.
Speaker 2:After a long illness. What was it? What was it? Well, how bad was it? I didn't know. He was sick, just put it out there. I mean, it's true, a friend of mine died, you know what, three, three or four weeks ago. The funeral was when we were in florida, so it wasn't a few weeks ago, and people were. You know what happened, what you know, yeah, and you know, just then the rumor meal starts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I didn't know he'd be well. Well, he wasn't sick. He was sick for all of three weeks of his life. Yeah, great, I mean, it doesn't get much better than that.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:You're 80, 83 years old and you've been sick for three weeks.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Pretty good run Right.
Speaker 1:Sad, yeah, yeah it is, but I'm just like put it out, so put it out there.
Speaker 2:Well, you and I always talk about that. They'll just put died.
Speaker 1:And if you go I'll make sure I give all the details too.
Speaker 2:Well, and you don't have to give all. Just you know, had a heart attack.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:It doesn't have to be Died in a car accident.
Speaker 1:Mine even I want it to be okay. Let's say I had a heart attack. For example, leslie had a heart attack on X day and died on, passed away on X day, so that they know like, oh well, he had a heart attack but he survived a few days and then he passed away. That's how I want mine.
Speaker 2:Well, you just have to tell them the announcement the way it needs to you know, cause that? Well, I'm telling you, most people most people don't, and I think, I think, if you go before me, which you? I mean, I'm so much older. You're only eight years older than me. I think it needs to be something like he was, you know, attacked by a gang of emus. He didn't stand a change, they just stomped the shit out of him.
Speaker 1:And if that's the way I go, that's how I want it published too.
Speaker 2:But if it's something boring, like just old age or heart attack, I think we just need to make up something good.
Speaker 1:You could do that too. I'm fine with that. Yeah, just tell some kind of story. Yeah, you know, passed away in his sleep, you can say you know, I don't know, he just whatever you know he had been on one of them drunks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, fell off the back porch.
Speaker 1:That was all she wrote. I just hate when I see that someone passed away and I have to dig and dig to try to find out how they passed away, because then there's a mystery of, like, well, what happened, yeah, why? Because I need to know for myself, in case, you know, I don't know, I just need to know, like, oh my gosh, they died of a heart attack at 44. Oh, I'm 44. Oh, am I having a heart? You know?
Speaker 2:I need to know yeah.
Speaker 1:Like the whole.
Speaker 2:Thing yeah, I mean a guy that I knew died like a month ago, that's like younger than me.
Speaker 1:They didn't say god you're like, and that's the worst when they're like, no so no illness, nothing. Yeah, I'm like well, oh my gosh, what happened?
Speaker 2:what was it natural? Was it suicide? I mean, you don't know? Yeah, and it may. It leads your mind to all these other things.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm saying for peace of mind. I need to know what it is anyway. That's just my thing. Well, I guess we got to wrap this baby up. A reminder I forgot to mention at the beginning of the show that we have our fun things going on this month. If you go to whosedrivingpodcastcom, it's always in the show notes below. If you join in the month of April our online community you can use the code April and get 50% off the subscription fee for the first two months. Whosedrivingpodcastcom. You can also listen there for free and go back and listen to previous episodes. But that's also where you can join our online community and you can watch our episodes there as well. So if you've been on the fence or wanting to do that, now's a great time to do it. You get 50% off. You get to watch all the previous ones. You're getting that deal, don't?
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Speaker 2:It's the best thing in the world.
Speaker 1:We've talked about it many times and we're going to select someone to get one for free. Just something fun. I thought that'd be good. Remember to leave us a review wherever you're listening to the podcast and share us with your friends. That always helps us out, but that's all I got this week. Hopefully you're not having to announce anything prayers or death about me.
Speaker 2:I hope not. We don't need any.
Speaker 1:Well, we need prayer anyway. We need prayers every day.
Speaker 2:But hopefully nothing's wrong.
Speaker 1:But if something's wrong, tell them what it is. Get on here. Well, you wouldn't know how to record a podcast if I wasn't here. No, I'd be a mess you just have to get it on Instagram. Tell them, oh y'all.
Speaker 2:I could probably get this up and run. I could get this going. I couldn't get that going.
Speaker 1:Well, you can't do it without that, so this ain't no good without that.
Speaker 2:Well, without the video.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you could do it without the video. Yeah, yeah, you could do it without the video?
Speaker 2:Yeah, then you wouldn't know how to get it on published. Oh, I've not good with technology, don't claim to be.
Speaker 1:This only lasts as long as both of us are here, yeah, and then it's done. All right, have a great week and we'll see you next week. Thanks, guys.