Speaker 1: Apod Shape Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am
Speaker 1: I a Bad Mum Podcast? Are You Christmas Ready?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not Christmas Ready.
Speaker 3: I listened to our podcast where we were talking about
Speaker 3: being Christmas ready, and I even got just like that
Speaker 3: little bit of anxious in my belly, going, you steal
Speaker 3: not even trying to get Christmas ready.
Speaker 1: When you buy one present and it's what you wanted
Speaker 1: and it's the price you wanted and all the rest
Speaker 1: of it, I feel like then you're on like kind
Speaker 1: of a roll. But it's getting that first one done.
Speaker 3: I keep making the mistake of like sort of just
Speaker 3: popping into the shop popping out because you're just fitting
Speaker 3: in when you can during the day, right when you
Speaker 3: don't have others with you, and so it's usually like
Speaker 3: at peak time when everyone else seems to be there.
Speaker 2: I really need to change his shit up.
Speaker 1: I saw the ladies though when I was in West
Speaker 1: the ladies that do the wrapping, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could really, but I just don't want to go
Speaker 1: back in that shopping center.
Speaker 3: No oh no, I think it's like a I think
Speaker 3: it's like a do it as you're there, yeah kind
Speaker 3: of vibe.
Speaker 1: But the problem is is that I then forget what
Speaker 1: I've got. I don't know what you're like with the kids.
Speaker 1: I like to see it all, so I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that all looks good, you know.
Speaker 3: Because I think I was telling you I don't have
Speaker 3: the space or like the availability on the twenty fourth
Speaker 3: this year to be able to just do my normal
Speaker 3: wrap at midnight on the twenty fourth, Like, I don't
Speaker 3: have that this year, So I really need to be
Speaker 3: at least prepared prior to the twenty second.
Speaker 1: That's stressful. I've been there and done wrapping on the
Speaker 1: twenty fourth and then had a glass of wine and
Speaker 1: then had another glass of wine, run out of wrapping
Speaker 1: paper and all that kind.
Speaker 2: Of stand run out of wine, and.
Speaker 1: Then forget to write people's name on the presents. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's food.
Speaker 3: The figures or you see them like unwrap something, You're like, fuck,
Speaker 3: that wasn't for you if you got that.
Speaker 1: Am I a bad mom for being a bad influence?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 3: Like this it is that time of year where we
Speaker 3: can probably be a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Of a bad influence to others.
Speaker 1: So I went to Bunnings the other day, right, and
Speaker 1: I bought a lamp that I didn't need because I
Speaker 1: don't yet have the table for the lamp to go on.
Speaker 1: But I really liked the lamp. Jay looks at me
Speaker 1: and goes, what are you gonna do with that? You've
Speaker 1: got nowhere to put the lamp. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, but I will have someone put it. And
Speaker 1: I really like the lamp anyway, Got it home, it's broken.
Speaker 1: It's just annnoying. Okay, fine, back to Bunnings we go.
Speaker 1: Went back to Bunnings, swapped it for another one. Got
Speaker 1: it home, it's broken? What and the fact that I
Speaker 1: didn't check the second one on the first one that
Speaker 1: annoyed were broken?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a glass.
Speaker 1: Lamp shade and there were only two there, and obviously
Speaker 1: they'd been dropped, so yeah, they were both broken. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I've then taken the second lamp back to the shop,
Speaker 1: and as I'm lining up for the service desk, the
Speaker 1: lady in front of me has a dead plant and
Speaker 1: is returning it. I was like, sorry, I really watched
Speaker 1: with interest because I was like, what's going to happen here?
Speaker 1: She's literally got a pot plant completely dead? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she's taken it up to the counter.
Speaker 2: And I'm watching yea, and she got a real fund
Speaker 2: because she killed the plant.
Speaker 1: Yes, so then she's then gone with her money. The
Speaker 1: lady behind the counter's got the dead plant. She was
Speaker 1: like next, And then I was next with my broken leg,
Speaker 1: and I went, did that lady just return that dead plant?
Speaker 1: She went yeah, she said, it's a policy, like, you've
Speaker 1: got twelve months if you keep your receipt. I know, what,
Speaker 1: howenty plants have you had in your life from Bunnings
Speaker 1: that has died?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: But and did you ever know you could?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, no.
Speaker 3: I find that just mind blowing because majority of the time,
Speaker 3: I would say ninety eight percent of the time, it's
Speaker 3: the user that has broken it, not anything else.
Speaker 1: I said, I said, how do you know she just
Speaker 1: didn't water it for a year? She went yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: Obviously they can't police that.
Speaker 2: They don't know. Gosh.
Speaker 1: So then it got me thinking because I had a
Speaker 1: lavender plant on the table outside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's dead.
Speaker 1: And it's probably dead because I didn't order it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, I know why it's dead.
Speaker 3: Number one, it's going to be in a ground and
Speaker 3: number two, you've ordered it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I didn't keep the receipt, and I was
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, Oh, that's annoying. Now I'm annoyed at
Speaker 1: myself because I've got a plant and now I know
Speaker 1: you can take those back to Bunnings. You're probably wondering
Speaker 1: why this is am I a bad mum episode? But
Speaker 1: then I've said in front of Holly, I went, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do. I've got a great idea.
Speaker 1: I've got a great idea. I'm going to go back
Speaker 1: to Bunnings and I'm going to buy another lavender plant,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to keep my receipt and I'm going
Speaker 1: to wait a couple of weeks and I'm going to
Speaker 1: take the dead one back.
Speaker 2: Back.
Speaker 1: And she looked at me.
Speaker 2: What'd she say? You can't do that? I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 1: She went, that's not the right thing to do. I
Speaker 1: was like, and I'm arguing with her, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh god, I'm a really bad one right now. That's
Speaker 1: technically and I'm teaching her and I'm arguing with her.
Speaker 1: I can't absolutely know that is my right. The amount
Speaker 1: of plants I've brought from Bunnings over the years that
Speaker 1: have died, and I have never once taken them back
Speaker 1: and got my money back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but no one knows.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, I mean, now they do listening
Speaker 3: to this. But at the same time, do you really
Speaker 3: keep receipts for plants? Did the lady in front of
Speaker 3: you returning it have her receipt?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to.
Speaker 1: Have your receipt where you brought it from. But my
Speaker 1: thing is is that so I was really excited by
Speaker 1: this idea. I was like, yeah, I deserve to get it.
Speaker 2: I deserve my money back for killing that plant. I
Speaker 2: deserve it because.
Speaker 1: The amount of plants great. I bought a lemon tree.
Speaker 1: I bought it as a lemon tree. It's not a
Speaker 1: fucking lemon tree. I don't know what that fruit is,
Speaker 1: but it is not lemons, and it takes it to
Speaker 1: disgusting the yellow and round, so like yellow limes that
Speaker 1: aren't limes that also aren't lemons, and they have a
Speaker 1: really bitter taste.
Speaker 2: Did you buy a lemonade tree?
Speaker 1: No, I bought a lemon tree. It said it was
Speaker 1: a lemon Tree's technically it was Bunnings's fault that I've
Speaker 1: got this faulty.
Speaker 2: No, you can't take that back. You don't have at you.
Speaker 1: No, I don't have the receipt. But what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is there are enough times where.
Speaker 3: Next you're going to go and buy another one of those,
Speaker 3: take the other one back and give that back to them,
Speaker 3: get her a set.
Speaker 2: You're just going to like, you're just trying to it's
Speaker 2: a great time to update all your plants that you've killed.
Speaker 1: And then I kind of thought to myself, as I
Speaker 1: was arguing with Holly about it being the right thing
Speaker 1: to do, and she's telling me, absolutely correctly, that's the
Speaker 1: wrong thing to do. I'm sitting there thinking, do I
Speaker 1: want to be the person that lines up with the
Speaker 1: dead plant to get my seven dollars back?
Speaker 3: My next question was exactly that, I reckon, you'll get there,
Speaker 3: You'll decide, you'll send the kids in with the.
Speaker 2: Receipt and the plan and go, you go and do it. No,
Speaker 2: you have to do it. Just get a real fun.
Speaker 3: For me, seven dollars is not even worth your petrol,
Speaker 3: your time.
Speaker 1: It was like that feeling I get at a breakfast
Speaker 1: buffet where it's like you go on holiday, you do
Speaker 1: the breakfast buffet. I'll have eggs, everything in the bacon.
Speaker 1: Then I'll go on to the cheese and the cold meats,
Speaker 1: and then I'll have the curry and the because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I've paid for this breakfast buffet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am eating everything. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think breakfast buffets are great for people that genuinely
Speaker 3: really enjoy eating breakfast, because I find breakfast buffets for
Speaker 3: me just such a waste of money because I get
Speaker 3: in there, it's so overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: Then my body goes, you don't even eat breakfast half.
Speaker 3: The time, So what are you doing trying to shovel
Speaker 3: all of this food in and then fit a mimosa
Speaker 3: on top of you?
Speaker 2: Just need to slow down.
Speaker 1: I don't need breakfast, but when i'm when you're in
Speaker 1: a buffet, that's why I three meals a day work
Speaker 1: and you.
Speaker 2: I do. Oh my gosh. We went to that really
Speaker 2: big one in Sydney.
Speaker 3: Elsie again being the pikiata that she is, she ended
Speaker 3: up having like I think nearly nine to ten bowls
Speaker 3: of miso soup because it has like the international section.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she was.
Speaker 1: Like Lisa did for breakfast, and I was like, we
Speaker 1: did a seafood buffet on the gold Broast. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: seafood buffet for dinner on the Gold Coast. I remember
Speaker 1: it's the first time that Holly tried oysters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she liked.
Speaker 1: Them, and I was like, have as many as you like.
Speaker 1: It is buffet, Like just keep eating the oysters like
Speaker 1: you may as well. And then I remember going out
Speaker 1: for dinner a few weeks after that, yeah, and she
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, I'm going to look at the menu.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get the oysters. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: you're not not. Now, you're not.
Speaker 2: No, you one not unless you're paying for dinner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you just recently took them all out for
Speaker 3: dinner for their birthday with their friends, and they were
Speaker 3: trying to hit you up for oysters that night for.
Speaker 2: Like a big group of them.
Speaker 1: No, not a group birthday dinner that I am paying for. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing oysters.
Speaker 3: Have you got a credit card, put that down. You
Speaker 3: can have as many oysters as you like.
Speaker 1: Oysters are for seafood buffets only.
Speaker 3: Unless we're at dinner by ourselves, then we'll consider it
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Oh, buy oysters for myself.
Speaker 1: But I have a job, so