WEBVTT - MisSchooled 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:16.160 Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. We all deal 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.560 with a lot of stuff in our lives and things 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:25.200 are hard, things are challenging. But I gotta say, I'm 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.360 a tough cookie. I can usually get through anything. But 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.520 I'm just going to say, back to school, Oh boy, 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:37.879 what might be the most challenging thing in life. It's 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:43.360 a bold statement. Fact. Back to school is really hard. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.199 It's not easy. It's it's not for the week. So 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.800 my kids went back to school, which is a blessing 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.760 and a curse because I'm kind of you know, there's 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.320 there's two camps, right, there's the parents that are like, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.720 oh god, they're back to school. I can get my 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:08.240 stuff done, my kids around, I gotta say, And even 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.959 though I wake up at like six am, it's that 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.119 actual like getting ready and getting them out the door 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:22.600 that I hate. So summer to me, summer break is 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.960 joyous because I'm like, Okay, that's kind of my knee 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.480 time is I wake up early and I can get 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.679 my stuff done and they're still sleep I'm blessed with 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.360 good sleepers, Thank goodness. You know. I talk to other 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:42.240 parents and they still have kids even when they get older. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.560 That you know, wake up at five am, six am. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.640 My kids sleep like if I didn't wake them, which 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.640 during summer I'm like, quiet, what don't wake the beast? 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.880 It's sleep all day, which during summer I'm mad at that. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.360 But back to the grind. I will toot my own 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.480 horn for a moment, which you know I don't like 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:10.080 to do. But five kids back to school, Oh my god, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:17.480 it's wow. It's a lot so this year in particular, 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.800 and this is the first year I have five kids 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:27.320 with five drop offs and pickups, which doing alone is 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:33.880 not humanly possible. And their dad helps, but he's working, 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:40.520 and so we have to coordinate schedules. And primarily I'm well, 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:45.000 I'm the Uber driver. I am a glorified Uber driver, 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.880 adding that to my resume, call myself Torri of all trades, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:54.359 and now I am I'm a great driver. Ill I mean, 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.880 but yeah, I do five drop offs this year. Hi, 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:02.200 I'm Tori, and I do five draws, which you know, 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.920 some out there might say, okay, well you have five 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:10.240 drop offs, but it's the time crunch. It's the you know, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.840 it's not on Tory time, which is I'm if you 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.600 know me, you know, if you know you know, I'm 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:24.480 notoriously late to everything, but school waits for no one. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.680 They man don't care, you know, they're minute late. They're charty, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.360 So don't want to be a tardy to the party, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.200 the school party. So it's gonna not that you care. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.800 Run you through my drop offs because they're kind of 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:47.200 not humanly possible, which is something I'm grappling with. So 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:51.480 five schools and they're not like right around the corner 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.440 from each other, so I have to, uh, I have 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:01.320 to go. Wow, I have to get my youngest to 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:07.240 his elementary school. He's the first drop off. I have 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:13.000 to then get my next two to their middle school. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.480 I then have to get my daughter Stella to her 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.960 high school, and then my son Liam to his high school. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:29.280 And they have really odd times for drop offs and picks. Yeah, 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.080 so it's like one of them is like at eight fifty. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.960 It's like eight fifty. Okay, it's not eight thirty, it's 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.640 not nine, it's eight fifty. Cool one is eight thirty five. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:47.120 The challenging one is one is at eight thirty and 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:53.279 one is at eight thirty five. But uh, if I 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:57.040 could like time warp or fly or you know, just 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.680 like what they do in Bewitch, which your no, and 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:05.840 like you're there or going back to my bestie William Shatner, 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.440 beat me up, Scottie, be me to school. It just 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:16.280 it's not humanly possible to get from somewhere at drop 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.720 off at eight thirty to a school that is fifteen 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.880 minutes away by eight thirty five. So yeah, you know 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:30.640 the tricks for that, let me know. And their public school, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.800 so you know, no one's you know, it's not some 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.200 like fancy private school where they're like, okay, misspelling cool, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:43.720 we understand the challenge. We'll make an exception because you 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:53.359 are physically geographically not able to do that. It's like, no, 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.920 they don't wait for anyone. You know, there's thousands of kids, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.320 and it's like you got to be in class. So 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.680 technically one starts to eat thirty one starts to eat 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.080 thirty five, but you have to be like in the classroom, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:12.640 in your seat. It's time. I'm here, wow, And my 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.920 kids are stressed. They're like I'm gonna be late and 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:20.839 I'm like cool. Uh so, so yeah, that's something I'm 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:25.800 dealing with. So what a week it's been figuring that out, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.520 which I just can't figure out and it's so odd 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.360 the pickup times. I told someone this and they were like, wait, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.280 did you say that right? I was like, yeah, one 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:44.920 of the pickups it's at three twelve, three twelve? Why twelve? Ok, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.480 you have to pick them up at three twelve, not again, 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.760 not three, not three ten even not three fifteen, not 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:59.719 three thirty, three twelve, Okay, cool on it. So yeah, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:05.839 so I'm trying to work that out. As the robot, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.280 I am not and I can't make magic happen. Well 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:14.200 I wish I could, but so that's that's my challenge. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.560 And you know, I know we're all dealing with the 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.400 same challenge getting kids back to school, getting back to 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:25.760 a routine, and then it's just, oh my gosh, I'm 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.280 getting them ready for back to school. I was like, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.040 you know what at this point, I'm an older mom. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.520 I just don't have it in me. I'm like, what 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.960 are the basics? What do you need? You know, they 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:43.160 send you lists and you get all these emails, you 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:47.280 get fifty million emails and you're just like, oh my gosh, 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:52.000 I'm all. First of all, my inbox takes school out 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.440 of it is filled with spam, and I'm tech challenge, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.200 So tell myself that so I can be lazy and 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.480 not actually die into it and just do the work 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.480 of getting all the spam removed. But I mean I 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.840 get spam for the weirdest things. And you, guys, I'm 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.600 telling you, I mean you would think someone hears us, right, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:18.720 is it Alexa? Alexa? Is it Siri? Whatever? Is it? Amazon? 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.600 Hears us? I don't know our computers, our phones, they 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:26.840 somehow know what we look into and send us that. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.920 You guys, I don't even watch porn, Like I get 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.960 so much porn spam you would think for the amount 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.199 of poop I talk about, I would get like mad 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.640 spam and like lots of emails from like you know, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:48.840 I don't know, Keptobismo or like emodium or or something 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.800 something like that. But no, I get like weird things. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.679 It's like, you know, how to increase the size of 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.000 your penis? And I was like, listen, I feel like 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.360 I'm a check who's got some big balls, not literally, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.640 but I don't have a penis, Like I don't need 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.839 to increase the size of my penis. Thank you. Can 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.280 we get that removed? And it's just like all of 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.920 those things like can't get it up. I'm like, I 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.000 don't know what they think. You know, I am a 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.160 woman in menopause, but there's nothing to get up, like 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.400 I'm already I'm here. But anyway, first of all, so 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.480 I get like tons of that crap. So I'm just 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.560 like delete, delete, delete. And then you have the school emails, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:35.160 and you know they probably don't think most have five kids, 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.720 so you know, they're like, these are really important. You 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.240 have to read every single email. And I'm inundated by 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:48.720 emails daily, by so many things saying poor me here. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.200 You know this is I chose to have these five beings, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.120 and I'm in it for the long run till very 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:04.880 data least. So yeah, that's my current life. You know, 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:09.560 not to mention work. I mean, god forbid, you're not 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.920 just a mom or a dad, you know, doing the 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.880 drop offs and doing the apparently things. You might actually 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.640 have a job or you know, or a few four 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:27.080 or five or you know, so still doing all of that. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.520 And the people are like, oh, I know, you know, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:34.720 you're going through a divorce, going through a lot of stuff. Personally, 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.240 where's your me time? Like me time? Are you a 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.840 kidding me? Like I wouldn't even have time for me 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.480 time if I tried, but you know, it's just it's 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:56.840 a whole other thing. And then you know what I 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.840 do envy a little bit, like moms are like, oh okay, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.080 And then I did a drop off and I got 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.080 to the gym or I got to pull outies got 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.680 to yoga, and I'm like, I did you take a moment, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:16.600 I do a deep breath to acknowledge how nice that sounds. Yep, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:23.000 but on the list future plans, but yeah, they're all 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:27.240 back in school, so here you go. That's not gonna stop. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.360 So yeah, I should get some sort of is there 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:35.000 like a special rewards program for like you know they 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.920 have frequent Flyer miles, like if I got frequent driver 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.439 miles for as much as I am on the road. Again, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.800 like I am on the road, So if you see 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.440 me out there driving here, driven there, drop off, pickup, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:57.760 drop off, pickup. Well, I know Stella is a junior 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:02.000 this year in high school, and it's just you see 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.680 the kids going back and doing the things and making 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.720 the friends and going through all of the stuff. And 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.880 I want to say PTSD. I want to say it's triggering. No, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.719 I don't want to say it's PTSD. It's triggering. We 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.640 all go back to when we were young. As much 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.920 as things change, they don't change. It's the same thing. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.920 It's just you know, a different generation. I was like, okay, 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.560 I finally, just when I think I have my day 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:38.640 mapped out, I get the text because now she's a 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.120 junior or so. They get off campus passes, you know, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.960 because a lot of them drive, and she you know, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.040 as long as you keep your grades up and your attendance, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:53.520 which I'm in charge of getting her there, not thirty right, 0:12:53.679 --> 0:13:00.120 thirty five cool? You know, she gets off campus lunch pass. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.800 And she said to me the other day, not said 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.640 because you know, the only text at this point, that's fine, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.120 you know, I hate She was like, it was basically 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.840 an so os and she was like, it's lunch. I 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.640 didn't know, and all my friends have left campus and 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:22.120 they're off, you know, having lunch. And I was like, well, 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:26.120 text them, can they come back for you? And she's like, no, Mom, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.840 it doesn't work that way. You know. This one's with 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:34.280 this friend group, this one's with her boyfriend. And I 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.360 don't know what to do because I can't eat lunch alone. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.679 And I was like, oh, I feel your sister. Yeah, no, no, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.800 I don't think I've ever eaten lunch alone. That's a lie. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.319 And you know I don't lie. I ate lunch one time. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.200 I actually went to a sushi restaurant, sat at the 0:13:55.240 --> 0:14:00.760 bar and ate lunch alone one time. Oh it was scary, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.920 did it? And I, you know, as the mom, you 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.400 feel like you have to be like you can do this, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.160 you can, you got this, you know, just you know 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.400 she can be on her phone during lunch and you know, 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.319 I was like, it's a beautiful day and thought, this 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.520 book out there right now by La, what is happening? 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:29.160 Ready for fall clothes? Nope? So hot here? But she uh, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.040 I was like, you know, find a shady place, just 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.120 be on your phone, don't look up. No one's I 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.280 try to tell her everyone is in because I went 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.560 through this my whole life thinking like you know, a 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.280 people mad at me, or they looking at me like me, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.720 or they wondering what is she doing like? And I 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.640 was like, you know what I've learned trying to learn. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.480 I tell myself this doesn't work. So Lisa, I'm telling her, 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.800 I'm like, you know what, everyone is in their own 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.080 head about their own lives, like what we think that 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:08.320 they're thinking. They're not thinking, they're thinking about themselves, So 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.040 don't worry. Like, you know, there's thousands of kids on campus, like, 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.280 you know, nobody is looking and being like that girl's 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.800 sitting alone lunch. But so I told her that and 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.240 she was like, no, no, I can't do that. And 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:27.160 she said, Mama, I'm currently in the bathroom and she said, uh, 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:32.080 I'm sitting here, you know, in a stall. And it 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.240 all came crashing back to me and I was like, 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.640 oh my gosh, I did that. And I said, well, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.920 I always try to find the silver lining. I don't 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.080 like silver that much, you know, I like my techlics 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:51.680 gold gold lining was blooming Gilver okay, Stella find the 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:59.560 Gilver lining and god, I love mecalls Talus for the wind. Sorry, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:04.200 I guess I tracked. I was like, you know, at least, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.720 I was like, you know, I try not to because 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.840 I feel like people don't like when they are sharing 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:16.360 their feelings and their experience. When you say, well this 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.760 happened to me or when I've been through this, you know, 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.520 they're like it kind of shuts people down. They want 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.680 to be acknowledged for what they're going through. But I 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.960 did not do that, and I jumped right in. I said, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:37.840 been there, done it, Gilver Lining, Stella, you have a phone. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:43.560 Keep in mind, thirty plus years ago I did this. 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.760 There were times when I was like, oh my god, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.400 my friends aren't here today at school. Oh my good 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.280 eat lunch with and I'm like, what do I do? 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.040 What do I do? Head of the bathroom? You know, 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.960 you sit on the toilet, toilet seat down, seating off, 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:03.520 fallen and legs up because no one wants to walk 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.640 through and be like who is that? Look at your shoes, 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:12.320 you know, criss cross apple sauce on the toilet, seats 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:17.960 lid down and you're on your phone Gilver Lining. When 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.440 I did this thirty plus years ago, there were no phones, 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.560 so I just had to sit there in silence, munching 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.760 on my tuna sandwich. Oh my mom, it's tuna sage. 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.399 So at least there was that, And you know me, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.479 I cope with jokes. And she didn't find it funny. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.159 She was like, mom, what do I do? So I 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.960 was like, all right, how long's lunch? I can be 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.680 there in fifteen minutes and she's like, yes, please please, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.439 So I drove to campus, and she came out and 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.919 sat in the car and was able to eat her 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.520 lunch in the car with me. But I mean, come on, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.959 no one wants to sit in the car eating their 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.520 lunch with their mom. Let's be real. Even though as 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:14.480 it was happening, I looked over and there was a 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:19.480 young man sitting with his dad having a subway sandwich, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.119 and I was like, oh my god, that's so cool, Like, 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.560 you know, it happens. She didn't find that cool, but 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.960 you know, I'm you gotta just kind of try to 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.880 walk them through it, even though it's like, oh, all 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.800 the memories come back or you know, it's that thing 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:42.080 like the classes. The classes were a big thing, big thing, 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.440 like I didn't get this person in my class, and 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.920 I was like, or this person's not very nice, this 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:54.719 person gives me the stinking this person there's always a reason. 0:18:55.359 --> 0:19:00.159 And I try to say, you know what, like this 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.119 is setting the stage for life, Like you you're gonna 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:08.240 go to work one day and there's gonna be people 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:12.080 that you don't like and people that don't like you, 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:16.720 and people that are going to be not kind. Because 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:22.119 that's life, whether you know, it's a toddler a teen 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.720 or an adult human should know better and be kind 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.840 of people. Sorry, not better at all. We all go 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.840 through it, still have to go to work. You can't 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.920 say like, oh my god, I'm so sorry I can't 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.800 come into work. I can't be next to that person 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:47.000 in a cubicle because they gave me the side eye 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:53.159 and they told me like my shoes weren't cool. It's like, uh, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.880 imagine your boss is like, oh, I'm so sorry, let 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:02.480 me move you right away. So that doesn't fly. I 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:07.240 will be super grateful when my kids drive, because I'm 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:11.440 circling back here. The drop offs, the pickups, I got 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:16.119 five of them. You know, I was graced with five 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.719 beautiful babies cut open five times for those c sections. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:26.000 Give me something back. The older ones help me drive, 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:31.240 help me do drop offs and pickups and everything in between. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.600 So my oldest, who is a boy, he has no 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:40.520 desire to get his license. He's like, nah, I'm cool, 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:46.560 Nah you can drive me, Dad can drive me. Uber's fine, 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:53.560 taking an Uber. And I'm like, what's so interesting to me? 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:59.040 Because when I was young, it's still young in heart. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.679 I couldn't wait to get my license, Like when I 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:07.040 could get my permit. I was on it. Want when 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.119 I get my license. I got it the day I 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:15.360 turned sixteen, and I was like out the door. I mean, granted, 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.080 it was a whole different landscape. Granted it was a 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:22.719 whole different golden world for me back then. And you know, 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.240 I was lucky enough if I got a car, I 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:31.560 got you know, all the bells and whistles. When I 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:36.160 was growing up spelling, I still like wanted my license. 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.639 And kids nowadays, I feel like there's we've made it 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:44.240 so convenient for them to get places and do things 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:47.440 and everything done for them. They don't care about getting 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:54.000 their license. It's like, ugh, I care, help me, help you, 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.320 which helps me. But my six year old Stella, she 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:04.840 really wants her license, super driven driven I brought back around. 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:11.560 Oh godns just don't stop. I you know what, in 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:16.600 a different lifetime, I would have crushed it being an 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:24.080 advertising like screw mad men, mad women. Oh there's something there. Yeah, 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:26.960 we'll work on that one. It's a good idea anyway. 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.600 But yeah, I always got the puns. Any who, she 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.680 really wants it, and I don't know. When I was young, 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:38.480 they offered it in school or you could sign up. 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:43.560 You went and sat in glass. Everything's online now and yeah, 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:48.240 so she's still working through the driving, Like she's like, mom, 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:52.000 there's fourteen chapters. I'm like, still get through it. So yeah, 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:54.479 she's close to it. Then she gets her permit and 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:57.720 then you know, one day, one day she's gonna be 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:02.560 able to drive. Everybody so happy. I can't wait for 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:07.639 that day. But until then that five drop offs, five pickups, 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:11.439 and then the friends and then you know, at summer break, 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.840 I feel like I'm always thinking, like during summer, I 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:17.919 always want to see my friends and hang out. My 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:22.160 kids want to be with me. Grateful, but you know, 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:28.920 they just hung out. But school back in session. Everybody's like, oh, 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:31.400 can you take me to the mall? The mall, Oh 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:35.480 my god, the mall's the bane of my existence. So 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:41.280 I'd say eight thirty five drop off, Oh the mall. 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:43.920 They all want to go to the mall, the mall. 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:45.639 Can you drop me here? They don't want to go 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:49.040 together now, and we're a close family unit. We still 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:53.160 do everything together. But they have their friend groups and 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:57.880 you know, the different ages, and they you know, can 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:00.800 you drop me off here? Can you do this? Can 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:04.280 they pick me up? And they have no concept of time. 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:08.040 I don't know where they got that from. They think like, again, 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:11.840 I can transport and just be like, oh yeah, sure 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:13.639 I can do this and pick this one up and 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:15.800 drop that one off and then go to this one's 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:21.720 house and yeah, whoa, it's a lot. I sound like 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:24.920 I'm bitter about this. I'm not. And if you don't 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:27.560 have kids, you're like, what the folk is she talking about? 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:35.240 But so anyway, this podcast, this episode of Misspelling, is 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:41.199 brought to you by birth Control. Yeah, this is uh 0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:45.520 if you haven't had kids and you are like, what kids? 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:50.480 And maybe I helped you out here, so yeah, this 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:54.480 isn't planned b this is this is plan T. You're welcome. 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:57.639 Every fan chuckled the. 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:00.240 Van I chuckled, that was really fun. 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:14.040 Well were then you had a question? I didn't have 0:25:14.080 --> 0:25:14.560 a question. 0:25:14.680 --> 0:25:17.720 I just sort of had a comment and I had 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:23.400 the luck of being asked to pick up some children. 0:25:23.359 --> 0:25:28.600 For you got the car fol lines, yes, and say. 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:32.160 That I've never seen anything like it in my life. 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:36.080 Hundreds of cars lined up to pick up children. It's 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:42.520 just not a civilized way of transporting children in my opinion, 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:44.480 that people have to sit in their cars for like 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:47.480 hours to pick up their children to drive them for 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:50.200 fifteen minutes. So when I went to pick Stella up, 0:25:50.680 --> 0:25:53.679 I broke the rules. I didn't really know there were 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:55.960 any rules. So I was like, Oh, there's a spot 0:25:56.000 --> 0:25:59.520 across the street, I'll just take that. And I'm sure 0:25:59.560 --> 0:26:02.359 it's still mortified running across the street to get in 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:05.040 the car, the car that had cut in front of. 0:26:05.680 --> 0:26:09.399 Hundreds of other cars. But I don't know how you 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:11.880 do it. I don't know how you do it. And 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:16.600 you know, me nice to a fault, like, oh, what 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:18.880 does everyone think of me? They're gonna be mad, They're 0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:24.760 gonna be Oh so I won't break rules, you know, 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:29.960 So I, for instance, the drop off, which is the 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:34.680 pickup you did the other day today? Gang off the freeway. 0:26:35.680 --> 0:26:39.800 It was lined up, it was lined up on you 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:42.440 know you're getting off the freeway. You're in the far 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:45.679 lane because you're gonna be making a right. It was 0:26:45.880 --> 0:26:48.359 all lined up, and I'm like, everyone's going to that 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:54.480 high school. Oh my god, we actually found a roundabout way. 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:58.440 You have you have to think outside the box, even 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:03.760 though unfortunately education in schools won't want to put you 0:27:03.840 --> 0:27:07.320 in a box. But you have to be creative. I 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:11.200 got that in folds and we took a side street. 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:14.879 But if I had been that freeway lineup, not only 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:17.439 was she going to be tardy, she was gonna be 0:27:17.520 --> 0:27:21.120 like hello, walking into period two. It would have been 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:25.120 time to pick her up. I'm not kidding, it would 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:27.840 have been. And I was just like, what is what 0:27:28.000 --> 0:27:32.720 is going on? And then once there's only so there's 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:37.000 a freeway exit, there's a little roundabout street, but once 0:27:37.040 --> 0:27:39.480 you got on that main road, there's one way in, 0:27:40.160 --> 0:27:44.159 a long way out, and you got to get in that. 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:49.720 There's no bypassing that. So if you're in line, you're 0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:52.639 in line, and you know she's going back and forth 0:27:52.680 --> 0:27:55.520 with her friends. Where are you in line? Where are you? 0:27:55.720 --> 0:27:58.080 And it's like it's just it. 0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:00.439 Is s fall. 0:28:00.760 --> 0:28:07.040 Oh that was like a fun sound creating my own asm. 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:12.600 Why don't as parents, you guys, cardpull your children? Like 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:13.719 is that even an option? 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:16.119 I mean, what I saw blew my mind. 0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:21.320 I'm still in shock that that is what parents do 0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:25.520 every school day, to drop off and pick up like that. 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:32.040 Then there's the crossing guards, God bless crossing guards across America. 0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:36.400