Speaker 1: You guys might remember the other day Britta mitche I
Speaker 1: was talking about when I was coming to work and
Speaker 1: how I almost died. And I don't mean to lad
Speaker 1: so dramatic.
Speaker 2: So painful about it Too's me that was just like
Speaker 2: a lot like you didn't almost die.
Speaker 1: I did. It was my closest near death experience. I
Speaker 1: was almost run over in the street by maniac. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have listen to this, all right, pitchure this I
Speaker 1: just dropped the kids off a daycare and I had
Speaker 1: a coffee in one hand, I had my phone in
Speaker 1: the other hand. I wasn't paying a lot of attention
Speaker 1: to the road. It was a pedestrian crossing, and so,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, I kind of assume that when
Speaker 1: you approach a pedestrian crossing, cars stop.
Speaker 2: It's like the Red Sea.
Speaker 1: You think they're just gonna part ways for you to
Speaker 1: cross it. Out of my periphery, it feels like the
Speaker 1: car that's coming is coming too fast. I look up
Speaker 1: and there it is this ninety year old lady in
Speaker 1: a Mercedes with all her windows down, fanging it straight
Speaker 1: across a pedestrian crossing. And I was like, this is
Speaker 1: one of two things. She either probably shouldn't have a license,
Speaker 1: or she has such little time left she doesn't care.
Speaker 2: So you're rubbishly of the country.
Speaker 1: I was almost rutten down and flattened by geriatric No
Speaker 1: I was. You weren't looking. It was your fault. You
Speaker 1: have to look left, right and left, even at a crossing.
Speaker 1: I don't know it was a pedestrian crossing anyway. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: not what happened here. So my beautiful mother in law, Ellie,
Speaker 1: she's moving in with us and she's just come down
Speaker 1: to stay with us for a little while.
Speaker 2: Love.
Speaker 1: We love Ellie. We've had her on the show many times.
Speaker 1: And I walked in I hadn't seen Ellie for a
Speaker 1: little while, and she said, Laura Burne, I have a
Speaker 1: bone to pick with you. Now. What's happened is that
Speaker 1: Ellie has recently retired. She used to be a school teacher,
Speaker 1: so she never ever listened to the pickup before. So
Speaker 1: we have spoken about Ellie many times on the show.
Speaker 1: I get to tell stories, I can speak freely knowing
Speaker 1: that my mother in law is never going to hear.
Speaker 1: But the tables have turned because now she's listening to
Speaker 1: every single show.
Speaker 2: And she had some real.
Speaker 1: Feelings about the fact that I was on my phone
Speaker 1: and crossing it.
Speaker 2: So what did she say to you? She's scolding you?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I got scolded like a teenager, like I
Speaker 1: was a naughty little girl, and she told me how
Speaker 1: wrong I was. And I still know. I stand by this.
Speaker 1: I know you shouldn't check your phone when you're near
Speaker 1: the road, but people need to stop if they're coming
Speaker 1: to a pedestrian crossing. That's why the lines are there. Laura,
Speaker 1: you can't constantly blame other people for your mistakes and
Speaker 1: also take this as a compliment. She likes you. She
Speaker 1: doesn't want you to die, she wants you to stay married.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, Ellie, Wait wait, Matt's mom's SAME's Ellie,
Speaker 2: Ellie and she listens to the pick up every day
Speaker 2: on Producer Grace is just I think, as Ellie called through.
Speaker 1: We've got Laura's mother and Laura Ellie mom, stop embarrassing me.
Speaker 3: If you no, no, no, no, no, you do not listen.
Speaker 3: I am so really, I'm so crossed, my darling girl,
Speaker 3: You and now the mother of too beautiful girls to
Speaker 3: adore you, and you have a husband who'd be lost
Speaker 3: without you. So tell me please, why you were walking
Speaker 3: across a road while looking at your phone?
Speaker 1: Yes, Laura, yeah, tell us because I didn't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be an intervention time, because it was a
Speaker 1: pedestrian crossing and I didn't.
Speaker 3: Laura Burn, you will stop there because it is not
Speaker 3: a magical accident free zone with some invisible armor plated protection.
Speaker 3: You do not realize how many insane drivers are out
Speaker 3: there who are probably looking at their own phones. Now,
Speaker 3: you know what, as much as I am cross with
Speaker 3: you because we love you too much for you to
Speaker 3: die some ridiculous debt, and I'm not here to pick
Speaker 3: up the pieces, Lara Burn, No.
Speaker 1: I know, and also Matt would be very sad to
Speaker 1: lose me.
Speaker 3: What I do think though, I kind of pleased that
Speaker 3: you've raised it in a way because I think there
Speaker 3: is a valuable lesson here for young people. They can
Speaker 3: wear their headphones on the bus, on the train, in
Speaker 3: the park, skate park, whatever, on the beach, but when
Speaker 3: you are navigating busy streets, headphones don't have a place.
Speaker 1: Wow, Ellie, I love you to death. You are hopefully
Speaker 1: not to death. Hopefully I stay alive for a long time.
Speaker 1: Is what we were talished, But.
Speaker 3: No, you were trying to establish nobody dies.
Speaker 1: You are such a mom through and through. And now
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit scared to come home, like I'm
Speaker 1: going to be in trouble in my own.
Speaker 2: Are you scared to interrupt? I want to let Ellie
Speaker 2: say everything she needs to say.
Speaker 1: I am literally hanging on every single word, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm being scolded simultaneously, I'm like, what.
Speaker 2: Have I been doing wrong?
Speaker 1: Has Ellie been listening to me as well?
Speaker 3: Ellie? Do you have it?
Speaker 2: You listen to the show every day?
Speaker 3: Pree with you, britt Law. You cannot blame that geriatric driving.
Speaker 1: I stand by if someone needs to take her license away.
Speaker 1: But Ellie, if you keep this up, we'll take you
Speaker 1: all the way as well.
Speaker 2: I don't get love Ellie.
Speaker 3: Now you must promise me, Laura Burns, that when you
Speaker 3: approach a road, your mobile phone is not in your hand.
Speaker 3: Can you promise me.
Speaker 2: That put your hand on your heart.
Speaker 1: I promise Ellie Johnson, mother in law, my lovely mum,
Speaker 1: that I will not be on my phone anymore. And
Speaker 1: I also, if I ever have a story to tell,
Speaker 1: where I think I'm going to get in trouble. I'm
Speaker 1: not telling on the pick up myself.
Speaker 3: From now on, you know, she's still Ellie.
Speaker 1: We don't have a time where people have to be
Speaker 1: picked up from school.
Speaker 2: I love you, We love you, Ellie. That is Mattie
Speaker 2: Jay's mother. Ellie there everyone, Wow, Britt, that was a
Speaker 2: lot mentioned Laura.
Speaker 1: Speaking of geriatrics the Gold Coast, don't call Ellie that.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm about to tell you about one. The Gold Coast
Speaker 1: volunteer of the Year last year, has started a petition
Speaker 1: and written into the mayor to ban something from our
Speaker 1: Ozzie Beaches, something that I don't think should be banned.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you all about it after
Speaker 1: the break, all right, next on the pickup