Speaker 1: So I went home to Port Macquarie, to my hometown
Speaker 1: on the weekend. Mitchell, Laura, I had to do some
Speaker 1: error and see the family pick up my dog.
Speaker 2: It was a whole thing.
Speaker 1: But I haven't been back to my parents' house for
Speaker 1: a little while, and this one thing happened that sort
Speaker 1: of stopped me in my tracks and made me reconsider
Speaker 1: everything I know about life.
Speaker 2: Wow, deep big.
Speaker 1: So it's just me and my mom and my dad
Speaker 1: and everyone's pottering around the house, and I was going
Speaker 1: for a shower, so I opened the linen press, get
Speaker 1: a towel and the towels. Mind you, my mum is
Speaker 1: the most organized person you've ever seen. Everything is color coordinated,
Speaker 1: there's different levels, they're folded immaculately.
Speaker 2: That's classic. My mom's the same waves yours would be
Speaker 2: right the same as well.
Speaker 3: My mom just shoves things in a couple of hopes
Speaker 3: for the best.
Speaker 2: Really, Laura's mom not so much.
Speaker 1: So I grab a towel going to the shower, put
Speaker 1: my towel down in there, going about my business. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm Starker is having a great time washing all the bits.
Speaker 1: And then the door slides open with such aggression that
Speaker 1: I'm so shocked. And I turn around naked in the
Speaker 1: shower and I look, my mom is standing their hand
Speaker 1: on her hips.
Speaker 3: Do you think that it's gone past the days when
Speaker 3: mum's just like barging on you in the shower. You're like, mum,
Speaker 3: and she made you know.
Speaker 1: I don't care about her looking at me naked, could
Speaker 1: not care less. She didn't care either. She was just
Speaker 1: looking me straight in the eye. And I was like, yes, mum.
Speaker 1: And she's like, I heard you go to the linen
Speaker 1: breast and I was like, yeah, I'm being a tower.
Speaker 1: I'm having shower on a towel. She goes, what towel
Speaker 1: did you get? She goes to where I've hung them
Speaker 1: up and she's just like oh, and I said what
Speaker 1: she said, this is the good towel. She's like, you
Speaker 1: can't use these, and I was like, excuse me, how
Speaker 1: dare you? She took the towel from me, went out,
Speaker 1: folded her back up, put it in the cupboard, and
Speaker 1: got me this like scabby old towel.
Speaker 3: You know, the towels that have been sun dried and
Speaker 3: they're all crunchy little holes in them.
Speaker 1: So I was so shocked, and also soaking wet, so
Speaker 1: I got out used the scabby towel. Then I came
Speaker 1: out to address the situation and I was like, Mum,
Speaker 1: what's the problem. She goes, that's the good towel. You
Speaker 1: don't use that, and I said, I'm sorry. Is Beyonce coming?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Who are you saving the good towel for? She's like, well,
Speaker 1: I can't be sure, but I know that this isn't
Speaker 1: the moment, and I'm like, what your daughter? We had
Speaker 1: a full on brawl about who can use what towels.
Speaker 3: She's got them ready just in case You're like, Mum,
Speaker 3: I am kind of a celebrity.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me use What do I need to do
Speaker 1: to prove myself? So then fast forward to that evening.
Speaker 1: I go to get a cup of tea and now
Speaker 1: she's got these really beautiful, thin, fine teacups, the good mugs,
Speaker 1: the good mugs. So I'm using one of these this
Speaker 1: good china. She has a goal of me again, takes
Speaker 1: it from my hand, empties it, put it back, gives
Speaker 1: me another cup because you're not allowed to use the
Speaker 1: quote unquote and I'm like, what am I allowed.
Speaker 3: To use it?
Speaker 2: When are people like are your parents doing this Kate. Hello,
Speaker 2: what's what's your good thing in your house?
Speaker 4: Hi? Yeah, I've got some beautiful wine glasses that my
Speaker 4: daughter gave me for Christmas one year, and I used
Speaker 4: to be very relaxed. You've got good things, you should
Speaker 4: use them. But unfortunately one evening I was sitting on
Speaker 4: the lounge and the cat sprang up behind me, jumped
Speaker 4: on the coffee table, knocked it off and shattered one
Speaker 4: of them. Yeah. So now now I've got the rule.
Speaker 4: They only come out of Christmas time.
Speaker 2: But you see, it means you never get to use
Speaker 2: the good stuff.
Speaker 1: It isn't Christmas more likely when you're going to have
Speaker 1: a spill or an accident, Like, shouldn't you be just
Speaker 1: bringing them out with you and the lover or husband whoever?
Speaker 3: Do you know?
Speaker 1: No, don't want to make any assumptions there, But shouldn't
Speaker 1: you be using it for that kind of stuff?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: But you know, if it gets trashed in the process
Speaker 4: of being enjoyed, I don't mind so much. But if
Speaker 4: it's just me home alone with a cat, not so much.
Speaker 2: It's grim I'm alone with the cat, don't think all right? Monica? Hi,
Speaker 2: what's your good thing?
Speaker 4: I reckon.
Speaker 1: It's totally the opposite.
Speaker 4: Use them.
Speaker 3: I'm with you, Monica. I think use the good stuff
Speaker 3: because you know what, like what happens, like you could
Speaker 3: end up breaking it with the cat and then it
Speaker 3: just all goes to waste exactly.
Speaker 4: Now, use it because you might lose it, right?
Speaker 2: Can I just say those two different calls, they both
Speaker 2: sound like one keeps good things and one doesn't. Monica's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what. I'm driving to the car as I
Speaker 2: call you girls, and my hand are off the steering.
Speaker 2: The wine glasses just just smashed. And the other call
Speaker 2: goes you so I've got good things I need with
Speaker 2: my cat. Come on, there's two very different kinds of people.
Speaker 2: That's why we want here at the pickup. We ran
Speaker 2: a diverse align with Monica, and she's my people. I'm
Speaker 2: a Monica goat. All right, let's go. If you missed
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Speaker 2: in a single bed. So if you want to know
Speaker 2: why you're going so cute and cozy, it's cute. I'm sore.
Speaker 2: My neck is sore.
Speaker 3: It's really like regressing back into the day, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It is a child what is the bed sheet like.
Speaker 1: Thread?
Speaker 3: Anyways, you can touch up, You can catch up on
Speaker 3: the whole thing on our podcast, The Pickup See tomorrow,
Speaker 3: See you guys,