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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Robin called the show yesterday and the phone and We're

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Speaker 2: about to do came from her awesome story haven't listened

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Speaker 2: to this?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm a twin and the first day of high school,

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Speaker 3: my mom decided to catch the bus with us in

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Speaker 3: her ninety dressing gan and slippers. Their bus used to

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Speaker 3: pick us up from right outside the house and it

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Speaker 3: would do a loop, so she just stayed on the

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Speaker 3: bus until it dropped her back off at the house.

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Speaker 1: So Robin school famous even despite the being in the

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Speaker 1: ninety and stuff. You weren't allowed to acknowledge your parents

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Speaker 1: existed at school. I remember my mom had to drop

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Speaker 1: my lunch off one day and I organized to meet

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Speaker 1: her at the back of the school.

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Speaker 4: It was like a drug deal, really.

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Speaker 1: Because I didn't You don't want anybody to see that

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Speaker 1: your mom's coming to school.

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Speaker 5: Where does that come from? It gets chronic.

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Speaker 2: It goes some like the happy to like hold hands

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Speaker 2: with you walking down the street when they're really tiny.

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Speaker 2: They don't even want you in the postcode. Just throw

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Speaker 2: it over the fence. I was told one day the

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Speaker 2: fence all right? So why were you school famous? The

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Speaker 2: fart that I dropped in middle school during afternoon storyline,

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Speaker 2: it was legendary.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, yeah, well we asked.

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Speaker 2: My dad made me wear girl's shoes to school as

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Speaker 2: they were cheaper than the boys version.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 2: My dad was the school bus driver that made me

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Speaker 2: school bus famous, and he was a very very strict driver.

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Speaker 2: He didn't like it if people sat backwards in their seats.

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Speaker 5: Youmber, those I had people gone to me asking me

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Speaker 5: if he was an a home.

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Speaker 2: Rachel four.

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Speaker 5: Why were you school famous? Chris?

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Speaker 6: Oh? Basically, first day year seven, I thought it was brilliant.

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Speaker 6: We had a canteen, so I ordered a couple of powers.

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Speaker 6: Second day a couple of pies, or two weeks in

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Speaker 6: the year seven, the touch up ladies put two piles

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Speaker 6: away for me every day until I finished up in

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Speaker 6: year tenth.

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Speaker 5: It's amazing. I mean, that's preferential treatment, isn't it. That's

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Speaker 5: VIP level of the game.

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Speaker 6: I didn't even need to place the order in them.

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Speaker 6: Then she seen me face two pires.

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Speaker 5: Chris, two pies.

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Speaker 2: In year ten, there was a boy who rode in

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Speaker 2: the back of a stationary PEPSI truck in his outdoor

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Speaker 2: ed bicycle class. From then until he graduated in year twelve,

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Speaker 2: two whole years he was known as Pepsi Truck. How

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Speaker 2: do you ride into the back of a stationary truck

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Speaker 2: that's got that giant, big old Pepsi look on the

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Speaker 2: back of it? Beck, So we're asking people today why

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Speaker 2: were you school famous?

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Speaker 5: Beck?

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Speaker 2: My parents managed the garbage contract for the local council

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Speaker 2: and Dad would occasionally dried my two brothers and I

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Speaker 2: to primary school in the garbage truck.

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Speaker 5: That would have been amazing.

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Speaker 2: We were always embarrassed when he was put up at

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Speaker 2: the front gates in the shoe truck parts all the cars,

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Speaker 2: who will get out quickly? And that would outfail every

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Speaker 2: time Dad would beat the horn a few times. We

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Speaker 2: were always known as the garbo kids. I hated the time,

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Speaker 2: but it's quite funny thinking about to it now. But

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Speaker 2: one day you already missed that. Owen, my brother was

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Speaker 2: the youngest person in Australia at the time to have

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Speaker 2: a bionic ear.

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Speaker 5: Oh wow, Jenny.

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Speaker 2: We had to make egg sandwiches in home economics in

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Speaker 2: year seven, I coinsctantly had a bad tummy bug that

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Speaker 2: saying day my mum wouldn't ever have the day of

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Speaker 2: a projectile vomited in the quadrangle. Quadrangle and forever carried

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Speaker 2: the nickname egg sandwich. They're all basic, the nicknames, aren't

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Speaker 2: they PEPSI truck.

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Speaker 4: Eggs sound there's what it is?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Monique, Hi, Hi, Christian, Hi guys, how are.

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Speaker 5: You welcome to a show? Monique? School? Famous School Famous.

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Speaker 7: So my dad was a commercial photographer and he used

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Speaker 7: to photograph Alan fwollies for their catalogs. And I used

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Speaker 7: to have the large boxes that you normally see at

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Speaker 7: the milk bar, and I'd take them into school to

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Speaker 7: share with everyone. I was a legend in my own

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Speaker 7: lunch box and everyone else.

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Speaker 5: You're like a pied piper with those aims.

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Speaker 4: Willie Wonks, factory.

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Speaker 7: Snakes, bananas, milk bottlesmuk sticks has grown up.

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Speaker 5: Now have you got any day?

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Speaker 4: There was actually a rumor at our school that a

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Speaker 4: kid from another school's dad worked at the Nestleigh Factory

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Speaker 4: and that they got chocolates like that, Like your legend

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Speaker 4: would have gone out in your school, amazing Leo.

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Speaker 8: It was in grade two and I came home from

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Speaker 8: school all excited that we had a fancy dress day

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Speaker 8: coming up, So my sister would have been about fourteen

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Speaker 8: at the time that I've got this. We got it nails,

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Speaker 8: but he's got a white cheek, wrote Colgate on a side,

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Speaker 8: got a red bucket from the laundry, stuck it on

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Speaker 8: my head, and I was going dress as a tube

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Speaker 8: of toothpaste. The only problem was the next day when

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Speaker 8: I got to school and realized it was actually free

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Speaker 8: dress Day, not fancy dress Day.

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Speaker 5: No oh no, Suddenly the world is a lonely Why

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Speaker 5: you on the head of all this stuff trying to

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Speaker 5: laugh at you?

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Speaker 2: Leo's years tragedy first time equals huge comedy.

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Speaker 4: Leo, your friends would have been licky there little.

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Speaker 5: Oh my, you're right, it's like lions and a wounded Hyaena.

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Speaker 8: Had a silver platter of Colgate kids from then.

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