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Spill The TEA
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Spill The TEA
Comical Miscommunications and Amusing Family Tales
Ever been caught in the awkward humor of misunderstandings? Join us as we dive headfirst into the world of comical miscommunications and share a hearty laugh! Mary opens up about a hilariously unexpected turn at her wedding ceremony, where a simple phrase turned into a cause for laughter. During a family game of putt-putt golf, Siri turned a poignant moment into a funny memory for Tracy. And speaking of memories, we couldn't resist sharing our potato gun story, where the simple word 'Idaho' became the punchline. We'll wrap up the episode by encouraging you all to share a laugh with a friend. So settle in for a good laugh!
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All right, welcome back to Spill the Tea. Today we are just three mighty but three me, tracy and Mary and what we had on dock today was to talk about funny stories, and, for the life of me, when you're put on the spot, I can't think of a single one. But Tracy did tell me that Mary has one ready and cute top. So, Mary, I'm going to throw it right over to you, boy this could either flop or or I don't know flip. How did we get this topic anyway? Tracy, Did you come up? I?
Tracy:listened to our last three episodes and they're so heavy that I said if we don't do something light, I can't do it, or you go heavy oh okay, I have to travel to Boston next week for work, and then this is a heavy week for work and then we're prepping for the retreat. So I was just like no energetically. I need to laugh so selfish. I'm sorry.
Kerri:Who better to start us off than Mary, because she always makes us laugh.
Mary:Perfect and this story. You were present for it, tracy, and it was my wedding and you know how you do rehearsal, obviously the day before, and I'm sure the justice of the piece we had a justice of the piece I'm sure he gave me his script of. This is what I'm going to say and this is what you repeat back. But I didn't look at it closely because I'm I'm just thinking to myself, I just have to repeat what he says. It's not a big deal. I'm sure it's a great choice of words. So we're at the, we're in it, we're in the ceremony.
Kerri:The rehearsal or the ceremony.
Mary:We're actually in the ceremony, Okay, I, you know, I mentioned like maybe the listener is going to be like well, didn't you rehearse this the night before?
Tracy:And you didn't read through them.
Mary:No, no, we did not read through them and I'm sure I must not have read through it because I would have known what he was saying. So when we are doing our vows, justice of the piece says what I think is plow my trough. And I listened to Carl. I'm like I'm going to hear it a few times. Carl plows his trough to me, and now it's my turn to. I'm like I still don't know what this man has said. That plow my trough does not sound like a vow to make. And so he asked me to plow my trough and I can't say it. I stop the ceremony and say what did you say? And we all erupt and laughter and come to find out it's plight my trough, which I still didn't know what that meant. But at least he wasn't going to plow my trough.
Tracy:I think I would have wanted him to plow my trough instead of plait it.
Mary:So what does that mean? To plait my trough means to pledge to be faithful. It's a vow of celibacy. What couldn't we have just said? Yeah, I know.
Kerri:I pledge to be faithful.
Mary:I know this old timey phrase.
Tracy:I still prefer plow my trough, which I think is the opposite. I think it's, I think it's. We're going to, we're going to um. What do you? We're going to come, come to meet this wedding.
Mary:Yeah, yes, right here.
Kerri:It is a metaphor, for sure. Oh my gosh, I'm getting married any day soon. But, thank you, I will definitely have some vows prepared and rehearsed. Yeah, read them first.
Tracy:I don't want my trough plowed, maybe you do.
Mary:Is it a winter game? Plow your trough.
Kerri:I also don't want to talk about my plait either, so I'm going to have to go to the bathroom.
Tracy:I'm going to have to go to the bathroom. I'm going to have to go to the bathroom, right? Oh goodness, I wasn't going to share this one, but you were present for this story, mary. Okay, I had to deliver some feedback to his staff and and it wasn't working out. It just really wasn't working out well at all. I mean nothing too terrible, but definitely she needed to to fix some stuff and she asked me and she says I'm going to subject my soul to the core.
Mary:I was like I don't even know what that means.
Tracy:It's like I don't think I did.
Kerri:Subjugate my soul To the core.
Tracy:Yeah, I called Mary and said Mary, I don't know what, understand what she said, what this means. How do I? Isn't that what you do to a verb? I mean I did this person, but I think I'm going to hell. I mean, at the time it was about playing with kids. It's like be more fun.
Mary:Yes, yeah, the feedback was at was it?
Kerri:I had to look up the definition of subjugate To try to figure out what she was, so did we.
Tracy:We did too At the time Did we even have. Google, then we had internet. What?
Mary:do you want to have?
Tracy:internet. Okay, I have to put in, I don't know that I remember what we came up with, but we did have to do a different.
Kerri:So you put her soul in the place of another. Or To substitute, you substituted her soul.
Tracy:That sounds like some one Exorcism stuff.
Mary:Sounds like the devil went down to Georgia.
Tracy:I need to flower a drop.
Kerri:Substitute for another. With regard to illegal right or claim, I guess that would be like Like her job, well, illegal right or claim, yeah, to give it to someone else when she had a claim to it. Maybe that you were?
Tracy:So I would have given her soul. What yeah?
Kerri:She put her heart and soul into her job and you were saying, sorry, this is not the right place for your heart or soul.
Tracy:You need to play more fun. In some way, play needs to be more fun.
Kerri:Someone else is going to take your space.
Tracy:You were firing her? Oh, was it? I don't know if I switched a group or if, I like, switched up some activities to make it easier to have fun. Yeah, I do know it was about having more fun.
Kerri:Interesting.
Tracy:Yeah, so have you ever subjugated anybody's soul to the core?
Kerri:Gosh, I hope not, and if I did, I am so sorry that you feel that way. Whoever you, are.
Tracy:I still feel guilt over it. I mean because it sounds like I really did something. Yes, Some weird little shit.
Mary:Well, I wonder, because you remember this story? I was letting somebody know that I did not select them to be promoted because their emotional intelligence needed strengthening and she was not a good fit for supervisory position because of that. And I think you're the one that told me that she was bawling, because I called her an emotional retard, and I don't use that word on purpose, but that to quote her. She said I called her an emotional retard.
Kerri:I can't even imagine you doing that either. I said emotional intelligence.
Mary:I was using AI.
Tracy:Isn't it funny how people hear something completely different.
Mary:Yes, like plow my trough.
Kerri:I'm only thinking of one story. That was kind of funny and I don't know that this person would appreciate me bringing it up because I think they listened. But they sent out an email. It was supposed to have this person's name in it, but instead of their name it said vomit. It's their first name.
Kerri:That's hilarious, I don't know if that person's listening, but I love you and I remember being like oh, oh gosh. Spell check did not catch that and I ran to their office and was like you just sent out an email that said their name is vomit. I don't know if she was able to retract it or not. I can't remember. I'm so sorry.
Tracy:I know your name's, not Bob.
Mary:It's pronounced vomit. It's French, I forgot the accent on it. I have another funny story. That was just recently and it's not my funny story and I might be subjugating Carl's soul to the core by sharing this story.
Tracy:I don't think he's a regular listener.
Kerri:It was so nice knowing you.
Mary:I don't think so either. You know how, when you get your tonsils out, you also get your ad noix out. I don't know if you've ever heard that they go hand in hand you get your tonsils and ad noix out. Well, he was talking about his hairdresser, who was also talking about her husband snoring and how he had to have surgery and to take his. As Carl said, he had his tonsils and NADS removed.
Tracy:Wow, he went to the doctor, then the vet.
Mary:I said do you mean ad noix? He said oh, I said NADS. If you snore, be careful, you might get your balls removed.
Tracy:If you're a male. Boys in Colorado a couple months ago for work. The bartender had a really heavy pour. I usually get a vodka cranberry right, so that's like maybe a two-count cranberries. Well, he put it in like a really big glass, like then I'd get a milkshake out of it. You got the double and he pounded to eight or 10 and kept talking and then splashed it with cranberry and it was an expensive drink, so like you're drinking all of it.
Tracy:Yeah, I drank it and then we had to walk to dinner. I don't drink very often. Maybe I drank a beer once in a while, but that might be once in a while If we get to dinner. Is it this really fun bougie place that is like Alice in Wonderland themed and we're all doing appetizers and sharing the appetizers right, it gets to me. I'm ordering something with steak in it and they ask me how I want that done and I tell them mild.
Kerri:I think that's you could translate that into medium right.
Mary:Or maybe you didn't even want medium, I think that's you could translate that into medium right. Or maybe you didn't even want medium. I'm just going mild, please, and I just kept going.
Tracy:I would just be stopped and get really quiet. And the waiter went. I was thinking.
Kerri:Several years ago, when my niece lived with my parents, my dad was losing his hearing and, like we're the only ones that wanted to admit it, because he definitely did not my dad went to the school to pick up my niece from soccer practice and they were walking back up from the soccer field through the parking lot to go into the locker room. And they're walking up and the coach sees my dad and she says to my dad, she's looking good out there and my dad goes well, thanks, you're looking good too.
Tracy:And I think my niece was probably mortified.
Kerri:I don't remember if my mom told me the story or my niece, but I laugh every time I think about it because that was so my dad. He would just respond like that. He didn't hear it said but he'd be sweet time.
Mary:When Carl was meeting my not extended family, but he had met my parents already and we were headed back over to my parents' house because my brother and his wife and kids were there and so he would be meeting Will and Julie and William and Joelle. And Joelle is about four years old and we come into the house and she runs into my arms and I pick her up and she says she wants to be a flower girl and she met Carl in my wedding and Carl and I had just met.
Kerri:Oh, oh yeah.
Tracy:You just got it. Oh, that's sweet.
Kerri:Oh.
Tracy:That's so sweet. My daughter is going through and doing her wedding invitations and she called me the other day to ask about, like, how to address some of them and how not to address some of them and does she send this here and does she send that there? And she got to Mary and Carl's and she's like do you think Mary would laugh if I put Jesus? What do you think the post office would say? I laughed.
Tracy:I was like you need to put Jesus on there, because when Erin was four, she's going to daycare. Did I tell this on the podcast?
Kerri:No.
Tracy:I don't think she's.
Mary:But, it's worthy of a repeat. I'm holding a story to me.
Kerri:I'm totally engrossed.
Tracy:Okay, she was going to daycare and the lady's mom was there who was very religious, and she was sitting the kids down I mean I found out later sitting the kids down and telling them Bible stories and about Jesus and Mary. So this was primed in her little four-year-old mind. And we went to Mary's house, probably for a tea event, and Erin was like poking around and like looking at Mary's house and stuff and I kept having to like say, hey, erin, stop. But it didn't really register to me because she's four, that's normal.
Tracy:And when we got in the car and on our way home she started asking me all these questions about Jesus and Mary and like she's like what did Mary do when Jesus was bad? So I'm thinking, mary, mother, god right. I was like, oh, wow, erin, that's a really big question for a little girl. So I'm like she probably used time out, you know, just like you. And she kept asking questions about Jesus and Mary. And then finally she says did Mary keep Jesus in the basement? I didn't see him there. She totally in her mind thought that Jesus was actually our Mary's son. Mary was hiding him in her basement.
Mary:And I'm so famous that her caretaker is talking about me and my son.
Tracy:I'm sitting there listening to those Bible stories, oh Mary is amazing.
Mary:There's a book about Mary and Jesus.
Kerri:So she's going to dress your wedding. Invite to Mary and Jesus Mary Carl and Jesus Mary Carl, baby Jesus.
Mary:She's got to bring. The post office would just think it was Jesus Right.
Kerri:It might say come to my trough.
Mary:That's where I Jesus sleeps, and the trough, and the trough and the basement.
Tracy:I have one from a couple of weeks ago. Zachary was home when I was on the submarine, with his new wife and he was here for like a week and kids got to all be together. It's always so special when they're all together because in the last few years somebody's always missing for something or another, and that has been actually been gone for a year and a half and it was first time we got to hang out with his wife as well and we just had a beautiful time. And the last night we all went putt putt golfing and we dropped Aaron off after that.
Tracy:And first of all she texted and it comes up on my car so I pushed the screen for it to read it because I thought maybe she forgot something. And it said oh my gosh, I'm crying, I'm so sad. And then Siri asks you if you want to respond. So I say yes and I say Ben Scott, before I can say anything, says wipe your tears. And then Siri says back wipe your ass. And of course Zachary doesn't miss a beat and just says oh no and there goes, a mother won't.
Tracy:I'm trying to tell her. She's not picking up. So now I know she's right. I'm thinking. I told her to wipe her ass.
Mary:I'm thinking about a story about a potato gun. Laura and I were in our area. I don't know if the listeners have ever heard of a potato gun, but I think do you put nitrous in it to make it? No, I'm making stuff up now you have to aqua net and then you spark it somehow.
Mary:Does it spark? I don't know? All I know is that I put potatoes in it and you shoot this gun. That's made out of PVC pipe, perhaps, and so Laura and I were at a party, and you know who doesn't want to shoot a potato gun? I can't remember if it was Laura or me. We were yelling Idaho Because of Idaho, potatoes, idaho.
Tracy:And you, idaho, that was my husband's potato gun.
Mary:It was. It was at your place.
Tracy:Like I know that potato gun.
Mary:Well, even though this is a short episode, is there something the listeners can do to make tea this week?
Tracy:There absolutely is something that the listeners could do to make tea this week. I think that it's so important that you laugh and share your story. So call a friend, share a story whether you got a potato gun story, or you've got a friend named Mary who's got Jesus in her basement, share it with somebody, get a giggle and start to fall off right.
Kerri:Perfect.
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