“Am I gonna get a chance to like, touch Elton John?”

Note: There is language that is excluded in the transcript but not excluded in the audio. But one of the most recent times that I can think of of, you know, somebody not wanting to do something that I wanted to do was when I paid $500 per ticket, so like a thousand dollars in total, for me and my ungrateful boyfriend to go see Elton John live on his last tour of America in Grand Rapids, and I had got like side balcony tickets. They were literally the cheapest for $550 each. And I was like, "I love Elton John. I'm gonna see this man. I'm not gonna regret it." And I was with my boyfriend at the time and I didn't have anybody else to go with so I was like, "You're coming with me 'cause I don't wanna go to a concert by myself." Which, in hindsight – literally like last week, I just went to a concert to see Two Door Cinema Club in Detroit by myself because nobody could come with me and I had a great time! So if I would've just, you know, been able to see the future in 2018 and been like, "You know what, you can go to a concert by yourself," I would've had a grand f****** time and I would not be telling this story right now and I would still not be full of regret like I am today. Because, so. Me and my boyfriend we go to this concert and given it's about, mmm, maybe – I can't remember – My boyfriend tore his meniscus for the second time on the same knee either a month before or the concert was like a month after he had gotten it repaired with surgery. Either way, he wasn't walking that well, but he could still walk. Okay? He was still, I'm pretty sure – Mm, no, I think I drove there, but he was still up and about. He was not bedridden. And like I said, this is the second time this happened to him, so he knew what was going on in this rodeo.  Anyway, so we get into the venue and the people at the gate are like, "Okay, like let me scan your ticket," and then this other lady who's right in front of the doors to like go into the concert hall, I don't…

Comments Off on “Am I gonna get a chance to like, touch Elton John?”

“And the goat came around and started eating my shorts.”

Oh, have I ever been to a fair? Yes, I've been to a couple of fairs. Fairs can be fun. We went to a fair in France and they made goat cheese there and my husband found these little baby goats, and they came up to him and they just wanted to be petted and everything else. And we tasted the goat cheese and all the rest of it in the farm department. And that was kind of fun.  My favorite thing – and people will tease me about this on my birthday as well. When my kids were little, my friend and I took all five of our kids who were under eight to the Toledo Zoo. And they had kind of a fair and they had a petting zoo going on and everything else. It was the middle of the summer, it was very hot, and I was wearing shorts. And so I'm taking my kids and we're going around and seeing and petting the different animals, and we get to the pen where the goats are. And the goat came around and started eating my shorts. And I had to keep pulling my – the hem of my shorts out of this goat's mouth, which, kind of slimy and ucky and I wasn't real happy about it. But finally my friend said, "Go on ahead. You've gotta get out of here, 'cause this goat is going to eat your shorts if you don't get outta here." Just what everybody always wants, to spend their day and a goat eats your shorts.

Comments Off on “And the goat came around and started eating my shorts.”

“So, sorry about that, Uncle!”

So another person I interviewed was my uncle. And my uncle lives in Vietnam and I do not live in Vietnam, I live in America, the U- – uh, Michigan. And so, I thought that our time difference was 12 hours, right? And I wanted to interview him. So I thought, "Oh, if I get to school at 6 o'clock and call him to interview him, then over there it will be 6 PM. And then that'll all work out and we can do the interview." So I told him, "Okay, we're gonna interview each other at 6 PM, Vietnam time." And I was like, "Yeah, this is gonna work out great. This is such a great idea." Mm-mm. Apparently it's not a 12-hour difference, it's an 11-hour difference. But I didn't know that! So the first time I went to school, I started calling him and he was not answering and I was so frustrated. I was like, "Where are you grand- –? Where are you uncle? Where are you?"  He would not answer, and an hour later he was like, "Oh sorry. I was washing the dishes."  And I was like, "Um, 'kay then. Uh, I- I guess that could happen."  Because he works in a monastery – he's a priest, that's why I was interviewing him. It was about, uh, covid relief that he was doing. He and his missionary were doing some work for covid and I wanted to interview them about that.  And so a few... days later, I think? I decided to do it again. So we went – so I went into the journalism room and my teacher was there. Pretty sure I went and got her keys. Maybe she had to come in early because I was going in early too. Sorry about that! But, um, she was my journalism teacher. And then, so, I was like, "Okay, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to call him." And it was 6 and he still didn't answer and I was getting really frustrated at that time. I was like, "Dude, what is going on?!" And then finally I was like, "Okay, last try." And I called him again, he did not answer!  And then, finally at 7, when I was in class, he was like, "Oh, yeah. Um, I thought we were gonna call each other at 6." And I'm like, "Yeah,…

Comments Off on “So, sorry about that, Uncle!”

“Right away, he opened the door and screamed at us, ‘Thanks a lot, Jack Frost.'”

We have like -- there's two houses on my street that, like, we play with them all the time. One to the left and one, like, diagonal. And then there's another person, she lets us use her yard, she's really nice. And across the street, there's these, uh, grandma and grandpa, and they're really nice.  But then, like, diagonal, there's these old people that don't like us at all. Like, once we were – so we were having a snowball fight in the winter and this – his driveway had no snow on it. And then we threw a snowball and missed. So one singular snowball hit that – hit the pavement, and right away he opened the door and screamed at us, "Thanks a lot, Jack Frost." And it was like this old guy, and yeah. So then – they don't like us.  And then – but then down our street there's a park, and across from the park there's this 'nother family that we'll play with once in a while, but other than that not really.

Comments Off on “Right away, he opened the door and screamed at us, ‘Thanks a lot, Jack Frost.'”

End of content

No more pages to load