Sweet Summertime

On this week's episode, Carol and Stacy start a list about summertime fun and memories. From water sprinklers to theme parks and VBS they bring all the nostalgia back to play filled summers that were carefree and of course filled with snacks! 

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Hey everybody, welcome to Start a List with Carol and Stacy. I'm Stacy. I'm Carol. And it is officially summertime. It's hot too. It's hot and I'm sick of the rain. That's all I want to say. I know it makes it humid. But the sun is shining today, though, for right now. The flowers are gonna be beautiful. I get these gross mushrooms in my yard when it rains a lot. Do you get those? That's kind of funny. Well, I go out and pick them because they uh they gross me out and I want the dog getting into them. Oh, for sure, because you don't know for a lot of what it is. Yeah, it would be my luck. Oh Lord. Um well, do we have any anything crazy that's been going on this week? Or a recurring moment of anything? I'm still cleaning out. I still clean it out, and dad still has groundhogs. We have a trap set up and the girl. Groundhog is sitting on the rail right above it, just getting a good suntan. I mean, nothing. I got an I already told you this because I got annoyed. I have I've had to go to the doctor a few times and I'm still waiting to get some more information, but I had to go get this ultrasound of my what I thought was my lower leg. Anyways, to make a long story short, it was my entire leg from my hip area down. And they were like, Are you wearing underwear? And I'm like, Yeah. And I guess I thought they were only gonna look at my lower leg, not the whole thing, which was fine. So I get up on the table and I'm just sitting there in my undies and my top, and she didn't offer me a sheet or a blanket or anything. And I was just laying there, I'm like, hmm, this is weird. And yeah, so I was annoyed. I called Carol. I was like, why does that make me so mad? Like, she could have at least offered me a towel, if nothing else. Um, I don't know. Well, maybe it's they're trying to they're trying to save money. I guess I'll put their laundry bell down. Yeah, but no, I mean, I'll just um whatever. I'm busy this week. I have worked out a couple times. I I was about to say, I have a shout out to Stacy Panner for working out. She's been officially going to the gym and working out, and I all I've done is roll the trash to the end of the street here. Well, I'm gonna tell you, it has been humbling. Okay. So um, for those of you out there, I joined kind of like a community center in our area, and it's a full, it's got pools and all this, but they offer classes that are included with your membership. I think I mentioned before that my mom has gone to a couple of them. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go try it out. So I've been to two different ones and it's mostly women of a retired age and much older. And I'm like, and everybody can move at what they're comfortable with or what their body can do, right? There's nobody. I went to a class one time and Sadie was hollering. I was like, calm down. So I'm trying to push myself because it's I'm like, if these women who are probably 80 something years older in here doing it, surely you can do it. So well, you know they started at your age, so now they've their stamina has built well. I I found out that I've got some blood flow issues in one of my legs, so it's been very motivating. I'm like, I've got to start taking better care of myself, blah, blah, blah. I'll know more about that when I well, thank you. But I was the other day, I was like, okay, this the instructor who's probably older than me, she had those little step things out, you know, that you step up on. I didn't I didn't use it last time, and so I'm like, okay, I'm gonna use it. Let me tell you, that was Monday. I sat around yesterday, I could barely move. My body was like, woo! And so my first thought when you said step is trip. Well, I would be like, I will trip on the over this thing. I need to do the exercise thing. It's not bad, it's mainly just carefully stepping up. She's like, It's so we can keep strengthen our legs to help us go up and downstairs. But one of my knees has been bothering me. I'm just falling apart from the waist down, apparently. And I am too, but I tried tomorrow. I'm gonna go back and do the little I like that one better. It was less cardio. It's a little move, muscle, move, and mind or something. I don't know. Oh, nice. Me and the me and the ladies in there are working out. Yeah, you are, but I'm very hotter than heck in there. Well, thank you. Yeah, I mean, I'm still eating all the time, but baby steps. That's right. That's right. Well, I have this is useless info. I bought this really expensive uh road lip gloss. Okay, and I and I put it on and look, do it look like Hailey Bieber. I don't know what that is, I've never heard of it. It's it's Hailey Bieber's cosmetic line. So my I thought, I'm gonna try it. Well, I love it. So I had it in my pocket at work the other day, and I came home and you and I filmed, and and then it disappeared. And I told my daughter, I said I have used that two times and now I've lost it. She was like, Mom, I said, I've looked all over the car, I've looked everywhere it should be. Well, no, it's sitting right here by the computer where I filmed. Where'd you buy it at? I bought it online at road.com. Oh, you didn't buy it like it's Sephora or anything. No, I don't I don't know if they carry it, but it's I got I loved uh tart makeup and I get this bag every year they do where you get like seven items, like super discounted, right? It's like $200 and something dollars worth. But I got this new lip oil from them that I really like because it's not drying. I've had lip oils that are drying and don't like it, but this says peptide lip tint, so whatever it is peptides are in right now. Oh, okay. Well, then I'm in. Uh something else I'm very in with. I think I'm gonna start trending, see if I can start a trend about how bear customs are very sexy and people are jealous, and everybody wants them. So um, yeah, I'm getting ready to go to the beach in a couple of weeks. So oh girl, you'll be fine. There's all kinds at the beach. Trust me, you'll feel great about yourself when you come by. I'll come back with some good content. Well, that's a good segue into what we're gonna talk about today, the beach, because it's mostly fun to go to the beach when it's nice and warm outside and it is yeah, very warm and it's summertime. So we had um talked about just summer memories, things that we remember from summer as kids, or things we remember doing with our kids. And so we had a little chat about it the other day. So today, guys, we are gonna start a list about summer and all the fun things you do in the summertime. Yes, speaking of swimming, we'll start with swimming. Okay, it's so funny to me how uh I guess somebody's grandmother or the American Heart Association or somebody came out that you gotta wait 15 minutes after you eat before you get back in the pool. You would think that we were at Fileen's wedding sale. We would sit on the edge of that thing of the pool. Wait till I was up, yeah. Wait till our 15 minutes. We'd have our feet in like we were really getting away with something. The same, all the good old days. We went camp. Well, my my dad's mom and dad had a camper, and one time they took us, me and the cousins, just down by Opera Land to that campground. Oh, nice. We were kids, and it was the same thing. I guess she fed us, and then we were not allowed. I mean, she was timing it. We could not get back in the pool if you're gonna get a major cramp. What actually was gonna happen if you got in the pool after you ate? I mean, I'm sure it's a thing, but we would eat bottle cakes at Nashville Shores, and the kids would go right back on a water slide. Are you kidding? Well, we may never know because we always follow the rules. We followed the rules. That's right. That's funny. But yeah, the hotel. Go ahead. Well, I just have memories. We were chatting, and I loved it. I mean, what kid doesn't love to swim, right? And so we didn't uh we would go swimming in the summer and all this stuff, but I remember just on vacation, you know, some days you'd spit in the pool, but a lot of times on vacation you were out doing other things or sightseeing or whatever you do on vacation. And so sometimes being a buffalo or whatever. Yeah, you could talk your mom and dad, who are probably dog tired and ready to go to bed into night swimming, which to me was a nap. You had a nap, see. They're yeah, but you had a nap. They're like, golly, these kids. But I can remember just night swimming at a hotel on vacation, like an outdoor pool. I don't mean an indoor pool that you can do anytime. I mean in the summer, you're out there at night, the pool lights are on. Yeah, and I thought I was doing something big. Yeah. And you always swam up to the light and like it was real cloudy. You know, your parents were just like, just give them 30 minutes, they'll get it out of their system. And then it's freezing cold when you go back in the hotel because you're soaking wet. And you're wrapped in a wet towel because it's not dry from the last time. And then probably begged to go back the next day and had to put a wet bathed suit back on because we'd been in it the night before. Oh, so much fun. Yeah, it was still dripping in the uh shower. In the shower. That's funny. I don't know. That was just something that popped into my mind that made me laugh. That was that was probably my number one like I would just be in heaven if I was getting to go swimming. I love to go swimming. And I had a neighbor with the pool, and whenever she she probably invited me three times ever. But you would have thought I'd won the lottery. I would just oh, it was so much fun. I mean, I wish we had money to have a pool because I literally invited myself to my friend's house last week who has a nice pool. I'm like, can I come over? Well, I mean, I I'm not I'm not a good one to I would love to have a pool, but I don't want to. But I mean, I also as a child was down for the day you got to run through the sprinkler, you know, because also it was we did it often, but it wasn't something you were just out there doing every day because the water bill would be an arm and a leg, right? But I you'd have that, you know, the sprinkler that back then they didn't have the cutesy sprinkler, so you just had the one that went it was like a rainbow thing. Not a rainbow, but a well it was the one that oscillated back and forth, and then if you touched it, it would go it had a it had a little uh dial on it, yeah. And if you had to get it, you were getting soaked in the head, you know, to adjust your we like to uh barely turn the water on, and my brother would do this, he'd say, Go over there and move it, it's getting too muddy right there, and then he's over at the hoe at the spout, and then I'm in face looking at it, you know, got my face down in it, and what do y'all think happened? He would crank that water and it'd go up my nose, and I'd be like, you know, having a fit, but yeah, you'd have to move it because the uh the spot where you had it would get muddy, and you just run and jump through it like you were yeah, like what what were we hot, so you were just excited to not be from hot, you know. That is true, that is true. And we did it for our kids. We'd roll out the sprinklers and the freaking slipping slog. Oh yeah, the the sprinklers changed a lot. Now they have I think when my kids were little, they had the octopus, the one with the all the arms and the water squirt out of every arm, which they got all kinds of sprinklers now. Oh yeah, I like the old school just rainbird brand that does the little I don't know what you call that. I mean your grass was getting watered at the same time, so you know, double double benefit, working fun, and I'll say I like the slip and slide, but also I hated the slip and slide as an adult setting it up. Yeah, I thought it was a hassle, and you had to kind of anchor it into the ground and then you know, get the water on it. You had to hose them down so they could slide on it. But then when you picked it up, it was wet plastic, the ground was gross, the grass was yellow. Yeah, somebody told us that somebody had the bright idea to put baby oil on it to make it even more slippery. Well, you can just imagine that's probably where my falling started. I would always slip on it, but it seems like no matter where we put it in the yard, I would always go across one sharp rock or something. Well, yeah. Yeah, acorn or something. And didn't your son have a home? Well, that was my speaking of bright ideas. It was we were, you know, coming out of COVID and we hadn't been around each other much. And it was the fourth of July. I was having my sister and her family over and my mom and dad. And the kids were I mean, they were older. He was in probably ninth or tenth grade, I can't remember. Yeah. So I decided I'm gonna do the we have a huge yard, a mega slip and slide with like thick black plastic, and I'm gonna hose it down and put soap on it. And they've been out there like it's kind of bumpy because we live out and the the ground is not great. I'm in there fixing food, hadn't had a bite to eat. My sister comes in, she's like, um, Lewis has cut his arm, and I think it's bad. So he doesn't even realize he's cut his arm, and my niece is like, Lewis, you're bleeding. Oh yeah, he had done sliced open his arm real good right here from my bright idea of the slipping side. So guess where I spent the rest of 4th of July at the emergency room because people are wack-a-doodle on the 4th of July and they were packed.

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There were some people.

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Go ahead. No, it was just some guy that kept passing by our door with a bloody bandage around his head. I'm sure he'd fallen off a boat and hit a rock or something. And I'm like, Will you just stay in your room, sir? Well, I remember you sending me a picture of his arm and of y'all just sitting there in your masks. In our masks, you had to wear masks. Anyways, yeah, so I did love, I love to slip and slide, but um I think the sprinkler is our my number one. That and swimming, just swimming, but always got a sunburn. I don't care how much sunscreen you put on, we always got a sunburn. Yeah. Well, but something else that doesn't have anything to do with swimming that we did as kids for years as a family. Um, for those of you that are local, we used to have a theme park Opry Land. I think it's become kind of popular because Nate Bargetsi talks about it a lot because he worked there, blah, blah, blah. I worked there, everybody worked there. Okay. I work there. I have I have my name tags. I still have mine. I think mine is in the I hope I still have mine. I worked there more than once, but we had family passes, and there were days my dad came home from working all day long. They're like, come on, y'all, we're gonna go to Arpyland. And it would be evening. We'd probably eat an early dinner and we, you know, they were probably open to what, nine, ten. I don't remember. We'd go down there, we'd ride two or three rides, we'd watch a show, we'd come home, and I used to love that. I was like, oh on the days they were like, Y'all want to go to Arpyland? We're like, Yeah, and it wasn't an all-day thing. We would because we had passes, we could go whenever we wanted, but I loved doing it. Wonderful. Well, I we would go to, and I distinctly remember my dad would take myself and my brother because or would take me and my brother because I guess my mother was like, get them out of the house now. And it he was always dad, but he loved the shows while my grandfather said too. The shows I could go to the kitty ride area and ride the rides by myself. I mean, it was just glorious. I mean, thinking back to when I worked there, so I worked there in high school briefly, and then I went back and worked there in college and I was there for a while. That's where I worked up until I got a teaching job. There were people that would buy their kids passes. Now, I don't mean little kids, but you know, middle school and high schoolers, and drop them off in the morning and go to work. And they were legit there until their parents got off work and picked them up, and that was their babysitter for the day. And you could do that back then because it was a safe place to hang out, you know. It was safe. It was. And I recently saw it's funny you said that. I saw an old film or an old video of the leaning room or something. The Tilton Hilton. The Tilton Hilton, and we we'd get in there and and we knew it, and you'd have to walk sideways, and and the girl would do her demonstration, and the ball would roll up. Yeah, the cans would roll up out of the window. Well, it's also the only place with air conditioning, unless you're in one of the theaters. Yes, and but it you're talking about hot because you they put that chair up on the wall and sit on it. Uh uh. Yeah. And four miles between where you wanted to go and where you were. And so, yes, and I love the magic stuff store, the magic shop, because we'd go in there and always look at the faint vomit. I don't know why, but it's very very okay. I always wanted the I never had one, but I had I wanted the cowboy hat that had the whistle on the thing. You remember? Oh it was like the you know, the string that had a whistle on the red and white string. Yeah, yeah. And I also wanted that stupid the dog, the dog, yes, the invisible dog walker. I never had one of these either. And if I did have it, I have no recollection. The ginormous tissue paper flowers. Oh, help me. Do you remember those? Yes, but what are you gonna do? I just thought they were cool, you know. Well, yeah, that's they were, but when I worked there, they put me in that. I was I worked in gift shops, and one of our gift shops was over in New Orleans area, and it was that stand where you could have those roughly umbrellas painted with something, and they're like, Okay, you're gonna paint umbrellas, and I'm like, What? I don't know how to do this. And I was like, I feel bad for these poor people over paying for this stupid crap umbrella that I've now got to doodle their name on with a heart or flower or something. Yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh, so funny. Oh dear. Well, I just remember we would all go find the water fountain. There was a fountain somewhere, like a you know, just uh in the middle of the park. I think it was up near the front when you came in, yeah. And we'd always sit and sit near it and dip our reach our hand in and stuff, but whenever you got to where you couldn't get your breath another minute, you'd ride the flume the log ride, flume zoom, the flume zoom, it's soaking wet, and then you walked around like and looking around, like, yeah, I'm wet. Yeah, why did you put why did we think that was cool? I don't know. Like I I wrote I'm in my clothes and they're all wet. Okay, whoop-dee-doo. It was so stupid. Okay, I'm gonna tell a funny story on my mom. She'll kill me. I don't know why, but I was working there and apparently she's like, Well, I'll give me a little job down there, make a little extra money. And they put her on the Flume Zoom one day and made her climb the top to the top of it. She's like, Yeah, I'm not coming back. I mean, I like you have to walk all the way up, and I think she would inspect it. Um I didn't work rides, my sister did some, but um I worked in mostly the junk and the gift shops, which was I wrote I worked at one of the roller coasters on the indoor roller coaster that was late. Oh wait, what was that called? The couldn't tell you. Oh, I it was Negalon. Yes, and you put 3D glasses on to ride it. I've got a book about it back there. And it was like tick, tick, tick. It talked people. I don't remember when the when the um what was the other raft ride, the grizzly river rampage, when that came along? Loved it. Boy, we thought we were hot to trot to ride that too. And you'd get on it and get soaked, yeah. But it was it was more fun to stand on the bridge, not to ride it, but oh, that was that big thing that came down, yeah. Yeah, and when it came down, the ride it would splash everybody standing on the bridge. Do you remember before? So that ride, I don't remember the name of it, but it was just a boat, it was full of people, and it went up, it turned the corner, and then it literally it shot down a big hill. That was Grizzly River. No, the Greasy rampage were the round bullets, and you were in the rapids, remember? And they would bump into the mountains, yeah. Before the big boat that just went straight down the hill, there was a boat ride there when we were little, and you'd get in them, they were like log boats and they had little covers and they were automated, and you just trotted around the little lake there. I don't remember those. Oh, I'm loving the the little old timey cars, the tin the tin lizies. Yeah. Don't you know the people that worked there were asphyxiated from the gas views? They were. And you would push the pedal, but then it would you what I loved, I would let go of it and like, look, I'm not driving, I'm not holding the steering wheel. And it would jerk you back because it had hit that thing in the middle. Yeah, I'd had a metal and the guys working there would hop on it and hit the pedal and move you up. No bumping, it said. No bumping. Yeah, no bumping. We didn't eat a lot while we were there because it was probably expensive. But every now and then the the they were probably terrible, but they'd have a whole cart of them full of ice and you'd pick like the grape. It'd be a great plastic container and you'd drink the juice. Yeah, I always liked the um well, the popcorn cards. Ooh, the popcorn was good, yeah. Smelled so good. But no, I didn't eat remember eating much there. I just thought I was watching uh movie stars on stage, you know, would go to the shows. And the here's the saddest part of my entire life that I can actually sing all of the I Hear America singing U at the uh what was it, theater, lakeside theater or something like that. That was the country music that was over in New Orleans. Um, I don't remember. Well, anyway, we know all the songs. Well, there was for me and my gal was over in that other theater. I loved it because they wore the long dresses and had the the flappers and then on I Hear America singing, they did that that's it. Yes, I they did that number where they were like, I'm a Yankee Doodle dance, and they had the red and white and blue skirts and they tap danced, and I was obsessed. How about I Hear America singing, I hear America singing, I hear America singing, and I mean, and then the age of Aquarius that the gold, they had the gold. I had a jazz costume like that one time. I was like, look, I look like the people at Opry Land. They had fringe hanging off of their arms, and they would go and do their arms out, and all that fringe was hanging, it was sparkly. I just was and I just loved it, and I had seen it about 60 times. Oh, there I was like, stare at it like we've never seen like maybe they have a new number they've added. I don't know. For me and my gal, and that was over in a theater, kind of in a weird part of the park, and we've talked about this for a long time, but um, they would bring down a curtain and you'd sing, um, shine on, shine on harvest moon up in the sky, and the little ball would bounce, I ain't oh had no love and since January, February, January, July, and the audience, you got to participate. The little ball would tear. I saw that on Tower 2002. I well, I don't remember that one. I liked the merry-go-round because the lily pads were so cool. And right beside that was a little, I don't know if it was uh one a comedian, but they would like they would pick a kid from the audience and you could come up and touch the animal. They were like they bring an animal out. Well, they had that one theater in the kid area there, and you could there was like a magician sometimes, that's what it was or something. I don't remember. Yeah, that's what it was. Lower. Man, we I hope Nate Bargese brings this theme park back before I'm dead one day so I can go. I know, I know. It was any thinking about doing it in East Tennessee or I don't know, but he has said he's got like people in, you know, working on it and stuff. So let's go, Nate. Get that theme park for everybody. Well, um, speaking of summer memories, um, I just bought my grandson the blue plastic Dollar General K Marks women go. And he absolutely loves it. But we just have it in the den. And toys in, crawl in, crawl back out, pull toys out, throw them in, throw them out. And he's just had the best time with it. Pay ten dollars for it, probably. If that it was exactly 10. And I just loved we would take the hose and fill it up out, you know, just splash around and be full of grass. You have the perfect area to do this, and you need a you need an umbrella or something out there though, for some shade. But on your big one, on your big um concrete pad where you used to have the basketball goal, when Lewis was little, our house had a concrete driveway. Like we have aggregate now, but we had a concrete driveway, and I would get out there and I would use chalk and draw roads and parking places, and he'd get out there and drive his little cars and trucks all up and down the road and pre- you know, pretend and whatnot. So fun. What were some of um changing the subject real quick? Some of your favorite summertime snacks. Oh, yes, we must speak of food. Um, of course. Well, my dad would take us, I don't know why or what. Again, mom probably said, all of y'all out. He we would walk down the street to this church parking lot, and we would. I remember I was driving or riding my big wheel, and my brother had his bicycle. And uh for and then not too far from that was a little market, and we'd walk to that market, and I had I thought um, you know, it would be like me getting Dunkin' Donuts or something, but I would get those wax bottles with probably one drumper full of green liquid in them or blue or red, and they came in a little pack, and I would quote drink all my bottles and then chew on the wax all the way home. It was so stupid. I don't know what I was telling her. I never had wax candy, never well I don't think I knew what to do with it. Don't bother. I mean, uh it just left me even more thirsty, it was terrible. Oh and my brother always got the candy cigarettes, which I thought tasted horrible. They were not good. I don't know why we thought that was cool, and we would do they were chalky, you know, like they weren't even yummy, they were gross, and kind of licorice mint or something. Yeah, I can't remember. I just remember that they were they felt icky when you touched them, but yeah, they were powdery, but but you used to be able to buy candy cigarettes, people and give them to your children. And and they had a red tip, it was probably it probably ran through a machine red dye, yeah, because it looked like it was on fire. I don't remember like silly. Well, I used to like to get um, and this is a story for my mom to tell. And um, but apparently I like to go to some little market near our house and get icy's. Um, because back then you just didn't get icy's everywhere. Like now you got them at the gas stations. Target used to have them all the time. And I mean, back then my stomach could tolerate a giant cup full of sugar. Um, I always wanted the coke flavored one, it was my favorite. That that's someone that or cherry. I like cherry and coke, but if I got to pick, I wanted the coke one because for some reason it felt less sweet. Yeah. I like to do that. And but then when I was older, I worked at Kmart and Kmart at the time had a snack bar, y'all.

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And I had to fix icy's. And I'll tell you what, that machine can be tricky, and it will you put the little dome lid on it, and then you stick the hole up underneath there, and the next thing you know, you've you've shot icy out everywhere. If you gotta really control that little that's why I couldn't believe we're just self-serving icy's at Target. Uh-huh. Well, my brother always on the cup you would get would have these little icy coupons. It was the icy bear. And after you drank your icy, you would just cut out the two little coupons like you were saving a box top years ago. And he always and so, of course, he was always had to outdo me so because he was older. So he'd have a baggie with like a thousand in them, and I'd have my seven over here. But you could mail them in and get a freed um icy bear plush or a pair of sunglasses or whatever. Well, he always got all the he was always saving for the I guess it was a ride on icy bicycle or something. Because he had a million of those things, you know, the top price. But yeah, I feel like there was always a picture of Kool-Aid when we were kids in the house, like the big picture plastic picture. You'd buy the the packet of Kool-Aid and then you'd dump all the sugar in it. Oh, that was good. It was a lot, it was, it was really good. And we played outside the whole time. I mean, we would swing, we would ride our bikes, we would play in the creek, we would um all the things I had that that I'm hoping I can do with my grandson. Yes, you will. It was priceless. Yeah, priceless. I did like the candy necklaces too. Oh, yeah, those were good. Because you walk around with a mouth, and that was kind of when those came out, I thought that was pretty nifty. You mentioned now, now and later, now later, whatever you let's they would pull your feelings out. Yeah, that's why I have kept crowns on my folders now. Well, we've only got six and a half minutes. This time has flown, but one more topic that we'll go over really quick that happens in the summer that most of us have probably experienced or been a part of is VBS at church. Yes, yes, and we were chatting, and I said, Well, when I was a kid, I'd go to VBS at my grandparents' church, and it was during the day, and it was just a little small country church. You'd go for the week, and then at the end of the week, your parents could come and you'd do your little presentation or whatever. He would sing or you know, just like we did. We our kids went to VBS and da da da da. And so I was telling Carol this is a funny adult VBS story, but you know, Lewis always went where we go to church when he was a kid, and so because he was there, I would volunteer because I was like, Well, I gotta take you anyways. And so I think this was probably the last year I volunteered, and he was old enough to be a volunteer at this point, right? So I was like, Well, he couldn't drive yet. I'll take you, I'll volunteer. So I have this group of girls, they were elementary age, and some of them went to school where I worked, and we're sitting there in the sanctuary, and you know, the teenagers are putting on a little play or whatnot, and I think they were saying something about, I will follow Jesus, I will follow Jesus, and getting the kids to shout it back. Yeah. This one little girl in my group, she leans over to me and she's so upset and she's dead serious, and she says, So-and-so said she is not gonna follow Jesus. And this kid was difficult, she was being difficult for the sake of she was like that at school. She was it, and I just said, honey, we're just not gonna worry about her. We're not gonna worry about her. If she doesn't want to follow Jesus, she doesn't have to. But it it was upsetting this little girl that she was saying she wasn't gonna do it. So when this girl heard me say that, she goes, Fine, I'll follow him. Like, oh, don't do us any favors, honey. Um, anyways, that was my laugh. I was like, I'm done with VBS after this. Well, my son is actually volunteering right now, and good for him. He walked in, he does the games every he walked in the other night and he had on a giant safari sombrero and had a rainforest thing on it. I said, What are you doing? He had all of his gear. Oh, yeah, their theme must be safari this year or rainforest, but yeah, he really likes it. It's fun. I mean, it was fun, but then I remember I'm like, I think it's time for somebody else. Like, you there are hundreds of people that go to the BBS. I'm like, somebody else's parents can need it. It's time to take a turn. So I retired from volunteering at BBS. Yeah, I did it several years as well when my kids were little, but anyway. Well, there's probably a million more summer topics, but I want everybody to not make a fist. We want you to start a list and can we want you to share our podcast. Yes, we did we did get some more shares, so okay. 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