Episode 46: Embarrassing Stories

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We asked, and you delivered! Today's episode is full of your emails and voicenotes fessing up to your most embarrassing moments (we're sharing ours too in solidarity). Enjoy a laugh at the expense of others, friends!

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Mel: Welcome to the making and effort podcast, the podcast where you get to drop in on a conversation with two friends, discussing all the things they make an effort with. And some of the things they don't hang out. We hi, mal. Hello. It's good to be back. Thanks for bearing with us guys. We had a, a big week last week. Illness and travel and all sorts. And we just, we just couldn't get a podcast together. So, but we know that this is going to be, this episode is going to be worth the it, because today we are sharing embarrassing stories when we are,

Gabby: um, it's going to be. It's going to be really good. Thank you. In advance to everyone who's contributed to this episode.

Mel: Well, we had so many, so many funny stories come through FA email and voice note. Um, I have absolutely cracked us up and we're going to share some of them. And we're going to share some of our embarrassing stories as well, because the only feels fair that we would not opt out of that ourselves. But I have to say, have to say a lot of my embarrassing stories are like more proximity to embarrassing things rather than. Things that I haven't done myself. You, you

Gabby: managed to stay out of the limelight for the most. I don't

Mel: know. I feel like it's a bit of a cop-out and maybe people here are close to yeah. Right. And it'd be like, no, no, no, no, no. Remember the time that you, um, but the stories that I have are more about things that have happened to me that have been embarrassing for other people basically. Oh, interesting.

Gabby: Maybe you're just not easily embarrassed.

Mel: Do you think there are, there are people that are like us. Yeah. There are. There definitely are. It makes, makes it my mission to embarrass those people. I'm like, what is this superhuman power anyway, I

Gabby: know. I definitely, um, when you think of embarrassing stories, like I always immediately go to, like, what are the stories when you think of them as you're falling asleep at night, make you automatically cringe. And hate everything. And a lot of miners still like, like they're, they're just like, they're not stories, they're just like interactions or, um, you know, those are the things I like look back and cringe the most. So. I only have one story today

Mel: that I think, do you want to get it over with? Sure.

Gabby: Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if, if it's going to be, it's not like a bodily function story. It's not like that, but, um, yeah, I can go. So, uh, I, my friends had moved to town. Um, she had four kids. She still has four kids. And, um, this is before I was the most. And, uh, I was like, you know what, you're unpacking boxes. Why don't I just, just take the kids out and we'll do something fun for the day and just get them out of your hair for like the afternoon or whatever. So I loaded up four kids in my car. Um, and we went to like a children's museum type place and it was crazy. There was so many people there, so many kids, and I was just like in fun, odd mode, you know, I was like, so want to do this? Great. Let's do that. You want this? Like, we'll go to the gift shop. You can pick out a gift, whatever. Um, and so they, there was like a little food court with like a subway at this children's museum in Nashville. And of course they wanted to go. And I was like, yeah, I can go to subway. Um, so we wait, we went and stood in line and the thing you need to know about Nashville, and I think this is probably getting more and more like this other places, but like Nashville, moms are a certain breed. Like they are, most of them are very crunchy. Like they don't like, you know, artificial food coloring. They've got everyone, all their kids are allergic to gluten. And dairy, like, there's the whole thing. It's like, it's very much. That is the Nashville. Mom is there's diet restrictions up the wazoo, um, which makes this worse. It doesn't make what I did. Okay. But it makes it worse. Um, so

Mel: my, my, my friend's kids

Gabby: to have none of those restrictions. Um, so anyway, we were waiting in line for subway. And it was crazy. Like it was like being in a school cafeteria where like nothing was manned and the line was super long and slow. And along the line, there's all these like rows and rows of bags of chips, crisps, OSI, you guys would call them. And, um, I've got these four kids that I'm trying to like keep in line somewhat, or at least keep like my eyes on. And they're asking, they're all telling me like what they want to eat. And like, I want pizza. No, I want pizza and I want a cookie or whatever. Um, so I'm, I'm starting to like lose control a little bit, like not emotionally, but just of the situation. Um, and at one point, you know, like bringing me drinks and showing me which ones they want me to check out for them, and it's noisy and quiet or noisy and chaotic. And, uh, this little girl comes up to me in the middle of all of it and like asked me to open a bag of chips for her. So I'm like, yep. Okay. So open the chips, like turn to the other kids. Not realizing that I don't know this child who might have opened a bag of chips for,

Mel: okay.

Gabby: Just this she's she's just seemed to like

Mel: anyone,

Gabby: my weakness. She was like, this woman seems like she doesn't know what she's doing. So I am going to very cleverly. There's this little three-year-old girl, she asked for a bag of Cheetos. So I just said open it up, give it to her, you know, move on with like, get up and. Turns out her mom was in line, like maybe like four or five people in front of us. And I don't know, I'm sure people in the line and saw me do this, which also makes it worse, but I just didn't think of it. I just didn't think of it. Um, and the girl goes up to her mom. She says little three year old. Toddles up with her open bag of chips that she's munching on orange fingers or fingers was pretty. She get that. And I can hear her. And she's like, mom's already stressed. Like mom's already having a rough day with the kids. Like you can tell this is something she was trying to do with her kids. It wasn't going well. She was like full of regret. And she was like, you may not have those. We do not eat those. And so she takes the chips away from her daughter and, uh, And her little girl starts screaming, bloody murder. And I am just like, I know that the, the right thing to do at this moment is to go up and confess, but she was so angry. The mom was so angry. I was like, I can't, no, I can't confess. He did that. I can't do it. So I just like in shame. Continue up to the chill. We order our stuff. The kids eat the whole time. This little girl is screaming.

Mel: She does not

Gabby: stop screaming for like at least a half hour, 45 minutes.

Mel: Once you get a taste of those Cheetos and

Gabby: I was just like dying, I was like, okay, kids, hurry up and eat. We gotta go. We have to go. I have to go. Like, I don't know, just like disappear. Um, and what made it worse? At the end of like, they ended up leaving the museum early because the mom was like, I just can't take this anymore. You guys are being so badly behaved. My you're screaming. You've been screaming for the last half hour. We're going home. So I have literally ruined their day. So bad, but I wasn't a mom. I was a nanny. So I'm just like used to like the kids in charge, you know, like that's very much, I don't know. I had babysat before I was in babysitting mode.

Mel: I still look back on it. Just like going Ryan open for kids.

Gabby: I'm like, they're out. They ask me for stuff. I do it for them. I don't know what you want for them. Um, so that is the one that I always think of where I look back and I'm like, oh, that was just so cringey. And I just, I just didn't do anything about it. I just was like, okay, sorry. I just want to pretend like I don't exist now. Um,

Mel: oh, so my

Gabby: story that's.

Mel: I'm gonna, I'm going to share one, but this, like, I'm this, this, this is what I might know. Here's the thing, this didn't happen. This did happen to me in a larger way, but it actually happened to Dave. Okay. Um, um, And I do have, and I taught, I've talked about this at length over the last week, as an, as this episode, recording has approached about whether to share it or not. Um, it's about. And she's dead. So it's really hard to know if it's appropriate, but I'm going to do it anyway because it is a good story. So Dave, just after Dave and I got married, you know, my mom and dad were still living in Canada and, um, I didn't, I got married pretty quickly, you know, we're together three months, nine months later, we got married. Um, You know, so Dave hadn't really been in our family for that long and because my parents lived in Canada, like they hadn't seen a whole lot of him in that time either. Maybe like we'd been over maybe twice. So, uh, anyway, it was our first Christmas and Canada as a married couple. And my brother and his wife were there at the same time. And so six of us were all there. This is pre children. Um, and. My parents always had, like, it was kind of split level. So come in on the ground floor, then you go up a floor and then you go down a floor to the basement. So upper floor to like living room, kitchen, dining, bedrooms, bathroom, and then down the basement to like bathroom, family room, laundry room, office, bedroom, et cetera. Anyway, Dave went to the shower upstairs. My sister-in-law went to the sharp darn stairs and everyone was kind of doing their own thing. And my mom came into my bedroom and was like, I need to go to the toilet. And I was like, well, what do you mean? She's like, I, I, I have the runs and I needed to go to the toilet. And I was like, Mom. And she's like, I'm sorry. And she took us, took a quick wrecky of which toilet. So she was going to go to the one with her daughter-in-law and the bar in the basement, which was just a glass shower screen, or the one on the top floor, which had her son-in-law and it. With a sharp curtain. Oh, so she picked the lock. Of the bathroom. Stop it. Yeah, she picked it. She picked the lock, opened the door and came in and did diarrhea on the toilet while Dave was in the shower. Uh, my mom was like, I'm sorry, son. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. She was like, so he's standing near. And the Shar, the water's running cold and my mom's taking a dump right beside him. And like in this bathroom, I mean, you guys can't see this, my visual, but like there is literally toilet and bathtub is directly beside it. So it's not like, like, no, it's not like there was any buffer of death of Dustin's. Oh my goodness. Oh, so I mom like did her thing, Kim EIT unlike wanted to die, but she's she was always so like, well, like. Was Kellen herself laughing, but also so squandered, but Dave Kim, he was rich. He was just like your mom just cam Odetta shit was in the shower. Naked. Not thinking it wasn't funny. Oh, he did. He did eventually. I don't have my mom. So my mom, like once he got dressed and stuff, and my mom came over and she's, you know, putting her arms around him, some names, so sorry. So I could know. And if I went to the basement downstairs, Andrew would have been naked in the shower with the glass door and she w I, I just, it was the worst of it was the best of a bad decision I have to make. I'm so sorry. I couldn't, it was going to so.

Gabby: That's so

Mel: funny. Yeah. So do you know what I mean by that? That didn't happen to me, but it did happen to me because my mum had diarrhea in front of my husband naked husband. Yeah,

Gabby: I, yep. Yep. Oh, that's a good story. I'm glad you shared that one. Also a great learning lesson for all of us that we should never use two showers. Yes, leave a bathroom free. Yep. Unless you plan to have the fastest shower of your life, but definitely keep one of those. Yeah,

Mel: absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. Shall we listen to some other people's, uh, embarrassing stories? I think it's time. I think it's time and it's okay. Just so you know, we're not going to be able to do. Every single person's embarrassing story on this feels particularly hard to not include everybody's story this time, because we know how I find this to like, share your most embarrassing moments with us and then not hear them on the podcast. So if you don't hear them, we might do a second episode at some stage. So don't worry. You didn't do it in van. We love you so much. Thank you so much for sharing it with us, but we only have so much time. Um, And so we've just kind of ad hoc picked. Yes, we did. And we're not going to tell it. We're not going to say anybody's names.

Gabby: Yeah, we will not. These are all, these are all anonymous. Okay. Let's go.

Mel: First one up. What do we got? I was dating this guy in college and

Gabby: we had been pretty exclusively dating for maybe

Mel: three months. And he lived not far from where I went to college in Madison. So one weekend before finals, he decided he was going to go home and study and had extended the invite. To me, it's kind of a big deal cause I had never met his family and I was nervous about. But I accepted the invite and we drove to his house on a Friday. It turned out of course, the day before I had got my period with raging vengeance. Um, so was dealing with that, get to his house. I go to the bathroom, I changed my tampon and there's a note literally on the wall in his bathroom that says, do not flush sanitary products like that. His mom had handwritten. So. I admit it I'm a flusher, but I was like, okay, definitely not going to flush clearly, there's going to be an issue. So I wrap it up in toilet paper. I toss it in the garbage. I leave.

Gabby: Well,

Mel: go back to the living room. He and I are studying for a few hours before his mom came home from work and he has a little dog, like some kind of little Terri. But the thing, um, I should say his family does, so we're studying his mom gets home from work. I meet her, she's super sweet. And then she walks into the kitchen and she gasps and she's like, oh my gosh. You know, I think the dog's bleeding. Um, and all of a sudden we get up and we run in there and there's. Shards of tissue or like pieces of tissue paper all over the floor that are bloody and the dog has a bloody muzzle, like it's covered in blood. And upon closer inspection, I noticed that it was not the dog that was bleeding. The dog had gone in the bathroom. Garbage, had fished out my tampon and had eight minutes. Meanwhile spreading pieces of it all over the house. And that was the first impression of my new boyfriend's family. Oh boy.

Gabby: Oh boy.

Mel: Oh boy. Oh, it makes me want to die inside your boyfriends mum and the dog saw your bloody temple.

Gabby: Okay, but it does beg the question. So you're not allowed to flush your sanitary products, but you also have a dog who will stop at nothing. What seems to be that, that seems to be on the mom. I'm just going to say, Ooh, controversial opinion

Mel: throwing shit on the end. Yeah. Well,

Gabby: Maybe I'll see you meant to do it. What else are you meant to do with it? If we know it's

Mel: nobody's fault, we don't have to blame anybody. Do we? No, I

Gabby: do. I feel like I need a villain.

Mel: Do you need a villain? Okay. Okay. Um, okay. That was, that was good. I think, I think I'm going to read out another very similar vein. Story. So this is, uh, this message came in via email. Hi, Gabby and male. I met my NY husband abroad when I was 19. He was from California and I'm from the east coast after dating for three months abroad. We decided when we got back home, I would go meet his family in California, a little backstory. Before I fly anywhere or any big event in life I always get so constipated for days, it is the worst. So leading up to the trip, I was always really nervous and sure enough, after I got there, I was bloated and needed to go to the bathroom so bad. I also have this thing where I'm afraid to post. And in places that aren't my own home saying the word poop makes me laugh so much just reading it. Uh, so I woke up at 5:00 AM to, oh, it wasn't a child. It's hilarious. Oh, good. The coast was clear and I clogged the toilet. Worst part was they didn't have a plunger in the bathroom. I was mortified. I text my best friends. What do I do? One of them suggested getting up, getting a back of my hand, throwing it out the window. Oh my gosh. What a friend? There was no window in that bathroom. Anyway, his mom was up for work and I guess realized I had been in the bathroom for a really long time. So she knocked and asked if I was okay. Oh my gosh, the humiliation I had to confess to her that I needed a plunger. Luckily they had one in the other bathroom. I thought that was the end of it. And only his mom find out. But later that day, it turned out that I had really clogged up to the point where it had spilled over when his sister used the bathroom. It is so embarrassing. And they still make jokes. When we go over, I am blushing right now. As I type this site, I'll be getting a kick out of this. Oh, her girl, boy that made me laugh so much turnover.

Gabby: Oh, we've all

Mel: been there. We've all been there. Those poop stories, man too funny. Okay. Let's go for another audio. Shall we? All right.

Gabby: I'm just laughing because of how Mel has. Tidy and them,

Mel: it's just the most memorable bets. That's what I do. The audio files as my most embarrassing moment is quite specific. So, um, I'm a midwife and I went to see a women are she'd given birth and normally women look quite rightly tired, bedraggled, not at their best. And this one. Absolutely incredible. She'd done a hair, done her makeup. She looked wonderful. And I just said to her, oh my God, you look amazing. You look like you've just had a blow job. What I meant was a blowout like her hair, like had her head, like just. Blowjob. And she laughed and I died and I apologize profusely. I said, no. I mean like a blow dry, like your hair. Um, but it was really, really embarrassing. I still laugh about that a lot when I think about it. Oh, Oh, my

Gabby: gosh,

Mel: you look like you've had a blow job. I love it so much. I bet that mum actually really appreciated every aspect of that interaction. Yeah. Everyone

Gabby: likes to be told they look great. You know that it's never a wrong time.

Mel: Yeah, absolutely. Oh my gosh. Funny. All right. Do you want to read another one? Do you want to read the malice? Read one? Um,

Gabby: okay. So I was recently in the largest zoom meeting with important people, mainly who I didn't know. And I was voice texting my daughter at the same time, I was giving her a therapy technique. Someone once gave me and said, If you had a shotgun and one bullet, who would you use it on? And that'll help you identify where your problem lies or who it's with. And then someone spoke up and I realized that, although my camera was off, my mic had been knocked on. I wanted to use the shotgun and pull it on myself. I'm still so

Mel: mortified. Actually, no, I actually chatted to this person. Oh. Since they sent it through and it was like a meeting with. Like police and like social services makes it worse. Doesn't it? Oh my goodness. Actually. So funny. Oh boy. Yeah, some cringe-worthy moments. Today's

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Mel: Hi Gabby. This is Kyla. I have. Okay. So this is kind of a confession mixed with an embarrassing moment. And also I embarrassed someone else. So I, um, I'm a teacher teaching fifth grade and I just. I don't know why maybe it's because of the age, but I just like free freely crap dust my classroom.

Gabby: Um,

Mel: I think it's perfectly fine because I mean, at that age, everyone's stinky, so it's fine. And usually like, if you hear it, like, I'll take the blame also for someone else's

Gabby: fart because you know,

Mel: 10 and 11 year olds, they're like the poop jokes are still very, very. And, and then like some, most people, most kids are very embarrassed about fighting, but I just like was whatever I was walking in the classroom. It was the first day of school. And I'm like roaming around looking at people's work. They're just working on some writing. And then I walk away from one table, but I overhear this one voice. They do another boy. Dude, did you just fire it? And this, the boy he blamed was someone who I'm just going to say it, like didn't have a lot of friends. And so he was like, no, no, that wasn't me. And at first I was like, dude, oh, I was really like really grossed out. And I was standing by the whiteboard, like overhearing this conversation, realizing like, oh crap, I just ruined this kid's first day of school. Cause I, oh, he took the blame for my bottle. Function. So, um, since then, I've been much more careful about, um, about my, you know, my gas. Can we, first of all, just like acknowledge that she used the word crap does. She was like, crap, you haven't

Gabby: heard crop dust. No. Like, you know, in the fields where like the tractor goes and they S they spray crops with LASIK, whatever crop, dusting, crop, crop, dusting. But

Mel: in this context, it should prompt us.

Gabby: Yes, it is. But I don't know. Maybe it's a Midwest thing, but we, I don't know where she's from, but. Yeah, we, we will often refer to it as crop dusting, just like letting one slip and then moving on, you know,

Mel: brilliant. He does. It's so funny. I've never heard of that before. And also Fairplay. Do you know what fair play teachers you have to put up with the stinky classrooms and the sweaty children and the smell of feet and I, yeah, you should crop dust whenever you. I yeah. Come in. Yeah. It's support you. Character is character building for those kids is not to be blamed for farts. It's a Rite of passage. All right. Moving on.

Gabby: Hi, Gabby

Mel: and Mel um, yes, and my embarrassing story happened at uni. Um, I'm at home on my own in my whores, minding my own business. When there's an OCA at the door, I open it and there are some very excited, um, non-English speaking, um, students, um, for some reason I let them into my home, um, before they proceed to show me. Very problematic apocalyptic video. Um, lead me into my room, pour water over my head and baptize me. Um, yeah, so I am baptized into a religion. Don't know which one. Um, and yeah, or because I can't say no to strangers. Uh, I named the audio file for this accidental cult. This person accidentally joined a cult at university. Oh my gosh. It's so funny. So good. Just like, yeah, come on in. Come on in. Yup. Oh, you want to put water in my head? Yeah, no, that's totally for it. Yeah, that happens. Oh shit.

Gabby: So good. Thank you. Thank you for these. Okay, next one. We've got,

Mel: Hey, Mel and, Gabby. This is Becky in Savannah, Georgia. I have embarrassing story. From when my now 12 year old son was a newborn baby and I was in combat new mom fog. He was probably about two weeks old and I was home by myself during the day. And just watching TV, tired, trying to breastfeed all of the things and FedEx rang the doorbell. So I got. And so the door got my package. Thank you very much. Went back in the house, sat down, pick the baby back up and then realized that my nursing bra was still on ton and I had no shirt on. So I had answered the door, just totally guns out to this poor FedEx delivery driver and all the people in my neighborhood. Fortunately, the driver. Who was a woman. She said nothing and none of my neighbors ever mentioned it. So hopefully I got away and escaped. Uh, but needless to say it never happened again. Um, but it was just, I was scunnered, nonetheless. So anyway, thanks guys. Oh, Becky, Becky. I, I titled them. Audio file boobs site for FedEx Ted site for FedEx. Oh yeah. I bet. I bet those were, I definitely answered the door with like milk stands, like leaky boobs, for sure. Whenever I was, uh, in the early days of breastfeeding. Oh my gosh.

Gabby: Uh, it

Mel: happens. I mean, it does happen

Gabby: when you're breastfeeding. There's always someone who sees your boob. You're not sure if you want to have Sr.

Mel: Yeah, absolutely. I was a bit brazen about that. I didn't really care. Although I was in a Starbucks once in Belfast with my mom, I'm Mo just after ADA was born and I was breastfeeding. This isn't funny. Who's actually really bad. It was actually traumatic, but, um, Starbucks waitress, like server came over to me and said, do you know that man? What? And there was a guy like Stanton at the window with watching the breastfeed. No, I didn't know. Yeah, totally, totally. Yeah. And they had to like go and chase them and like ring the police and stuff. It's not weird. I totally forgot about that.

Gabby: Gosh, these things we were pressed. Oh my God. I'm so sorry. That happened to

Mel: you. No, you know. All right. What else do we got here? So I was in Rome, Mel, Dave and Levi were on holiday with me. We were walking around visible Gacy and. I tripped over a chain and ended up on the floor. Mel didn't realize till she'd walked away. And then she came back and we were laughing so much in the meantime, a young Italian guy and his friend came up and said, can they help me? And I went, no, you're right. I probably ended up putting you on top of me the best bit was they walked away. And the next thing we know, he tripped over the same chain. Do you want me to come and help you do it? No. Thank you very much. I think he was more embarrassed than I was. I have plenty of stories where falling over. I don't ever seem to be the one that wants to grand swallow me up. Everybody else around me. I have a good one, ladies. Yeah, I was there. I did witness that and that is our friend, the stale, and she falls all the time, but that one was that one was particularly funny because this guy was trying to be a big, like, see a fear. Um, he just absolutely it dust as soon as he tried to. To help me funny, but just to like visual of this kind of like kind of hunky Italian guy, trying to help us out would fall at home. Oh gosh. Yeah. Very, very funny. So I want to tell this other story. It's not my story to tell. So I'm going to keep it anonymous, but it's always one that just like, yeah. Anyway, Dave, I think Dave was there, but this is quite an infamous story that one of our friends tells a bite when they were away on like a missions trip somewhere. And they were, they came home. Have I told you this story? I don't think so. No. And they CA they came home and they were up like the airport in Belfast. Um, and our friend let's call him John. Um, you know, you know, when you're like on your way back from a trip like that, and it's been a long journey and the team is just Getty and like tired on. Like, can't wait to get home. Everyone's you know, about a real bonding experience and it's just like silliness. Anyway, they were walking out of Belfast airport on John sees his sister up ahead. Woken up ahead walking out of the airport and he runs up to her and grabs her by her pants and Polzer up and like holds her up in the air with, by her knickers. Stop it and then puts her down. And this girl turns around and it's a total stranger. It's just like, he was just fully like front on back. Wedgied in the air. Some random girl, uh, that is not his sister. Isn't that brilliant story. That's amazing. And when you die yeah, like you would die on you. Like the person that had it done to them. Like, I don't know if they would ever recover, like what a violation. No, you're lifting you up in the air by your ponds. Oh, my word, like you're up by your underwear. Oh my goodness. So funny.

Gabby: All right, let's keep, let's keep plowing ahead here. So I went

Mel: to a wedding, um, a few years ago and I was sitting beside a guy and on the table, there was a chalk board and, um, we were sort of carry on. Drawing each other's hands and stuff, um, or on the table. And this guy drew around his hand and it wasn't really looking. And then I took the chalkboard and I was like, oh, you didn't draw under hand. You need to have her own four fingers. Um, He was like, he put up his hand and he was like, yeah, uh, forefingers, I'm embarrassed. I went to the bar, it was my friend. I got drunk. He turns out he had cancer and, uh, lost one of his fingers. And I didn't know, and I died. Just died. Oh no. Yeah. I mean, That is my worst nightmare is like making fun of someone and not realizing the back story, like absolutely

Gabby: day. Yeah. Oh,

Mel: that's that's so I feel awkward and cringy even just thinking about that moment.

Gabby: Yup. Yup.

Mel: So this story actually is about my mom several years ago, we were living in Washington at the time. And my brother was home from college visiting, uh, and my mom and the rest of my sisters. We all decided to do some shopping around Seattle. And so my brother wanted to go to a coffee shop and read. So we had dropped him off

Gabby: and decided to meet him later. Well,

Mel: it was time to meet

Gabby: up again.

Mel: And so my mom decided she was going to surprise him and just like, kind of. Behind him and scare him. So she sees him in the window and she sneaks in and she puts her hands on his shoulders and whispers. Hi, cutie pie around very shockingly and turns out it is not my brother. The funny thing is my brother was actually watching it happen so good. He good story is

Gabby: a good story. Cringing at all time.

Mel: Oh yeah. Oh my goodness. I've done. I've done a lot of, I'm just, it's all kind of come back to me like moments where I have. Waved at some like waved at someone that you thought was someone else and then immediately realize it's not them. And just the blood, like the color drains from your face. And you're like, I am so embarrassed. I give such a hearty hearty way to this person that I don't know, but mum's mums are a classic. For those embarrassing stories. I have another one about my mom, which is a notorious I'm going to tell. So my mum worked in a nursing home, um, off and on. She did, she had different, worked in different nursing homes over the years, but, and this one in particular, she, she, she was doing like an early shift. So she had to get like the residents up and washed and dressed. Um, Um, this one guy. So she took him into the bathroom and like, he was like, had to stand at the sink. Um, my mom would got a face cloth and was given him a wipe and she got to his, like his area and she was standing behind him and she was like wiping. And she, she saw these tubes. Like poo that she couldn't get off. And so she's like wiping and she's like, these are stubborn. She's like, I cannot get these like paces. And then she realized it was his fault. No, no, no, no, no. What she thought was paid was actually this old man's testicles and she had been rubbing them so hard. Oh, And we always like joked with her. It's like, I bet there was a lineup for people wanting you to wash them the next day. Oh was so funny. Oh my God. That's such a good

Gabby: story.

Mel: Wow. My mom was, my mom was always doing really and like, she always was doing stuff that was embarrassing, but she took it. So LG, the chicken sport. Oh, anyway, those were good. We have so many more. So we are going to have today. I'm looking at the list of other ones here. We are going to have to do a second episode sometime in the bag. So if you haven't, if you haven't sent yours in, and now you feel braver because you've heard other peoples feel free to do so at hello, making an effort, podcast.com. Um, but thank you to everybody who did

Gabby: all today. It's a nice laugh, you know,

Mel: it is. And today is actually the 1st of February, which. When you listen to this, it won't be, but today is actually our one year podcast anniversary. Well, I'm making an effort is one year old Thai colas up, uh, is so, so cool today. Monster forecast today. I know it's go well. Thanks

Gabby: for tuning in every week for the last year. And we will have more episodes.

Mel: Absolutely. Yep. Thanks everybody. Thanks for sending in all your stories for less than and supporting, and we will see you next week.