S1E21: Vacation Mishaps and Wrong Answers Only

This week, travel disasters, home renovations, and everyday quirks take center stage. From forgotten passports to wild horseback rides—and a game of Wrong Answers Only—this episode is packed with hilarious mishaps and unexpected life lessons.

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Yeah. Do you want to know what the secret is to winning an argument with them? You just slap them down. You slap them down. They are little. They don't need to be talking up to you. If you don't slap them down when they're little, they're going to grow up thinking that they're the boss of you. Negotiation, Absolutely negotiate every point. No, no, no. What you're going to give. Know what you're taking and negotiate. Like hell with that. With that little thing. Welcome back to she Said. She Said. I am Pam Prior. I am a cfo, speaker, author, origami expert, and I balance the books at our house. Deb Reinhard, corporate executive, executive coach, and most of the time, I balance. Pam. Yes, indeed. Most of the time. And you may notice the lighting's a little different today. We had a catastrophe over the last. We did. First world problem, to be fair. Yes. But Verizon Wireless went out one day and just didn't come. Well, it came back. It came back. But in our house, it only partially came back because we have some very weird configuration. We have a mesh network. There are. It decided to go down. There are words. It died. It died and it died. No, it died because for days we didn't know. It died because we contacted Verizon and. They kept saying, there's a service outage. It's going to be restored by two tomorrow. By two tomorrow? For five days. It'll be restored by two tomorrow. Yeah. Clearly we were listening to a record until I finally. No, it's. And it's still texting me. It texted me again this morning. So I called Verizon and said, I've got this problem. And she helped me troubleshoot it, and sure enough, it was our mesh. Our mesh died. So here's the tricky thing, people. You think you're really cool because I set up the mesh network. We gave it a fabulous name, and we gave it a password that worked brilliantly for our family. Unfortunately, Verizon is unable to recreate that same password. So while we could put our new network, we could put our name on the Verizon network instead of on the mesh. I know I'm losing everything. Anyway, all that goes to say, we have a really smart house. Everything is connected to the network, so when the network changes, some things just don't want to come back up. Right. This is my point. So remember those old mechanical light switches that used to be on the wall? All of ours are get yours. So go ahead and get yourself light switches. These are the only lights that Are causing me problems. These are the only ones. They are because we can't control them anymore. Because they don't run through the hub. They're gone. So anyway, if you see we're gonna. Fix it, you know what we're gonna fix it. Of things going wrong. We had a friend spend the last couple nights and she was going to the airport this morning. Yes. And you said, hi, Trish. Shout out to Trish. Hope your trip was a good one. I'm sure it was. And Deb says as she's running out the door now, she doesn't live here, she lives in state college. Deb says, oh, do you have your license? And she went, ah, yeah. She was heading to the airport to catch flight. Luckily she did. She had it. She did. It reminded me of two small travel glitches that we've had. Both my fault. Yes. I love that. Say it again. Both. What? One of them was me entire. Well, they both were me. But one story you can tell from your perspective, and then I'll tell the other one from my perspective. So go ahead and tell the first one because you were involved in the first one. I was involved. I was involved. I was kind of. Yeah, I was kind of involved in both of. But. But passively. Passively involved in the first one. Anyway. Yeah. So my wife was going on a business trip and she was late and there was traffic. Wasn't late. We wouldn't have been. Right. But it was. But it was tight on time because she gets, I don't know, half of the way down to. All the way down, all the way, all the way to the airport. We are pulled up in front of the airport, gets. And she looks for the first time. And the answer to that question, does she have her license? Big fat no. Now we live probably 40 minutes from the airport, at least. At least. So I get the phone call that says, can you bring me my license? I'm like, where are you? She's like, I'm at the airport. Like, what? So sure enough, she. She commenced. Convinces the driver. He volunteered. All right. He volunteered. Okay. We can meet her halfway. So they started driving north and I started driving south. And we met in the middle in a parking lot with just enough time for me to throw the license out the window so you could pick it up and go. And off we went. And we made it in plenty of time. Was fabulous. That was a fabulous. Yeah. The dog know. Yeah. What's the moral to the story? The moral to this story is nobody can ever give me crap anymore for going as early as I go. So the way that I plan the airport is

we say we have a flight time is 9: 5:12

00am no. So you, it, you allow, you know, two hours once you get there. But I don't really worry about that for domestic flights it's like you're going to allow an hour, but I allow an hour prior to boarding. So if it's a 9 o'clock flight, it could board as early as 20 of 9. So let's call that

8:30. So we know we want to be there an hour before 8: 5:29

30, which is

7: 5:33

30. So then I say okay, but we might have trouble getting through security, so let's pack on a half hour. So then at 7 we need to get there. And then we say okay, on a normal day it's 45 minutes to get to the airport. But what if there's an accident on 95? We want to leave by

6: 5:51

15. But then I say yikes, there could be an accident on 95. So let's allow an extra half an hour. So now we're leaving at quarter of six and then it's like,

well, let's just put a buffer on leave at 5: 6:02

30. So

for a 9:00 flight we'll leave the house at 5: 6:06

30 and then to the airport. But here's the thing, I, I don't do that when I travel alone. We get to the airport calm, cool. Collected, no matter how long, bored out of our gourds sitting at the airport. You always read. You read if you read. If you were home, so you just read there. I'd work if I were home, so I work there. I'd have a comfortable chair and it's ridiculous. It did save you that day. You know what would have really saved you that day? Just checking the house before. Checking your wallet before you leave the house. So the other story is actually, she says, didn't really make a mistake. I was a hero at first, but then it turned sour. So right after graduation at Westminster. Not. Yeah, after the graduation ceremony at Westminster. It wasn't Lindsay's graduation, but she was singing at the other graduation, somebody's graduation. So I had to pick her up in Princeton at Westminster and just run her and Maddie to the airport at Newark. Yeah. Because they were literally going to be hopping on a plane that night and to Florence. Singing in Florence. Singing in Florence for an opera. It was an opera program for. Yeah, yeah, for a couple weeks, three weeks. So I'm like, cool, you know, I'll remember the passport. Grabbed the passport from here. Took it with me to wait for them outside of graduation. I had the bags in the car. We were so prepared and ready. We get there, we start driving up to Newark and we get about halfway there, and for whatever reason, thank God, Lindsay looked at the passport and she said, you gave me mom's passport. I said, I did not give you mom's passport. She said, yep, you did. I went, oh, shit. Luckily again, because, well, we got lucky that I. You got so lucky. But if it had been any later, it wouldn't have worked. Yeah, because I'm the one who said, let's go straight from Westminster up to the airport. We were able to drive all the way home, grab the passport, get back. To Newark in time again. They made it again. Yes, there you gave. You offered the buffer time. But you know what? You also could have checked the passport before you left the house. I must have checked it. I mean, because we have three passports. They look exactly the same. I had to have opened it. It. I think. I think my daughter looks a little different than I do. I think somebody switched it out. I gotta say, my passport picture is not the one that I'm really fond of. But it looks nothing like. I believe that you switched it out on me. Nothing. I really do. I swear. Gray haired lady versus my kid. Not happening. But I can't remember. Yeah, surprise, surprise. But yeah, so that was kind of. Yeah, that was bad. That was bad. Yeah. I've got to admit. But those are probably the only awful travel stories. Travel stories. You know, the one thing that I recall like. So when we took. Do you remember when Lindsay was about 10, we went down to. We went with Sean and we went to Puerto Rico. Yes. It was a wonderful trip, but we had this dream that we were gonna land in Puerto Rico and we'd be sitting on white beach and blue water. And where we stayed, it was rocky. There was no white beach. We did not do our research. The water was. Was not like stellarly blue, but it was like kind of a bluey green. It was a beautiful property. I. I will say, like the property was fine, but like it did not have a beach. This is truly first world problem. This is. But it. Remember it rained and my. So we decided we wanted to go out to a bioluminescent bay. There are not going to. There are very few of them in the world and they're, you know, they're probably pretty endangered at this point. So Lindsay and I well know why you didn't come along. I was in a canoe because of my knee at the time. Oh, that's it. You couldn't get in the kayak, so Lindsay and I did. And it was a nighttime trip because it's bioluminescent. You guys see it at night. But it was raining, Pouring, pouring rain. I will never forget. But here we were. We're like kayaking in the dark. There's a lady with a lamp on her kayak, like, way out ahead of us. We are in the dark of the mangrove. The mangrove trees heading out to this. To this bay. And I don't know, we kept staring into the trees. We were getting stuck in the trees. It was so incredibly frustrating. I'm like, lizzie, go to the left, left, left. She's like, I'm going to the left. Then finally we get out there, right? And it's not like it's a beautiful night, but what you saw, because it ended up being cool. So even though it was pouring down rain, we were soaking wet. And how far did you have to paddle? We paddled. We paddled a ways. It was a ways. You were gone a long time. I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was happy to sleep when you came home. But the raindrops. As the raindrops were hitting the bay, like, it would. It would excite the bioluminescence. So you just saw these little pop, pop, pops of light. It was really, really. It was very cold. It was very, very cold. And it ended up being good. A little wet, but that was. That was okay. That was one. Then on that same trip again, you did not come. Lindsay and I did horseback riding in the. In the. In the rainforest. Lindsay gets on a horse that decides it's going to start cantering up the mountain. Oh, yeah. She has had bad, bad, bad horse experiences. Yeah, the guy, like, he like, ripped past me on his horse so that he go up and grab the H. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it was. It was a treat. It was a treat and a half. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don't know, like that. And then we took her. And then we took her snorkeling. Our daughter who, like, is afraid of fish. I wonder if she has any good memories other than eating. Other than eating at Raices, which, by the way, if you're gonna go. If you're gonna be in San Juan Raices. It's delicious food, but I wonder if she has any good memories from that trip at all. I totally forgot about that last little piece, actually. I think we. She ended up enjoying the rainforest. She really did. It was a good trip. It was a really good trip. Well, for me I didn't get a course run out from under me or have to paddle miles in the rain. There are benefits to having. That was. That was a trip. Wow. That's pretty fun. Yeah. Oh, God. I don't know why I'm thinking about, like, just things that go wrong today. But it brings to mind. I don't know why. Oh, no. The horse cantering. I guess, like, I think we've told you, Deb moves furniture a lot around here. I do. And I like to move furniture. You get to see things from a different perspective. I really think there's value. Yeah. And I may have told. We may have told this story before, but it's interesting to me because I literally will go, we know that I batch clean things. Right. And I batch do things. So devil start moving furniture. And she's like, nope, I'm gonna do it. I'll do it all myself. Don't worry about it. I mean, not in a passive aggressive way. Just truly, I'll do it all myself. And I'm like, I'll help you, but give me half an hour, knowing full well in half an hour it'll all be done. No, that's. That's right. Because you know, if you. If you put a time on it that I'm just not going to wait. No. So one time. 2. There are two major incidents that I can pick up. I think there were two different ones. But you just saw. I've had two. I've had two from upstairs to downstairs. Yeah. And she literally fell down the stairs with the bed. And the bed was in front of you? I guess it was in front of me. I ended up having to vault over it and it. And it smashed the front door. Dented a steel front door. It did. And it didn't hit. You didn't get hurt? I did not get hurt, but I did not get hurt because I was remarkably gymnastic on that day. I thought I could. You know what it was? I was actually. It was. I was in front of. No, I was in front of it. I was in front of it and I was like, just kind of trying to control a slow slide coming down the stairs. But then it just was too heavy and too fast and I had to bail. And I did. I bailed out. And it had a picture of you leaping, but. And we had that dented. It would have. It would have been bad. Yeah. That and that steel door. I had to look at that dent for. For a long time before we replaced it. It was like a teaching moment. It was a teaching many Years is what it was. And then we had to replace. Place the door. But, yeah, you would think after really almost losing your life pretty much, or becoming, you know, maimed, that a lesson would have been learned. Yeah, but. And I guess you weren't actually doing anything. I was not. I was not. In fairness to me, I was not. I'm upstairs, and I hear, boom. What was that? And. And the thing with Deb is, when there's a minor incident, she'll scream and yell. I mean, like, holy hell, you think the house is burning? Well, I've gotten used to that. And I know to ignore the really loud screams and yells. When there's quiet, I know something's up. So I'm like, are you okay? I'm all right. Like, in this tiny little voice, I'm like, oh, something serious has happened now. I don't know if I've ever told. You that's how I. I don't even. Honestly. Well, that I. That I know. I don't. I don't remember a whole lot about that incident. Like, it was stacked up against the wall, and it fell over. Yeah. On the head. A wooden. A wooden bed frame. And sure enough, you had a concussion, and sure enough, you weren't. I was. I was not right. For months. For months. And then you still had trouble getting words, even, like, a year later. Yeah. And. And now what I will say is, if I'm under a lot of stress, I still struggle verbally. Yeah. That. That was the most. That was so weird when she would, like, the neurologist would, like, hold up a pencil, and I knew what it was, and I knew what to do with it, but I could not. The word pencil. And that's how it started. And then it became like other things, and then. And I don't think it's any worse now than mine, which is just constant. But I have a. I have a. A solution for that problem. What I do is when I'm thinking of something and I can't come up with the word. I don't actually grasp of the word. I just keep throwing descriptive words out about it until people come up with the word. And my family, we do have bonus children. Children. Family have gotten very good at that. Yeah. And, like. Especially if I'm, like, thinking of a. Movie name or something, and I'll go, oh, God, yeah. Relatively short hair, red dress scene with a couch in the corner. Blah, blah. And nine times out of ten, y'all. We'Ll eventually get it. Yeah. It's extraordinarily frustrating. Normal words I try to. I just try to slow down. I find that you just. If you just slow down, you can come up with the word. But I used to be much faster coming up with the words, even under stress. Gotta keep rolling. Yeah. No, that is so funny. Well, speaking of games, do we have a game today? We do. Ah, ha ha. Right. Oh, God. By the way, before we jump to the game, if you've got a good vacation story or a good at home renovation story, drop it in the chat or the comments and we will pick it up and share. Share. Because these things always are funny and we usually forget about them. Like when had to remind us three of them. I don't. Like. I don't. I just. I don't hold those, like, traumatic memories in my mind. Close to disasters. Yeah, don't hold them. Go ahead. When? Give us the game. What's the game? All right, so our game today is called. What's that noise? It's the tap upstairs. Oh, I thought it was a game. Okay. Our game today is called Wrong answers only. And full disclosure. This is taken from a podcast. Oh, cool. The distractible podcast. Oh, nice. Shout out to the distractible. Thank you. Maybe. And the game is. I'm going to give you a list of advice questions and you both answering. We're going to alternate who goes first. Okay. You're gonna give me the worst answer. Oh, the worst answer we can think of. Yeah. So the wrong answer, like completely. You know, it can be funny. It could be serious. It can be, like, just wrong. Completely wrong. Yeah. Okay. Actually, that's good because I make stuff. Up, so that's fine all the time. You should be very good at this game. And the best answer. The wrong. The best wrong answer wins. Gets a point. Yeah. Oh, my Right. I'm ready. Let's do this. All right, we'll start with pan. Yes. Wrong answers only. Got it. Why do humans have eyebrows? Oh, I know that. That is because you need to collect dust and ensure that it doesn't fall down into your eyelashes and ruin your mascara. Fair. Deb, why do humans have eyebrows? I think humans have eyebrows because it is a leftover from a time when we just had all hair on our face and from years of struggling through the trauma. We've wiped the hair off of our foreheads and we no longer have hair on our foreheads. We just have the brows. Gotta say, I think debs was a little bit more creative. I think Debs wins. Yeah, Debs, that one for sure. That's pretty good for me. That's pretty Good. All right, Deb, you're going first. Okay, Feel free to take a little bit of time on this one. Okay. What do the letters and BLT sandwich stand for? BLT sandwich. Not take forever, Just a little time. I. I understand, but, like, I was so, like, it's like so streamed in my head that what a BLT sandwich is. It's hard. Three random words. Blt. Wow, that's hard. Big loogie and tomatoes. Ew. Rose, you use tomato. Okay. Blt. I actually need a minute. I thought I had one, but I don't. Yeah, you should have come up with it. I gave you a lot of time. I think I can beat beak loogie. Tomato. Geez. Let's go with beef leek. Yeah, come on. Piece of cake. What's another food that starts with tea? Doesn't have to be food. I know. What's a thing that starts with tea? Beef leaf beef leak trauma. A beef leak trauma sandwich. Beef and leak are having trauma. Well, I do like the trauma sandwich. I think big cookie is gross enough. However, you did say tomato. I did? You didn't. It didn't say I can't. It didn't say I can't use tomato. But it's not quite as creative as I was hoping. Automatic point. Pam gets the point. Oh, no. Pam, you're starting this time. Hilariously. Oh, no. So ridiculous is cryptocurrency. Oh, that is so easy. Cryptocurrency is a way for cryptomaniacs to get money without having to steal it. You mean kleptomaniacs, Pam. I mean cryptomaniacs. Cryptocurrency is another word for the inheritance that you get from dead people. From the crypt. From the crypt. That's pretty good. I like Deb's answer. Pam was a little bit too close to the truth. Because they're not stealing, right? No, they're not. Cryptocurrency is not stealing. No, I just got a good kleptomania. Because. It's. Because. It's because for some reason you went to kleptomania. I know. I don't. I know. Cryptomania. I don't know. Cryptomania. It's a thing. It's a thing. Then it fed into your dead people leaving stuff. Yeah, nice. Dead Deb wins dead. Dead wins again. Wins that one. All right, feel free to be as. As short or long winded as with this one. Deb, how do you gracefully exit a conversation you don't want to be a part of anymore? Okay, so if. If you're ever in a conversation, and you really don't want to be a part of it anymore, you simply look at the other person and say, you know, I've been looking at you all day, and you. It really disgusts me to continue to look at you. So I'm. I'm out of here. And you walk away. Wow. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good. So the question is, what's the most creative way? Sure. So a bad answer is a very uncreative way. Or am I overthinking it? You're overthinking it. Yes, you are. If someone asks you, how do you get out of a conversation? You don't be anymore. What's your. Shouldn't you tell them? What? Shouldn't you tell them what Shouldn't I tell them? Okay. Or pick your nose. There. That's also gross. You can't take that part. That was from Francis. Maybe Francis gets a point for that one. Pick your nose and flick it on him. The best advice I can give you. I don't know. Deb's really getting me with that, you know, you're ugly. I can't look at you anymore. You disgust me. Disgust me. I think dad gets that one. Damn. She's wiping that floor with me. All right, it's your time to redeem yourself. Okay, what should you do if you get lost hiking in the wilderness? Oh. So the first thing you want to do is look to see where. Which way the trees are leaning. And if they're. Whichever way they're leaning, you want to walk that way because the wind will be at your back, and you'll get someplace faster than you would if you walked the other way. So regardless, kind of of where you are, you know, you'll. Because the wilderness ends somewhere, right? We know this. So if you follow the path of the tilting trees, you'll get out. Follow the path of the tilting trees. There's the advice. You're welcome. Whoever's lost in the wilderness, you're welcome. All right. If you're. I would say, you know, that's decent advice. That's decent advice. If you're really lost in the wilderness and you really want to find your way out, I think what you start to do is you start to look on the ground, and when you start to see poop on the ground, follow the poop. And you will. Eventually, you might find a bear. You might find a bear. I mean, a cave. Right? Right. And I would suggest, like, you go into the cave, because clearly you're Lost in the woods. You need to find someplace to be able to take shelter. So take a shelter. Bears are so friendly. They're soft, they're furry, they're cuddly. Go in, hang out with the bear, you know, and maybe if you're lucky, you know, he'll give you a ride on his back so that you can get back to wherever you need to be. I think. I think the answer is to find yourself a cuddly bear. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, that's pretty creative. Again, I like them both. I want to give Deb the point, but I also kind of wish that your. Your answers were combined so that the wind is pushing you towards the poop. Because the. The wind will. You'll go, oh, that could. That could. That's a. To the cave with the bear to cuddle. Yeah, to the cuddly bear. Teamwork. All right. All right. Team point. Teamwork is dream work. All right, Pam. Yes. What is abstract art? And for the audio listeners, she held up her origami of something. Her just twisted up piece of paper. It's a. What is it? I don't know. But you have a better answer. What is abstract art? Yeah, so I think the appropriate question when Is really, who is abstract art? He used to go by Arthur, but now he prefers to just be called art. He's really kind of hard to define. You know, people like, look at them and some people see somebody that they really like and other people just really don't like them. It's just. It's. It's a. It's a who. It's not a what. Yeah, Deb, I. I like your out of the box. I gotta give you answer. Although, Pam, I did like the simple. Holding up the origami because it really is. It really is abstract. Now I want to know who he is. I want to be abstract. I think you should. That's a good TV show pitch. It does sound like a good TV. Show being abstract art. All right, Deb, you first. This is the last question I have. Okay. Ice cream cone. Oh, is that what it is? Hang on. Is like a cone. It's just supposed to be a cone. Shut up. Ask your questions. All right, one point detected off the plan. Deb, what is the secret to winning an argument with a toddler? Yeah, do you want to know what the secret is to winning an argument with them? You just slap them down. Just slap them down. They are little. They don't need to be talking up to you. If you don't slap them down when they're little. They're going to grow up thinking that they're the boss of you. Negotiation. Absolutely. Negotiate every point. No, no, no. What you're gonna give. Know what you're gonna take and negotiate. Like hell with that. With that little thing. You'll always win. It's hard because, Pam, I feel like that's sort of the right answer. Oh, God, no. Right. We never negotiate with a child when we had. But we don't really slap them down either, in fairness. My mother said to me, I guess Lindsay, at one point I was doing that and my mother said, oh, never negotiate with that child. She will always win. It's so true. Oh, yeah, that's right. I can become an inconsistent parent. You. You got. You did. It really is not good advice. She came out. Okay, so maybe I was right. You're thinking. No, Pam, I compensated. Oh, there. Yeah, there's a lot of compensation going on there, babe. I love it. Yep. Negotiate. That's. I'm going with it. Who wins? All right, so that one. I feel like. Tam, I feel like you get the point on that one because you did convince me. And that was the last question. Right. So not true. 100 points. Not quite a la Jimmy Fallon. Not quite Fallon. Yeah. I can't believe that you get them confused. Sorry. Jimmy's. All right. We did it. At the total end, we are. Has five points. Deb with six. Oh, it's closer than I thought. No, I knew you were. I knew you were close. Congratulations. I thought you were way out. Congratulations. Thank you. Well done. Gabriel. Here is your certificate of winning. Sure. Certificate of terrible wisdom. This is to certify Deb Reinhart a success. Successfully proven that logic, common sense and good decision making are optional. May your guidance never be followed and your wisdom forever be questionable. Awesome. That's the best part of the whole day. That's awesome. Well, we hope you enjoy. We hope that you get and give all the bad advice you can handle. And like subscribe. Tell us about your horrible vacations or little things that happen that you. A piece of terrible advice that you wouldn't thought you were. What is the worst piece. Piece of advice you've ever been given? I like that. That's great. And that you followed that Be okay. I love it. Well, you guys have a great week and we will see you again. See you the next.