Mitchell
Just words coming at ya. Doing the most. Episode 31. I’m not making you guess this week, you know. We’re just gonna have to laugh a little harder, a little louder. Hello, welcome back. You’re still here. Two weeks in. Two weeks down the road. What does that mean? Sigh. Exasperated sigh. Well, how are you, lovely wife? Can you believe we’re doing this again? Yeah? No? What is up?

Scarlet
I don’t know. I’m just feeling very ennui today.

Mitchell
Ennui wanna explain what that means?

Scarlet
It’s French.

Mitchell
Well I okay.

Scarlet
You know French.

Mitchell
I know, you parameters.

Scarlet
You tell me what it means.

Mitchell
Hey, well I don’t know why.

Scarlet
Oh.

Mitchell
Like I mean technically I’d have to see it spelled. Is it E N U I on Wii? Like that?

Scarlet
Yeah, E-N-N-U-I.

Mitchell
And I don’t actually know.

Scarlet
Oh.

Mitchell
Just like blah zé, blah. Yeah.

Scarlet
Just kind of ennui just weary.

Mitchell
bored. Oh. Is it the weather? Because this weather is kinda irritating to me.

Scarlet
Probably.

Mitchell
One of the terms I freaking.

Scarlet
Three days of you know. Like we worked on Monday and it was Was it nice? I don’t even remember.

Mitchell
No, it it the way it worked out was every day that we worked was really nice. And then the last three days that we don’t work is been garbage Yes. And you know, and I often will use this term. It is uninspiring weather, which for me like I know maybe I need to find inspiration in cold, rainy, cruddy weather But this is why this time of the year I usually we well usually I’m like so excited we were gonna go to Arizona. That was something we talked about, didn’t do, but it was like oh And it’s the reason is ’cause I get s this weather becomes so unrelenting. Now it is we’ve had some nice weather. This if you’re not from Oregon, folks, And maybe this is true everywhere. I don’t know.

Scarlet
Oregon weather is It’s not true. It’s not like this in North Carolina.

Mitchell
It’s just really like uh what’s the word I wanna use? It is uh I don’t know what be it’s like labile. It just changes it’s like We will get these wonderful days where you’re like, man, it’s seventy-five out like a month ago and you’re like, yeah, and then all of a sudden it goes back to fifty and raining in a matter of a day or two and it’s it’s just again uninspiring. I so I actually hate

Scarlet
When the weather’s like and some people are like, Oh I love rainy days. Just curl up with a good Book and blah blah and I’m like I can’t do that for six days in a row.

Mitchell
For seven months in a row.

Scarlet
Like at some point I lose my mind.

Mitchell
When you’re starting to develop a uh bed sore, pressure injury, I know that’s what I call it. That’s from s cuddling up with a good book so much. Yes, I would concur. Uh so I don’t, you know I can’t I’m honestly sitting here thinking like normally I could have a lot of ideas when someone says, hey, the weather’s uh you know cruddy, what do you like to do? And right now I’m like Nothing. I don’t wanna go here’s the deal. If it’s rainy but it’s kinda warm, that’s okay, like Then you like it’s fun to sit out and watch it rain ’cause it’s still warm and pleasant. Like in the close to summer, that’s fun. Even walking in kind of that humidity warm when it’s rain, that’s okay. But this cold and rain is the worst because it’s like

Scarlet
It’s never warm and rainy in Oregon. That’s how that’s that’s that’s the rules. Those are the rules.

Mitchell
Well, them are the rules, kid. Warm rain and cold rain actually is what we used to say are the two seasons here. But We I don’t know me and a mouse in my pocket. So I but the weather look if there’s a smile now you hate it when I’m all oh you gotta smile um

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
I don’t know. Why is it always sound weird through my headphones? I don’t know. I’m trying to work on the studio space, by the way. Um to make it more uh amenable, more uh studio, more easier, better for the sound. No one’s complained about the sound quality No one’s not complained. No one’s really responded except for C. Why? Well I want people to respond What yeah Oh look at your side. I mean I got a lot of stuff on my list here that could be spoken about our cats all the time, but

Scarlet
Nobody’s actually seen our cats.

Mitchell
Right. Well, this is uh uh this is a podcast, which is a audio format.

Scarlet
Oh that’s true, but sometimes you make clips

Mitchell
I do. Oh you want me to put more clips up with the actual cats? I I had planned for the website to have a page with each of the cats on there and like a light a little bio about ’em. Because we have five cats, folks. Um wow, do you want have we t Do you need to talk about him?

Scarlet
No, I was gonna just bring Kenny in here because he’s the one I see right now and hold him up. But you’re kinda right, and it’s just a podcast.

Mitchell
And then everyone can go look at it on the um on Instagram or YouTube or wherever you get your short video clips that I put up sometimes Well, we have well let’s see people ask, we have we actually have two ragdolls, which should be uh Kennedy. Well the old the OG is Hamilton. He’s the oldest of all the cats, ragdoll Kennedy, same breeder, also ragdoll. He’s a flame point. If you don’t know what that means, he’s like creamy white with like dust of kind of a orangey cinnamon on his neck.

Scarlet
We actually meant to go get another one like hammy But instead of like white mitted, we wanted a black mitted. Never even crossed my mind, never was drawn to it, but there was just something about Kennedy.

Mitchell
Yeah. He actually was like Just won us over. jumping into our laps and like just he was like so interested in us.

Scarlet
He is so obnoxious. Yeah.

Mitchell
He is. Like I was laying in bed and he climbs right on my chest every time like, okay, this is where I’m gonna sit with my uh tail and facing your face, which is like great. Um Hamilton. So those two. And then we have the two Scottish we have Scottish straight and a Scottish Fold. That would be Jefferson would be the male Scottish fold

Scarlet
He’s like who you will never see.

Mitchell
Yeah, he’s actually like white with like kind of a maybe in picture form. I’d say actually black kind of striping. It looks gray because they’re lighter, but he’s like white with like dark grey highlights.

Scarlet
He’s so pretty.

Mitchell
He’s a beautiful cat. I’ve never held him before.

Scarlet
We’ve never held him.

Mitchell
Well I mean long many years ago. In fact I but of all the cats he’s the least problematic. Technically he does nothing. That’s true. Except for he might be in scratching. He he does get on the counters. He’s a culprit. Every now and then gets on the counters. Like I don’t know why he’s he’s that way. And his sister, Scottish straight, Lucy, or Lulu, she is uh Yeah, she’s decent. She just sits in her hammock window hammock all day. She likes to be held, petted. She’s uh yeah, she and she has a funny voice, like it’s strangely more I think it’s lower sounding than the all the boys. Like almost like okay there. Um and then last but not least is Beans, who is uh A street rat Strag Straggle cat, the youngest, and he is what is he actually uh I almost called him a cornico. Which sounds like a like an ice cream treat. Oh, you guys want to get cornicos later? Um Now I can’t think of the word.

Scarlet
No, he’s not a calico.

Mitchell
He’s a tabby. Okay, there you go. But a cornuco would be a cool kind of a type of cat. Right? I don’t know what anyways, uh he’s a tabby and he is kind of irritates me because he’s still sort of skittish.

Scarlet
Yeah, because you were awful to him.

Mitchell
I st well okay. Doesn’t matter.

Scarlet
Can’t I don’t have these issues with him.

Mitchell
Five cats. But you know what the uh so yes, w I should do that. I’ve always wanted to update the site and do that. I’ll try to make that.

Scarlet
But Beans is like the picture. He’s the headline picture Mm-hmm.

Mitchell
Yeah, ’cause he well, I just caught him in the classic like weirdo pose of straddled leg looking forward like you know, like all the c all the cats but Lucy do that. And Jeff I d I don’t my Jeff Yeah, okay, the two ragdolls always do that weird like sitting on their backside legs open, weird looking thing. Um But the bigger, I think the more exciting news, it goes right along with the cats. We recently got a new vacuum. Yes. Now I know if you feel like you if you’re checking the episode number really quick because you’re like, no, I feel like we just got a new vacuum. You’re right. We have got multiple new vacuums. Do you know what this brings up our floor uh suctioning cleaning device count up to? Just throw out a number.

Scarlet
Eleven.

Mitchell
Nope. Higher or lower? Higher. So are you counting shop vac Well yes, but let’s okay, so let’s just let’s just talk about suctioning devices. This was part of the I mean this has gotten out of control. One upright back.

Scarlet
Okay, I’m trying to get rid of two of them.

Mitchell
Mm-hmm So we’ve got one upright vacuum. We’ve got um we have uh four oh my goodness I don’t have my glasses on Four robots, four robot vacuums.

Scarlet
Mm-hmm.

Mitchell
Three downstairs one. It says four robots. We’re up to five But then we have three handhelds. The new one you got is kind of a upright handheld. It’s a cordless, more powerful shark, but we have three handhelds. A Dynako, a Dyson, and the Shark Three handhelds. That brings us up to eight vacuums, am I right? Then we have two shop vacs. That brings you up to ten. We have a carpet shampooer, a full size one, that’s eleven. Then we have a miniature like shampooer, that’s twelve. And then we have like a floor steaming, like a big floor steamer.

Scarlet
That’s not a vacuum.

Mitchell
Okay, but it’s a f okay, but I’m just saying like These are a lot of vacuum devices. S floor management devices. Okay, I’m just saying Double digits. I mean okay, you take out that steamer, we are still at because the shampooers are cleaners, but so that’s exciting, that shark thing. It does actually work though. The the work on the stairs, uh my sixteen year old boy’s job is to vacuum the stairs every day.

Scarlet
Oh I know everybody never have added to that list of chores in four years.

Mitchell
Slave driving us I know, that sounds so like I how dare I take the forty-five seconds of his life away every day to vacuum the stairs. Um And the old one just kinda stunk.

Scarlet
So he just kinda Yeah, the Tyneko was did we determine it was two or three years old? And you know these little handheld backs after it doesn’t matter how many times you clean the filters or this or that. Eventually they just lose their suction power.

Mitchell
Well not according to that Dyson guy, but that Dyson one also I think the Dyson handheld just started losing its charge.

Scarlet
Yes.

Mitchell
So it became the spider vacuum Because you just get enough in it to zap a real quick spider suck it up, which we haven’t used for a while.

Scarlet
I don’t even want to look at nothing.

Mitchell
I mean we did do the math. What was the tentacle? Was it two or three hundred dollars Three. Yeah, so a hundred dollars a year, if we got three years out of it, that’s what, eight dollars a month Somewhere in there?

Scarlet
Mm-hmm.

Mitchell
Eight and change, is that worth it? Times twelve vacuums? We don’t know.

Scarlet
I don’t know. Probably got eight dollars a month out of it

Mitchell
Uh I don’t know. Well in the end maybe not as much. So I had a tiny coat. And then you got my mom to get one. She has a tiny co. That’s our second tiny coat, technically.

Scarlet
Mm-hmm.

Mitchell
Anyways, that’s the big exciting household news everybody. We got the the shark. And it has the bendable breakaway uh wand that nobody will ever use. Mm. Because you like the shark upright and then the new shark and then we have a shark robot. Robot.

Scarlet
And like we just like don’t have any issues with them.

Mitchell
The only issue I have is I wish they made those little deodorizer discs affordable. Because I like the way when we got the upright, the little disc had just a good smell. It wasn’t like floral or anything. It just smelled like kind of like new Carpeters. I it’s had a new it’s had a good pleasant smell.

Scarlet
How much are they?

Mitchell
I don’t know. I think it’s like a they’re I feel like they’re like six or eight bucks each Well that’s I mean but it’s an ongoing cost. I gotta change the little deodorizer disc every I don’t know, one more thing to forget to change. To make a reminder about. I have so many reminders to do stinking things like put water in the cat thing. Put food in the case.

Scarlet
You could just add it to your list of Sunday chores.

Mitchell
Yeah, that sometimes don’t get done. So, but that’s exciting. That uh 12th vacuum, 11th, however you want to measure it. It’s over 10. It’s a lot of vacuums, folks There’s probably some hidden vacuum I don’t even know about. Um we talked about the weather, which yeah was actually on my list. You jumped there. I actually had another thing, which uh this is a work-related issue. I have mentioned that I don’t know if I mentioned this before. But is this an old person thing to not remember if you mentioned it or to think something is so wonderful you gotta keep mentioning it? I don’t know But oh, I’m having a tea. Are you doing okay over there? Yeah.

Scarlet
Probably shouldn’t have had that third cup of coffee.

Mitchell
Um I just washed all the toilets too. Um using speaking so it teams at work. If you’re teams really if you don’t if you don’t know what Teams is, sorry, welcome to the twenty-first century. It’s a it’s a communication tool from Microsoft Electronic It’s like instant messaging at work, right? You everyone else teams running, you want to be like, oh, I send someone a message, or a whole group of people a message, right? Often I’ll send doctors messages through teams if they’re using I’ll be like, hey, uh Mr. 147, you know, uh IV fluid’s done, blah, blah, blah, blood pressure you want, you know, and they might do this. Well back and forth. Like, oh yeah, hey, how about this, you know, some of that stuff. And then sometimes the female doctors, I don’t know why, they’ll and and like just like a text message, you can I don’t know what they call it in a text message, you can heart Or you can thumbs up, you can put a little badge on a received message, right? You can be like, oh, and by heart. Like I love it. And I I don’t ever use the heart because and then when I get a heart from a from a female doctor or provider on my message, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable. I’m serious. I’m like it just feels like I just It just feels like a little inappropriate. Like if you were to walk by and be like, oh, why is uh Dr. So-and-so loving your message? I don’t know.

Scarlet
It makes me feel that’s really cute that It makes you feel like you’re being flirted with.

Mitchell
Yeah, and I don’t so I mean and I never do I always I heard things all the time. I’m a thumbs upper Well I do that too.

Scarlet
Because I feel like there’s a line. Like for example.

Mitchell
I’m married. Well oh my God.

Scarlet
Like for example If I’m like talking to Bedflow and I’m like, hey, I here are the people that can transfer out of the ICU. And then um he is a man but answers back, oh, okay, I got a team for such and such. Can go CHS4 can go to 6D And I’ll heart it because I’m like, that’s great.

Mitchell
How do you thought about how he feels?

Scarlet
If he’s over there going That sounds like a him problem, not a me problem.

Mitchell
Thanks, Scarlet. I I’m glad that I’m a little uncomfortable. I’m married here. No need to heart the message, just thumbs up it. That’s just how I feel.

Scarlet
That sounds like a him problem, not a me problem.

Mitchell
But that’sn’t but I’m also kind of flattered. I’m like, oh.

Scarlet
And like sometimes it’ll be he’ll be like, okay, well, there aren’t any beds right now, but let’s wait on some discharges and I’ll like it.

Mitchell
I’ll be like cool. That’s a thumbs upper.

Scarlet
That’s a thumbs upper.

Mitchell
Oh, cause so it’s a love it versus like it. What if you really hate something? There’s no like poo-poo pile is there?

Scarlet
Yeah, you could do that?

Mitchell
You could. Oh, that takes more work. There’s the built-in ones like a thumbs down or could you did they make a broken heart? I just feel like I’m just saying I’m not comfortable with it. Okay. With certain providers.

Scarlet
You can put a crying face. I’ve done that before.

Mitchell
Well yeah, I’ve done that, but like if but I’m that’s fine. It’s when you when you put a heart on it.

Scarlet
The heart makes you uncomfortable. Okay

Mitchell
When they’re like a heart.

Scarlet
I think you’re reading too much into it.

Mitchell
‘Cause then like oh well next you know, next she puts a Ferris wheel. And then I’m like I don’t know what it means. Oh no. I’m just saying it’s something it it It doesn’t bother me like I’m angry at that person. I just feel a little uncomfortable. Like, hey, I I’m glad you you love it. I love that you love my writing. Oh whoa. Oops. It’s a family show. Oh sorry. It’s okay. I mean, is it a family show? I don’t think people are just gathering around with their children and listening to the doing the most But we keep it in the clean rating. I’m just saying, all I’m saying is like, it just makes me smidge and come. Like, oh, she loves it. And I’m like, oh That’s very nice. Um, is it getting hot in here? Oh wow. Uh yeah, okay. Oh, you want to meet outside the room? Okay. Uh it’s a little more uncomfortable. Anyways So that’s all I’m just saying. Interesting. I don’t think anyone else feels that way but me.

Scarlet
I don’t know. Maybe they do.

Mitchell
Maybe what if but You’re but what if it’s the other way? What if someone would be like, how dare you think I would flirt with you? That could be someone might be angry to think that I feel like it’s a little bit like, well Flirtatious. Oh little heart here. Oh, I was gonna thumbs up.

Scarlet
I have another issue.

Mitchell
Oh dear.

Scarlet
There are people on our unit who don’t even open their teams.

Mitchell
Hmm No, that’s that’s horrible. Because then you’re like, what am I what do you want me to do? Call you.

Scarlet
And I’ll be like, oh, I I sent that to you on Teams, and they’re like, oh, I don’t even use that. And I’m like What is wrong with you?

Mitchell
It’s a wonderful tool. Why aren’t you using it?

Scarlet
But you know, these people are like I can’t use names on here.

Mitchell
You cannot. Well you could make up a different name. And it could be the real name and no one would know except for that person and the people you work with. I’m just saying. It’s like when I have to enter my birthday on a website Some people are like, I don’t ever enter my real birthday. And I feel like I want to say, hey, how do they know that my real birthday isn’t a lie? You know? Nobody knows. So I just put my real birthday in this laugh and think, ha ha ha ha, could be a fake birthday That’s all I’m saying. So this person are you texting me the name? Somebody texting you now.

Scarlet
I’m gonna text you.

Mitchell
Do you want me to heart it Or just thumbs up it.

Scarlet
Mitchell has notification silence.

Mitchell
Well, it will still come through because you’re like on my special list. You’re like on my Okay. My like I can now the problem But you don’t understand. I took my glasses off so I can look good on cam I can look good on camera. Oh sorry. Okay. So this person Do they know the of the existence of this tool called Teams?

Scarlet
And sometimes I will like walk by their computer and it’ll be like ninety-nine plus.

Mitchell
Oh, on on the little teams batch. Yeah. And you just want to be like, come on, dude.

Scarlet
And I’ll be like, what is wrong with you? This is like a professional work environment and this is how people communicate. Yeah. This is how we have meetings This is how we have like educational things, this is how we have our MMs.

Mitchell
Yeah, we d like we disseminate sometimes, hey, foods in the blah blah blah. Like you wanna know about free food that could be there.

Scarlet
And it’s it’s just like, oh, I don’t even use that. Like You don’t contact doctors that way sometimes?

Mitchell
Yeah. No, I don’t think that person does.

Scarlet
Like where they’re Gen Zers.

Mitchell
I don’t know. Some of the doctors. Oh yeah, yeah. You know? In fact, when I find a doctor that’s not on it irritates me because I’m like, how easy is this tool? Because now I’m gonna page you for something that I think is kind of stupid. Yet I feel like it needs to be resolved before you leave for the night. Cause sometimes that irritates me when they’re not on. Because you’re like, listen, it’s not that hard. Just Anyway, so every now and then I’ll get a doc give me their cell phone number. A male doctor, by the way, will be like, hey, just t just text me when XYZ is ready or done. So I’ll do that sometimes It usually they’ll be the doc from the other hospital because they’re like, I don’t know, I’m walking around, I don’t have it’s not easy. But so I’m moving along, right? Yeah, I guess I’m just saying that Teams is a tool I and I hate Microsoft Tools, but it works, you know. And sometimes though I miss there’ll be too much chatter in our group teams and I’ll miss stuff that might be semi-important, but that’s okay. It doesn’t bother me either. Um Email though I don’t really open my email. There’s so many I just so if you email me something like that. There is. Our we are yeah, lots of garbage.

Scarlet
There’s whole health. There’s the daisy war thingy. Like I’m not going to that unless it’s for me.

Mitchell
But I’m not going to it. Yeah. I’m just saying. Yeah. You already got your Daisy Award. Twenty twenty nineteen? Twenty twenty Wow. It was twenty nineteen. Probably due for another one, aren’t ya? Yeah. They give those out too often now, I feel Yeah. Well we have a ceremonies for for nominations or something now. I don’t know. By the way, if you’re not a nurse, a daisy award is this magical award that you get as a nurse that can only be given I know like Wait, I shouldn’t I should shut my mouth. Uh can you be nominated by a fellow person? I thought I had to be a patient or patient family. I don’t know. Nonetheless, it’s kind of the highest award you can get in nursing that you can get anywhere And it’s you know, it’s uh it’s cherished, but sometimes I feel like there’s a lot of them going out, so it’s maybe not as cool as it used to seem. But I just could be me being jady because I don’t have one ‘Cause getting one in the E D, not impossible, but I don’t know.

Scarlet
And some people like Are you kidding me? There’s like people who the ones that I’ve gotten recently, it’s like such and such in primary care Such and such in chemo something. Yeah. Which okay, I guess that’s valid. Because you do send a lot spend a lot of time with those people

Mitchell
I s hate to say but sometimes I feel like I bend over backwards for people and I have never gotten your time will come. Oh I d I don’t I’m not mad that I don’t have a daisy award. I just I’m over it because I’m like Because, okay, there’s the truth. And I know some of our our co-workers listen, but sometimes you’ll see an old word go out, and then in your head you’re like, They obviously don’t know the person I work with, right? And that’s a really mean thing to say. Oh man, you’re dying over there.

Scarlet
No, there’s been like of something scratchy in my eye for like that whole afternoon.

Mitchell
Oh, and then you don’t wanna uh my rule of work is I never put my finger in my eye unless I put a glove on first. If my eye itches. I mean I don’t put finger in my eye a lot.

Scarlet
Of like a rogue eyelash or a actual scratch. Yeah. Or a starting I think it’s an eyelash, ’cause like right now it’s Fine.

Mitchell
Do you need to do we need to pause the show? No, no, no. The show must go on. I say it right here, right now. Next topic, up for bids. I don’t know what you have, but here’s what I have It’s a multi-faceted topic, but how do you feel about dogs in restaurants?

Scarlet
Yeah, I knew you were gonna bring this up.

Mitchell
Why?

Scarlet
Because yesterday.

Mitchell
Okay

Scarlet
We were at the restaurant.

Mitchell
The tension.

Scarlet
I’m fine with dogs in restaurants if they’re well-behaved dogs. That was not a well-behaved dog. Either of them, actually.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
And it’s it and it’s Yeah Uh you should know because I have I have once been the owner of not so well behaved dogs, which I would never take to a place like that ever.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
I know I know.

Mitchell
Maybe not even Home Depot.

Scarlet
I would be like, you know what? Um no. Not appropriate Yeah. Not gonna do that. Now there was a dog sitting by the fireplace. It was a little golden golden doodle.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
Super well behaved.

Mitchell
Oh yeah. So chill that dog just

Scarlet
This dog was like 150 pounds.

Mitchell
Well, both of them.

Scarlet
Maybe maybe more.

Mitchell
Yeah. Um did you see the elbows? Yeah.

Scarlet
Yeah, they were both big dogs.

Mitchell
Big boy dogs.

Scarlet
And like

Mitchell
Oh yeah about something.

Scarlet
About which dog? The golden doodle?

Mitchell
Yeah. Yeah. They were both like just the two dogs that were coming in with the two owners were like just

Scarlet
In which point they should have left.

Mitchell
Yeah, that’s why I felt like that.

Scarlet
Because the tables were it was the tin the tin shed in Portland.

Mitchell
Yeah

Scarlet
The tables are like pretty close together. And it’s dog friendly. It is dog friendly. It’s very it’s very Portland.

Mitchell
Yeah, yeah.

Scarlet
And that’s fine. Like if I had a very well-behaved dog and I would be like, yeah, take my dog there, you know? Like but those dogs were And then at one time the dog rested its head on our table ever so briefly and I was like, Oh my god.

Mitchell
Yeah. Which that’s where I was a little irritated because one it though coming in, it nuzzled you or it hit your just barely like It’s muzzle gotcha barely.

Scarlet
Yeah, which is I’m not like anti-dog, but it was more like the owners were like, oh ha ha ha. And I’m like, listen, lady, not everybody It’s a dog person, just the way j the same way I take my kid places and I don’t assume everyone’s a kid person.

Mitchell
Right.

Scarlet
Where I’m just like, oh, look at how cute my kid is. Don’t you want to interact with my kid I’m not gonna make that assumption.

Mitchell
Yeah, and it was our table is small. I was not okay, so here yeah. So now I will say I’m we’ll get there. In the last I I’m not I am not a dog person. But I d and you and I have both owned a dog and we both owned dogs in our previous relationships. Like but we I have come to the conclusion I’m not a dog person in the sense of I don’t wanna I don’t wanna be a dog owner. That is not my jam, not on my list, and we can go into that, but nothing about owning a dog has ever been something I wanna do. I don’t want to take away from dog owners. But I am not I don’t hate dogs. I find a well behaved and I say a dog is a fun you know they’re good companions. So if you like dogs great. I don’t have an issue with the dog.

Scarlet
Here’s the reason we don’t like dogs We’re selfish people.

Mitchell
Right.

Scarlet
I don’t want to be walking a dog in my free time.

Mitchell
No.

Scarlet
We’re we’re barely good parents. We’re pretty good parents, but like we’re barely good parents. Yeah No. You know.

Mitchell
I’m when I am leaving at uh 615 AM.

Scarlet
I won’t be walking a dog.

Mitchell
It’s February.

Scarlet
I won’t be letting a dog out to pee poop come up and get You know, all over my floor like mud, this and that. We no thank you.

Mitchell
Thirty eight degrees, and I see the guy out there with the bag walking his dog at six fifteen AM and I just shake my head on mm-mm No way, nothing you could pay me enough to do that.

Scarlet
This is where we have cats. Low maintenance.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
Well we got one cat that has some issues, but once our litter box once that litter box is fixed, hopefully crisis averted.

Mitchell
Right. So So back to the restaurant. So well they were actually kinda not even paying attention when he started to put his his muzzle on our table, which was a small table. My concern was I Now again, this is right. I’m not I’m not my mother. Mother, I love you. My mother would have like she’s there’s people who find a very hygienic problem with dogs in restaurants. So I don’t have an issue with the hygiene component of a dog in a restaurant. Like I am very like but this one when it had its muzzle on our table briefly, I thought for a second it was gonna do that thing where its tongue was gonna come out and like grab a piece of bacon or something. In which case I still wouldn’t have been irritated as much as it was more like a reflection of hey, they were they were the kind of owner at that moment were not watching what their dog was doing.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
And it’s like, hey, you’re in close quarters. Your dogs are already a little bit amped up. You need to be like, and that lady had to have that dog. She had

Scarlet
Sh yeah, that dog probably should have had one of those guy things around the mouth that kinda pulls his head down.

Mitchell
Yeah, because she was like half in the Keep for a while. He was I was waiting for him to go tearing off of the other dog.

Scarlet
Not in a mean way, but just like in a And then she kept having the yell not oh she wasn’t like yelling, but she kept having to be like, Stop it, stop it, stop it.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
And I’m like, lady You two you chose to bring this dog here.

Mitchell
You like I don’t know. So and I knew I told you when I saw him standing there coming in, I was like, they’re gonna be at the table right next to us

Scarlet
Which again, not an issue per se, but it’s um Yeah, no, I have zero issues with the hygiene thing. That is not me.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
I’m the mom who occasionally lets her kid eat off eat something off the floor that’s fallen. Yes, I do that. He goes to daycare. He’s inoculated with just about everything.

Mitchell
I’ve eaten stuff off the hospital floor. People look at me and I’m like, listen, I If it ain’t got me yet.

Scarlet
I’m not that person.

Mitchell
Like but I respect those that do, which I think do places make it known? I think they’ll be like dog, they’ll let you know, like if dogs I guess I’m saying is like if my mother and was wanting to eat there and I’d be like look, there might be some dogs there, then she might have the option ahead of time and go, Oh yeah, I’m not really comfortable with that And that’s okay. I mean like I don’t I don’t fault anyone for not wanting to I think there was a day and age when I there are still people who probably be like, isn’t there a health code about that?

Scarlet
And I don’t know, I feel like I think it’s patio only though.

Mitchell
Right. So no, that’s fine too. I don’t think you could, you know, roll into the olive garden with your two dogs under you. But So that’s you know, it doesn’t say uh it was just more of a uh it made me think like, man, why like I think the whining was kind of a point where you’re saying, man, I’m just trying to have a conversation, but there’s this Dog whining and yeah, at what point do you as the owner go, hey, it’s a bad idea, honey? Maybe we can just walk the dogs back home and come back and enjoy our time here. It’s like if your kid’s out of control Sometimes you just like, yeah, nope, we’re not eating in a restaurant. This this ain’t happening tonight. But anyway, um yes, because dog people It is it we are I’m selfish but like there’s no way when we had the dog like our last dog like that poor dog Because it became more of a frustration and not uh the companionship where you’re like, oh this is so wonderful. It was like, no, it’s not.

Scarlet
But we were working t twelve hour shifts, but really b between the commutes too, we were gone for fourteen hours. That wasn’t fair to him.

Mitchell
Right, no. Our decision was based off fairness to the dog. And selfishness. But I guess what I am saying is like not I I think recognizing if you’re a dog person or a dog owner, how about that? A dog owner type person early on can be helpful because I feel like I just got to where I resented the dog. And I feel like it goes like this. Here’s oh here’s my quick take on this. Dog owners, and I’ve been one, you kind of get like There’s the one who the dog is suddenly the epicenter of everything. And it’s the excuse, well, we can’t go to the XYZ because we have to think about the dog The dog suddenly is directing all manners of the household and it’s like, oh we can’t. I gotta run take the dog. Somebody has to take the dog. Oh I gotta do the dog. The dog. The dog has to go out every day. And now in that regard, I would at least say hey The dog is getting the care that a dog probably deserves, but in that situation for me, no, the kind of the very polar opposite though is the dog that is The um it’s just a showpiece. It lives in a crate, except for when we want to take out the dog and have a showpiece dog. And I’m not saying I’m not pro or anti-crate people. I’m just saying There’s that one where then the dog might be kind of misbehaved ’cause it’s not actually getting the daily I think a dog does need to go, at least most dogs. Good sized dog needs to get to exercise every day. That’s not a once-a-week thing. It’s not a we’re going to the dog park once a week. So I feel like then you get the ones that’s kind of like I’m gonna call it neglectful, but like where the dog is not the epicenter, not that it has to be. Then it’s kinda like, oh and I feel bad for the dog and I’m not saying they’re bad people because I might have been that type, but it’s that idea of oh You um the dog is just kind of a thing that you thought was gonna be cool and then you realized, yeah, I don’t wanna be walking around with a bunch of bags picking up poop at 4 a. m. because I work at five. So I guess I’m just saying You get those kind of toots and I don’t want to be in either of those groups. I don’t want a dog to ruin my life, to ruin my vacations, to limit everything And I don’t want to be mean to a dog because it’s just something I wheel out when I want a dog. Because the dog’s like 24-7. Which is why I acknowledge that I’m a cat person. I’m just barely a cat person, to be honest with you, at this point in time. And I say that because we have five cats. That’s why the less cats please uh handle for many of our social things. Cause it’s just Almost to the edge for me.

Scarlet
Sorry. I think I think two cats is the perfect number.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
So I just gotta I don’t know.

Mitchell
Not here to make you feel bad. Okay, enough about cats and dogs. But we’re cat people and we and we put some cat stuff up And that well, do post pictures I used to try. Okay. Last thing on my list is jury duty. You had jury duty. I was oh well

Scarlet
It was I was so mad at you at how excited you were about that. I it was oh my It was ridiculous because I’ve never have I been so inconvenienced and and blindsided in my life because I had like completely They told you like three months ago. Yeah, exactly. So I completely forgotten. Until I looked down at my phone and I was like, what? It’s tomorrow?

Mitchell
You were such a bad mood.

Scarlet
And then you were like, Do you want jury duty? And then I was like, wipe that stupid smile off your face.

Mitchell
Because you could be on a next OJ trial. Can you imag well, can you imagine? I mean that would be so awesome to be on your civic duty. Now you’re holed up in a hotel room and you got your little notebook every day and you’re like talking with the other juror. and you’re making notes and you’re like, hmm, and then you’re the guy going, well, I think in a deliberation, yeah. I mean, I feel like that’s probably happens one in every 500 jurors, maybe a thousand, because that’s just how the system works. You weren’t excited, but however, didn’t pan out too bad. Okay. Not gonna pan out too bad.

Scarlet
I don’t know. To be determined.

Mitchell
Okay. Well, this uh comes out in two weeks. This episode. One week.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
We’ll have to find out. I’m excited because I like jury duty because it is uh the chance to do my civic duty. Every time I’ve gone it’s been the either I didn’t get called or When was the last time you even got summoned?

Scarlet
Because I feel like I have gotten summoned They’re like, oh, and then you won’t get summoned for another two years. And I feel like it has been like every year for me. And you I feel like you haven’t gotten anything.

Mitchell
I did. I just have it’s been a spell Exactly. I feel like maybe but you’re allowed to get excused like once you can use an excuse or a delay.

Scarlet
The first time it was I had just had max, so I used Like the breastfeeding excuse or something. And then the second time I called and they didn’t need me. And then this is the third time. And I feel like in all those times you haven’t been summoned once.

Mitchell
It’s just I don’t know that they go through a whole list, do they?

Scarlet
Well, am I on their short list?

Mitchell
I don’t know. Maybe They’re just I don’t know how I this should be a fascinating thing to learn about. Like how does it work? Is it random or is it really they just start and they just slowly work their way through Some list.

Scarlet
‘Cause like twenty twenty twenty twenty two.

Mitchell
Alphabetical wouldn’t make sense because then it would be weird. ‘Cause you’d roll in and every they’d call the name and be like everyone would be like, oh and we uh Miller and I And 35 people are like, oh which first name?

Scarlet
You know, so it’s not alphabetical, but so twenty twenty-two, twenty twenty-four, twenty yeah, just like two years, right on the dot, every single time.

Mitchell
Hmm. I don’t know. I’m I’m actually frankly disappointed. I love jury duty. The the prospect of jury duty. Take a book good book, you just hang out, you just kinda do your thing.

Scarlet
Well you’re gonna love it

Mitchell
At the new place. Okay. Well what can I say? All right. Well that was about that was uh a lot of excitement for one episode. Ooh. I’ve bumped this microphone. It might be too close to me. Where’s your smile? Okay.

Scarlet
Stop asking that. Men are not allowed to ask that. It is so annoying.

Mitchell
Let me just put a heart emoji on that. Oh, is that uncomfortable for you now? What at the end of the show you have to say the words to get this out of the show.

Scarlet
Oh. What am I supposed to say?

Mitchell
Oh man. Usually you’re like, oh You’re like, uh I I don’t rec you’re like I was like, oh well that’s it for this week. And then you’re like, I’m Scarlet. That’s right, because you have to say I’m Scarlet.

Scarlet
Oh, okay, I’m Scarlet.

Mitchell
And I’m Mitchell.

Scarlet
And we’re

Mitchell
Doing the most.

Scarlet
Bye!