Sister Sh*t

My Humps + A Moment of Silence

• Caroline Smith and Meredith Walker • Season 2 • Episode 11

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This week, we’re opening the vault on our middle school memories — the awkward, hilarious, and oddly emotional ones that still live rent-free in our heads.

From gum-related disasters at the teen dance to bad pointe shoes, urgent care earrings, and the weird stuff we all did to survive those years. Listener stories bring the chaos too: locker combos, cotillion spills, and a moment of silence gone wrong.

We also talk about why it all felt so big — the pressure, the embarrassment, and the tiny moments that made us who we are. If you still think about seventh grade at 3 a.m., this one’s for you.

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SPEAKER_02:

Hello. Hi.

SPEAKER_01:

Welcome to Sister Shit. I'm Meredith.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm Caroline. Happy Tuesday.

SPEAKER_01:

Happy Tuesday. Um, we are getting ready to go to one of our dear friends' 30th birthday parties, but we're sneaking in a little record session before. Yes. Um and this week we're really excited because we had people submit their embarrassing middle school stories.

SPEAKER_00:

I know. It I was like trying so hard. I was like thinking back for like to think about what mine was. Yeah. And I genuinely couldn't really think of one. Well, dang, and I thought you had one, and that's why we were doing this. No, I I have a lot of weird things I did as a middle schooler. Oh, okay. That like are embarrassing now. Okay. But like they But they like weren't at the time. I don't I couldn't think of anything that like caused embarrassment in the moment necessarily.

SPEAKER_01:

I had like micro embarrassments and I have like so many like run-of-the-mills.

SPEAKER_00:

Like the girl from last season that said nice trees in the back of dad's truck.

SPEAKER_01:

That was like maybe my most embarrassing middle school story, but I already told it. I do have one I could tell. But um, wait, so what are the things that you're embarrassed of now?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I like went through this phase where me and two of my friends collected street reflectors. Oh yeah, that was really weird. And I keep thinking back to that because I'm just like, what was wrong with me? Why? Why did we do that? Did you chip them off of the street? Well, okay, so we like, I think found one that was like had been like it had fallen off of the street. Uh-huh. And we picked it up and we were like, oh my gosh, this is so funny. Let's keep it. So random. Remember how that was like, we just wanted everything to be like so random. Um, like, okay, speaking of random, in the sixth grade, we had just moved into our new house, which is the house that like Meredith and I basically grew up in from my sixth grade on. And we had like this attic space that was like unfinished, which is now my dad's office, but like before it was unfinished, and me and my friend Haley were like, random room, and we just like went in there and like hung beads from the ceiling and wrote all over it with Sharpie, like, random room.

SPEAKER_01:

I remember that.

SPEAKER_00:

And like put a rug in there or something. Like, I don't so I was like obsessed with building clubhouses and obsessed with things that were random. Yeah, you were so silly. I know, but the street reflectors, anyways, we found one. We're like, this is so random, let's keep it. And then we like started realizing that like most street reflectors were not stuck to the road anymore. Really? And so we would like check them every time, and we ended up with like every time you picked it up. Went on a walk. Oh, went on a walk. We would like go on walks, us three, and like pick up street reflectors. And like, I think we had a cardboard box in my room of like 30. What did you do with them? Nothing. Mom finally was like, Can I carry it? What are you doing? Why are you stealing street reflectors and I'm throwing these away?

SPEAKER_01:

That's funny. I had a boyfriend one time in high school, there was a street in his neighborhood called Meredith Lane and it was like dangling. And he took it off and gave it to me, which I thought was so cool, and mom was like mad about it.

SPEAKER_00:

Really?

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, I guess it was stealing.

SPEAKER_00:

That feels surprising though, because mom is the one that told us whenever we were young that her and her friends used to ch there's a neighborhood in our maybe it wasn't her and her friends, but like the kids at her stays. Um there's a neighborhood in our hometown called Royal Pines, and they would like switch the I and the E to say Royal Penis.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, she didn't shy away from like a little bit of um vandalism.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

But she did, I guess, from stealing.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, because one time I took a pillow from a hotel home with me. Did I tell you this? Yeah, I love this story. And they made me literally, mom made me nail it back to the hotel with an apology letter.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, they were like, this is unsafe. They like burned it for sure. I Keith always laughs about one time when we were dating, he ordered a water and got a Coke out of the machine, and mom was like, What are you doing? And he was like, I mean, no one knows. And she was said, completely serious, God knows. And he was like, Oh my gosh. Okay. But actually, today I had a mom moment of my own where we got went walked to the park and got snow cones. And on the way back, Kit was like, I want to pour this out. And I was like, I was like, well, don't pour it in these people's yards, like, go pour it in that, go put it in that, like there's like a little, yeah, there's like or there's like a little, like, tiny little bridge over a tiny little creek that you would have to like go. It's like you could like walk down into it, but it's like kind of a little truck. And I looked back and she was empty-handed, and I was like, wait, did you throw the whole thing in the creek? She was like, Yeah. And I was like, Kit, no, I just spent for you to pour it out. And I like went to go look if I could like easily get it out. And we littered today. Bummer. I know. I felt so bad. She didn't know. No, it was a misunderstanding, but she I just was like, oh my gosh, this is the first time I've ever littered. Ugh. Hate that. It's a classic snow cone cup in a ditch.

SPEAKER_00:

It just is like It was the ditch was like, or the snow cone cup was like, I'm meant to be in that ditch. Drop me in.

unknown:

I know.

SPEAKER_00:

That's where I live for the next hundred years. I know. It was sad. Was it the waxy kind of snow cone cup? Because that's gonna stay there for a while. It wasn't styrofoam. That's good. It could have been worse. Styrofoam never, ever, ever, ever, ever goes away. It doesn't? No. It does not disintegrate.

SPEAKER_01:

Ever. What is it? Plastic? No. What is it? It's his own thing. I don't know. Uh anyway. Um, I feel like my one of my most embarrassing middle school stories is I had my first boyfriend at this new school. He had no middle name. Interesting. I know. It's the only person I've ever met with no middle name. Mysterious. Yes. And he we held hands and we walked to the buses, and we had been passing notes all day. I had this note for a long time. I don't know what happened to it. And we like planned to kiss. Like in the note, it was like alluded that he was going to kiss me before we got on the bus. I love that. Yes. So we're walking hand in hand. I'm nervous. I'm excited.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

He walks me to my bus. There's lots of kids everywhere. So many kids. And we go to kiss, and then we missed faces. I don't know. Like, and then he broke up with the case. Were your eyes closed? They must have been closed.

SPEAKER_00:

We didn't like peek a little eye opener to see where his face.

SPEAKER_01:

And it was so fast. It was like it was supposed to be like a quick little pet goodbye, but we just like kind of missed a little bit. You know? And he broke up with you. And then shortly after he sent his best girlfriend. Ugh, bitch. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. But but like, what is that move? I know. You know, like I'll do it for you. Her name was Lana. She liked him. She came for sure. She came to my homeroom class and was like, Can I speak to Meredith? And I walked up to her and I was like, Caleb's gonna break up with me, isn't he?

SPEAKER_00:

Wait, she went to your teacher and said, May I speak to Meredith?

SPEAKER_01:

It was before the bell rang. I also just said his name. It was before the bell rang.

SPEAKER_00:

It's okay because he doesn't have a middle name, so no one will be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01:

But um, I said, Caleb's gonna break up with me, isn't he? And she said, Yeah. It was like fake sympathy, you know. Oh, okay. You knew it was fake sympathy.

SPEAKER_00:

She wasn't like trying to lessen the blow for you. She wasn't being like a gals gal she was like fakely being a gal's gal. Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Um, and I don't know how long after that, I don't know how long after the kiss that happened, but like it was correlated for sure. You know? And then he shortly after that, he dated my friend Jesse, and then we found out that he was just trying to date all the new girls. And me and Jesse bonded over that, and we're still friends.

SPEAKER_00:

I have a similar middle school thing where I like hooked up with a boy and then I told him I didn't want to do it again. It was like an innocent situation. But I was like, I don't think I want to do that again. I'm not ready. He broke up with me the next day, then he tried to date my friend, and then he did the same thing to her, and then she told him she didn't want to do it again either, and then he broke up with her and tried to come back to me.

SPEAKER_01:

What a horny little little middle school guy. I hate that.

SPEAKER_00:

He also like was like a whiny email boy.

SPEAKER_01:

But why does that not surprise me?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I hate that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

But yeah, boys in middle school suck. So, yeah, I don't know. That was pretty embarrassing. But like not earth shattering, you know? It was kind of like that that was embarrassing.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, one time I was pr like really proud of the fact that I could run very fast backwards. Why is this?

SPEAKER_01:

That was the best way a story could have started.

SPEAKER_00:

And in like the sixth grade. Okay, and I busted my ass. It was like a humbling, like one of those moments where you brag and then you get humble. I had one of those.

SPEAKER_01:

I had one of those. I was performing, me and my friend volunteered to like do a performance in front of her youth group on point shoes. We didn't take point. Yeah, we didn't take point. We took ballet. Okay. We just had point shoes, and I busted my ass on that stage. It was the last time I put on a pair of point shoes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It was not you took point.

SPEAKER_01:

No, this was after I took point. I took point one year and I still had those shoes.

SPEAKER_00:

But she had to stop taking point because our mom was spending fortunes on getting her um ingrown toenails medically removed. That's not why I quit. We quit, I quit because we moved. Oh my gosh. I but I'm traumat traumatized by your ingrown toenails.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I am too. My toenail is permanently smaller than my other toenails.

SPEAKER_00:

And I heard the scream.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. And was like, my sister is getting tussled in there. Let me tell you, that needle was probably two and a half to three inches long.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh gosh, I don't want to hear anything. I don't want to hear anything. Like two inches of it was. Okay, okay, I'm not sure. Okay, okay, okay. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_01:

Like the whole, and you can ask mom. I thought I imagined it, and she's like, no, no. That whole needle went in your toe.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, remember, you have a similar story.

SPEAKER_01:

Sorry, this should have had a warning.

SPEAKER_00:

You have a similar story where y'all were at remember the doctor's care uh situation where my earring. Yes. I had just gotten my ears pierced, and I woke up one morning and like my earring had gone inside of the piercing hole and closed up overnight. Yeah. And so all you could see was the back.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And the front was completely closed up, and it was a little diamond flower.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So there was no way that thing was getting pulled out backwards. Yeah. And I don't know how it got in there.

SPEAKER_01:

We had friends in town. My friend Anne and I were matching and ready to go to the aquarium. We were like, this was like a little pit stop on the way to the aquarium, was getting this thing out.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, yeah, so we like stopping the urgent care for her to pull it out, and this doctor is yanking on the back of my earring trying to pull it out. And I was screaming so loud. Like I remember just being like, this is trauma. Like maybe this is I don't know. It was horrible. And then she ended up not, my mom finally stepped in and was like, it's not coming out that way. It's not gonna come out. Like, stop doing this. And I had to get it surgically removed. And that was the first time I ever went under. Uh-huh. And I loved it. Wait, did we go to the aquarium when you were high? No, no, no, no. I had to schedule it for a later. Oh, okay. We went to the aquarium when I was traumatized. Okay, okay. But we had to schedule it for later.

SPEAKER_01:

Was that the same trip where we were driving our friends back to Buford and the dog had diarrhea in the back of the car? Was that the same trip?

SPEAKER_00:

I think it was because literally our dog was so old. Like she was incontinent. She was, yeah, she couldn't hold it. And she was shitting up in the back of my mom's suburban. And we all were just like, I remember Anne had lotion in her bag, and we were like shoving lotion up our nostrils.

SPEAKER_01:

It smelled so bad. And there was like nothing we could do. We just like had to make it to our destination. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It was like, I think we had an hour of a trip left with shit in the back. Man, what a weekend.

SPEAKER_01:

What a weekend. I don't think they ever came to visit again. Yeah. Yeah. Um, that is so funny. Yeah. Okay, so should we read some of these stories? Wait, what?

SPEAKER_00:

I was like, who is my friend? But it was Latoya. Yeah. So sweet Latoya. It's funny. She um she came to visit, I think, again after that, because that was the time that she threw up in the car.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00:

And then I mean, I don't do throw up, and it really severed our friendship. I never invited her to hang out again. Oh my gosh. I know. Which it wasn't, I mean, we lived an hour and a half away and we were in the second grade. Yeah, yeah. So, like, what are you gonna do? But that was kind of my like, I was like then terrified for her to ride in my car for a long amount of time because I thought she was gonna barf in it again.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. I mean, it's likely. I know.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, well, okay. Should we read some stories? Yeah, we got a couple that are notable. Um, one that I was dying over just because it's not like an exact moment. Again, it's just like encapsulating, or what's the word? Like encompassing. Yeah. Not encapsulating. Yeah, that could it could encapsulate how embarrassing middle school is, and just like how bad like awkward everything is. She said, Well, her first response was literally just existing.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Which is yes. Okay, then she said, but I didn't use my locker all of seventh grade because I had no idea how to use the lock, and I did was too embarrassed to ask anyone. So I just walked around with all of my books in my backpack, and it literally weighed 30 pounds and stuck out so far because it had all of my shit in it.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, that's so sad. I know.

SPEAKER_00:

So is her back good now? I hope so. I should follow up. Yeah. I hope your back's okay. It can't be.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, she was so that's so s that is so middle school. I know.

SPEAKER_00:

I I remember my I got a tall locker.

SPEAKER_01:

Lockers weren't objectively intimidated.

SPEAKER_00:

They were, and I got a s a tall one, and so I couldn't see the numbers on the top. And I'm pretty sure I did something similar. Like just put all my books in.

SPEAKER_01:

I never used mine because I was so afraid of not being able to open it. Like, I did not use it, I could have used it, and I did not all of middle and high school. Because I was like, maybe I used it a little bit in high school. I think, but I think I just left my books at home and then would just bring the books I needed that day.

SPEAKER_00:

I think I did something similar. Just because lockers were like a pain in the ass because everyone's like crazy. It was at our school at least, it was not like it was in the movies.

SPEAKER_01:

No. No one decorated them.

SPEAKER_00:

No. No one did them. I did in the sixth grade. I yeah. For maybe seventh grade. One of them I did. And then I but I like no one like hung out. You have no time to hang out at the lockers.

SPEAKER_01:

No. I do remember this one guy that was actually in my ballet class at elementary school. He was always at his locker.

SPEAKER_00:

There was a guy in my drama class that I have a picture of that I like, it comes up on my memories on Facebook all the time. Of he literally had fallen asleep with his head standing with his head in his locker. Who? And his backpack on. He was just like asleep, leaning into his locker. Oh gosh, is he?

SPEAKER_01:

Was he okay?

SPEAKER_00:

I think he was just tie tie. Oh my gosh. Can you imagine? That's wild. I know, because he wasn't like somebody that like wasn't unwell. I mean, he was unwell for other reasons, but like not that. I think he was just tired. Tired. Wow.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, lockers are. I I second that. Lockers were intimidating.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I didn't like them. I know. Somebody else, speaking of vomit, trigger warning, somebody else said that they vomited red Tahitian treat soda and chicken noodle soup in front of everyone at Cotillion.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh no. Ooh, I have follow-up questions. I know.

SPEAKER_00:

That was it? Yeah. What are your follow-up questions? We can maybe get them to answer.

SPEAKER_01:

I just want to know, like, did every did anyone accept you after that? Did anyone laugh with you? Like, what were you asking? Or like, I guess not laugh, but like, did you have someone to be like, Do you have a companion, you know? Or were you like, did it how did it affect her for the rest of her life?

SPEAKER_00:

I know. I mean, clearly she's still messaging about it. It was her most embarrassing moment of middle school.

SPEAKER_01:

Was it contained? Oh gosh. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00:

Like, was it like everywhere? Red Tahitian soda. Bad news. What is red Tahitian soda? Tahiti Tahitian treat. What is that? I don't really know, to be honest. I'm assuming it's something probably like um high C. Okay. Never heard of it.

SPEAKER_01:

Tahitian treat. Um Yeah, wow, that's bad. I hate that.

SPEAKER_00:

I know. I know. I hate that too. I was just thinking of something else I was gonna say as a follow-up and I lost my train of thought. That's okay. Did you have any more? Um, I don't think so. I really want to hear our friends because you Meredith literally messaged me and was like, don't read their message. It's so funny. Don't read it. Oh, wait, wait, wait, there was one more. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I forgot. Because somebody's didn't come through, and then they messaged me something else about it, and I was like, wait, what? And then they were like, oh, sorry, it didn't come through. Anyways, okay, so they said it was like seventh grade, and my mom brought me my cell phone to school. I forgot that I had it on loud and my phone started ringing in the middle of class, and my ringtone was my humps. And all the teachers talked about it all day, and every student? Yeah, and every student in school knew what my ringtone was. But but that's a bop. I love that song.

SPEAKER_01:

A, that's a bop. B, you're not the only one that had that ringtone. C, if you don't want uh people to hear it, why did you buy it for your ringtone?

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, that is embarrassing for it to go off in school.

SPEAKER_01:

Mom used to have that song. Didn't mom accidentally had a ring back tone.

SPEAKER_00:

I used to be obsessed with ringback tones. Yes. And I would literally like purchase them on my phone and then like as me. I remember one time my friend came over and we listened to all of my ring back tones as like a music player. We would just like listen to my ring back tones over and over again. That's depressing. Only slightly better than like a hit clip clip. I know. But my I accidentally bought the ring back tone for my mom in high school instead of my phone, and it was that last Friday night song by Katie Perry. And it was like last Friday night. I had a menace toi, and it was like talking about like And she didn't know for like weeks, and she was the youth leader at church, and somebody finally was like, nice like music when I call you. And she was like, What? I was in trouble. That's so funny. I know.

SPEAKER_01:

We put her through some stuff, I think.

SPEAKER_00:

I kind of wish ring back tones were still a thing.

SPEAKER_01:

But they're so fun.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, I want to pick a song for someone to listen to when they call me.

SPEAKER_01:

I know. They're so fun. They're more fun than having like your your a ringtone song.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, I agree.

SPEAKER_01:

I went, this is embarrassing now. When I was a full-grown adult, and Justin Bieber's sorry, not sorry, what was a song? Sorry.

SPEAKER_00:

Is it too late now?

SPEAKER_01:

Came out, me and my coworker were obsessed with it, and we like hacked our iPhones to be able to play that as art. Like, I spent an entire day's work figuring out how to make a ringtone with that song in like 2012.

SPEAKER_00:

You didn't just buy it?

SPEAKER_01:

You couldn't do it or something. Like, there wasn't like a way. People aren't doing that anymore. Like I had to like create a way.

SPEAKER_00:

Wow. It was really weird. And you had a paid days of work for that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I did.

SPEAKER_00:

That job was silly.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, they didn't know I was doing that.

SPEAKER_00:

No, I know, but I feel like you were doing all kinds of things like that consistently at that job.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, you came to you came and hung out with me at work for an entire couple of days.

SPEAKER_00:

Days. Days. They let me come and hang out at your work. And can we tell the story about your birthday? What? If we don't say where the job was. My birthday. We we went and did bottomless mimosas for Mayor's birthday one year. And we forgot about this. And when I say we went bottomless, we really, really took advantage of that deal.

SPEAKER_01:

Bottomless mimosas didn't last much longer after my birthday there. Like they took it off the menu.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. But I don't think that was us. It was probably partially us. But then I heard that somebody because the pictures were so cute. Yeah. To the point that like our friend Caroline took one and then gifted it to me as my wedding gift, and I was I still use that all. Stealing is the theme of this episode. So, anyways, somebody smashed two of the cute little pictures together in the street. Okay, it wasn't us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

We were honestly, we were fun. We were out of control.

SPEAKER_00:

We were just like a little bit silly.

SPEAKER_01:

They were being very silly.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. And we had a waiter named Riley. And we had a bunch of randomly had a bunch of penis candies in one of our purses from a bachelorette party or something. And so we like left him a bunch of open penis candies that had been in the bottom of our purse and a napkin that someone's phone number. It was one of our friends that was single, like wanted his phone. Like, and we like left the phone number, and the note was like, Hi, Smiley, or hi Riley, or should we say Smiley? It was like real I had I know this because I took a picture of it. But then afterwards, Mayor was like, oh no, I have to turn in something at work. And so we just didn't need to do that. You did like that.

SPEAKER_01:

Like I did, no, I definitely did, but like it could have waited probably.

SPEAKER_00:

I you were probably just like drunk and stressed. Yeah. And you were like, I want to have fun. Let me just finish this task at work. Yeah. So that we can move on to the bottom.

SPEAKER_01:

You had like forgotten to send a file or something.

SPEAKER_00:

So she brings me, and this whole her work was like right up the road. And so her, she brings us into this office. It's a what, like eight of us? Yeah. And we had a freaking ball in that office.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know what y'all did. I was sending my file.

SPEAKER_00:

We found like a bowl of tattoos. Like, stick them, which why did your work have those? I don't know. But we like, we're like just doing the whole sheets on our stomachs. What? We like were really having a great time.

SPEAKER_01:

I know my one friend was like rummaging for snacks, and she was like, Why doesn't your work have snacks? And I was like, I don't know. We don't have snacks. They do have tattoos, though. Yeah, that was so funny. I know. Ugh, okay, and we also that day, we were talking this has happened twice in Caroline's life. Where we were talking about. Wait, what you're talking about this?

SPEAKER_00:

Caroline just censored me. I paused it and was like, do not tell her, tell them what the story was. Because this maybe is my most embarrassing middle school story, but like She's not ready. I'm not ready to talk about it.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, so anyway, this A boy that we knew in middle school, or she I guess she was in elementary.

SPEAKER_00:

It was my fifth, it was fifth grade. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Like came up in conversation at this birthday brunch, and she was like telling this embarrassing story. Because it's one of my most embarrassing stories. It's like a classic, you pull it out when you're drinking. Yes. You she looks up and goes, Oh my gosh, that's him. And like the guy that the she was just telling the story about was like literally sitting at a table over from us. And then like months later.

SPEAKER_00:

At my bachelorette party. It happened to me. It happened again. And get this. We're on the Mother F and Beach. We're at my Bachelorette party. We're and I'm telling everyone the story. I get up and go for a walk with two of the girls, and who's playing Frisbee on the beach? Him. Every I that story summons it. It does. It's like a I don't know. I haven't tried to tell it in a while. We should try it again. Okay. Next time we're out and about, I need to tell. But I think I have to tell a new person. I can't tell you.

SPEAKER_01:

It's a magical story.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and it has to be someone that hasn't heard it before. And then he will we have to test the theory.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. Okay. Three times, two times is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and three times it's like it's magic. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

That's what they say. Okay, so I have one more story for us.

SPEAKER_00:

The finale. The finale. If you will.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, I'm just gonna read what he wrote. This was about a year after 9-11. And after the Pledge of Allegiance, we always had a moment of silence. Yeah, this friend is always talking about 9-11. Well, maybe this is why. I think it was really monumental for them. Okay. And after the Pledge of Allegiance, we always had a moment of silence. Our school was very serious about the silence. Everyone had to be quiet enough to hear a pin drop. This particular day, I had to fart. I thought I knew my body, and it was going to be a silent one. It was, in fact, not. It ripped across that plastic chair, echoing through the moment of silence so loud no one could have not heard it. The class chuckled, and when the moment of silence was over, the girl next to me burst out with, blank farted. The class erupted with laughter at my fatal flatulence. The teacher finally responded, We all heard it.

unknown:

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01:

This is what we want. Everyone's got that story. You have that story. And I think I've told it on this podcast. Yeah, but you took the blame. I owe him so much. I know. That was really nice. His name is Mark. I wonder where he's at today.

SPEAKER_00:

I should have done that for somebody else because I don't I have an embarrassing story like that whenever Jay and I first started dating. Oh, me too. Where I was where I was, yeah, anyways. So, but I don't have one from middle school, but I have one where that I remember of another girl's that happened in middle school. Should I have, though? Like a guy can take the blame. Yeah, a boy can take the blame.

SPEAKER_01:

Another girl should not ever take the blame for another girl's fart. A boy should. A boy should. Always. The only time I feel like a girl should take the blame for another girl's fart is if she's like with her crush.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, and you're like You're like, oh my god, that was me.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm so gassed.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, wait, I I thought of one of my most embarrassing middle school stories. I thought of it. Okay. Just now. Okay. I'm at Water Festival. Okay. Teen Dance. Yep. Water Festival is a week-long thing in our town. They have different themed nights. Teen night is like when you are in middle school, it is literally everything. Like, you know, you're getting dropped off downtown, you get your little wristband, and you are going to be out grinding all night long. Okay. And drinking soda. So, anyways, I think I was in the sixth grade, seventh grade, seventh grade. I think I was summer after I was going into eighth grade. I had my wing gal, who was not my wing gal.

SPEAKER_01:

She's come up on this podcast a lot.

SPEAKER_00:

She's the same one that locked me out on her back porch and let her dog jump all over me.

SPEAKER_01:

And she's the same one that spilled hot dog juice on her bandana shirt and wasn't.

SPEAKER_00:

It wasn't hot dog juice, it was mustard from a pretzel. Or cheese from the case. It doesn't matter from a pretzel.

SPEAKER_01:

She got a stain on her shirt and she bullyed a switching.

SPEAKER_00:

She's the worst. Same girl, okay? She um she's my wing girl, and she's like basically. I don't know if she put the gum there or if she knew it was there and had me sit down in it, but she was like definitely involved in this, like like orchestrating something of this sort. And not even on her own turf. No, like the balls. Like that is the audacity.

SPEAKER_01:

I just can't imagine.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, which like maybe she was like over me because like she was there with me and I was just like grinding with my boyfriend. So like I can't put all of the blame on her. Like, okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Like you paint an honest picture.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, like I want y'all to know that like I have faults.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but there are other ways to deal with that. You can say, I'm bored, let's go home.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah, she was kind of one that was out for blood. And I can't say I was a perfect friend. I definitely like was boy crazy. Okay, keep going. Anyways, I'm just I'm just trying to put this out there so that I don't get spited by the universe. It's fine. Anyway, so I am grinding, grinding in a grind line, okay? Oh god. And the gum, it was fresh, which makes me think she was chewing it because it was stuck to my jeans, my butt cheek on my jeans, and then stuck to his pants. It is like strung between us. Who noticed first him? She did. She like came over and was like, Oh my gosh, come here, come here, come here, and was like literally dying laughing. Like she was going to pee herself. And she was like, You have gum on your butt, ha. She did that. Because how does that happen? I don't know. Unless he was chewing gum and it fell out. Maybe. I shouldn't put all the blame on her.

SPEAKER_01:

That's a honestly not a bad thing.

SPEAKER_00:

I always assumed she did it because of the way that she was acting was like a little um she loved every minute. Yeah, she definitely loved it.

SPEAKER_01:

Maybe it fell out of his mouth.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but it it was bit very embarrassing. We had to like scrape it with our fingernail off my jeans. It was embedded in my I was grinding so long with him.

SPEAKER_01:

How long was the stream?

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know. I mean at that point it was so yeah, but it was like both, stuck to both.

SPEAKER_01:

That's good. That's a good that's a good embarrassing story. That's really funny.

SPEAKER_00:

I forgot about that one. I haven't thought about that for a long time.

SPEAKER_01:

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Man. Yeah. Man is right.

SPEAKER_01:

But Yeah. I'm sure I have more. I know. They're just stuffed so far away in my brain because my brain said, you don't need to think about that anymore.

SPEAKER_00:

I think I I need to put some more things in that.

SPEAKER_01:

I did get made fun of day one of sixth grade because I had a wheelie backpack and a girl behind me was like, I hate I had a wheelie backpack that I wore on my back because I got to a new a brand new school and was like, oh my gosh, no one here has a wheelie backpack.

SPEAKER_00:

Why were we doing wheelie backpacks? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01:

And I had like a s a pretty strong posse of people at my in fifth grade. Wheelie backpacks had like just come out. And I think I'm realizing they were always dorky, but like I had like a posse of friends, and we all had wheelie backpacks, so I wasn't like alone, but we got to this, I got to this new school, and I was the only one other than like the very, very, very nerdy ones whose kids moms were like don't hurt your back. Scared of them hurting your backs. So I put my wheelie backpack on my back because I didn't want to be wheeling it because that's embarrassing. And then this girl behind me was like loud enough so I could hear. I hate when people try to wear their wheelie backpacks on their back.

SPEAKER_00:

And I was like, I can't win. It was and I had a cast. Oh yeah, you had a cast. You broke your arm that summer. Um girls are mean. Like girls are mean.

SPEAKER_01:

You know she was she she was the one who I've talked about before on this podcast that had her dog like the backyard was covered in landmines. Her whole backyard was just dog. You went to her house? Yeah, I have one sleepover with her. Because remember, she made me burn all of her other friends' stuff. Like we spent the entire time at her house filling our bras with fake water balloons and burning her other friends. Like friendship next. We like threw her friendship necklace with another friend in the pond.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh yeah. Cause I told you about me and Lee and summit.

SPEAKER_01:

So she was like, Yeah, she was I think she honestly, I like changed schools, so I like knew her for one year, but like I think she ended up being like a decent person. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

But she was Most people do. That's the thing, is like I'm sure this person that like we keep referring to for me, like is probably totally yeah, and honestly, we were friends like later on in life, and she was like, not really, but yeah, it's just funny. You like I don't know why kids are mean sometimes.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know. I think kids in middle school, I know I said some mean stuff that like I look back and I'm like, why did I do that? But I just didn't know how to like your brain is not fully developed. No, and I I like always wanted a laugh. I was like that was Jay. Yeah, and so I would like do stuff at the expense of immediately regret it when I like noticed it was like not funny. Yeah, and then you like can't take it back, you know?

SPEAKER_00:

It's like middle school's rough, it is, and honestly, like I just I was talking to Natalie. We keep talking about her. We need to have her on. We should have her on. We should. I just got my hair done, so she was telling me we were like talking about she has like older kids, and anyways, we were just talking about like how you really can't hold middle schoolers or even high schoolers accountable for much because their brain is genuinely not developed yet. I don't know if I agree with that. I mean, like you can hold them accountable and like they need consequences, but I just mean like you can't bear a bad person. Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01:

You can't judge them by all their decisions. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Like obviously they need consequences and stuff, but like she was basically saying like someone was talking about a girl, like an adult was like talking about a girl being bad news. And Natalie's just like bad news, she's 16. Like that's harmful. Yeah, and it's also just like you cannot put this whole thing around this world. Or you like a high school channel, you know? Like I know. And I just think like we don't you don't know who you are for so long. I know. I really don't feel like I knew who I was until after I had like I was literally like upper 20s. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh yeah, 20. I think 20s is like pretty universally like you're figuring out who you are for the long time.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, like I think I was probably around 28 or 29 where I started actually feeling like, oh, I feel like I know who I am and I'm op and I like who I am. I don't feel the need to like change or be someone I'm not. Yeah, I know. Isn't it crazy it takes that long? I know. Yeah, anyway. And so really I'm I all that to say I'm like, there's grace for people.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my gosh, especially middle school and high school.

SPEAKER_00:

And me.

SPEAKER_01:

If you're out there judging a middle school or high school, you need to like I know.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm I think I'm just saying that because I feel bad being like she was oh mean.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but I think it's like it's one thing when you experienced it firsthand. Like you're judging them as your middle school self. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, my middle school self was not okay with being stuck on a porch with a dog. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Now you can look back and be like, we all did stupid stuff.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And some people are actually not.

SPEAKER_00:

Some people I was gonna say, not everyone. Some people, those are hints to what their future will be. Yeah. And they never, they're always mean. But you don't know until later. Because you know, do you ever meet an adult that's like, you're like, oh, you're mean.

SPEAKER_01:

You know what's funny? Yes, I do. And I also I maybe I need to stop doing this, but I do sometimes I find myself being like, what were they like in high school? For some reason for me, that's like uh an indicator, but it should maybe it shouldn't be.

SPEAKER_00:

It shouldn't be because if people are like thinking about what I was like in high school, I got a lot of surprises for them. You talk about the camo crocs, first two months and smoking cigarettes, that's shocking.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And that only lasted two months.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, but I guess more so character. Yeah. Not like the like how how were you nice in high school? Were you mean? Were you you know what I mean? I think that is somewhat telling.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Anyway.

SPEAKER_00:

Anyway, um, well, happy Tuesday.

SPEAKER_01:

Happy Tuesday, and everyone wish Caroline well wishes and happy travels because she is headed to Mexico today for our family friends wedding.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. And so you might not see us next Tuesday. Yes. So maybe not see you next Tuesday, but see you next Tuesday after next. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

See you Tuesday after next. Um, and we're gonna have a special guest come on soon. Yes. So get ready for that, and we hope you guys have a great week.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. See you next next Tuesday.