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26: Top 3 Vacation Pet Peeves
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As summertime approaches, we review our biggest pet peeves while on vacation. Join us as we recount our most annoying moments on vacation and try not to name actual names. Watch us perform mental gymnastics as we complain about what pretty much everyone would complain about!
Broached topics include: How to Form a Habit, Cara's Sugar High Horse, Mara Starting Shit, Lines and More Lines, WHAT'S THE PLAN vs. TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT, and finally, a Clear Winner.
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Transcript
Introduction & Banter
00:00:00
Speaker
Let's go. We're ready to start at 715. Let's go. Okay Wow We're really starting off with a hot hot and aggressive vibe today
00:00:25
Speaker
Welcome to my top everything. I'm Marion. Hi, Cara. Hi, Cara. Oh. OK, well, we start that over. No, I'm keeping it. Mara's trying to start shit. Apparently. Do you remember, like, on episode 50, Mara said, do I always go third? Yeah. And then she just learned that recently. And then she decided she's done it perfectly every time, not knowing that she goes third. And today, she chose violence.
00:00:55
Speaker
Because it's classic, I'm waiting. You know, I feel like I usually hold back and wait a bit if I'm in a conversation. Don't hold back. Not here. Did you say you hold back in a conversation? My ass. Yes. She does. She's the one who waits the most to talk compared to us two. Maybe I don't notice because I interrupt everybody because you're talking.
00:01:25
Speaker
I'm choosing my own state. I'm ready. OK. Yeah.
Vacation Pet Peeves
00:01:29
Speaker
Well, our topic today is top three vacation pet peeves. Right. Because the the price for some reason, I don't know who wrote this. I didn't write this. So whoever wrote this prompt, Kara, it could be what could be there have been other people who have like I know Jen and I think people have written
00:01:55
Speaker
Grayson, they have written topics in our suggestion area. So it might not be one of the three of us who wrote this. Somebody else might have put that in there. And now we are dealing with the complexity of what it means. Top three vacation pet peeves slash rules. Uh, I don't really, I made a list for each just in case we decided to swing one wing or the other.
00:02:20
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But I guess we'll save top three vacation rules for another day and just go with pet peeves. Great idea. Real quick. You might've mentioned it. Where's our suggestion box that you've just talked about on the master document? Oh, other people other than the four of us have access to that. Yeah. Jen does and Grayson cause Jen wanted to add stuff. Okay. I mean, whatever.
00:02:49
Speaker
Do we think she's gonna do something with it? No, start shit. You clearly wanna start shit today, start it. I'm clearly gonna have that linger. Tell me about how you don't trust Jenn to have... Yeah, Tom, listen up. Your daughter's up to some shit and I don't know what it is. That Tom, I was like, what? It was like, what does... I'ma figure it out. Tom have to do with Jenn, but we got there. A lot.
00:03:18
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Okay. We're gonna just skip updates today because I don't feel like it. I did have somebody reach out to me and compliment us and just the fact that they found the marinara or marinara like whole thing really funny of like what would you call the three of us?
00:03:42
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Oh, did they? Yeah. Got that text today. That's cute. I love that.
Pizza Sauce Debate
00:03:49
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It's a real shame that I don't like red sauce though. I mean same. Oh, good. Okay. I don't know what it is. Why do I surround myself with people who don't like red sauce? Because Matt also hates red sauce and I don't understand it. I don't know why.
00:04:03
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I choose to hang out with babies. Like, I could be hanging out with mature, cultured, worldly people. And I'm hanging out with kids who don't like tomatoes. It's weird. OK, I like tomatoes. I never said I didn't like tomatoes. OK, OK, sorry. Boiled tomatoes, which is basically what you're saying when you say you don't like marinara sauce. You don't like cooked tomatoes. There's something about when you buy it in a can. Yeah, when somebody makes homemade
00:04:31
Speaker
On a pizza? Do you like marinara sauce on a pizza? Here's the thing. I always prefer pesto. See, do you see how you just talk over her? She said something about being in hell or wanting to die in hell. No, marinara on pizza can die in hell. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Okay, but you go with pesto.
00:04:59
Speaker
I go with either pesto. My preference is always Alfredo. But if I can't have Alfredo, then I would prefer pesto and then it's red sauce at the end. And I feel like that's the only reason people eat red sauce. It's like it's the natural thing that people I don't know how to like it's what people put there. So they eat it. But if you had a choice, I feel like people would always choose. I feel like that's controversial. I feel like tons of people are sorry. Why did you make that face out of Alfredo? You don't like white sauce on pizza either?
00:05:27
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No, I like that one. That's just not my first choice. My first choice is olive oil. Just straight up no sauce, essentially. It's good too. It's better than marinara. Monsters. But Alfredo is good. Maybe like a garlic pesto. You just want a flat bread with toppings on it. You don't want a pizza.
00:05:47
Speaker
What makes a pizza? Cheese. Oh, come on. Yeah. Don't get into this. There's not enough time. A lot of time for banter is over. I'm calling it and now I'm going to our number three of vacation pet peeves who would like to start. Anyone feeling it?
00:06:11
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I just started on our last episode. So when you two plebs want to step up. Wow. Uh, okay. I'll go first. First of all, is how you would say it's not plugs. No, no, because do you know what's it short for? Yeah. Yeah. Let's play a game. It's called let's quiz my ride. We need like little sound bites. Like let's see.
00:06:33
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No, I didn't answer mine. No. It's time to find out what Mara knows. Can she touch her toes where her knowledge goes? No one knows. Let's find out. OK. Plebeian.
00:06:55
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Wow. So much lead up, yes. Okay, good. Yeah, so you don't say plebeian. Did you look it up? No, I didn't. I did not. I did look up what makes a pizza, but we're moved on from that. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. No, please, please. What makes a pizza? Only tell it if we win. Three ingredients, and it's just crust, sauce, and toppings. Nice. Yeah, so if you're just doing olive oil, that's not a sauce. I'm gonna put that out there. That's not a sauce.
00:07:22
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beg to differ, what makes a sauce? It's a sauce. Nobody's like, pass the sauce and they mean olive oil. Who the fuck says pass the sauce anyway? Lots of people, Cara. I'm on Marion's side with this one. Well then I was switching to Marion's side with a pizza thing. Shit. You're the one who said what makes a pizza. You were the first one to say that. Yeah, I like to watch the world burn. I think olive oil is sauce.
00:07:52
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I don't know if I agree with that, but I do think that it makes a pizza. Okay. Yeah. All right. Our
Coffee Cravings on Vacation
00:07:58
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allotted time is finished and I will go first for my number three. No, no, no, no. For the record, this is the Oxford definition of pizza. Yes. A dish of Italian origin consisting of a flat round base of dough baked with a topping of tomato sauce and cheese.
00:08:20
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typically with added meat or vegetables. So suck on that. Oxford says it's got to have the tomato sauce to be a pizza. But why are we assuming that Oxford is the source that we trust in this case? You know, the English source. It's pretty not an Italian source. Also the English, that's true. The English are going to be different. You think the Italians are going to say pizza doesn't have tomato sauce on it. You know, the Italians are going to be more snobby. Yeah.
00:08:48
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But I thought pizza originated in New York. Oh, God. We've been to Italy together as a group. I don't even know how to reply to that. I also learned that most olives are grown in Italy. Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy. That's why Naples is considered the birthplace of pizza. I've been there and I've eaten pizza there.
00:09:17
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You guys, you guys. If we could cut that, that'd be cool. No, absolutely. This is gold. What are you talking about? Give the people what they want. Our stupidity. That's all we got. It's our stupidity. Yeah, I thought I'd lessen the blow and drop the Y. So anyway.
00:09:39
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My number three vacation pet peeve is Not having coffee on the first morning of a trip So you get in usually get it at night because you're coming after work or whatever you You get to an Airbnb or a hotel and there's no coffee And then I have to not only wake up and get myself prepared which usually involves some sort of shower So we're like 45 minutes later. I still haven't had a cup of coffee managed to figure out where to find the coffee or it's like
00:10:09
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nasty hotel coffee where it's that instant coffee. They get to like use shower water to heat up, you know? It's just, I need like good coffee on the very first morning of a vacation. It's a big coffee cocktail. You need to feed your addiction right away first thing. When you're addicted, it's hard. It is. It's hard to do anything before a drug. Yeah, we know. Okay, so you need your, you need your supply and you need it. I'll find my Pronto.
00:10:39
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Okay. Yeah, that one's pretty rough, but I'm not as snobby as you are with coffee and I started...
00:10:49
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bringing my own little pour overs or like instant coffee packages with me because I might be more addicted than you. I don't know if sloppy is the term, but I also started carrying Starbucks instant coffee, which is why when I texted Marion, when I went to LA last week, I said, do you have coffee? My intent there was, do I need to bring Starbucks packets with me or not? I told you like four months ago, I got a Keurig for when you visit.
00:11:14
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Do you know what happens in Kara's brain over a four month period? It's like recycled. I assume that in your brain, it's just one fuddy duddy, like 65 year old man who's like hunched over and he's got a tweed suit on and he smells like lima beans.
00:11:31
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He gets new information like all marrying got a cure egg like fax to him or maybe like, you know, paged or something. He gets it and he prints it out. He prints it out and he turns around to put it. He turns around very slowly. He's got those big glasses. So his eyes are really, really wide and he turns around.
00:11:52
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to go put it in one of your thousands of filing cabinets, I assume. And then he, as he turns around, he gets what he was doing or what was going on. So he just drops the paper on the ground and then turns back to the fax machine. Now there's another piece of information and that's just all day. And every once in a while he gets a spurt of energy and he maybe tries to clean up a certain area, but he'll just get faxes all day. That said, remember that time in
00:12:18
Speaker
senior year, remember that time in senior year, and it'll be the same one over and over again. And he'll be like, I don't, I can't find the information they're looking for. That's gone forever. You know, that's in the archives. So. You never. Anyway, yeah, it sounds like you should just bring instant Starbucks wherever you go. I have started to. Yeah, I can't really relate to this one. Of course not. Yeah, I'm not addicted to anything.
00:12:45
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I'm pure. Well, I'm addicted to sugar. That's for sure. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yesterday, Samara, when I got back from L.A., I was like, OK, I'm not going to have any sugar anymore because I've got a real addiction going right now. She she gave a whole diatribe on like our last night where she was like, Grayson, do not let me when we get back. I'm not doing sugar anymore. Like if I want apple pie, no. And he's like trying to take notes. He's like trying to clarify, saying like, OK, so but when do you actually want me to tell you? No, because he's not stupid.
00:13:16
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He's not stupid. Wow. That man's been in a long-term relationship. I'm like, oh, it's not that bad. And Kara's on her high horse here about sugar intake and how she can just drop it anytime. Anyway, what happened last night?
00:13:35
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I didn't. It was my right, my first night back and Grayson reminded me that there was mango sorbet in the freezer. And I was like, I wouldn't have known. But now that I know there's no, the addiction is talking, like I had stuff. So I ate like a third of the sorbet last night. And I said, don't, I can't, anyway.
00:13:57
Speaker
It didn't go well. Sugar activates some of the same receptors that cocaine does in your brain. It's tight. I'm not surprised. It tastes real good. It's real tight. Did you then throw away? I feel like the only way this is going to be successful is if you throw it all away. That was really good. You kept it to have it again tonight. Yeah, but when it's gone, I won't have any more, which is now something I've said twice. OK. Yep.
00:14:25
Speaker
I'll follow up on that in the next podcast. My goal was to do 20 days, and when I said that, Grayson said part 20, and I thought 15 is to make a habit, but really to lock it in. It's 21? No, it's 15. To make a habit. It's 15. No, it's 21. Okay, well, do a tiebreaker at the end if I happen to be a winner, you know? Okay. Do you want to go next, Marion, or shall I?
00:14:53
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I'll go next. I mean, this is just I think everyone would probably have this. I don't like having a way in line on my vacation, especially for rental cars. There's nothing that's more annoying to me than like getting off the plane and then having to go stand in a rental car line where there's only one worker
00:15:17
Speaker
and 20 people and at least 15 of them didn't make a reservation. So that's gonna be fun. And I just- Who goes on a trip without making a car rental reservation? I don't know. Do people do that? Maybe they didn't think they'd need it. Maybe it was a last minute trip. Maybe they tried and it didn't work. I don't know, but I mean, I agree. Get your shit together. Just got a lot of faith in the system at that point. I just...
00:15:46
Speaker
I just hate that type of waiting in line, especially right out of the airport. It's very similar. Like that's not what I want to do off the bat. This one's kind of weak. I really could only think of two pet peeves for myself. So this is just kind of like a throw away. Well, I mean, like what? I only have a list of three. I don't have any extra. I have three in the honorable mention. Nice. You're just harder to please.
00:16:13
Speaker
Maybe. When we got to Vietnam, we waited in line for an hour and a half to get through the visa. What do you call it? Customs. Yeah. Hour and a half. Nothing will kill your vibe more than having all of your crap with you and having to wait in line. Especially if it's non-air conditioned.
00:16:37
Speaker
It was, but it was like also, well, anyway, I'm not going to keep because it's related to my other one. Go ahead. But yeah, I, when we were in the, when we were on the waiting to get on the boat for the cruise, there was a big line, you know, if you're waiting for a taxi or bus, it's just like, let's get started. Don't, don't piss me off in the first hour.
00:17:00
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Yeah, I have been kicked out of like I've been standing in line with a couple different people and like I'm not getting anything I'm just like hanging out with them and they've kicked they were like go way out on the hallway I can't handle you in this line right now. It's like I too have zero chill in a line Yeah, especially if you're not getting anything out of the line. No, huh Mara again in case you didn't hear my intro and My number three
00:17:29
Speaker
Vacation pet peeve will have to be a bad plane etiquette Just like the man spreading or like when you have a bad middle seat person That just I'm like, why are you touching me this much or like
00:17:48
Speaker
Now is not the time for you to wear five spritz of cologne. Please don't. Or like I've had children listen to things without headphones. And by children, I mean little teenagers, also little babies, but no, thank you. Not or just being rude to the flight attendants. Um, they don't get paid till the door shut. Be nice to them.
00:18:13
Speaker
I don't feel like I see people will be rude to flight attendants very often anymore. No, but yeah, I think the man spreading is rough. The whole like who gets the middle armrest is rough. Like obviously middle gets both, but I feel like a lot of people don't know that. One time I was on a plane ride and I was sitting in between two, two young women who were either sisters or best friends and
00:18:41
Speaker
I don't know why they had booked it that way, but then they were constantly talking over me, like leaning over me to talk to each other. And I was like, I'm in hell. Eventually, like an hour, hour and a half into it, they finally like offered to switch with me. But I was like, why would you book it this way? Like, I was like, did you not think you were going to talk to each other? Like, it was like they were both in my space and like handing things to each other and all this. And I was like, oh, my God.
00:19:12
Speaker
If you're if you're going to book the window seat and aisle seat and you are in a couple to some, whether it's platonic, romantic, whatever, like do that, like planning to act like strangers. Don't do that. And then frickin I just oh, it really got to me. That's really rude.
00:19:39
Speaker
Yeah, these young ladies were just kind of rude in general, like Ben Savage was on the plane. That's Corey from Boys Meet World Boy Meets World. Yeah. And they had noticed him when they got on and they were like, oh, we're going to like ask him for a picture. So they got up in the middle of the flight.
00:20:03
Speaker
And he was like, Oh, like after we land, I'll like find you guys or whatever. Um, but yeah, they were like going up to him. He had his headphones and I think like, yeah, they go up to him in the middle of his flight to be like, Oh my God, are you Corey? And like, I don't know. It was, I was just like, Oh man, imagine not being able to just like be on the plane in peace. And there are people coming up to you. Um, it's my nightmare.
00:20:32
Speaker
So they didn't really have a lot of social awareness in the first place, I guess. But yeah. Yeah. To then to address a celebrity that's trapped in a plane. Yeah. Like no escape. Really? Like before or after? Yeah. Yeah. Don't do it where he has nowhere to go. And
00:20:55
Speaker
He was in the window seat and he had his wife. Oh, my God. I think it was his wife and kid or somebody he knows in the other two seats. So he's like trying to be as far away as possible from the public eye. And they were talking about how he had his headphones in when they went up there. And I was like, oh, my God, like so clearly doesn't want to be. They had checked once already and he had an eye mask or something on. And so they like.
00:21:21
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You know, they wanted to make sure he was awake. They thought waking him up would be too far. But... Well, we have some standards, though, at least. Oh, my God.
00:21:34
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I feel like Savina would be the perfect person if I were to book a flight and I'd sit in the same row as a friend and window aisle. Savina, Savina would have no problem. We would be just fine or Lucas not talking to each other. You guys would like talk to each other at the end of the flight and the person in the middle would get like a jump scare where they're like, you know each other. Yeah, bitch. All right. All of these have been.
00:22:01
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pretty typical vacation pet peeves. I think they're gonna be. Let's go to number two. No surprises here on this one, folks.
Punctuality & Vacation Timing
00:22:13
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My number two vacation pet peeve is being late to a timed event. Usually one that is either, I don't really care if it's reserved or not reserved. Like if it's reserved, that makes me angry because we had a planned man, like get your shit together, whoever I'm with, whether it's myself or not, I'll still talk to myself that way.
00:22:31
Speaker
Um, or if it's not something where you reserve, it's like one of those free walking tours or whatever. It's like, usually there's like one a day. And so if you miss it, you've missed like important information or you're like running to catch up with the group and then you look like the freaking idiot that couldn't be on time.
00:22:47
Speaker
And I just feel like with vacation, it's always a couple of days or like max a week and just, you need to be there on time. It really bothers me. This is definitely one of mine. Definitely. I mean, it was probably the biggest thing I noticed on the cruise is I did not like to be running late and I did not like to be waiting till the last minute for everything. Like it stresses me out so much, even if we end up making it on time, it's such a stressful process. And I just.
00:23:13
Speaker
Yeah, I think I'm I just want to get into that stage in my life where I'm like my parents and I show up to something 20 minutes early and like sit down, get settled, you know, check out the situation, check out the space, what's going on, plenty of time, maybe grab a soda or water, drink or something and just kind of like chill instead of this kind of like rushing feeling, you know, like, is it going to happen? Are we going to make it?
00:23:44
Speaker
Is the reservation going to be canceled? Are you going to, you know, it's just, she's not how I want to feel on a vacation. No. And then if you do miss your reservation, then now you have to then play the game of what do we do now? Sometimes you purposely miss a tour because you're stuck in a line.
00:24:03
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at Primark and you're like, oh, it'll be fine. And you just shop a little bit more. That's a deep cut. Yeah. When Mara and I did that exact thing in Amsterdam where you're supposed to meet.
00:24:19
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Jen and Lucas for a tour. And I think we had already paid for it. It was like $14 or something. And we were at Primark and we were having too much fun shopping. So we just texted them like, yeah, that's not happening. We're not getting there. Just kept shopping. But you know, we didn't affect
00:24:41
Speaker
We didn't. Our lateness, our joint communal decision lateness did not affect their ability to, you know. No, because they were going to go there separately anyway. Yeah, they were already there when they were texting us like, are you coming? But I'm sure we stressed them out.
00:24:57
Speaker
with that because I remember Jen being like, uh, she says she could only wait with for you for like five minutes. Cause we were talking about thinking about making it. We, I think we even walked outside and like looked at the like train or the tram, but knew we were going to be late. And we were just like,
00:25:14
Speaker
send it and then we went and got an espresso and chilled with our bags. You remember that? It was good. Photo shoot. Oh yeah. That's the, you know, yeah, there's an opposite coin, opposite side of the coin to this one, which is having plans. And then like you're enjoying what you're doing so much that you're, you just say, fuck it. Like,
00:25:37
Speaker
Let's do this instead. And that is kind of the best feeling when like you're like, eh, forget about it. And then you're just like relaxed and chilling. But everyone has to be on board with that. And you have to have not paid like much money if you pay money. And not have been in pursuit of that activity. And you already have a plan. But we'll get to talking about that. That has to do with my number one. Will we? OK. I am floored.
00:26:07
Speaker
My number two is sleeping in really late. I know that sleep is important on vacations. I like to sleep on vacations or take naps or whatever, but, and it's really more just has to do with me, but I like get so upset when, like if I sleep in on a vacation, not a staycation obviously, but like a true vacation, if I'm not up
00:26:34
Speaker
by like 10, 10.30 at the latest. Like I know I'm gonna feel bad as if I wasted my precious relaxing time being unconscious. I don't like that. I don't like that feeling. I had a friend in college that I went on vacation with them a couple of times and they are the type of person who never has like any type of plan for the day and they would wake up
00:27:02
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after 12 p.m. Oh my God. By the time we had gotten ready and Ian and everything is like 2 p.m. pushing three and then we're trying to decide what to do with our day and that I think after the second time the first time I was like okay this person just
00:27:21
Speaker
is tired from college and like the transitioning and all of that, blah, blah, blah. And then the second time I was like, oh, no, this is this person's like ideal way to vacay is like, don't do anything because we would get up and then we would like lounge around and watch TV. We might do one thing that day, like go out for dinner or go to the beach for an hour or two or something like really like not a lot of stuff or anything. When you get up at noon,
00:27:51
Speaker
Yeah, that drove, that drove me nuts because I felt as though I wasn't really, I don't know. Yeah. Well, like, and sometimes, you know, museums close at five or the sun goes down at six or whatever. So you're like, A, you're already losing sunlight. And this is assuming that you're staying up to like midnight, 2 a.m. like drinking alcohol or whatever. So you're just like getting swasty, maybe. That's the crazy thing is
00:28:18
Speaker
Sorry, what were you gonna say? I was just gonna say, I don't even feel like we were staying up that late. From my memory, we weren't staying up that late. Like, and we weren't partying. It's just like this person would sleep like 11 hours, 12 hours on their vacation. And like, I mean, I can do that like once or twice maybe. Like I can do it. I just don't feel good after I do it. I don't feel relaxed. I don't feel like I made the best use of my
00:28:45
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one precious life that I'm living, like. Yes. Anyway.
00:28:52
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Yeah, good number two. You know what's crazy too is that now you would probably love that because you'd be like, I'm going to go to a museum in the morning. I'll meet you for like 2 p.m. lunch. Like I actually feel like now would be fine. But back in the day when you weren't going to separate from your friend, it's like chaos. Yeah, like I mean, there was a time. Yeah, back then, you know, I feel like so much of my early 20s, especially in my 20s was yeah, there was an insecurity about
00:29:18
Speaker
feeling like you needed to do everything with everyone all the time and not wanting to miss out even if you didn't necessarily like the activity or whatever like always trying to there's this weird pressure at least I had of like no we all have to always be together doing the thing and for example in grad school I had a Vegas trip with friends and we all obviously had our own
00:29:43
Speaker
hotel rooms and things. And they would sleep in like that. They would sleep in as late as this friend from college. But I would wake up at 8 a.m. when the pool opened and I would go hang out at the pool. I'd have a morning strawberry daiquiri and food. And then I would like read and I do things. And then by the time everyone woke up and it's like one or whatever and they're ready to go out at one or two and get lunch, I'm like right there with them. You know, so I did enjoy that because I felt like I got
00:30:13
Speaker
the time that I wanted to do what I like to do. And then I had like a whole day, still like 10 hours to do whatever with them before bed. You can have it all. Yeah. That's right. Mara, is your number two when people wake you up on vacation?
00:30:29
Speaker
No, because I know that guilty feeling as abhorrent as I find waking up in the morning and for the fact that it takes me usually till 10 or 11 sometimes to actually feel fully awake no matter what time I wake up or how many hours of sleep I get. But I too have that feeling of I paid a lot of money to be here and I may or may not ever come back here. It's time to go. It's time to get up.
00:31:01
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, even if I growl at you, I don't really mean it. What is it? All scream, no bite. What is it? All bite. All bark, no bite. All bark, no bite. All scream, no bite. I knew it was something. I couldn't remember what it was. Your dog started screaming and you're afraid they're going to bark. I didn't know if it was dog relief. I just remember it was like a sound versus a bite.
00:31:29
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love it i'm all scream no bite if you know what i mean i do know what you mean any horror my number this is mara again
00:31:43
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My number two vacation pet peeve would have to, it's similar to Kara's number three.
Health Issues While Traveling
00:31:50
Speaker
It's so much more annoying to feed myself on vacation and I feel like because I'm so stimulated, the cues of hunger don't hit me until I'm like, I need to eat right now. Sometimes it's food related and sometimes it's not, but I tend to get sick on vacation. My tummy. You do. My tummy's not a strong soldier all the time.
00:32:11
Speaker
Yeah, that's I did like think about I guess that would be an honorable mention is like getting sick on vacation. Even if it's a staycation or whatever, like being sick while you have time off is just so upsetting. Yes. Yeah. And like, yeah, paying to go somewhere and trying to enjoy it. And then you're having gastro issues is
00:32:38
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terrible vomiting on flights home and then telling the flight attendant that you're pregnant and asking to be sat by the bathroom. I don't know. Is this something you've done? Yeah. You told her you're pregnant just so you could get the seat next to the bathroom. Yeah, because I was flying, I was flying home with Amanda. Really sick. It was so bad. I filled up a whole Delta bag of vomit. Oh my God.
00:33:01
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Yeah. Yeah. At the end of Ecuador, we were driving to the airport. Yeah. And I made him pull over. And she started to look very white and clammy. And at first we thought she was just having regular road sickness. And then she was like, pull over. Barely got out. Did you start puking in your hands on the way out? Probably. It was rough. I was barely holding it in.
00:33:23
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And yeah, so she had to puke a couple times on the way to the airport and then was puking like on the plane a bunch and then was sick for a couple days out there. Yeah. I don't know what happened there. My, no, my whole system wasn't right for at least a year afterwards. Yeah. And it's odd because like that didn't happen to the three of us. So it's, yeah, it's this odd thing where I'm like, what?
00:33:46
Speaker
What happened there? What did you eat? What did you eat that we didn't eat? Like that is shared, like everything. But sometimes it just takes one little leaf of lettuce. Dead. Yep. Wow. Dramatic.
00:34:03
Speaker
Okay. But on that flight, the guy next to me was being really nice. Um, but then his sister was not having it. She was like, she could have COVID. And I was like, you can't leave Ecuador without getting tested at that point. Um, and they do the, they shove it. They like make you do it within 24 hours or whatever, but flying out of there.
00:34:24
Speaker
But fair girl, fair, just vomiting next to your brother. Was it like you were sitting on the aisle and the person next to you was in the middle seat? No. So you were like right next to them? He had the window. Okay. I mean, at least there was some wig over in there. Yeah. So did Amanda tell you to say that you were pregnant or what? Yeah, I was flying home with Amanda and Amanda said, go up to the desk kiosk and ask to be sat closer to the...
00:34:50
Speaker
bathroom and say that you're pregnant and then she follows that up with, it's all the same puke but people freak out less when you're pregnant. Fair. I was like, girl, I love you.
00:35:03
Speaker
So yeah, I said I'm four months pregnant because thankfully my coworker at the time was having morning sickness and she was about four months. So I knew, I guess I could have asked the doctor, but the gynecologist that was sitting right next to you. Yeah. So yeah. And my dad, my dad brought it up like a couple of months after I did it. And I was like, what are you talking about? I like had forgotten.
00:35:29
Speaker
I've thought about saying I'm pregnant. Like when I have a bathroom emergency in public and I'm like trying to figure out
00:35:40
Speaker
Like, you know, and there's not a clear open bathroom. I've thought about saying like, hi, I'm pregnant because like, first of all, I could be three months pregnant. I could be four months pregnant. Like you don't know exactly. And there was that, that one guy in Santa Monica who once asked me how far along I was like about six or seven months ago. And so I must give off the impression, you know, I think I can fool somebody. It's your natural glow. Cause it is a thing is like,
00:36:06
Speaker
Yeah, my natural glow. That's why he was saying that. No, did you see that Onion article? It was like pregnancy glow is actually the fact that woman hasn't been drinking in eight months. I was like, that's funny though. I like that. We're marrying a nice glow. Yeah. You can't see it? I feel like I know my face is a mess actually.
00:36:31
Speaker
I have the acne from the trip. I don't know if you noticed it developing Kara when you were here, but I did. I also have it all over my face. I don't know what's going on. I've been trying not to touch it anyway. Um, yep. Good one, Mara. Thanks dog. Let's go to sponsors.
00:36:52
Speaker
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00:37:23
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Welcome to my top everything sponsor section. These people have not given us money yet. Our number three sponsor this week is Cara for taking over Grayson's duties. Congratulations. Hittin' that button. Nailed it. And you have to hit the button later too, so you're ready for it. Is sponsor number two gonna be Grayson for setting Cara up?
00:37:52
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Just kidding. Sure. Sponsor number two, Grayson Pacific Era. Thanks. Sponsor number one are the corporate jobs that make us need vacations. Thanks. Thanks for making my life so miserable I get excited about six days where I don't have to think about work.
00:38:16
Speaker
He sounds so sad when he's saying it, like six days. But I'm also stressed about what I've missed at work, so I'm probably only like... I am not. I do not have that problem. When I'm on vacation, my mind is completely not involved in work at all.
00:38:33
Speaker
Depends on what project I left. Sometimes it creeps in, but I agree. Yeah, I think it also depends on your profession, whether or not you can leave it and it'll be okay. Or if it's like, oh, I've got so much to catch up on because nobody else can do whatever needed to be done. Yeah. All right, that's our sponsors. Back to the real show.
00:38:59
Speaker
I really want to get, I know we can't, but I would love to get the Schitt's Creek, where they do the money makes the world go round, go round, go round. I really want to get that for our sponsors. Ooh. I don't know what you're talking about, but I like it. Yeah. When they do the play in the last season, the musical. Oh, the carbonara. No. We could be called carbonara as well. Cabaret. Yes, I prefer carbonara.
00:39:30
Speaker
Carabinera? No, that has P's. I want to be Maranera. Maranera. Maranera, that's cute. That's too much Mara in it. I like it. Or Marion. Oh, Mara-nera? Yeah? She got it. That's my name. Okay.
00:39:53
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Um, my number one vacation pet peeve is, uh, it's a cultural preference. And I know that this is not how everybody lives in the world, but I really, really hate being cut in line. Like I really fucking hate it. We were in.
00:40:12
Speaker
Vietnam or Cambodia, and we went, oh Vietnam, and we went to, this happened so many fucking times on that vacation. We were standing in a line, it was just me and Grayson. There was no one else in there, so it was like very clear that we were waiting behind the person that was currently being helped. We were getting movie tickets for Oppenheimer and we were already like 10, 20 minutes late because of a whole different fiasco.
00:40:36
Speaker
And so I'm already annoyed. I'm already frustrated because C, number two, I'm already late to a timed event. And this couple, ooh, this couple, as soon as the people in front of us move, I don't even know where they came from. They darted in front of us. And I put myself immediately next to her. I was like, I'm going to make you uncomfortable if you're going to cut me. Because it's so like, I understand this is your country. I want to be respectful. So I'm not going to do anything. But I am going to make you uncomfortable because
00:41:04
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I cannot stand that you obviously knew that I was waiting before you were waiting and you got to go ahead of me. Do you think they knew that you were trying to make them uncomfortable? Probably not. Do you think they picked up on it? No, I think that they were probably like, oh, she's next in line now that she's touching my shoulder. Dude. Oh, so mad. Did you ever try?
00:41:28
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cutting back at any point in time? No because I really do want to respect, there's also you know like people listen to stuff without their headphones in other cultures like in Uganda like no one uses headphones like on public transportation or on the street or in the mall no matter what no one is using headphones and so there's still listening to things while listening to like videos and like having phone calls and everything they do which it's like a cultural thing so for me I'm like
00:41:57
Speaker
I want to respect that. But as an American person, our customs are just so different and so strong. And it takes me a long time to be able to kind of get comfortable with the differences. And we just weren't in Vietnam long enough for me to be cool with like every line we were in being cut. I couldn't take it. I enjoyed when I was in China, I enjoyed the because I think what I what I appreciate about
00:42:20
Speaker
the cultures where there's line cutting is that no way is going to get mad at you for also like doing the same thing. Like it's like just agreed upon chaos. And I appreciate that. They're not hypocrites, you know, they're not being hypocritical about it. And so I kind of enjoy it in China, the fact that like
00:42:42
Speaker
You know, just because I live in this place that has these rules doesn't mean if, if everyone else is abiding by those rules in this place, like that, I don't have to suddenly abide by these rules that clearly aren't working for me. Yeah. I think that's what I mean is like in Uganda got used to it. Like I was like, Oh, lines are not a thing. So you just go, like you just go whenever you're ready to go. But I hadn't gotten that like comfortability yet. If that makes sense. Yeah.
00:43:11
Speaker
But yeah, when you know what's up and you can equally participate, it's fine, but I was not equally participating, so that I was just the only person getting cut every time. French fries were founded in New York. Yes. Thank you. Okay. I can't relate to the rage of, what the fuck? Why are you cutting me?
00:43:38
Speaker
I don't feel like a lot of people get as angry about it, and I don't feel like my blood boils. I don't feel like my blood, yeah, it doesn't boil very often. Feeling like you own a spot in line. I feel like lines are very useful and should be respected. Nah, but also yes.
00:44:06
Speaker
Depends on where I'm at and how comfortable I am. So it cuts me in line, at least in the US. I just assume that they needed it worse than I did. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, OK, they must. I assume that they're entitled.
00:44:20
Speaker
I was at the grocery store just today and there was a very, it was the self checkout line and there's, you know, like the person that's clearly waiting in the line and then you have to kind of step back by the racks because there's, you know, the passing aisle or whatever. And I'm like very clearly, but there's like six to 12 people behind me in the aisle.
00:44:39
Speaker
And the person that walked up couldn't see, obviously, and they just kind of stood next to me. And I was like, A, if you're trying to cut me, that's not going to happen. But also B, I don't want all these other like 10 people behind me to have to wait because you didn't look around the corner to see if there was a line. And so I was like, Oh, by the way, like there's a line. And then they went back in line. But like, I really I'm a big line person, apparently. Yeah, not handle it. Do you feel like maybe you don't stand close enough to the person you're in line with?
00:45:06
Speaker
It's starting to sound based on your two stories. It sounds like maybe you're giving way too much space to the point where people don't think that you're in line.
00:45:17
Speaker
In America, I today in the groceries, for example, I would agree that there was a lot of space, but I clearly like I was like oriented the right way. I was out of the aisle so you could see that I was not I was like standing there for a reason. In Vietnam, I was like a normal, you know, like person width behind somebody. There was only enough room for that person to fit in. Were you talking to Grayson and? No, I was alone. Oh, you're any tickets alone?
00:45:45
Speaker
Oh, at the, oh, at the movie theater in Vietnam. Yes. I was with Grayson. Yeah. But in America, I don't feel like distance makes as big of a difference because it's very clear that you're in a line and people normally respect the line. We're all about our personal space here until we're not. Yes.
Spontaneous Planning vs. Pre-planning
00:46:02
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My number one vacation, pet peeve is
00:46:08
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when we decide plans as we go, because I think this is such a time waster. Like I think about two, two years ago, we went to Canada for New Year's and there was a day we didn't really like roughly even plan like, oh, for this day, we'll do this for this way day. We might do that, you know,
00:46:35
Speaker
And so I remember like the first day we're there, we spent maybe like two hours sitting like on or near the hot tub talking about what we want to do and plan. And it was like that basically every day, like two to three hours of just like.
00:46:52
Speaker
trying to figure out what we were gonna do and looking stuff up. And I was like, this is not how I want to spend, like that is not how I want to spend my vacation. I've obviously done it before, you know, when I was backpacking solo or when I went to Japan with four days notice, like obviously there's gonna be, but usually I'll do at night, the night before, real quick before bed and like get it figured out for the next day. But I really cannot stand when people are like, oh, we'll just,
00:47:22
Speaker
figure it out when we get there. And then it's this big long drawn out thing because the more people you have, the more opinions and the more that everyone wants to get their hand in deciding what's going on. And suddenly we're doing a group vote at some democracy. It's like we're holding Congress and everyone's like somebody's filibustering for some reason. And we're like trying to make underhanded deals to get this thing passed. And it's just like, this should have been figured out.
00:47:53
Speaker
beforehand. Like I don't need everything planned by the hour. Like I like to leave a flex day. One of my vacation rules is I love a flex day. I want to keep one day that is kind of like unplanned and you can do, if you're enjoying a certain like city and a bigger trip, like going around a country, you can like stay an extra day there or something, you know, you can kind of feel out vibes and like what you're enjoying and adjust accordingly.
00:48:23
Speaker
I want to have, in general, if we're doing activities, I want them pre-booked. I don't want to be like, oh yeah, and we'll find an escape room. And then suddenly, we have to find a date, the time, the hours. I mean, that's why we went to Canada again this past year. And again, we were courting the idea of an escape room. And I remember, I think one night, I was like, I don't want to do that. Because I was like, just the planning, just getting everyone there, all of that.
00:48:54
Speaker
It's so much. It's just so much. Finding a room that everybody wants to do also. Very difficult. It's just a lot. And I just would prefer to have that. Like I went to Costa Rica with Matt and
00:49:11
Speaker
some of his friends. And again, it was as though we were wasting massive amounts of the day because people would stay up late, then they would get up late. Then we kind of mill around trying to figure out where we were going to eat for brunch or lunch at this point. We'd have that. And then we'd start thinking about what we want to do with the day. And it's just, yeah, I just can't do that. I need to, I would say the night before is the absolute latest. I want to have,
00:49:40
Speaker
things figured out for the next day. And hopefully that night before is like 20 minutes. If, if that of having to figure it out and our, our Niagara trip kind of teetered on that line of pet peeve for me because every night we did have to figure something out and it could, it kind of was drawn out in a lot of cases. Um, but sometimes that just comes with big groups, I guess. And
00:50:08
Speaker
But when we went to Italy, we had every single date planned. So I feel like we did an okay job in Niagara. That was the edge of my comfort. When Lucas and I went to Berlin after Italy, we didn't have much planned. But yeah, we did do we did the planning like while we were eating or at night. So yeah, it's just stressful.
00:50:35
Speaker
Yeah. It's stressful to me. Like for example, when eating or something, like when I'm using my time that I'm supposed to be enjoying and relaxing and I said, I'm using it, like I'm not focusing on the food because I'm focusing on like what we're doing next. I just, I really dislike that. I mean, Italy was like overplanned in my opinion, but has to be when you have like 11 people or however many people we had. Um, like I would have preferred to have like a flex day somewhere in there, but
00:51:05
Speaker
Also, I think it was absolutely necessary with the amount of people. I'm glad that I didn't pay all that money to go to Italy and then spend hours talking about organizing or booking things or whatever that was all already done. Yeah. I agree with this one. That was a good one.
00:51:26
Speaker
I'm guilty of this sometimes though. I feel like you're good at recognizing the other party though. Like Lucas doesn't really care. So when it came to you and him, I feel like it was probably fine that you didn't have anything planned, but if it's the three of us, she's going to be playing. Yeah. We need to figure out an outro now. Right. Good number one.
00:51:47
Speaker
Oh, bitch. Oh, my God. Hi, Marigan. Kara forgot about me again. Here we go. I was talking over you. Yeah. My number one vacation pet pee has to be, it's along the same lines of planning, but like within planning, people are not giving opinions about what they actually want to do or there's like zero compromise on anybody's.
00:52:14
Speaker
side. Yeah, I just want to know what you actually want to do. Just tell me. I don't I hate hearing the words. I don't care. Let's do whatever. What do you want to do? Or let's do whatever you want to do. And I'm like, I wouldn't have asked you for a fucking opinion. I don't like being like, okay, this, this, this and this. Yeah. When that happens, my fear is always that
00:52:39
Speaker
somebody is going to complain later. So if they're not part of, if they're not actively helping plan something, like I often will either be hyper involved in one of our planning efforts or not involved at all. I don't really have a middle ground option for my own brain, but when I don't plan anything, I am just happy that somebody else made a plan. But there's some people that, you know, they're like, okay, I want, like they have an ID in their head, but they haven't shared it. And then everybody else is caught off guard because they haven't shared it.
00:53:09
Speaker
once you're in the middle of the day. Yeah. Communication is key. We love good communication. When I was in Japan, I was with two other people and I had been planning basically everything. I had like everyone, the others who were just along for the ride. And then there was one point where I like had fatigue from making all the decisions and doing all the stuff. And I remember it was like the only point of friction I had with one of the other people I was on the trip with where
00:53:39
Speaker
like they would not make a decision or even tell me what they wanted. I was like, option A, option B, like tell me and then we can go from there and they like. Yeah, I'm providing two things. They got snippy at me and I was like, are you kidding me? Like, I think that's where.
00:53:55
Speaker
Yeah that was like the one point of tension and then the third person came and then was like I'll figure it out but it was just it's just if you are the type of person on a trip who is planning and giving it everything and giving it your all like it is a pet peeve to.
00:54:12
Speaker
when you do try and alleviate some of that responsibility or stress or whatever, or try to get someone else's input, and they give you nothing back, and it's like, do you recognize how taxing this is to be the person? Do you even want to be here? You're not planning like it. Do you want to just sleep until 1 p.m.? How many people? Cool. I'll share my live location. Come find me. I love that feature.
00:54:42
Speaker
Okay, I have two honorable mentions. I really don't like rechecking bags in between different airports, and I can never figure out this system. When do you do it? What countries are we going in between? I still have no freaking idea after how many times I've been on planes.
00:55:04
Speaker
But sometimes you'll get off of a plane. They'll make you collect your checked bag and then go through security with or go through customs with your large bags and then recheck it. So then if you've planned for like a two hour layover, now you have to also go through security again and check your bag again. And it's a very stressful experience. And most of the time I don't have like extra time. So that's one of them. And then this is my own personal problem that I'm
00:55:33
Speaker
I hate it when there's no good vegan food. I don't often look ahead at menus and make sure that there's a good option or read reviews or anything. Usually I'm trying to be very flexible, and I say as long as there's a vegan option, I'll be fine. But if it's not good, I do get really sad. And if it's not good, multiple meals in a row, I get real pissy and snippy. And it's no one else's fault, so I try to keep it together, but I can't.
00:56:01
Speaker
And it makes me angry. I will say that's kind of like, yeah, I would say I don't have a lot of complaints of when we travel, but a pet peeve probably of mine is that when you agree yes to something and then you're like, oh, they only have this. And I'm like, but you already said yes to it. Like, why do you not look at it? Why didn't you, like, why didn't you consider like the one object? Do you know what I'm saying? Not like in a bad way. I'm just saying, I agree with you.
00:56:27
Speaker
It could be a real gentle on the podcast. This is not normal. I agree that this is a personal problem. I preface it. I preface it. No, no, no. Yeah. But I mean, I think just the pet peeve of not enough options or good options, definitely.
00:56:43
Speaker
I think it's the problem that if I'm walking into a situation where there's an impossible burger, I'm aware of what I'm getting into. Usually what I'm most upset is when I think there's going to be a really nice option and then it also turns out to be fucking shit. And that's where I'm like.
00:57:00
Speaker
It's almost like I get my hopes up, and then I'm disappointed by the lack of goodness, because a lot of restaurants will have the one vegan option, but they don't put as much effort into it as the other dishes, and everyone else is really happy. New Year's at Niagara, that was devastating, because I paid so much money to sit there, and I wasn't drinking, and it was like piss soup, and just like, dude, so bad. The soup was really bad. I mean, the risotto was good,
00:57:32
Speaker
Yeah, it was fine. Yeah. Yeah. I was really surprised by that place. I'll never do a preset New Year's Eve menu again. That was my one and only. But that happens regardless of if it's preset. I think that's the like, if usually like a restaurant either values their vegan option or they don't and you can't, unless you read the reviews, which I don't do, which I need to start doing, you won't know.
00:57:54
Speaker
Did you appreciate an Ecuador that you didn't have to travel with me? Was that like, thank God we don't have to think about her fucking eating habits? I don't know how well you would have done an Ecuador with that. I can't remember anymore. I mean, there would have been rice and beans. You ate a lot of rice and beans in Central America. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of like Pad Thai and Thailand. You just, every day, all day. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:21
Speaker
No other honorable mentions? Just me with my pet peeves? Just you. All right. Yeah. Sometimes I annoy myself. So I'm like, I know I have to do this, but then I have like zero motivation. But I'm like, I know I want to go here. So that's it. It's pretty weak. Weak sauce. What was the tiebreaker? Is a habit built in 15 or 21 days?
00:58:51
Speaker
20, no, do you have to do it 21 times or 15 times? Yeah, or not do it or whatever. Yeah. You already have a guess, because I feel like no one got points taken away or anything, do they? Did you look it up? No, I haven't looked it up. I feel like it has to be closer to 20. I'm on the 20 train. Oh, she's, Price is riding it. Yeah, I'm looking it up.
00:59:21
Speaker
is 21. It's 21. Yeah. Nice, Marion, you were right. Well, hi, I'm Marion, your episode winner. I have the best vacation pet peeves. Congrats, dude. Thanks, Marion.
00:59:44
Speaker
Kara seems really upset. Yeah, we'll get there. I really thought it was 15. I felt like really, I would have slept at that. I would have felt very comfortable. Well, maybe that's why you haven't been forming any new habits. You get to 15 and then you stop. Yep. I mean, I was only going to do 20 for my sugar, so now I got to do like 30. You got to get past 21.
01:00:08
Speaker
All right. Well, this has been My Top Everything. Write to us about your pet peeves on our Reddit or My Top Everything podcast at gmail.com or tag us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Somebody's manning those. So we have a Facebook.
01:00:28
Speaker
Yes. Nice. Go team. I'm not meaning that after this. No, we have it. I should friend us. I think that was the first thing that I made because I'm an old lady at heart.
01:00:42
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All right, yeah, contact us. We'd love to hear from you and hope you have a good rest of your day, evening, week, life. Whatever's going on. And a very stress-free vacation coming up, the next vacation you go on is gonna be so stress-free. May your next vacation be devoid of any pet peeves. Amen. Yes, queen.
01:01:11
Speaker
I'm your winner, Marion. I'm Cara. You didn't know how many days it takes to make a habit. And you technically got lost. You kind of, you technically lost this one because. Yeah. I'm okay with that actually. Yeah. Oh. That's like being slapped in the face. No. And I'm Mara and I will be slapping Cara in the face later. Just kidding. Bye. Where am I? I can't find