Transcript for E28 – We got the Manager Involved

BHAVNEET: Hello, audience lings. Welcome back.

TARANJIT: What? What’s a ling?

BHAVNEET: Cuz you know how something like Earthlings. Audiencelings. 

TARANJIT: That doesn’t sound right.

BHAVNEET: It doesn’t. It sounded better in my head and then it came out and then I’m just like, take it back. Take it back. 

TARANJIT: Doesn’t everything sound better in your head until it comes out your mouth? 

BHAVNEET: Hey.

TARANJIT: I don’t mean to you directly. I mean, in general. 

BHAVNEET: Oh, I’m like what are you trying to say. But I guess so. Yeah. But welcome. You’re not a ling. You are a human.  

TARANJIT: Ling. Humanling. 

BHAVNEET: Humanling. That just sounds like you’re being condescending. Humanling. 

TARANJIT: Yeah, that does sound bad.

BHAVNEET: What are we talking about?

TARANJIT: Lots and lots…I have lots and lots of driving stories for you this episode. Like a lot that I haven’t shared with you.

BHAVNEET: Waiting for this moment. 

TARANJIT: Yes. I was waiting to share it on here. Because I want a true reaction as opposed to already sharing with you then you like I already heard this story but kind of have to give a reaction.

BHAVNEET: A fake reaction. 

TARANJIT: Yes.

BHAVNEET: Or trying to replay my reaction which I probably wouldn’t remember. 

TARANJIT: Maybe I’ve told like a story or two of these to you, but I don’t think I told all of the stories. I have a lot. 

BHAVNEET: So did you like write them all down as you experienced them? Must tell. Wait for episode. 

TARANJIT: Yes. Every time I would either get to my desk or I would get to my destination, I would put it in my notes. So I had all my stores.

BHAVNEET: Wow. Lots of pre planning going on here. 

TARANJIT: And my notes this time, like every time I have an idea during the week for an episode I put in my notes. So by the end of the week, I have all this stuff. But this notes list was like the longest…

BHAVNEET: Did you run out of space on your notes?

TARANJIT: No. It can keep going. 

BHAVNEET: How far does it go? 

TARANJIT: You can probably write a book in there.

BHAVNEET: Oh, I should try. Let’s see if we can do this. 

TARANJIT: Just everyday just just keep hitting buttons and then until a month see how long it goes.

BHAVNEET: Somebody give me a story idea and then the script of the story. And then I will type it into my phone. 

TARANJIT: Just each person, give a sentence and she will put it together and make a story and see what happens. 

BHAVNEET: Hey, yeah, I’ll start a sentence and then I will randomly tag someone and you continue it and then they’ll tag someone else. And then you continue. And then we would…

TARANJIT: Yes, but they would have to tag the podcast. For us to see all of it. 

BHAVNEET: No, because if it’s our thing, we tag someone they reply to it. 

TARANJIT: Oh, yes. 

BHAVNEET: It will be our feed.

TARANJIT: Yes. Okay. There you go. Now you have a story. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. 

TARANJIT: Going around.

BHAVNEET: Okay. I’m just gonna think of the most absurd sentence ever. Like, hello, audienceling period. And then somebody has to continue it.

TARANJIT: That’s it?

BHAVNEET: Yes.

TARANJIT: No, you have to put something else. You have to like, get some kind of sentence. That’s not even creative. 

BHAVNEET: I can’t think of anything right now. My creative juices are uh see, I don’t even know where they are. If I knew where they were, I could think of something creative right now. 

TARANJIT: Well go drive to them and find them.

BHAVNEET:If I knew where…wait what. Go drive to them. And then find them. 

TARANJIT: Go drive around to find them. 

BHAVNEET: That’s like saying I lost my glasses. Well go to them, and then you can find where they are. Okay.

TARANJIT: Yeah, obviously if you go to them, then you’re like, there they are.

BHAVNEET: How to find something that’s lost. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Go to it and then find it.

TARANJIT: Then you found it because you went to it.

BHAVNEET: But you said find. Not Found. You find it. And then you found it. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. 

BHAVNEET: Because you are finding it. 

TARANJIT: Yes. 

BHAVNEET: Okay. 

TARANJIT: Yes. That’s how it works.

BHAVNEET: Okay. Hashtag. Go to it and find it. 

TARANJIT: That’s how it works. 

BHAVNEET: Yes, but that one’s not going to be a one post. 

TARANJIT: No, add that to the end. That’s how it works. 

BHAVNEET: That’s a long hashtag.

TARANJIT: You’ve been making longs ones.

BHAVNEET: I know. Okay.

TARANJIT: Go to it and find it and you found it. That’s how it works. 

BHAVNEET: You keep adding stuff every time you repeat it. This is gonna be the book in and of itself. 

TARANJIT: I keep forgetting what exactly you said so I’m trying to… 

BHAVNEET: You said it. What do you mean? You started it. 

TARANJIT: I keep forgetting what exactly we said. 

BHAVNEET: You said. It went from I said to we said. Supposed to be you said.

TARANJIT: You said.

BHAVNEET: You said what?

TARANJIT: You said you. 

BHAVNEET: You said you?

TARANJIT: You said you said. 

BHAVNEET: You said you said.

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Okay. It started like you were about to start a song You said you said.

TARANJIT: I don’t know no songs. 

BHAVNEET: You didn’t know raps last time so I mean. Except for Snickers wrappers.

TARANJIT: Yes.

BHAVNEET: That was a really good one. I would have never thought of that. 

TARANJIT: Joke for you that just came out of thin air. Somehow. And then…

BHAVNEET: Uh. You should have stopped talking. I would have said hashtag. But you kept going. Joke for you. Came out of thin air. And I was like I was about to say it, and then you were like, and then nothing and hand movements.

TARANJIT: Well, you didn’t say anything and there was a pause. So then I added.

BHAVNEET: No there wasn’t.  You kept going.

TARANJIT: Uh, no. There’s probably a pause.

BHAVNEET: You were dragging out your syllables. 

TARANJIT: Anyways. 

BHAVNEET: Yes. 

TARANJIT: Anyways.

BHAVNEET: Anyways, what?

TARANJIT: I don’t know. 

BHAVNEET: What’s your story? 

TARANJIT: Oh, I think I told you this one. But…

BHAVNEET: Well, that’s a great way to start it. You don’t know any of these stories. I’ve been secretly writing them down.

TARANJIT: No. But I said that…

BHAVNEET: So I can share them for true reaction, but you know this one. Let’s start.

TARANJIT: But I said that actually I think I told you a couple of these but not all of them. 

BHAVNEET: Okay.

TARANJIT: This is my gas station story. 

BHAVNEET: Okay. Why are you…you are like so happy about this. 

TARANJIT: I’m not happy because it was so stupid. I feel so embarrassed. 

BHAVNEET: Oh, you did something. Okay, I gotta hear this. 

TARANJIT: You heard it. 

BHAVNEET: Oh, I gotta hear it again. 

TARANJIT: Well first now that you started going to the same gas station, they’re getting to the point where they kind of confused a little bit and trying to figure out like who’s who. 

BHAVNEET: Oh no, I think they know now.

TARANJIT: I know but like when we both started to go to the same college…

BHAVNEET: Oh, that’s true.

TARANJIT: …we would confuse the guy. 

BHAVNEET: But now I go way up more often than you do. 

TARANJIT: I know. So they would always look for our vehicle and figure out who it is. And then…

BHAVNEET: It was a tiny gas station. So I mean they can see everything. They are like oh yeah right there. 

TARANJIT: Yeah, so I went in to give the guy cash to tell him which pump.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: You know cuz I don’t pay on credit card. And he was like, did your sister come in this morning? 

BHAVNEET: No, that was me in another vehicle.

TARANJIT: And he was like, or if that was your sister. And then I was like, oh yeah. It was probably her. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. It was. 

TARANJIT: And then he was like, so he like looked outside to see what my car was. I guess he was like, okay, you have this car. She has this car. So now I know.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: Who’s coming.

BHAVNEET: I also come earlier and you come later. 

TARANJIT: So I gave him the money he put it on there. And then he just jokingly like, you and your sister always saying $20 on this pump. $20 on that pump.

BHAVNEET: Well, I’m sorry I get $20 and that’s what I want on the pump. 

TARANJIT: We both do it. We’re both like $20 on whatever pump we are at.

BHAVNEET: Because I always only got $20 at the ATM in increments of $20. So I’m like that’s what I got. And whatever excess I get is my change. 

TARANJIT: I’m glad the prices are low enough to give $20 because it used to be 30. I used to have to give 30. 

BHAVNEET: But I don’t fill up at half tank. We talked about this. I’m pretty sure.

TARANJIT: Yes, probably like a previous episode or something. But.

BHAVNEET: I don’t want to fill up expensive gas. 

TARANJIT: I gave the money. He like did whatever he had to do. He said have a nice day and like I went out and then I usually lock my car when I go in. So I unlocked it.

BHAVNEET: Oh yeah.

TARANJIT: And then…

BHAVNEET: Sorry. You didn’t finish the story yet. Let me hold my laughter.

TARANJIT: I usually unlock it pop the little button like the hook thing open the gas tank cover. But instead I unlocked and sat straight in and turned on my car getting ready to leave.

BHAVNEET: It’s like. I’m done. I paid the money.

TARANJIT: And like I like turned it on and I was like about to hit the reset button and I was like, wait, I didn’t even put gas in the car. 

BHAVNEET: They probably saw you and were like, Where’s she going? That’s not how you pump gas.

TARANJIT: The pump was empty. Like like there was no other car. There was barely anyone there.

BHAVNEET: No. No. But he always looks out to see if anyone’s done. 

TARANJIT: I was right in the pump. Right in front of the…

BHAVNEET: Yeah. Exactly. So he probably looked out like where is she going. 

TARANJIT: And so I just like looked around. I turned on my car and I’m like, I hope no one sae. 

BHAVNEET: I’m pretty sure he saw inside cuz he’s always like, paying attention.

TARANJIT: I know. So then I’m like, look and I’m like uh. Put gas in my car and hurry up and leave. But then $1 change so I had to go back in. 

BHAVNEET: And be like, did you not see that? Please tell me you didn’t.

TARANJIT: Just say you didn’t see it? 

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: Don’t tell me you did. That was stupid.

BHAVNEET: Oh my God. It’s like, well, maybe I was trying to check how much gas was left.

TARANJIT: It was Monday morning. So I was kind of like, you know, tired. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. Well, I mean, at least you realized that you didn’t actually drive away that would have been even more funny. And they come back and be like, oops, hope nobody took my pump. 

TARANJIT: Hope nobody pumped the free $20 that were on the pump.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: Yeah. 

BHAVNEET: So at least you realized it before you drove away.

TARANJIT: That was so stupid. I felt so stupid. 

BHAVNEET: Oh my God. Well, okay, so this isn’t like as stupid but I went to go…

TARANJIT: This isn’t as stupid. Yours is more stupid. 

BHAVNEET: Meaning. Meaning that it was kind of.

TARANJIT: But can’t beat yours. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, it wasn’t that bad. I was like…so I usually if it’s like under 50 cents, I’ll give the change so I can get another dollar back and it was like.

TARANJIT: Oh, this story. 

BHAVNEET: I didn’t tell you the story. 

TARANJIT: Oh I thought you were gonna tell the story where the girl was arguing with you to give you…

BHAVNEET: Oh this was a different one. But I will tell that one to. That one was better. 

TARANJIT: Oh.

BHAVNEET: That was a better story. This one’s like a eh story. 

TARANJIT: Wait and this one is your stupidity or the other person’s?

BHAVNEET: Mine. 

TARANJIT: Okay, so the other one was the other person’s. 

BHAVNEET: Yes. 

TARANJIT: Okay. Continue.

BHAVNEET: It was like…

TARANJIT: Continue.

BHAVNEET: Okay. This wasn’t like really that even that I don’t know. It’s not really a story. But everything’s a story. Right? Okay. So 15. I mean if I am telling you it’s a story. Okay, don’t drown in your water. 

TARANJIT: Continue. 

BHAVNEET: So I there was 15 cents. So I’m like, okay, I usually like grab a bunch of change. I have some extra chain sitting. So I usually grab them while I’m standing outside and I see the change. I’m like, okay, count that real quick. So okay, I need…I thing it was 35. It was 30. No it was 30. 30 cents. And so I grabbed a quarter and a dime and I’m like, Yes. And I put it in my pocket and then I started walking. And then there’s this lady who was like smoking outside of the doorway. But then right when I got there, I’m like, wait a minute, I just grabbed a quarter and a dime. That’s 35 cents. I don’t want him to give me a nickel back. So then I…

TARANJIT: Nickelback.

BHAVNEET: Yeah. That, too. And then…

TARANJIT: That’s a…

BHAVNEET: I know. And then I pulled the change out of my pocket. And then I stopped like right by her and I’m like, all right, put the dime bag, take the nickel out. 

TARANJIT: Nickelback.

BHAVNEET: No. Nickel out out, and I’m like yes, 30 cents. So at least I didn’t give him the dime and be like yes, I get a nickel back, as well as $1. So it wasn’t really that interesting of a story. But yes, the one you were thinking of was actually a pretty funny story. I got free change at the old gas station that I used to pump gas at.

TARANJIT: That was like the weird…like it didn’t feel like you transitioned between stories. It just sounded like you were continuing. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. I know. I realized that as I started talking, I’m like, wow, smooth. Just keep going.

TARANJIT: Yeah, but like it makes it sound like it’s one story. People won’t know that it is a different incident. 

BHAVNEET: Okay, well, so I got the correct change. So I got $1. 

TARANJIT: Incident number two.

BHAVNEET: Yes. Incident number two. Rewind to when I was at my old job and used to go this other gas station. So this girl recently had started. So it used to be a different lady and she knew that I would always give her change and get an extra dollar back. Because at that time, I had to pay for parking. So I wanted the dollar bills because it’s so much easier. So I went back in. I had the change. I had the exact change, but she had opened the register before she looked at I guess, I guess she got confused with like, because the change that shows up is subtracted from what I used. So she was looking at, I guess the change she was supposed to give me. I was like I have change so that you can give me an extra dollar and I had pumped in more so she was going to give me less back. So I gave her like 70 some cents and then she looked at it, and it was like 30 something, or 20 something. And then I was like here, and she’s like, took the change. And she’s like, No, that’s too much. And she was giving some me some back and I’m like, No, but I pumped 70 whatever cents. So I would give that to you and I’ll get another dollar and we had this line behind us. And so everyone heard this. But I’m like, Okay, I’m trying to tell her I’m like, this is I pumped in 70 some cents. So if I give you those 70 some cents, I should get another dollar. But she kept her hand out, she wouldn’t put it back and she’s like, shaking her hand angrily at me like, take it. And I’m like, Okay, I’m taking it and she put it back in my hand and then she gave me the extra dollar anyways, and I’m like, Okay, I’m not gonna argue with free change.

TARANJIT: When you told me that story, I was like what? 

BHAVNEET: I was like, so in shock of like, Why? What? So like, when I was leaving for a second I was like, was I wrong? And then I was thinking about it. As I was walking back to my car. I’m like, No, I pumped in 70 some cents. So if I wanted the dollar. I should give how much I pumped, right? 

TARANJIT: Yeah. 

BHAVNEET: So I don’t know what she was thinking. I think she was just looking at the change and be like, that is what she’s supposed to give me. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: It was like, no, that’s not how it works. You have to do the math because you already hit give change. Math. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. Oh well you got…

BHAVNEET: I like, Okay. 

TARANJIT: You saved some cents on gas. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, I mean. Isn’t that what everyone hopes for? Saving some cents on gas? 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Yeah. I mean, it worked for me, I got free change. So.

TARANJIT: You can use it towards your next…

BHAVNEET: That’s what I did.

TARANJIT: Gas. 

BHAVNEET: But then after that, I was always like, I don’t even know if I want to give you change, because then you’re going to start this whole thing. But luckily, a lot of the times I would get the manager guy and he, he like totally know, because we’ve been going there for so long. He knew what my vehicle was. And he would sometimes even have the change ready before I got into the door. But it’s like sometimes it’s like I have change and I want to give you the dollar. So I’m glad that you got it out for me, but can you give me another dollar? 

TARANJIT: I like that the manager knew us because we want there so well so much that he would just are automatically but how because you know, we always put the same amount and he saw the pump. He would automatically put it and he just take the money from us and go. Even if there’s a line, he would just take the money from me and let me go. 

BHAVNEET: I’ve had it like where this because this was a 7-11. So it’s very popular. So like there’s always a long line and sometimes you’d be like, oh one minute, let me grab her real quick because he’s already getting the change out, but then a person would come. So he would grab the change, give it to me and then help that person. So I was like, thank you. That’s very nice of you. Now I can go to work.

TARANJIT: It’s because we are such a loyal customer. No longer. 

BHAVNEET: Now I don’t go anymore. Now I’m a loyal customer to this other gas station. Literally every other day. I practically live there. 

TARANJIT: Two places you live:  your car and the gas station. 

BHAVNEET: Actually car, work and then gas station. 

TARANJIT: Yes.

BHAVNEET: Yes. In that order. Home is not in there. And occasionally home like you know, yeah. If I feel like it, yeah. 

TARANJIT: Just Just to go to sleep. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. 

TARANJIT: And then you start all over again. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, pretty much. That was very confusing because for a second, I thought I was wrong. But then I’m like, no. What? I’m so confused. Like I didn’t didn’t even know what to say back to her at that moment because I was just like, so confused that I was in shock. I’m like, What? 

TARANJIT: What? 

BHAVNEET: What are you talking about? Okay, well, when you have to I don’t know how stringently like your manager counts the change in your drawer. 

TARANJIT: Oh, they’re probably 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. Cuz like when I worked at the pharmacy, they like every cent. So I’m like, so you’re gonna have to answer to him then. So I don’t know.

TARANJIT: Not your problem.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, like I don’t know.

TARANJIT: You tried. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, I tried to tell you nicely, but I won’t refuse free money. Thank you. 

TARANJIT: Yep. Gas Station stories.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.There are gas station stories galore because we practically live there. So.

TARANJIT: Yes.

BHAVNEET: Yeah. See all the weirdos. 

TARANJIT: So I have another question for you. You know how? I don’t know how many episodes ago you were talking about how for the longest time you didn’t know what Bogo meant. 

BHAVNEET: Yes. No, I mean, I of course I know what Bogo means.

TARANJIT: And how you…

BHAVNEET: It’s like a pogo stick except for you won it at Bingo. Bogo.

TARANJIT: What?

BHAVNEET: A bingo pogo stick. Bogo. 

TARANJIT: Okay. Have you heard of obo? 

BHAVNEET: What now?

TARANJIT: Obo.

BHAVNEET: Like isn’t that an instrument? Oboe.

TARANJIT: No. Yes. But…

BHAVNEET: It is, isn’t? 

TARANJIT: But this is not spelled the same. O-B-O. Do you know what that stands for?

BHAVNEET: O-B-O?

TARANJIT: So you haven’t heard of it?

BHAVNEET: Now I’m trying to think of something.

TARANJIT: What if I give you context of where I saw it?

BHAVNEET: Old bugs onward. I can’t think of words that start with O. 

TARANJIT: So I was driving to work and then I saw a car on the side of the road that was for sale. So it had like a price like 1200. 1300. Then it says or OBO. 

BHAVNEET: Or OBO? 

TARANJIT: Oh no. It just said 1200 obo. 

BHAVNEET: Or best offer.

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: You gave me the O.

TARANJIT: Sorry I gave it to you.

BHAVNEET: That’s why I was like or I was gonna say or best offer but then your like or obo. I’m like or or best offer.

TARANJIT: I gave it away.

BHAVNEET: Or or best offer. 

TARANJIT: I saw that and I was like, I got to ask her. Because she probably doesn’t know. 

BHAVNEET: But if I saw that there, I would have understood.

TARANJIT: I know. But like people put it on a lot of things.

BHAVNEET: Wait. Wait is this the Nissan I see too on the way home from work? That’s like half on a hill tilted? 

TARANJIT: No, this is not car. It’s a truck. 

BHAVNEET: Oh. This car literally has like…

TARANJIT: The car came there after.

BHAVNEET: …10. 10 yellow like poster papers taped on the inside with all these different things written on it. Like buy vehicle and all this stuff written on it. 

TARANJIT: No this was like an SUV type vehicle. 

BHAVNEET: Oh.

TARANJIT: I don’t know if you drive by it or not. 

BHAVNEET: I don’t think so. Because that’s the only car I see. 

TARANJIT: It might be at that part of the road that you already turned before. Like…

BHAVNEET: Yeah, so like, do people actually get people to buy their vehicles like that? 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Because I see them sitting there for a long time.

TARANJIT: Oh yeah. They are able to…they have to be able to. 

BHAVNEET: How do people yeah like like it how quickly can people get their cars to sell like that? 

TARANJIT: I don’t know. But we have bad luck with selling things. 

BHAVNEET: Exactly. That’s what I was wondering cuz I just traded it in because I’m like, there’s no way I won’t be able to sell this thing. But it was a great car. So I could gotten more money off from trade, not trading it in.

TARANJIT: From selling it privately. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: You would have got more money. 

BHAVNEET: But I wouldn’t have been able to sell it. That’s the problem. 

TARANJIT: Yes. So trade it in. 

BHAVNEET: Yep. But it was so great that it got sold like within the next couple of days. 

TARANJIT: Oh, they wanted the car. You could tell that they wanted it. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, because it was clean. Nothing wrong with it. I drive at that point because I was a new driver. I drove super super safe. 

TARANJIT: So you’re saying you don’t drive super super safe now?

BHAVNEET: I told you I went to Baltimore. I got a little crazy. 

TARANJIT: A little?

BHAVNEET: Yeah. I gotten a little crazy. 

TARANJIT: I feel like a little more than a little. 

BHAVNEET: But see the thing is I feel like I am still I’m still safe. I’m safe. Crazy. 

TARANJIT: Your turns are what freak me out. 

BHAVNEET: They don’t freak me out so I don’t know what your problem. Sometimes I’m like, Oh, that was a little fast. 

TARANJIT: No, everyone who sits in the car is like you…

BHAVNEET: But I…

TARANJIT: …you whip it. 

BHAVNEET: I think you’re exaggerating sometimes because some of the turns some of the turns are not that bad. 

TARANJIT: You do. Sharp, you like a turn a little too much. I feel like a little more wrist action.

BHAVNEET: I think it might be because I’ve had to swerve one too many times.

TARANJIT: Maybe. But you have a little more wrist action and then you just like a little more turn to it. 

BHAVNEET: It might be because I’ve had swerve a couple too many times. 

TARANJIT: Couple two many?

BHAVNEET: Could you see my face? I wanted to finish the sentence, but I it didn’t make sense.

TARANJIT: You knew you made…

BHAVNEET: Yeah. You knew you made?

TARANJIT: You didn’t make sense. You made nonsense. 

BHAVNEET: Actually, you knew made nonsense. 

TARANJIT: So your face went neh. 

BHAVNEET: Your face went neh. Now you need to post a picture of neh. What is neh face? There hashtag neh face. How do you spell neh? N-E-H?

TARANJIT: I was about to ask you how you spell it. 

BHAVNEET: You made the noise. So you know. 

TARANJIT: Neh. 

BHAVNEET: N-E-H?

TARANJIT: Yeah. Probably. Neh.

BHAVNEET: Neh face. I like that. That is the face you make when you know you messed up but you’re going to commit to it and finish anyways. Neh face. 

TARANJIT: Oh, man.

BHAVNEET: You. Yeah, you you you gave it a name so. 

TARANJIT: Yeah, I just named it You made it. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. It wouldn’t have been made if you didn’t name it. So it’s official now.

TARANJIT: The official neh face.

BHAVNEET: Yeah. 

TARANJIT: Hashtag. 

BHAVNEET: Official Neh face? Or just Neh face? Both.

TARANJIT: Yes. 

BHAVNEET: Here’s the neh face. And this is the official neh face. Now we gotta find pictures of neh face.

TARANJIT: Your face. 

BHAVNEET: My face is neh face? That’s not nice. 

TARANJIT: You made it. You can recreate it. 

BHAVNEET: Oh gosh. 

TARANJIT: Or you can find picture and make a meme. Be like neh face. 

BHAVNEET: You know what I never posted I don’t always meme guy. 

TARANJIT: Do it this time.

BHAVNEET: I made it. 

TARANJIT: Then post it. 

BHAVNEET: It’s it’s I guess I didn’t post it because it was not funny. But I said I would do it. So I made it. 

TARANJIT: Well, I guess nobody caught on. So I guess you’re okay. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, so I’m just gonna post I’ll be like…

TARANJIT: Do it on Tuesday or something. Although cuz like usually throwback Thursdays. But you can do throwback Tuesday, and then post it on Tuesday and then…

BHAVNEET: I’ll be like, I forgot Tuesday.

TARANJIT: That should be Friday. I forgot Friday. Forget…

BHAVNEET: You forgot Friday?

TARANJIT: Fie day. Forgetful Friday. 

BHAVNEET: Oh, there you go. I’ll be like it’s not funny but I said I would and then I forgot so.

TARANJIT: Hastag forgetful Friday. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. Is that a thing?

TARANJIT: For forgetful Friday.

BHAVNEET: Is that a thing.

TARANJIT: I don’t know. I don’t think so. 

BHAVNEET: Alright. Hashtag for for for Friday. Fer fer. That’s a tongue twister.

TARANJIT: But that’s it. You should…

BHAVNEET: You say it. 

TARANJIT: For forgetful Friday. I’m laughing so I can’t. 

BHAVNEET: For grit for grit. 

TARANJIT: I’m still laughing. But I said it the first time.

BHAVNEET:  For forgetful…

TARANJIT: Friday.

BHAVNEET: Friday. For forgetful Friday. Oh, I did it.

TARANJIT: There’s four of them. 

BHAVNEET: I know. Four forgetful Fridays. Now you have to find stuff for the other three.

TARANJIT: There’s four Fridays in a month mostly. So four forgetful Fridays.

BHAVNEET: Oh. So every Friday is a forgetful Friday? 

TARANJIT: Yes.

BHAVNEET: Okay, I get it now. 

TARANJIT: There you go. You can post it on Friday and then hashtag for forgetful Friday and then throw back to…

BHAVNEET: I don’t always meme guy.

TARANJIT: …a previous episode.

BHAVNEET: All right.

TARANJIT: Yes, very cool. 

BHAVNEET: I got it.

TARANJIT: Okay.

BHAVNEET: I will forget for forgetful Friday. Neh face.

TARANJIT: Neh. Okay so another this is just like a driving thought more so than a story.

BHAVNEET: So you’re telling it. Then it’s a story. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. It’s a story of how I came across…

BHAVNEET: Exactly.

TARANJIT: …how a thought formed. 

BHAVNEET: You had…

TARANJIT: Driving thought.

BHAVNEET: …to build a story.

TARANJIT: So I saw this police officer sitting on the side of the road you know to like catch people.

BHAVNEET: Did he catch you?

TARANJIT: If he caught me, you would have heard. 

BHAVNEET: I would have heard you be like noooo all the way from down there?

TARANJIT: I would have told you. But I wasn’t speeding the light turn red.

BHAVNEET: Yeah. If it didn’t I would be.

TARANJIT: No I wasn’t speeding. I don’t speed there. 

BHAVNEET: You’re your…

TARANJIT: I’m making it worse.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: I like…

BHAVNEET: You’re not making it better.

TARANJIT: I don’t speed like to the point like 10-15 above. I go five above. I don’t go…

BHAVNEET: Not there. It was red. You’re not making it any better.

TARANJIT: I mean, yeah. That’s what I meant.

BHAVNEET: I mean, yeah, it’s true. 

TARANJIT: I mean, do you consider it speeding if it’s five above? Technically…

BHAVNEET: Wait. You go way more than five above.

TARANJIT: In certain areas when I zone out.

BHAVNEET: Because every time I’m with you, you’re like eehhh. That’s my gas noise and my voice got a little eh. But yeah, that’s what you do and you sometimes hit 70.

TARANJIT: Yes on parts of where I’m like, Okay, I’m ready to go home. So.

BHAVNEET: We were going somewhere. Not home. 

TARANJIT: Oh really? I probably zoned out then. 

BHAVNEET: You zone out a lot. It’s scary. 

TARANJIT: I do.

BHAVNEET: Uh-huh. You don’t even know.

TARANJIT: No. That wasn’t that wasn’t a question. I was agreeing but I laughed. 

BHAVNEET: It sounded like a…it totally sounded like a question. 

TARANJIT: It was I do like I agree, but I laughed.

BHAVNEET: I do. 

TARANJIT: I do.

BHAVNEET: Uh-huh. Yeah. You do. But first step is acknowledging the problem. 

TARANJIT: Oh, I know there’s a problem.

BHAVNEET: You zone out. I apparently make sharp turns.

TARANJIT: Together…

BHAVNEET: We’re a sucky driver.

TARANJIT: A sucky driver.

BHAVNEET: Together. Yeah.

TARANJIT: Separately we’re fine. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. We w pass by. 

TARANJIT: Okay. 

BHAVNEET: Well, yes you…

TARANJIT: I saw…

BHAVNEET: …did not get pulled over.

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: You saw a cop and the light turned red. 

TARANJIT: Yes. 

BHAVNEET: And you don’t don’t speed there. 

TARANJIT: Yes. Thanks for summarizing the points. 

BHAVNEET: Continue.

TARANJIT: So he was sitting he’s sitting on the opposite side. So he’s facing towards me.

BHAVNEET: Uh-huh. 

TARANJIT: And he was sitting on the shoulder and he just decided to leave like he just pulled back out onto the road. 

BHAVNEET: Okay. So he was done. 

TARANJIT: Yeah, he was done. So I was thinking how do they zone out when they sit there? Like

BHAVNEET: Probably.

TARANJIT: Like, how do they…

BHAVNEET: I mean, how long do they sit in one spot at a time? 

TARANJIT: I don’t know. But that’s what I’m saying. Like I was thinking like, do they tend to zone out and when they have their radar on does their radar, make a sound to alert them so if they did zone out…

BHAVNEET: Probably does. Either like flashes or make a noise or something. 

TARANJIT: What if somebody did speed by but they’re just like…

BHAVNEET: La la la. 

TARANJIT: …sitting there for so long so just like zoned out. 

BHAVNEET: Like la la la tulips Daisy birds. In that order.

TARANJIT: That was just what I was thinking. Like.

BHAVNEET: Yeah I’m pretty sure their radar like either probably like flashes or something like oh they’re speeding.

TARANJIT: What if their like full on in this daydream? 

BHAVNEET: I don’t know. Then they’re not doing their job. That’s it.

TARANJIT: That’s it?

BHAVNEET: Yep. Period. End of sentence. End of story. Stamp. 

TARANJIT: Dot dot dot colon.  

BHAVNEET: No. That means they were continuing it. It’s done. Dot dot dot period. 

TARANJIT: Dot dot dot another dot?

BHAVNEET: No. Period. Period not dot. Period. It’s not continuing. 

TARANJIT: There’s a difference? 

BHAVNEET: Mmhmm. 

TARANJIT: An ellips and a dot. 

BHAVNEET: Period not dot.

TARANJIT: That’s what a period is.

BHAVNEET: Dot could mean a continued dot dot dot. So you…an extra dot would mean that you didn’t realize that you put the extra dot in the ellipses.

TARANJIT: How do you tell the difference between a dot and a period?

BHAVNEET: Periods gonna be big and just like…

TARANJIT: Finn.

BHAVNEET: Yes. Why’d you crush it? You slapped your hand and then you crushed it. You twisted your hand. Your fist. Crush. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Like you’re using a mortar and pestle.

TARANJIT: Done. Put it in park.

BHAVNEET: That’s not how you park it. To the left? You go to the right.

TARANJIT: I don’t even…now that I think about it it just happens.

BHAVNEET: You go this way. Well because it’s automatic, you only one way to go. You go to the right not the left. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: You went to the left. 

TARANJIT: I can go to the left and slight break. It’s technically slowing me down.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, but not park. Please don’t park while you are on slight break. 

TARANJIT: No. Why would I do that? I don’t want to cause damage to my car. 

BHAVNEET: Exactly. So go right, not left. Go correct. Not left. 

TARANJIT: So speaking of people on the side of the road. So first I saw police officer on the side of the road. Then later on, I saw a person on my side of the road who parked his car put on his freedom lights. 

BHAVNEET: Uh-huh. Freedom lights.

TARANJIT: And got out of his car, walked behind and smoked. 

BHAVNEET: So does that remind you of the guy that just came and stood by I don’t know if it was his vehicle right next to our vehicle?

TARANJIT: Oh at Walmart.

BHAVNEET: Parking lot. Yeah. Of Walmart. And then just started smoking. It’s like first off…

TARANJIT: And staring straight into the car.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, where our mom was sitting. Just waiting for us to finish. Like you know put all the rest of the groceries. But what I don’t understand is he was pulled in forward. We were pulled in forward. He went to the passenger side. Which was nearest to us and then stood there. Leaned against the vehicle and started smoking. Why not the driver’s side and then when you try to walk by him he didn’t move. 

TARANJIT: Yes.

BHAVNEET: Hello.

TARANJIT: He’s like, Hey, how’s it going? Like I don’t know.  Hello. How are you? Or something like that.  

BHAVNEET: Uh. Not good cuz you’re smoking in my face. Thanks. 

TARANJIT: But he didn’t move so I’ll just like…

BHAVNEET: Yeah, and it wasn’t like usually the Walmart parking spots are really big. But either we were parked close or they were parked close. I don’t know. But there wasn’t that much space. So yeah, that was fine. At least you were driving not me. 

TARANJIT: At least you were driving. 

BHAVNEET: But when we were putting the groceries groceries away. All I like smelled was like…

TARANJIT: Yeah, well, this guy got out to smoke. So I was thinking…

BHAVNEET: He didn’t go. He walked there and then just started smoking. He didn’t get out. 

TARANJIT: No. I’m talking about this person…

BHAVNEET: Oh.

TARANJIT: I saw on the side of the road. This guy got out. Like he put his emergency lights on, walked to the back of his car, and just started smoking. 

BHAVNEET: Well, at least he didn’t do it while he was driving. 

TARANJIT: But like was he like, I don’t want this smell in my car? Because if he smoked, it’s going to be in his clothes and he gets in the car is gonna be smell in his car. 

BHAVNEET: I have no idea. Maybe he’s like, let’s enjoy the day. So beautiful. 

TARANJIT: I’ve never seen someone just pull off and…

BHAVNEET: He wants to enjoy it. 

TARANJIT: There was like nothing. It was just like a stretch of the road. There’s nothing on either side. Trees on either side. Just pulled over and…

BHAVNEET: Enjoy the view. 

TARANJIT: Get some fresh air while he’s damaging his body.

BHAVNEET: And ruining the fresh air?

TARANJIT: Yeah. 

BHAVNEET: I don’t know. I’m always like when I see someone smoking in front of me, I automatically like back up because my air is like kind of at the setting of like it pulls in the outside air. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: So, I’m just like, someone’s smoking. And then I’m always afraid because everyone just flicks their cigarette butts out of their window.

TARANJIT: It normally hits my car. 

BHAVNEET: Yes. So I stay back so far and I see one and then I swerve. And then the people behind me or if they look back and probably what just happened. Right when they throw a cigarette. I’m like ee. Nope, not hitting me. Thanks.

TARANJIT: Swerve. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: Yeah, I had a person in front of me who was vaping. And at first I didn’t know he was vaping because like he didn’t like vape out the window yet when I was behind him so I came to a stop and then I saw all the smoke come out and his windows completely down and the wind was blowing back towards my car. So it like blew it and came in like my vent was set to like outside air in. So like it came into my car and I’ll just like *ehhhh*. And I was behind this guy for a long time. So like every time we would potentially be coming to a stop or came to a stop. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: Like if I saw a light red I knew we were going to stop but then like traffic would randomly stop so like I would see like, oh, we’re slowing down. So I will leave like two to three cars gap between me and him because then less likely for that smoke to come into my car, but I feel like people behind me you’re probably like, why is she stopping so far back? 

BHAVNEET: Anyone want to get in front of me? I’m totally cool with that. 

TARANJIT: I was hoping that there’s anyone that would come on the side road, and I was like, you can gladly get in front. 

BHAVNEET: I will stop all traffic and let you in. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: But what I really hate… what I really really hate is when people just throw their cigarette butts out and then it comes flying back in my car. It’s still burning like if it hit something it could easily catch it on fire so please don’t do that. Yeah that that’s what I hate the most. Yeah, please don’t catch anything on fire, thanks. And I don’t want to have to smother with my tire smother it with your own.

TARANJIT: Distinguish it.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, do it with your own tire. Thanks.

TARANJIT: That happens way too much.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: Like this one time I saw a person…

BHAVNEET: Pretty much everyone.

TARANJIT: The driver and passenger were smoking.

BHAVNEET: Yep.

TARANJIT: The driver let it out and but it missed me like it went to the side and the passenger shortly after let it went straight and it went like, into my car. I could like slow mo see it, I was like noooo! 

BHAVNEET: That’s kind of like the slow mo when I saw that huge branch just come and hit my windshield. That was the scariest thing ever. When we had that big wind storm. That was so scary. And that was right after I recently got the new car and I was like oh my windshield.

TARANJIT: You got to break it in.

BHAVNEET: Oh my God, not literally. I don’t want…

TARANJIT: You gotta break in you car. You know how like you break in shoes you have to break in your car. 

BHAVNEET: Why do they say that? That just sounds like you want to destroy it. Just break it in, not out… in!

TARANJIT: They don’t yell it like that just break it in I order you to do that.

BHAVNEET: Yeah but even if they say break in those shoes like

TARANJIT: You gotta break them in.

BHAVNEET: Why would I break them? Why wouldn’t they make them more comfortable by wearing them?

TARANJIT: Because when they come off like factory made it’s gonna be stiff.

BHAVNEET: Yeah but why break in, why the words break in?

TARANJIT: I guess you’re like breaking the fabric like the fibers and stuff that make it so you’re like 

BHAVNEET: Modeling it

TARANJIT: Stretching it and stuff, you’re breaking it in. 

BHAVNEET: Okay, logic, weird logic, but logic indeed.

TARANJIT: Balogic?

BHAVNEET: I said but.

TARANJIT: Oh!

BHAVNEET: What’s balogic?

TARANJIT: I thought you were making a new word. 

BHAVNEET: Hashtag Balogic. 

TARANJIT: We are Balogic indeed. And I was like what?

BHAVNEET: We’re Ba… I didn’t say we’re. We’re Balogic indeed. We are Balogic like farmers, they’re jingle. We are Balogic.

TARANJIT: No. I thought you were making a new word. 

BHAVNEET: We are Balogic.

TARANJIT: Well it’s a new word now.

BHAVNEET: Apparently. I don’t know what it means, but apparently we are. 

TARANJIT: Yep. 

BHAVNEET: Well, lots of cigarette butts… hitting our vehicles. 

TARANJIT: Yep.

BHAVNEET: They should have like… isn’t there a better way to dispose of them? Shouldn’t you have a thing? 

TARANJIT: Ashtray? 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, that’s what it’s called.

TARANJIT: Shouldn’t you have a thing. Yeah, most people have. Do most people have it? I’ve seen some people have it in their car, which is disgusting. 

BHAVNEET: Better than throwing it other people.

TARANJIT: I know, but a lot of people just toss it out. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, I know. And they see them like flaming as they’re like… Swerve!

TARANJIT: Speaking of swerve, I have a couple of swerve story. 

BHAVNEET: Okay. Swerve worthy or swerve stories.

TARANJIT: Swerve stories. 

BHAVNEET: Okay.

TARANJIT: These people swerved. They did the Swerve.

BHAVNEET: Oh not you?

TARANJIT: Oh, no, I didn’t do the swerve. 

BHAVNEET: You didn’t do the Whoa, you did the Swerve?

TARANJIT: I didn’t do it. They did this Swerve. 

BHAVNEET: Okay, what’s this Swerve?

TARANJIT: So story number one, which I think I told you about. 

BHAVNEET: Aww.

TARANJIT: I think. I feel like I did, but swerve number one. This is the one.

BHAVNEET: As you show two fingers. Yep cuz I said it for the second time. 

TARANJIT: Yes. Swerve number one.

BHAVNEET: Now there’s three.

TARANJIT: There are three stories. Swerve number one.

BHAVNEET: This little finger pinky. 

TARANJIT: Yes. 

BHAVNEET: Great story. I will swerve don’t flick it at me.

TARANJIT: Okay, we are in the long line of traffic.

BHAVNEET: As always.

TARANJIT: Yes, and the light was red. So obviously we weren’t going anywhere.

BHAVNEET: You weren’t speeding at this point either.

TARANJIT: This is the spot where there’s two speed cameras so nobody’s speeding.

BHAVNEET: Oh, ok. Ok. Nobody was speeding because then they would have gone the flash flash. 

TARANJIT: I’ve seen people actually speed because they know there’s cars coming in the opposite direction and if there’s two cars on the camera they don’t usually give it so it’s just like I’m not gonna I’m not gonna get it. 

BHAVNEET: I had a cop speed by in those speeds where there was a camera and I can do a full stop and he sped by and then the camera went off and I’m like, you better have caught that cop because he had his lights on and I was not even moving.

TARANJIT: We were in this line of traffic and the light was red and this guy was just too impatient to wait for the light to turn green so he drove on the opposite side of the road to go into his driveway. But he didn’t like it wasn’t looks like a go and quickly go into his driveway. He was on the opposite side of the road for a good amount of time. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, you did tell me that. It’s kinda like how when 695 gets backed up because it always does. There I usually see random people just like because from exist one of the exits to the other one is a pretty far stretch, but the lane was like backed up from the one exit all the way to passed the next one. So I see people going on the shoulder, which is really wide for some reason. Maybe they’re trying to expand it, I don’t know. But they would just drive on that all the way down to the exit. And it’s like really far it’s like at least three quarters of a mile or a mile and they’re just like let me just drive down it. If there’s a cop anywhere in that like how are you gonna see that they’re gonna get you.

TARANJIT: Got it. There was an eyelash in my eye.

BHAVNEET: Okay, 

TARANJIT: Okay, yeah, that was swerve number one.

BHAVNEET: Okay.

TARANJIT: Swerve number two. 

BHAVNEET: How was that a swerve though? 

TARANJIT: They swerved onto the opposite side of the road.

BHAVNEET: Oh okay.

TARANJIT: Swerve.

BHAVNEET: Swerve.

TARANJIT: But this other person was actually doing a swerve. Full on. Again, in a line of traffic, but this was a different spot and there was no light. We’re just…

BHAVNEET: Is this a speed zone?

TARANJIT: Huh? What do you mean? 

BHAVNEET: Do you speed here normally? 

TARANJIT: No, I mean, I go my typical five above here. 

BHAVNEET: Okay, so she sometimes speeds here. If she zones out she will. 

TARANJIT: This… it’s like 50 there. I think this is like a faster part of the road, not the slower 30-40 section on the road. So there’s a long line of traffic and this guy was impatient. He… I feel like he felt like just a person in front of him was going slow and not there wasn’t like a bunch of cars in front because there’s a truck in front of him. 

BHAVNEET: Okay.

TARANJIT: So I think if looked like he thought it was just as guy in front of him because he would go halfway on to the other side of the road over the yellow lines onto the opposite side to look around. And then he would come back and then like a little bit later, he would go on to the shoulder halfway to look around and then come back and he was just doing this for a long time. 

BHAVNEET: So how do…like if people… I have never under really understood this because if you go to the right like obviously it’s not safe to go the left but if you go to the right you literally have to go all the way in order to even be able to see because you’re on the left side of your vehicle so you want to make your like entire half at least half of your vehicle go to the right in order to even be able to see around.

TARANJIT: Yeah he was going full on.

BHAVNEET: Why is that even a good idea?

TARANJIT: He was full on going this way and he was like mostly going his car was mostly going over the yellow line to the other side to see around but

BHAVNEET: Was he was on his phone? Or was he actually swerving?

TARANJIT: No, I think he was because he was like on this person bumper, then he would go over this way. Then he would go over this way. He was riding this person’s bumper and I was like, that’s not gonna make anyone go faster. There’s a long line of cars.

BHAVNEET: You’re just racking up your miles on your car by going further distance left, right, left, right, whereas you could have just gone straight. And then you would have less.

TARANJIT: How much more miles are you going to add?

BHAVNEET: Well if he kept doing it… he could go….Whoa.

TARANJIT: It’s not gonna add that much miles

BHAVNEET: Uh, it’s at least add one.

TARANJIT: One mile. Oh wow.

BHAVNEET: If he does that all the time one mile adds up.

TARANJIT: So you think just how much he did it that one time I saw, it would be one mile.

BHAVNEET: I didn’t see how far he did it. I don’t know but he did put extra than he had to. It’s a true… it’s a legit point.

TARANJIT: I would not have considered that as a thing. Like I was like he’s gonna get hit by somebody coming the opposite way.

BHAVNEET: That too.

TARANJIT: Oh, he’s racking up miles. 

BHAVNEET: I mean he is. He is putting more miles by doing…

TARANJIT: I’m racking up miles just doing my normal commute.

BHAVNEET: He’s taking a lot. He made it a longer commute than he had to, but did you make it around? 

TARANJIT: No, because it was a single lane road and we were literally in backed up traffic. 

BHAVNEET: So then how did he think there was no one in front of the car in front of them? 

TARANJIT: I feel like he thought the person finally just going slow because people tend to drive slow. 

BHAVNEET: Was it a truck in front of him you said? 

TARANJIT: Yes. 

BHAVNEET: That’s why he couldn’t see. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Okay. 

TARANJIT: But he was an SUV. So I feel like he could have probably saw.

BHAVNEET: Yeah and this is not a flat road, there’s hills.

TARANJIT: If I was behind the truck it’s probably different because I’m in a car and he’s got a truck he’s higher I probably wouldn’t be able to see as easily but he was in a SUV.

BHAVNEET: But there’s still hills on this road so you should be able to see going up or down one that you can see cars. Yes I don’t understand like did the car have to go to the bathroom? Or did he have to go the bathroom that like he was like dancing with this car. Like keep it moving.

TARANJIT: Wouldn’t that make it worse?

BHAVNEET: I think so, but who knows?

TARANJIT: Especially if you’re going on the yellow lines and it’s a groove point like you know they have the…

BHAVNEET: Yeah. I don’t know, I was just trying to figure out what he’s doing. 

TARANJIT: I think he was just impatient.

BHAVNEET: And doing that and trying to get in an accident will make it better?

TARANJIT: I don’t think he was on his phone or anything because I could see I saw at one point his hand go like this like up like in frustration. 

BHAVNEET: There’s not much you can do. Everyone’s trying to get home.

TARANJIT: You’re driving in  traffic time.

BHAVNEET: Drive at a different time or take a different road. Then you can speed all you want.

TARANJIT: Now this summer’s ended traffic’s like so much worse. So maybe it was expecting like, oh, it took me this like a couple of days ago. 

BHAVNEET: Like, it is so much worse though. It’s not just like a little bit because I went to my old job when it started. It was like, it wasn’t even that bad. I missed the buses found a good time to go in between them. But here even if I go early or later, it’s just crazy traffic because everyone’s trying to go down I guess to like DC and Montgomery county and stuff. Everyone wants to go there.

TARANJIT: Because now I feel like people’s schedules have changed to where like, drop their kids off and then go so now more traffic is like going that way as at that time, because they’re like, we’re already up drop the kid off then go. 

BHAVNEET: This sucks, that’s what I do. I drop the sibling off and then go.

TARANJIT: Drop the kid off. 

BHAVNEET: But yeah, so that sucks. Now I now where I used to get to work like 10-15 minutes early. Now. It’s like I get there right on time and I’m like, I gotta get in. It also sucks that takes me 20 minutes to get down the main road in front of my work, which is like three lights, three blocks of lights and then I will get to my turn to get out and it takes me 20 minutes just to get that far. It should not take that long.

TARANJIT: It takes me a good amount of time too when I get closer to my work too, because of all the lights. 

BHAVNEET: It shouldn’t take that long. 20 minutes for like, essentially three blocks maybe four. It should not take that long.

TARANJIT: Do you get all red lights?

BHAVNEET: No!

TARANJIT: No!

BHAVNEET: They’re just that many cars that we don’t move the lights green, nobody moves like okay. And then there’s all these buses so they just keep stopping. 

TARANJIT: Oh, that sucks. Yeah, that’s annoying.

BHAVNEET: Because they actually had public transportation down there. Gosh, who thought of such a thing. And then recently, I told you this but…

TARANJIT: Did you?

BHAVNEET: One day on the way down at least two like vehicles just sitting in the middle of the road with their freedom lights on blocking all traffic and it’s a single lane road. So everyone’s trying to go around. And then on the way home, two more vehicles just sitting dab smack in the middle of the road. So I’m like, Oh my god, there’s so much traffic and then like, Oh, now I see why. Why are the cars just stopping and breaking down in the middle of a single lane road where there’s no shoulder to pull on to. And it’s right next to a bend in the road so you can’t even tell if a car is going to come around. 

TARANJIT: Oh wow. That’s the worst spot. 

BHAVNEET: Yep, it was great. So great. 

TARANJIT: So great. The way you said it was great.

BHAVNEET: It was great. My “neh” face.

TARANJIT: Sarcasm in the voice. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, I think I already did that one. 

TARANJIT: I wasn’t giving you a hashtag, I was saying what was going on.

BHAVNEET: Oh.

TARANJIT: Sarcasm in your voice.

BHAVNEET: Not my face and my voice.

TARANJIT: Yeah in your “neh” face.

BHAVNEET: In my “neh” face. 

TARANJIT: In the voice coming from your “neh” face.

BHAVNEET: Yes. 

TARANJIT: Yes. So swerve number three story. Story… 

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: Third story. What? How did I say it? Swerve number three, or number three.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, swerve number three. No story.

TARANJIT: This one’s a little more of like a illegal swerve and pass story. 

BHAVNEET: Okay, so it was kind of justified. 

TARANJIT: What? No, it’s illegal. 

BHAVNEET: You said legal. 

TARANJIT: Ilegal.

BHAVNEET: Oh, you said illegal? A legal.  

TARANJIT: No. Illegal.

BHAVNEET: You didn’t say ill.

TARANJIT: It was illegal.

BHAVNEET: It was illegal.

TARANJIT: I said ille. Illegal. Illie Eagle.

BHAVNEET: Who’s Illie Eagle? 

TARANJIT: Illie the Eagle.

BHAVNEET: #IllieEagle. Now you have to draw Illie Eagle. She’s gonna be the mascot of…

TARANJIT: Illegal passing. Swerve.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, swerving yeah. Illie Eagle. 

TARANJIT: This one I was going to work not going home. 

BHAVNEET: Okay.

TARANJIT: And it’s at the point where a single lane turn…single lane road is about to turn to three lanes. 

BHAVNEET: I mean a single lane and turn. 

TARANJIT: Yeah, but that’s not what I meant to say. It’s a single lane road that is about to turn into three lanes. 

BHAVNEET: Wait a single lane turn. Single lane turn! A single lane road. 

TARANJIT: Yes. 

BHAVNEET: Turns into three lanes? 

TARANJIT: Uh-huh.

BHAVNEET: It’s just like and… bleh. 

TARANJIT: Yeah it widens.

BHAVNEET: Into three?

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: One to three?

TARANJIT: Yes. 

BHAVNEET: How in the world? Where is this road that goes 1 to 3. I’ve seen 1 to 2.

TARANJIT: It goes one, two. And then like, shortly after like adds two and three. The third comes like right…

BHAVNEET: It’s separate it’s not like right 1 to 3 it’s 1 to 2 to 3.

TARANJIT: Yeah but two is like not even that much then the third.

BHAVNEET: Yeah but you made it sound like you’re going single lane and then bleh three.

TARANJIT: No, it turns into 3.

BHAVNEET: It goes 1 to 3?

TARANJIT: Yeah because as soon as it 2 goes straight and one turns.

BHAVNEET: It’s like oh you’re good you’re you only need one lane. Oh too much traffic, bleh.

TARANJIT: Yeah, it goes to three.

BHAVNEET: That’s a new one. 

TARANJIT: Yeah, it goes to three and I saw like we were in traffic so like we were like moving slowly and stopping and going and stop and go because the lights right there and and then I saw construction vehicles on the shoulder and I saw like the diamond orange construction sign that said  2 right lanes are closed.

BHAVNEET: So it’s just a single lane. 

TARANJIT: Yes, just a single lane.

BHAVNEET: Okay, just continue.

TARANJIT: It said like 2 right lanes closed ahead. Then we came to a stop because the light turned red. And these construction vehicles were blocking the other two lanes so like we have to continue straight for a while before. Usually at this point people split so like there’s less traffic and you’re able to like keep going, but because…

BHAVNEET: why would they close both lanes?

TARANJIT: They’re building houses there. So I think they’re like doing pipe work and all that stuff.

BHAVNEET: That sucks.

TARANJIT: But all of a sudden I see a car stop right next to me on the shoulder. 

BHAVNEET: Wait what? Was the left lane open? 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: So what shoulder were they on. 

TARANJIT: There’s at single lane point before it turns three roads there’s a shoulder. Like I didn’t make it to the point. 

BHAVNEET: Oh, okay, you’re very great storyteller. I’m so confused where we are.

TARANJIT: I’m sorry. So all of a sudden he came next to me. And I was like, first I thought he didn’t get like he couldn’t stop all the way. So you know how people go off to the side. So I was like, Oh, 

BHAVNEET: He saved everyone. 

TARANJIT: He didn’t hit me and then but he just like kept inching and then he like forced himself in between me in the car in front of me because…

BHAVNEET: You shouldn’t have let him.

TARANJIT: I feel like he thought I was I was going slow because I kept stopping but like, I was like, slowly stopping and like slowly letting my car come… cruise.

BHAVNEET: You were stopping gently.

TARANJIT: Yeah. And I was like, like, I’m like, Oh, I see like everyone’s literally keep stopping so I just let it cruise you know, instead of having to hold the break the entire time.

BHAVNEET: That’s what I do.

TARANJIT: I think he thought I feel like he thought I was going slow. So he like went around but then he realized there was cars.

BHAVNEET:  Yeah.

TARANJIT: So he like forced himself in and then he was being very impatient. 

BHAVNEET: You should have honked.

TARANJIT: He surprised me because he just came out of nowhere next to me. I was like, what just happened?

BHAVNEET: I  have yet to honk at someone who deserves to be honked at.

TARANJIT: I tried to honk at someone once and it didn’t… no sound came out.

BHAVNEET: I know, it didn’t work, but I want to honk at someone who deserves it. 

TARANJIT: It’s a dream of yours.

BHAVNEET: Cross it off my bucket list. I actually honked at someone.

TARANJIT: Yes, I did it. Okay, that’s it. Did it once, I’m good.

BHAVNEET: So many people that deserved it, but I haven’t done it. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Which I totally should have.

TARANJIT: I feel like he didn’t even see this sign or the construction vehicles on the side, or he wasn’t paying attention, or he just ignored it. I don’t know, could be any of those options. But he then started doing the whole like moving to the shoulder and looking around and coming back and moving to the shoulder and looking around and come back and then he decided to just go down the shoulder until he got to a point where the construction trucks were and he couldn’t go further. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: And then he forced himself in. Yeah, that’s the story. 

BHAVNEET: That’s it? Wow, that was a very abrupt ending. 

TARANJIT: I lost him, I lost him after that. 

BHAVNEET: And then he forced himself in. Yeah, that’s it. What are you waiting for? I’m done. 

TARANJIT: Reaction.

BHAVNEET: No you started like…

TARANJIT: I thought there was more but that was the story.

BHAVNEET: Oh wait, the teleprompter ran out. Oh, that’s it, there’s nothing left. 

TARANJIT: Yeah, that was it. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, that was the end of the story, I totally botched that one. 

TARANJIT: Oh there’s another swerve story. 

BHAVNEET: Oh, I thought you were like, oh wait I remembered. He did something else.

TARANJIT: More swerving stories.

BHAVNEET: Oh snap! More swerves in one episode. 

TARANJIT: This one was kind of dangerous.

BHAVNEET: Aren’t all of them dangerous?

TARANJIT: No, this one was super dangerous like…

BHAVNEET: Were you in it?

TARANJIT:  People could have gotten hurt.

BHAVNEET: Oh so you’re you weren’t…

TARANJIT: I was back enough to see this happening that I could control like slow down and avoid any incident. I was a light back I think and this 18 Wheeler was coming off the ramp super fast. He was like I’m not stopping I’m just gonna get in. But there was cars coming straight. Yeah, so he like went in but you know how like some when cars like swerve into lanes they kind of go like this into lanes like you know some people do the whole like C shaped time kind of like in like get in real quick.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT:  And like get themselves back straight in the line. So he was doing that…

BHAVNEET: Oh god. That’s like tip over.

TARANJIT: I thought yeah I thought first he was gonna like clip the car that was coming straight but they were able to stop in time because…so he liked it the C swerve into the first lane off the ramp and then he kept continue… I can’t talk.

BHAVNEET: He kept blah blah blah.

TARANJIT: He wanted to go even more over but there’s two cars coming there was like enough gap for a car to get in between not a 18 Wheeler. So he like quickly did the whole like C swerve again and squeezed in between them. I thought he was gonna hit both of them, like I was scared for those people, but I was a little back so it’s like…

BHAVNEET: I’m just gonna stop, let you do your thing.

TARANJIT: And then he like went down a little bit. He was like still speeding like not planning on stop. It was…I don’t maybe his truck was empty that he was able to move that fast because

BHAVNEET: Yeah,

TARANJIT: But then like he approached the next light and then he like swerved over again because he wanted to turn, I was like…

BHAVNEET: Wait, so then why in the world did you…wow.

TARANJIT: That was scary. I felt scared for those people.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, if someone came at me that fast, I would be scared. Oh, so this is about 18 wheelers, but this is more of a light hearted funny thing. Have you ever…

TARANJIT: No.

BHAVNEET: This happens to me…

TARANJIT: I’m going to be like you. No.

BHAVNEET: No. Okay. Well, okay, well this happens to me every morning pretty much,most mornings when I…

TARANJIT: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You said every morning and then you changed it to most?

BHAVNEET: Yeah, because I realized I don’t see him every morning but I see them most mornings. So most mornings when I’m leaving our house and I start going and then. That’s a very great way to start a story. I start going, you know, okay, so as I leave our house I usually pass 18 wheelers and have you ever passed the ones that have like the bands on the side? I don’t know what they are. So it’s like, I don’t know if it’s the same truck I’m passing every day or it’s like the same type or what but there it’s the, their… what’s the thing called on the back that they’re carrying? The load thing?

TARANJIT: A trailer…

BHAVNEET: I guess, the trailer and they have like these bands on the side and they’re kind of like kind of like if you would strap in something but it’s closed, obviously. So I don’t know what the point of it is. But they have these like…

TARANJIT: I have no idea what you’re talking about. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, so all equal like increments down the side of the box. It has like these like band things. I don’t know what they are. 

TARANJIT: Okay, I…

BHAVNEET: Do you kind of know what I’m talking about?

TARANJIT: No, but continue.

BHAVNEET: So if you have like, they’re on like a regular pickup truck. You know, people use like things and then they hold down stuff.

TARANJIT: Yeah, I know what you’re talking about there. But I’ve never seen it on an 18 wheeler.

BHAVNEET: They have those on the side. I don’t know if it goes all around. Or if it’s only on the side. I don’t know what the point is. Okay. As I drive by them every day. I’m like, okay, here comes the sound. And then when they go by it’s *weird noise*

TARANJIT: When you  said here comes the sound, I thought you I thought you’re about to say here comes, you know, like in Toy Story where they’re about to go over the 18 wheeler. I thought you were going to reference that.

BHAVNEET: No, because the first time it drove by me, I was like, what was that? \And then every other day when I drive, right. I’m like, oh, here it comes. It’s like…. It’s the funniest sound. I think it’s like the wind that’s like making it vibrate. And I’m like going 50 getting up to 55

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: And then it’s like *noise* They’re already going 55 and it’s the funniest noise. If any of you have driven past 18 Wheelers with those things on the side, whatever they are, yeah, it makes the funniest noise. 

TARANJIT: Wow. 

BHAVNEET: It’s amusing every morning, I’m just like, hehe. And then it’s like, okay, is there a cop down there? Okay, I’m good. Cuz that’s where they like to sit. *funny noise* get serious. I need to record it for you one time. This way you can hear the…

TARANJIT: Will it pick up the sound?

BHAVNEET: I don’t know if it will. 

TARANJIT: I’ve never seen a truck like that with the things on it. 

BHAVNEET: I guess the same truck I pass and it’s always going on his route.

TARANJIT: Maybe.

BHAVNEET: Because I pass it and I always leave around the same time but yeah, it’s the funniest noise ever and it makes my morning every time I hear it.

TARANJIT: Speaking of things you see on the road, yesterday when we were driving to take a brother to a campus tour college campus tour and on 495 we saw a couple of dangerous driving things.

BHAVNEET: A couple?

TARANJIT: Yeah

BHAVNEET: We saw a lot more than a couple.

TARANJIT: Well 2 that I want to mention at least two that I remember like really like thinking about like, why are you doing this? The one person who got off the ramp and was going straight and he literally had his phone in the middle of a steering wheel both hands texting and usually like his knuckles or the back of his fingers to like control the vehicle while he was full on texting staring at his phone for like a good like fiveseconds.

BHAVNEET: We were going 65.

TARANJIT: Yeah, 

BHAVNEET: Like that was the speed limit and that’s what he was doing texting so that was scary. At least I was a there was a lane between us and I was one more…

TARANJIT: Yeah, but like…

BHAVNEET: That was scary.

TARANJIT: Yeah, don’t think think like what will happen?

BHAVNEET: I don’t know but like at one point the road got so narrow. I don’t understand why they did that.

TARANJIT: That was coming back. This was going.

BHAVNEET: Okay, well, somewhere it got so narrow. 

TARANJIT: Coming back it got narrow, but then I also saw I don’t you saw her, this girl coming off the ramp and the whole time she was coming off the ramp she had the like was something called little flap visor thing. Has a mirror on it at the top.

BHAVNEET: Uh, yeah, I know it’s talking about the thing that blocks the sun.

TARANJIT: She had that down and she had the mirror open and she was leaned so close to that and like looking at her like chin or something. And like looking in that the entire time.

BHAVNEET: Is that where your eyeball is?

TARANJIT: And just going straight. And I’m like, You’re not even looking at the road. You’re still looking in the mirror the entire time you’re coming off the ramp…

BHAVNEET: Still going like 55-60, whatever the speed was. 

TARANJIT: If you’re coming off the ramp, you have to kind of go a little over and then get back straight in the lane. 

BHAVNEET: I didn’t see that but you told me about that one. But yeah, I don’t understand. No they got behind us.  That person got behind us. 

TARANJIT: Oh, yeah. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, so fun. So scary. So sometimes it’s like interesting to like watch people and see what other drivers are doing because they do funny things. But nine times out of 10 if you actually look at another driver, you get more scared for your life because they’re doing something so reckless and crazy which does not like they’re not actually driving they’re doing something else so maybe you shouldn’t be looking at what other people are doing because yeah, you’ll just only scare yourself. Unless if you like that thrill, like that that’s not…

TARANJIT: Yeah, but you’re giving other people but the real they don’t want. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, exactly. No, I mean like if you like looking at other people like what are you doing and doesn’t faze you. Yeah no that’s scary.

TARANJIT: Yeah so I…

BHAVNEET: Why can’t everyone just be singing solefully like those couple of people that we saw three in a row.

TARANJIT: I didn’t actually see them cuz I was driving but you were telling, describing this to me.

BHAVNEET: So why can’t we just be doing that?

TARANJIT: I wish you like recorded or something. Because I wanted to see it. 

BHAVNEET: Pump. Soulful singing. Stare.

TARANJIT: I really wanted to talk about the Panera incident that happened yesterday.

BHAVNEET: I mean, it was free.

TARANJIT: It turned into free but I lost my appetite. So it wasn’t worth it. 

BHAVNEET: I think it was worth it like not…

TARANJIT: I think it was worth it because it didn’t effect my food.

BHAVNEET: No, no, I think it was great that we got free food, it got paid for so. Instead of paying how much we always, which was like a lot, so we paid half that. so we got lunch in like 20 bucks.

TARANJIT: Yes.

BHAVNEET: Pretty good for four people. So…

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Yeah. That what happened was not okay at all. Yes tell your story.

TARANJIT: We had to get the manager involved in this. So we placed our order first we went and placed our order and the guy was like joking around and talking with us, which is like whatever conversing, but we’re like super hungry. So we’re just like, this is not the day like, hurry up and get our food. 

BHAVNEET: Which I mean was totally fine. 

TARANJIT: I know but like, of any other day, I would have been fine with like chatting, whatever, but we were all starving. So we’re like, we wanted our food.

BHAVNEET: Because we went through this mall, and we couldn’t find a single place to eat, which I found in big fancy, fancy malls. We could never find decent food. So we couldn’t find decent food.

TARANJIT: But we’re like Panera. Like, that’s like one place we know has something we can eat. 

BHAVNEET: So we went there. 

TARANJIT: So we went there and I wasn’t like I’ve never had this bad of an experience. I’ve had instances where I’m like, okay, the other like this location’s Panera tends to make it better than this location. But I’ve never…

BHAVNEET: Not like the people problem. 

TARANJIT: But, I’ve never had this incident happen.

BHAVNEET: With the people.

TARANJIT: So we placed our order and this guy even like read our order to us before we paid for it so I thought he got it all right.

BHAVNEET: He did.

TARANJIT: And then when he’s like, oh, you just take the buzzer and go set your table to bring it to which we usually wait.

BHAVNEET: I guess they started that new thing because like other other places are doing that to other factors like Zoe’s kitchen or like the other places trying to do like, we’ll bring it to you. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. So which was the first for us so we’re like oh, okay, we’ll go find a table and go sit down and then they brought your two’s…

BHAVNEET: No, they brought one mac and cheese and they brought one of the quinoa. 

TARANJIT: Bowl.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, they brought one of each and then they came back.

TARANJIT: And we asked for the vegan ones because, you know, we don’t eat meat. So they brought it and then they brought both of ours and then I looked in and I was like, What is that chunky stuff? Because I’ve had this bowl before and it didn’t have chunky stuff in it. So I’m like, is that meat? Like what? 

BHAVNEET: Because one of the options was with meat.

TARANJIT: Yeah. So we went up to, we didn’t know where to go like do we go to the cashier people, the people who pour the food like where to we go?

BHAVNEET: The people that pour the food. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. So I wanted to go the cashier to ask, did you place the right order? I want to know. So I went back and got the receipt because I want to make sure you with them, but then the other cashier was like, Oh, you have if you have a complaint, you can go over there. And I was like, okay, so we went over there. And we only brought one of the bowls because we want to carry around both of them. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: So we went over there. And I went to go set it on the counter. And the lady just looked at me Well, no, before I even set it on the counter, she there’s people waiting there for their food. So like, I don’t know…

BHAVNEET: Which they told you to go sit down. So why are they waiting?

TARANJIT: Maybe they are used to other Panera’s where you go and pick it up. So there’s people waiting there. So I felt like even more awkward, cuz I didn’t like I didn’t want to make no scene.

BHAVNEET: I know. I just want my food. I’m hungry.

TARANJIT: So like I waited and she was like pouring someone’s like getting someone’s order togother. So I waited for her to finish and then I went to go up to the counter. And she like looked at me and she was like saw the plate of food in her hand. And then she was like, Oh, I know. I know. And I was like…

BHAVNEET: You know what?

TARANJIT: So I put the thing on the counter because I’m like, we were holding it for so long. So I put on there and she’s like, Oh, we can’t take that back, take it with you. Like, you can have that and I was like…

BHAVNEET: No I can’t it has meat in it. So what do you know? 

TARANJIT: So then I like tried to get words in, but she wouldn’t let me every time I like trying to like say something I know. I know. I know. I know. Like, I know I we mixed it up. I know I know, like she kept saying that. I know. So, it’s like so we have another one at our table like what do we do with and she was like you can just throw both them away. And then I was like, okay, so should I wait here for it? Are you going to bring it to our table? And she’s like, oh, we’ll bring it to your table. Like she listened to that part. Finally, finally and…

BHAVNEET: What did she… she obviously didn’t know.

TARANJIT: The people there were staring like, what’s going on.

BHAVNEET: That’s her fault.

TARANJIT: So I was like, okay, and then so we tossed it because like…

BHAVNEET: What a waste of food but…

TARANJIT: But we weren’t gonna like there’s no one we could give it too.

BHAVNEET: I know.

TARANJIT: And so…

BHAVNEET: Heh, I know.

TARANJIT: I know. So we went back to the table and they brought one bowl but it was a noodle bowl with chicken. 

BHAVNEET: Well, we didn’t know it was chicken. We… he brought it and then we couldn’t see because it was in his hand. And then we’re like we ordered two and then he’s like, Oh, this… he was a messenger. He was only told to bring the bowl so he didn’t know.

TARANJIT: I know, he was the server so he, I didn’t have an issue with him.

BHAVNEET: So he was carrying it and we were like we ordered two and he was like, oh, let me go check. He put it down and then he left and then we looked at what he put down. We’re like, that’s noodles. That’s not quinoa. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. So then I went back before he got, they poured another one and wasted two bowls. So I hurried over there and told him that we ordered two but we ordered

BHAVNEET: Quinoa. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. And I told him what and this guy was trying to relay this message to them that they ordered two and they weren’t under like, they weren’t like, he had no idea what, two of what he was just saying, like two, right? And he’s like, trying to tell them and the lady

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: The I know lady that was like…

BHAVNEET: The I know lady.

TARANJIT: She was acting like, what, what are you talking about? Like, we gave them a bowl. And then so I went up there. And I told them that no, we ordered two of this, like and I told them and then the first girl who brought her food because we had a different person the second time and she was like told explain to them like what I was telling her and like she asked me what was wrong. And I told her and she explained to them and she said Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it. Like you can go sit down. I’ll bring it. Like, I’ll take care of it. But she never came like she…

BHAVNEET: I guess they sent another person. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. So then they brought one of the correct bowl… Just one.

BHAVNEET: It was a third guy that they sent. Yeah, different guy. 

TARANJIT: They’re probably like, I don’t want to go. I don’t want to go back.

BHAVNEET: I don’t wanna get yelled at, but we weren’t gonna yell at anyone except for that lady which she’s not coming out of the kitchen. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. so they brought one bowl.

BHAVNEET: It was the correct bowl. 

TARANJIT: But one bowl.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: So then he set it down. And I was like, there’s another one. But I was like, don’t worry about it.

BHAVNEET: No, no he brought it this time. And he use like, oh, like, you know…

TARANJIT: Sorry about this.

BHAVNEET: Yeah. And they were like, I just want my money back. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: And he’s like, let me go get the manager. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. So the manager came. Yeah. And he was like, he like did he asked what was wrong? 

BHAVNEET: He so the guy who brought that one bowl and you’re like I just want my money back. He took the bowl back with him. He’s like, let me go get the manager. He was, he was nice about it was like, again, not their fault. They’re just the servers like they have no idea what’s going on. So he went he took the bowl back with him got the manager. The manager came back with that bowl. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. 

BHAVNEET: And then he was like, I’m so sorry. Like he he’s like you can have this for free. I will give you the… you can still have this because I can’t take it back. He’s like, and I will give you a refund. And we’re like, but we ordered two. And then he’s like, Oh, you did? And then he’s like, Okay, let me go take care of that. And then we’re like, we didn’t order this. And then he said, Oh, well, you can have that. And I’m like, what? And then you’re like, what is that? And then he was like, oh, it’s chicken noodle soup. And like, the whole problem we had is they had meat in it. We don’t eat meat. Yeah, he’s like, Oh, my God, and then he took it back. 

TARANJIT: No, he was going to leave it, he’s like you can give it to somebody. And I’m like, but we don’t want it. And I was like, and then he took it. 

BHAVNEET: No, when you said it was meat he took it. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: No, originally, he said, you can give it to somebody, like you can take it and give it to somebody. And I was like, but we don’t want it. So then he took it. And he’s like, it’s just going to go in the trash.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, it’s like, well, we can’t do anything about that. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. So then he brought it the second correct bowl.

BHAVNEET: And then he’s like you can eat this, they will be free. Find me when you’re done and I will give you the refund. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. Which was kind of like I felt like you guys already finished your lunch and I was like, well, now I don’t feel like…

BHAVNEET: I didn’t finish it. I was like, practically…

TARANJIT: You guys were practically done. Like you’ve had your lunch and then our lunch came and then our lunch came. And then I was kinda like wasn’t hungry anymore after this point.

BHAVNEET: You’re just weird.

TARANJIT: I don’t think our mom was either. She was also saying like it messed up her like ruined her appetite. 

BHAVNEET: You guys are so weird. 

TARANJIT: Because like going through all this and we’re just like oh let’s just go across to get a pizza 

BHAVNEET: We should have just gone across to the pizza place.

TARANJIT: Yeah, we just didn’t want pizza because we literally always get…

BHAVNEET: Yeah, I know, but it was a pizza place, it should have like pasta and like whatever, something else right? Imean, we should have just gone there. We were debating it too before we came in to Panera and then we’re like no, let’s just go to Panera. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Should have gone there. But you got free lunch so…

TARANJIT: But then we went and we’re like oh now we gotta find the manager but luckily he was standing right there.

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: So we went to him and then like he refunded and everything then we were like but we wanna tell you exactly what happened like…

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: Just so you’re aware and like you can correct this so you don’t… my main problem was all the food that was wasted.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, like so many bowls of food wasted… at least three right? They brought two of the wrong ones. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: With meat in it and then they brought the chicken noodle soup. So yeah, three bowls of food that were wasted. The problem could have been like, avoided if she just listened.

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: We weren’t gonna yell at her.

TARANJIT: That’s what I told him. That’s what I was trying to tell him was that if she just gave me a chance to speak, we wouldn’t have to waste that much food. We would have got the correct order of the second time. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, it’s like she obviously didn’t know what was wrong.

TARANJIT: And then you he was all like, Oh, this guy’s new like, well, I’m like, Oh no, it wasn’t the server’s fault. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, don’t get angry at the nice girl who brought the first time or the guy guys who brought it the second and third time. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: It’s the lady behind the counter making the food.

TARANJIT: Who was staring at us the entire time.

BHAVNEET: When you were throwing your trash away after you’d finish I was just kind of waiting in the center so that we can head over to the manager guy together. And she was just like, glaring at me. And I’m like, lady, I didn’t even talk to you, don’t look at me.

TARANJIT: And then the cashier that was next to the manager was kind of like I wanna hear.

BHAVNEET: He walked over too, he was like, oh, what’s going on?

TARANJIT: And the first girl who served us was also like, pretending to do things there, standing nearby cuz she wanted to hear what was going on.

BHAVNEET: But it’s like, you’re not in trouble. You didn’t do anything. You were super nice about it.

TARANJIT: I told him that too. I was like, it wasn’t as her.

BHAVNEET: I know cuz he was saying that and we’re like no not her.

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Don’t get angry at her. We wouldn’t have even been like the first time like, it wouldn’t have even have been a major issue… it would be will be like oh my god, you got me the wrong thing. Went over there be like, I didn’t order this is, be like, Oh, I’m so sorry. That’s okay. Give me the right thing. 

TARANJIT: No, but what really got to me was she said she knew she made a mistake. 

BHAVNEET: Yes. You forgot to mention that, when he went over there. She was like, I know we made a mistake. So if you knew you made a mistake, why didn’t you correct it? 

TARANJIT: Intercept it or get someone to be like, Oh, go get that like, I send them the wrong one to that table. 

BHAVNEET: If you knew you should have been like, wait, stop. That’s wrong. Bring it back. Take the right thing. 

TARANJIT: Exactly.

BHAVNEET: Why would you give it and let it be and be like hopefully they won’t notice that there’s meat in a thing that was ordered without meat, like it’s a big difference.

TARANJIT: Like it makes difference. It wouldn’t I feel like me as big as a deal if someone who wanted  meat got a non-meat one because like that’s a little like, they can still eat it. 

BHAVNEET: Just through meat in it.

TARANJIT: Yeah. But like if someone who doesn’t eat meat got a meat one and like, they can’t just take it out and just eat it. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, exactly. Especially It was like a broth type thing. You just threw it in there. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: I’m not gonna eat that.

TARANJIT: Yeah. 

BHAVNEET: You should have just got mac and cheese.

TARANJIT: Yeah, but that just means we’re never going back to that one again. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah, well, the thing is, I was like, I don’t really know what to get at Panera anyways. I can’t really eat sandwiches at the moment. So I was gonna get mac and cheese. All right. 

TARANJIT: Well, my original plan was to go somewhere else, but our brother was being picky. So we’re like, let’s just go to a mall that has…

BHAVNEET: Multiple options and worst case, like you get from different places and just eat somewhere. Yeah, but yeah, that was the worst experience I’ve had ever had at a Panera, it’s never been that bad.

TARANJIT: I know. I’ve never it’s always a fancy schmancy malls. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah.

TARANJIT: We’re not meant to be fancy.

BHAVNEET: Yeah, no, that’s too much for me. And the other fancy schmancy mall we went to, #fancyschmancy, however you spell that fancy schmancy. Didn’t even have food options. Like what is this? Like Five little things, all meat and we’re like so fancy schmancy people don’t eat vegetarian?

TARANJIT: It wasn’t just that it was all a lot of like it was meat mostly meat but mostly like fast food, unhealthy type of options. I’m like, I don’t want to eat there in the first place.

BHAVNEET: Yeah. So I was like, all right. Well, I guess we’re starving today. But yeah, so not fancy schmancy. Schmancy. I can’t talk.

TARANJIT: Yeah, we’re just so hungry that we didn’t feel like we didn’t have enough energy to try and find anything else. We’re just like, okay, we’re at this mall. Let’s find something.

BHAVNEET: We already chose to go here so that we’re going to find something here. 

TARANJIT: Yeah. 

BHAVNEET: The mall was huge too, we had to go from the third floor to the first floor because one food court was on third floor. Second food court was on the first floor. Nothing on the second floor. You just gotta go straight down. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: I’m pretty sure they had random stuff in the middle, like along the way, but I didn’t feel like looking for anything. So we’re just like, all right. 

TARANJIT: When we were leaving. I noticed that there was a bunch of other places to eat across the street. There’s a bunch of more food options.

BHAVNEET: Oh, what? 

TARANJIT: Yeah, while we were leaving.

BHAVNEET: Oh my god.

TARANJIT: We could have went across the street. 

BHAVNEET: Yeah. And probably would have been better. Wow. 

TARANJIT: Yeah.

BHAVNEET: Well, great.

TARANJIT: But since we’ve been giving a lot of commuter’s stories this entire episode, we actually have another computer story from pilot guide podcast, is that correct?

BHAVNEET: Pilots guide Podcast. If you are looking for another great show to watch on Netflix, Hulu streaming services, but you don’t have the energy…

TARANJIT: Or time like in our case.

BHAVNEET: Yes, time to go through all these different pilot episodes and decide what is good and what is not check out Pilots Guide Podcast where they will do all the hard work for you. So instead of sitting through 30 minutes an hour of different shows.

TARANJIT: To realize you used up your 30 minutes or an hour you had to watch TV show just trying to figure out a show to watch.

BHAVNEET: Exactly. Listen to this podcast and you will spend that time learning about whether it’s a good fit and in a more entertaining way so you won’t have to sit down to something that’s super boring, where you’re just like ripping your eyeballs out but you could listen to it be dissected in a more entertaining fashion. 

TARANJIT: So here is a story as told by John that his friend experienced commuter story.

BHAVNEET: Yes.

TARANJIT: As told by John that was probably told to him by his friend. 

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JOHN: Hey, this is John one of the two hosts of the pilots guide podcast available on all podcast platforms. My story today I will give a disclaimer. It’s not so much my own commuter story, but a story of a friend of mine. So I will say, I did get her complete approval to share this story. As I was trying to come up with an interesting or a weird story to share. 100% her approval, she is letting me tell you this. One day, she was heading back, this a couple months ago, she’s heading back on the train home and you know, particularly normal day hanging out sitting there and she gets into a conversation with the woman next to her. Just, you know, regular lady, they’re having a casual conversation don’t really know what about they’re just talking about whatever. Ir was a nice conversation, my friend said and then out of nowhere, the woman said, Hey, do you want some gum? And you know, normally, you know, sharing gum with somebody isn’t that weird. But when you put it in the context of what my friend was telling me, she said that the woman just had a, like a loose sandwich bag with, you know, a bunch of pieces of gum just sitting in the bag, not wrapped mind you. And you know, my friend not thinking about, you know, taking candy from strangers said, Oh, yeah, of course. I love a piece of gum. So then, you know, the lady gets off the train and my friend texts me said I just took gum from a lady on the train and I said, huh, what, is that like thing like that you should do taking candy from someone that you don’t know for out of a loose bag. Well, it wasn’t wrapped or anything like no, I… Oh, man, I really shouldn’t have taken that gum. Spent about the next 20 minutes just wondering like I hope this lady was cool. Oh, there wasn’t like there wasn’t a problem with it like that. It was just regular gum. And you know, we found out after you know, a while it was just a regular piece of gum, but we were just like sitting there questioning her decisions for a little bit. Everything is fine, thank God but certainly really strange encounter and you know, hey, nice lady just wanting to give some of her gum away to a woman that she was having a nice conversation with on the train, but not really how they raised us exactly to take things from strangers. But alas, everything was fine. And that’s okay. So, thank you guys so much for letting me share my story. 

BHAVNEET: So there is a reason that they tell you not to take candy from strangers, but be sure to check out their podcast, Pilots Guide. And also be sure to check us out on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest at Drive With Us Podcast. And if you have an interesting weird, crazy funny, other fourth, fifth thing I can’t think of commuters story. Please share them with us and you could be featured on an upcoming episode. See you next time.

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