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Have you ever been to a trampoline park?
Aside from being an absolute petri dish of God knows what, they are so much fun.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, picture a giant warehouse in a strip mall that
seen better days or perhaps an otherwise abandoned office park.
Picture this big cavernous space filled with trampolines, soft surfaces, and trampoline
and soft surface games that encourage joyful and dangerous play for children.
There's no reason for me to love a trampoline park.
I can't really enjoy a trampoline without some serious pelvic floor distress, shall
we say.
But I also find it impossible to jump on a trampoline and not smile.
Because even if you are whizz in your pants, you are having so much fun.
And every kid there is having so much fun, which is actually the most fun part.
These kids are running around sweating, colliding into one another, colluding with one another,
which I wasn't planning on saying, but at first I read the word colliding as colluding
and they are definitely doing both.
They are eating garbage food and sweating it out and making new friends that they'll
never see again.
And they are also practicing deception, scamming because if you are in a place where nobody
knows you, a place where you will never see most of these people again, you can be anyone.
And I have an example of this.
The last time we were at a trampoline park, there were two little girls behind me.
I was waiting in line to get nachos made with that neon orange cheese flavored goo.
I don't know what they were waiting for.
And they were doing one of those little hand clap rhymes.
My generation had Miss Mary, Mac, Mac, Mac, all dressed in black, black, black with silver,
buttons, buttons, I'll down her back, back, back, she asked her mother, mother, mother
for fifty cents, cents, cents to watch you get it, okay.
This one was wake cooler and I asked their dad if I could record just the audio.
I told the girls, you are amazing.
That was amazing.
Did you make it up?
And they looked to me right in the eye and said, yeah, we did, we made that up together.
And this episode was going to be about how cool it was that these little girls made up
a whole new rhyme and that it was really good.
And then I thought to myself, let's do a fact check.
So I googled the lyrics from this rhyme and the first result is this YouTube video featuring
10 year old girls 10 years ago.
10 years ago before these kids were even born.
I'm actually absolutely dead at this.
I got scammed, played, hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray by two awesome little girls.
I love it.
I love that this happened.
I love that.
I fell for it.
I would fall for it again.
I'm extremely gullible.
I believed my cousin when he told me as a kid that he made up the song when you're sliding
in and at first and you feel it, you see burst diarrhea, diarrhea.
I believed him.
I told my parents you would not believe the song that my cousin made up and I sang it
to my dad and my dad said that song existed when I was a child and I was like, no, it didn't
my cousin just made it up, why would he lie?
Anyway, if you lie, you'd like to tell me, I will believe it.
I will believe it and I will be proud of you.
I'm Nora Mcnerney.
I am very gullible and it's going to be okay.
But it depends on the day.
If you have a great little lie that someone told you that was harmless and wonderful and
kind of made your day, tell me or tell me whatever it is that makes you feel like it's going
to be okay.
You can record a voice memo on your phone and email it to us, IGTBO at Feelings and Co.
You can write us an email and I'll read your email.
If you are not the kind of person who wants to just read stuff out loud or you can leave
us a voice mail at 612-568-4441, we always
link those things in our show descriptions.
I also want to just tell people, we've been having some IT problems because our IT guy
is me.
It's me and would you believe that I'm not good at a thing that people go to college
for, that people devote their entire lives to, I have no aptitude for it, I somehow busted
the voice mail not once, not twice, several times.
One time was not my fault, we're not going to name names, but it was Megan Palmer.
Other times it was me, so thank you for your patience, and that's it.
This episode of It's Going To Be Okay was brought to you by The Hartford.
Employee benefits have always been hard to understand.
They're even tough for employers to explain, which just makes it worse for people like you
and me.
The Hartford knows there's a better way.
They're a leading group benefits provider that's using familiar language to get straight
to the point when it comes to the benefits they offer.
Because if your benefits sound confusing, who's going to know how to actually use them?
Learn more at TheHeartford.com slash benefits.