How Do You Even Pick Up Both Feet?
This week’s episode of That’s a Free Bee is a bit of everything: seaside misery, near-death heroics, gecko care, food-related slapstick, and, of course, a tram story.
Friend of the show Chris checks in with an update on Victor Wright’s Electronics in Bury. Then I recount our family trip to Llandudno — a beach day that started with seaweed stink, drunk strangers, and grumpiness but ended with me literally saving a kid from drowning. Beach shoes: 1, Seaweed: 0.
Elsewhere, Goldie the leopard gecko has been on a rollercoaster of diets, burns, and humidity issues — but he’s finally turning the corner. I also witness one of the most bizarre food-court disasters ever (imagine someone trying to levitate both feet at once) and wrap it up with a tram tale involving a balaclava, ticket inspectors, and one very dumb kid.
Oh, and yes — I’ve yet again got a new website: andonemorething.net. This one might actually stick. Maybe.
Stick around till the end for the weekly joke — it’s whisky-smooth.
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Transcript
Welcome to that's a Freebie, the podcast that for some reason has locked your after having a week off work.
Speaker A:Sit back, relax, unless you're driving.
Speaker A:It's time for that's a Freebie.
Speaker A:I have some follow up from friend of the show Chris.
Speaker A:Chris reports that Victor Wright's electronics in Bury is in fact still there.
Speaker A:All of the stuff that I was talking about in the window in the previous show, it's all still there.
Speaker A:The game cartridges are there, the boxes are all there, the consoles, everything is still there.
Speaker A:Apparently it's not changed.
Speaker A:He reports that everything has faded over time, but it's all still there.
Speaker A:That's amazing.
Speaker A:I feel like I might have to make a trip now to Bury just so I could go and have a look at Victor Wright's electronics.
Speaker A:It cannot be the same guy that's running it, I am sure because he was an old man back then.
Speaker A:But hey, you never know.
Speaker A:Maybe he's a vampire.
Speaker A:So how did the end of the school holidays go?
Speaker A:The end of the school holidays was pretty good.
Speaker A:One of the things I wanted to make sure we did was spend like a whole day together, all of us, because we got very little time off together during the course of these school holidays.
Speaker A:We have got a holiday coming up later in the year where we're all going to go away together for a whole week.
Speaker A:The kids don't know about that yet, so that should be interesting.
Speaker A:Although I'm pretty sure they've worked it out because we took them to get passport pictures renewed and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker A:So it can't be that hard to work out.
Speaker A:But I guess we'll see.
Speaker A:So what we did is we went to the beach.
Speaker A:Now I quite famously in the family, don't like the beach.
Speaker A:I hate sand, right?
Speaker A:I don't like sand when it's mixed with water.
Speaker A:I don't like sand when it's not mixed with water.
Speaker A:I'm okay with really dry sand that doesn't stick to you.
Speaker A:I'm kind of okay with that.
Speaker A:And there is a beach that we do like to go to that is just like that.
Speaker A:It's like the perfect beach for me.
Speaker A:It's clean, it's secluded, it's not too busy.
Speaker A:The water's always nice and clean.
Speaker A:There's no seaweed, you know, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker A:Well, there probably is seaweed, but it's far out, you know, and what, what's.
Speaker A:Furthermore, the water, the tide in fact, goes all the way out.
Speaker A:It goes a really long way out.
Speaker A:So there's loads of beach, so there's plenty of space for everybody.
Speaker A:And I like that.
Speaker A:I don't like when you're on the beach where you sat so close to the people next to you that you can't even speak to each other without being able to hear.
Speaker A:Without other people being able to hear you or you being able to hear them.
Speaker A:To me, going to the beach should be a nice little private affair where it's just you and your family and the other people are 30 miles away, if possible.
Speaker A:So, yeah, don't like the beach.
Speaker A:We were going to go to said beach that I do like, the only beach we've ever found that I actually enjoy going to.
Speaker A:And it's consistent as well.
Speaker A:I've been several times and always enjoyed it.
Speaker A:But it's quite a distance.
Speaker A:It's like a two and a half hour drive.
Speaker A:And so we didn't want to do a two and a half, two and a half hour drive on this particular day.
Speaker A:So we decided to go to Landudno instead because we like Llandudno and we do generally have a, like a yearly trip there, you know, just for a day trip with a load of other friends.
Speaker A:But this year we weren't able to make it for, well, lots of reasons, I suppose.
Speaker A:I can't even remember what those reasons were there.
Speaker A:But we weren't able to make it.
Speaker A:So we decided, well, we'll go on our own with our family.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And we did.
Speaker A:We went to Llandudno.
Speaker A:It took us a while to find the area that we usually go to because we had disagreeing opinions on which area it was.
Speaker A:Just gotta say I was right.
Speaker A:We finally got there.
Speaker A:It took longer than expected and it actually took us, funnily enough, two and a half hours.
Speaker A:It was only supposed to be an hour and a half, but there was so much traffic that it took us a lot longer, so we might as well have gone to the other one in the first place.
Speaker A:Anyway, we got there, we unpacked.
Speaker A:It seemed as though the tide was coming in.
Speaker A:I immediately was not happy because it stank.
Speaker A:You know when the beach is just full of seaweed, because that's what this beach was.
Speaker A:It was just absolutely full of seaweed.
Speaker A:It stank of it and it was awful.
Speaker A:And I just, I didn't like it at all.
Speaker A:It was a real fishy smell.
Speaker A:The water's coming towards us.
Speaker A:So we kept having to move.
Speaker A:And it was just this little tiny corner alcove of the beach that was left that wasn't yet succumbed to the Water.
Speaker A:And I just wasn't a fan of it.
Speaker A:I was.
Speaker A:I was unhappy right from the start.
Speaker A:Like, I couldn't relax.
Speaker A:I didn't want to go and get in the water because it looked disgusting because of all the seaweed.
Speaker A:It made it look a lot less clean than it was.
Speaker A:And then there was the smell and there was the people.
Speaker A:It was so.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was like 10am in the morning and there were people there that had piles of cans at the side of them.
Speaker A:And they were like.
Speaker A:Well, they were empty cans.
Speaker A:I'm not.
Speaker A:I'm not saying people shouldn't drink on the beach.
Speaker A:I'm okay with that.
Speaker A:But we're talking like six or seven cans deep already, like already drunk.
Speaker A:And they were just tossing them on the beach.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was awful.
Speaker A:There was just rubbish everywhere.
Speaker A:People just throwing.
Speaker A:Throwing the rubbish about.
Speaker A:And it wasn't fun.
Speaker A:I wasn't enjoying it.
Speaker A:We had to keep moving as well because the water was coming at us.
Speaker A:But there was so little space that we had to keep squeezing in between where other people were.
Speaker A:The kids were fine.
Speaker A:They were enjoying it.
Speaker A:It was also very windy.
Speaker A:The big, like, lilos and floaties and stuff that they took with them kept blowing away and it just wasn't a fun time.
Speaker A:And then we moved and we moved right to the back of the beach because it's the only place we could go at this point.
Speaker A:And we found a relatively clear area.
Speaker A:Now, it wasn't brilliant, but it was.
Speaker A:It was a I can relax here kind of environment.
Speaker A:You know, I could probably be okay here if I.
Speaker A:If I try.
Speaker A:And I needed to try.
Speaker A:I needed to put some effort into it because I was only going to spoil it for everybody else if I didn't.
Speaker A:So I tried.
Speaker A:This try involved me mostly sitting there looking really, really grumpy, watching the kids play in the sea, right?
Speaker A:Trying to psych myself up to go get in the water with them.
Speaker A:Eventually, more and more people started leaving the beach.
Speaker A:A lot of these people that were very, very drunk already were leaving.
Speaker A:So they.
Speaker A:They must have been there from like super early on in the day.
Speaker A:And they were clearly hammered.
Speaker A:And a lot of them did clean up after them.
Speaker A:A lot of them didn't.
Speaker A:We sort of went round and picked all the cans up and threw all the rubbish away to tidy up a bit.
Speaker A:But all of a sudden my wife goes, hey, we know them.
Speaker A:And we looked over and just walking onto the beach was a group of people that we know.
Speaker A:I'm not going to name the names because that's not fair.
Speaker A:Turns out they're on holiday in Llandudno.
Speaker A:We didn't know.
Speaker A:They didn't know.
Speaker A:They're sort of friends of friends, but enough that we know them quite well, you know, we see them often.
Speaker A:And so they came and set up next to us and we spent the day at the beach.
Speaker A:And it.
Speaker A:It really turned it around.
Speaker A:It was good.
Speaker A:It put me in a better mood because there was other people there.
Speaker A:I suppose that instantly changes your mood anyway, doesn't it?
Speaker A:They had kids as well, so there was more kids for my kids to go play with.
Speaker A:That was really hard sentence to say.
Speaker A:So that was good.
Speaker A:And yeah, we had a much better day.
Speaker A:I eventually went and got into the sea.
Speaker A:Me and Toby were trying to see how far out we could.
Speaker A:We could make it, which is the game we always play.
Speaker A:Basically, I pretend that I can't quite reach the floor anymore.
Speaker A:And, you know, just as he's.
Speaker A:His feet are coming away from the floor and that's all good.
Speaker A:It did, however, get a little bit dicey.
Speaker A:There's me and Toby playing in the sea.
Speaker A:There's Seraphina playing in the sea, who's getting a bit more confident now as she's getting older.
Speaker A:He was going a little bit further than we were.
Speaker A:She had a floaty with her.
Speaker A:So, you know, the deal was if she felt like she was getting a bit stuck and in trouble, climb up onto the floaty or hold onto it and then shout me back.
Speaker A:And then if an adult wasn't there, she wasn't allowed to go that far out.
Speaker A:We already had, like, borders set for her and she was fine.
Speaker A:And then they were the children of the people that we were with there.
Speaker A:One of them was a little bit older than Seraphina.
Speaker A:One of them was a little bit younger than Seraphina.
Speaker A:In fact, Toby's age, I think.
Speaker A:And they were going a little bit further out, which not too comfortable with.
Speaker A:And I kept asking him not to go quite so far.
Speaker A:But whilst I was there, it's not too bad, you know, they can.
Speaker A:It's okay.
Speaker A:And then I'm watching them and I'm thinking, they're going further and further out there.
Speaker A:Me and Toby had just sat there.
Speaker A:Well, not sat there.
Speaker A:We're in the middle of the seat, we're stood there and the way waves are coming at us and we're letting the waves lift us up and then drop us down as if we were surfing, basically.
Speaker A:Then Toby's going, oh, let's catch that wave there, dad.
Speaker A:So we're going, let the wave get us.
Speaker A:And then I noticed that Seraphina was going further and further out.
Speaker A:And I'm saying to her, stop there, come back.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:But obviously I'm having to yell it over quite a distance for a fair distance away.
Speaker A:They're like a 10 second fast swim away is probably the best way I can think of describing it in terms of distance.
Speaker A:And that's against the tide as well.
Speaker A:She kept going further and further to the point where I was like, I'm not comfortable with this.
Speaker A:She's either getting dragged out or she's not listening.
Speaker A:Either way I need to go and tell her to come back.
Speaker A:Also, I suppose the possibility is she couldn't hear me, but at the time I wasn't thinking that she couldn't hear me.
Speaker A:I was thinking that she's purposely doing this.
Speaker A:Oh, she's, she's getting dragged.
Speaker A:So I said to Toby, look, it appears that Seraphina is going a bit too far out.
Speaker A:And he said, yeah, I can see that too.
Speaker A:I'm getting a bit scared.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So I said, right, you go back so that I don't have to think about where you are whilst I'm going over there because I don't want you to get stuck and I'll go and get her and tell her to come back.
Speaker A:And he said, okay.
Speaker A:So he started swimming back.
Speaker A:Now he was easily able to touch the floor.
Speaker A:At this point he could stand up and lift his shoulders out of the water.
Speaker A:But I told him to make sure he goes far enough back that his waist is out of the water so it only comes up to his waist.
Speaker A:And he did.
Speaker A:And I went swimming over towards Seraphina, which was harder than I thought it was going to be.
Speaker A:And when I got there I said, seraphina, I've been asking you to come back.
Speaker A:And she said, I'm trying to get to them too.
Speaker A:They're stuck.
Speaker A:Stuck.
Speaker A:And I was like, are you sure they're stuck?
Speaker A:She said, yeah, they keep shouting help.
Speaker A:Now I couldn't hear them obviously because I didn't have my hearing aids in because I was in the water.
Speaker A:And I turned and looked at them and they're waving at me.
Speaker A:And I'm like, they've been waving at me for like two minutes now.
Speaker A:They're probably, instead of waving for me to come at them, it looked like they were waving and we're just waving back.
Speaker A:They were smiling and everything.
Speaker A:So we were a bit like, okay.
Speaker A:So I said to Seraphina, right, you go back that way, give Me, the floaty, and I pushed her towards the thing.
Speaker A:I said, go to where Toby is.
Speaker A:And she went, okay.
Speaker A:She went to where Toby was.
Speaker A:And then she.
Speaker A:She actually grabbed the floaty and took it with her.
Speaker A:And I wanted to take it so that they could hold onto it, but it didn't happen, so it's fine.
Speaker A:So I went swimming towards them.
Speaker A:And when I got there, it turned out that they were stuck.
Speaker A:They were treading water, and neither of them could reach the floor anymore.
Speaker A:Neither of them could swim hard enough to get back.
Speaker A:So one of them was a little bit closer, which was fine, the younger one.
Speaker A:So I sort of.
Speaker A:I swam up behind her and I put my hand on her back and I swam as hard as I could to push her back towards the thing.
Speaker A:And then she got momentum going then and started swimming back.
Speaker A:So that was fine.
Speaker A:And then I went back for the other one.
Speaker A:And when I went back for the other one, it turns out she got her legs caught in some seaweed.
Speaker A:She was stuck.
Speaker A:So she's swimming and swimming and swimming, and she couldn't get.
Speaker A:Get away.
Speaker A:So I put my arm around her and I'm trying to pull and swim at the same time because I couldn't reach the floor at this point.
Speaker A:And so I'm trying to pull her and swim at the same time, and it just wasn't happening.
Speaker A:And this went on for like a couple of minutes.
Speaker A:And I was.
Speaker A:I was getting tired at this point.
Speaker A:I could feel myself getting weaker.
Speaker A:There was nothing around.
Speaker A:There was nowhere to grab onto.
Speaker A:Didn't have the floaty because I wasn't able to get it.
Speaker A:She's bobbing under the water at this point, and I'm having.
Speaker A:And I'm trying to hold her up.
Speaker A:And we were just sort of floating on our backs a little bit, but we were floating further out at this point because we were on our backs.
Speaker A:And that's just.
Speaker A:The waves were taking us.
Speaker A:So I'm trying to shout to the others, get help.
Speaker A:I don't know who could possibly have come and helped us, but I'm yelling, get help.
Speaker A:Get help.
Speaker A:And the waving back and going, hey, dad.
Speaker A:Like, no, I need you to go and get help.
Speaker A:But, you know, I can't blame them.
Speaker A:I couldn't hear them from even closer.
Speaker A:So I was like, they can't.
Speaker A:So I turned to her and I said, look, they can't hear us.
Speaker A:Only we can get out of this now.
Speaker A:We either get out of it or we drown.
Speaker A:And she's like, I think we're going to drown.
Speaker A:And I'm like, well, we're not.
Speaker A:And I said, and don't worry.
Speaker A:If we're going to drown, I'm drowning with you because there's no way I am going back to shore without you.
Speaker A:I'm not going to be the one that goes back and has to say, I had to leave you because I couldn't swim anymore.
Speaker A:And she's like, all right, all right.
Speaker A:In my head, I'm like, that'll motivate her because she won't want me to drown and I won't want her to drown.
Speaker A:And we're both like, we're gone at this point.
Speaker A:We're dipping under the water and we're struggling.
Speaker A:And then all of a sudden, luck would have it, a big, massive wave came along and it hit me and it pulled me under, which doesn't sound very lucky.
Speaker A:But what happened is, as I got pulled under.
Speaker A:Now, I haven't mentioned something at this point because, well, one, it makes me seem really, really, like, weird.
Speaker A:But as I mentioned, I don't like the beach.
Speaker A:One thing I don't like about the beach is the sand on my feet.
Speaker A:So I have shoes that I wear only at the beach.
Speaker A:And they're like.
Speaker A:They're like wetsuit shoes, basically.
Speaker A:Beach shoes, right?
Speaker A:I had to wear them once because there was some sort of poisonous fish in the sea or something, or some sort of fish that could bite your feet at a beach we went to, and you weren't allowed in the water without them on, so we bought them.
Speaker A:And ever since then, I'm like, I actually love these.
Speaker A:So I had shoes on with proper rubber soled bottoms.
Speaker A:And when this wave hit me, it put me under the water so hard that I went really far.
Speaker A:I mean, it felt really far down.
Speaker A:It was probably about a foot for all I know.
Speaker A:But I felt like I was like 12ft under the water and my feet hit the rocks at the bottom of the water.
Speaker A:And as my feet hit the rocks, I suddenly got, like, a brainwave and I put my arms around her legs and I just pushed up off the rocks as hard as I could.
Speaker A:Now, if I didn't have these shoes on, my feet would have slipped and it wouldn't have worked because I had these shoes on.
Speaker A:My feet gripped and I pulled as hard as I could and I flung us both so high out of the water, but it ripped the seaweed and the seaweed broke, and she went, I'm free.
Speaker A:And I was like, go.
Speaker A:And she couldn't swim.
Speaker A:She just couldn't do It.
Speaker A:So I grabbed hold of her arm and I swam and I just pulled her behind me and I'm pulling her, pulling her.
Speaker A:I'm going, and I'm going.
Speaker A:I'm really sorry if it's hurting because I had hold of her arm in a really awkward position.
Speaker A:I'm like, I'm really sorry if it's hurting.
Speaker A:And she's like, just go, it's okay, it's not hurting.
Speaker A:And anyway, we managed to get back.
Speaker A:We got to a point where we could both stand up and we stood up and we're like, we were so out of breath.
Speaker A:But then we walked back, we got back to land, we both fell over and did the whole, like, you know, where you just lie on the ground for a bit, catching your bre breath.
Speaker A:The kids had, by this point realized that we were in trouble, that they'd gone to tell everybody else that we're in trouble.
Speaker A:No one came.
Speaker A:They all just sat watching us.
Speaker A:We walked back over, flopped out at the side of everybody on a towel and they went, you're right, we just nearly died.
Speaker A:And they're like, oh, did you?
Speaker A:Yeah, we.
Speaker A:Seriously, we're not joking.
Speaker A:We nearly died.
Speaker A:Like we were seconds away from drowning.
Speaker A:And we're like, oh, well, don't go out as far next time.
Speaker A:Like, I don't think they really got the how serious it was.
Speaker A:But anyway, it was fine in the end.
Speaker A:It didn't put any of us off either.
Speaker A:We went back out, it was okay, but we went back out and didn't go as far that time.
Speaker A:If only they'd have all listened to me and not gone as close to the rocks as they did.
Speaker A:There was no seaweed anywhere else.
Speaker A:It was the seaweed that was the problem.
Speaker A:But anyway, we're fine, we survived.
Speaker A:Everybody's okay.
Speaker A:They've since come back from holiday and Ollie's good.
Speaker A:We've seen them since, so.
Speaker A:Woohoo.
Speaker A:Regular listeners of the show will know that in our house we have two animals.
Speaker A:We have a rabbit who you may hear running around whilst.
Speaker A:Whilst I'm recording this episode because she's a bit crazy.
Speaker A:Today we have a leopard gecko.
Speaker A:Quite recently, the leopard gecko has not been very well.
Speaker A:And I've struggled really to sort of work out what's going on with him.
Speaker A:It's a bit of a tough one.
Speaker A:So he.
Speaker A:He lost a lot of weight all of a sudden.
Speaker A:Now part of me thinks that he did that because I wasn't feeding him enough, which obviously I feel absolutely terrible about.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's lots of information out there on the Internet about how often you should be feeding a leopard gecko.
Speaker A:Now when the juveniles, you feed them like daily, you know, they eat fairly well, blah, blah, blah, right?
Speaker A:When they get older, some people are saying you feed them every three days.
Speaker A:Some people are saying once every seven to 10 days.
Speaker A:Some people still say you should feed them every day.
Speaker A:Some say offer them food if they don't want it, don't feed them, you know, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker A:I assume the reason for that is like, just like humans, every single leopard gecko is different.
Speaker A:They all have their own personalities and their own appetites and so it's hard to work out when is best to feed them.
Speaker A:And one thing I did know is that ours was getting particularly fat.
Speaker A:Now.
Speaker A:It's great that he's well fed at that point, but being fat isn't good for you, just like it's not good for, for a human.
Speaker A:And so I wanted him to lose weight, so I put him on a little bit of a diet.
Speaker A:This was like almost a year ago at this point.
Speaker A:There's nothing new here, but I've been trying to work out the best feeding regimen for him, if, if you will.
Speaker A:And so he basically.
Speaker A:I think we got to a point where I was.
Speaker A:Wasn't feeding him quite often enough, so he was able to lose weight, but he was losing it very rapidly.
Speaker A:And then he also had some problems with one of his sheds as well where he, where he sheds his skin because they do that as they get bigger.
Speaker A:His shed went very, very brittle, which is usually a sign that it's not humid enough in his enclosure now I have a humidity sensor that's in there and it tells me exactly what his humidity is, but it's always saying it's fine.
Speaker A:I have a feeling that he's one of these animals that likes it to be a little bit more humid than he's actually like naturally supposed to.
Speaker A:Maybe it's always been a little bit too humid.
Speaker A:Our house is quite like that.
Speaker A:Maybe he's just grown used to it being that way over time.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:It's hard to tell.
Speaker A:So a few things happened.
Speaker A:I did notice that he was also starting to get like.
Speaker A:Best way to describe it is like a scab on his back.
Speaker A:It was not quite a scab, but that's what it looked like.
Speaker A:And he's also very.
Speaker A:He doesn't like to be handled, so it makes it quite hard to examine him.
Speaker A:So I had to.
Speaker A:What I.
Speaker A:What I had to do to be able to properly examine him and have a good look at him.
Speaker A:I had to start removing things from his enclosure so I could see him better and limit his options when it comes to, to like enclosure and things like that.
Speaker A:And I think what had basically happened is because of the heat we've had over the summer, I think his enclosure was getting a little bit too hot so it was drying out quicker than we would expect.
Speaker A:And I think he was, I think he was also getting a bit too used to that heat.
Speaker A:So when it, when we've gone to the times now where it's been a bit cooler, I think he's been trying to really push and get closer to his heat source in order to, to stay warmer because he's gotten used to that heat and I think he's burnt himself.
Speaker A:That's what it looks like.
Speaker A:Again, I could be wrong.
Speaker A:I've only been able to like take pictures and send them to people that can help because there is no veterinarian for reptiles anywhere near here that I've been able to find or if there are, they don't look at leopard geckos for whatever reason, like baffles me.
Speaker A:So it's been quite difficult.
Speaker A:There is someone I found who is, is in a vet in.
Speaker A:Oh, I can't remember where the base now it's way too far to be able to get reasonably.
Speaker A:If it really came to it I'd obviously take him there but I think we're talking like a two or three hour drive at this point which be too long for him to be out of his enclosure.
Speaker A:So I've sent them pictures and they've been able to give me advice and they're, they're basically saying it looks like he needs more moisture and to bring the temperature down even if I'm bringing it down to below like the, the recommended temperature, like bring it down to the lower end of that recommended temperature.
Speaker A:So that's what I've done and it does seem to be getting better now.
Speaker A:I've, I've, I've made sure that his enclosure is moist all the time.
Speaker A:I've removed all of his enclosures except, sorry, all of his enclosures, all of his hides because he has three normally I've removed one of them so he's only got his regular one in the hot spot wherein because he still needs heat, if he hasn't got that heat for his underbelly, he can't digest his food and I've managed to get one for his, his moist hide.
Speaker A:I've basically got him a new one that might.
Speaker A:This hopefully should serve his needs better.
Speaker A:And he does seem to be getting a little bit better.
Speaker A:He's eating a lot.
Speaker A:Like I've been feeding him every single day because he just went so skinny.
Speaker A:He went that skinny that his skin was wrinkly because he'd lost too much weight all at once.
Speaker A:So I've managed to fatten him up a little bit again.
Speaker A:And his tail's looking healthy now, so he started to look healthier.
Speaker A:And making sure he's moist, his shed started coming off properly as well now.
Speaker A:So he, he does look like he's getting better.
Speaker A:But yeah, it's been a bit.
Speaker A:Bit of a worrying time for Goldie the Leopard Gecko.
Speaker A:But he seems to be getting better.
Speaker A:So hopefully by the next episode I'll be able to report that he's doing really well.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:See, he looks so much today.
Speaker A:Like today's the first day where I've not looked at him and thought, I think he's gonna die.
Speaker A:I mean, I've been assured that he probably shouldn't based on all of the things because he's, he's not lethargic or anything.
Speaker A:He's still as active as he normally is.
Speaker A:He just didn't look good.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It's like he's had a bad haircut and he just doesn't.
Speaker A:You know, it makes you think, oh, you don't look great.
Speaker A:But actually it's just a bad haircut.
Speaker A:It is all cosmetic.
Speaker A:The issues, like from, from seeing him now, it wasn't a burn that was.
Speaker A:That was on his back, but I think it was the start of maybe there was some shed still stuck on his back that, that had maybe started, but it hasn't gone through to his skin.
Speaker A:So now he's done another shed since and yeah, it's all come.
Speaker A:It's all come off.
Speaker A:So he's.
Speaker A:He started to look a little bit better.
Speaker A:It's not as bright as he once was in terms of the color of his skin.
Speaker A:It's sort of got a very.
Speaker A:A darker shade of green than what he normally is.
Speaker A:But hopefully, hopefully he's on the mend.
Speaker A:So I guess we'll, we'll have to wait and see how that one goes.
Speaker A:I hope I'm reporting good things next time.
Speaker A:The other day I ordered some food, as in, I went into the place to order the food and I'm stood waiting for my food at the counter and as I'm sort of looking around, I saw somebody walking away from another food place in the area that I was at.
Speaker A:As they, as they walked away, I noticed that she very quickly put a hand on the bottom of the bag that she was carrying.
Speaker A:And I think what had happened is the back had started to rip and she went, oh.
Speaker A:And it was, it was, it was her.
Speaker A:And she was with this guy who.
Speaker A:Dopiest look on his face I've ever seen.
Speaker A:He looked at her and went like.
Speaker A:He literally made that noise.
Speaker A:Exaggeration.
Speaker A:He went.
Speaker A:As she put her hand on the bottom of it, she was clearly burning her hand and he did nothing to help her.
Speaker A:He stood there staring at her, going.
Speaker A:As if to say, I don't know what to do.
Speaker A:When the answer really would have been to just use.
Speaker A:Grab hold of it by the sides and take it, take it off her for a second to give a chance, to give a chance for her hand to cool because she's just caught this red hot thing.
Speaker A:And also there was a table right at the side of him as well.
Speaker A:He could have helped by just stuffing onto that table.
Speaker A:Anyway, he didn't.
Speaker A:And she carried on walking along and you could see she had this like determined look in her face as if to say, this is gonna be fine.
Speaker A:This is gonna be okay.
Speaker A:And then some sauce dripped out of the bag.
Speaker A:I don't know what the food was that was in there.
Speaker A:I didn't see the exact place that they came through.
Speaker A:I only guessed.
Speaker A:But basically sauce strips out of the back because I could see the bag had gotten wet in the corner and it slopped on the floor.
Speaker A:He says, you've got some on your shoe, right?
Speaker A:No, no help whatsoever.
Speaker A:You've got some on your shoe.
Speaker A:So she picked a foot up and looked at a shoe and she had on like a, a pair of cream colored Converse and they looked brand new.
Speaker A:And I'm pretty sure that the food she was carrying was like a curry type food, or at least it was that color.
Speaker A:So she obviously doesn't want to get in on these shoes because it's going to stain them.
Speaker A:And she looked down at her shoe and went, oh, no.
Speaker A:And he went, no, not that shoe, the other one.
Speaker A:And somehow, I've no idea how like this should be physically impossible.
Speaker A:She somehow managed to pick her other foot up off the floor whilst her other foot was already in the air and fall over.
Speaker A:She just lifted both feet up at the same time and she fell over.
Speaker A:She landed on like, she landed on like the corner of her ass, fell over onto her back at the food, fell all out of the packaging and fell all over her.
Speaker A:And she was covered in it all, like from her neck downwards.
Speaker A:And she went, ah.
Speaker A:And he just stood there looking at her, doing nothing.
Speaker A:Didn't even help her pick it up or anything like that.
Speaker A:So I ran over and the guy from behind the counter where I'd ordered my food from ran over and we sort of took the bags off the top of her and threw him on the floor and we got hold of her like under her arms and helped her up and he gave her a cloth to wipe herself down with and she just.
Speaker A:She said nothing, didn't speak to either of us, didn't say thank you, which I don't mind.
Speaker A:They're not saying thank you.
Speaker A:You've just been covered in red hot food.
Speaker A:It's not going to be the forefront of your mind.
Speaker A:But didn't even acknowledge that anybody had helped her up.
Speaker A:She sort of made like a claw like gesture with her hands to the floor and picked up all these bags of boxes and everything, scooped it all up.
Speaker A:I just walked off, just toddled away with this guy.
Speaker A:Like there was food all over the floor still.
Speaker A:She just picked all the packaging up and walked off outside of the shopping centre and down the street and he didn't even bat an eye.
Speaker A:If I didn't know any better, I'd say he was probably off his head.
Speaker A:But he didn't look like it.
Speaker A:He just looked gobless.
Speaker A:And she looked like she had no idea how to deal with him because she's used to doing everything on her own.
Speaker A:So it's just me and this guy just looked at each other.
Speaker A:The person who came and helped pick her up, it's not telling you from.
Speaker A:What was that?
Speaker A:He's like, oh, I don't know.
Speaker A:You see all kinds in here.
Speaker A:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:So I went and stood back where I was waiting for my food.
Speaker A:He mopped up.
Speaker A:Problem solved.
Speaker A:It was weird.
Speaker A:How do you pick both feet up off the floor?
Speaker A:And of course it would not be.
Speaker A:That's a freebie without a tram story.
Speaker A:Brief tram story for you this week wasn't even.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It was a stupid, stupid thing.
Speaker A:But you know, that's what tram stories usually are.
Speaker A:People that do dumb things.
Speaker A:I am sat on the tram now.
Speaker A:If you've ever gone on to the stop Deansgate Castle Field in Manchester, which is the stop that I get off at.
Speaker A:You will notice that the trams pass one another at this stop.
Speaker A:So you will often be parked on a tram waiting for your tram to move whilst another tram comes over and parks at the side of you and you end up sat opposite somebody on a different tram.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:Sometimes it's a bit awkward because neither of you know where to look because you can see one another, because you.
Speaker A:Because of the way you are.
Speaker A:Anyway, I'm in this position.
Speaker A:I'm sat on the tram.
Speaker A:I was.
Speaker A:In fact, actually, I was getting off the tram at this point.
Speaker A:I'd stood up to get off, but the doors hadn't quite opened, and another tram pulls up on the other side.
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker A:And you know what you instantly spot when something weird's happening?
Speaker A:Because this kid on the tram and I say, kid.
Speaker A:It was about, if I was to guess, 12 to 14 years old, right?
Speaker A:He pulls a balaclava out of his pocket, puts the balaclava on and starts running up and down the doors, the windows of the tram on the opposite one, giving the finger to everybody.
Speaker A:Right then.
Speaker A:So at this point, I got off the tram because I was at the stop that was getting off at.
Speaker A:I got off the tram.
Speaker A:I'm laughing, thinking, what a moron.
Speaker A:Does he realize that he didn't actually.
Speaker A:His face wasn't hidden because he didn't have the balaclava on when he pulled up.
Speaker A:So the cameras will have got his face.
Speaker A:Anyway, he then runs up to the inspectors on my side.
Speaker A:So he's crossed the tracks at this point, which he can do.
Speaker A:There's a thing to cross the tracks.
Speaker A:He's crossed the tracks.
Speaker A:He comes running up to all the inspectors on my side, giving them all the finger and going, I've not bought a ticket.
Speaker A:I've not bought a ticket.
Speaker A:And then one of them said the same thing I just said, basically, they went, you do realize that when you was on that tram, you didn't have your balaclava on.
Speaker A:So we've got your face on camera.
Speaker A:They must have seen him.
Speaker A:And he went, oh, I didn't think of that.
Speaker A:And he just stopped.
Speaker A:He stopped doing it, took the balaclava off and then looked dead shameful.
Speaker A:I'm like, you idiot.
Speaker A:You could have just run off.
Speaker A:They didn't have your name.
Speaker A:Basically, they started taking his details to give him a fine.
Speaker A:I probably didn't go anywhere because he's a kid.
Speaker A:But still, it was.
Speaker A:It was dumb.
Speaker A:It was a proper dumb kid thing that you do.
Speaker A:And then years later, you think, that didn't work as I thought it did.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolute pillock.
Speaker A:Anyway, later on in the day, I'm pretty sure I saw that same guy in his balaclava.
Speaker A:I say, guy, same kid in his balaclava.
Speaker A:With the group of people that were putting flags up in in Piccadilly Gardens.
Speaker A:So they've got his face off on camera without his balaclava on and he was doing that.
Speaker A:Might not be the same kid, but it looked like it to me.
Speaker A:I mean, he did have a balaclava on, but looked about the same age in the photograph.
Speaker A:And there you go.
Speaker A:Says everything about those people, doesn't it, really?
Speaker A:As always, let's end the show with a joke.
Speaker A:Before I do, though, do remember that you can visit and one more thing.net yes, it's another new website.
Speaker A:I know it's getting annoying now.
Speaker A:I'm not going to change it again and I know I said that last time.
Speaker A:I'm not making any promises, but I think this one's going to stick.
Speaker A:I really like the name.
Speaker A:I just found that bug fixes and improvements.com was really long to say, really long to type.
Speaker A:You have to type it more often than you'd realize because it formed part of an email address.
Speaker A:So it's and one more thing.net easy to say.
Speaker A:Much fits more in the aesthetic than I want.
Speaker A:It's got the ampersand sign which I use for my logo.
Speaker A:You could still go to all of the other previous web addresses from previous episodes and they will all work for at least a year, but I'll probably redo them for several years just in case.
Speaker A:So and1morething.net and you will get to the website where you can submit topics for the up and coming Law and Disorder.
Speaker A:You can submit topics for the One Day Will Eventually Happen Draft podcast.
Speaker A:And you could submit feedback for this podcast as well.
Speaker A:And without further ado, two guys are robbing a liquor store and as he's clearing the shelves, the first guy goes, is this whiskey?
Speaker A:And the second guy replies, sure, but not as whiskey as wobbling a bank.
