Life with Nat - EP2: A week of queuing...

Episode Date: April 25, 2024

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a little bit... I've had a few faux pas, shall we say. I'd like to start by talking about the traffic. I've had to do a voice note. I'm on the A1 and I just have to remind myself of how angry I am. Because I sit in the right lane to get off the A1. There's traffic lights at the moment and there's thousands of cars coming in from the second lane cutting me up and it's not fair

please can everybody stop doing it and just get in the right lane I was half hour late for work the other day if not more and that is unheard of of me I'm never ever late I was late I kept people waiting around because of these f***ing idiots cutting in. Just who cuts in and who sits in the right lane? Let me know. I am never ever late for anything. I've said it before and I will keep saying it. I think lateness is such a rude thing. And I was 45 minutes late for EastEnders on Friday due to a traffic jam on the A1. It was 10 past 7 in the morning. Came off the M25, got on the A1. I was thinking, I'm going to be at least 45 minutes early.

I'm going to go to the bar. I'm going to get myself a bacon bap. As I go along, suddenly loads and loads of traffic. I think, oh, what's gone on here? It looks like an accident. Every lane filled. I thought, here we go. So I sat there and sat there and sat there. And then the police car went by and I thought, yeah, definite accident. Got into the slow lane where you

come off on the slip road on the A1, right? You've got to come off. I never, ever, ever go along next to a slip road in the middle lane or the fast lane and cut in. Right. We've got it where we live up here. Right. On the A414. I cannot abide it when I'm sat in that queue for 10 to 12 minutes and I'm seeing and I know, I know I can see their faces. I can pick the cars. I can actually pick the people in them where I look round into that middle lane and I think you ain't going that way. You are going my way, but you're an arsehole. So anyway, I'm stuck on the A1. I'm going, it's 10 past seven, 20 past seven. Genuinely, all the way around. I then phone work. I'm like, I'm really sorry. I'm stuck in a hell of a lot of traffic here. I'm not sure what the

problem is. I'm really sorry. I'll keep a hell of a lot of traffic here I'm not sure what the problem is I'm really sorry I'll keep updating you get to work rush around obviously apologise to every crew member and everybody knows that there's been a problem because I'm not a late person and everyone's laughing at me nah we all cut in

we were here one time and I thought are you having a laugh nah we just cut in we cut in all the and I thought are you having a laugh nah we just cut in we cut in all the time if there's traffic I can't do that I definitely would have cut in

100% by the way this is Ellie my niece but Els with all due respect you cut in when you're not late

for something or do you no is that an always no if I'm with Jack I'm cutting in because he wouldn't have it he wouldn't wait no matter where we're going what we're doing he would cut in what do you? No, no. Is that an always? No. If I'm with Jack, I'm cutting in because he wouldn't have it.

He wouldn't wait. No matter where we're going, what we're doing, he would cut in. What do you mean he wouldn't wait? He cuts in all the time. That bit on the A414, I do tend to cut in. No, you don't. But then everyone else does it, so it annoys me. But then what's funny...

Hang on a minute. That thought, well, everyone else is doing it, so why annoys me. But then what's funny... Hang on a minute. That thought, well, everyone else is doing it, so why can't I? No, no. You can't live life like that. However, if I decide one day I'm going to be a good citizen and I sit in the other lane... You get so aggravated with the other people. And then I will not let them in, but then I sometimes do that.

But I won't let them in. I will be right up in the yes so they can't get in it it does it infuriates me if people do it to me but I can't say that I've not done it Emma I'm still too much of a nervous driver to cut in I think because I just like the concept of having to squeeze and I just and then you've got someone angry there I think that's my problem Again, I think it's rude to do it Yeah, no, it's all just a bit

And it's so rude This morning, what I didn't tell you There wasn't an accident There was a three-way traffic light As you come off on the slip road Right there, as you come off So I've had this every day this week this dilemma I've left extra early so Tuesday I went in I cut in wow I did it and she lived to tell the tale how do you

feel honestly it was the most nut but I thought what am I going to do how many times have I said cut in like if we're on the 841 I was like cut in she won't do it but I would I was so devastated at being late for work that I just thought no I've got to cut in and what happened well I've also got the added paranoia that people recognize me and I don't want people to go ah that Natalie Cassidy ah that Sonia from EastEnders she cut in she thinks she's all that she thinks she's better than all of us, which is not me so I whizzed in and my heart was pounding but I did it

but this morning I sat in it, but it was like a middle this morning was a middle Why did you sit in it though, you've done it once, do it again It was a bit busier this morning, there's a lot of traffic going on and I thought I can't cut in I can't do a double cut in so anyway, that's what's been going on, queues and queues of traffic, I was mortified, I thought I can't cut in, I can't do a double cut in. So anyway, that's what's been going on, queues and queues of traffic. I was mortified, I was late for work,

then I've been early for work as usual, thank goodness. Monday comes, get the train, my Eliza's off school, she was quite naughty on Friday. Won't go into it, but really not very nice. Been told off. I said, oh, and I phoned her up. Phoned earlier. I said, she ain't having nothing, right? She's having nothing. Everything's going.

Taking all the make-up away. The phone's gone. Remote control? Remote control from bedroom. We need to reset. It wasn't even about a punishment in a way. It was more about let's reset because you're a little girl and you think you're an adult.

And this is what you get with the teenage years. Anyway, by the by, Monday comes. I don't feel very well. Didn't feel well all weekend then, you know. Definitely had something coming on. Anyway, Monday comes, get the train, go and do my other podcast. Off we go. Me and Eliza got an hour or so before the cab comes to pick me up.

We have a wander around Soho. She says, oh, mummy, there's a Stassi shop near here. I said, is there, darling? I mean, Stassi to me is from the 90s, surfers stuff. It's such an old shop. I'm thinking, really? Do you remember Stassi? No.

No. I know it from now. But I know Stassi from years ago. It's early 90s. I'm sure I'm right. Let me know, people. Drop me a line, will you? I know, double seven, double eight, 2019, 19.

Just get the number right I'll tell you about that in a minute honestly so anyway I said okay darling we'll have a look where the Stussy shop is have a little wander around it's right next to

where we're recording the podcast so she's super lucky I don't feel well go around the corner it's like a sea of people there's a barrier I'm thinking what's going on here walk up to the shop. I'm passing

all these people, just walking past them. You all right? Get to the door. There's a bouncer on the stussy door. Go and join the queue. Okay. I'm thinking, queue for a shop. What's going on in there? There's a giant bowling ball in the window, which is quite nice. I'm thinking of people really just queuing up for like an instagram photo of a giant bowling ball i bet it i bet it was that yeah i bet you you have a little look eliza has made me queue up not made you outside stussy for 45 minutes so, I don't understand why there's a queue for a shop. So anyway, we queue up. Really quite a large queue. It's quite chilly as well.

But I thought, you know what? I'm a bit tired. I'd actually rather stand in this queue with Eliza than walk round. That's lazy, isn't it? That's lazy, isn't it? But I just thought, I'm cold cold I didn't have enough clothes on I went out Monday in a thin raincoat and I was freezing cold I got on the train it this weather is tricking you right you're getting up in the morning it looks like a beautiful day I had a t-shirt quite a thick t-shirt albeit and a thin raincoat

I was bloody frozen so I thought oh I don't want to walk around I'll just stand still for an hour I know but I did I just was tired

I was tired I just thought now let's just stand here why didn't you go to a little coffee shop I just didn't I just really I wasn't myself I'd been out

hadn't I to a charity bar on a Sunday night so I was severely hungover if the truth be told she was really unwell all weekend but she went out Sunday

and was hungover yeah anyway yeah I just felt awful so anyway we stood in this queue we were there for about an hour

because I said now you've got eight minutes you've got to go in now like Dale Winton and do a supermarket sweep because, mate, our cab's coming, darling. So we've gone in the shop and I'm thinking, what is this?

I don't get it. And genuinely, maybe I'm naive, I thought is, I don't know, is there a band in the shop? Is something going on within the shop? Is there a promotion? Are they handing out free water bottles that are usually 40 quid? You just don't know. Nothing.

Would you have queued for a shop for yourself? Let's say like... What for? A brand that you loved were doing... A freebie? No, no, no. Oh. So let's say Diptyque.

Yeah. They had like a bit of a limited edition candle. Would you queue for an hour to buy it? I really want to. You are the most impatient person I've ever met. You would not queue. We could be in Selfridges and have to go to, we could be on the top floor and you could say, oh, I forgot to get that thing.

And I say, well, it's only down two floors. Let's go and get it. And you'll say, no, don't worry, that thing. Yeah. And I say, well, it's only down two floors. Let's go and get it. And you'll say, no, don't worry, I'll order it. You've done that before. There is no way that you would queue. Do you reckon? I don't think you would. Well, in a hungover state on a Monday morning, I think I'm a curer.

It's interesting, but yeah, I'm not sure. So anyway, she got a hoodie in there purely because it's very, i don't yeah i'm not sure so anyways you've got a hoodie in there purely because it's very very clever isn't it this marketing because you're in the shop you think well i'm in here now i've got to buy something because i've spent an hour outside but also it's a monday you've never seen so many people in your life lots of tourists, lots of non-tourists, people taking photos outside the shop. Is it like a pop-up shop? Is it new? Is it just open? I don't know.

I've nothing to report on Instagram, but... But then I said to Eliza, Eliza, why? And she said it's because people are talking about Stussy and people are wearing it. So it is that thing of a craze, I suppose. But a craze when I was little was making a paper. Remember the thing with the corners where you used to put in blue, yellow and the numbers and you used to go, I don't know how to explain that.

Yeah, what were they called? Like a fortune telling. They were like, we used to put little fortune kind of things. You'd flick up the thing. Yeah. Awful for the pod. What were they called? Terrible things to talk about for the pod but yeah a craze would be a friendship bracelet or a whatever but nowadays or you'd have a tamagotchi craze wouldn't you do you want a tamagotchi abg watches there you go

which were probably a little bit expensive i know but now it's a jumper that's 120 quid. And it's a lot of money and it's teenagers. Young kids in this queue. Younger than Eliza. I blame the parents. I know what you're saying. And I'm not sitting here saying I'm right, but they kind of con you into it.

You've spent an hour. That's a whole other conversation anyway. Yeah, that's a long conversation. So anyway, I threw it out there about queues to everybody, all my listeners, and we had some caulkers back about this one. Hi, Natalie. I once queued up for the first Harry Potter book years ago at Waterstones, sat on the floor for 12 hours to make sure I got a copy when the shop opened. Lulz. That's from Harriet. I'm not sure I'd do that. I mean, I love a bookshop. I really do. They're very relaxing and I love a bookshop. But I don't think I

would sit on the floor for 12 hours to get a Harry Potter book. No, no, no. I did for the final book. I was like 14 or 15. Yeah. Just in the high street. It was just outside of W.H. Smith's. I don't know why I'm saying that because, goodness me, I wish there were a load of 14 and 50-year-olds now

sitting in a Waterstones on the floor waiting for a book. True. It would make me really happy. But they wouldn't now, would they? Because, A, they'd just pre-order it on Amazon and it would be here yeah on release date

2017 so I was 17 oh that's a bit older than I okay I think it was just the idea of no the hype

being part of it the end and being there for like the drama something yeah we all queued we all slept

yeah but also if you go to the Harry Potter studio now you know I wish I would have been around when that first

come out I mean I was but I completely missed it I didn't do it but you go there and you know it's magical

I watch the films with the kids now kids haven't read the book all the films are out yeah it's bad isn't it yeah it's not the best I watch the films with the kids now Kids haven't read the book All the films are out Yeah It's bad isn't it

Yeah it's not the best Yeah so you know what Em Good for you Queuing up To be fair I had a plastic bottle of vodka That made me very ill Oh really

Oh fair does Yeah yeah That's alright You've redeemed yourself Oh you had to balance it out Got so unwell So you just did an all nighter And got hammered Yeah, yeah. That's all right. You've redeemed yourself. Oh, to balance it out. Got so unwell. So you just did an all-nighter and got hammered.

Vicky spent three hours outside Smith's Toys Superstore, Barbie Dreamhouse, she was getting. Old Vicky here. But do you know what I found? I'm not going to read them all out. There are so many mums who have done this for toys and queued up outside Toys R Us or Smith's. It doesn't surprise me. It is mad.

And do you know what that's about? I know about the kid. That's about the mum WhatsApp group. Yeah. Like Prime. Saying, oh, I've got the Barbie Dreamhouse for Christmas, guys. That's what it's about. Prime.

I got it. I got the Prime. I queued for three hours. Now that. That blows my mind. Yeah, it blew my mind. And then it was an Audi a few months later. Oh, yeah, it's everywhere now.

Tons of it. Loads of it. But people were queuing in Tescos at two in the morning to wait for the delivery. To then wake up and go to their child. I've got you Prime, which is horrendous. And Prime? Just get a Red Bull. They were selling empty bottles, reselling empty bottles of it.

Yeah, they were putting on eBay like 50. I don't know if anyone bought them, but they were like on online. Well, people's shops were selling it for sort of 15 pounds. Do you know something? Talking of this, I have to say something. I have been known. It was the year that Edgar the Dragon came out for the John Lewis advert. Oh, yeah.

And all the cuddly toys had sold out. And I went on to wherever and I paid double for one. Well, double for two, so the kids had an Edgar. But that's because I'm a Christmas freak. But, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's a cuddly toy. It's not a drink full of rubbish. I know, but you still should not be paying double over the odds.

It's already expensive. It's ridiculous. It is. It is. But for a drink, for a drink for a teenage boy or girl, it's just crazy. And it was mostly boys, I think. But again, that's all from the YouTube channels,

the Instagram, the pressure, the TikTok, all of that. We've got a lot of voice messages, if you want to hear any of those as well. Me and my mum once queued up in a shopping centre because we saw a really long queue for a shop. So we thought it must be a really good shop for that many people to want to go in it. So we said, shall we just queue?

Because it's obviously something really good. So we got in the queue, we was in it for about an hour. When we got into the shop, we realised it was just Hollister. There was nothing going on. It was just Hollister. We queued up for an hour for absolutely no reason. It smelt nice, though. No, I'm really sorry.

She didn't know what she was queuing for, the girl. It smelled nice. It smelled nice. Just ask. What's this queue for? You're in a queue for an hour, and you've not said to the person in front of you or behind you, what's this queue for?

You've stood in a queue. Or said your mum. Surely you can't stand in a queue for an hour and not know what you're queuing for. That is. That is hilarious. No, I get it. I get it because you.

It's intriguing. You're either one of those people that you see a queue and you think absolutely not going anywhere near that. Going to run 100 miles away from it. Or you see the queue and you think, oh, what's going on over there? I want a bit. No, I understand I want a bit. But check what it is before. No, I'll even, do you know what?

I'll even go, ah, this is good. Let's get in this queue. This looks exciting. I'll even give you 10 minutes. I'll even give you 10 minutes talking to your mate, going, I wonder what it's for. After 20 minutes, you'd go, walk to the front of this queue and see what it is.

Or ask the person behind you. It's the queue for the biggest mugs. And we are the biggest mugs. It's the mob mentality. It's just that I want to be part of And we are the biggest mugs. It's the mob mentality. It's just that I want to be part of something. Lemmings. Yeah. Lemmings.

That's what it is. Yeah. All the lemmings. Right. This is a cracker. And this is, it's the opposite of what happened here with Hollister. But listen to this.

Hi, now. I remember being in Guildford Town Centre and I came across a massive queue down to Waterstones and I thought, I wonder who they're queuing for. I just joined the queue for hours, and it turned out it was for David Attenborough. I couldn't believe my luck. So that just shows you, you can get lucky,

because what a wonderful person to meet. How many hours? She just put hours and hours. This is from Emma. That's excellent. Hours and and hours and she couldn't believe her luck so every cloud maybe it is good to try to join the odd queue because you're gonna get lucky at the end of it but you still think someone else in the queue would answer the question if you went what's this for not everyone asks people don't again and also a lot of people don't talk to

each other i mean if me and and Elliot would have been in the queue For hours We would have been dancing We would have found out their whole life If you weren't hungover You'd have had a lovely time in the Stussy queue I didn't talk to a soul in the Stussy queue Not one person

Not even Eliza For an hour So that's it That's that's what have changed would have changed it for you i think it was definitely the um the hangover actually now i'm really thinking about it i was bad bad david attenborough what a wonderful person beautiful i mean of course he was in gilford yeah it's a lovely place isn't it it's a posh one it's a good one what other voice notes we got him hi nat when a new branch of wilco's opened up in the town centre they were giving away free food mixers to the first 10 customers through the doors so i queued for over an hour to be one of the first through fighting a migraine and the urge

to vomit all over my shoes lovely i don't even bake so i ended up giving the food mixer to my sister when i eventually got one the woman doesn't bake and she's queued for over an hour to get a food mixer but it's free but she don't bake the lady i love that she gave it to her sister that's really sweet I love that she gets to feel that excitement for the rest of her life that she was the first one

in that and she's got a story to tell I know this is the other thing you've got a story to tell and so would

the bloke in front of her she would have been sick all over him with a migraine throwing up everywhere all over the shop but I get it I get it. I get it. I just find it is fascinating. It's so fascinating. The cures, the non-cures, why you do it. It

is bloody brilliant. This one's great. Go on. This one's from Catherine. These are great guys. Hi, Annette. My name's Catherine from Newcastle. My favourite accent. I love this idea. Anyway, you know when McDonald's closed down in lockdown for COVID? Well, me and my kids are massive, massive McDonald's fans. So the day that it was announced that McDonald's would be open, and I think, if I remember rightly, it was open at 11am. So me and the kids goes to the car at 8 o'clock in the morning and said, it'll be chock-out, it'll be crazy. It's a half an hour

drive, let's just go now. And we'll just chill on my phones till McDonald's opens. So off we go. We pull up to the car park where the drive-thru entrance is and we sat there for two and a half hours by ourselves.

No, that car joined us. When it opened, we got to the first window and they wanted to take our photos for the first people who came after the horrible lockdown. The kids were furious. I was embarrassed. It was just the worst moment. And I will never do it again. Oh, do you know what? I hope the McDonald's was worth it was just the worst moment and I will never do it again

oh do you know what I hope the McDonald's was worth it though that story and she's even put in the after when I've put a message back saying this is brilliant Catherine and she put don't my kids are so embarrassed

and they're still livid with me how bad is that though why what's there to be livid about because they didn't want a photo being like oh they were teenagers at the time

they wanted photos to put it in the paper or something put it in the press or something like the first people at the McDonald's drive-thru they were livid

the only people not just the first people and they've queued all that time and there wasn't a need they could have just got there at 10 to 11

but here's a question right you've got there at half eight if there's no one there would you not go home again? Mind you, it was COVID. Oh, yeah. It was the end. What else are you going to do?

It reopened. You're there. You never know. You could leave and then it gets busy. That's the other thing you've got to play in your mind. What about a little, just coming up with another little thing. What about when the world went mad and there was no petrol? Oh, yeah.

Oh, me and Jack queued. How long did you queue for? So embarrassing. And I had no petrol. No. So I had to do it to get to work. But we nearly didn't make it because we had no petrol and we queued for about two hours.

And I think that was late, on a Sunday night or whatever. It was late, or like a Thursday night, and I said to Jack, we've got to go tonight because I need to get to work tomorrow. But that was mad. Queued for hours. I mean, we queued outside Sainsbury's for an hour during lockdown just to grab a bit of dinner. Yeah, I mean, I'd queue outside Londi's up the road for 40 minutes.

We queued everywhere, although it was quite nice to get out, get some fresh air. But, yeah, the queuing scenario. But fancy that, McDonald's. Oh, I love that. Thinking it's going to be absolutely so busy. Also, I love a Geordie accent, can I just say? Yeah. It makes me feel comfortable.

It makes me feel happy. It's just warm. It's never really fazed me. Do you already accent? If I'm honest. Fair dues. I don't really do anything. It really makes me feel comfort.

Yeah, it doesn't. Sort of no negative, no positive for me. Just in between, yeah. I love all accents. It's all lovely. They're all warm, different. I think, oh, it's amazing. And then I start thinking about, oh, why, you know.

I do like an Irish accent. Yeah, I love an Irish accent. Do like an Irish accent. I'd love to be able to do it properly. That's Welsh, babe. Was it? Yeah. Yeah, no, I just can't do accents.

She aimed for Ireland and then stopped off. Yeah, but if I had to think about it, you put me on the spot, that's why. But no, I'm not a massive... If I'm watching something, I can sing in Irish. Not in Gaelic, but if I'm singing a chorus song or something, I sound Irish. Sort of. Any other voice notes for us?

Have we had the one I sent you that you've not heard yet? Because that is brilliant. So we basically queued one night, literally overnight, for the Nintendo Wii on the night that it came out at Toys R Us at Lakeside. And while we were in the queue, a guy in a van drove towards Toys R Us, but he was so busy looking at how long the queue was that he drove his somehow drove his van up and on top of a barrier which then went through his

engine from underneath and everyone just looked over him and was like oh oh poor man but no one wanted to leave the queue to go and help him because we didn't want to lose our space while queuing for our way fancy being so dedicated to getting your son a nintendo wii hello claire tell me when you were queuing up for the nintendo wii yes how many years ago when it came out yeah god i don't even know my two was probably too young to even use it so it must have been and they're like 18 and 20 now yeah but what made you i don't even know when it first went well we wanted it oh you wanted it for the kids oh i see fine okay good yeah and word on the street was they were going to have a load of them at Toys R Us at Lakeside.

So we were like, right. And then we heard that they were going to sleep outside and there was going to be queues. So we was like, right, we'll go really early. So we went at midnight. Brilliant. This is 18 years ago, by the way. I'm assuming it must have been then.

When they first came out. 2006 it come out. I've just had a Google. Oh, yeah. Oh, so I must have been pregnant then. No, that's what I'm saying. You didn't even have any bloody kids. No.

So my eldest was born in 2004 and my youngest was 2006. So I probably was pregnant. Oh, you were buying it maybe 2004. You were buying it for the 18-month-old. Yeah, yeah. Because they love a computer game. Of course. So, yeah, this is what we were...

This was the pretense anyway. Yeah. And then we went and queued up overnight. Yeah. And more and more people were sort of queuing in. Sorry, I just need a bit, Claire, a bit more detail. When you say overnight, was it getting in the car, what sort of time, how long were you there for?

Oh, so we went, I think, obviously we are going back quite a few years. No, sorry, yeah. It was around midnight that we went, and it was opening at 10 o'clock maybe, 9, 10 o'clock, whatever day they open. This was on a weekend. So my mum had to come and sleep at my house, I remember that, to have the kids.

At least you got a night off. So it was like a family, yeah, family affair. So me and my husband went, and, yeah, so we went to Lakeside, the two of us on the retail park. Can you remember sort of where you were in the queue? Were you near the front? We was quite near the front. I think it was probably maybe sort of seven or eight people.

Oh, you've had a result. You've had a result. Because we didn't know how many there was. And then, you know what they're like in the shops when they don't want to tell you. And they're like, oh, we don't really know. They did know, but they were like, oh, it could be, there could be 10, there could be like 100.

We don't know. So people were just, and there was more and more and more. By the end, they were queuing like there was hundreds of people. Brilliant. And yeah, and this poor guy turned my goodness in maybe three four and started you could see was like driving and looking at the queue just couldn't believe it yeah shall i go and queue up or and and yeah just was so busy queuing looking at the queue that it was like you know the width restriction yes it's i don't know if you've ever been to the retail park at Lakeside

and they've got that, like that. Yeah, yeah, I know, don't they, all round. The black and yellow poles. The bollards, the black and yellow stripes. And this bollard was on the middle bit. And how he done it, he just went up and then empowered his engine onto this bollard, but nobody got out of the queue.

Like, everybody just looked and were like isn't that terrible but all looked at each other like is anyone going and then this went on for hours so you're all just looking he had to wait for the AA to come

so he just got out and was holding his hands like he said what have I done and afterwards i said to my husband really we should have said like gone over and said you know you've gone through all this mate you want me to no one no one well all i was gonna say yeah exactly i i don't i wasn't gonna make you feel bad but i was gonna say you wouldn't lose your space because there were two of you no one was losing their space and this man had no engine and no wee

did Toys R Us give him a wee no no one I don't think they even were aware of it because this was still like in the dark

the early hours just outside yeah and you had one guy that was kind of wandering up and down from Toys R Us at one point

who was kind of fueling the rumours of how many there were is that not jeffrey was that not jeffrey it wasn't jeffrey unfortunately but we got our way oh well that's good and where is it where's the way now i bet you put it on vintage do you know what i have no idea but i do sometimes still get the urge because the mario i was obsessed with yeah and to the point where i'd take, when the kids were a bit older

and when Mario, the platform one came out, I used to take them to school and then I'd used to just come home and play. All day. Mario, all day. So good. The whole game. And sometimes I do think now,

I wonder if my mum-in-law's still got away and I do think I might go and nick that. Why don't you get yourself... Listen, why don't you get yourself a thingy? What's it called? Switch. The Switch? Yeah, I don't know if I'd like that as much.

No, you would, because it's got all the Mario games on it. I think you would. Is it got the platform games? If it's the platform games... Oh, it's got all of them. Elliot's very, very good with games. I've got my Mario Kart. I'm confident it will.

Yeah. I'm very confident. It's definitely got Mario Kart. I feel like I'm playing Mario Kart with all'm confident it will. Yeah. I'm very confident. It's definitely got Mario Kart. I feel like I'm playing Mario Kart with all the potholes at the minute anyway in Essex. Oh, don't. Don't even go there. Yeah. Please.

I might do that. I might have a go at it. Whereabouts are you in Essex, Claire? Burnham on Crouch. I'm only asking because when it came up when we phoned you, it said that you're a baker. Yes, I am. Do cakes and that. I do, yes. Can I keep your number in case I need cakeery essex fantastic right shout out to cottage cakery essex thanks

yes and you want a cake yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna save your number in my phone and i'll let you know when the next big birthday is that's it yes thank you thank you so much. Thanks for the chat. You're more than welcome. Thanks. Bye. Bye. Fancy being in a queue? No, that is excellent. And someone having a crash and you're not going outside the queue because you desperately want the wee. But I actually get that one. I get it.

But the point is you could have split up. Yeah, but you know what would happen? I'll tell you what would happen. You'd be in the queue with two people. And when you are that fixed on something and there's a lot of people it would cause someone to get out and then some nosy person behind to be like no no he can't rejoin yeah he can't rejoin you'd have a punch up with someone so i get why everyone sort of stays in the lane that they're in that is brilliant

so to speak that's a lovely cake though claire does Does she? You ever look? Lovely. We'll keep her in the phone book. Joanie would like that Only Fools one. So would I. That's lovely. Call her for cakes. Don't call her for help with your engine if you crash into a bollard. Absolutely. Unless you need 24 muffins pronto.

Unless you can fill the impalement with muffins. Ice and sugar. Buttercream. of empowerment with muffins icing sugar buttercream brilliant love claire this is uh my final favorite of the voice notes about queuing so let's have a little listen to this one hi nat just in your message on Instagram about queuing. I think it was in the late 90s. 97, 98. Do you remember the Teletubbies? Sure do. I didn't queue.

I sent my brother four o'clock in the morning outside Toys R Us in Ipswich queuing for a Teletubby for my little boy. And he got in the shop about 10 o'clock. I wasn't his favourite person at the end of it. So my moral is don't queue yourself, send someone else. Keep doing what you're doing, girl, because it's brilliant. Can't wait for the podcast.

Oh, I'll tell you what. That's lovely. Thank you so much, Ali. And what a great brother you've got. Can you imagine your brother doing that? He would. No, he would not. I think he would.

No way. I think Don would. What a lovely brother. I don't know what I was writing last night. I'll tell you something. This is doing my brain in this podcast. I'm becoming obsessed. I'm obsessed with it.

It's good. It's good to be obsessed. I don't know if it is good. There's quite a lot going on. I'm obsessed with it. It's good. It's good to be obsessed. I don't know if it is good. Wow. It's got a lot going on. No, it is good. It is good. I just want it to be good.

So anyway, I'm trying to do the best I can with the podcast. You know, I want to get the, I want to get the listeners in. I want people to voice note me. So I did a,

I did a lovely Instagram story about the queuing and whatever that we've been chatting about. Do the story. I say, yeah, send me your voice notes. Send me your messages on this number. Post the number up.

Now, usually, I know I haven't done many yet, but within five minutes, there's maybe two or three that have popped up on the business WhatsApp. Oh, yeah, easy. Nothing comes up. Nothing. That's a bit weird look at the time i think oh just maybe whatever go go about my business look again about 20 minutes

later i think no one likes this everyone's actually now fed up that i'm going post a message do a voice note and no one's actually getting back to me now because i'm thinking how is this podcast going to work if no one gets back to me go on to my direct messages i think oh maybe people have messaged me emma morris makeup artist kindly dm me and put hi is that number correct because the profile image is of a lovely young couple and i don't really want to bombard the wrong person with a ramble well oh my god i've gone back i've gone did your heart sing no it just started pounding i've gone onto my thing click my picture i've put the wrong number on there i've put the wrong number on now i'm thinking she's had enough so i've deleted it

immediately deleted the story and then i thought oh but no, I need people, voice notes for the queuing thing. And I thought, everyone's going to hate it. Anyway, gone back on, done another story. Obviously, me being me, I've said, oh, I've made a mistake. I've put a thing up. Well, I've had people going, oh, I hope they're not Coronation Street fans. Oh, oh, I'd hate that. I'd hate that if I had a bombardment of messages come through.

Anyway, I did have some nice ones. I mean, Lynn put, can't you ring the number that you plastered all over Instagram? Loads of people, can't you ring it? Can't you ring it? But yesterday I just put, I'm scared to ring it. But I think now with the support of you two, I'm going to ring it. To re-record your message,

press hash at any time. Hi, I was just going to leave you a voicemail to say it's Natalie Cassidy here and I posted your number accidentally on Instagram yesterday and I just wanted to apologise if you've received lots and lots of really weird messages about queuing and waiting in queues for a long time.

So I sincerely just send this to you to say I'm really, really sorry. And if you did want to get hold of me, we've got nearly the same number, which is why this happened. It's 0778 20 1919, which is why I put your number on. So I am really, really sorry. But if you did want to get in touch, drop us a line and maybe we can have a chat about what messages you got because you could have got some nice ones that I need.

All right, thanks a lot. Bye. So now you've just added to their list of messages. I have, yeah. But at least I've apologised. The phone's off. Maybe they've got rid of the phone. Maybe it's gone so crazy that they've just got the phone.

And just smashed it to bits i feel really really bad imagine that's like a work phone and he gets or she or he gets really important calls and email and like the phone's constantly going in what if he's a heart surgeon or something added to that what if he's got an amazing job and I've done something, I've ruined his day or whatever, I don't know. Maybe there's a scenario where he used to fancy me when he was a young boy and she hates me. Yeah. And she's thinking that he's in touch with me somehow

because all the stuff about Natalie's come up. You just don't know. I mean, it could be anything. But I think the main thing would be they just can't stand me. No, I don't think so. I reckon they're on holiday or something. Their phone's off. Can you imagine if they come back from holiday with all that?

But who turns their phone off anymore? A lot of people do for relaxing time, especially if you're a high flyer. Seriously can't believe it. But listen to this. I'm not the only one that's done this. I'm not the only one that's done this. I'm not the only one that's done this, right? Vonnie. Vonnie's got four kids and she said she gives out the wrong date of birth

every time she goes to the GP for one of her kids. Can't remember them. But she has got four kids. She has to make it up as you go along. That one. Even I've only got two and sometimes I think, oh, hang on, I've got to think about it. I can't ever remember Jack's birthday. Go for it up as you go along. That one. Even I've only got two and sometimes I think oh hang on I've got to think about it. I can't ever remember Jack's birthday. Go for it. 2nd of May.

Is it the 2nd? Yeah it is. But I really have to think. I've got a really big problem. I've got a lot better with that. I forget my best friend Sophie's birthday every year. And it's not that I know it's around April. I believe it's about the 26th of April, 27th.

I've even gone back on my WhatsApp messages. But she's 40 this year. She's a big 4-0. Okay, so she might make a bit of a song and dance up. No, she won't. That's the thing. But it's not because I don't. Why is she not on my Facebook?

She don't. Is she on Facebook? But she doesn't. She's very, just so laid back she can fall over. But last year, her sister Ellie messaged me. Sophie had come in in the morning to pick something up. I'd gone, yeah, lovely, see you. Yeah, you said.

And Ellie put, oh, do you know it's Sophie's birthday today? She's one of my best friends. I mean, we're going to organise to go out as couples and we're going to do something really special, so I'm not going to forget it. But I still, to this minute, don't know the date. Yeah, I can't find it. And it was around the time my dad died,

so it's my dad's anniversary, right? 24th of April, that is. She had my daughter around the time all of that happened for me, right? So I also know that it's either about the 26th maybe. It could be the day after, the 25th. But I think that time in my head is a bit of a chaotic, mad time, which is why I haven't got it imprinted in my brain. But anyway.

You're making up excuses. No, I'm not. Honestly, that's what it is. We know a baker that can sort you out, though, now. Oh, she can do me a lovely cake for her. Yeah. And we'll just vaguely give it to her two days early. No, just turn up.

I really want Sophie to come on here soon. She's one of the funniest people, the driest people I know, but she's a bit shy. I've just got to coax her into it. Yeah, she's great. She's great. It needs to be a late night one where she's had a glass of wine because she's a cracker. Listen to this one.

We've got to do a crackhead. We've got to do a late night one because she's struggling heroin addict. She's a crackhead. So we've got to get her on late and just coax her in with some crack. Coke her in. Coke her in. This is funny, right? Now, Rachel Curran on Instagram, she sent me a message.

She said her and her mate, when they worked for an insurance company, her mate was giving out a number to deal with all the insurance policies, but the digits were wrong and she was actually giving customers a sex line to call. So listen, could have been worse. Had an emergency. I'll do with your emergency. What's your emergency? But it was only a digit or two out. This is what I mean. Yeah, emergency. I'll do with your emergency. What's your emergency? But it was only a digit or two out.

This is what I mean. Yeah, nice. It is easily done. And this one is my favourite, which I shall end with. And we need to try and find this on YouTube. Amanda got in touch with me and said, Patrick Coyote gave out Christine Bleakley's number live on The One Show. We need to find it no and apparently she was absolutely livid yeah i've got to find it hi nat i once sent a very

saucy text to my mum my lovely mum i didn't realize until she texted me back saying it's nice to know you love your husband mortifiedified I was. Old Sandra, getting saucy Sandra. That is very good. I sort of want to know what she said. Yeah, everybody, let's just text her and go, what did it say? Not for the pod, but just so we can. No, I'll put it on the pod. What did it say?

Come and sign. Don't be shy. What did it say? Send me a voice note. Come on. Oh, blue blue tick she's online oh oh saucy sandra she's even put what i like and she's put text to my mum lovely mum with her head the emoji with the hand up on the forehead oh it'd be funny if she comes back to us. But, yeah, look, the point, the moral of the story is people do stuff,

you know, people make mistakes. But you do actually... Sandra's having a type up. Oh, no, she's stopped. I wonder what she's thinking. What's she doing here, writing an essay? She's writing a sex essay. I mean, she really thought about that

message she sent oh don't comes through full porno video I imagine she puts all the details that really

oh my goodness me lovely mum lovely lovely mum let's see if it comes through bless her heart I was just going to bless her filthy A lovely mum. A lovely, lovely mum. Well, let's see if it comes through. Bless her heart.

Bless her filthy, filthy heart. Well, Alison MacDonald, who I've not spoken about, right? She said, this whole disaster has made me laugh so much today, so thank you. Really needed a chuckle. Hope you find them and that they have a sense of humour about it. And I put, thanks, Alison. Last night, 20 to 12. I, and by I, I mean most of Insta,

need an update on whether you have found the person whose number you shared. I imagine there are many more people than me who are invested in this absolute debacle. Completely accidental comedy genius. And then I've put, at eight o'clock this morning, still trying to find it, can't believe it, might have to ring them. She's put, half two, keep me posted. I've then sent her a voice note to say,

let's have a chat. Ignored me, half four now. Yeah, some people are at work. Some people have busted my balls all day yesterday and now they've not got back to me. Honestly. We're going to hunt them down. One of Mark's friends, Alex, has sent me this on Instagram.

I gave my number to Mark and he now doesn't leave me alone. I'm like his new best friend ever. Oh, he's a funny one. I think people get a bit shy. Yeah. I think once, you know, I've got in touch with them, they think, oh, bloody hell, you know, I've got to do something. I think it's different when they're just...

Is she typing still? Nope. No, she's gone. Maybe she sent it to the wrong person. She sent it to her mum again. Brilliant. Well, on that note, I don't want any more queuing and I don't want any more traffic.

I think my queuing days are well over. I can't believe she's gone. Maybe she got embarrassed. She probably got into the real details. Shall I just send her a question mark? No Sandra? No, she'll send it in her own time

Okay Yeah, she's been off now for five minutes Who knows? Her kids could be Yeah, something could have happened Anything could have happened Someone could have impaled themselves on a bollard outside her house She could be queuing up for the toilet or something

Oh, it's been funny. It's been a good week this week. I've really enjoyed myself. Me too. Apart from the curing and apart from the traffic. So I wanted to just thank everybody for getting in touch.

It has been a laugh this week. Hopefully we'll find a couple whose phone I've completely bombarded with ridiculous messages from strangers. And yeah, I'll see you next week. Thanks so much. Make sure you like it and make sure you subscribe to it and tell your friends.

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