Prepare to feel the love! Jennie’s (sighted) husband, Yves, makes his annual appearance to review the pair’s favourite shared low vision moments of the past year. They take you on a Las Vegas experience, walk through how they pick out new eyeglasses as a team, and ask “is my shirt inside out?”
Prepare to feel the love! Jennie’s (sighted) husband, Yves, makes his annual appearance to review the pair’s favourite shared low vision moments of the past year. They take you on a Las Vegas experience, walk through how they pick out new eyeglasses as a team, and ask “is my shirt inside out?”
Highlights:
Guest Bio
Yves Wermelinger is a bicycle technician and passionate tandem bike program volunteer with Blind Sports Nova Scotia. He enjoys gardening, the family dog & cat, and games of all kinds. He’s a loving husband and best friend to host, Jennie Bovard.
Guest Description
Yves is a man with light brown hair, parted on the side. He has blue eyes, a dimpled chin, and wears rectangular glasses. His button-up shirt is navy blue with a variety of filled beer glasses. In the background, various vintage items are on display, including Simpson’s VHS box sets, an old TV & VCR, and framed hockey cards.
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Jennie Bovard:
Hello and welcome to Low Vision Moments. It's the podcast all about those, sometimes frustrating, potentially embarrassing, but often pretty comical things that happen when you are just going about your day with visual impairment blindness and in my case, albinism. I'm your host, I'm Jennie Bovard, and this is episode number 44. This time I have a returning guest making his fourth appearance on the show. He appeared in episodes 9, 21 and 31. No other guest has been on the podcast this many times. It's my husband, he is my one true love, and he is here for our annual check-in. His name is Yves Wermelinger.
Welcome back to Low Vision Moments, my dear.
Yves Wermelinger:
Thanks for having me back. It's fun to be on the show.
Jennie Bovard:
Did I say your last name correctly?
Yves Wermelinger:
I think so.
Jennie Bovard:
You think so?
Yves Wermelinger:
To the best of my knowledge I believe that is how it's supposed to be said perfectly.
Jennie Bovard:
I've known you 20 years and I still guess whether I say your last name correctly, so I do hope that I've done it justice.
Yves Wermelinger:
I've been trying to say it correctly for 40 years and I'm pretty sure I don't.
Jennie Bovard:
Okay, perfect. So moving on. We love to make people sick with our love, and we do that, I'm pretty sure in every check-in episode that we do, and there's going to be plenty of time for that. We're going to get into that and everyone can look forward to it. Get your barf bags ready. No, I'm just kidding. But first, my love, what do you want the people to know about you?
Yves Wermelinger:
I am a bike mechanic by trade.
Jennie Bovard:
Bicycles. Let's be specific because people are always like, "You work on motorcycles?"
Yves Wermelinger:
Motorcycles, yes. Specifically I work on bicycles. I'm the lead mechanic on Blind Sports Nova Scotia's Tandem Bike organization, and I work on a lot of stuff with you on that part.
Jennie Bovard:
You're more than just a mechanic for the Blind Sports Nova Scotia's Tandem Bikes. You're the lead volunteer pilot too. So you help do all of the pilot training and you help do all the training, really. When we get everyone, both the pilot and the stoker, the stoker is the person on the back generally with sight loss or blindness, and you help me get everyone up to speed on all the best safety practices and best practices so that they have a good time. So I just want to toot your horn a little bit because you do more than fixed bikes. But please, go on. You're a bicycle mechanic, but there's more to you.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah, I'm a Taurus.
Jennie Bovard:
I didn't see that coming. Me too. We're both Taurus.
Yves Wermelinger:
I've been working out in the garden a lot lately and with the weather it's been wonderful. I have a nice fishpond that I've started to become addicted to with my fish, so that's pretty cool.
Jennie Bovard:
You've done a great job with the pond this year. It is such a nice little oasis in our backyard. We'll try to get a picture up. And why don't you tell us a little bit about what you have around the pond, so it goes with the picture that we're going to share.
Yves Wermelinger:
Well, there's a small water fountain kind of waterfall kind of situation that I have there to circulate the water and then there's a bunch of lilies-
Jennie Bovard:
You've built it up rocks.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah, and all the rocks that are around the pond are rocks that have been found in our yard because our yard is full of rocks. So every season we get more rocks from the permafrost. Hooray.
Jennie Bovard:
They rise up.
Yves Wermelinger:
What a wonderful bountiful harvest. And then we have a bunch of nice kind of flowers and small plants and stuff all around and a gnome. And this really kick-ass lighthouse that my wife made for me.
Jennie Bovard:
I made it.
Yves Wermelinger:
I hope you got a good picture of it there because it's a really cool thing that you made, and I love it because it's some flower pots stacked on top of one another and you painted it up and it looks great. Yeah, and there's some fish inside.
Jennie Bovard:
I'm loving the pond. I'm loving our garden. This year we have a really bountiful strawberry patch and our other plants are coming up nicely. But enough about our backyard. Why don't we go chronological? We do this annually. It's been about a year since you were on the podcast. Let's do this chronologically. I think chronologically, our first event since you were last here was the creepy mannequin. Do you recall the creepy mannequin? Let's dive right in here.
Yves Wermelinger:
Okay, so the problem with the creepy mannequin is that there's more than one creepy mannequin. So I think chronologically, the first creepy mannequin is probably the one that we found on the street.
Jennie Bovard:
Oh, right, yes, yes, yes. That's the one that I was thinking of, but I think I know the other creepy mannequin you're talking about too. Yes. Why don't you tell us about the first creepy mannequin?
Yves Wermelinger:
So I think we might've been walking the dog and we were coming around the corner of the park, or we were just going to the mall. I'm not sure what was the reason for going on this.
Jennie Bovard:
It's on that route. Yeah.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah. So we're going around a kind of tight turn and on a little trail, and then all of a sudden there's a person standing almost at the very end of the trail and they're just not moving, but they're kind of looking towards us.
Jennie Bovard:
They're like an adult size person too.
Yves Wermelinger:
An adult sized person wearing old-timey clothes
Jennie Bovard:
At the end of the trail where the trail meets the sidewalk, you're exiting a park in this tight little trail, you're coming around a corner.
Yves Wermelinger:
And they're just standing there for a while. And I'm thinking, well, that's kind of weird.
Jennie Bovard:
Absolutely still. And so me with my low vision, I'm just staring because that's what you do is you try to fill in the blanks and decode it.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah. And I'm trying to figure out why is this person just hanging out here? Are they having a cigarette? Maybe. Kind of a weird spot to be standing, chilling, having a cigarette. And then as we get closer I realize the legs aren't right. The bottom parts aren't the width of a bottom part. And then we realized that it was a mannequin on a couple boxes wearing a long dress.
Jennie Bovard:
It was dressed in some kind of traditional garb.
Yves Wermelinger:
Like a Victorian era kind of dress or something. It had a mousselier.
Jennie Bovard:
I don't recall exactly how it was dressed, but it looked like something you would see in a religious setting. I don't know. It was really creepy.
Yves Wermelinger:
And I think it was a little foggy, wasn't it?
Jennie Bovard:
And I think we have a picture of it, so we'll share the picture of it. And I think what was cool about that was that neither of us knew what the hell was going on. So I really thought I was having a moment. I thought, I was like, okay., It happens to me on the daily. I'm out and about and I'm just like, what the hell is that over there? Is that a person? Is that a mailbox? Is that a lamp post? I don't know. I'm going to wave at it so that they think that I'm friendly. And so I'm approaching it thinking, am I going to do a nod hello? I'm going to say, what time of day is it? Am I going to say, good afternoon, good morning? And then you swiftly informed me it's a mannequin. And we stood and stared at it for a bit because it was so strange.
Yves Wermelinger:
It was kind of scary.
Jennie Bovard:
But what stranger is there was a second mannequin.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah. So that we have two good mannequin stories. And also just to finish that first one, it's not like it was near Halloween.
Jennie Bovard:
No, no. No.
Yves Wermelinger:
Just for context, it wasn't-
Jennie Bovard:
It was summertime.
Yves Wermelinger:
It was summertime at some point, so just for that. And then yeah, the second mannequin is potentially creepier because it was and is because we know-
Jennie Bovard:
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't spoil. Don't tell them exactly what it was right away. We need to build this up a little bit. Okay. So you and I, well me, I used to love going to the store Simons, which it's like a clothing, fashion store
Yves Wermelinger:
When we would visit Montreal.
Jennie Bovard:
When I would visit Montreal. So, oh my God, my day, my life was made when Simons opened up a store here in Halifax. Not only is it in Halifax, it is a five-minute walk from our house, so it's very dangerous. So you and I have frequented Simons a number of times since it opened. I have a lot of clothes from there. My wardrobe is very Simons, even before they came to town. But we were walking through there one day, and I don't even know how to explain it. You pulled me aside and you were like, Jen.
Yves Wermelinger:
Look at this. Look at this mannequin.
Jennie Bovard:
Look at this mannequin. And I was like, what is it? What does he want?
Yves Wermelinger:
Is this mannequin wearing something weird? Is it a funny shirt? I'm sick and tired of seeing, you've grabbed me to look at funny shirt slogans and stuff. I get it, I get it. But this one was special.
Jennie Bovard:
This mannequin looked just like me, guys.
Yves Wermelinger:
Just like you. It was like they took a Jennie and made a mannequin.
Jennie Bovard:
It has my hair, except it was wearing shorts jean overalls, not a look that I normally sport. But I identified with Elaine in that Seinfeld episode where she finds that mannequin that looks just like her. Now, this mannequin had my hair perfectly, pretty much how it is right now, shoulder length, parting on the side-
Yves Wermelinger:
The same haircut.
Jennie Bovard:
Although it's also wearing a hat, this mannequin, which I am always wearing a hat when I'm not at home. Anyway, our life is not all mannequins and hanging out, walking our dog around our neighborhood. We did do a couple of exciting things last year, including we returned to Las Vegas. But before Las Vegas, didn't I pick out new glasses? If we're going chronologically.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah. So I think we went shopping for glasses.
Jennie Bovard:
And I'm not wearing said new glasses, let me just be clear.
Yves Wermelinger:
No, you haven't put those new glasses on at all yet, have you?
Jennie Bovard:
No, they're backup because when you need glasses to function in every sense of the word, you need a backup and I've learned that the hard way. But that glasses shopping experience, there are a lot of things that we did that we normally do, I brought you along. And we did a lot of the things that we normally do when you're buying glasses and you can't see anything without your glasses it's kind of a conundrum. It's kind of like, how do I know that they look decent? How do I pick out a pair of glasses when I can't see what I look like without my prescription in these glasses that I'm trying on to see if I want to buy them? It's such a conundrum. And I have to say that you make my life easier in a lot of ways, but this is definitely one way that you are extremely helpful. Do you want to explain to the people how we do it?
Yves Wermelinger:
Well, first of all, I just want to say the place that we go to they're really nice there and they turn off a lot of the lights for you, behind the counter lights and stuff like that. I think that's really nice of them to accommodate that.
Jennie Bovard:
Yeah. Well this time, that was the first thing when we walked in, they had done some renovations. I keep going back to this place because they're such great customer service. They're so good at what they do and they have a really nice selection of glasses. It's not a massive selection, which is helpful for me because that can be so overwhelming. I find if you go to most optometrists offices, particularly the big chain type stores, there's just so much selection. It's overwhelming. So anyway, I digress.
We walked in and they had done some renovations since we were last in there and it was very bright and I was trying to look at glasses and realized that they had added lights all along the walls, behind the glasses. So for most people, that's going to help them be able to see the frames better on the wall. For me it meant I couldn't see a thing. All of the glasses looked black in color, first of all. They all just looked like black glasses behind bright light.
So again, you are so extremely helpful. You're really good at saying, why don't you just ask them to turn them off? And of course, why don't I just think ask if they can turn them off? Because in that moment I was really stressed. I was like, well, what the hell am I going to do here? But you're right. They were able to turn them off, no problem.
Yves Wermelinger:
And they were really nice about that.
Jennie Bovard:
Yeah. They were like, oh, no problem at all. And so that just goes to show sometimes all you have to do is ask, and you've done that for me a number of times where you're like, why don't you just ask? And it's no big deal.
Yves Wermelinger:
Or I've asked for you sometimes when you seem uncomfortable or something like that, which is very rare. Very rare are you made uncomfortable.
Jennie Bovard:
Well, it depends on the day, right? Depends on how the day's going. You're like, I don't want to deal with any more things that are extra work. But why don't you tell us how you helped me pick out glasses because it's pretty ingenious.
Yves Wermelinger:
I think a lot of people must be doing this nowadays. I can't be the first person to just take a ton of pictures of you wearing glasses that you don't own and then showing them to you saying, okay, what about these ones? Okay, what about these ones? Or from trying to take the picture from a slightly different angle, so maybe they look a little bit better or you have a better idea of how they're going to look on the side and stuff like this. So I got a bunch of essentially mug shots of you from the slight angle and the front on wearing various glasses.
Jennie Bovard:
Right. So we go in and I say, ooh, I like the shape or look of those. I put them on. And it used to be when I was solo and in the age of smartphones only before then, it was just a gamble. It was, you just have to frigging trust the people around you and you better hope that you can bring someone with you. Because I remember living in Toronto I had college friends, but I didn't trust anyone enough to bring them glasses shopping with me. I don't have really anybody that I could bring with me when I was... I didn't have family around. So it's the age of smartphones when that came around, I used to try and take my own photo. Again, taking a selfie, even with my prescription in is like you just try your best, there's no framing it up. So you make it so much easier. I don't need to try and take my own photo and then put my prescription on and zoom in and do this and that. It's so much more efficient and such a more seamless, nice experience. With you there you take a photo and... So I think what we have figured out is we do a bunch. I try on a bunch. You take a bunch of photos and then we go and review them.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah. Because then it's the less downtime.
Jennie Bovard:
That's right. It's so much more efficient. You make my life so much easier.
Yves Wermelinger:
Oh, stop that. You make my life easier.
Jennie Bovard:
See, we told you that. It's like-
Yves Wermelinger:
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Love.
Jennie Bovard:
It's disgusting in here. But let's get onto the more exciting stuff. I mentioned we went to Vegas last September and we returned to the place where we tied the knot, as they say. And that was the first time we had gone back since we got married. So it was really, really, really nice. I needed a vacation so bad. There was so much to do and we had so much fun. Do you remember the Colossal slot machine that I never got to play? I think about that all the time.
Yves Wermelinger:
We walked by that thing so-
Jennie Bovard:
I know.
Yves Wermelinger:
It wasn't like often, but there's a couple, I think in a few different casinos and every time we walk by you're like, oh look, it's the Colossal slot. And then we just walked by and I'm like, why aren't you playing the Colossal slot?
Jennie Bovard:
But we were always on our way somewhere. We did everything but gamble pretty much. There was very little slot machines or gambling going on because there's so many other things to do in Las Vegas that don't involve gambling.
Yves Wermelinger:
This time I think I might've only gambled like $4.
Jennie Bovard:
And when I was in the washroom or something.
Yves Wermelinger:
It was while you were in the washroom and I was just waiting outside hoping to score a free drink from one of the waitresses.
Jennie Bovard:
So the Colossal slot machine, let me explain, is a gigantic slot machine that is so low vision... It's enormous. It's like...
Yves Wermelinger:
It's like the back of a bus.
Jennie Bovard:
It's huge. It's the largest print anything I've ever seen pretty much. That's one of the reasons I don't play slot machines. I really can't. I really can't see them. I just push the button and if I win, I get money. And then if I don't, whatever. I really can't tell what's going on much of the time. All these different themes that they have that don't make a difference for me. But we mentioned we didn't really do any gambling per se, but we did do a couple of things that were like, eh, is this going to be accessible? Is this going to be enjoyable? And those were a bit of a gamble in themselves. One of the things we did that was really cool was we went to, well, I think a highlight was the Punk Rock Museum.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah, that was awesome.
Jennie Bovard:
And we got a tour.
Yves Wermelinger:
A tour by the legendary East Bay Ray of The Dead Kennedys.
Jennie Bovard:
East Bay Ray. And he was a great tour guide.
Yves Wermelinger:
What a wonderful tour guide. I think his grandchild was on the tour as well, something like that. Some of his family was there with him that day or that tour that we had him. But he was such a nice guy and he knew so much about just all the facets of, especially, the classic punk scene. When we went to that other part where it was the year 2000 plus, he just kind of shrugged his shoulders and said, well, there's some nice stuff up here but I don't know anything about it.
Jennie Bovard:
This is here. The nice thing I think about... So I will say I have some feedback in terms of the accessibility of the Punk Rock Museum, and if you're someone who's a wheelchair user or you use a rollator, a mobility device to get around, you're probably set, I didn't do an audit per se, but it's quite accessible in that sense. Having a tour guide made the experience, I think a lot more enjoyable for me than it would've been if you and I had just gone and walked around a museum. I love museums and I always have, and I use the tools that I have and I use the vision that I have to try take in the experience. But when a museum doesn't have an audio tour, that was missing. If we could come into the Punk Rock Museum and when you walk into a room if it could explain, here's Devo's frigging hats and here's Agent Orange's amps, and if it could explain what's behind the glass and describe it and articulate what's written on the little cards with each exhibit, that would be awesome. So that would be my piece of feedback there. Otherwise, I think having the tour, that's a bonus in terms of accessibility. But that would be my feedback. That would my feedback for that one.
Yves Wermelinger:
I thought they did a really good job. So it was cool.
Jennie Bovard:
Do you remember the other one that was a gamble? We bought tickets and they weren't super cheap tickets. We went to AREA15, which is a complex, it's like an indoor amusement park almost with a bunch of different attractions in it. There's a vintage arcade and bar that was a lot of fun. And they had a lot of older games, which I can kind of enjoy and see to an extent. But then we bought tickets to one experience. Do you remember which one? And I was like, I don't know, but I'll try it. Because you got to try.
Yves Wermelinger:
They had a lot of different, I don't even know, yeah, Exhibits, I guess would be it.
Jennie Bovard:
Experiences, like immersive experiences, exhibits.
Yves Wermelinger:
Some of them were black light kind of, not just rooms, but black light experiences. And we did this one where it was kind of like a kaleidoscope light room with sound, and they gave us these special filtered glasses that it bounced the light around, so it made everything really starry and shimmery and stuff like that. It was crazy.
Jennie Bovard:
It was trippy. It was psychedelic in nature. Yes. So it's like a light room. I don't recall exactly what it's called, but it's like a light room and it's this big room like you said-
Yves Wermelinger:
And it's just mirrors and it's full of flashing LEDs.
Jennie Bovard:
Yep. And it's like wall to wall mirrors. It can be disorienting. But with my photophobia, my light, extreme light sensitivity because of albinism, I was not sure how this was going to go, but I really wanted to try it to see if I could enjoy it. And I think there was a time in my life where I would've been like, fuck that. I'm not doing that. We're not even trying that. Whale watching, I turned that down some quick. But, this was something that reading the description I was like, this sounds like a lot of fun. So we paid the fee. We went in and I was pleasantly surprised. And we were in there for a number of minutes, we were in there a good 10, 15 minutes because it was always changing. The experience was always changing, the directions. And there were tones, right? There was sound to go along with it. I have to be honest, when I describe it to people, I'm just like, you never need to do drugs. You never need to take any psychedelic, anything. You just need to buy tickets to this show and I would imagine is the same experience. I've not...
Yves Wermelinger:
And I would think if you just bought all the tickets for all the shows at AREA15.
Jennie Bovard:
You never need to do drugs ever.
Yves Wermelinger:
Easily you'd experience it all. And the rest of the place is just crazy.
Jennie Bovard:
It's immersive too, right? It's such a weird experience. Some of the stuff, we went to Omega Mart, which is another part of AREA15.
Yves Wermelinger:
And that was for me, the big draw to go to AREA15 was to see this Omega Mart thing.
Jennie Bovard:
We had seen it online ahead of time.
Yves Wermelinger:
It starts off as a grocery store, and then you find some secret passages through a freezer door or something, and then you're out in the Mojave Desert.
Jennie Bovard:
You crawl through secret doors, you find secret doors. There's little games all throughout the place. And another thing that we weren't sure about when we went to Omega Mart, again, I was like, I don't know if I'm going to be able to... And those tickets were pricey for Omega Mart. They were the most expensive thing in that place. So I was concerned, again, am I going to get my money's worth with this experience? So again, it doesn't hurt to ask, do you have any concessions for people with disabilities, people who are blind or visually impaired? And they gave us a small concession on our ticket. It wasn't like a, you get in free as my guide kind of thing. It was a smaller concession. But as I presented my CNIB card, it was a nice to have. It was nice to have just in case. Because there were games and things that were way beyond my visual capabilities. We did a few other things in Vegas. I was really keen to go to a show. What were the highlights of that show for you?
Yves Wermelinger:
A hilarious, I forget what it was called. It was called Vegas a Review or something like that. And it was a timeline of Vegas musically from its-
Jennie Bovard:
And performance wise.
Yves Wermelinger:
... inception. Yeah, and through performances of the various artists that made Vegas famous and popular and stuff like that. So you had stuff from the Rat Pack to Liberace and everyone in between. And it was really cool to see all the various kind of the get ups and the costumes and they had those fan girls and stuff.
Jennie Bovard:
But the highlight-
Yves Wermelinger:
The highlight-
Jennie Bovard:
Was the highlight, not when the blind person in the audience missed the blind joke.
Yves Wermelinger:
Do you want me to try to explain this joke?
Jennie Bovard:
I'm trying to lead you. Trying to lead you there, yeah.
Yves Wermelinger:
Oh, lead me. So the Rat Pack, Sammy Davis, Jr. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra or actors playing these people are out on stage, having a drink, having a good time singing a song, I forget what song it may have been, but at one point, Sammy Davis Jr. who-
Jennie Bovard:
Who I did not know.
Yves Wermelinger:
Here's another fun fact from Yves. Sammy Davis. Jr. had a glass eye.
Jennie Bovard:
Did not know.
Yves Wermelinger:
You did not know.
Jennie Bovard:
I did not know. No, I didn't.
Yves Wermelinger:
And during this whole play, he does some pantomime where he takes the eyeball out, puts it on the ground, grabs a fake golf club and swings it, and then looks using said no eye hole to view his great shot.
Jennie Bovard:
The audience loses it. And I'm like, what the fuck is so funny? I'm like, well, what did he hit... Okay, what's the big deal? Saw him swing something. What's so funny? He had to explain the whole thing.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah. I had to kind of explain that there was a bit going on there.
Jennie Bovard:
When the blind person misses the blind joke.
Yves Wermelinger:
And then I think the same actor, yeah, it was the same actor. He came out as Sonny of Sonny and Cher.
Jennie Bovard:
Again, people were losing it.
Yves Wermelinger:
And everyone's laughing-
Jennie Bovard:
And I was like, what is so funny about Sonny and Cher. Sonny is notoriously short or shorter than Cher.
Yves Wermelinger:
And in this case, they're both about the same height.
Jennie Bovard:
And so I was like, what's the big deal? He's kind of taller than he should be. Why is everyone laughing?
Yves Wermelinger:
And the actor points at his arm saying, oh, it must be because I'm so tall. But I think because the actor was Black. So people thought that that was pretty funny.
Jennie Bovard:
I had no idea. I couldn't tell he was Black from where I was. There's a lot of lights.
Yves Wermelinger:
A lot of lights. A lot of lights. It was a good show. There was a lot going on.
Jennie Bovard:
So yeah, a couple of those went over my head. But otherwise, that was such a fun little show. And I think the other really cool thing was that it was in a smaller venue, so we were able to be closer to the stage without paying premium for really close seats or getting any accommodations ahead of time to ask for preferred seating. So I mean, that was just awesome. Now we're going to move on from Las Vegas. That was certainly a highlight though. It was really nice to go back and I look forward to going back again. But there was a little highlight for me at the end of our trip. I think it was at the end of our trip, if I'm not mistaken. And this is one of the things that happened, that something's happened and you're just like, you know what? That's my fucking person. Okay, I married you for a reason. And it was when we were, is deplaning a word?
Yves Wermelinger:
Yes.
Jennie Bovard:
Is that a word? Did I just make that up?
Yves Wermelinger:
Deplaning, yes. I believe that's the word.
Jennie Bovard:
So we were getting ready to deplane. The plane has landed. All the people who can't wait, they stand up, they start encroaching into the aisle so they can cut in front of as many people as possible, whatever. I just wait my turn, but you better not try to cut in front of me because I'm going to stick my leg out. Anyway, deplaning is happening and there's a people, I think they're like a row behind us, a couple rows behind us.
Yves Wermelinger:
They must have been a few rows behind us, yeah.
Jennie Bovard:
And they are so blatantly, obviously, dickishly cutting in front of people, making themselves a priority.
Yves Wermelinger:
They're pushing.
Jennie Bovard:
They're pushing it. Maybe they have a flight to catch, but they're just being not nice. They're being rude and cutting in front of people and making it very obvious. So you and I were like, whatever, annoyed by it as we should be because it's the end of our trip. We want to get off the plane, we want to go get back to real life, I guess.
Yves Wermelinger:
We want to go see our dog.
Jennie Bovard:
Yeah, we miss the dog, of course.
Yves Wermelinger:
And the cat.
Jennie Bovard:
Oh yeah. We can't forget Kitty. If she hears us, she'll be like, what about me? So we're deplaning, these people are cutting in front of us. And as it turns out, they ended up being, of course, in front of us. Even though they were seated behind us, they ended up being in front of us as we left the gangway and entered the airport. And so we're several feet into the airport by this point, and you lean over to me and say... Do you remember what you said to me?
Yves Wermelinger:
There's toilet paper stuck to that guy's shoe.
Jennie Bovard:
It was like a long-
Yves Wermelinger:
It was a long piece of toilet paper that was just stuck to their shoe.
Jennie Bovard:
One of the people that had been gotten in front of everyone had a bunch of toilet papers stuck to their shoe. So satisfying. I'm so fucking glad you told me. It's fine. Your working eyes they do help us a lot. One last one before we go. What have you got? It's probably the same one.
Yves Wermelinger:
Okay, so first you got the barbecue that didn't work out properly because we were going to grill something and you said, ah, here, let's cut this up. And I got this big zucchini.
Jennie Bovard:
So you fire up the grill, you fire up the barbecue. I'm like, okay, let me run and get changed really quick, and then I'll get the stuff out and we'll start barbecuing. You walk into the kitchen after I get changed and start getting the stuff out. And what did you tell me about my clothes?
Yves Wermelinger:
Well, first your shirt was inside out again. I'm sorry.
Jennie Bovard:
Shut up. Not again.
Yves Wermelinger:
I'm sorry, I don't want to ruin your image. But again.
Jennie Bovard:
You know what's fucked up though is this one doesn't have a tag either and that's often the problem. Is you're like your shirt's inside out of your shirt's backwards and it's because it doesn't have a tag, so it makes it harder. But this one has a seam down the back, so I know that that's the back. But that day you come in the kitchen, my shirt's inside out, what else?
Yves Wermelinger:
And then you're like, okay, let's get this cut up for the grill. And I'm like...
Jennie Bovard:
Let me cut off this zucchini, this big honking zucchini that I bought by myself at the grocery store.
Yves Wermelinger:
It's one of the biggest zucchinis I've ever seen.
Jennie Bovard:
I went to the grocery store alone that day. It was a big field cucumber. And so as you were telling me that I was holding it and I started feeling the edges of what I thought was the zucchini, and I realized, oh shit, he's right. Yeah, because zucchinis they've got a little nubby. They've got a little nubby on the end. And this did not have the nubby. I can't remember what we had instead, but we did not have zucchini that night.
Yves Wermelinger:
No, no, no. There was no zucchini.
Jennie Bovard:
We didn't get as far as grilling the cucumber. Who knows? That could have been a happy mistake.
Yves Wermelinger:
Yeah, maybe.
Jennie Bovard:
Probably not. Hot cucumber.
Yves Wermelinger:
Hot cucumber.
Jennie Bovard:
Okay, my love, thank you for doing this on your day off work. I really appreciate it. Full disclosure, he in the basement again too guys. Maybe we'll go out to lunch today because it's your day off.
Yves Wermelinger:
Ooh, we can go out to lunch. Yeah, that'd be good. Could we call that a business expense?
Jennie Bovard:
Yes.
Yves Wermelinger:
Oh, there we go.
Jennie Bovard:
Yep. No problem. I love you.
Yves Wermelinger:
I love you, babe.
Jennie Bovard:
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