← Shannon Cason's Homemade
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Yesterday I wasn't Shannon, I was Aaron. Every day is a story. I'm Shannon Cason. Make sure you like, comment and subscribe. Sometimes I'm not Shannon. I have to turn into one of my alter egos. Yesterday I was Aaron. Not Aaron Aaron, but Aaron. E, R, R, N, A, N D Aaron. I become Aaron for my elders. It's just something I do to, to keep me patient, keep me emotionally regulated while I'm caretaking Aaron. So I had a few missions to accomplish for my uncle. Yesterday we had to go to a doctor appointment. I had to do grocery runs for my uncle, my mom and my auntie. And then my uncle needed a new phone from Verizon so I had to go there. That took about an hour for him to set up the phone, put the new number, transfer all this other stuff. It just took a lot of time and money. But Aaron doesn't mind, you know, he just takes it all in stride. A very selfless guy. Then we get back to the house and Aaron recently cleaned the whole house. So the house is looking good, smelling fresh. Still got some more to do, but it, it's good right now. My uncle gets in his comfortable spot, grabs the TV remote and tries to turn it on and the TV isn't working. Now TV for the older generations, it isn't just entertainment, you know, unfortunately, it's where that generation goes and they can connect with what's going on in the world and they can stay relevant. Like my dad. My dad is 85. He knows more about politics than me. He watches all the talking head shows on YouTube on his TV and just don't even get him started. Then my mom, she knows all the local news stories, she watches all the local news TV shows and she even still reads the local newspaper. So you, you know, she always, Shannon, they stabbing people out that she always scared about stuff. Then my uncle, my uncle could be a sports commentator. All the sports he knows, he watches pretty much every sport. And Bob Barker on the Price is Right. But anything that related to sports I can always ask my uncle. So the TV isn't working. Now with Shannon would have just handed old uncle Bible and said, you know, that means more Bible time. You know, you gotta, you gotta read this Bible. I'm gonna go hit these streets. But Aaron is patient. He's going to figure it out. He's going to figure out this issue, get the TV back on. Because actually the NBA finals started yesterday. So Ugg has to watch the finals. Aaron has to figure this out. But I get on the phone I call Xfinity. And who knew that would take over two hours? And that's one hour of me trying to speak clearly enough to this bot on the telephone so it can move me through the process. I'm totally cold switched. I think I speak pretty clearly, but I'm totally code switched to get through to this, to this bot. You know, there's multiple callbacks because I have to start over again. And just to get a human on the line it takes about an hour. Then after I get an actual human on the line, we have to go back and forth with power cycles and advanced technical support and we get all the way to the end and there's no tv. Still no tv. So I'm handing un the Bible, read some of these Bible stories. And I did, I did hook up the old fashioned antennas, like the old fashioned TV antennas to the TV so he could watch the NBA Finals. Cuz the NBA Finals was coming on abc, so. So he should be able to watch the finals or regular tv, even if it's staticky. But the people like the Xfinity said they will come on Friday to fix the box between 9 and 6pm, which is crazy. So, hey, Unk is gonna be a lot of Bible reading for you, you know, but my sister, my sister is the most competent person I know, probably. She actually took the cable box to the Xfinity office, got a replacement for Unk, and she saved a day. But Aaron wasn't bothered by that. Aaron just wants the mission to get completed. So Unk got to watch the finals and it was a good show. It was a good, good, good game. I'm, I'm rooting for the Knicks right now because the Pistons is out of it and I love New York. New York is like my favorite city, so I'm rooting for the Knicks. So the moment of meaning for me. Aaron tried the way he knew how to do it. But not every problem needs more effort. Need to just to put more effort into it. Sometimes you have to take a completely different approach and just go straight to the source. But what about you? Have you ever spent hours trying to solve a problem, then somebody else comes in and they, they fix it in like 10 minutes. Is that frustrating to you? Or do you consider it a learning experience? What's your story?