AEE: I Walked Right Past It: Connection in Life's Messy Moments

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What is the main topic of connection in life's messy moments?

Michelle Kaplan 0:00

This is an all ears English podcast. I walked right past it. Connection in life's messy moments.

Lindsay McMahon 0:10

Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection. With your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl. coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Do you tend to lose things even when those items like your sunglasses or your wallet are right in front of you? If so, you're not alone. Today, find out what to say when you make this mistake because life is full of these silly moments.

Unknown 1:13

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Lindsay McMahon 1:36

Hey there, Michelle, what's shaking?

How can focusing on connection help with English fluency?

Lindsay McMahon 1:38

What's going on?

Michelle Kaplan 1:39

Hey, Lindsay, not too much. Lindsay, have you ever been on the phone and looked for it while you were on it? Oh, yeah, of course.

Lindsay McMahon 1:47

Yes, of course. Or Michelle, have you ever looked for your sunglasses and not realized they were on your head? Yes.

Michelle Kaplan 1:53

Yes, of course. Um, yeah. So I, I have, I think we spoke about this recently, but this is a very, I think this is pretty common. I think everybody can relate to this kind of moment where you're like, Oh my God. Um, but yeah, like the face plant moment, right. Where we, yes. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You're looking for something and then it's in a super obvious place or in the fridge. Do you ever ask, like, I'll say to Dan, like, where is the Greek yogurt? And it's like, it's right. there.

Lindsay McMahon 2:23

It's right there. Oh, yeah. No, no, for sure. I'm not very good at looking for things and finding things. They're usually right in front of my face, right?

Michelle Kaplan 2:30

Exactly. Exactly. So this is a, I think this is a universal situation that people find themselves in. So we're going to talk about how to describe this situation in English because This is great for storytelling, for teasing yourself. So it's one of those things that seems like such a, like a kind of a silly topic, but can actually bring about connection. And it's fun. Like it's lighthearted and it's fun.

Lindsay McMahon 2:57

Yeah. And this could be, these phrases could be useful even, let's say, in the work break room. If you're looking for something that you left there, your coffee cup, right? Your special coffee cup.

What common experiences do people have with losing things?

Lindsay McMahon 3:08

And it's right there. Or at home or at a friend's house. So it's going to be really useful all over the place.

Michelle Kaplan 3:15

Okay. Yes, exactly. So, all right, guys, before we get into it, we want to remind you to hit the follow button wherever you're listening to All Ears English so you don't miss anything.

Lindsay McMahon 3:24

Yes. Hit follow now, guys, if you believe in our philosophy, which is connection, not perfection. All right. All right. So we've already given some hints to our listeners of what we might say. I think we both said earlier, it was right in front of my face. Yes. Right. Yes.

Michelle Kaplan 3:40

Yeah. So I love this one. I mean, it was right in front. It doesn't have to have been right in front. It doesn't have to be literal. Yeah. But it's just saying it was so close to me. It was in such an obvious spot. So I was looking everywhere for my wallet and then it was right in front of my face.

Lindsay McMahon 3:58

I wonder why the human brain does this. I wonder if it's because there's just a lot of other chaos going on and we just don't identify the item as the thing we're looking for because our eyes pass over it.

Michelle Kaplan 4:10

Yeah. Right. So I always sometimes I feel like, oh, whatever I'm looking, I like personify it. Like I feel like whatever I'm looking for, it exists somewhere and it's kind of laughing at me.

4:21

Yeah.

Michelle Kaplan 4:21

That's funny. It knows I'm looking for it and is laughing at me. It's somewhere. It is somewhere, right?

Unknown 4:30

It is.

Michelle Kaplan 4:30

Lindsay, is there something in your life that you feel like you always misplace?