SHOW NOTES

Melissa’s mom broke her hip at her chemo appointment at MD Anderson. The safe in their Marriott hotel room was opened and her jewelry was taken. The Pottery Barn furniture delivery went to the wrong city. And somehow Gene and Annette handled all of it better than Melissa handles a bad hair day.

This episode tells the full story: the surgery, the jewelry, and Tony the hotel security officer who spent the better part of an hour stalling and sending Melissa’s dad upstairs and back downstairs and to the lobby counter before walking over to a plain cardboard box in the corner of the office and producing everything. Tony had known the whole time.

The Pottery Barn truck pulls up at the family home in Lufkin while the entire family is gathered at the house on the phone with various people about the hotel situation. Melissa’s dad, on the phone from Houston, somehow senses the truck before anyone says a word. The episode closes with a TikTok couple quiz and Melissa ordering herself a shirt that says First of all, Jesus thinks I’m a delight.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“My parents can handle a day like that ten times better than I can handle a Tuesday. If I wake up and my hair decides to go left when I wanted it to go right, somebody is going to know about it.”

Melissa, on the gap between her parents’ grace and her own

“I’m going to need someone who works for the Marriott Corporation to contact me. I mean it. Like, Melissa@MelissaRadke.com I want to hear from you.”

Melissa, putting it on record

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