Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Perceptions, Scotoma, and the Unexpected Life Lessons from a Dryer Mishap

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 15

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Ever had a funny incident that led to an unexpected life lesson? Well, we, Jana and Jason, had quite the enlightening adventure when a dryer maintenance person came to remove giant fur ball and lost  his "hose." This hilarious misadventure had us reflecting on the power of perception and how our preconceived notions can limit us. Not to mention, it also underlined the importance of regular maintenance - not just for dryers, but for all aspects of life.

We then dive into the concept of 'Scotoma' - that peculiar quirk of the mind which leads us to overlook what is directly in front of us due to our limiting beliefs. It's fascinating how often we argue for our limitations, blinding us to the opportunities and possibilities right under our noses. By the end of the episode, we want you to question your beliefs and stay alert to what you're seeking. And, hey, if you're looking to create a life you crave, don't forget to check out StartLivingLucky.com. Get ready for a roller coaster ride of humor and wisdom, and start breaking free from your limiting perceptions!

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*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start living lucky.

Speaker 2:

Good morning. I'm Jenna, I'm Jason and we are living lucky.

Speaker 1:

I hope you are too. I'm not tooting. Okay, I have to tell you what just happened to us. Have you ever heard of a skatoma?

Speaker 2:

I think I got a skatoma.

Speaker 1:

No, I'm not talking about a skin tag or a haemorrhoid, don't you cry for me? Or a stupid song, the skatoma sooners. I am talking about. Okay, well, let me just start from the beginning, because that's always the best place. Jason and I a year ago we had our dryer cleaned out and the guy came to clear it out. Why do we even have that done?

Speaker 2:

I don't even know why they need to do that, but they need to do that, because that's how house fires start when you don't have a firebox.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so our dryer wasn't working, and so I'm like Dryer was working at.

Speaker 2:

The vents were full of fluff of rabbit hair.

Speaker 1:

Not rabbit hair. It wasn't rabbit hair, we don't dry rabbits.

Speaker 2:

40 days of lint were in our dryer vent.

Speaker 1:

He's trying to turn this into a holiday. Okay, let's start from the beginning. So we had our dryer cleared out. Now they found literally like an animal Speaking of a rabbit that's what it looked like. They pulled out such a fur ball, that it looked like an animal had climbed in there, and so one year later, five years of not getting your vent cleaned, it's a house fire. You just told me what it is.

Speaker 2:

Now we know why aren't our clothes getting dry? Well, maybe none of the hot air is getting through.

Speaker 1:

So a year later, he calls us again and he says hey, I just want to remind you that I came to your house a year ago and you are those people, those people that didn't keep up on the maintenance of your dryer dryer maintenance and I said oh yeah exhaust fence why don't you come back and we'll have it done again. So he comes back. Well, he, supposedly he so he thought. He thought that he left one of his attachments hose attachments he called it a tube right Hose he's.

Speaker 2:

he made it sound like this giant hose a big hose that he goes up into the vents now goes up into the past, the second floor and almost out the he's like so he comes and he's the nicest guy.

Speaker 1:

Okay, and he's super nice, literally wanted him to stay for dinner okay yeah, but I have to tell you this time, when he cleared out our dryer, he literally cleared. It's a whistle like it literally look like my belly button it look like we've been doing dryer vent enemas all year. There was nothing, there was nothing. And I literally look to him like I'm glad you came you know what they said.

Speaker 2:

That was necessary. It's a prevention is worth a pound of cure and a couple hundred dollars.

Speaker 1:

Anyway, he leaves, he texts us and he says I'm pretty certain that I left my hose last place I saw my hose was at your house and it almost.

Speaker 2:

We're not there anymore it almost felt accusatory.

Speaker 1:

It almost felt like my hose is at your house and I need to come get it right now.

Speaker 2:

We weren't even here we had Halfway to Tulsa yeah, we had gone to Tulsa to cousin camp and and so I am like, well, I'm sorry we're not home.

Speaker 1:

And are you talk to me? You're like I'm sorry, we're not there, we're not gonna be there. We get back, we'll take a peek for another week, so when we did get back. This is becoming a really long story. I'm so sorry, but thank you for listening.

Speaker 2:

If it's there.

Speaker 1:

I would have left it on the side of the drive when we did get back, jason went into the laundry room and he texted the guy. He said no, it's not here, definitely not here now. I had been into the laundry room to fold some clothes. I had gone in there to unload our things off the printer. Yeah, because our printers in there and to get bills out. Yeah, we have a little bill desk in there and I also had. I unpacked the, the suitcases and I did laundry laundry yep and I didn't see a big fat hose that he described.

Speaker 1:

And so he's been hounding us about.

Speaker 2:

He has a called every day, every other day yeah, he's been howling about this.

Speaker 1:

He can't make an income without that he's like I know that the last place I had it was at your house and we have. We just kept getting more and more defensive. I'm like dude, it's not here look for a hose it's not at our house. You must have left it somewhere else. Like you need to go check yourself for you wreck yourself sir. Go check your other people. I'm sorry if somebody tried to sneak off with your house looking for one of those houses.

Speaker 1:

And anyway it just felt like it became this tug of war about this man's dryer and I'm sorry of the giggles because I could have sworn that.

Speaker 2:

I looked up and down in that place specifically when in there again and looked for it and walked out. I looked behind the machines and came out and was in the middle of texting back To say to the boss to his boss saying I just looked, we know, not here we don't have it.

Speaker 1:

Stop hounding us, stop texting. And I said you know I'm gonna go look one last time and I went in there wait and I said oh does it look like this?

Speaker 2:

does it look like this thing that we've never seen before? But here's the thing. So a is not a hose, so it looks more like a butt plug. So I don't am not familiar with those, but and it's.

Speaker 1:

I am Definitely.

Speaker 2:

It's definitely a big one if it is that, but it's it's a. To me it would look like something the size of like a super huge yard sprinkler, or possibly.

Speaker 1:

I don't know how we could have missed this. I really don't.

Speaker 2:

It's 26 inches tall. It's huge.

Speaker 1:

It is half.

Speaker 2:

It looks like a 26 inch tall golf tee, the size of one of those big circus pencils.

Speaker 1:

It is so big Like I don't even know.

Speaker 2:

I've had a nickel.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so this is my whole point.

Speaker 2:

It was wedged down on the. It wasn't next to the dryer, it was next to the washing machine. How are you supposed to find that?

Speaker 1:

Well, the washing machine is right next to the dryer.

Speaker 2:

Okay. So this is a huge lesson, though, because when we train ourselves to look for something, yes, then we're, and we're not looking for. If we don't know what we're looking for, we won't find it.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Yes, there's one lesson that is what that is one lesson If you don't know what you're looking for, you'll never find it.

Speaker 1:

And I also think the other lesson is we became a little defensive. We became a little defensive and a little perturbed that he kept bothering us if I'm to be, if I'm to be real Kind of lends, lends itself to arguing for your limitations.

Speaker 1:

Yes, and I I'm like, nope, it's not here. And after we looked once, I'm like, nope, it's not here. And it's almost like I convinced my brain, nope, it's not here. And then I dug my heels in and I took a stand your brain is going to start proving you right, like we could go in there for years dust rats crawling all over that thing.

Speaker 2:

We're like we're never going to see that because we're we're dead set on it. We're not being here, we, our eyes, are not going to. Let us see it there.

Speaker 1:

And so for anyone out there, if you can't relate to our dryer hose story, you might relate to your someone in your family saying Go get the salt in the pantry.

Speaker 2:

Or look into your glasses that are on top of your head.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

I can't find my glasses and they're standing in front of a mirror I can't find my phone, or where are my keys?

Speaker 1:

Where are my keys? I cannot find my keys. And then, all of a sudden, your spouse comes in and says well, they're right here, they're right in front of you. Why couldn't you?

Speaker 2:

see this, they're in your hand.

Speaker 1:

Well, you had convinced yourself. Do you need?

Speaker 2:

to find them, or they're somebody else.

Speaker 1:

That you could not. They were not here. You literally convinced yourself, and your beliefs are so much more powerful than what you actually see. It's called a skitoma. Yeah, it's when you convince yourself of your own.

Speaker 2:

Your mind blocks it out for you, so you don't have to deal with it. There's so much stimulus around us that your mind has to filter out some of it so that only the important things are there for you. And once you've said, I already have told myself it's not in here, yes, that it's not. This is not the area where I'm going to find what I'm looking for. Yes, now I can tell my brain to shut this area out so I can focus in other areas. So now my brain is going to say, all right, I can go back to this room over and over and over again and I'm not going to find it, so I don't. So my eyes know they don't have to focus around and look and that's the whole thing.

Speaker 2:

With the salt or finding something behind the milk in the refrigerator was my big thing growing up. So if I was looking for something to eat, I would go to the refrigerator dozens of times, like I would just literally go back and forth to the refrigerator looking for something to eat and I would say mom, there's nothing to eat.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I did that too. I think everybody could relate to that.

Speaker 2:

Because we had big gallons. We had gallons of milk and she would say look behind the milk. I swear, I hear her voice clear as day. And every time I would, it was magic. Every time I would move the milk carton, milk jug I'd be like there's a sandwich or there's something and I was like it's crazy.

Speaker 1:

Because I felt like I looked here before. I swear it was not here before.

Speaker 2:

And it wasn't there. And I look behind the milk. Like mom said, it's like she's cast some kind of crazy refrigerator spell. Yeah, and there it was a sandwich or a dessert, whatever it was.

Speaker 1:

Well, I do know that the next time I see this guy, this dryer guy, if I see him downtown Winter Garden, or if I see him at church, or if I see him somewhere I'm going to purposely try to skatoma him. I do not want to.

Speaker 2:

I feel like what we should do right now is go get several different outfit changes and take our picture with this thing in different areas of the house, maybe in the pool maybe down on the boat Like going for boat rides and things like that. Put it in the mannequin's butt Like, just do different things with it. So we have pictures of the hose and we can put fake dates on it and be like, yeah, we had it the whole time.

Speaker 1:

I feel really badly, like I really feel like I owe him a huge apology.

Speaker 2:

I texted him, so I'll probably be taking it to him tomorrow or Thursday while you're traveling. I just I feel terrible and I'll tell him that you had it hidden because you were using it for other purposes. It was a skatoma.

Speaker 1:

I had a skatoma.

Speaker 2:

It was a BP and he's going to be.

Speaker 1:

What is a skatoma?

Speaker 2:

He's going to think it's a skin tag or something. You'll have to listen to the podcast on Wednesday.

Speaker 1:

Please, please do. I know that I'm sorry. Ok, woo, that was.

Speaker 2:

Be careful of what you're telling yourself isn't there, and also know what you're looking for, so you don't throw up skatomas in your way.

Speaker 1:

Good lessons. Good lessons today, and get your dryer event cleaned, maybe not every year, but at least every eight years. It's a fire hazard, you know.

Speaker 2:

Do it more often than not.

Speaker 1:

Have a great day, guys, bye-bye. If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at startlivingluckycom.