Shane: Mom, dad,
we have a confession.
Please,
listen to what we're about to say with an open heart and open minds.
Hannah:: Yes, we really want to be able to come back home for the 5k this year,
and this has been hanging over our heads for...two years now?
S: Yeah. H: Three years almost.
S: We hope that what we're about to tell you, doesn't ruin
the love... *Hannah bursts into laughter*
H: I'm so sorry!
H: I was trying so hard.
S: Alright, so what we're actually about to tell you, mom and dad, isn't that serious. But it is a confession.
H: Yeah, it is a secret that we've held for three years.
S: So, about...
well on your first visit. H: Yeah, May of last year - or three years ago.
S: So three years ago, wow. H: May of three years ago.
S: It's been hanging over our heads for three years! H: Yeah.
S: I don't know how I sleep at night.
S: Hannah came for her first visit.
H: On that first visit,
we were sitting at the front table in your living room while you guys were at work.
Just having breakfast, relaxing. S: Lovely day.
H: Lovely day. I was a little bit nervous. It was my first day alone with shane.
S: Yeah. H: And at one point, I tried to get up from the chair, and
pushed my chair back to try to get up, and
knocked over a beautiful decoration in your home. it was a beautiful painted pot
that was holding, like 17 pounds of dirt and a large plant.
S: And it was up on like a, a stool.
H: Yeah, it was up on a wire pedestal with a big plant on top. I knocked it over.
S: I'm staring at the window, like
this is happening to my left, and I just hear a crash. I hear Hannah go "*gasp*"
and then I look as this thing is toppling over
and smashing onto my living room floor. And we were both just like, "Oh no".
H: So I looked.
Um, the pot was broken. Big, big chip out of it. S: Big gash.
H: Big gash. Beautiful pot, it was.
And the dirt, the 17 pounds of dirt, were all over the living room.
S: Splayed out across the floor like blood.
H: And I was mortified. So, so embarrassed.
S: So you, quickly...
H: That night was supposed to be our first dinner together.
Like this was- I'm not even...
S: Yeah, like the night before you'd like, said hi to my parents.
H: I said hello, 'cause it was like 11pm, but this was our big meeting.
S: So Hannah
sprang to action to clean up, and hide...
H: And save the plant. S: any evidence of what happened
H: Yeah, so I repotted the plant with all the dirt that I could
sort of, you know, scoop back in.
S: I remember you, like, using your hands, like, cupped,
no no no, like gathering it on the floor. H: Yeah!
H: It was a lot of dirt! It was a whole pot worth of dirt.
and then I vacuumed. I had to ask Shane where the vacuum was. S: Mhhm.
H: I pulled it out... S: There's a hair right...hanging down... there we go.
S: Thank you.
H: I pulled out the vacuum, I vacuumed, um
S: We're dying, laughing. H: Yeah. I mean, I'm also like about to cry though.
S: You were, like, "Does your mom really like this plant?" I was like, "It's her favorite plant." H: Yeah!
S: She's had that for...thirty...
fourty-five years, I think.
S: Oh, she will not be happy.
H: He was doing all of those things, it wasn't nice.
S: So, Hannah gets it all cleaned up and, I mean it's pretty obvious that something happened because the plant is like
sideways now and there's a giant hole in the middle of the pot.
H: I'm pretty sure I turned the hole to the back.
H: Like I was trying to hide the evidence.
S: So that night, we're all just kinda hanging out in the living room after dinner,
and my mom's goes...she's on the couch over by the plant, and she goes,
"Oh...what happened to my pot?"
And I look at Hannah, and Hannah's just like...
S: So, thinking on my feet, or my wheels, I go, "Uh, I backed into it today."
Yeah, I might...I wasn't...I was trying to
park over there in and my chair hit it.
H: She was like, "You have never tried to go in that corner. What were you doing?"
He was like, "I was just trying to find a new spot.
No big deal. S: So mom and dad...
H: That was a lie.
S: Hannah knocked over the plant. H: I broke the pot.
H: And next time I came, it had been replaced with a different pot.
So like, I ruined it.
S: You ruined it. H: It was not...I didn't fix it.
S: Lord only knows what they
imagined we were doing that day.
H: I know!
S: Like flailing around. H: It's almost impossible for you to have knocked that plant over the way that it was, like...
H: But I apologize for the lie.
S: And you should probably bill her for the cost of... H: Yeah, I'll pay for the plant.
S: That, and the emotional suffering that you've gone through.
S: And honestly, if you don't want to let her home in June for the 5k, I understand that.
I'll be coming home because I'm your son. H: How will you be going...
H: How will you be traveling there?
S: You'll drive me there... H: I'll drop you off.
S: And then head to a hotel.
H: I'm heading back here. I'll pick you up three days later.
S: All I'm saying is I can understand if you never trust her again.
H: You were the one that lied. I was sitting there, mortified, but I was ready to be like... -
S: True, you were about to fess up.
H: ...I did that and I'm so, so sorry. S: "It was me."
H: Yeah, you. Like, me sitting there like ready to talk. You started to talk. shane: I was like I did it!!!
S: Alright, that's our confession. H: Yeah.
S: Sorry about the plant.
S: Well, you should be saying sorry.
H: Sorry about the plant.