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I dare welcome back to this episode of english
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Americacnel
Today i anna talk about an experience that changed
How i look at everyday objects a few years ago
My friend ray invited me to spend a week at his family home in richmd virginia
It was a beautiful classic american house
When i arrived
I met his parents and his brother
But the two members of the family who left the biggest impression on me were their two border colleagues
These dogs were incredible
There were like little guardians of comfort always on alert
I notice that if ray and i were just sitting on the couch
Talking
They would stay calm and watch us
But the moment i decided to lie down on the couch
It was like i had triggered a silent mission
The immediately the dog would run to another room and return with a blanket in their mouth
They wouldn't just drop it near me
They would insist on covering me up
It was their job to make sure
I was warm and taken care of i've never felt more looked after by a pt in my life after that warm welcome ray showed me to the gassroom
Where i would be staying
When i flipped on the light switch
I actually stopped my tracks
Every single inch of the four wars was covered in plastic characters
They were pez dispensors
I was looking at hundreds of them
Maicy mouse
Star wars
Super heroes
All in their original meington card packaging hanging in perfect rose from the ceiling to the floor
If feel like i was sleeping in a private museum
I had seen pez dispser before
But i never realized that actually there are people collecting those for families like rays
These are not just candes
They are are lifelong passion
As i spend time in that room
I started to learn more about what i was looking at i learned that pats actually started in australia
In nineteen twenty seven
It wasn't even meant for kids
It was a peaper manant brethmanfor for adults
Who wanted to quit smoking the name pz comes from the german word for peperament
The original dispensers actually look like cigarette lighters
It wasn't until the nineteen nineand fifty ties
That the company started putting character heads like mickey mouth on top a to appeal to children looking at race collection
I started to see the parallels to the pop mark craze
I see today
It's the same obsession with details
I learned that collectors like ray uh actually look for no feet versions
Dispensers made before nineteen eighty seven
Which do not have the little plastic tapes at the bottom
Even checked the pattern numbers on the side of the plastic stick to see
Exactly which decade e came from some of the rare ones
I saw on those walls can be worth thousands of dollars
Looking back
Sleeping in that room
Full of a plastic eyes was a bit surreal
But it was also deeply touching now
Whenever i see a pez dispenser
I don't just see a cheap plastic toy
I see ray and his family and a two border touches
I feel the weight of the blanket
That the dogs brought me on the couch
I remember the kindness of the home
That welcomed me into their museum
I think we don't really collect objects instead
We're collecting anchors for our memories
A wall of pets is just a wall of plastics
Until it becomes the souvenir of a summer
I've never wanna forget
