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Title    : Conversation 34: Two students on leisure interests and part-time
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M1048: I was so glad we got up late this morning. Well, I didn't get up
late, I got up early. //I-//
F1049: //I didn't even realise you'd got up.//
M1048: But, I had, I got up cause I was awake, //[laugh] bu-//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: but erm, no, I really wanted to read my book because I was really
kind of traumatised i- [laugh] by it last night. //erm and I wanted to
g-//
F1049: //Did you have the radio on?//
M1048: Uh-huh, I put the radio on, I put the //I put it on, er//
F1049: //I think that's what I woke up to.//
M1048: I put it on on the laptop,
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: because it's easier to turn the volume down on it. Erm I needed some
kind of distraction //cau- [laugh] cause I//
F1049: //[inhale] Was it really upsetting you?//
M1048: I was readin and I don't like it to be too quiet, so, yeah.
//[sniff]//
F1049: //What time did we get up?//
M1048: Erm, ma alarm clock went off at nine, so I //bounced out ma bed at
nine//
F1049: //I didn't even hear it.// //Right.//
M1048: //to switch it off so that you didn't notice that it was on.// //Erm
and then//
F1049: //Ian sent one, Ian had texted me back at like// half two in the
mornin, but I didn't even get it until ten.
M1048: Oh right, I I seen there was a message on your phone at some //point
when I got up this mornin.//
F1049: //And that would have been Ian.//
M1048: Er
F1049: He was just saying "that's me going to bed now", and I was like
M1048: "Great, thanks for texting me //to to let me know". [laugh]//
F1049: //Yeah. [laugh]// //That was awesome, thank//
M1048: //[laugh]// //Erm,//
F1049: //you.//
M1048: wh-wh- when I got up at nine to switch the alarm clock off there was
a text frae Catherine,
F1049: Mmhm.
M1048: erm sayin that she was, er, I think she was on a train, and er askin
if I was going to Maths, so I invited her to breakfast.
F1049: [laugh] //And Janice texted me.//
M1048: //[laugh] Erm.// Janice texted? What did she say?
F1049: Just like, "do you want to do something this weekend?" and stuff, so
I said they could all come round to mine if they want,
M1048: Cool.
F1049: like, and I don't know who, Daniel, Kayleigh,
M1048: On Saturday?
F1049: I think so, //cause//
M1048: //Cool.//
F1049: Janice and Ed will be goin out for dinner on Friday night.
M1048: Right.
F1049: Erm, I'm not workin Sunday, so I don't have to get up. //And mum and
dad are away//
M1048: //I'm off Saturday.//
F1049: on Saturday night as well,
M1048: Right. //Where are they goin?//
F1049: //cause they're goin,// you know how they went to that wedding?
M1048: Uh-huh.
F1049: Well it's like the sister of the guy that they went to the wedding
with's play.
M1048: Right.
F1049: And she's like, I don't know, it's like her first lead or something.
//Her name's Ray. They're all going to see Ray in the play.//
M1048: //Oh right.//
F1049: And erm, //[laugh] Yeah.//
M1048: //Ray in the play! [laugh]//
F1049: And I wasn't invited. //Mmhm.//
M1048: //You weren't invited. Mm.// That was nice of them.
F1049: They said "You could go some other time in the week if you really
want to go".
M1048: Oh right. //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh] Dad's like "You're working".// //Mm, yeah.//
M1048: //Great. Er,// //I've got Saturday off, because [CENSORED: forename]
said she would work it.//
F1049: //[inaudible]//
M1048: Erm but now Alan wants to swap with [CENSORED: forename] [laugh] so
that [CENSORED: forename] will be workin the two till ten and Alan gets to
work ma twelve to eight. Er, so yeah, //but//
F1049: //What's she doin?//
M1048: I I don't know. She seems quite happy to work it, so //I do-//
F1049: //That's the first time I've really spoken to her, on Saturday
there.//
M1048: She's alright. I thought she was goin to be a bit kind of snobby and
stuff, but she seems //alright.//
F1049: //I don't know. She looks grumpy, but// //I think she's not
really.//
M1048: //She does, but she's actually quite nice. She was kind of grumpy wi
me, but// she was doin it jokingly, and it took me a wee while to realise
that she was carryin on and not gettin me into bother for stuff. //She's
like "You're as bad as Rankin".//
F1049: //[laugh]// //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh] I just thought "Oh, no".// //[laugh]//
F1049: //I'm sorry. [laugh]//
M1048: Er, yeah, but I've got the the karate er championships on Saturday,
so,
F1049: Is it like a competition or?
M1048: It's just like a club competition, //so erm//
F1049: //Right.//
M1048: it's more for the kids //erm but//
F1049: //Mm.//
M1048: I'll probably need to like join in because there'll be people whose
like eh partners for team kata won't have turned up, so
F1049: That's a shame.
M1048: I know. Erm, there's there's like tons o, not tons of them but a few
groups of like older people that are that are doin it, the kind o [tut]
senior grade
F1049: Mmhm.
M1048: and er, I I reckon there'll be a few o them won't turn up, so
there'll be like a few of them that won't have a team, so if they're just
missing like one person I'll join in.
F1049: Mmhm. Are you judging or
M1048: Well, er I think I'll be doin like some judgin, but not all of it,
//er//
F1049: //Mmhm.//
M1048: so I think for kata it's gonna be other judges, but I'll be judging
the junior kumite //so er, yeah, looking forward to that.//
F1049: //Cool.// I present the prizes, //That's ma job. [laugh]//
M1048: //Cool. [laugh] I don't think I'll get to present prizes or anything
that exciting.//
F1049: People get photos taken with me. //[laugh] I know.//
M1048: //[laugh] Great. [laugh]//
F1049: Last time, it was the Irvine one.
M1048: Right.
F1049: And all the wee kids were like "Can I have a photo of you with my
//medal?" and I was like//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: "Okay, you know that I don't actually", [laugh] //"it's just ma dad,
it's fine".//
M1048: //Yeah, yeah.// //Erm,//
F1049: //Mm.// We're havin a, what do you call it? A, not a play, it's like
a
M1048: Presentation?
F1049: Uh-huh. Soon.
M1048: You are?
F1049: Our club.
M1048: What for?
F1049: I think it's for Civic Week. I think we a-, we usually do one,
//like a demonstration.//
M1048: //Right.// //Oh right, uh-huh, yeah.//
F1049: //Erm,// doin one o them for Civic Week I think.
M1048: Oh right, cool. I-, what do yo- what do youse do for it?
F1049: Well I don't know, cause like the guy that my dad went to the
wedding that was the best man,
M1048: Uh-huh.
F1049: he's Sammy, he used to like train ma dad.
M1048: Uh-huh.
F1049: Er, so they used to have really cool ones like where you'd have the
//table set up and they'd all be, [laugh], no they'd all be like playing
cards and then like//
M1048: //You juggled wi fire or something! [laugh]//
F1049: a fight would start and then somebody would get flipped over the
table and //there'd be like massive jumps and stuff, it'd be really
good.//
M1048: //Oh wow! [laugh]// //[laugh]//
F1049: //And Jack always does// this thing where they like, he breaks like
six bits of wood in a row and then he gets hit with sticks across his back,
and it ends up, he's got big red marks, it's horrible. Dad hates doin it.
//But Jack always insists//
M1048: //Right.// //[laugh]//
F1049: //that he's fine and he's, [laugh] you know, he wants to do it.//
But they had this thing in the Metro the other day, and it was this guy
that had like broken his fist and all his wrist cause he punched oak,
M1048: He punched oak? //[laugh]//
F1049: //Uh-huh, I just seen it on TV, he like// //I think he full on
punched it so he didn't do the//
M1048: //[laugh]// Oh right, uh-huh, I've I've never tried it, I've never
even thought about tryin it because I don't think I'd be able to break
wood.
F1049: It's easy. //Really easy.//
M1048: //Is it? Really? What kind o wood though?// //Balsa! [laugh] Yeah.
[laugh]//
F1049: //Eh, [laugh] it's something like that.// It's just like pine I
think they use.
M1048: Pine. I I don't think pine's that hard to to break, I don't know.
I've never tried it.
F1049: It's just the way you hold it more than //anything, it's like//
M1048: //Right.//
F1049: the way that somebody holds it for you.
M1048: Put pressure and you're hittin the centre so it's //it's making a//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: a pressure point on it.
F1049: And the way that the grain's runnin.
M1048: I was in erm you know the kinda, er the weight trainin shop that's
on er, see as you come out Central, you come out the downstairs
//entran-.//
F1049: //Workout World?//
M1048: Uh-huh, in there. Erm and I went in and I was just havin a look at
stuff. I was actually lookin for them mitts.
F1049: Mmhm.
M1048: But all their mitts were like boxin gloves. I was quite annoyed, but
erm I seen like this huge big punchbag, and I always thought, see the ones
that you don't hang from the ceiling, they were always like quite //flimsy
and would just fall over.//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: Whereas this one, I don't know what they've used to weigh it down
but it weighed a //ton.//
F1049: //Sand?//
M1048: And I was actually kickin the hell out of it //[laugh] and it was,
it was takin it pretty well//
F1049: //Mm?//
M1048: er in the middle o the floor and the guy was //just lookin at me, I
was like "Yeah,//
F1049: //[laugh]// //[laugh]//
M1048: //lookin for mitts", [laugh]// so he showed me the mitts, like the
wee soft ones.
F1049: The ones that are just
M1048: Uh-huh, like they just cover and no more, it's not like huge //big
boxin gloves.//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: Erm and he had, I think they had them behind the counter or
something, but er yeah, I was quite impressed. They were a tenner. //So I
quite fancy a pair o them. That is, it's no bad.//
F1049: //Mm, that's no bad.// Dad gets some new pads
M1048: Oh, I I really want a pad at home.
F1049: His was only like fifteen. He was really //impressed.//
M1048: //Fifteen?// //What kind o pad?//
F1049: //Somebody was sellin them and he just// it was the the banana one,
//and an armpad.//
M1048: //Right.// Superb!
F1049: I think they were both twenty-five or something. //Cause that's the
first time//
M1048: //Wow.//
F1049: we've had like an armpad. It's for erm kicks.
M1048: Right. Er, does he keep them at home?
F1049: No, they're in the hall.
M1048: Right.
F1049: He's got two at home just now, he's got the two that he just bought
at home cause the hall's //broken.//
M1048: //I'll come down then for a shot, okay?// //[laugh]//
F1049: //Right. [laugh]// We'll have them in the hall until ni- the ninth.
M1048: I I should really come and train with youse, but I cannae train with
youse just now cause I'm er trainin wi ma own club.
F1049: Mmhm.
M1048: Erm, //I'm gonnae go on Friday, I I really need to go on Friday,//
F1049: //I'll need tae go back.// Mm.
M1048: erm, er I think I- I'll go home on Friday maybe afternoon cause I
might stay in the morning an try an get something done. That's tomorrow,
isn't it?
F1049: Mm.
M1048: Erm try and get something done tomorrow and then //I'll just
drive.//
F1049: //Well if Cat's comin up you could//
M1048: If Cat's comin up in the mornin I'll just drive, drive home with
her, erm what are you doin tomorrow?
F1049: Ehm, stayin at Ian's tonight, //so I'll just//
M1048: //Mmhm.//
F1049: be there tomorrow, I don't know what I'm doin.
M1048: Right. If you want a lift home, gi- give me a shout.
F1049: It depends what time, I'll probably not be up until like three.
//[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]// Lucky bitch! //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh] Oh.//
M1048: Catherine's gonna get me up at nine.
F1049: I know.
M1048: Maybe she'll come and cook me breakfast though, again cause she done
everything this morning except for the eggs.
F1049: I feel really bad that I didn't help but I know that //if I helped
something would go on fire.//
M1048: //No, she knows that you can't.// //[laugh] She told me that//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: she said erm [sniff] when we in Morrisons and you were at like at
the watermelon and stuff, //and ehm//
F1049: //[laugh]// Really //wanted it.//
M1048: //She looked// at me and gave me this like strange look and I was
like "Yeah, I know, you're on an adventure again". //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh] She's like "Every time I go out with you two, it's on a
bloody adventure", I was// //"Oh right."//
F1049: //Janice said that to me as well.//
M1048: [laugh] It's like an epic. //[laugh]//
F1049: //Uh-huh. [laugh]// //And something happens and you have to like lie
your way out of something. [laugh] Uh-huh.//
M1048: //[laugh] Yeah. [laugh]// Ehm, I I I really liked this morning
though, when she came round for breakfast.
F1049: It was really good actually.
M1048: I'm really surprised Paul didn't come but Paul's like //that
sometimes.//
F1049: //He was bein weird today.//
M1048: you know, he's always like that, like see if he's got a class to go
to, he won't, like we were missin the same class //and he wouldn't
uh-huh.//
F1049: //As him? Really.//
M1048: But he wouldn't miss it. Ehm,
F1049: Dan's like that.
M1048: I don't know, that's kinda, that's kinda strange, although he misses
classes, like he doesn't not miss classes, //but//
F1049: //Right.//
M1048: do you know what I mean?
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: Ehm, so I was quite surprised and then he said that he would think
about coming down, after Maths, ehm and then he didn't even text me back, I
texted him "Mm! //Breakfast is good!"//
F1049: //[laugh]// //He didn't text you back?//
M1048: //[laugh]// //No, I told him to bring Neil as well and he just
totally blanked me.//
F1049: //Mm?// Mm. Oh well.
M1048: So erm yeah, I was quite annoyed about that. Catherine was in a
really good mood today.
F1049: She was.
M1048: ehm, I was glad she was there though cause she knows how to cook
//and I had no clue.//
F1049: //Uh-huh. [laugh]//
M1048: I know roughly how to cook things but
F1049: I've got no idea. //[laugh]//
M1048: //No.// I know. [laugh]
F1049: Although I did make rice last night.
M1048: Rice? //Wow, how do you make rice?//
F1049: //Mmhm.//
M1048: Can you do it?
F1049: Yeah.
M1048: Really?
F1049: I don't know, Mum started //it. [laugh]//
M1048: //Yeah, I thought that. [laugh]//
F1049: Yeah. I came in and I was like "I'm hungry", //cause we had been
drivin for like four hours,//
M1048: //[exhale]// That's right. [laugh]
F1049: And ehm mum's like "Right, what do you want?", so she said she'd
make me sweet and sour chicken, and I was in charge of like the rice.
Although she started it //and finished it, and I was in charge of stirring
it. [laugh]//
M1048: //Yeah, yeah, yeah. [laugh] I thought it would be something like
that.//
F1049: Yeah.
M1048: Mum made erm
F1049: It was so good though. //[laugh]//
M1048: //er, I've n- I've never never made sweet and sour in the house.// I
love eatin Chinese out though, I don't //really like Chinese//
F1049: //Me too.//
M1048: in the house, it's just no the same.
F1049: If you're gonna have Chinese you should do it properly. //[laugh]//
M1048: //That's right. [laugh]// Spend a fortune on it. //[laugh]//
F1049: //Uh-huh [laugh]// Well I'm always, it's just a fiver, you know,
it's not //that much.//
M1048: //Yeah, it's no that much,// especially when I don't eat any of the
meat from it, and it's just like basic fried //rice.//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: But it's still good. //Yeah.//
F1049: //Involves Chinese.//
M1048: Mum made erm
F1049: I hope we can get it tonight, I hope I can convince Ian to [laugh]
get it for dinner. //He'll be like, "Do you want to go out?" and I'm like
"Mm".//
M1048: //[laugh] Well n-// Can we phone in Chinese? Th- that's //that's//
F1049: //But there's such a good Chinese just across from him.//
M1048: Really? Oh, I I I think it looks kind of minging //though.//
F1049: //It does, it looks horrible, but it's amazing.//
M1048: Chinese-cum-kebab shop, //co- [laugh] how manky//
F1049: //Cum-pizza place, I know. [laugh]//
M1048: does that look?
F1049: It's so good, I mean the pizzas out of there are even good. //They
are!//
M1048: //No they're not, it's like a stupid base, it's not even a real
one.//
F1049: Kyle.
M1048: It's not a //real pizza base, [laugh] it's not.//
F1049: //It is really good, and they do like// pizza and chips and Coke for
a fiver.
M1048: Oh aye aye and they do a huge one, like a huge pizza, and all that,
er you get a big bottle of Coke and chips and something else for a tenner.
F1049: Really?
M1048: Uh-huh, oh it's like huge.
F1049: But if you want chips, you need to go to Checks down there.
M1048: Checks?
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: What is Checks?
F1049: It's like a chip shop, it's got like the most amazing guy in it,
he's so funny. //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]// //[laugh]//
F1049: //He's so like not somebody that should work in a chip shop.//
[laugh] I don't know. He's just amazin.
M1048: Can you imagine [CENSORED: forename] fae Henley's workin in //in a
chip shop. [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh] "Is that in or out o batter?"// //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// That's a shame, she's lovely.
M1048: She is lovely, I really like her.
F1049: You.
M1048: I didn't even notice Helen had her hair done yesterday.
F1049: I don't know whether she'd had it done or if it was just
straightened.
M1048: Ma-, aye maybe it was //just straightened, cause she//
F1049: //It was maybe just straight.//
M1048: make-up on as well. Did you notice the lipstick all over her like
take-away //cup? [laugh]//
F1049: //Oh! [laugh]// //[laugh]//
M1048: //You know how they've got white lids? [laugh]//
F1049: I suppose if she was goin to that funeral she was like
M1048: Oh I know, di- did you hear me sayin to her [laugh] //[laugh] "Enjoy
yourself!"//
F1049: //I know!//
M1048: She laughed, //but.//
F1049: //Sh- she went "That's not even// //funny." [laugh]//
M1048: //No, that's not funny. That's// //that Anna, as well, [?]should
have seen[/?] her face. Oh! [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// And you wi the chairs. I told my mum about the new
chairs. She's not even that excited. I think it's cause she's never been. I
was so tempted to take her last night, but then I thought no, they'll be
//closed, when we were lost//
M1048: //Yeah.// //Mu- mum doesn't get it,//
F1049: //at Partick.//
M1048: er I brought my mum up, I brought my mum up one day with Pauline,
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: and er my mum was not impressed at all. //She didn't like it.//
F1049: //Really?//
M1048: How can you not like Henley's? //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// Just go and sit outside. //[laugh]//
M1048: //Yeah.// What do you mean your beans should be on your toast, get
out! //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: [sniff] Although I hate taking Pauline places sometimes,
F1049: [sniff] //[laugh]//
M1048: //like see how cheeky she can be to [?]waiting[/?] staff,// like
"Can I just have ketchup!" It's the way she says it.
F1049: We were in China Buffet King the other night.
M1048: Who with?
F1049: I was with Ian, it was after the Science Centre, and ehm we were
just sittin and like we'd finished and he'd had ice-cream, and we'd like
fallen out but not really. And ehm, he w- he was like not speakin to me.
And he like went to like push his bowl as if like "Hm" and he like knocked
everything off the table, and I was like,
M1048: [inhale] //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// And you know how that way they're so attentive, so they
totally run over //and I was like "Jesus".//
M1048: //Yeah, oh that's right.// Oh, you'd be like //ask you every five
minutes, smiling.//
F1049: //I was so embarrassed.//
M1048: [laugh]
F1049: And then he dropped curry sauce all the way down his jeans. //That
was nice.//
M1048: //Great. [laugh]// //[sniff]//
F1049: //[tut]// //Uh-huh. [laugh]//
M1048: //I qu- I quite like// it in there, I think I've only been in once
though.
F1049: I've been in so many times. It's always the place you go when you're
really hungry. //[laugh]//
M1048: //Yeah, I'm always really skint and can't afford it though.//
F1049: I know!
M1048: Remember the ni- the night we went up to, when we went up to
Edinburgh to meet //Linny and er Miriam?//
F1049: //Mm.//
M1048: And that stupid girl that came //and sat there and didn't eat?//
F1049: //[exhale]// Uh-huh.
M1048: Oh, it's like, how, how could she, do you know what I mean?
F1049: What was the point in coming? //She knew we were going to a
restaurant.//
M1048: //[laugh] I know! We're going to the Chinese, do you want to
come?//
F1049: Yeah.
M1048: Oh yeah yeah //I'll come//
F1049: //I'll just have a water.//
M1048: I'll just have a water. //It's like what, it wasnae even that
dear.//
F1049: //[laugh]// O- why would you go to //a restaurant?//
M1048: //I I know. [laugh]// For a glass o water. And even the even the wee
Chinese people were like
F1049: Something wrong? Uh-huh.
M1048: Ju- just water? [laugh] //[laugh]//
F1049: //What's wrong with this girl?// //I haven't seen//
M1048: //Mmhm.//
F1049: Miriam in ages, she's comin back down //before//
M1048: //I haven't seen Linny.//
F1049: I know. Linny's comin back down for Lynn's big sister's twenty-first
but I'm going to take them out Sunday that night.
M1048: [tut] Ah, erm Linny's been home every weekend but I just never see
her.
F1049: Really?
M1048: Cause like I think on a Sunday, she goes to church on a Sunday
night. And most of the day Sunday she spends with her parents; they go out
for lunch and stuff like that. So erm and Sunday night she spends at church
as well, so she's like at church all day Sunday practically.
F1049: Yeah.
M1048: And on a Saturday I think like she tries to get work done and stuff
like that so I never ever see her, and I'm workin most Saturdays.
F1049: Yeah, and Sundays.
M1048: But remember, do you remember we wrote a letter to her?
F1049: Mm
M1048: We wrote like this like five, //no, five million//
F1049: //Uh-huh, ten//
M1048: page long //yeah.//
F1049: //Not like eleven pages or something.// //I saw it in Henley's.//
M1048: //It was huge.// Er me and Cat just kept swappin, writin more and
more and more. So Cat said yesterday I think that she'd posted it, so she
might get it tomorrow,
F1049: Mmhm.
M1048: but at her flat, so she should get it before she comes home.
F1049: Right.
M1048: Erm, I think she'll give me a wee phone when she gets it //cause//
F1049: //Yeah.//
M1048: she'll just sit and laugh all the way through it.
F1049: [laugh]
M1048: It's one of those letters that's like completely pointless, there's
nothing in it //that's like//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: really that good content but she'll just laugh all the way through
it. //And out of curiosity she'll just follow it right through.//
F1049: //So it's nonsense.//
M1048: Yeah.
F1049: I saw postcards at the Science Centre that I was going to send to
Miriam cause they were really cool, but they were like a pound //fifty or
something for a postcard. [laugh]//
M1048: //Yeah. [laugh]//
F1049: Yeah, can't afford that. //[laugh]//
M1048: //Two for a fiver! [laugh]//
F1049: And Ian got into trouble for opening his juice in the shop, so we
got like chucked out.
M1048: The the wee shop, it's like tiny, right, and er see when I was
working in Towerlands
F1049: What wee shop's tiny?
M1048: The wee shop in the Science //Centre, right?//
F1049: //Uh-huh, yeah.//
M1048: Erm when I was workin at Towerlands we went to the Science Centre,
that's how I've been.
F1049: Mmhm.
M1048: And er there was like five million kids there, there was like every
primary and er [laugh] they were all there and they were like queueing in
this shop, well, you know how it's like a wee square?
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: And then there's like wee squares in it in the aisles and stuff,
they were queued like right round every aisle. [laugh] //And [laugh]
they//
F1049: //Aw.//
M1048: couldn't move, like to go and see things, //cause o all the people
queued.//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: So there ended up people in the queue that [laugh] got to the
checkout and had nothing because they couldn't get //anything.//
F1049: //Aw! [laugh]//
M1048: It was absolutely hilarious. [laugh] And then the headmistress was
shoutin at them all tellin them to move, get out. //"Time's up folks",
[laugh] I was like "Aw!"//
F1049: //Aw! [laugh]// //[laugh] It was//
M1048: //[laugh] Mmhm.//
F1049: really busy when we were there with schools, and you'd think because
it was like //May Day, uh-huh.//
M1048: //There's always schools there though.// //Like it was May Day and
they were there?//
F1049: //It was May Day and they were there.//
M1048: I thought every school had a holiday on May Day.
F1049: I don't know whether they just had like rubbish schools //that took
th- [laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]// //[laugh]//
F1049: //"If you want to go on a trip it's gonna have to be in your//
//holidays."//
M1048: //[laugh]// //[laugh] "Cause you're not comin on ours."//
F1049: //[laugh]// [laugh] //Yeah, there was loads o//
M1048: //Yeah.//
F1049: schools, it was all like private schools wi like the ties and the
clipboards and they were like writin down what they'd seen and stuff.
M1048: Oh right, uh-huh.
F1049: That would [?]write[/?] the Science //Centre but okay.//
M1048: //I know, how ho- how horrible was it, see when you're like// you
had to go, we always went to, erm, oh what was the park?
F1049: Blackshaw Farm? //Oh. [laugh]//
M1048: //No no, it was a park in Largs. What was it called?// I cannae even
reme-, er it wisnae Kelvin something.
F1049: I don't even know where Largs is. //No, I do, but I I uh-huh, I
don't know where it is.//
M1048: //You know, you know roughly where it is. There's like this// big
long stretch o road and then there's a park in there. And they used to take
us to this place all the time, I'm no kiddin, every year I'd been there
about //three times! [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh] We went to Blackshaw Farm like that.// //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]// And it was one of those places that we'd been so many
times that you'd just get bored of it,
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: you know that way, cause it was a trip you didn't mind it, and then
see when you got to like Primary Four, you'd been tons of times so you knew
exactly what was there, you were fed up of it, but it was just nice cause
it was an outing.
F1049: Uh-huh, and you weren't at school.
M1048: Uh-huh. [laugh] And then we started, like Primary Four onwards, it
was like you had to take your clipboard and your notebook, and then when
you came back you had to like //write, uh-huh [laugh]//
F1049: //Write a story about your trip an [laugh].// //"My Experience at
Black- Blackshaw Farm" and uh-huh.//
M1048: //your experience, uh-huh.// Erm, //and then//
F1049: //Then it got closed down because of Foot and Mouth.// //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: [laugh] Gutted. //And then the trips//
M1048: //Great. [laugh]//
F1049: after that were like, where was it? The place where they tried to
like make you aware of all the dangers and like //"Clued-up Kids".
[laugh]//
M1048: //Oh that's right, "Clued-up Kids". [laugh]// It's hilarious,
//like,//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: we all got like intae bother for goin wi the stranger. //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: She looked so //cute though. [laugh]//
F1049: //We got into bother cause we all// split up durin the like fire
thing. //It was like, [laugh], you know how there was the smoke room?//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: Instead of crawling like to get out, [laugh], we were all dancing.
M1048: They took us in and it was like erm, it was the drugs awareness one.
And it was tic-tacs, [laugh] we were all eating //tic-tacs. [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: [laugh] They had this like wee, wee woman that was meant to look
like a junkie. And she's like erm "Wa- want some sweeties?" And we're like
that //[laugh]//
F1049: //Yeah! [laugh] You got any more, I'll pay for them. [laugh]//
M1048: It was the wee orangey ones. //You know how, the the mixed ones, I
was like//
F1049: //Uh-huh, yeah.//
M1048: "Have you no got any mint ones?" she was like "Oh, I think I've got
some", [laugh] it was just, [laugh] so we got into bother for that as
well.
F1049: I think I died three times. //[laugh] You know how they were all
like "Who's died?"//
M1048: //[laugh] Y-// //life-lines, uh-huh, yeah.//
F1049: //Me, uh-huh.//
M1048: And then at the end "How many of you have been caught out on every
single one?" [laugh] "Yeah!" //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// //[laugh]//
M1048: //"How many of you went with the stranger?" "Mmhm" [laugh]// //"Did
anybody check any of the badges?" and there was like a couple o hands over
in the corner. [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// That was the teachers. //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: What else was there? There was the smoke room, the electricity box
that you'd to go and get the balloon, [exhale].
M1048: What was that? Oh no, there was a tenner in ours.
F1049: Really? We'd a balloon. //Totally wanted the balloon.//
M1048: //Oh no they'd, they'd a a ten// pound note in the electricity box
and I went in and I seen the the tenner and I was like [laugh] "I'll climb
//in for a tenner." [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: I kind of climbed up onto the fence, and that and they were like
"No, come down, this is you, you've failed the test", //I was like "Aw, can
I get the tenner?" [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// //There was the guy, when you went into the room, that
was lying dead and the knife was above his head.//
M1048: //[laugh]// Oh we didn't have one like that.
F1049: And he'd been electrocuted and you were not meant to go and like
//uh-huh. [laugh]//
M1048: //"Are you okay?" [laugh]//
F1049: Cause then you died. //There was//
M1048: //W- we the the burnt-out car.// //And the//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: shards o glass all over the place? Like, right, erm, I I don't know,
we had some kind o weird guy for that. And erm //he was like "Look,//
F1049: //I don't remember that.//
M1048: look what I found, look what I found, this burnt-out car and it's
well amazin", an I was like "Oh aye", he's like "Erm I think there's
something in it, want to go and have a la-?" [laugh] I was like "Aye, come
oan". //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// //[laugh] Give me a lift in it.//
M1048: //[laugh]// We just had a pure laugh and they must have thought,
"Look at these thick kids", //[laugh] "This is why we have these things, to
teach them this".//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: They must have felt it was really useful but we were just
F1049: We went to like another one in like fifth, sixth year. [laugh]
M1048: Oh we did as well, was it er Ayr College produced it?
F1049: Ah, I don't know, it was like the night-club //and//
M1048: //That's right, I did that as well. It was amazin.//
F1049: uh-huh.
M1048: And they were trying to get you to smuggle the drugs? //I was
actually really scared cause the actors were//
F1049: //Uh-huh.// //They were so good, uh-huh.//
M1048: //amazin! [laugh]// //It was like "Here, here mate, will you take
this into the club fur me?"//
F1049: //I was like "Janice!"// //[laugh]//
M1048: //And I was like "No!" [laugh] "Leave me alone".// //[laugh]//
F1049: //Janice held ma hand.//
M1048: Did she? Aw.
F1049: Oh and then //Lynn that I was with//
M1048: //Se- see the guy that made the pizza?//
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: The pizza guy, how scary was he?
F1049: Oh uh!
M1048: Do you remember? //And he spat in everythin and urgh.//
F1049: //Well,// Lynn that I was with, not Lynn but another Lynn, p- eh,
passed out //on the floor//
M1048: //Right.//
F1049: and the paramedics that were meant to be there just to like show you
stuff had to come //and [laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]// And then you get the //drugs talk.//
F1049: //And she just like// dropped down on the floor, everybody just
looked at her, and I was like //"Guys!" [laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]// //Help! [laugh]//
F1049: //Uh-huh. [laugh]// //[sniff]//
M1048: //The drug talk was amazin though.// They kept askin questions and
then were really surprised when we knew the answers. //It's like, "So what
does cocaine do to you?" [sniff]//
F1049: //[sniff]// //[laugh]//
M1048: //"I know, I know!" [laugh]// "Fuck, what are these kids up to?"
[laugh] Er,
F1049: "Who's tried hash?" and the hands go //up and all that, uh-huh.//
M1048: //Uh-huh, [laugh].// Are youse from Ardrossan? [laugh] //Ah,//
F1049: //[inaudible]// //Uh-huh. [laugh]//
M1048: //ah, that's it. [laugh]//
F1049: Yeah. [laugh]
M1048: The- they were good though. Then we went to a café and the teacher
was devastated the fact that we had like made such //a muck-up o all these
things. [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// No, [laugh] we got put on the bus. [laugh] //[laugh]//
M1048: //Like most of us had drugs in our pocket and [laugh]// //we're all
smashed wi wi drug-, yeah. [laugh]//
F1049: //Cause somebody in ma group stole uh-huh. [laugh]// Yeah, cause we
stole the drugs.
M1048: Oh well we we had the drugs in our pocket, ,er we all had bottles o
beer and we're in the night-club, the the empty //bottles that they
kept.//
F1049: //We'd copies o the Metro.//
M1048: Er I wa- I was involved in the fight. [laugh] It was like "Oh
right".
F1049: Uh-huh. [laugh] And we're throwin the cocaine //about the bus on the
way home.//
M1048: //Oh,// and then after being involved in the fight, then there was
the stabbin and the guy was on the floor, everybody was crowded round. And
of course what do I do? "Anybody first-aid trained?" They're all like
[inhale] //"It's okay, I'm a doctor". [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh] You didn't?//
M1048: [laugh] I think that's hilarious though, and it works. I thought,
"Oh right", [laugh] steppin back cause they're tryin to act. The folk from
the school like, "You're no a //doctor". [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: [laugh]
F1049: "Stop it, Kyle." [laugh] No, cause that's what happened. The guy
that was stabbed
M1048: Uh-huh.
F1049: fell on the floor and then Lynn just fainted. And everybody's round
this guy. I was like tryin to think why nobody had //helped her.//
M1048: //And then the cops// came in and they were like quizzin us all, and
I'm like that "I had nothin to do with it". "Were you involved in the
fight?" "Uh-huh?" [sniff] "Thought you had nothing to do with it?" "I was
involved in the fight."
F1049: I lied. //[laugh]//
M1048: //"Yeah, sorry." [laugh]// //"Do you have any drugs on you?" "Yeah,
this girl gave me them". [laugh]//
F1049: //It was wrong. [laugh]//
M1048: "Were you drinking alcohol?" //"Uh-huh." "What did you have?"//
F1049: //Yes.// //[laugh]//
M1048: //"Don't know. It was an empty bottle o something."// //[laugh]//
F1049: //Couple o blues, was it?// //Uh-huh.//
M1048: //Aye, and then we had the drink-drivin talk.//
F1049: [inhale] Yeah.
M1048: And they told you about mouth alcohol and stuff.
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: That was quite interestin. I was quite into that.
F1049: Yeah.
M1048: And then they told us they were comin to our school. "How many of
you are drivin?" "How many of you have drunk-drive?" [inhale] //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// //Mmhm.//
M1048: //[laugh]// //Uh-huh.//
F1049: //Well i-// that was just after, there was a guy in my school that
like got drunk and stole his dad's car and drove in it with his friend and
almost killed his friend. //[CENSORED: forename]'s still got brain
injuries.//
M1048: //Oh right.//
F1049: Erm that l- that talk was just after that so everybody was like
//totally listening and nodding. [laugh]//
M1048: //Uh-huh.// //And then you got the beer goggles, do you remember
trying them on? They were amazing.//
F1049: //[laugh] Mmhm.// [laugh] I poked Tina in the eye. //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: Cause it we- tryin to to- touch [laugh]
M1048: [inhale] What a stupid thing!
F1049: [laugh]
M1048: Er, no I had something on, it wasn't the beer goggles, it was the
the ones that, the the drugs ones.
F1049: Oh yeah.
M1048: And er they told me to walk like round the //cones. [laugh]//
F1049: //Oh fell over.// //[laugh]//
M1048: //I fell over and took three o them with me. [laugh]// Yeah, it was
funny.
F1049: Cause there was only like one person I think drivin at that point,
//in my year.//
M1048: //Right, no there was// quite a few o us. I was drivin at the time,
which was
F1049: Nobody really bothered at my school, //that much.//
M1048: //What, about learning to// drive? There was quite a lot of people,
er tons of them were taking drivin lessons. Liz, I felt sorry for Liz, Liz
was like one of the oldest people in the year, er have you met Liz? She was
one of Rachel's friends from West Kilbride.
F1049: I might have met her, I just didn't realise who she is.
M1048: And er like she spent ages doing driving lessons, I think she had
failed like three tests, I actually did feel sorry //for her.//
F1049: //There was a girl at my// school like that, like she'd done like I
don't know how many lessons, like thirty-six or something, right, //and she
still hadn't sat her test,//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: and then her driving instructor left, and the driving school made
her go back to the very beginning //with her new instructor,//
M1048: //Really? Oh wow.//
F1049: and she just stopped. //Cause//
M1048: //You see I wouldn't,// you'd go and get another instructor and not
be with a drivin school, do you know what I mean?
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: Ehm, no my instructor was like, kind of l- at Christmas, he was like
"Kyle, you've been ready for your test for three weeks now. Get that bloody
theory test done." And then I failed my theory test three times. //So it
took me//
F1049: //Really?//
M1048: to the June to do. [laugh] //Well I failed it twice and passed it
the third time.//
F1049: //Uh-huh.// //It's a fortune to like resit it.//
M1048: //Ehm.// //Oh I know and then y- I had to get the bus to Ayr cause
i- I wasn't drivin at the time. [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// I still need to go to Kilwinning, cause you know how you
can do that thing where you hand in your passport? //Can you take me?//
M1048: //That's right.// //Uh-huh, I'll take you one day, aye.//
F1049: //You hand in your passport and they give you a provisional.// Or
they don't give you a provisional, they'll send it away for you, //but you
don't have to send away your passport.//
M1048: //Well, see if you come home with me on// //Friday, we'll do it on
Friday.//
F1049: //Friday.// So, my passport's, where is it? On my room floor, under
my //chair,//
M1048: //Right.// //Or, will it be open on Saturday,//
F1049: //cause dad asked me to check the date on it.//
M1048: cause I'm off on Saturday.
F1049: I'm workin.
M1048: Are you? When are you working?
F1049: Ten till half six.
M1048: That's not bad. And what are you doin at half si-, you're br- eh
//having folk over?//
F1049: //Gettin the stupid train home.//
M1048: No, I could come and pick you up if you want?
F1049: And go to Kilwinning.
M1048: Uh-huh.
F1049: They're not comin over until about eight or something.
M1048: Erm, and go to Kilwinning? What for? Half six it will be closed.
//[laugh]//
F1049: //Oh, why are things not open twenty-four hours?//
M1048: I know, it's bad. //I was thinking about that the other night,//
F1049: //It does upset me.//
M1048: see when we like drove up to Glasgow at two in the mornin?
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: Yeah, I was //thinking, uh-huh, this is fine for us.//
F1049: //And we still went to the shop. [laugh]//
M1048: Twenty-four shop, twenty-four hour Asda Govan. Oh but they're not
selling alcohol after ten. //I was devastated, last ni- [laugh]//
F1049: //Such a bitch, I know! [laugh]//
M1048: I I did, I was really quite shocked, and I seen them pullin the wee
barriers across, like to //stop you goin into the aisle.//
F1049: //And it didn't even//
M1048: And it took me until we passed like //three o the aisles//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: and I was thinking "Ah, alcohol after ten". //And then I seen the
guy who did the [exhale]//
F1049: //It's so stupid on a Sunday,// I hate workin a Sunday morning and
people argue with you.
M1048: See, even if it was twelve o'clock and not half twelve. //[laugh]
The half twelve thing's stupid.//
F1049: //I know.// A-, it pisses people off, they're like, "Can you not
just put it through", and I'm like //"No.//
M1048: //No!//
F1049: My till won't let me." //I'm like "Uh-huh, but"//
M1048: //Yeah, cause ge- generally I've// //tried to put it through three
times, it's like [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]// //It's not working!//
M1048: //[laugh]// //[laugh] Er.//
F1049: //And then like// twenty-five past, they're all like
M1048: Oh they're all waitin? //And you see them all hangin about the
aisle, just er standin about holdin their bottles.//
F1049: //Uh-huh, uh-huh.// //Alcoholics, I know! [laugh]//
M1048: //Christ's sake, go and look at clothes or DVDs or something for a
minute.// You don't stand there lookin like an alcoholic.
F1049: I know. It's a lot o old women as well. //This woman gave me hell
last week, cause//
M1048: //I know they're quite bad.//
F1049: you know they have like the gin and tonic //cans?//
M1048: //Uh-huh.//
F1049: Right? She was like "Where are you, I can't believe you don't have
it", totally goin off her //head.//
M1048: //Was she with her friend?// Did she have her wee alcoholic //friend
with her? I know. [laugh]//
F1049: //I don't know. [laugh]//
M1048: There's two wee alkies that come in and they buy like stupid cans o
things.
F1049: Well she was goin off her head, and I was like "Have you tried down
this aisle?" "Yes, don't you think I've tried - that's where it always is."
//And I went "That's it just there", and she went//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: "Well you must have just put that out", and I was like "Yes, I just
put it out". //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: Cause it was easier than sayin, "No, it's been there all along".
M1048: You know how you get these stupid bottles, right, that guys are
meant to buy? It's like a wee fat stupid shaped bottle and it says like
"Stork" on it, and like, really cheap beer.
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: Right? All the old women buy them. //And you'd expect//
F1049: //I know!//
M1048: old men to try it as if er "I'll gie that a wee shot", and it'll
maybe cost two pounds a //bottle or something.//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: And it's not, it's all the old women.
F1049: I know. //Bottles of gin.//
M1048: //Like how could you drink that [?]gads[/?]?//
F1049: Constant bottles o gin.
M1048: It's whisky; I sell tons o whisky. They must be really cheap for
whisky in [CENSORED: company name].
F1049: Well see the [CENSORED: company name]'s own stuff, it's apparently
really cheap.
M1048: Right. It's probably water! //[laugh]//
F1049: //I know! [laugh]// //[laugh]//
M1048: //Wee touch o iodine in it to kill. [laugh]// [laugh] Wouldn't
surprise me.
F1049: Not at all. Ehm, no it's apparently really cheap though.
M1048: Right? I do- I don't know cause I don't drink whisky.
F1049: Although somebody was, like, you know how cause I was workin in the
beers, wines aisle?
M1048: Who?
F1049: I was, //like a couple o weeks//
M1048: //Wh- oh that's right.//
F1049: in a row. I don't know, Kyle's like, not Kyle, Keith's like decided
that I'm quite good at tidying that aisle, //so just keeps puttin me in
there, and sending me a//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: friend when I'm takin too long. //He sent me Donald this//
M1048: //Oh aye.//
F1049: week. Derek was raging with him //for going.//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: Cause Donald was doin cheese, //[inaudible]//
M1048: //Oh right.//
F1049: Yeah, erm,
M1048: [CENSORED: forename] doesn't care though, he doesn't ask anybody, he
just assumes that he's got //authority to do what he likes.//
F1049: //I know.// It's quite funny. But erm //I was there,//
M1048: //I really like [CENSORED: forename]'s wife.//
F1049: and these women were like "Where's the half bottles of vodka?" And I
was like "Er, they must be out of stock; they're not on the shelf", and she
went, "What do you mean they're out o stock?" //And do you know what I
mean, I didn't want to explain out of//
M1048: //[laugh]// //Uh-huh, cause she knew, uh-huh. [laugh]//
F1049: //stock because she knew. [laugh] I was like// "Sorry", she went
"This just isn't good enough", and I was like, "We've got like the quarter
bottles or the litre bottles", //and there was four of them all wantin a
half bottle,//
M1048: //Uh-huh.//
F1049: so, //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh] Aye. [laugh]//
F1049: They got no sympathy. [laugh]
M1048: Well why didn't they take like a litre //or or two litres between
the the four of them?//
F1049: //Uh-huh, yeah, that's what I was thinking.//
M1048: And like put it into like Coca-Cola bottles or something, the way we
used to do //it, when you were like fourteen. [laugh]//
F1049: //Uh-huh at school. [laugh]// No, I never did that, I don't know
what you're talking about. //[laugh]//
M1048: //Yeah, right! [laugh]// //[laugh]//
F1049: //It was [CENSORED: forename]. She always did that.//
M1048: Yeah, heard it!
F1049: Uh-huh. //[laugh] My//
M1048: //We weren't that bad actually, I think I was like sixteen before I
started gettin wasted.//
F1049: school was nuts.
M1048: I mean there wa- there was people like in my area and stuff that you
knew they were your age and they were like out gettin ekkied out their face
and stuff. //I I wa- I was good, until I went on holiday.//
F1049: //We- well.//
M1048: The first time I went to Spain, it was like you could do what you
liked there, it was, sixteen was the legal age for anything you wanted. //I
was like//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: "Yes!" it was bliss, A free shot wi every drink you bought.
F1049: I know. //[laugh]//
M1048: //How good an idea's that? [laugh]// [laugh]
F1049: We got really friendly wi the bar guys, and they used to like bring
us jugs o shots, //you know, it would just be like, this is gonna waste me,
uh-huh.//
M1048: //[laugh] Jugs o shots, great, uh-huh. [laugh]// [laugh]
F1049: No ehm, my school was nuts. Although in saying that, [CENSORED:
forename] was like modelling for you know how the boxin things?
M1048: What boxing things?
F1049: You know how there's like amateur boxing and they have girls in
//bikinis? [CENSORED: forename] was modelling for that at thirteen.//
M1048: //Oh yeah, uh-huh.// Oh right, uh-huh.
F1049: Uh-huh and her mu- she was like tellin her mum she was stayin at
mines and all that, //and like//
M1048: //[inhale]//
F1049: goin out and modelling.
M1048: God! //Oh wow.//
F1049: //She's always looked really old though.//
M1048: Eh, //I've never met her [laugh], so I don't know, but I I always
feel as if I know who she is.//
F1049: //I know. [laugh]// Well no, when I met Sean the other day he was
like "So are you still hangin about with like [CENSORED: forename] and
Christina?" and I was like "Yeah." Cause I'd said "Tina" and he was like
"Who's Tina?" And I was like "Christina" and he was like "Really? Still?"
and I was like "Uh-huh". And then he'd asked about [CENSORED: forename] and
stuff, and he went "She's the hot one?" //I was like "Yes, she's the hot
one." [laugh]//
M1048: //Aye, yeah, she's the hot one, yeah. [laugh]// See when you phone
Jenny's house, do they bother about you asking for Jenny?
F1049: No, Jenny's mum calls her Jenny.
M1048: See if you phone Christina's house, do they do they shout at you?
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: I remember the first time, I was totally devastated, //cause I knew
her as Tina, she was in, sh- she's in my phone saved as Tina.//
F1049: //I know!// Uh-huh mine, mine too.
M1048: So like if she was saved under Christina, I'd ask for Christina,
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: but cause she's under Tina when you phone her, I'm like "Hi, is Tina
there?" "Who? Sorry."
F1049: Uh-huh "We don't have a //Tina."//
M1048: //Tina.// [laugh]
F1049: "We have a Christina, //which is what I christened her".//
M1048: //Uh-huh.// //I was like woa!//
F1049: //[laugh] Jesus.// //[laugh]//
M1048: //Her dad's like "No, sorry, I think you've got the wrong number."
I'm like "No, I think it is the right number."// He was like "Are you maybe
looking for Christina?" I'm like "Oh right, uh-huh." //[laugh]//
F1049: //Chris [CENSORED: surname] and they go "Yes."//
M1048: [laugh]
F1049: And I'm like "Well, can I speak //to her?" [laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: Yeah.
M1048: And then Tina picks up and you go "Hi Christina", and she's like
"What?" //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh] "Hi." [laugh]// //"What's wrong wi you today?" [laugh]
Uh-huh.//
M1048: //[laugh] Yeah, uh-huh, Christina. [laugh]// She's like "Don't
bother wi my mum and dad", //"Well they don't put you on unless I ask for
Christina."//
F1049: //[laugh]// //[laugh] Yeah.//
M1048: //[laugh] So you have to kind of bother with them a wee bit.//
Yeah.
F1049: [laugh] They think I'm bad though. [laugh]
M1048: Well I think they know I'm a bad influence. //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh] They just generally think I'm a nutter.// //[laugh]//
M1048: //You are a nutter. [laugh]// I think the day that I screeched away
from their front door. //Oof. [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh] Beepin the horn! [laugh]// //[laugh] Yeah.//
M1048: //[laugh] They were not impressed wi that.// Although her mum seems
really nice and stuff, but her dad seems really grumpy to me.
F1049: [laugh]
M1048: "Who are you? What do you want?" [laugh]
F1049: I'm used to is my mum and dad just don't //care. Uh-huh You could
paintball the house. [laugh]//
M1048: //They do, aye, you just stroll in and out. [laugh]//
F1049: [laugh] Run salsa lessons in the living room while you've got a rock
climbing class in //kitchen.//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: And they just [?]feel like shoutin[/?] like "Where's your brother?"
//"I don't know."//
M1048: //Er, [laugh]// //"Maybe in Glasgow?" [laugh]//
F1049: //"Alright, okay." [laugh]// //[laugh] Yeah.//
M1048: //[laugh]// I I loved the way your mum was like "Yeah, Cheryl got
into bother at college." She was just laughing about it. //She's like//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: "because o you", I was like "Oh right", and she was just laughing.
She's like "because you penned her". //She was like//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: "You'd think people at University, you know, they'd know a bit
better than to pen each other."
F1049: [laugh] //[laugh]//
M1048: //Just like. And then the lecturer was// oh she said she was freakin
out.
F1049: She's like "See if ma son ever comes home with pen on them, oh I'll
just go nuts." Nuts! And //I was like "Well,//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: I didn't want him to do my sudoku, so I said no, and then he penned
me." //And she was like//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: "No, I mean that's not good e-", like that and I was like
//"[?]where are my nails[/?]?"//
M1048: //You should have told her you had a wee tear.// //[laugh] She'd
have appreciated that, I'm sure.//
F1049: //[laugh]// Yeah. Took me ages to get it off.
M1048: Did it?
F1049: I was totally scrubbin it with like a loofah. And I went all red.
M1048: I didn't think it would like take loads to come off, cause it was
one of those easy wash-off pens.
F1049: No, it's not. //[laugh]//
M1048: //Oh are they not? [laugh]// //They look//
F1049: //No.//
M1048: easy wash-off, remember I put in on the plate? It came off right
away.
F1049: The plate's ceramic.
M1048: Oh, that's maybe why. [laugh] //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: Oh right.
F1049: Yeah, [laugh] mmhm. [laugh] //[laugh] Yeah.//
M1048: //Oops. [laugh]//
F1049: [?]Kyle he[/?] would ruin the plate.
M1048: And do you think erm [CENSORED: companyname] will pull us up for the
discount card thing?
F1049: No.
M1048: I do, I think cause two separate di- er discount cards have went
through on the same shoppin. I think they'll, they'll notice it. There'll
be an investigation launched. //Oh, [laugh]//
F1049: //That'll be awesome. I don't care if they fire me.//
M1048: Neither do I actually. I was thinking the other day, [CENSORED:
forename] was in.
F1049: Oh yeah.
M1048: And er, do you know that way, like I wasn't bothered, and er there
was somebody asked me where the gravy was, and er she's like "Pre-made
gravy?" and I was like "Yeah, if you just go down that aisle, it's on the
end at the left." And er she was like "Oh right, thanks son", and then
[CENSORED: forename] just kind of looked me up and down.
F1049: Cause you're meant to take her and show her and point out and say
//"Is there anything else?"//
M1048: //Yeah.// //So I just kinda, uh-huh.//
F1049: //Did she actually see you?// Right.
M1048: So I actually just looked at her.
F1049: I never saw her.
M1048: And er I went back to the the produce bit, //and er//
F1049: //Mm.//
M1048: then somebody came down. Who was it that came down? //See that Anne
woman that's in the bakery?//
F1049: //Sorry, I'm just [inaudible]// //[tut]//
M1048: //[tut]//
F1049: No.
M1048: No. D- sh- Anne, she's fresh manager. //Right. She looks//
F1049: //Right, mmhm.//
M1048: like erm Joanne [CENSORED: surname].
F1049: Uh-huh.
M1048: Right, well it was her that came down and told me. And er she's like
er "[CENSORED: forename]'s in, can you like try and tidy up, and those
strawberries need to go in the chill, and this needs done, that needs done,
this needs done and that needs done." And I was like "Look, I don't have
time".
F1049: [laugh]
M1048: [laugh] And she just looked at me. And I was like "Well, I'll try
and get it done, but I really don't have time. I'll I'll do a tidy and
//then I've got reductions to do".//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: She's like "What, you haven't done your reductions? [CENSORED:
forename]'s in." And I was like "Oh right." [laugh] But in the end up I
think they managed to convince [CENSORED: forename] not to come round and
scrutinise the department.
F1049: Right.
M1048: Either that or I was on my break at the time. //[laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: I generally don't care, and see if they're going to put like tons of
pressure on us, I'd give up my job before I'll like //ponder to their
requests.//
F1049: //I do-// Pander. //[laugh]//
M1048: //Yeah. [laugh]//
F1049: I wasn't, well Derek came up and he was like "[CENSORED: forename],
woman, dark hair, she's gonna come and shout at you if you don't do things
right." And I was like "Oh right." //He was like//
M1048: //You're gonna get mystery shopped by her.// //"Oh yeah it's//
F1049: //uh-huh,//
M1048: gonna be a mystery now that you've told me. //And what she looks
like." [laugh]//
F1049: //[laugh] I wonder who she'll be. [laugh] Yeah.// //[CENSORED:
forename] got her.//
M1048: //[laugh]// Who's [CENSORED: forename]? //Quite heavy, blonde
hair?//
F1049: //New girl.// Dark hair.
M1048: Oh, I do know who she is, yeah.
F1049: Cause
M1048: What did she get?
F1049: Ehm, I don't know, but, you know how you have to apologise for the
wait?
M1048: She didn't.
F1049: She did. //But she didn't have a wait, she just said it
automatically.//
M1048: //Oh she did?//
F1049: You know how that way you get into the thing where you're //"Hi,
sorry//
M1048: //But//
F1049: for the wait, would you like a wee hand to pack?"
M1048: I know, but Lilian got erm //marked marked down cause she didn't say
it.//
F1049: //Ninety-eight percent cause she didn't, uh-huh.// Well like
//[CENSORED: forename] had forgotten//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: that she was in, an was just doin it au- automatically, //and
then//
M1048: //Uh-huh.//
F1049: before she was leaving [CENSORED: forename] said "I'm really, you
know, that's the first time I've been apologised to for my wait. "George'll
be so happy", like that. //And [CENSORED: forename] went//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: "Oh right, see you later." Like "Who are you?" //kind of thing,
and//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: then Derek came up and went "You got [CENSORED: forename]," like,
"how did it go?" and she was like //"Ah", [laugh] like that, uh-huh, that
woman's crazy. Uh-huh. [laugh]//
M1048: //Oh that's why, George will be so happy, who's George, [laugh], sad
woman, [laugh] bet this is her imaginary friend. [laugh]// //[laugh]//
F1049: //Her husband and her rate the checkout operators, [laugh] it's a
game they have going.// //[laugh]//
M1048: //[laugh] "[inaudible]. George. We'll have to go visit her."//
//[laugh]//
F1049: //Should totally go back in when she's working,// //if she
apologises.//
M1048: //It was the grill that she gave me, like, it was// //just a look up
and down.//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: I don't think the the gravy was there anyway, cause Alan told me
later that //erm this woman came and//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: complained to him about a boy that had told her where the gravy was,
[laugh] //and it wasn't actually there.//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: Well I thought it was on like, see the cold meat aisle, I thought it
was over at the end where the steak pies are, //like on there.//
F1049: //I don't know.//
M1048: But obviously it's not. //[laugh]//
F1049: //But you know that way, when you're workin,// and then like
somebody asks you something, so you go and get something and then before
you've come back to them somebody else asks you //something, and you're
like "Wait a minute". [laugh]//
M1048: //Uh-huh, so you get nothing done.// "Hang on I'm dealin with a
customer just now", and then you just get a look. [laugh]
F1049: Well I was dealin with this woman and she had asked where the wine
was but I was on the way to give this vodka to another woman,
M1048: Uh-huh.
F1049: and then another woman asked me where the cold meat was, //and I//
M1048: //Uh-huh.//
F1049: just went "It's down that, it's on aisle twenty-three or whatever it
//was",//
M1048: //Yeah.//
F1049: and she went, like that. And I was like "If you want to wait a wee
second I'll take you to it, but I've got two customers just now".
M1048: [laugh]
F1049: And she went "Hm", like that. //And then this other customer//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: "I'll show you where it is", and I was //like "She'll show you where
it is", I don't//
M1048: //[laugh]//
F1049: care, [laugh]
M1048: There's this wee guy that comes in three times a day for the produce
reductions, //cause they're//
F1049: //[inhale]// Tall man, teeth?
M1048: Uh-huh, right. And er like he comes in and you know how sometimes
when you've got like tons of stuff, you'll just leave the reductions on the
shelf rather than put in on the wee trolley? Erm ra- cause then it doesn't
like bulk out your trolley //sort o thing.//
F1049: //Uh-huh.//
M1048: So er I I was scanning all these things, I had left them, and then
he came in at the the six o'clock one, he's like erm [laugh] "There's
grapes round there that are out o date the day and you huvnae reduced
them".
F1049: Mm. //[throat]//
M1048: //And I went "Oh right, I'll get to them eventually."// And he went
"No, I want them reduced now". Like that, and I was like "Oh right, ehm,
sorry they're not gettin reduced any further", like, [laugh] I thought I'm
no goin round.
F1049: Uh-huh
M1048: The next thing this other guy came, and he comes in like every day
for the really cheap reductions. I I think about eight he comes in. And er
he was like, "See that yin, that yin would pinch the reductions fae yer
trolley, so he would. //Takes it all up.//
F1049: //Like that, "What do you want?" [throat]//
M1048: He's got hunners o freezers in his his garage. And the pits aw this
reduced stuff in his freezer and then he sells it." [laugh] It was like "Oh
right, aye", [laugh] "Whatever, like I'm interested". "A- are you looking
for anything in particular here?" He's like, "And do you know what, he's a
Jehovah's Witness, and he comes to ma door", [laugh] //[laugh] "Comes to ma
door//
F1049: //[laugh] [?]I'm amazed[/?] wi the customers.//
M1048: every Sunday, //and sterts preachin about aw this crap and that how
[laugh] ma religion's a load o rubbish, an//
F1049: //[laugh]//
M1048: how it's only Jehovah's Witnesses that are praisin the Lord in the
way that they want him to be praised //an,//
F1049: //Is that that man that was gonna give you a book?// //[laugh]//
M1048: //That's right! [laugh]//


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