Community Voices: Ardrossan

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Younger speakers

Lewis: She was sitting here wi Mum and then she spilt her tea. So, on here, big tea mark. Mum's like "oh no, oh no." She's like "get the water!" I dunno why Mum said "get the water."
Interviewer: There was a cup of water sitting on the floor.
Lewis: Aye, maybe to say don't bash that. But then she picked it up and she's like "what do I dae with it?" It's like "yeah pour it-- pour it on it!" and she just starts pouring it on the couch in this big puddle
Zoe: You said that?
Lewis: and Mum's-- And she's like-- Mum comes through like "what you doing?" She's like "he told me to."
Interviewer: No but he made it pure believable, like--
Lewis: I was like "it'll stain, it'll stain" and she's like--
Interviewer: "Quick, rub it in--"
Lewis: She was-- she was -- I'm like "oh no."
Zoe: So mum-- your mum was saying get the water as in get it out the road, don't knock that over to, but you were like "pour it on"-- Oh my goodness, you're an idiot.
Interviewer: My mum was phoning my gran like "wait til you hear about about your grandaughter."
Lewis: "See what this dafty done."
Interviewer: "You know the grandaughter that's going to Uni? Wait til you hear."
Zoe: Oh dear.
Lewis: So gullible.
Zoe: That's a new low.
Interviewer: Mhm. Almost as bad down for the loft.
Lewis: Dropped a tin of varnish, I'm lying in my room you hear "thud". "Oh no, oh no. Mum?" Then I looked out like "oh, no." Closed my door, back to bed.
Zoe: "Not today Satan."

Older speakers

David: And then they sat behind us on the plane and then the stewardess came up and asked them if they would move because there was a woman with three weans that-- they werenae seated right, because the weans were gonna sit theirsels on the ootside which they're-- they're not allowed. And if they wouldnae get seats, they couldnae take off, you'd be maybe another couple of hoors afore you get flight again, you know, so I heard them and I says to [name]-- She didnae hear-- she didnae hear it, and I says
Elaine: I was sitting reading.
David: "we'll-- we'll change" and-- and it ended up we just sat across fae each other like that, in the passage, but it meant the woman and the weans-- she was on the ootside.
Elaine: Well, it's let-- it meant the flight could go.
David: Could go, you know, and they were here.
Elaine: Because the man was at the bottom of the-- the plane with another wean. Ken, like a baby.
David: They were a' split up.
Interviewer: So that couple wasnae gonna move?
David: No.
Elaine: Mhm, they didnae move, no.
David: No, no, no. I says "here, we'll move" and then they couldnae-- enough. "More drink Mr [name]? More drink Mr? You want--?" A' sorts of nice stuff they were gie-ing us.
Elaine: Because they got oot, ken?
David: You know, 'cause we just, I says "here we'll dae it".
Elaine: And we ended up just staying where we were, ken, for we were only sitting reading anyway.
David: Because you read a book-- you're reading a book anyway, you know?