No, I used to play the trombone and it was-- one day the bus was dead busy and I wanted to go upstairs wi all the cool folk and I was like "right, I'll just leave it doon here" and I sat it in, like, the luggage bit and then I got off-- It was at the Spar but it wasnae the Spar then, it was the Craft. And I went and got off at the Craft and then just clean forgot--
Eve:
Walking up the road.
Sarah:
Aye, walking up the road and then, um, I was walking up with [name] and then she went to her Gran's and then it was then I realised. Like, I was proper pelting up the road, like, and then my mum--
Eve:
This is like a two grand instrument that she'd left on the number 11 bus for anybody to steal.
Sarah:
my mum, um, says-- she says noo, she was like "oh I seen-- I just sat on the couch and I seen your wee face when you were running in and I knew there was something wrong" and I-- she says "you burst in the door and I was like "what is it?"" I was like "I've left my trombone on the bus." She was like "what, how did you manage that?"
Interviewer:
Were you crying?
Eve:
Or the time--
Sarah:
What? Was I-- I don't-- I cannae member. I was upset.
Eve:
or the time-- I used to go up to [name]'s every Monday and she used to come to mine every Wednesday. And it was a Monday and I don't know what she done but she done something wrong. So her Mum sent her up to her room. So she went up to her room, storming up, like, pounding on the stairs so folk knew she was going up the stairs and I was sitting on the couch with her wee brother eating dinner and all we heard was this trombone. She decided to play the trombone and her Mum was just, like, she was getting angry and me and [name] were just sitting like this, trying no to laugh, like, our faces were, like, scarlet 'cause we wanted to laugh so bad. And, oh, that was funny.
Sarah:
Um.
Eve:
[name] was raging. But I think she secretly wanted to laugh 'cause it was probably one of the most wide-o things [name]'s ever done.
Sarah:
Aye, and then--
Interviewer:
Go in my room in a huff and take my anger oot on the trombone.
Eve:
'Cause her Mum used to always be like "you need to practice that trombone" and [name] was like "no, I don't. I'm fine." And then, when she gave her into trouble, she did practice it.
Older speakers
Jimmy:
I remember the bath-- the bath was in a terrible state so we'd got the cooncil in. It was all broon and we got the cooncil in and we wanted a new bath and the guy says "there's nothing wrong with the bath, it's no leaking." "Oh right." And I'd a wee-- I'd a wee slater's hammer oot in the coalhoose and your-- your gran, she went and got it and she smashed the bath. And then we'd to get the cooncil back in and he says "aye, you made a good job of that." She says "are you accusing me for dae-ing that mysel? Better watch your words." So we got a new bath.
Shona:
Hope there's naybody works for the cooncil.
Jimmy:
And I pulled-- I pulled the-- I pulled the wash hand basin off the wa' but they just put it back on. We were hoping to get a new-- a new bathroom suite. But we got a bath oot it.
