Everybody's just walking past saying "[name] what you dae-ing?"
Jonny:
'Cause he's that steaming.
Matthew:
Sitting in the corner like-- what was he crying over again?
Jonny:
I don't know, he was just greeting.
Matthew:
Like, a bird or something?
Jonny:
Aye. Somebody pulled his bird or something.
Interviewer:
Ah, no.
Jonny:
And eh he was sitting and I mind 'cause I'm his pal and I was talking to him and they were like "go and get his jacket!"
Interviewer:
Aye.
Jonny:
It's like "so I've to go up into that hall and find a grey suit jacket that's his?"
Interviewer:
With all these other ones.
Jonny:
Aye.
Matthew:
Aye 'cause it-- mind they had to like shut off the balcony bit?
Jonny:
Aye there was, like, the smoking bit was a balcony.
Interviewer:
What?
Jonny:
Like a big massive balcony.
Interviewer:
That is not a good idea.
Matthew:
So I think-- I know, so I think they just obviously closed that 'cause people were just--
Jonny:
To be honest I spent most of my night out there.
Matthew:
Aye. Aye it was quite comfy.
Interviewer:
That's the good bit about when you smoke, like, you get a wee break from the dancing,
Jonny:
Ah.
Matthew:
Aye.
Interviewer:
go out the smoking bit.
Matthew:
Very sociable.
Older speakers
Robert:
Yeah I always tell the story, eh, going back-- going back to the 60s and I had a car at the time and-- the shifts you used to work, you were off between two o'clock and five o'clock.
Interviewer:
Oh right.
Robert:
So you had nothing to do-- you-- your-- you started work at five again.
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Robert:
Finished at two, started at five and this day I said to this chef, I said "you fancy coming back to Strathaven?" I said "we'll just kill some time, we'll get the car, go back."
Interviewer:
Aye.
Robert:
He'd never seen a cow.
Interviewer:
Really?
Robert:
I was-- he'd ever been out of Glasgow.
Interviewer:
Jeezo.
Robert:
This chap was totally brought and born-- brought up in Glasgow
Interviewer:
Aye.
Robert:
and he'd never been out it and he was-- he was absolutely amazed.
Interviewer:
Wow.
Robert:
Eh, you know.
Interviewer:
That's mad.
Robert:
Part from he didn't know where Strathaven was
Henry:
Was, aye, aye.
Robert:
and I was saying, you know "we'll just take a run to Strathaven" and it-- he's looking about and sheep and
Interviewer:
Aye.
Robert:
cows and what-- what-- "I've seen these in books", you know.
