Community Voices: Barrhead

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Younger speakers

Ryan: Yeah I've turned-- I've-- a few-- a few years ago I turned up to a bank interview and I was late 'cause I went into-- it was the Clyde-- Clydebank, right?
Amy: Mhm.
Ryan: So I got the train from Glasgow Central out to Clydebank and I got there, right, 45 minutes early and I was like that "oh there's the estate there. I'll just walk in, you know, wi about 15 to go, ready to rock." But anyway I walked into Clydebank estate and it turned oot it was the biggest um industrial estate in Scotland with something like 35 different boroughs
Amy: You got lost?
Ryan: so it took me an hour to find the place. I was running round in my shirt and my tie and my suit so I turned up late and they were like "oh, nice of you to turn up" so I knew I wasnae gonna get it.

Older speakers

Mary: Well we were watching her putting her stuff into the boot and she took out-- was it-- was it Tesco-- She'd been into Lidl and she put her stuff into a Tesco--
Douglas: Lidl-- No, Marks and Spencers.
Mary: Was it --
Douglas: Mark and Spencers.
Mary: Was it-- I could not--
Douglas: Put that into Marks and Spencers bags.
Mary: What's wrong with people ?
Douglas: They took-- they took a' the bag out of Lidl and put them into Marks-- we stood and watched them in their car,
Mary: I mean, what is it's wrong with people?
Douglas: going to Marks-- into Marks--
Interviewer: Worried about what the neigbours think of them probably.
Douglas: Yes, aye, that's a fact-- Marks and-- and it was Marks and Spencers.
Mary: No one cares anymore about that-- there's a lots of people goes into that Lidl and Aldi and all over the place, who cares ?
Douglas: Anyway.
Mary: I come down there with my Lidl bags, it's all showing off. Big bags as well. Who cares? Even if I won the multi-millionaire I would never even change my ways ,
Douglas: Mhm.
Mary: I'd still do that.
Interviewer: Could just buy more food, couldn't you?
Mary: I think that's awful.