Community Voices: Blantyre

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Younger speakers

Michael: I could learn to drive but
Interviewer: You could.
Michael: it costs money and stuff.
Interviewer: It doesn't cost that much money-- like, does it really though?
Michael: Yeah.
Interviewer: Okay but really? Like, compared to what you're gonna spend on shite, does it cost money?
Michael: What-- what would I spend it on?
Interviewer: I-- hockey cards, like, that you just kind of look at and then go--
Michael: I don't spend that much on them.
Interviewer: It's 20 pound for lesson.
Michael: A-- a lesson?
Zach: Yeah-- 200 quid for, like, a block.
Michael: Exactly, that's so much money.
Interviewer: Aye. But then after it that you could--
Michael: I could get, like, another monitor for that. That'd be good.
Interviewer: But you could use our TV as the other monitor.
Michael: No, that's mental.
Interviewer: Not the-- like, the-- not the living room TV, like, the bedroom TV.
Michael: Still fully mental, it's massive.
Interviewer: Just get a bigger desk.
Michael: I'd need to buy that with the £200 I've just spent on lessons.
Interviewer: Exactly, so why don't you just get lessons instead then you can drive yourself to PC World to get that. And you're earning money as well.
Michael: You don't get desks in PC World.
Interviewer: Oh, wherever you want to go then. Ikea. Drive to Ikea and get a big desk.
Michael: No-- I no--
Interviewer: I think you're just against driving.
Michael: I'm not against it.
Interviewer: I think you are. Do you think he's against driving?
Zach: Don't even.
Michael: It's a good idea, it just takes, like, months to learn and it's a pain.
Interviewer: Well if you'd started ages ago it would take less months.
Michael: No, it would stay the same months.
Interviewer: Like, if you'd started-- if you'd started, like, last summer you might have been driving by now.
Michael: Then you need to, like, buy a car and--
Interviewer: Could buy a car together.
Michael: Aye, but then we've only got one car and then what's the point of driving 'cause I'm in the same position I'm in right now.
Interviewer: 'Cause I have to drive a' the time. I always have to drive. I said to him, like, imagine I was just walking hame one night and, like, somebody broke my leg, how would he get to his Gran's on a Saturday if somebody just broke my leg?
Michael: Bus and (inc).
Interviewer: Wi me with a broken leg, just hobbling after you?
Michael: You can stay in the house if you want.
Interviewer: Exactly, like, that's pure crap, like, or if it's raining, you want a lift hame?
Michael: I'll walk.

Older speakers

Valerie: Aye-- last year I got my hoose a' painted [name] and it cost me quite I bit, I had to save up and get it done,
Interviewer: Mhm.
Valerie: right. I says "there'll be no smoking." I'm the only one that smokes noo but [name] does. "Nay smoking and no way in this living room"
Interviewer: House, aye.
Hugh: I know, I hate it.
Valerie: and I-- I'm nae going through that again, right.
Hugh: I really hate it.
Valerie: in my New Year-- after New Year and a' the, thingmy, Christmas, I'm going on a diet. (inc) "aye so you are" and I-- I've did it. So I'm going to Benidorm in a fortnight's time so my next--
Interviewer: Bikini body.
Hugh: What hotel are you going to?
Valerie: so the next thing I'm going to dae is get a new set of false teeth.