Oh, I was sitting an exam and I was-- what was it? It was something important. It was like English or something.
Jess:
Was it English or something?
Alice:
And I was sitting at my desk and that was fine and we were all told to hand in our phones. "Right, hand in your phone", all the rest of it, "your keys", and I thought-- I didn't really want to leave my phone, especially in a school in Airdrie. I didn't want to leave my phone in a box down the front and I was like "oh no" so I decided not to do it. So I put in my inside pocket, my inside blazer and I thought "it'll be alright, nobody'll check, it's off". I took the sim card out and everything 'cause I was just-- oh I was terrified it would go off. And that was fine and then she was going up and down while the exam had started which I don't think she should have been doing, that was a distraction.
Jess:
No, I think that wasn't allowed.
Alice:
And she was going down and she was doing this and lifting people's blazer
Jess:
To feel how heavy they were.
Alice:
to feel- to feel the weight
Interviewer:
That's so bad.
Alice:
and she lifted mine-- and it was the pocket that had my phone in and she went like that, and she looked at me and she put her hand out. Now if I had been found to have a phone, she'd have cancelled my exam, it'd have been over
Jess:
Yes, you'd be disqualified.
Alice:
and luckily I had a big set of house keys and car keys in that pocket
Jess:
Like jingily keys.
Alice:
and I gave it to her because when she done that
Jess:
How mental is that?
Alice:
it did jingle and I gave them her keys-- my keys and she just went and gave me them back 'cause keys weren't gonna do anything and she didn't bother feeling the pocket afterwards and
Jess:
But that's taking time out of her exam. That's about a minute out of her exam that she's lost.
Interviewer:
That is-- that is not allowed.
Alice:
I was ill. And yes I should have handed it in but I was terrified, it was a brand new iPhone, I'd never-- I was just terrified in case somebody would steal it which isn't unlikely.
Jess:
Which was likely-- it was likely.
Alice:
So I was terrified but I was lucky. Was really lucky.
Older speakers
Colin:
Grandpa made us a bat oot of a bit-- a wee bit of wood and you played cat-- bat and cat
Helen:
Pat and cat.
Colin:
with, you know, a bit of stick, I don't know if you'll even know it. It was just a-- a piece of stick maybe that length
Helen:
And you put it on the side of the thing.
Colin:
and they would, eh, shape the-- taper the edges and burn
Helen:
Numbers on them.
Colin:
a numbers on either side of it like four-- four sides. Four-- and they'd burn one, two, three, four on the thingmy. And that went at the edge of the kerb
and whoever was thingmy would have the bat and he'd catch it,
Helen:
And then try and hit it.
Colin:
flip it up in the air you know and then skelp it and thing went-- And that was cat and bat and the other folk had to chase it
Interviewer:
That sounds good.
Colin:
but I mean that's the sort of things you made do wi playing wi, you know?
Helen:
Aye
Colin:
And we had things like that-- but didnae think you were badly off you just werenae used to anything else.
Interviewer:
Yeah like, that's what you knew I suppose.
Colin:
That's-- that's the only thing we-- and when you--
