Do you remember, like-- was it, like, Tuesday was, like, class clean up day? And we had to go about and clean everything with wet wipes and go and--
Interviewer:
Aye wipe-- with wipes aye.
Lauren:
Aye, clean her-- clean her coffee cups and stuff.
Interviewer:
And then she-- if anyone yawned-- if anyone yawned she would make them go and run round the-- the football pitch.
Nicola:
Were youse like the-- wait--
Lauren:
Did she?
Interviewer:
Aye, do you not remember that?
Lauren:
I don't remember that.
Nicola:
Were youse in the foundy class?
Interviewer:
No, this was for registration.
Lauren:
No, this was for registration.
Nicola:
I was just gonna say did she no, she no want to give youse instruments? "Clean the class today."
Interviewer:
But she was really crazy.
Nicola:
Why does she do that conducting thing in the school band?
Lauren:
That was really terrifying.
Nicola:
Like, I genuinely-- that-- that must be offputting if anything.
Interviewer:
She also used to do this thing where she'd scream but it was as if she had, like, some sort of mute, like, some sort of sound screen or something in front of her she'd, like, go-- but it-- and it would sound like she was putting in all her effort um but it was still be dead quiet. And she looked as if she was about to burst she used to shake and go dead red and I really worried about her, like--
Nicola:
She sounds like she's an alien in a human suit.
Lauren:
She used to give me anxiety.
Older speakers
Alexander:
Never went to Glasgow without being sick, it's unbelievable.
Bruce:
Gee. You enjoyed it, don't you?
Alexander:
Oh aye, aye, but they old tram cars shoogled, know--
Bruce:
Ah but it was good.
Alexander:
shoogled about. It was like on a ship, it was all--
Bruce:
You've obviously seen them in the museums and that, haven't you?
Interviewer:
Mhm, yeah.
Alexander:
Aye.
Bruce:
Aye.
Interviewer:
I went to the transport museum actually a couple of months ago.
Alexander:
Aye.
Bruce:
Well that's--
Interviewer:
The new-- in the new bit.
Bruce:
They trams were running up and down a' the time.
Alexander:
Aye, aye. And then--
Interviewer:
Aye, they looked dead nice though.
Alexander:
and then-- and then when they got to the end of the terminus the-- they'd to change over the-- the--
Bruce:
The-- the contacter.
Alexander:
the contact thing on the top of it, and then all the seats-- they'd to push all the seats back the other way.
Bruce:
Aye, the seats were like that and then you were on the swivelling from it.
Alexander:
So, they swung, you know, so they'd to-- the conductress or whoever has come up and swung it all.
