I was out on my driving lesson, right. And I was in Lochgelly, right. So I'll set the scene up for you.
Interviewer:
Okay.
Bethany:
I was doon at the public park bit, right. So like the public park's on this side and I was on the road, right, and there's, like, houses and it's like a big square, right. So I was driving round, like, just getting used to, like, stopping and starting, right. It's like my-- was it my third lesson or something, yeah, I hadnae done many lessons.
Jack:
It was your second or third I think.
Bethany:
Second or third lesson, right, so I was still a really nervous driver, right. And I'd been driving past this group of folk. Like, 'cause I was-- obviously like when I was going roond the square these people were getting closer. So they were going to the park and, like, I drove past them about three times, like, folk in my year and folk in the year below so I knew them and I was like "oh, no." And then I was driving along this road, right, and there was a dog on the grass on this side and my driving instructor was like "oh here's a dog so this would be, like, something that you'd watch oot for," she's like "but we should just be able to keep driving" she was like "so keep going, don't slow down" and I was like "right" and I was like "okay, okay, okay" and then I was about here and the dog ran oot we both had to slam on the brakes, right, and then a' the folk that I knew were, like, at this side of the car and they were, like, standing on the road staring at me and then the dog was just, like, sitting in the heidlights and the owner was, like, look-- the owner pure screamed and then he was pure running about the road trying to get the dog and every time I tried to move the dog would just go back in front of the car
Interviewer:
Oh my god.
Bethany:
and like everybody was actual standing like laughing at the side of the car that I knew, I was like "no."
Interviewer:
Oh my God.
Bethany:
And then eventually like we got past, drove roond again and then he was standing in the middle of the road with the dog in his arms, right, and she was like "oh it's fine, just keep driving, he'll move oot the way" and she was like "he'll move out the way, maybe, no, maybe, no." He was just standing in the middle of the road.
Interviewer:
So he never moved?
Bethany:
So we stopped and he was just standing in front of the car then he just looked at the car and walked away.
Interviewer:
Did you not beep him?
Bethany:
Well I-- I was just sitting, I was like "I don't know what to do." Like, he just stopped and he was like that, looked at the car, walked into his hoose. She was like "he never even like waved or anything." He wasn't even like "thanks for not running my dog over and thanks for not running me over." And then I got in and somebody that I knew had put it on Twitter, they were like, "just witnessed [name] very near run over a dog."
Older speakers
Iain:
And you canna hit your bairns now you see. See if that had been-- that's-- see-- if that had have been my mother and father and I done that you wouldnae-- no--
Sheila:
Oh, your dad used to threaten you with the belt but you never got the belt, so.
Iain:
I don't know, I cannae really mind.
Sheila:
Your dad wouldnae have done that to you.
Iain:
Mum says I was too big. She used to go at me with the brush. To pick the brush up. Mum says-- it was my mum was saying-- it was-- we were-- my mum was sort of dying and we startit-- she knew she was dying
Interviewer:
Mhm.
Iain:
and we startit talking about things and that and she says "I was feart of you"
Interviewer:
Really?
Iain:
"cause you were that big." Aye, she says "I was feart of you so I used to get the brush". No that I ever attacked my mum or anything but aye she says
Sheila:
No, 'cause she'd--
Iain:
"I was feart of you cause you were too big and strong and that."
Interviewer:
Really?
Iain:
Aye, aye.
Sheila:
Aye, but what did she say about the fags?
Iain:
I used to smoke-- well I used to think she didnae ken I smoked, but. She says aye "you always-" she always left her fags on-- on the fire place, on the mantlepiece
Sheila:
Mantlepiece you cried it.
Iain:
and they would go away to their bed and I would steal a fag, I would steal one of her fags and I'd take one for the morning. She kent I was dae-ing it. She telt me that. And I used to smoke in the toilet and she says "when I would go oot the back door and you'd be flicking your fag ash oot the window and it would land on my heid." And she never said anything aboot it, eh. She wouldnae tell-- if she telt my dad I would have got hammered.
