Community Voices: Falkirk

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Younger speakers

Hannah: I did, yeah.
Interviewer: Yeah. But we were in, eh, opposite classes
Iona: But that's not how youse met.
Interviewer: and then we were in the same class but we never spoke.
Hannah: We were in the same class but we never spoke and then [name] had a party. And she invited both of us 'cause, like, I was one of her like closest friends and [name]-- I don't know why she invited you.
Interviewer: I don't know why she invited me, she invited no one else from this college class, just me. Don't understand. She was, like, pals with other people in the class as well. She just invited me. Don't know why.
Iona: Wow.
Interviewer: Weird, still don't understand.
Hannah: She used to think there was a conspiracy story about like-- She invited me 'cause I told her to
Interviewer: Yeah.
Hannah: but it's not because of that. I never told her to, I just turned up and then she was there.
Interviewer: I used to think that like [name] told [name] to invite me
Iona: But so had-- did you know of [name] before?
Hannah: Yeah.
Interviewer: Okay.
Hannah: Well I knew-- I knew that you were that one in the class. Like, over there.
Interviewer: But we never really spoke.
Iona: Okay. Okay.
Interviewer: Then we met at her party.
Iona: That's quite a good way to meet people actually, instead of in a club.
Interviewer: I mean I was drunker than I would've been if it was in a club to be fair.
Iona: Well okay, I guess.

Older speakers

Brian: One of the times she looked at a photograph was our wedding--
Angie: Aye this was a laugh.
Brian: our wedding photograph, you know? Like, when you got married, like, it's--
Angie: We've got our wedding photo through in the bedroom. "Who's that, Gran?" I says "that's me and your papa on our wedding day." "That's no my papa, that man's got hair"
Brian: "He's got too much hair."
Angie: And he had a lovely head of hair when he--
Brian: Aye, these are the things, you know?
Angie: "No that's not my papa, he's got hair."