Aye in Canada there was a guy that-- think it was [name] and [name] were staying with this guy and I-- the guy I was staying with lived just round the corner so I went round to their house and one night we were sitting, the guy's dad like gave us a few beers and had a few beers and then we looked outside and the guy that lived across the road was, like, steaming. He was walking about outside his house going "I'm gonna hit a golf ball down the street." We walked outside and we were like "what you doing?" he was like "just gonna hit a golf ball down the street" so he smashed a golf ball, like, down the street and then he's like "ken what? I can hit a golf ball over my house." We were like "no you can't, no you can't." He's like "you watch me." So he put a golf ball down, went to, like, swing and then his wife pulled up like "what are you dae-ing?" He's like "I'm gonna hit a golf ball over our house." She's like "no you're not." He was like "fine" like pretending to put the club down then he just swung. Went up, smashed off the window, eh. His wife was just like "get inside now!" and we were just like bursting laughing.
Sally:
Oh my god.
Ben:
So funny.
Sally:
What a little shunt.
Older speakers
Hugh:
The very first year that I came in, my dad said to us, eh, he says "right" he says "job next week is to clean all they shelves through the back."
Henry:
Mhm.
Hugh:
I says "what for?" He says-- he said "we've got all my chocolates coming in for Christmas" he says. I said "but you'll no need to clean all they shelves." He says "I'm telling you, all they shelves". 300 outers of chocolates
Henry:
Is that right?
Hugh:
just appeared on the first week in September and 100 fae Cadbury, 100 fae Terry and 100 fae Rowntree, it was like a jigsaw putting them a' in, fitting them a' in.
Henry:
Oh aye, getting them in.
Hugh:
And what was left at Christmas, what was on the shelf at the front. It was amazing what we'd sell.
Henry:
How they just disappeared.
Hugh:
Aye, he had all his old customers, he kent what they wanted, ken.
Henry:
Mhm.
Hugh:
Whether it was chocolate gingers or-- And he almost had them wrapped before they came in
Henry:
Came in.
Hugh:
ken?
Henry:
Mhm.
Hugh:
Now, I cannae sell-- well this year, I dinna ken if I selt six boxes.
Henry:
Really?
Hugh:
Mhm.
Henry:
Really?
Hugh:
Completely changed.
Henry:
Aye.
Hugh:
The old ones have died off and the young ones have no sort of loyalty
Henry:
Aye, aye, aye, yeah.
Hugh:
to-- to a shop, ken, if you can get it five, ten pence cheaper
Henry:
Aye, they'll go there
Hugh:
they'll go there, like, ken. Even though we still wrap them free. Um, but it's a thing too, ken, chocolates I think is in decline too.
Henry:
That's right.
Hugh:
Ken, like, ken. For-- for Christmas anyway
Henry:
Well they keep telling you now that chocolate and sugar's bad for you and that so, I suppose that's had something to do with it as well.
