I hated exams in school. Mind in the games hall you always to, like, duck the seagulls that were all in the top?
James:
Well yeah 'cause in high school they'd put our-- our exams would just be in the big games hall and it would get too hot with just, like,
Kelly:
Fire doors and--
James:
a student, like, every half a metre from each other so they'd open the fire doors. So that would ensure at least somehow, like, three seagulls would get in during every exam.
Kelly:
And you'd just, like-- you wouldn't be able to concentrate cause you'd be, like, dodging all the poo.
James:
Yeah.
Kelly:
Like, no joke, it's so annoying.
James:
Well that never happened to me.
Kelly:
Ah, the whole time.
James:
But they would always be in there and it was, like, a metal roof as well on the inside so you just hear "bang bang bang bang bang" and seagulls are just smacking off it.
Kelly:
And you always got told that you had to be quiet. How could you be when there's, like, seagulls divebombing you? Like, it's just not possible.
James:
And it would always be the hottest day, that's why they'd--
Kelly:
Ah, yeah.
James:
they'd open-- eh, I dunno what it is but whenever you have an exam it's the only day that's nice the whole week.
Interviewer:
Yep.
James:
It's the one sunny day, like "oh it's been raining this whole week" and then--
Kelly:
And then they'd use the bins to prop open the door so if you were near the door you got the wasps as well as the seagulls.
James:
I never had that problem. I-- I-- Was it done by--? I can't remember how they sort people, was it by name or was it--? Or was there even order, was it just random? I can't remember but I was never near--
Kelly:
I dunno, it was an order but I dunno how they did it. It was a nightmare. That's my excuse anyway for everything going wrong at school.
James:
Well I remember, I think it was in my fourth year, some guy, he like-- he was just planning to leave anyway after fourth year, he didn't really care. I think he got, like, drunk the night before and he spewed on his paper and just like pretty much passed out.
Kelly:
Got chucked out?
James:
And then he just left. Though I feel sorry for anyone who was sitting like-- like, I dunno, like, the nine seats around him or something and just had like spew smell coming in. I could not have worked with that.
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Agnes:
Can't think of anything else. We've been married 59 years, you see, so we're hoping we'll make another year yet and then we'll have-- we'll have a bit of a do.
