I used to work nightshift and it was like I would dae four shifts and then I would have four days off but it was aieways like different weeks so-- and my pal did nightshift and a' so we'd aieways be oot on like Monday nights going oot-- going oot drinking.
Interviewer:
She just hadnae stopped.
Nicola:
No, I just hadnae slept. I know, I've just got a new lease of life for it. Thinking I'm just a young thing again.
Interviewer:
It always amazes me when I go to sleep and wake up and youse are still going, I'm like "what happened?"
Shaun:
God, really?
Nicola:
Two days later still going too.
Interviewer:
I'm obviously old, I just can't cope. I stay up to seven o'clock in the morning, I die. But I can't sleep during the day.
Nicola:
Why?
Interviewer:
I don't know, like, had a party last-- couple of weeks ago and I was going to see Chvrches the next night.
Nicola:
Mhm, did you no go?
Interviewer:
I-- no, I went, I made it but I was-- I had to sit the whole time, I was dying. I'd really bad heartburn. That's when you know you're getting old, by the way.
Older speakers
Bertie:
See when he was in the hospital and his back was broken, there was a big nurse-- well you had your matrons, they were the boss of the wards. Lambeth hospital.
Louise:
That's when the hospitals were clean.
Bertie:
And she-- [name] was maybe young at the time. 20, 21, I dunno. But-- and then him and another guy-- a-- a guy was in with broken legs or something-- the stookie anyway. But [name] had a pyjama jacket over the stookie it was fae the hip up to there it-- and the pyjama jacket covered it, they couldnae see it. And the-- him and this other guy throwing darts at a dart board 'cause they're recovering, they're young. There's a lot of men getting brought in with worse and they brought this man in with a heart attack or something and they're throwing darts at one another and so it was our [name]'s turn but as he-- he turned his back on the guy he's playing darts with and the guy went like that, he kenned he couldnae hurt him. Threw a couple darts in it right through the pyjama jacket and they're stuck in the-- the stookie. This guy's in a stretcher, a heart attack. He took another one.
Interviewer:
Oh no.
Bertie:
And-- and this big matron's-- she usually on patrol, she doesnae miss a thing. Oh and she -- she was going-- our [name] nearly got flung out the hospital. The two of them did.
