15 July, 2002 Old Road Eugenis XXX 2 June, 2003 transcript/26 June 2003. P: Lee XXX R: Eugenis XXX S1: Carlton XXX. S2: Unidentified woman S3 Young man home from New Jersey. G(A): Grunt, affirmation G(N): Grunt, negation G(Q): Grunt, question, "Is that right?" "You don’t say" G(V) Grunt, seeking verification. "Say what?" U(C): Utterance, cough U(F): Utterance, false start U(H): Utterance, hesitation U(I): Utterance, interruption U(L): Utterance, laughter U(M) Utterance muffled, inaudible. U(S) Utterance of surprise This interview was compromised by ambient street sounds, the wind, and a young wise guy who appeared determined to demonstrate his savvy. Many passages need further audition. LP 6/26/03 R: Eugenis XXX P: OK: Where were you born? R: Old Road. P: Right here. R: Right here in Old Road. P: When were you born? R: No, won’t tell. P: You won’t tell that. R: Oh, no. P: OK. R: That’s supposed to be. S1: She’s just fifteen; her next birthday, she’ll be sixteen. P: Your next birthday, you’ll be sixteen, OK. R: U(L) P: OK. R: Saturday’s my birthday. P: Is that right? Did you go to school here? R: Eight year. P: How far did you go in school? R: Old Road P: G(A). How many years? R: Well, a lot of years ago. P: G(A) R: Lot of years ago. P: Yeah, but how many years were you in school? R: I went to the primary and reached to seven standard. P: G(A). R: Got three certificates. P: Is that right? R: When I left here, I went to the sports school in Garcia. P: How long were you there? R: Three years, I think. P: G(A). And what kind of work have you done besides run this [the small store]? R: When I left there, I went to the health center to work. P: What did you do there? R: Look after babies. P:G(A). Like a nurse? R: No, I was a nurse assistant at that time. P: G(A). I see. And are you married? R: Yes. P: OK. How long have you been married? R: (no response) P: U(L). You don’t want to tell me that. OK. OK. Where does your husband work? R: He was born here. P: What does he do? R: Chauffeur. P: Chauffeur. Do you have children? R: Yes. P: Tell me about your children. R: One boy, one girl. One died two years ago. P: Oh, I’m sorry, R: They were twins. One died and the other have. P: And is the other one here? R: Other’s here. P: Here in Old Road. R: Yes. And then I have two more in Miami. Florida. P: Is that right? You’ve been over there to see them? R: Yes. November, last. P: Is that right. Tell about the travel you’ve done. Have you traveled a lot? R: Yes. I went to St. Martin’s, I went to Nevis, and Miami. P: Miami. Did you find Miami strange. R: No. P: Did you like it? R: Yes and no. Only the lock key. I had to stay inside. But not as much as New York. P: You’ve been to New York too? R: Yes. P: What did you think about NewYork? R: I don’t like it so much at all. P: Why? R: Before Miami. It’s scary. P: G(A). R: Especially when they have to go to work and leave you. P: G(A). R: I don’t like that. P: Kind of frightening? R: Oh yes, because when anyone knock at your door, you have to see who it is before in case you don’t know who they are. P: Did you have a son or a daughter in Miami? R: What? P: Is it your son or you daughter in Miami? R: Yes. P: Which one? Oh, a son and a daughter in Miami. R: Yes. P: What do they do? R: She’s a nurse. P: Oh, she is? Did she go to school in the States? R: No. P: She went to school in Basseterre? R: She went to the academy. P: G(A). R: Academy school in Basseterre. She went there. P: I see. R: He went to college. P: Where did he go to college? R: Here in Basseterre. P: Oh, Fitzwilliams College. R: Yes P: Did he get some further education in Miami? R: Yes, anything that come across sticks to him. P: I see. U(L). R: Well, you have to breed sometime. P: U(G). Tell me what your school was like here in Old Road. R: It was not like this, because you go to school… [Wind interference] P: G(A). And did you go all year round? Or not in the summer. Did you go to school in the summer? When did school stop? R: No, five weeks. Used to get five weeks holiday at that time. P: Five weeks off or five weeks of school? R: No, five weeks off. S1: Five weeks holiday P: Five weeks off or five weeks of school? S1 No, five weeks of holiday. P: Five weeks holiday, I see. In July. R: No, not so far off; used to into August. P: I see. School through June and July? R: No. Started in school over here. [inaudible]. Some people used to go in ... P: Was that a one-room school? R: One room. P: Yes. Yes, but there were different classes. R: Yes, different classes. P: G(A). R:[Inaudible/wind interference]. P: OK. Now, tell me about your parents. R: Oh, very poor origin. P: G(A). R: It was at that time. P: G(A).Where were they born? R: My father was from Cayon. P: The other side of the island. R: Yes. My mother born here. P: G(A). R: Father used to take the mail, walking it, you know, from Cayon and come right round. P: I see. R: You see at that time they had no motor. P: That was his job? R: Yes. S2: Postman P: G(A). R: Postman. P: G(A). R: At this time the van goes around, but they used to walk. P: U(L). All the way around the island? R: Yes, yes. At that time. P: How long would it take to walk around the island? My lord that’s R: On a bicycle. P: On a bicycle. On a bicycle, maybe, but I can’t imagine walking around the island in a day. R: U(G). Used to do that. P: Used to do that. S1: Oh, yeah, people do that. Only now we don’t. That’s why some are fat people. P: U(L). S1: Around there. P: Everybody has good legs. R: Yeah. P: Do you remember your grandparents? Tell me about them. R: Well, nothing, nothing much, but that’s the P: They must have meant a lot to you though. R: Wish I could remember a little. P: Tell me what you remember. R: Well, not so much, not so much, because she died when I was small. P: G(A). S1: Morning, come in. [to a customer entering the store]. P: Can you tell me just a little bit about your friends? What your friends here in Old Road do for a living. Say your best friend. R: Georgia, she has gone away. And I don’t see any more. P: G(A). R: At that time it was cane field, working on the estate.. P: G(A). What’s the estate here? R: Winfield. P: Winfield R: Then it was Franklin, but then Franklin didn’t have Winfield. P: I see. And most of the people worked the cane. G(Q). R:.At that time. P: Now, I’d like to ask you, can you remember the kinds of games you played, the games you played when you were a child.? Or the games you U(I). R: Bat and ball. P: Yeah, tell me about that. R: Pitch marbles. P: G(A). R: Knock rounders. P: OK. Knock rounders. You played rounders? R G(A). We play rounders. P: Did they play with a tennis ball? R: Yes. P: G(A). R: Some field some in there. P: G(A). R: Also you get in there. P: What was the other game you mentioned before rounders? R: Pitching. P: Pitching. R: You pitch a ball P: Girls play too. Girls play cricket? R: Yes at that time. P: Did you ever play windball cricket? R: Windball. P: Windball cricket. But rounders, you don’t use a bat. R: No, no, no. P: Just use your fist. R: Your hand. P: Can you remember any other kind of game, line games or ring games that you played? R: “There’s a Black Girl in the Ring.” U(L). P: Tell me about that. R: We go “Lowby, lowby.” S2: Everybody hold hand and somebody stay in the middle. P: And you say “There’s a Black Girl in the Ring.”? R: Yes. P: And what about her? What do you say about her? R:U(L). Everything she does in the ring you sing about. P: Oh, you sing about it. You make it up as it goes along. R: Yes. P: She acts out the thing. R: Right. P: And you sing about it. That’s good. That’s interesting. Think of any others? R: Yes. “Father and I went out to camp along with Captain Gooding.” P: U(L). R: “And there we met the men and boys as thick as hasty pudding” P: U(L): Yankee Doodle, G(Q). R: Yes. P: U(L). They sing “Yankee Doodle” in St. Kitts. That’s great; that’s terrific. That is just great. Now I want to ask you about, if you remember when you were small if you heard jumby stories . S2: Nancy stories P: Or Nancy stories. R: We had no lights. S2: No electricity. R: Everything you see, you afraid of jumby. S2: Couldn’t see nothing. P: G(A). R: People talk about them. P: What did they say? R: Hi, mon [to someone passing by]. They say they see them. P: They say they see them. And what does the jumbie do? S2: Good morning [to a passer by]. R: U(L). Get them scared. P: And do you know about jumbie fires? R: Yes, I saw one. P: Tell me about that. R: R: U(L). I know I saw a bed with grass. P: A bed? R: G(A). A bed had in grass. P: G(A). R: No? P: Yes. R: And they put the grass in the bed. P: Yeah. R: To sleep. And I see the grass burn out of it. 111 P: Just the grass and nothing else burned. R: Yes. P: And nothing else burned. R: Not a screen, you know a screen? P: G(A). R: I see the cloth burn, and not the board. P: Somebody told me yesterday that those jumby fires happen when somebody stole something. R: Yes. P: And only the things that were stolen burned. R: I don’t forget when I used to work at the clinic we went to Challengers. I used to work there. P: G(A). R: The girl up there they say, had jumby in her. We went up there, and she was ironing, and the thing just start fire. P: Is that right? No kidding. R: No. P: G(A). R: And she got one slap from the man in the seat. You could hear the slap. She say you see them hitting me? P: U(L). R: You see it? Did you see anybody? P: Did you ever hear of a jumbie crab? R: G(N). S2: Yes. P: Crab? R: Oh, yes, the black one. You see that? P: Yeah. R: Jumbie crab. There’s a lot, a lot of them. P: Someone told me yesterday if you put the jumby crab in the pot and put a big stone over it and the next morning R: G(A). And you aint see no crab. P: The crab’s gone U(L). R: Yes, sir, heard all about that. P: Right. What about the Nancy stories? Who’s Nancy? Is Nancy a spider? S2: G(A). Nancy was a spider. R: G(A). Long time these. [‘have not heard these for a long time] P: Now, do you remember when you were a child or when you were growing up that people used to use, make different kinds of tea for illnesses? R: Oh, yes, yes. P: Can you tell me? R: Well, they used to use for medicine all sorts of bush, give you bath and when you finish the bath you take some in glass, to drink. P: G(A). What kind of stuff did they use? R: All sorts, guinea bush, mango bush. That’s what they give you when you got gall stones. P: G(A). R: All sorts of bush to bid you. P: Mayapple? R: Yes, mayapple. And strongman bush. P: Strongman? R: G(A). All sorts, all kind. P: And then they cook it up into a tea? R: They boil it. P: Boil it. R: Yeah. Take out a glass before they bathe you, then they bathe you. P: G(A). R: Then you drink it. P: G(A). R: And then you feel fresh. P: Right, right. R: They give that when they say jumbie on you. P: When the jumbie is on you, you take it. U(L). R: You take some of that too. P: Get the jumbie off of you, G(Q). R: Off of you. P: OK, that’s great. U(L). Were there people, were there ever people in the village who could cure people with either spells or laying on hands? R: No, none of that. P: No. Like someone who could come and stand over somebody and say things and they’d get well. R: Didn’t have that. Like the jumbie fire. P: G(A). R: The trees that cut down. P: But the hoodoo or voodoo? R: Hoodoo. No. P: Never practiced here, I see.. R: People who come from the village remember, but nobody here. P: OK. Now listen, I want to go back and get this straight about your children. I know one died, but how many did you have? Were there four? R: Four P: The twin and then a boy and girl, who are in Miami. R: Yes. I had another one died young.. P: I see, so you had five altogether. R: Yes. P: I see. Now tell me about, do you remember, before they had the carnival the way it is now. It’s a beauty pageant, but years ago it was called sport. Do you remember that? R: Yes. Sport. P: Yes. Did you ever participate in that? R: No. P: Did you ever see it? R: Oh, yes. P: OK tell me about what you saw. Something about what it was like. R: Mackajumby, nigger business, clowns. P: Yeah. R: Regimental, they used to call them. P: Who was regimental. R: Some people dressed as nurses. P: G(A). I see. And did they have some pageants where they’d act out Bible stories. R: Oh, talking about Christmas Eve, Goliath. P: David and Goliath, yeah. Was that part of that? R: Yes, it was. P: And you called that the sports. R: Yes that was in it too. P: Sports R: They had Goliath by itself and then mummies was by itself. P: And that was sports? R: Yes. P: And what was mummies? R: Mummies. P: Oh, mummers, like mummers. R: No, mummies, like David and Goliath. P: OK. R: We call it. S1: Mummies, that’s a group where they wear the dress and they dance. P: Well, you know they have some people who do this in Philadelphia and they’re called mummers. R: Oh, mummers. P: I’ll bet it’s the same thing. S1: They dance and things. P: Yes. What did you do in that? In the David and Goliath. R: Oh, we went along with them. When they finish Goliath, they come and lift you up. P: U(L). R: And dance, dance, dance. P: They used to do this around the island? R: They used to go walking. P: They’d go village to village. R: Not in one day. P: No. R: Sometimes they do David and Goliath and you get to meet them and dance when the music come back. P: And do you remember the one with a bull? Did you have the one with a bull? R: Oh, yes. P: Did every village U(I). R: One come in and run and run run, and run, I don’t ever come up. P: U(L). R: You run from the bull. P: Yeah. Yes. R: That was nice. P: Yes. S2: All them activities folklore. See them kinda tense, Carnival wasn’t like that this time. P: Yes S2: The young people doesn’t know how to have fun. P: Yeah. S2: Without fighting. P: Yeah, S2: Too much physical fights, it just causes more than you just having more fun as to dance. P: Yeah. Sure. Absolutely, And wasn’t there a political side to that too? R: Political after. P: That Bradshaw said you shouldn’t spend your money dressing up like this. S2: Who said that? P: Bradshaw said “Tighten your belts, comrades.” I just wondered if that was the turning point when they went from the kind of joyful, folk pageant, it sounds so wonderful to have this David and Goliath thing and they turn it around. Now it’s like an American beauty pageant. R: They ain’t stop them from having some. S2: They don’t stop us from having the masquerade, it’s just the people are not being trusted. P: I see. So now they want to have… S2: Yeah, but they now are using more wild troops. The only thing that keeps them now is the masquerade because our culture is so clouded, the masquerade keeps it up. P: G(A). S2: But in those they used to have clowns and jack-o-lanterns. P: What other holidays do you remember? R: We used to have Empire Day. Was the 24th of May. That’s it. P: G(A). And how about the one in August? R: August Monday, that come around. P: Yeah. R: Monday have no school. Sunday school. On location. P: I see and that was really for… to celebrate... R: We had statehood. P: What were they celebrating? R: What did they do? But you know, Sunday school used to choose some good in August, when the children are on vacation. P: G(A). R: In trucks, you go round the island. P: This is August Monday? R: No, any holiday. I see. P: I see. Any holiday. R: Yes. P: Are you familiar with the process of sane agriculture, farming the cane. R: Well. P: Tell me what you can about that. R: I be honest I never been. P: G(A). What have you heard? R: About the cane? P: Yeah, about how they grow it and harvest it and cultivate it. R: No, not much. P: No. That’s OK. Now you run this store. This is your store? R: Yes. P: How long have you done that? R: Seven years about. P: G(A). R: I’ll tell you that it is. P: Has it been pretty good? R: Well, not all the time. P: Not all the time, U(L). R: No. P: G(A). R: Once it was much better than now… P: How many days are you open? R: All the days. P: You open Sunday too? R: Yes. P: What time do you open? R: Open seven. P: G(A). And when do you close? R: Nine, ten, don’t know, no special times. P: You stay open as late as nine or ten though? R: Yes. P: Do you just sell food? R: Yes now. P: What did you used to sell. R: Once I used to try chicken. P: G(A). R: Fry fish. P: Yeah. R. I had to quit now. P: G(A). Just dry goods R: .G(A). P: Can goods. R: Yes. P: You don’t make sandwiches or anything? R: Don’t anymore. P: The problem with that, I guess, if you don’t sell it all, you just lose it.. R: You don’t lose all the time, you got things you can use again. P: G(A). R: No, you lose it in the cook. P: Yeah, well that’s what I meant, the cooked food. R: G(A). P: What kinds of things do you do for fun? What do you like to do when you’re not working, yeah? R: Read. I like to read. P: OK. What do you read? R: Lot a books. P: OK. What kind of books. R: I used to like Nancy Drew stories. P: OK, I see. R: Pocket books. P: What do you like to watch on television. R: The news. P: The news? G(A). Do you watch the national news, I mean, the international news, or do you watch the news just for the islands, or the news from Florida. R: News from the islands. P: G(A). R: And Florida and U(I) S2: National and international. P: Yeah, Right. You can get all three.. Tell me about the kinds of trees that grow around here. R: All kind, all kind of tree. P: Name a few. R: Mango. S2: Peach trees, lime trees, all kind of trees… P: G(A). S2: Peach tree, banana tree, pear tree, everything that you could think of. S1: Yes, there’s everything. R: U(L). Everything, of course, we have everything. 231 S2 You have everything particular, everything, every tree, you could find. R: You just find out the names and you can find them. Everything you could find. 232 P: G(A). How about the kinds of grasses? R: Well, I don’t know much about that. 233 P: You don’t know grasses or weeds? R: G(N). P: How about the things of shrubs that provide for medicinal purposes, you know the kind you make those teas from. S2: Lemon grass. R: That don’t come up. Lemon grass. P: Now, you told me you couldn’t tell me much about the cane production, but can you think of any terms that relate to the cultivation. Not the work, just the words. R: What say what. They pack them? P: Yeah. R: Used to pack them with the hands on the line. P: And how did they do that? They just pull it off by hand, you mean? R: Used to pack them with the hand. R: But they don’t pack them no more. Engines to then right down. P: They’d pull them off with their hands? R: They used to pack by hand. P: Yeah. Do you know what stuff the trash that they pull off the cane, the stalk. R: Yeah. Stalkwheat. P: Do you ever call that magasse or bagasse? R: No, the magasse is. P: Magasse. R: No the magasse is what they take when they take the cane to the factory and then. P: Ok, the magasse is the. R: Is that, yes, the trash. P: I see. OK, now tell me about some of the birds around here. R: You mean these. P: That a good one, that rooster. U(L). R: Oh. P: Like sea birds or else like those little birds right there on the wire. What are they? R: Hummingbirds. P: Those are hummingbirds. R: Yes, and now the dove. P: G(A). How about sea birds? R: The sea hawk and the garlin [?]. P: How about the booby. R: Oh, yes. P: What? R: Booby, this country. P: What’s the booby? R: A kind of big… P: Yes. Did you ever fish? Did you ever go fishing? What kind of fish did you fry here when you used to fry fish. R: All sorts. P: Tell me about them. R: Sprat, ballyhoo. All sorts of fish. P: Sprat, ballyhoo. S1: Dolphin. R: Dolphin. P: Snapper? R: Snapper. P: Ballyhoo? R: Yes. P: Do anchovies, are they caught here? R: What? P: Anchovies? R: No. P: Sardines? R: We may have another name for them. P: Because I think the anchovy is in the same family with the sprat and the ballyhoo.. R: The craymin [?]? S1: No… We have the yellowbill. R: Yellowbill. The small jackfish. P: Yellowbill, jackfish. How about grouper? R: Oh, yes, fry to cook. P: Tuna? S1: Steam the grouper with lemon and pepper sauce. R: Steam the grouper, yes, the sauce, and you cook your dolphin. P: Is that right? S1: And mango. P: U(L) R: And the dolphin and corn and the grouper in. P: I see. That’s interesting. R: With company you ain’t eat no fish. You put your fish in the gravy. P: I see. G(A). So you make good use of them. And all of these are caught locally. R: G(A). P: Now does this place across the street compete with you? This Lover’s Bar, across the street. R: No. P: They just sell beer? R: Yes, they sell beer. P: They’re not open? R: I am not living here. P: Where do you live? R: On Bay Road. P: You live in Old Road. Let me set this down [the tape recorder]. Tell me your name, how to spell your name. Will you write it down. R: Eugenis E-U-G-E-N-I-S. P: OK and your last name. R: XXX. P: And it’s Old R: Old Road. P: Old Road, OK. That’s great. Now I want to ask you what kinds of animals are there around here? R: You have the goats, you have the sheep. P: Yeah. R: Have the pig, have the cats. P: G(A). R: Have the cattle, the donkey. P: OK, that’s good. How about monkeys? R: Monkeys, yes. P: Tell me about the monkeys in St. Kitts. S2: Monkey, mongoose, fowl, chicken… R: Yeah, we cook them right here. P: G(A). R: Did you ever eat them yet? P: Monkey? No. Are they any good? R: Yes. P: Do they taste like chicken? R: No, mon, mutton? P: They taste like mutton? R: Yes. P: So you catch these monkeys around here and eat them? R: Yes. P: G(A). R: Yes, eat them if you want. P: G(A). And the mongoose, are awfully numerous too, aren’t they? There’s a lot of mongoose. R: Yes. The monkeys eat a lot of mangos? P: The monkeys eat the mongoose? R: No. P: What I want to know is how do they keep the mongoose under control. I mean, aren’t there a lot of them? R: I don’t think the monkey eat the mongoose, no. P: Didn’t they bring the mongoose because of the snake. R: No I believe that the mongoose scarcely be up in trees, but the monkey always up then. . P: G(A). R: Now they eat your chickens up. The mongoose. The monkeys are something like humans. P: U(L). Yeah, right, yes. R: When you tell them to come, they come. You could nearly send them out to send a message to me. P: That’s funny. Are they around here? R: Yeah. Get the mangos in the tree. P: G(A). R: When the mangos come they come. P: They like the mangos, G(Q). R: Yes. But the mangos up in the mountains, maybe they take cover. P: G(A). But I’ve seen the mongoose on the roads, shooting across the roads low.. R: Yes, but the monkeys keep high. P: Somebody told me that the mongoose were brought to St. Kitts for the snakes. R: Well, I heard that. P: Yeah. What kind of snakes are here? R: Snakes? I saw one when I was in Miami. P: G(A). You never see any snakes around Old Road? G(Q). R: No. P: No. Can you describe for me a wedding ceremony in the past that might differ from one today, old-fashioned wedding ceremony. R: No. You want the old-fashioned, different. P: Yeah, but you’re not old enough. R: I think so. P: You don’t remember any from the past. R: No. P: You don’t remember having heard any from the past. S2: You should know that. R: No. Wedding take what you give it. P: Yeah. R: Some have a big wedding, some are just going court, some go to the courthouse to get married.. P: G(A). R: Difference starts already. P: G(A). R: Some use the old-fashioned and get married in a hat . P: G(A). Married in a what did you say? R: Some married in hats. P: Hats. R: Some in great big shawl. P: Shawls, yeah, right. R: Yes. P: Right, like a veil. R: Yes. P: Do you remember what they called the members of the wedding party? R: Guests. P: Yes, guests, and what else? R: Bride’s maid, groom. P: Yeah, and how about.. R: Bride’s maid, had a pretty ring, had a page boy. P: Page boy. OK, that’s interesting. R: Had the page boy to take the ring. P: That’s different from, they don’t have a bestman? R: Yes, must have a bestman. P: Well, how does the bestman differ from the pageboy? R: The best man is he who give away the groom. P: Give away the groom? R: Yes. P: And the father gives away the bride? R: Yes. P: I see. Now, how about funerals. R: Well, a sad thing. P: Yeah. R: Very sad. P: Yeah. R: [inaudible] P: I’m not interested in that as much as how things have changed. That’s really what this is about, how life has changed in St. Kitts during the past fifty years or so. You see, that’s what this is about. S2: [inaudible] when everybody walked behind. R: Changes in any life to me is the young people, their behavior. P: Yeah, tell us about that. R: When I had my children growing up I didn’t have to hide around. P: Carrying on, violence R: Yes. The time was it, still I could speak to them. Now they grown, my children from the smallest up to, can speak, some of our parents can’t speak to them. P: Is that right. R: They have none of that talk yet. And I’m not going to get any, I’m getting old. They are listening to the cause, me. Blaming the prison, if I had those kind of children. It’s like, no, you see? So they’re far different, don’t care what we try to do. That’s the change to me. P: That’s a big change, right, yeah. R: Yes, big, big change from the young people. All of your children so you say can you see the size? You can’t go with them. See the size? They don’t hear that. P: G(A). U(L). R: So you can’t go with them, so that mean your school, your past… P: A little boy there. R: Yeah, you can’t go with them. “What you mean that you can’t?” P: They find that more striking.than the. R: That is the word you give to young people. P: I see, That’s interesting. R: That cause the difference to me.. P: G(A). R: Once ago, you could go in the night, anybody could go walking far as long as they want, alone. P: Didn’t lock your doors. R: Yes, didn’t lock your doors. P: Somebody told me that the other day that no one locked his doors. R: No, now you have to make sure leave your latch when you go and come back, don’t leave it open. P: Yeah. R: So that’s the change we get today.. P: Well, that is a big… R: Nothing else so long to me. P: How about, do any of these kids get in trouble in the store? R: My kids? P: No, not your kids. No. I mean these neighborhood kids. R: Yes, but I don’t settle for that. P: Yes. R: That’s why you see us kids we don’t have them much. P: G(A). R: That’s what I stand for. They don’t have respect. I rather lose a sale and let them go. P: I see. R: And stay alone. They go on to the corner, and I stay here. P: That’s good. Do you talk to their parents? R: No, I have no authority. So yeah, that’s what you’re gonna get. If they do even more, I’ll be in with the police. P: Yes, sure. R: So that’s my change, I believe today. P: Well, that’s a big one, isn’t it. R: Parents, some of the parents are not competent. P: Yeah, sure. R: One was telling me about his son, and how they had to try to put him down. P: Yeah, sure. R: But if you try to speak to them, can’t always be, sometimes you’ll get nothing. P: G(A). R: It’s best to holler “Police!” P: Did you have that kind of trouble with your kids? R: No, I tell you, otherwise I wouldn’t be here. P: U(L). R: No, never had it. P: G(A). R:Yeah, that be too hard. I had a small one, a young kid, and I made him better because I’m a competent one. P: Yeah, right. R: I had an abstinent one. Still under control. P: That’s great. Now I’d like you to do one thing more for me if you will. End Side A P: Slowly. R: I must say them? P: Yeah, just say them, yeah. R: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven twelve thirteen, fourteen. P: Thanks. Now the number after nineteen. R: Twenty. P: Number after twenty-nine. R: Thirty. P: Number after thirty-nine. R: Forty. P: The number after ninety nine. R: Don’t know that. P: The number after nine hundred ninety-nine. R: One thousand. P: And then the big number. R Lot a? P: No, mil… mill… mill…. S1: Million. R: A million. P: Yeah, OK. Now would you say the days of the week? R: Oh, my. S3: ESPN? P: U(L). No, CNN. R: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. P: OK. Now would you say the months of the year. R: January. February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. P: Thank you. No, I ask you these questions only because I ask everybody these questions so I can compare the way you pronounce these words with the way people in Sandy Point pronounce them or over, you know, Lodge Village. Now the last one is this. These are the numbers like we say. We go one through ten but we start out with first. R: First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eigth, ninth, tenth. P: Great, that’s all I need. Thank you very much.