Speaker: I got a soaker or soaked. Yeah, yeah. Interviewer: A soaker, right? Soaker is a- is a Northern-Ontario word as well, so- Speaker: Really? (laughs) I never- I had- Interviewer: They don't have that down south. Speaker: I had no idea, really. Interviewer: There's- there's a few- few words that (inc)- Speaker: That's strange. I- I never would have thought. I-mean, you soaked your foot, you got a soaker it's- you-know?

Interviewer: Ah you're walking to school one day, you-know there's maybe a puddle with a thin layer of ice on top of it. You step on it, you go through and you- your foot like look you got a- Speaker: Soaker.

Otherwise, it's like ah, little things like, doing this that they shouldn't have done, or ah sometimes ah, they say go places and then they went some place else. Those kind of things. But I always told them, I said, and they knew that, I said, "Don't lie to me 'cause I always find out." And I always did.

... and he took him to the hospital but I think it was by the crusher, some place close to the crusher or yeah. And he got- he went- no, you just got to watch what you're doing.

And- and they- when they go for a drive some place or fishing some place you-know, throw it in the bush. There's garbage all over the bush, used to be you-know.

I had my ticket. I went down fifty-seven, I got my seal, then the government came up with ah you got to have a licence on you and then they ah- seventy-five percent, if you got that- you- but you- you can tell- I don't know I got some place- if it got a red seal it mean that over seventy-five percent. So it was ah I-don't-know it was good.

... this monument, there's um a shed out there and you can-- if you don't- you want to drive up to see this monument, the first thing you do is see the shed and oh, there's that beautiful monument stuck behind there someplace. Ah why did they put it way out here, where you have to make a special point of driving out there to see it? Put it somewhere where it's going to be visible. This poor person made it, they made such a beautiful job of it, and you're hiding ...

So, at like two in the morning, I'm in this foreign country, walking around some ho-- some place I've never been to looking for the room that I haven't seen yet. I remember stumbling around for about twenty minutes and then I ran into a worker, and I tried to ask him to help me. He didn't understand me, I didn't understand him.

I'm not adverse to snow and cold, so. Sort-of happy where I am. Ah looking forward, where do I want to be? I-don't-know. Would I like to be someplace that shared summer and winter a little more equitably? Probably (laughs).

So there's certain words and certain phrases that, "Ooh, that's neat; I'll do this!" Similar to- you- you sit there saying- Okay, clothing styles and-stuff. Okay? Here, "Wow! You-know, that ah ah lumberjack-hat is really cool; everybody's wearing it!" ... But you go someplace else and, "What the- what's that?" You-know, it- it's just different locations take on those different things or they- it means different things to them, or they find that it- "Wow, that was cool." Over there, it's not cool.

Interviewer: ... for generations and generations- ... people have gone there to get away to drink or- or to hang out and-stuff. Did you know anyone or was that around back in that spot or- ... Speaker: It- it was probably there but it wasn't some place that I utilized or- or ah my friends- Now, with a lot of those places which you go- went back there you went there in this time of the year to berries.

So, it must- it must be down under my house here some place because, you-know, if you ta-- you take a- the- it's usually about a seventeen percent angle, ... That your ramp runs. ... A-- and so if it's seventeen percent they must be some place under the house. (laughs)

Speaker: Yeah, one on each side. And if- if we were both arguing- Interviewer: Right. Speaker: And I mean it would be a little spat and my parents would catch it quick before anything ever escalated, so um but we would have to give each other a kiss.

It's weird but ah- they're supposed to mature, but I think they still have the odd little spat you-know.

Any argument I remember. Mm none offhand. We just- stupid little squabbles that ah you-know those things that we get at- we'd fight over a toy or um we used to gang up a lot on each other.

And ah, that's when I realized that I was a drunk and a druggie, so I came back home and I moved back to Toronto where we bought a house with my brother and of course, Karen came to live with my brother. And Jessica would come around once-in-a-while you-know, and ah she still looked like a squarehead to me.

So we get there and we look at each other. And ah we said about three words to each other. She was a- she looked like a squarehead to me tha-- that- that- never left puberty. And she must have thought I was some retired, old- with my hair down, look like some person- gorilla you'd never bring back.

They never squawked about it too much.

You know what? My husband talks about getting the strap, but that was at a different school, but I mean, I don't really remember- I remember it talked about. To say I knew somebody that got it, w-- when I was going to school, no. But my husband is the same age and went to a different school and he said he got the strap.

We- you-know I- I heard of, you-know more typically boys being sent to the office for the afternoon and maybe their parents being called but never anybody coming back saying I got the strap.