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Community and social services I worked for here. Ah. It was a consumer alert type-thing, they'd go around and they'd make sure that people's weigh scale in- in grocery stores were not being tampered with and you weren't charging the customer more. |
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But my mom- my mom ended up being like- the l-- the lottery lady type-thing. |
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So he was going there when he was a young boy like, whatever, fifteen to eighteen type-thing. |
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Bobby you look after your little brother, Simon. You-know, type-thing. So we grew up together and ah, yeah. |
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Yeah. You-know I-- I know that's kind of myth-busters is kind of more of a reality type-thing, but sometimes every now and then you-- you-know, you pick up on-- you get something in there that's really good. |
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But one- and I didn't have the T-V nothing- I had a cheap little clock-radio type-thing. |
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Or coaxial cable, I-don't-know whatever you- comes out of your wall or- and I bought a three-prong s-- this thing that- so I unhooked the cable downstairs, the main cable and I put on this little junction box type-thing and I put that there and I ran this cable up through the (inc). |
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Yes. And anyways um so I'm all de-- I'm still depressed, it's going on for quite awhile but I go to work, see my son, go back to work, go home, type-thing. |
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Or um he goes to craft-shows or to mineral-shows and ah he buys, trades some of his minerals, something that he may already have but this is a nicer piece than the one I've got, so I'll get this one keep it and sell this one type-thing. |
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Oh is that right? Oh yeah well my dad ah my dad actually just wore one of those little sleeveless t-shirt type-things most of the time, with a regular shirt but ah but I can remember that. |
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It's a government ah ah oper-- ah government company type-thing. |
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Speaker: So you know he never did graduate. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah, but anyway, my other best friend, he had to go for a victory lap. And it wasn't really victorious though (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs). Speaker: So anyway ah, so he had a big graduation party and um- I don't even know what happened like, it just got so intense and we were all so drunk ... |
An optional fifth year of secondary school (counted as a second year of Grade 12), taken by students graduating after 2003, the year when the OAC program (a mandatory fifth year for university- and college-streamed students) was abolished. |
A little or young thing
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You-know, sitting down ah at a bear-bait, waiting for a bear to come, I had those little wee weasels come and run around my feet. I'd be eating a sandwich and share it with them. Watch the whiskey-jacks and blue-jays and chickadees and yeah, nice and quiet. |
Small, little |
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Interviewer: And the four-year old was your dad? Speaker: Yup. And um, and the wife and the wee one. |
Small, little |
Look at it and fix a wee bit if it's- needs a little bit of landscaping and-that, just keep it up. Mm-hm, I don't touch it. |
Small, little |
Telephones all different. This here ah little wee- they can see the picture and talk at the same time. Our railroad's changed so much with- they get orders from Toronto, running trains up here. |
Small, little |
The old people kept you going (laughs) Yeah, somebody said to me- my son plays the gui-- guitar a wee bit, he said "can you play anything?" "No," I said, "I have to work." We were trained to work. |
Small, little |
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And I don't- I can't honestly say if I ever saw it, I think I might have saw it as ah a wee- wee boy and-that but- but I know it was knocked down. But speaking of a- (clears throat) of buildings again, not far from where- where I was speaking of- just up the street, you know where Demarco's is? |
Small, little |
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Actually they are. And I- I- the one thing that I did say this morning is that it made myself a really tight, of course I was little wee skinny-thing, about (clicks tongue), tight skirt, gray- and I could still remember I had to- it was wool and it had to be fully lined... |
Small, little |
And just down a wee bit on that left hand side as you're going down that way. There used to be a beautiful home in there that Mister-Frederick lived in, they tore it down, put a motel in there. |
Small, little |