... such foolish things as coffee breaks. In my day, if you couldn't go from your breakfast time until noon, you wasn't much of a man. If you had to stop for to...of-course we old ones know that it's just a stinking habit that had crept in. That again has helped to put the cost of everything up. Because you have a coffee break, the other fella (fellow) had a coffee break so what you're working at and what you're producing ...

And Tom says, "Oh Ma," he said, "I traded a pen-knife to- to George-J," he said, "For- for the billy-goat." Well my mother says, "You're not keeping it here." She says, "That stinking little thing," she says "You get it out of here!" You-know?

Speaker: Yeah. But the only way you could get your paper- Interviewer: Was by sticking around? Speaker: Just stick around for the year. And ah third year was a repeat of the second year. (Laughs) Interviewer: So you paid tuition to get- Speaker: And we paid tuition- full tuition to- basically for this stinking piece of paper.

I don't have to keep up with the Jones. I was never that type where just because you have it, I have to have it, okay. I'm not- I'm not suffering, okay. I don't have to have a new vehicle every stinking year. If you don't like what I'm driving, leave me alone.

... and when West-Nile hit, they were gone. There was no jays here whatsoever and I thought, "Oh geez, that's what happened to them." That's why we don't have any because they- they were- their population was decimated by the stinking virus. Well n-- nothing last year, the year be-- okay, when it first hit, sure enough I guess it was just a week ago, looked out the back window, sunny day, was three jays in the backyard and I says- I said, "Ah they're back," I says, "Oh- oh goody.

Interviewer: Were all your siblings at home when the fire happened? Speaker: Oh, sure. Oh, sitting around there, we couldn't go outside because too damn cold. Had to sit in the house and try and blea-- breathe that stinking smoke in while- until the damn thing got- smoke got out of the house, you-know.

Interviewer: So you came back here on purpose? You wanted to? Speaker: Ah, yes. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Yeah. It wasn't- (clears throat) I-mean when you- (bell rings)- after you live here ah, and you experience a few other places, you realize it's pretty stinking good here. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Ah, you-know, ten minutes to the nearest golf course at half the price of the city. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Um, you can play hockey for next to nothing. Um, you can curl for next to nothing. Ah, people are pretty good. You can sit down with- what I r

Speaker: It was the day they were in Samuel-Payne's going out the goddamn laneway, I never had to feed the bastards ever again. Speaker 2: And run and try to catch them with ropes, eh? Speaker: (sighs deeply) Speaker 2: And they wouldn't come- Speaker: The stinking sons-of-bitches, they were gone. Speaker 2: Because they knew they would have to work like a bastard all day.

Speaker: See, we had a tractor then. Speaker 2: So you baited them with oats to catch them. Speaker: And in the-- in them days, like, a tractor was a lot more fascinating than a pair of stinking horses. Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Speaker: So that's my fondest memory.