13.93 14.82 A: [LABOV] Thrasher? 14.64 15.40 A: [JERRY] Right. 15.82 19.55 A: [LABOV] And uh you were raised just above Vance, you say. Y- -- y- -- you twenty-two, t- -- 18.06 18.65 A: [JERRY] Right. 19.50 21.00 A: [JERRY] Um, I'm just nineteen. 20.99 21.59 A: [LABOV] You're nineteen? 21.59 22.07 A: [JERRY] Right. 21.87 24.98 A: [LABOV] (( )) come big down ((here)). Uh. 25.08 26.47 A: [JERRY] Lot of miles. 27.02 30.98 A: [LABOV] Yeah. (( )). So, anyhow, uh, wh- -- you're uh -- 30.98 32.79 A: [LABOV] Any ranch down there or -- 32.79 35.53 A: [JERRY] Uh, yeah. One of my grandparents had a ranch. 35.53 39.05 A: [JERRY] About three and a half miles from Vance. (( )) ((I was raised on it)). 38.00 40.19 A: [LABOV] Well, y- -- your dad came from South Carolina, though. 40.15 40.88 A: [JERRY] Right. 41.12 43.39 A: [LABOV] And -- but they -- y- -- your grandparents were always there. 43.33 43.83 A: [JERRY] Right. 45.67 47.71 A: [LABOV] Well, when was the first time you had a rifle? 48.69 54.58 A: [JERRY] ((Let's see,)) I didn't have really any desire to get one. See this hu- -- hunting business just got to me when I -- 54.58 56.88 A: [JERRY] really, when about fifteen is when I 56.88 58.77 A: [JERRY] got interested in it. Fourteen. 58.78 64.07 A: [LABOV] ((You don't -- what do you think --)) I just talked to grandfather ((this summer. My)) grandfather grew up on a ranch, 64.07 66.75 A: [LABOV] where he had deers thick as (( )). 65.00 67.25 A: [JERRY] ((Well,)) that's the way I was, ((see)). 66.75 68.22 A: [LABOV] And he couldn't see shooting them. 68.02 72.29 A: [JERRY] That's the way I was. If I w- uh uh ah -- uh really the only way I -- 72.29 75.76 A: [JERRY] first one I ever killed was because I said, well, 75.76 77.56 A: [JERRY] why not, you know. 77.56 78.31 A: [JERRY] And 78.31 82.83 A: [JERRY] I went out and ((this)) little old four point buck come up ((and)) I shot him. 81.55 82.01 A: [LABOV] Yeah. 82.83 84.12 A: [JERRY] And 84.12 86.15 A: [JERRY] that's -- I don't know. 86.15 92.78 A: [JERRY] I just wanted something to eat, more or less, than anything. Uh. All it was. ((To me)) wasn't any big thing, you know. 92.78 94.47 A: [JERRY] But now I enjoy 94.47 97.25 A: [JERRY] hunting more. ((Javelina)) is what I like to hunt. 97.51 99.52 A: [LABOV] Yeah, I just heard about them. Now, 99.52 101.60 A: [LABOV] these javelinas uh 101.60 103.58 A: [LABOV] are getting thick out this way. They- -- they're -- 103.14 108.91 A: [JERRY] Right, they're c- -- they're just coming back into this country. Now, I have -- I have lived on a border down here. 108.64 109.11 A: [LABOV] Yep. 108.91 112.20 A: [JERRY] Out from Sanderson, in -- down in there on ninety. 112.40 115.20 A: [LABOV] Well, you stayed in Vance until you were ((what,)) fourteen, fifteen? 116.37 117.94 A: [JERRY] Yeah, around in there. 117.94 119.85 A: [JERRY] I lived over at Leakey -- 123.38 127.01 A: [LABOV] Oh, w- -- well, (( )) you stayed in -- see, I have to get the geography straight. 126.88 127.31 A: [JERRY] Right. 127.01 129.41 A: [LABOV] Stayed around Vance until you were about how old? 129.47 131.37 A: [JERRY] Well, let me figure this out. 134.40 135.58 A: [JERRY] I was -- 135.58 138.17 A: [JERRY] moved to Leakey when I was about 139.37 140.18 A: [JERRY] ((over there)) 141.09 143.68 A: [JERRY] I don't know, I was about seventh grade in school. 143.68 144.83 A: [JERRY] ((I was about)) 143.94 144.94 A: [LABOV] About fourteen. 144.83 148.33 A: [JERRY] About that. ((See,)) and then see, I still -- 145.85 147.14 A: [LABOV] Well, that's the time wh- -- 148.33 151.50 A: [JERRY] I would stay over at my grandma's during the summer. And then 151.50 156.00 A: [JERRY] (( )) ranch ((out)) this side of Leakey, about ten miles this side of Leakey. 156.28 158.15 A: [LABOV] Chances are, though, if you uh -- 159.02 160.96 A: [LABOV] Oh, you started shooting when you were about fifteen, then. 160.94 161.96 A: [JERRY] Right. 161.96 166.60 A: [JERRY] Actually, I mean, I really got interested -- I have shot squirrels and rabbits all my life. 162.01 163.31 A: [LABOV] You probably (( )) -- 166.73 168.03 A: [LABOV] Twenty-two or shotgun? 168.01 168.77 A: [JERRY] Twenty-two. 169.79 173.19 A: [JERRY] I use four ten a little bit. Not too much. 173.00 176.94 A: [LABOV] I'll tell you why I mention the javelinas. I -- I never heard of wild pig hunting until I got to Hawaii. 176.94 178.72 A: [LABOV] They got wild pig out there, 177.14 177.79 A: [JERRY] Mm. 178.72 180.68 A: [LABOV] this big, about four hundred pound. 180.56 181.41 A: [JERRY] Yeah. 181.41 182.58 A: [JERRY] Can I help you? 184.14 184.96 A: [JERRY] Right. 184.96 186.44 A: [JERRY] Need some ((change))? 193.32 193.88 A: [LABOV] Oh. 194.23 196.69 A: [JERRY] I got married when I was sixteen. That's pretty -- 196.80 197.32 A: [LABOV] Yeah? 197.32 197.70 A: [JERRY] ((Eh)) 197.70 199.60 A: [JERRY] ((That's a)) little bit young, I guess. 199.04 200.71 A: [LABOV] ((Enterprising guys)) down there. 201.69 202.49 A: [LABOV] Well, 202.49 204.04 A: [LABOV] I don't know, uh. 205.00 206.58 A: [LABOV] I've been married a good many years. 206.58 208.33 A: [LABOV] But uh. 208.62 211.06 A: [JERRY] It's -- it's nice, I think. 211.06 215.22 A: [JERRY] ((Uh I mean,)) I think, you know, anybody get together, they do pretty good. 215.22 218.72 A: [JERRY] ((You try it.)) Takes, you know, trying. On both parts. 218.72 221.95 A: [JERRY] There's times (( )) do get a little trying, (( )). 223.77 225.46 A: [LABOV] Where ((did you get a medical discharge from))? 225.56 229.27 A: [JERRY] Cyst. I have two cysts. I wouldn't let them cut them out. 229.27 230.10 A: [LABOV] Whereabouts? 230.03 231.12 A: [JERRY] On my tail bone. 231.23 233.20 A: [LABOV] Right in the base of the spine? 232.36 233.10 A: [JERRY] Right. 235.68 238.77 A: [JERRY] And they get to bothering ((me)). I wished ((I had went ahead and)) let him 238.77 240.58 A: [JERRY] operate on me, ((but I mean)). 240.58 242.63 A: [JERRY] ((Naw)), that uh -- 242.63 244.76 A: [JERRY] Rio Grande country out there, 244.76 246.57 A: [JERRY] it's between Langtry and Dryden. 246.57 248.65 A: [JERRY] Down in there. Yeah. 246.57 247.04 A: [LABOV] Yep. 248.65 253.05 A: [JERRY] See, my mother and them, they moved from Leakey. They bought a business place out there, and I'm 253.05 256.38 A: [JERRY] go out there a lot of times, stay, you know, a while. 256.38 260.08 A: [JERRY] With them. Worked on a ranch ((or two)) around there a while. 260.08 262.89 A: [JERRY] They really have the ((javelinas)) out there. 263.14 268.04 A: [LABOV] Now, these javelina boars, they have about -- one of the old -- got tusks that twist back -- 267.61 273.51 A: [JERRY] Some of them. Some of them do, and some of them d- -- some have them -- yeah, just s- -- ((no)), that's according how big they are. 269.55 270.21 A: [LABOV] Some straight? 272.91 274.90 A: [LABOV] Yeah, ((must be)) younger ones ((that)) have them straight. 275.25 278.08 A: [JERRY] Then they'll start cor- -- curling as they get older. 278.39 280.84 A: [LABOV] ((But)) no matter how far they curl back, they can still get you with them. 280.70 281.65 A: [JERRY] Yeah. 281.65 284.18 A: [JERRY] You can -- you can touch one on -- on the -- 284.18 288.50 A: [JERRY] You can be standing there, and he'll not know you're behind him, and you can touch him on the tail. 288.50 289.93 A: [JERRY] With your finger. 289.93 295.68 A: [JERRY] And he can cut your hand before you can get your hand away. They're the fastest little animal you ever seen. 292.96 293.91 A: [LABOV] ((That's what I hear about.)) 294.94 297.05 A: [LABOV] ((They're)) just about as fast as there is. 303.81 304.43 A: [JERRY] Slow. 304.43 306.60 A: [JERRY] Usually right early (( )). 306.60 309.29 A: [JERRY] About twelve, one o'clock, it just dies. 308.74 310.54 A: [LABOV] Do any business at all in the uh -- 310.54 312.00 A: [LABOV] ((Well, what)) do you have to stay open for? 312.04 315.75 A: [JERRY] Well, there -- lot of our trucks come by, ((you know)), kind of regular. 315.75 317.45 A: [JERRY] Customers. 317.33 319.38 A: [LABOV] Well, this is -- you know I've been traveling 319.38 322.73 A: [LABOV] around and I get fooled all the time by the words that 322.73 326.59 A: [LABOV] people use and that sound different things. You take these three words, the way you say them. 326.11 327.60 A: [JERRY] All right. ((Four.)) 327.60 329.26 A: [JERRY] ((For)) and ((far)). 329.11 330.49 A: [LABOV] These two are the same? 330.32 332.72 A: [JERRY] Right, the way I pronounce them, they are. 331.94 335.86 A: [LABOV] Yeah. ((Well)) you go over there to the west, and these two are the same. And that's different. 335.86 337.44 A: [LABOV] Uh-huh. How about the rest of these. 337.42 339.68 A: [JERRY] ((Core)), Ford and pork. 339.91 340.48 A: [LABOV] And that? 340.37 342.76 A: [JERRY] Storm, ((wore)), ((war)), and ((cork)). 343.48 345.26 A: [LABOV] Now these are the -- the -- the -- 345.26 348.63 A: [LABOV] these are -- these go like far, yeah, star, war, and cork. 348.63 350.37 A: [LABOV] How about this one? ~H ~O 350.37 351.90 A: [LABOV] ~A ~R ~S ~E. 352.33 353.15 A: [JERRY] Hoarse. 353.61 354.48 A: [LABOV] And this one. 355.80 356.82 A: [JERRY] Horse. 357.18 357.96 A: [LABOV] Horse. 358.83 361.00 A: [LABOV] Uh, and when you get -- 361.00 362.58 A: [LABOV] go to a funeral? 362.58 363.55 A: [LABOV] You're in -- 363.34 364.29 A: [JERRY] Mourning. 364.63 365.74 A: [LABOV] And this one? 365.76 367.31 A: [JERRY] Morning. Same way ((to me)). 366.78 367.93 A: [LABOV] Well, those are the same? 367.80 368.32 A: [JERRY] Yeah. 368.32 368.98 A: [JERRY] Right. 369.65 375.11 A: [JERRY] Way I pronounce them, it is. Now, ((maybe)), how th- -- actually how they're supposed be pronounced, I don't have any idea. I don- -- 374.38 380.39 A: [LABOV] Listen, uh, no, I know a little bit about this stuff, because I -- I have to study languages a lot. ((Know what to expect.)) 379.15 380.11 A: [JERRY] Right. 380.39 384.23 A: [LABOV] There i- -- these things, there's no -- absolutely no right and wrong. It's not like the question of -- of ain't. 384.23 386.30 A: [LABOV] If you go to school, they're going to hit you on ain't. 386.30 390.16 A: [LABOV] And they you know, make a big deal about it. But this is strictly a question of uh 390.16 391.16 A: [LABOV] different regions. 391.16 393.19 A: [LABOV] Well, thanks very much, Terri. 391.36 392.02 A: [JERRY] Mhm. 393.19 394.72 A: [LABOV] Gee, that's great. 394.72 396.57 A: [LABOV] Now, which is which? 396.57 398.96 A: [LABOV] One of these is black. 398.96 402.50 A: [LABOV] That looks black. Oh, ((you)) got another one of these -- those uh uh -- 402.28 404.11 A: [JERRY] No, this is cream here. 402.50 404.05 A: [LABOV] (( )). 404.05 404.80 A: [LABOV] ((Now you get it.)) 428.50 430.37 A: [LABOV] You know, my impression is 431.48 436.97 A: [LABOV] that uh Texas doesn't start until you get to about here, because those people in west Texas are more like New Mexico. 436.87 438.62 A: [JERRY] ((Well, no)) (( )). 438.62 443.78 A: [JERRY] I have more of a accent in a way or something, a drawl, than a lot of people do around here. 443.78 446.98 A: [JERRY] And there's people correct me on it all the time. Now, I don't know what it is. 446.92 448.24 A: [LABOV] Well, don't let them get you down. 448.29 449.23 A: [JERRY] I don't. 449.23 451.44 A: [JERRY] ((Well)) uh -- and when I was in 451.44 454.56 A: [JERRY] going through boot camp out there in Fort Ord, 454.06 454.58 A: [LABOV] Oh, yeah. 454.56 458.22 A: [JERRY] and I w- -- all I was with was, you know, uh 458.22 462.12 A: [JERRY] peoples from the northern states, and then from ((right)) there in California. 462.12 464.38 A: [JERRY] And that's all. I was just out ((of style)). 464.38 466.77 A: [JERRY] And -- ((something)), you know. 466.63 473.11 A: [LABOV] The important thing is that you got to be yourself, and the people who keep changing ((the language)) all the time ((trying to)) (( )) ((into something else)), 471.93 472.69 A: [JERRY] Right. 473.11 479.18 A: [LABOV] they uh wind up doing stupid things. For example, they'll -- they'll say things -- they'll go overboard. You hear it all the time. 475.04 475.56 A: [JERRY] Right. 479.03 485.56 A: [JERRY] But, yeah. Uh, in a person's life, he will pick up from different people, I think, he'll pick up different kinds of words. 485.56 486.94 A: [JERRY] And the way he uses ((them)). 486.94 492.81 A: [LABOV] This kind of stuff, which words are the same and different, you learn when you're about uh ten and ((it's different)). 490.45 491.08 A: [JERRY] Well, 491.67 495.61 A: [JERRY] like you was saying that four there, now, I have heard a lot of people that say four. 495.61 499.11 A: [JERRY] Uh. D- -- an- -- and you mean the same thing ((but)) pronounce it different. 499.11 501.38 A: [JERRY] Four, more or less or -- 500.58 503.19 A: [LABOV] For you -- w- -- how do you say ~F ~I ~R ~E? 503.20 504.16 A: [JERRY] Fire. 504.38 505.29 A: [LABOV] And 505.29 510.10 A: [LABOV] ((no,)) (( )). Oh, ~H ~I -- i- hu- -- something is high, ~H ~I ~G ~H. 509.90 510.49 A: [JERRY] High. 511.17 513.38 A: [LABOV] And ~H ~I ~R ~E. When you're going to hire someone. 512.87 513.75 A: [JERRY] Hire. 514.31 515.59 A: [LABOV] You always pronounce it ((~R)). 514.78 516.63 A: [JERRY] Just like hi- -- I mean -- 516.63 520.11 A: [JERRY] High, or higher, you know, or -- or hire. ((It's)) same way to me. 519.71 520.99 A: [LABOV] How about ~T ~I ~R ~E? 521.09 521.73 A: [JERRY] Tire. 522.08 523.08 A: [LABOV] And ~T ~A ~R. 523.21 523.82 A: [JERRY] Tar. 523.81 525.17 A: [LABOV] So that's tar. 529.42 531.74 A: [LABOV] ((See,)) it works perfectly well, because 531.74 534.19 A: [LABOV] ((the fact that there was an ~I there)) 535.12 535.84 A: [LABOV] in tire 535.84 537.27 A: [LABOV] uh shows up 537.27 541.10 A: [LABOV] in the fact that the vowel is different. You said it's tire. And there's never any doubt about the word (( )). 540.37 543.34 A: [JERRY] Well, now, there's lo- -- lot of times I'll say it 543.34 546.44 A: [JERRY] a tire, or something like that. I -- I'll use -- 546.44 548.44 A: [JERRY] if I'm not careful. 548.44 550.20 A: [JERRY] I will. 548.82 550.11 A: [LABOV] You mean -- meaning what? 550.20 551.41 A: [JERRY] Meaning tire. 551.41 552.74 A: [JERRY] I'll use tire. 552.51 553.09 A: [LABOV] Oh yeah? 552.74 555.86 A: [JERRY] I mean, uh, I have caught myself a lot of time. 557.41 559.28 A: [LABOV] ((Well, people will talk about uh -- )) 557.46 558.88 A: [JERRY] An- -- and 558.88 561.94 A: [JERRY] my boss here, the guy that run- -- owns this now, 561.94 564.64 A: [JERRY] he- -- lot of times, he'll -- he'll say tire. 565.32 565.98 A: [LABOV] Oh yeah. 565.67 568.83 A: [JERRY] But I mean, it's ju- -- just laziness, I think. 568.43 575.71 A: [LABOV] Oh no, (( )). ((Yeah, but)) the language is changing all the time. I was down there in North Carolina with the fishermen down there. These are professional fishermen. 568.83 570.92 A: [JERRY] In everybody's speech, it really. 575.49 576.32 A: [JERRY] Right. 576.23 578.59 A: [LABOV] And they're called high tiders. ((This cop stopped me)) 578.59 583.07 A: [LABOV] ((and was going to give me a ticket)) (( )). ((And then he says)) 583.07 586.34 A: [LABOV] ((Going down)) to the Outer Banks, he says, don't let those high tiders catch you. 586.34 587.72 A: [LABOV] (( )) 587.72 592.37 A: [LABOV] They think about this a lot. Because I -- I asked somebody about it, and they say, 593.20 595.42 A: [LABOV] high tide. 595.42 598.00 A: [LABOV] Then as soon as they start talking natural, they say high tide. 598.04 599.43 A: [JERRY] High tide. 598.37 602.48 A: [LABOV] (( )) Yeah, see, the language keeps changing all around us, and if you worry too much about it, 602.48 604.14 A: [LABOV] y- -- you're kidding yourself, because -- 603.66 608.25 A: [JERRY] Well -- there's -- I'll get peoples, you know, lot of people from different states through here. 608.25 610.83 A: [JERRY] And I can really notice a lot of the -- 610.83 616.28 A: [JERRY] ((there's)) just a lot of different slangs. That's why I guess it is uh more or less you could call it a slang 616.28 618.27 A: [JERRY] that different people use. 618.27 621.01 A: [JERRY] Or accents an- -- and 621.01 623.77 A: [JERRY] slang. Now, I'll use a slang. N- -- I mean, 623.77 631.38 A: [JERRY] in school, I always hated vocabulary. I never did well in that. I talk like I talk, and that was it, you know. And 631.38 632.71 A: [JERRY] I had a lot of the 632.71 637.73 A: [JERRY] trouble with the teachers on it. Because here I was, I -- I just going be hillbilly, that's it. 637.73 639.94 A: [JERRY] ((That's)) way I wa- -- I was happy. 640.85 643.68 A: [LABOV] Well, ((then)) I believe in giving teachers a hard time. 643.68 651.68 A: [LABOV] In fact, I talk to teachers a lot, and I try to -- see, you giving a hard time from one end, and then sometimes they have to listen to me because I'm an expert on certain things like uh 651.68 659.73 A: [LABOV] you know, I -- I'm talking about this common sense learning thing. And I try to give them a hard time from the other end, and I tell them they don't know anything. You know, the average teacher doesn't know anything at all? 654.57 655.17 A: [JERRY] Right. 659.48 663.75 A: [JERRY] ((Right)). There's a lot of cases -- I sa- -- I always thought so anyway, you know. 663.53 666.15 A: [LABOV] (( )) they don't know enough about the subject they're teaching. 666.15 668.65 A: [LABOV] If you ask them a hard question ((they won't know)) (( )) 667.22 670.97 A: [JERRY] Well, that's ri- -- now, I have got a second cousin that teaches school in 670.97 673.21 A: [JERRY] Camp Wood there, and he taught me in history. 673.21 674.44 A: [JERRY] ((There)). 674.44 680.37 A: [JERRY] And he is, let's see, s- -- close sixty years old, right around there, 680.37 683.65 A: [JERRY] and he has been going to school all of his life. 683.65 692.78 A: [JERRY] And that boy -- he doesn't sense enough to get out of the rain. I mean, he doesn't have the common sense, at all. About anything. And -- except he just got education. 693.63 695.98 A: [JERRY] And he just lost, to me. 695.98 696.77 A: [JERRY] ((Yeah)). 697.05 700.80 A: [LABOV] Well, that true, the uh -- you see, common sense is the main thing I'm looking at. 700.80 701.92 A: [LABOV] And uh 701.92 704.43 A: [LABOV] Well, wha- -- what's common sense as far as you're concerned. What is that thing? 704.28 705.01 A: [JERRY] Well -- 704.95 706.60 A: [LABOV] Because I always ask people that question. 706.49 708.86 A: [JERRY] it's uh ((to me)) I uh -- 708.86 714.15 A: [JERRY] I don't know what it is in the dictionary. I never have looked it up or anything. But i- -- it's just -- 712.55 713.61 A: [LABOV] No, what does it mean -- 715.05 717.34 A: [JERRY] well, take for instance, like -- 719.30 723.18 A: [JERRY] well, to me like being here and raised up in the country, 723.18 725.57 A: [JERRY] I would know things that -- 726.56 728.07 A: [JERRY] about horses, 728.79 730.01 A: [JERRY] or about fishing, 730.01 731.38 A: [JERRY] ((or say)) something that 731.38 733.55 A: [JERRY] that somebody in a -- in a uh 733.55 735.13 A: [JERRY] city might not know. 735.13 739.88 A: [JERRY] And there's a lot of people say that's common sense. But I don't know, it's just uh -- 740.92 742.36 A: [JERRY] really, it's just 742.36 747.14 A: [JERRY] on the way you live, the way you see thing. I don't -- to me, I really wouldn't -- couldn't know how to tell you. 748.51 751.22 A: [JERRY] I have to think and ponder on ((the matter) a while. 752.88 755.10 A: [LABOV] You think you get more common sense as you get older? 756.13 761.27 A: [JERRY] I imagine ((the fellow)) will. Uh, I mean, he'll learn a lot of things, surely. 761.27 762.85 A: [JERRY] In life. I don't know. 762.69 765.20 A: [LABOV] See, some people feel that common sense is something you're born with. 765.20 767.06 A: [LABOV] And you can't get (( )). You can just use it. 766.18 768.60 A: [JERRY] No, I don't feel that way. 769.41 771.25 A: [LABOV] You think an animal has common sense? 772.31 773.02 A: [JERRY] Well, 773.92 776.50 A: [JERRY] animals more on instinct, I think. 777.26 779.25 A: [LABOV] ((Well,)) (( )) had much to do with horses? 779.55 786.05 A: [JERRY] I've had quite a bit. I have rode them all my life. I mean, tha- -- th- -- that wasn't ((for pleasure)) either. See, that's another thing. 786.05 790.65 A: [JERRY] Me riding a horse, I did it ((because I could)) round up or something like that. It wasn't 790.65 792.18 A: [JERRY] for enjoyment. 793.88 795.54 A: [JERRY] ((It was)) just -- that's um -- 795.54 798.72 A: [JERRY] See, that's a difference from me and the city people. 798.72 800.35 A: [JERRY] You know, that's raised up in city. 800.35 804.99 A: [JERRY] ((That)) whole horseback-riding to them, something ((to)) me is just work, you know. 804.99 808.56 A: [JERRY] I mean, you set in the saddle from daylight to dark, it gets pretty tiresome. 809.17 811.78 A: [LABOV] Well, you ever do any ranching, work on a ranch, where you had to do that? 811.64 813.82 A: [JERRY] ((Right)). All my life, practically. 813.82 818.44 A: [JERRY] It's -- I hadn't been wor- -- working Thursdays. Now, I work for this fellow here 818.44 821.13 A: [JERRY] when he h- -- he had a gas station up here 821.13 822.77 A: [JERRY] for about three months. 822.77 825.21 A: [JERRY] I did ((that,)) drove a truck. 825.21 828.36 A: [JERRY] Worked on road job, but mostly ranch, all my life. 828.36 831.71 A: [JERRY] About y- -- notion get back on (( )). 832.77 835.64 A: [JERRY] I just feel better some reason out. 836.75 837.70 A: [JERRY] To me. 836.84 838.43 A: [LABOV] ((Well,)) um. 839.54 841.64 A: [LABOV] I just talked a young fellow down there uh 841.64 843.60 A: [LABOV] who wanted to uh 847.25 848.75 A: [JERRY] There's a buddy of mine. 848.51 849.27 A: [LABOV] Yeah. 848.75 850.84 A: [JERRY] Let me go talk to him. 884.94 887.99 A: [LABOV] Guess that's the only thing that keeps this job uh from driving you 887.99 890.37 A: [LABOV] ((bats)). That your buddies stop round and 890.37 891.38 A: [LABOV] say hello. 890.47 894.70 A: [JERRY] Yeah, I won't. That's one thing, I have got a lot of people, friends, you know (( )) 898.24 900.08 A: [LABOV] Well, I talked to hell of a lot of people. 899.89 903.27 A: [JERRY] I do, too. I'll talk to anybody. I'll stir up conversation. 903.27 906.12 A: [JERRY] (( )) 905.13 908.34 A: [LABOV] Well, I talked to a lot of people, and some of them 908.34 957.09 A: [LABOV] are all uh -- (( ))