Missouri Four - Text
Caucasian male, 15 years old. Born in St. Louis, MO, but raised in St. Peters, MO. Subject recites Comma Gets a Cure, tells a childhood story, talks about a play, and finishes with a description of his day. Recording length is 00:03:26. Interviewed and Edited by Shawn M. Muller on 9-22-00.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
When I was sittin’ on the bus, an’ the bus driver left me on the bus… Th-- an’ I was really scared, ’cause I woke up, and I popped my head up, and we were drivin’ down this one road and she slammed on the brakes, and that was kinda scary.
I’m going to be on “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare,” for the school. Well, it’s about a whole buncha casts-- (eh) cast, that decides to put on a whole buncha shows fer-- of William Shakespeare’s. And (uh) basically it’s so-- it’s a comedy, and we mess up, basically. And there’s-- we mess up on interpreting it, and stuff like that. Everyone should come see it, too. [Laughs]
When I woke up? When I woke up, I turned on my TV. I watched the news to… find out the temperature and stuff like that, and took a shower, came to school, ‘n’ went to first hour… Geometry, had a test, probably failed it. Second hour, we watched a movie, slept. Third hour, biology, slept. (Uh) Fourth hour, world history, did pretty much nothing in there.