Nebraska One - Text
White male, born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska. At the time of recording, 4/16/00, the subject was 22 and had been attending the University of Kansas for 4 years, where he was receiving his degree in civil engineering. He was the youngest child in a large, well-educated family of which several members, including his father, had PhD's. Before attending the University of Kansas, the subject attended a Catholic boarding school near Omaha for four years, with most students coming from Lincoln and Omaha. In his narrative, the subject shares some experiences about growing up in a large family. Sample recorded and edited by Erica Reisig. Running time: 00:02:53
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
This is, like, some stories from when I was growin’ up, in Nebraska with-- There’s eight kids in my family an’ I was the youngest, so, like, some of these stories, I… don’t really-- You know, Ive just heard ’em from my brothers and sisters, so… I don’t know how true they are. There’s one, which is, like, the earliest one I can remember, is (uh)-- My-- my brother-- No, it was my sister, Cice, who (uh)-- I don’t know. She’s pretty creative, an’ (uh) Tish is a little bit gullible, an’ I guess one day they were up on a fence an’, like, Cice said she could fly, an’ she talked it all up fer Tish, ‘’n’-- but she wouldn’t show her how unless she, like, charged her money, er-- Unless Tish gave her money, so like-- I don’ know. I don’ know how it all happened, but, like, Tish ended up, like, payin’ Cice every day, money, so that she could jump off a fence, an’ she thought she was learnin’ how to fly. But… she was kinda gullible. (Uh) Let’s see… An’ then, in our family there’s, like, four older kids an’ four younger ones, an’ so, whenever it was time to clean up-- Like, there’s this game that my sister Tish would play on us, the four little kids. ’n’ it was like, “We’ll play this game to see how much you can clean up. I’m gonna go hide, for 30 seconds, and then you guys clean up as much as you can, an’ then I’ll clean up as much as I can while you guys hide.” An’ so, we’d go out there an’ start cleanin’, an’, like, two minutes, three minutes would pass by. We’d go back there to see where she was, an’ she’d come by eventually, like, “Oh, good job. Rob, you win,” you know, or whatever. What always ended up happening was we’d clean up the entire house while my sister would be eating cookies, er playin’….