Tennessee Five - Text
Caucasian male, born 1990 from Nashville, TN. Spent a short amount of time in
Berlin, Germany. Reads Comma Gets A Cure and tell a story about playing "bumper bikes"
with his friends.
Recorded 6-8-01by Patricia Childs; edited by Shawn M. Muller. Running time 00:02:57.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
This is the story about (um) me an’ my friends playin’ bumper bikes. Me an’ my friends were ridin’ bikes, an’ (um) we decided to, like, run into each other, jus’ to slow each other down. It’s sorta like tag but we call it bumper bikes. So (um), me an’ my frien’, David, he (um)-- he stopped. Then I came straight at the side of ’im, then as soon as I got there, he hit his pedal, an’ at first I didn’ know it, but, then I found out that, my leg was cut open. An’ I really didn’ enjoy that. I got 14 stitches. Thing that sucked was, because it was durin’ the summer, I didn’ get to go swimmin’.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUELINE BAKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, July 5, 2008