<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>5:28 so what did you have to um hang on to things you're not roped together no no have you got <.>what well we were just following each other and <{><[>we <.>were <[>you didn't have any ice picks or anything like that <{><[>to dig into <[>no no <,,> <{><[><.>and <[>oh how steep was it oh <,> it was hard to tell just because <{1><[1>you know it was so <,> yes um <{2><[2>yeah yeah it was SO white <,> got some epic photos <{3><[3>laughs but yeah it was a bit <.>f <[1>yes mm <[2>laughs <[3>oh yeah probably not just then <{><[>you wouldn't have thought about photos while you were <.>in <[>laughs not at that point no <&>6:00 just about to fall off <.>a <,,> piece of ice yeah and see what had happened i'd lost my footing on some of the vegetation and you just um <,> and i'd fallen down through the <.>s through the snow and i was trying to pull myself UP <,> again on <.>m yeah my arms and my pack was so heavy that you know i just couldn't so i had to take my pack off and somebody pushed me from behind and i was just hanging there and just thought oh fuck <,> freak me out this is it sort of thing laughs mm <,,> gives you a bit of a shock <,,> it does <,,> word once <,> a few years ago <,,> i was hitchhiking out of palmerston north oh yeah <,,> and um <,,> tut i've never had that RIDE you know <.>w after i did a day's hitching and i never got the perfect ride where you stick your thumb out <{><[>and you find yourself in the next town all in one ride <[>yeah yeah that happens eh when you're hitching <&>7:00 normally it never does you see the one time <,,> it happened i must have been in palmerston north in the one street at about seven oclock going to auckland <,> and two minutes later this guy pulled up <,,> to <,> give me a lift and er <,,> and he said he was off to auckland <,> for his sister's wedding or something oh yeah he was a <.>m student at massey twenty <,> and er we were having a good yarn for about <,> several minutes <,> and then he got real quiet <,> as we negotiated a kind of <.>a a curve in the road to the right <,> and then <.>he which he never pulled out of properly oh yeah so <.>we when he straightened up for the next straight we were about about this far over <.>the the white line mm which just seemed a bit weird at the time because you know he had been quite talkative and then he stopped being talkative <,> and then er this little <,> bambina comes <,> <{><[>down the other way which is all right when you're just sort of <.>the the type of car so there's plenty of room you know <[>mm <&>8:00 yeah and then the next thing there's <.>this this monstrous truck barrels down and he's still <,,> quiet <{><[>he hadn't said anything <.>he's he's still sitting on this side of the road like that <,,> and um tut the car went by <,> and he's following it with <.>his with <.>his with his eyes <,> no with his HAND but his face is dead straight down the road and then he's bursts out laughing hysterically <[>laughs oh oh and just at that point you suddenly get the shits you know you think i'm in a car with a mad man <{><[>laughs <[>laughs that like <&>hums scary movie music de da de da <{><[>de da laughs <[>that's right laughs but you <.>s it's just at that point you realise <.>how out <.>of how little control you've got as a passenger in a car <,> <{><[>and um tut so then i'm starting to think about what to do next because what's going to happen is <.>ac is a <.>c another curve coming up <&>9:00 <[>yeah oh fuck and er just as i suddenly realised that he's probably <.>not something's going to go wrong we hit the end of the STRAIGHT and he just kept on going <,,> at about sixty miles per hour we just went straight off the road he was just dead straight all the way straight and um we went through <.>a <,> through the FENCE the fence it sort of snapped sparks and everything as the car went through it oh yeah and so fortunately there was no concrete <,> post telegraph pole or cow or <{1><[1>anything like that to barrel into and um we just drove through this paddock laughs bouncing around the car went over onto the side <,> you know and cars you'd think of as kind of quite cushiony things you know <{2><[2>with all the suspension but when you're <.>on when you're on the ROOF and rolling around they suddenly jar and you know crunch <{3><[3>a bit <[1>fuck <[2>oh yeah oh <[3>laughs i reckon yeah and er it was funny because i'd had a um a seat belt on but it was a um shoulder one like seat belt <&>10:00 oh yeah and er <.>which which is all very well if you're coming to a sudden stop but <.>w when you're rolling around in the car it's <{><[>just a little ford escort you um SLIP under the seat belt <[>mm oh my god so i <.>was <.>s slipped under the seat belt what did it have a <.>lap no seat belt oh right <.>s you know it was a <.>shoulder <,> anyway slip under the seat belt the <.>car <.>it the side window had smashed on the first roll <,> and then <.>you the next i thing i know when we come up for the next roll i just got flung out word the window oh sailing through the air oh and i landed on my bum <,> like this laughs <{><[>just sitting in the middle of the paddock <[>which you know <.>st was quite a distance eh bunk in the middle of a paddock and there's this car kind of rolling around trying to flip over towards me oh so i got up and ran away till i realised i couldn't run i'd actually damaged something <{1><[1>seriously and then <,,><&>3 <{2><[2>laughs damaged something quite seriously and then i <.>got oh i ran away <,,><&>3 and er plonked down and this car finally stopped rolling around the paddock <[1>mm <[2>laughs <&>11:00 oh was he still in it <{><[>laughs <[>and he was still there still with the steering wheel like <.>this <,,> absolutely still <,,> just completely gaga like anne marie's there <{><[>at the moment <.>and <[>yeah yeah yeah <.>d <,> out of it totally <{><[>laughs <[>a little bit yeah <,,> so um <{><[>that was it <[>oh and what <.>ha i mean was <.>he he was not with it at all um it turned out and <.>he'd i talked to the doctor later and he'd mentioned something <.>that that he'd had some long sauna for three hours the day before and the doctor said that there are people that um tut <,,><&>3 have reactions to long saunas delayed reaction often several hours later and you can pass out some people pass out in hot baths <{><[>oh <[>reckon i do that and he reckoned he's one person disposed to that <&>12:00 <.>just <,,> a bit spaced out <{><[>word <[>yeah so he just went blank as that was his subconscious going bananas <,> he was just totally out of it <{><[>he'd passed out <[>oh right <,,> oh god <{><[><.>luc mm <[>he was <.>just <{><[>and you picked it you picked the one <[>word i wasn't too keen to hitchhike after that but i was so poor that er when i got <.>out i was on crutches the next week and i had to hitch on them <,,><&>3 which i thought would have <{><[><,> got me there a bit quicker but in fact <[>oh right yeah it wasn't any advantage it took me ten rides to get to auckland to get to auckland on crutches <{><[>it was the longest <,> ever <[>ah oh boy what had happened was that some <.>wa some <.>small some local would take me to the next <{><[>small town <[>yeah yeah <,,> it was <.>oft have you ever like heard people say that you know that like hitching's fine but <.>sometim if you luck out <{1><[1>you know like if you're just are not doing well that day you can <.>just i mean <{2><[2>it <.>take it can take forever you know sometimes you are LUCKY and you just get a ride and it's fine but <.>if if you don't you end up there for EVER you know <[1>mm <[2>mm tut well <.>in in fact although i've had <.>s you <&>13:00 know some <.>f times when i have to wait several hours i've always managed to get where i wanted to get in a day oh <{><[>yeah <[>and that was over a period of about ten years oh but i can't say i've done much since yeah since then since then no laughs decided <.>i fortunately i'd started earning money FLYING i decided was <{><[>the way to go <[>yeah god yeah <{><[>did you word <[>it was less hassle yeah so i haven't hitched much at all since then mm <,,><&>3 i've only hitched once you know what it's like laughs it <.>w took <.>me oh it took us two days it was just <.>that it was actually probably <.>b just before you moved in right oh is that right and we went down to christchurch it took us two days <{><[>to get from christchurch to <,> wellington we got stuck in cheviot for <,,> HOURS and yeah it was not good <,,> laughs entertaining though way to travel <[>two days shall we get sammy jo to tell us about her brush with death laughs fine <&>14:00 <.>she she's just had <.>a she's just had it laughs <,,> yeah <,,><&>3 mm tut well <,,><&>3 what <{><[>about your job bren <[>laughs twenty <.>o go on bren tell us about your job no actually i don't think you really want to know about my job it's boring me <,> silly laughs we can change that sentence to the most boring job you've ever had yeah actually you do get some pretty mindless jobs what's your most mindless then <,,><&>3 um <,,> OH laughs <{1><[1>laughs inspecting suitcases <{2><[2>for flaws laughs <[1>god <[2>laughs inspecting suitcases for flaws it's like the whole consignment of suitcases and there <.>was <,,> in each SET there was four <,> suitcases one inside each other and they were <&>15:00 ALL damaged <.>i <.>i is this how <.>they when they were manufactured they <,> came off the conveyor belt one inside the other oh they were packed you know like they were manufactured and they were all four <,> in sizes going down right you know decreasing sort of size and they all <.>m packed up together and put in <.>a um wrapped in plastic then put in a box you see and they were sold like that um but this importing company bought this whole consignment of them and there was about oh <,,> hundreds you know literally sort of <{1><[1>hundreds of sets tut and they <.>were and they ALL were flawed you see and so they all had to be inspected <{2><[2>and unpacked inspected and <,> um good sets made up you know so there were some <{3><[3>in each of the sets that weren't flawed and you'd put them to the side and make up <,,> tut um sets that they could sell and you know <&>16:00 student job search got me this job you see <.>and laughs <[1>yeah <[2>yeah <[3>right oh <,> you feel indebted for life laughs you always get the <{><[>mindless ones and this was it and we were in <.>this you weren't in this warehouse we were in this garage and like you'd walk in in the morning and there'd just be rows and rows of suitcases piled HIGH and you'd KNOW that you'd have to get through so many a day you see and we were just OH it was <.>just drives you crazy <[>laughs word so what did you think about <{><[><,> at the time <[>laughs nothing <{><[>laughs <[>did you <.>talk did you have other people to talk to mm yeah two of us were working together oh that must have been helpful mm that was quite <{><[>good yeah <[>laughs imagine doing it on your own oh it'd drive you crazy <,> and morning tea breaks and afternoon tea breaks were always a bit of a highlight laughs <&>16:47