<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:13 i'm honestly sick of it i mean i really enjoy coming home <,> every day after work get home about six <.>and and get set to picking up all your stuff making the tea it's great fun for me while you've been sitting around all day watching television not recently cos i haven't been home i haven't been home after school um <,> <&>sighs <.>that well i do dry the dishes when i'm home if i do come straight home from school i do but that's about it usually um that wasn't our arrangement that you were going <.>to er you were meant to be <.>doi cooking one meal a week you were meant to be <{><[>always cleaning the bathroom <[>yeah but you said that arrangement had finished or <&>1:00 something <.>i cos yes but <.>you <.>when i said that when YOU turned sixteen YOU were meant to try and get a job and you said that you would try and get a job i didn't not really well couldn't you at least put your name on a waiting list somewhere because i mean shelley got a job when she was fifteen well that's shelley you don't compare me to her <{><[>um <[>well i mean exhales it's like it's kind of not i don't know <.>i it doesn't seem that important to me i don't know why it might be because like none of my friends have got jobs and like the only people i know about three or four people have jobs i mean like <{><[><.>hardly yes <[>really out of the whole lot yes <{><[>none like no girls i don't know any girls that have a job <[>word word <{><[>word <[>oh peggy does but she works for her dad or something like that so don't you care about not having much money no it doesn't seem that important i mean i haven't really been respected i mean i have <&>2:00 thought about it and thought maybe i should but i thought <.>oh if i think about it i just cannot think of you know word the time i suppose i <.>don't <.>d i'm pretty relaxed at the moment i mean i don't do <,> that much sniffs but it just seems it would take up so much time okay well voc that means <.>you basically that's your decision then isn't it yeah so that means you've got to go with less money <{><[>yeah <[>is <.>that yeah but would you be prepared <.>to er to keep up working around the house <{1><[1>in exchange for money well <.>what you've got to come up with something i can't be always the one trying to negotiate everything i mean <.>YOU i organised that first system and then that <{2><[2>word <[1>yeah <[2>to an extent i did help no well when you stopped you said that when i came back from auckland i owed you so much money or something <,> voc that <{1><[1>i don't know how much it was or whatever yeah and so you stopped <{2><[2><.>so <[1>mm <&>3:00 <[2>okay well we're back to zero now <{><[>okay now as far as i'm concerned um <.>what do you want me to PAY you for doing things around the house or do you want to have certain duties that you do <.>and <[>okay yeah well i'll do certain things <.>and just the same thing like every week and get the same amount should be hokey pokey mokey okay so what RATE i mean do you want twenty dollars an hour <.>or well just about the normal five or six five or whatever <.>you that's what you usually pay for everything isn't it round the house <,> yeah five dollars an hour? that's what you <.>said you said <{><[>word <[>yeah but then you could take hours couldn't you you could take <{><[>hours to do something <[>oh well as if i would i mean i don't have the TIME to take hours to do something exhales <.>so well what <.>i well if we just made it like a certain thing SHOULD take about this long and get that much amount of money <.>f at er the five <&>4:00 dollar an hour rate <.>then yeah so how well are you going to do it <.>w <.>you <,,> <.>w <.>i <.>b why as well as it should be done okay <.>a and when you cook a meal would you cook like a proper meal with everything in it i mean <.>not every time i've <.>always you've always cooked you always wait <.>till ALWAYS wait till i've word a meal that you just have to heat up you know <{><[>big deal <[><.>i i do not no i don't i do COOK okay give me one really brilliant meal you've <{><[>cooked go on <[>laughs well you give me one brilliant meal that you've ever cooked eh i mean can't <{><[>cook <.>i <[>i cooked soup today that was nice <.>i i've cooked soup before not recently but i've cooked soup before it's just <{><[><.>i <[>you know <.>what you know what sharon's mother said <{><[>she said that virtually every night <&>pronounced as dight when she comes home one or other of her two twins have cooked a <&>5:00 meal a three course meal and i said oh why do they do that do you pay them for it and she said no er they just can't bear waiting till seven oclock when she gets home <.>s <.>t er that SHE'D have to cook it they cook a THREE course meal <[>voc what why it's <.>not you keep comparing me to people and that's not on because i'm not other people i'm ME i'm an <{><[>individual <[>and the me that's you <.>is <{><[>is word very simple meals when she's cooking <[><.>that's yes er i wouldn't mind simple meals all the time i mean my meals TASTE good don't they <,,> they don't <.>s you <.>said you said that you would EAT anything you would <.>eat and if it wasn't edible it wouldn't matter you would eat it because <.>i you said that mum <{><[>laughs <[>you did that's when you were little i'd <{><[>have to persuade you to cook <[>it wasn't though i wasn't little i'm still not a very good cook i <.>m i can't cook as well as you can thank you very much that's okay like that's the first time you've given me a compliment <{><[>about my cooking <[>laughs oh it is not <&>6:00 it is so <{><[>you <.>never <[>maybe this year but i've given you compliments before oh well i appreciate that <{1><[1>thanks very much indeed no <.>i no i do appreciate that cos i sometimes feel as if i'm not appreciated i mean i just come home every day make the meal and <.>i you never say thank you or <{2><[2>you know it's nice or anything like that but i do appreciate that you do <[1>mm mm <[2>oh <.>m tut i'm sorry well we eat it so it can't be that bad i mean we'd if we didn't like it we could always go off and have something else you know that yeah but you've got no money to buy anything <{><[>else word <[>no i mean just TOAST or um fruit or something if it was that revolting now that's given that we buy enough fruit voc okay well that's fine for the cooking um so do you think <.>one one meal a week is enough <{><[><.>or <[>yeah i think <.>i yeah <{><[>word <[>so you cook one meal a week and would it be done when i got home or would i have to wait while you cooked it <&>sighs <.>y did you say something about monday and thursday for you are the only nights you don't <&>7:00 have some sort <.>of yeah activity okay so what one shall we make it then i can predict that you were going to do it and i could have something for you to cook <.>or you'd prefer to leave it open? yeah one or the other it depends on homework and things like if i've got a big assignment to hand in okay okay one or the other right now cleaning yay i love cleaning UM yeah well <.>u <.>u um are you sick of that other job of cleaning the bathroom <{><[>or are <.>y you're sick of that one? <[>yeah rips your nails rips your nails? jif jif? <{><[>laughs <[>well use something else use handy andy that's scratch free oh might like vacuum or something sniffs <{><[>word always do that on a sunday morning <[>but i don't care <,> yeah well it doesn't have to be done on a sunday morning give you more time on a sunday to GARDEN or something wouldn't it if i did it after school okay right vacuuming where everywhere? <&>8:00 voc living <{><[>room <[>including your beautiful clean room yeah definitely word wanted to vacuum there if i could find the floor um just living room dining room kitchen hall bathroom okay <{1><[1>so that means i <.>don i can relax about that <{2><[2>completely oh that's nice oh that's quite good <[1>word <[2>yep laughs no i think it's good for us to work it out cos it's better for you to say what you prefer to do than <{><[>just to not do it <[>oh as long as i can turn my music up loud laughs <{><[>i've got to clean to music <[>yeah <.>well well you could do it before i get home couldn't <{1><[1>you oh that's good <{2><[2>i appreciate that okay now well how many jobs did you used to have used to have the bathroom what else cleaning the kitchen floor <{3><[3>well that vacuuming will do that <[1>yeah <[2>okay <[3>exhales yeah um the dishes and tea so <.>that's you'll still do the dishes every day yeah i'd go word yeah <{><[>okay <[><.>i i did them today <{><[>but i got home at quarter to six <[>yeah yeah i appreciate that i <{1><[1>don't mean to be <&>9:00 me i know you've got to get through <.>a this year is a tough year academically but um you know i just sort of feel that we should make <{2><[2>the effort okay <[1>ha ha ha ha ha <[2>coughs yeah so it's vacuuming dishes right tea <,,> and um <,,> well <{1><[1><.>what what sort of amount do you NEED to survive on <,> like <{2><[2>used to be fifteen dollars a week did it or was that every two weeks <[1>um <[2>um twenty five every two weeks twelve fifty a week i have no idea how we got twelve fifty but we did <{><[>um <[>we just wanted to get more than mary got cos she got forty dollars an hour <{><[>i wanted to have more than her <[>laughs oh that's not nice um laughs well she's such a little rich girl i'm sick of everybody else being better than us <,,> <.>o okay i've got lots of friends who are poor do you want me to bring them round and act poor <&>10:00 laughs and get um clears throat well TEA i'm sure that will take me at least an hour laughs with all the cleaning up i do afterwards no um seriously well vacuuming i'll probably have to do at least twice a week and it does take quite a long time <,> um <,> drying the dishes not much time <,,> word um does this say five dollars word the vacuuming twice a week and say two fifty to be nice to ermintrude <{><[><.>or <[>to be nice to ermintrude? yeah give me heaps of money for drying the dishes but that's all week isn't it oh just give me five bucks laughs shall we <.>just oh maybe not we could just say the same i suppose you just used to put it in every two weeks yeah is that okay with <{><[>you <[>did i used to put in twenty five dollars are you sure it wasn't fifteen dollars no it went down to fifteen cos i was paying off for australia <{><[>laughs <[>well have you paid that off yet well it was ten dollars a WEEK no i suppose i <&>11:00 haven't <.>n okay <,> word fifteen well as long as you've paid off half if you just put it at twenty i suppose now that you're sixteen you need extra money for clothes and stuff yep okay <{><[>well so we'll get it <.>up back up to twenty five again <[><.>k word yep you can take it down to twenty i'll be able to live with twenty <.>twenty twenty every two weeks? yeah <.>for cos of <{><[>australia <[>and that way <.>y you never come to me asking me for money <{><[>for clothes never ever <[><&>sighs twenty five twenty five i <{><[>don't mm <[>and what about pictures and things can you pay all that bus fares everything mm and if i haven't got any money ON me then i'd come to you but i'd always pay you back right so you take FULL responsibility yep and do you think you'll ever get a job yeah <{><[>but <.>i <[>or you'll wait till you leave home <.>and yeah oh <.>i i've got <{><[>to save up for um dancing though my dancing trip <[>word <&>12:00 well how much <{><[>is that going to cost <[>in june um well with our fund raising hopefully it would only <.>be what's happening about <.>those those chocolate bars i've got to um i'm sick of those things <{1><[1>around the house look i am honestly sick of them <.>they're <.>i i spent two dollars on a blooming chocolate bar because i get chocolaholic <{2><[2>ravings and er <.>y can't you get rid of them <[1>laughs <[2>laughs yeah <.>tue we've got to have the money in by tuesday this <.>tues tomorrow? yeah oh good so what will you do with the rest <&>12:34