Well there was, you-know, speaking of the strap, I-mean you've heard some stories too where ah ah there- there was the bold kids, and they would get strapped for whatever they they were mischiefing, right? For me, I ended up getting the strap because I was bold. (laughs)

Interviewer: What happened if you did something bad. Speaker: Got the strap. Interviewer: Did you ever get the strap? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: What did you do? Speaker: Pulled my hand away?

A lot of people- a lot of old teachers are getting sued and-what-not 'cause abuse- she'd strap for anything. She just loved the strap. And I remember this one day we couldn't answer a math question, the whole c-- nobody in the class could answer it. She was so angry, she was so mad, she made everybody stand up and she strapped everybody, the whole thirty-five students.

A lot of people- a lot of old teachers are getting sued and-what-not 'cause abuse- she'd strap for anything. She just loved the strap. And I remember this one day we couldn't answer a math question, the whole c-- nobody in the class could answer it. She was so angry, she was so mad, she made everybody stand up and she strapped everybody, the whole thirty-five students.

Anyway, I got the- y-- at that time, they had- all the nuns had straps on their hand. And there was one nun that they took the strap away from. But I got slapped for something. At- it- I- but- In the morning, I had three- probably got three slaps on each hand, or which one- very gentle slaps. Anyway I went home and told my mother. Well, that didn't- that didn't- go very well! 'Cause I got punished at home!

Interviewer: Yeah. So why'd you like that one teacher so much? Speaker: She was kind, gentle, ah just somebody you- you had to look up, she was so nice. Her manner, the way she did things, the way she talked, the way she- she could be discip-- disciplinary but she did it in such a way that, you-know, rather than shouting and screaming and whacking you with a- oh we got the strap too, when I was going to school.

Interviewer: Did you ever get the strap? Speaker: Oh yeah. Interviewer: For what? What'd you do? Speaker: ... maybe fighting in the yard or-something-like-that. But boy, when you got that- have you ever seen one? ... It's- it's a- a belt about two inches wide and maybe about two feet long and when they wind up, you put your hand out, and they wind up and its full steam ahead, bang! on you your hand. That hurts. And of course you couldn't cry, you wouldn't dare, eh? Because, you-know, that was man thing to do, no crying. But it hurt like hell.

Speaker: Ah, the- and then discipline was strict in those days too. ... corporal punishment was still in and so you got the strap for being bad. Interviewer: Did you ever get the strap? Speaker: I did. (laughs)... But it- but it was a badge of courage actually because, ah, if you- if you got it you were one of the- in with one of the guys and you-know a part of the group and-whatever so- I don't recall what it was, maybe throwing erasers around or something. ... it was just one of those little kid's pranks that- that you got, ah, the strap for.

Interviewer: Did you ever get the strap? Speaker: I got the strap pretty every day. Interviewer: Oh yeah, what did you do? Speaker: Well, somewhat of the teachers, if you got- if you didn't have- got three words wrong in spelling or-something, you got the strap. ... Oh yeah, that- it worked. They were supposed to be nuns, but they were- they were nones all right. They didn't have no brains.

... the supply-teachers, the- you-know, the kids never listened at all, and they just went r-- unruly, and couldn't manage it at all, but usually the teachers tha-- that we had, they were more- very strict, and of course, they had the strap ... some kids would go down to the principal and they'd come back, and they were so proud like, you-know, they were tough guys, and they'd bring their hands back, and they would be all red, because of being strapped on the hands.

... her mom came up to her and was just like 'Rowena, I think I'm a lesbian but I just- I like cock too much.'" So then my mom's turns to me and she's like "But then I was wondering, can't women wear strap-on's? Bianca, would you rather have sex with a man or a woman with a strap-on?" And I look at her and I swear I was about to like- I was actually thinking about this, I was like "Do I want to answer this question?"

I'm like- I 'm like "A man with a- a man or a woman with a strap-on?" I'm like "Can 't I have both?" And she looks at me like I'm absolutely insane and she's like "At the same time?" And I 'm like "Yeah." And she looks at me and she's like "My god, you are slutty!"

... like at this point I've had so many conversations with her like that just- her asking me if I'd have se-- if I'd rather have sex with a man or a woman with a strap-on. It's not like "Oh, my god. I can't believe she asked me." It's just like "Would I rather have sex with a man or a woman with a strap-on- that's a good question. Why can 't I -why can't I have both?"

She would go all that way. Someone who asks me if I'd rather have sex with a man or a woman with a strap-on would kill me if she found out I'd had sex and there'd been an a cam-- and there had been a camera involved. Boy I'm glad she doesn't have the password for my computer.

Interviewer: What would you use for a mattress? Speaker: It would likely be a straw tick and a feather type over. No mattresses at that time, we'd- ah, nice- get- going out to fill up the- the straw tick with straw, and you didn't get a whole lot of chaff, you shook the chaff out of it, you just wanted the straw.

Oh well we- on our home place we used to have a straw-tick, what they used to call a straw mattress in the bottom.

You see when- ah we'd start in the spring every year and there'd be lawn socials. Maybe oh ah strawberry socials. And they'd serve you strawberries. And they'd have a ball-game. And then after that, there'd come- well it'd be just a lawn social or the ice-cream social.

Interviewer: And now were there big square-dances in the harvest in October- t-- in September, October? Harvest dances? Speaker: No, there was more suppers at the church. (both laugh) For you had to work! We had strawberry-socials and what were the rest of them called? Where you went and there was no facilities at the church whatsoever.

The ah um entertainment consisted of a lot of house parties. And ah you'd announce a house party and the neighbours would show up with their horse and buggies and ah spend the evening ah listening to music or dancing or have a strawberry social on your front deck. And it revolved around through the community.

Now, my parents went to the- the odd social event. You-know, they- in the summer times they would have strawberry socials, they called it. And that was- ... Just like a big party, a get-together and- ... And strawberries and shortcake, I guess it is.