Not really you-know might go to Lakefield on a Wednesday night or-something. See the stores used to be open on Wednesday nights years ago. Well you'd go to Lakefield and bum around you-know as you called it.

Well right after high-school I kind-of bummed around to be honest, I kind-of just like didn't know what to do you-know with myself. Ah I wasn't really interested in going to u-- college ,university like it just wasn't something I wanted to do at that point.

I don't know any other word, so- alienated us, like we didn't want to even talk to her and sh-- all she did was hang out with him, like we never saw her for like two years, or-something, so. He was just an idiot too. He always like bummed mo-- money off of her and like, she spent so much money on him and- lost so much money on him and- they dated for a really long time.

And they're pretty good. But I-think you get a rapport with your students that they just get to know you and you're generally a pretty nice person and fun or-whatever and then if you have a day that you're just kind-of bummed out, they go, "Okay, that's cool, we'll leave you alone."

Not- not in school anymore, no job, you-know their parents, no job, they stay with them and they're basically all doing the same thing, bumming smokes from each other and whatever else- you-know it's just-

Like we never bugged our parents for rides 'cause you could always bum a ride with somebody.

Speaker: Yeah, it was like an old beater. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah (laughs). Yeah. Just (non-lexical sound) b-- bum around the fields, yeah.

Speaker: Anyways it finally- it finally got settled out and it went on the market and then it sold before I even had a chance to bid on it. Interviewer: Aw that's a shame. Speaker: Yeah I was bumming.

Speaker: People are just horrified when I tell them this. Everybody smoked on the buses including the driver (laughs). Interviewer: Oh my God! Speaker: And he used to bum lights off us and we bum lights off him, oh my gosh.

Yeah I hang out- well he lives out in Adobe. So that's like the middle of bum-hill- bum-fuck no where so-

But he did this- with the idea of hanging on there. So he would be break lose and then hit the floor eh? Of the cage. And apparently he got his knees all bunged up from the- the wall up when he hit the floor. He was crippled for a while.

One resident who lived near an abandoned gold mine across the river had no ice problems though. They used to store their food on shelves built part way down the mine shaft, it was nice and cool down there. Two large bunk houses called the Hub were located on the bank of the Moira River on the other side of the plant from the village over looking a beautiful little falls. Here the single workmen were housed.

Interviewer: Ah what sort of conditions would there be for the men living there? Speaker: Well they were very good. They wa-- it was good food or most of them were and ah they had their bunks. You-know like a bunk house and bunks see? They didn't have their private bedrooms or-anything-like-that see? Just like one big auditorium with a whole bunch of bunk beds in it, that was all, see?

Speaker: ... but there the place where there's garbage (inc), the guys are sleeping in that with ah- with ah you-know old mattress to try to get there long enough that they can get- get on at the mine eh? 'Cause you get on there, you're fairly good pay and bunk-house to stay in and the rest of it was- it was good. Interviewer: So you worked, you said you worked in the assay office? Speaker: Yeah in- in for the winter time yeah. But ah we were lucky because in ah- soon as the war started, all the men disappeared.

Interviewer: Now is this an original pond or was it man-made? Speaker: Yeah, no it- it used to be- over here where all those buildings is what used to be what we called Green-Grass. They um- there was a bunker- where this building is being built. It was the Lakeshore bunk-houses where the superintendents and the foremens and all that lived in there. And then in between there and over here it was- it was a soccer field and a ball field and we call it- and this is where we played as kids and-that, eh?

... he did one infront of us and he showed us exactly how grafting is- ... Done and- and brought us up to like the bunk house that him and his sons had built on the top of the hill ...

He was eaten in his bed, the- the polar got in the bunk house. They said the guard was having a sleep. They used to mount guards because these things would come around at night. They knew there were people in these places and break in and- and ah then when they found him, he was eating the thing and- eating the employee.

And the Indians had been staying there. There the- we get there, we got there in time for dinner back to York-- from Yorktown. So we ate and that. And they said "Well you better leave your clothes and-that- bags and-that in here. We're cleaning up the bunk house 'cause there's ah lice and everything else in there." I thought "What?" God, like the house got cleaned out. But this freaking bunkhouse with Indians all in it. I ain't nothing against Indians. I had lots of friends that were Indians from Rama ...

Interviewer: So what did you do, stay in the railway bunkers and-stuff-like-that? Speaker: Well like down there they had a bunkhouse. And when- you went down in the morning and then you come back that night again you-see.

Ah they had a bunkhouse there and y-- before you boarded you-know at about- quite a little piece. I was boarding in s-- Somerset-East.