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199. Stacy: Beauty . You know Bartley, downtown? Longs Drug Bartley
200. mom: mm
201. mom: mine cheap. (referring to mom' s beauty shop)
202. me: especially that kind old place
203. Stacy: so regular over there long time, that's why
204. mom: wash and set, you guess how much?
205. Stacy: wash and set?
206. mom: just come out now but still good (referring to the
condition of her hair today)
207. Stacy: mm
208. me: old place you know, you know the kind your mother go
209. Stacy: $12 something?
210. mom: (giggle) (more giggles) three times I can go
211. Stacy: Oh ya, because your hair short, no.
212. mom: sometimes long my hair
213. me: oh but she's been going there long time
214. Stacy: that's not tint or nothing?
215. mom: tint different again wash and set mine 216. Stacy: wash and set is only $3 -$4 something
217. mom: (nods her head in answer)
218. Stacy: ya
219. mom: no more that kind place, that's why
220. Stacy: I know
221. mom: but you know Mary is so, ah, mean sometime
222. Mike & Stacy: (chuckle, chuckle)
223. mom: no. I got to carry the pin bag, I got to handle and
oh like this (pushes my head to show everyone
what Mary does to mom) keep the head straight
224. Everyone: (laugh)
225. mom: but still cheap so I don't say nothing
226. Stacy: what kind lady that?
227. mom: mmm, Japanese
228. Stacy: oh ya
229. mom: and five minutes late, I go in case, appointment,
oh she yell it to me.
230. Everyone: (laugh)
231. mom: that's why I rush now days. I go early, little early
because everytime I use to late. Because next to me
people go come before me she get mad already.
232. Mike: that' s the difference between four dollars and twelve dollars
233. Everyone: (laugh)
234. Stacy: and what time you go inside?
235. mom: I go five thirty ya
236. me: five thirty ya
237. mom: five thirty I leave, ya? Quarter after five I leave ya?
238. Stacy: No. What time your appointment?
239. mom: six
240. Stacy: six. What time you come out?
241. mom: seven-thirty
242. Stacy: ya
243. mom: If I tint or something then take longer. (sniffle-- nose running)
244. Mike: Joann, pass me a chopstick for this
(pointing to codfish taegu)
245. me: okay
246. mom: nowdays I have to go little early because
the lady come early my next to me
(the lady is another customer)
247. Stacy: mm
248. mom: because she beat me I get scolding already
(referring to other customer arriving before mom)
249. Stacy: and then you got to wait-- if the lady come in
250. mom: no, she take me but she grumble until I finish--
I go out ("she" is the beautician, Mary)
251. Everyone: (laugh)
252. me: but she know mom long time that's why
253. Stacy: sound like Paulette then
254. Everyone: (laugh)
***Pause for about one minute and ten seconds and when conversation returns--subject is changed.***
255. me: I never cook the inside too long. Red? (referring to chicken)
256. Stacy: no
257. Stacy: They ate already--the dogs?
(Joann nods her head "yes" in answering)
258. Stacy: cannot tell ya. (referring to dogs)
259. me: (giggle) ya
260. Mike: Stacy, some more meat.
261. mom: how come you not eating? So good, neh
("neh" is a Japanese word for "yes")
262. dad: mm, pass the spinach (asking mom)
263. dad: Stacy you not eating this...
264. mom: betta eat, that's spinach
265. Stacy: how much more get? (referring to this tape) (giggle)
266. dad: that thing going on?
267. Mike: ya
268. mom: got to talk something
269. Mike: tape recording getting hungry, watching us eat.
270. mom: taberu kore, Daddy? (Japanese for, "You want to eat this, Daddy?)
Tsukemono oishi ya (Japanese for "cucumbers are good")
271. Stacy: that' s your own tape recorder (asking me)
272. me: no. my father
273. mom: daddy's one dirty ah, you bring um work (referring to
tape recorder)
274. dad: where?
275. mom: this one.
276. dad: no. where dirty?
277. me: last night we went to see "Fun with Dick and Jane"
(referring to a movie and telling Stacy)
278. Stacy: good?
279. me: not that much fun.
280. Stacy: silly?
281. me: ya
282. Mike: what?
283. mom: how come you not eating rice (asking Stacy)
284. Stacy: I eat, I ate dinna before I came (giggle)
285. mom: got to eat plenty
***(next part censored for personal reasons)***
286. mom: Mike, gohan iru (rice).ne gohaniru. (Japanese for if
Mike wants rice)
287. Mike: no.
288. Mike: They won last night. They beat Westside team. (referring to the Eastside
High
basketball game against Westside.)
289. Mike: He must be a good coach (referring to the Eastside High coach)
290. Stacy: the Hilo team not bad ya.
291. Mike: mm
292. Stacy: the Hilo team had on TV last night
293. Mike: mm, they good
294. me: that shows you, Mike, that Bailey isn't a really
good coach and that it is his players, ya?
(Bailey is Westside's coach)
295. Mike: no
296. me: but his players like last time was better.
297. Mike: but see, (Mike laughs), but you look at his players
isn't that great
298. me: ya
299. Mike: ya and it's amazing that they came that far, you know.
But just so happen when they play against Westside, I mean Eastside,
they always lose. That's why the players has a lot to do with it too
because they get psyched up for the game
300. Stacy: does Jefferson... (interrupted by Mike)
301. Mike: you know had this guy on the team, Davy Jones,
play for Eastside and all through the game they were,
ah the cheerleaders, Westside cheerleaders were sort of ah,
harassing him and he was uh, making all kind funny faces
at the cheerleaders. Like the cheerleaders was cheering
when he miss the shot or something.
302. Stacy: oh ya
303. Mike: ya and then when he makes a good play he looks at the cheerleaders
and does this (stroking his chin)
304. Stacy: ya
305. Mike: ya
306. Stacy: whose player is that? (asking Mike what team
the player is from)
307. Mike: Eastside
308. mom: Raru kuchi minna hairu yo (Japanese for, "If you
speak bad it will all be heard in the tape.")
309. Stacy: at the Westside cheerleaders (asking Mike)
310. Mike: Huh? ya at the Westside cheerleaders.
311. Stacy: oh ya, how come?
312. Mike: you know they have this strong rivalry (referring
to the two schools)
313. Stacy: oh
314. me: it's always been like that
315. Stacy: oh ya
316. me: since I was going
317. Mike: ya, how come, when, how did it start?
318. me: they always had this kind stuff, competition kind
stuff um between Eastside and Westside and
we had to find the most can goods or something
we had one time and then they uh lost huh and then
they had to give us a dance. You remember the dance? (asking Mike)
319. Mike: oh ya, that's right.
320. me: ever since then
321. Mike: oh
322. Stacy: who had to give the dance. (asking me)
323. me: which ever school lost they had to sponser the dance.
324. Mike: they had any trouble at the dance?
325. me: ya
326. Mike: oh ya, what happened?
327. me: they had fighting like that
328. Mike: oh ya
329. me: but then... (interrupted by Stacy)
330. Stacy: private school
331. me: but then ever since then they wanted to be, um...
332. Stacy: better?
333. me: ya But like all the five schools, "A", um...(naming schools)
334. Mike: "B" (name of school)
335. me: no not "B" because small school ya?
336. Stacy: yea, "C" small too, yea.
337. me: ya. "A", "D", "E" .
(This next section from line #338 to line #348 are two separate conversations going on. One is between mom and dad and the other is between Stacy and Mike.) 338. mom: Hawaii Thrifty Downtown is where?
339. Mike: oh but they not considered small school.
340. dad: I don't know.
341. me: but they play with Westside.
342. Mike: um
343. dad: you don't have to go downtown ah?
344. Mike: they lost four times this year against Eastside High.
345. Stacy: they when play that many time?
346. Mike: ya
347. dad: one get on Keeaumoku ah
348. mom: mm Asoko iku imma made (Japanese for, "That's
where I've been going until now.")
349. dad: ya
350. Mike: twice during the regular season.
351. mom: I like eat one more, please.
(While next part is being said between- Mike and Stacy, one is able to hear a little of me and my mother talking in the background but cannot make out what's being said.) 352. Stacy: what far away kind score, runaway?
353. Mike: no probably close (referring to score).
354. Stacy: Do they fight (referring to players)
355. Mike: no. But can tell they play hard and they get all psyched up
you know can tell players all jump out of their seat.
356. Stacy: uh you like that ya (talking to mom)
357. mom: mmm
358. dad: good
359. mom: good I usually don't eat too much meat
360. me: okay, who going wash dishes?
361. Everyone: (laugh)
362. mom: Daddy
363. Everyone: (laugh)
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