[speaker001:] Okay, so, um, how do think, how do you think we've changed in the last ten to twenty years?
[speaker002:] Uh, I'm at a little bit of a loss, you know, I don't know, ten years ago, see I'm what, I'm about, uh, twenty-eight now so
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] when I was eighteen, things haven't changed a whole lot.
[speaker001:] Really.
[speaker002:] People are being a little more, oh, I don't know, a little le-, a little less bigoted in some ways, I don't know
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] seems to me.
[speaker001:] Well,
[speaker002:] I guess I'm like my parents. The younger generation gets away with hell, but, uh,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Well, it seems to me that civic freedoms are more restricted but that may just be because I've changed. You know, I used to live up north. Down here, Dallas, seems to me, the police are militant
[speaker001:] Really.
[speaker002:] but, uh,
[speaker001:] Where'd you live up, where'd you live at,
[speaker002:] I lived in Akron, Ohio.
[speaker001:] Oh, did you? I'm from, Illinois, so.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] How long, how long you been in Dallas?
[speaker002:] Oh, about eight years.
[speaker001:] Oh, really?
[speaker002:] In fact in the eight years I've been here it seems to me it gets more and more, gets to be more and more restrictive place to live.
[speaker001:] Yeah, uh
[speaker002:] I think,
[speaker001:] you know, uh, as you're talking like police and stuff like that it's definitely a tough job to do.
[speaker002:] Yeah, I think it's, crime has gone, got a lot worse in the last
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah, I agree.
[speaker002:] last ten, fifteen years, and maybe that has a lot to do with it.
[speaker001:] Yeah, I, I definitely think that has gotten a lot worse, and you know, I, I think there's, to me there seems to be a little bit of a decline in the family values.
[speaker002:] Yeah, that's true.
[speaker001:] So,
[speaker002:] That's true,
[speaker001:] But, uh,
[speaker002:] I'd say my own personal lifestyle has improved
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] but that's more a matter of, you know
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I'm no longer a teenager in high school.
[speaker001:] Yeah, I think there's more pressure like on both parents to work, and things like that than there used to be and,
[speaker002:] Hello. Somebody's at the door.
[speaker001:] So.
[speaker002:] Hang on just a second.
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] [Noise] [talking off phone]. Okay.
[speaker001:] But, uh, I don't know, that's just, that's one thing I see, I see a lot more, you know, double income families and a lot more like baby sitters raising the kids and things like that, I guess.
[speaker002:] Yeah, that's true, it's getting more and more expensive to live.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's for sure.
[speaker002:] You can't, you can't make it,
[speaker001:] Yeah, without it hardly, that's right.
[speaker002:] I guess, when I was growing up, it was, it was still the ideal to get a, get a home and buy house, and these days you see a lot of people living in apartments
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] forever
[speaker001:] Yeah
[speaker002:] you know, you just don't buy a house,
[speaker001:] just because they can't get into one, yeah, that's right. Yeah, the ways our tax laws and stuff are structured, you can't ever catch a break until you can get into a house
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] in a lot of ways, so. Yeah, that's, that's a good point so, I'm trying to think of anything else that's changed over the last ten or twenty years.
[speaker002:] Yeah, for me it's kind of hard, I don't know. I think, I don't know, I think the middle class is shrinking and the, uh, lower class is expanding
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah, I agree.
[speaker002:] and sooner or later there's going to, there's going to be a turn around.
[speaker001:] Well, I hope so, you know, at some point but I don't know at what point,
[speaker002:] But I think it's going to be at the expense of the middle class, uh
[speaker001:] Yeah,
[speaker002:] so, usually is
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I think.
[speaker001:] It's, uh,
[speaker002:] It's hard for me to say. I hope it happens, because I'd be one of those that gets caught. But on the other hand, there's a lot of injustice that needs to be, be changed.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's right. Do you work at T I?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Do you?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] What, uh, department do you work in?
[speaker002:] I'm in semiconductor.
[speaker001:] Are you? I'm in semiconductor division too.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] So. How long you been with them, since you moved down here?
[speaker002:] About eight years, yeah.
[speaker001:] Um, I'm over at the Center One building.
[speaker002:] Yeah, so am I.
[speaker001:] Are you really. What floor?
[speaker002:] Two.
[speaker001:] I'm on the seventh floor.
[speaker002:] Well,
[speaker001:] How about that. Well, it's a small world. So, so let's see, second floor, you work with, uh, linear.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Do you. Do you, uh, do you know Alec Morton?
[speaker002:] Yeah, I've probably seen him around.
[speaker001:] Oh, you do, huh. Well, he comes up and pushes us around so, uh, so I'm pretty familiar with,
[speaker002:] Are you D A D or something up there?
[speaker001:] Huh?
[speaker002:] Are you D A D or something?
[speaker001:] Yeah [LAUGHTER]. Yep, you must know him. His reputation precedes him.
[speaker002:] Yeah, well, seventh floor.
[speaker001:] Yeah,
[speaker002:] T A D,
[speaker001:] Well, uh, he, uh, boy, he comes up there and gives us all kinds of grief. They, they say it's what makes him happy is to give us D A D -ers grief, so I can believe it but,
[speaker002:] Well.
[speaker001:] Yeah, let's see, if you've been in Dallas eight years, I guess that's about how long, I've been in here about eight years, too, I guess. Um, been with T I like twelve, but I started out in Lubbock.
[speaker002:] .
[speaker001:] Lubbock is, I don't know, I guess if this is the only place you've lived, Lubbock is a lot different than Dallas.
[speaker002:] Yeah, flat, dry
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and dirty,
[speaker001:] Yeah, but the people all seem to be a lot more laid back, too, I mean, here in Dallas everything is just real rush, rush.
[speaker002:] Yeah, I lived in the country for several years, and living in the city is a whole different
[speaker001:] Oh yeah.
[speaker002:] uh, social structure but, uh,
[speaker001:] Well, I got some friends that, uh, seems like he went to school at like DeVry. Is there a DeVry in Akron?
[speaker002:] I don't even know
[speaker001:] Oh,
[speaker002:] I haven't been up there in years.
[speaker001:] Oh, I see, well, he went to school somewhere in Ohio, and he's from that area, and, uh, he works over in the Park, Park Central building I think but, uh, I haven't talked to him in a while, but, um, yeah, he, he misses it. He used to go back twice or three times a year, you know, because he missed it. Sounds like you haven't been back there in a while.
[speaker002:] No, I haven't been back in fi-, ten, fifteen years.
[speaker001:] You still have relatives back there or,
[speaker002:] Yeah, I do, I just haven't had a chance to get back [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] Catch them next year probably.
[speaker001:] Really. Well, let's see, how, how long are we supposed to talk here?
[speaker002:] I don't know, I think we ran out of social,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] social changes to talk about, so.
[speaker001:] Yeah, well my kids are probably needing me to go so
[speaker002:] Okay,
[speaker001:] all right, well, it's nice talking to you.
[speaker002:] Yeah,
[speaker001:] Talk to you later.
[speaker002:] All righty, bye.
[speaker001:] Bye.