[maybe you could share with me um anything you want a good childhood memory or...]
a good childhood memory. [laughs]
hm...
um (.) wow.
I don't know.
um... (...)
I don't know.
it's um... (...)
wow. 
I just (.) have lots of things g- <through> through my mind. 
um... (..)
wow. [laughs]
um okay. 
ɪ- ɪ- if um...
this was in morenci... [points to right]
<my> my work took me <to> [distorted?] to morenci. 
and um <I> I did (.) tools and s- that um (.) <for> for the minors.
[mhm.]
and um (...) <there> there was an instant where (.) the lady came down and ʃ- wanted three or four boxes of ducktape.
and okay I soldəd her.
she (.) wanted it for (.) the trees and the baseball park that had (...) <the> the bark come off. 
and she wanted to wrap it. [gestures confusion]
I don't know. [laughs]
də- but θr- four cases of ducktape. [nods]
[wow.]
[so that was when you were working you...]
uhuh. [nods]
[interesting.]
mhm. 
[how interesting.]
[how long have you been in tuscon?]
um (.) I don't know.
forty five (.) years or so?
<I I> <I w- went> <I> I was lived in illinois from a time I was born til (.) I was twelve.
and then (.) [gestures to left] tuscon.  
and my job took me f- to morenci silver city and back again. [gestures location for each place]
[m: mhm mhm.]
[um what do you like about tuscon?]
(..) the laid back of it all. 
um (..) and it's not cold.
I just don't like the cold.
[mhm mhm.] 
[yeah yeah.]
[good.]
[um tell me how you got into being a tool distributor.]
(..) well (.) my brother worked there first.
and <his> my (.) sister in law <my brother's wife> worked there too.
and (.) um (..) <the> <we> I had guy breakin' his leg.
and (.) <I was> (.) he was called me up. 
and (.) <I> I was there.
[and that's how you got into it.]
yeah yeah. [nods]
and <I I> I was there for thirty years.
[wow.]
before I had my stroke.
<and that's> and that's (..) when I retired. 
[mhm mhm.]
[what was um important to know about that business?]
(...) it's awfully (..) s- different (.) things each day.
[m: mhm.]
[it was constantly changing?]
yeah. [nods]
[uhuh.]
<the> the s- stayed the same.
but then it changed.
and I... [throws hands up] [laughs]
[the tools themselves changed?]
yeah yeah. [nods]
[ah uhuh.]
[did you like interacting with people different types of people?]
oh yeah oh yeah. [nods]
[uhuh.]
[very nice.]
x x I did monitors and city of tuscon and pimə county. 
[mhm mhm.]
all kinds of others.
[mhm.]
[great.]
[do you miss um was it illinois you said?]
mhm.
[uhuh.]
[do you miss illinois?]
yes.
no wait...
no () that's not... (..)
I miss... (.)
no <I don't> <I I> <no> no I don't miss any of that. 
[mhm mhm.]
<my> my sister stɪls live back here. [gestures to right]
and she w- comes out here [gestures to left] (..) two times a year.
and (.) she's gonna move out here soon so...
[oh uhuh uhuh.]
[so she likes it out here too.]
(.) oh yeah.
<she> she lived out here for a while.
[mhm mhm.]
and then...
I don't know. [laughs]