Maeve Dermody - Arranging Meet-ups
Title
Maeve Dermody - Arranging Meet-ups
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Creator
Caroline McGrotty
Source
Maeve Dermody
Transcription
Caroline – When you were young, how did you arrange plans to meet with a friend as you mentioned before you were aged 10, you didn’t have a mobile so you couldn’t use text messaging. How did you meet up?
Maeve – Before we would have sleepovers at each other’s houses. Our mothers would ring each other and arrange to meet in the middle between where we lived. So we drove halfway, met at a pub usually and stayed there for 2 or 3 hours, our mothers chatting while we were signing then my friend would come stay with me in my house for 2 or 3 days, then we would meet in the middle again and this time I would go with my friend and her mother to her house for another 2 or 3 days and then meet in the middle again and go our separate ways!
Caroline – So like a week holiday for you!?
Maeve – Yeah, my mother always rang for me when I was very young but I remember before we started school and needed new uniforms on the same date from Grants uniform shop.
Caroline – On Manor Street right?
Maeve – Yeah, we were always told the same date which we were allowed to pick uniforms up, so I knew that my friend would be there too so maybe we would meet up. My mother would ring my friend’s mother and we would arrange to meet that day. We would be chatting for ages, long day! Then after that I got a mobile phone when I was about 12/13, my mother was still in touch with my friends mother as they became good friends. Then when I was 15/16, it started to change… I would be more independent arranging meet ups myself without my mother and now I text all the time!
Maeve – Before we would have sleepovers at each other’s houses. Our mothers would ring each other and arrange to meet in the middle between where we lived. So we drove halfway, met at a pub usually and stayed there for 2 or 3 hours, our mothers chatting while we were signing then my friend would come stay with me in my house for 2 or 3 days, then we would meet in the middle again and this time I would go with my friend and her mother to her house for another 2 or 3 days and then meet in the middle again and go our separate ways!
Caroline – So like a week holiday for you!?
Maeve – Yeah, my mother always rang for me when I was very young but I remember before we started school and needed new uniforms on the same date from Grants uniform shop.
Caroline – On Manor Street right?
Maeve – Yeah, we were always told the same date which we were allowed to pick uniforms up, so I knew that my friend would be there too so maybe we would meet up. My mother would ring my friend’s mother and we would arrange to meet that day. We would be chatting for ages, long day! Then after that I got a mobile phone when I was about 12/13, my mother was still in touch with my friends mother as they became good friends. Then when I was 15/16, it started to change… I would be more independent arranging meet ups myself without my mother and now I text all the time!
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Citation
Caroline McGrotty, “Maeve Dermody - Arranging Meet-ups,” Deaf Lives Ireland, accessed April 23, 2024, https://deaflivesireland.omeka.net/items/show/2082.