okay so um how do think how do you think we've changed in the last ten to twenty years
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
uh-huh
when i was eighteen things haven't changed a whole lot people are being a little more uh
really
oh i don't know a little less a little less bigoted in some ways i don't know seems to me
uh-huh
i guess i'm like my parents the younger generation gets away with hell but uh
well
yeah
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 but uh
really
where'd you live up where'd you live at
i lived in Akron Ohio
oh did you i'm from Illinois
so how long how long you been in Dallas
oh
oh about eight years
oh really
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
yeah uh you know uh as you're talking like police and stuff like that it's definitely a tough job to do
i think
yeah well i think it's crime has gone got a lot worse in the last last ten fifteen years and maybe that has a lot to do with it
oh yeah i agree
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
yeah that's true
so
that's true
but uh
i'd say my own personal lifestyle has improved but that's more a matter of
yeah
you know i'm no longer a teenager in high school got to
yeah
yeah think i think there's more pressure like on both parents to work and things like that than there used to be and
hello
somebody's at the door hang on just a second
so
go ahead i'm on the phone all right
okay
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
yeah that's true it's uh getting more and more expensive to live
yeah that's for sure
you know you can't you can't make it
yeah without it hardly that's right
i guess when i was growing up it was it was still the ideal to get a get a home and buy house and those good thing these days you see a lot of people living in apartments
yeah
forever you know you just don't buy a house
yeah 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 in a lot of ways so
yeah
yeah that's that's good point so
i'm trying to think of anything else that's changed over the last ten or twenty years
yeah i see for me it's kind of hard i don't know i think
uh i don't know i think the middle class is shrinking and the uh
lower class is expanding and sooner or later there's going to there's going to be a turn around
oh yeah i agree
well i hope so you know at some point but i don't know at what point
yeah
but i think it's going to be at the expense of the middle class uh
yeah
so usually is i think
yeah
it's uh
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
yeah that's right do you work at T I
yeah
do you
yeah
what what uh department do you work in
i'm in semiconductor
are you so i'm in semiconductor division too
yeah
so how long you been with them since you moved down here
about eight years yeah
um i'm over at the Center One building
yeah so am i
are you really what floor
yep
two
i'm on the seventh floor
really
how about that well it's a small world
so so let's see second floor you work for uh Linear
yeah
do you do you uh do you know Alec Morton
yeah i've probably seen him around
oh you do huh well he comes up and pushes us around so uh
so um so i'm pretty familiar with
are you D A D or something up there are you D A D or something
huh
yeah
yep you must know him his reputation precedes him
yeah well seventh floor
yeah
T A D
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 DADers grief so i can believe it
but
well
yeah let's see if you've been in Dallas eight years guess i guess that's about how long i've i've been in here about eight years too i guess um been with T I like twelve but i started out in Lubbock
and uh
Lubbock Lubbock is i don't know i guess if this is the only place you've lived Lubbock is a lot different than Dallas
yeah flat dry and dirty
but
yeah 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
yeah i lived in the country for several years and living in the city is a whole different uh social structure but uh
oh yeah
well i got s ome friends that uh seems like he went to school at like DeVry is there a DeVry in Akron
i don't even know haven't been up there in years
oh
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
no i haven't been back in fifteen ten fifteen years
you still have relatives back there or
yeah i do i just haven't had a chance to get back
oh
um catch them next year probably
really
well let's see how how long are we supposed to talk here
i don't know i think we ran out of social social changes to talk about so
yeah well my my kids are probably needing me to go so
okay
all right well it's nice talking to you talk to you later bye
yeah all righty bye
