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passengers, one of the tour group that took a whole ten minutes}. Hy en sy vrou het
buitekant die deur gestaan {He and his wife stood outside the door}. Hulle het die kaartjie
ingesit, uitgetrek, weer oopgemaak {They put the card in, pulled it out, opened again}. Huh
uh, deur willie oopmaak nie {Oh no, the door wouldn’t open}. () Toe sé ek vir hulle,
“Hallo, jy moet die kaartjie in los daarso.” {So I said to them, “Hello, you must leave the
card in there.”} Sé {say}, “Ohhh, is daai hoe dit werk?” {Ohhh, is that how it works?} No
names mentioned. Daai’s ‘n goeie vriend van jou {that’s a good friend of yours} and uh, uh,
there’s like a couple of things that people’s not really …. It’s new to them, like the shower.
Haai foeitog! {Oh shame!} Nou die shower het twee knoppe so langs die kante en dan op
die een kant sit jy die temperature {Now the shower has two knobs along the side and on the
one side you put the temperature}. Op die ander kant sit jy nou die combination van hot and
cold {Now, on the other side you put the combination of hot and cold}. Verstaan
{understand}? En toe wiet (weet) nou die mense nie nou wat gat (gaan) hier aan nie
verstaan jy, toe druk hulle nou die temperature baie hoeg (hoog) {And so now the people
didn’t know what was going on here, so they pushed the temperature very high} [laughter] en
hulle wiet’ie (weet nie) wat die ander knoppie is toe druk hulle nou baie warm toestandig
toe {and they didn’t know what the other one was so they pushed very warm, resulting in}
‘My shower werk ‘ie (nie) reg ‘ie (nie) {My shower doesn’t work properly}.” [laughter] Toe
moet ek nou weer vir hulle vertel, “Kyk hier, die’s (die is) mos nou hoe combinations
werk” en {So now I had to tell them again, “Look here, this is how the combinations work”
and}, but at Amsterdam that was a revelation.
58. Clarence: This is the first day?
59. Suster: Ja {Yes}, the first day. That was such a revelation vir hoe mense nou die, die hele {for how
people now the, the whole}, um liberal view of the Nether, the, the Dutch people, um,
especially the Red Light District. Nou loop ons op ‘n {Now we’re walking on a} Daylight
Tour deur die {through the} Red Light District. Nie die nag nie {Not the night}. Nie, nie, so
die son onder {not, not as the sun under}… die son gaan maar baie onder so {the sun often
sets around} ten ‘o clock die aand gat (gaan) die son onder en daai {ten ‘o clock in the
evening the sun sets and that}, that fascinated a lotta people. Half past ten sien jy die son skyn
nog altyd laat dit klap hier {you see the sun is still shining to beat the band (closest
translation)} [laughter] en die halfte van die mense by die huis slap al {and half of the
people at home are sleeping already}(). Toe loop ons nou in die {So now we’re walking in
the} Red Light District. Die’s nou so so {This is now around, around} three ‘o clock in die
middag {in the afternoon}, but nou die hele {now the whole} contingent, verstaan jy {you
understand}? Almal so agter mekaar {one behind the other} and of course Clarence, who’s
the very knowledgeable person about the Red Light District, loep (loop) nou voor {is walking
in front} () so deur die gange en ek {between the alleys and I} watch nou die hele {now this
whole} () en hier kom die een {and here comes this one} boy. Ons loop op ‘n hoek verstaan
jy, en op die hoek is die eerste, um, ons loop verby sex shops en alle soorte shops en alles
te doen met sex en die eerste venster wat jy kry wat daar iemand in staan en die een ou
hy skrik amper {We’re walking around a corner, you understand, and on this corner is the
first, um, we’re walking past sex shops and all sorts of shops and everything to do with sex
and in the first window that you get where somebody’s standing and this one guy nearly gets a
fright}[laughter] because ons vang vir hom op so ‘n, op ‘n unguarded manner, verstaan jy,
en hy skrik and die next ding, nou vat ons mos die draai, man {we catch him in such a,
such an unguarded manner, you understand, and he gets a fright, and the next thing, now we
take the corner, man}. Daai’s maar net een venster voor die draai {That’s only one window
before the corner}. Dan vat jy die draai, dan’s (dan is) daar nog tien vensters, verstaan jy
{Then you turn take the corner, then there’s another ten windows, you understand}? Toe daai
draai vat toe skrik hy vir hom groot, toe sit hy sy brille op. {When (he) took that bend, so
he got a huge fright, so he put his spectacles on}[laughter]
60. Clarence: [laughter]
61. Suster: Op met die sunglasses, toe loep (loop) hy op die ander kant van die pad {On with the
sunglasses, so he walked on the other side of the road}. [laughter] Hy wil’ie (wil nie) gesien
wees ‘ie (wees nie) in die plek ‘ie (plek nie) {He doesn’t want to be seen in this place}.