Play for Today (TV Series)

Sunset Across the Bay (1975)

Gabrielle Daye: Mam

Quotes 

• [Mam and Dad are on a coach] 

  Mam : It's one of them buses with a lavatory. Are you going to go?

  Dad : I don't want to go.

  Mam : I do.

  Dad : Well go then.

  Mam : I don't want *everybody* to know I'm going.

  Dad : [looking across at another passenger]  She's been in twice already. She were in there before we got to Stanningley. Anyway, what's does it matter what folk think? We're retired now.

  Mam : All right. Hold me bag.

  [Mam walks to the back of the bus, goes into the cubicle and comes back a few minutes later] 

  Mam : I went. It's very ingenious. They've got it in above where they generally put the luggage. You want to go.

  Dad : I don't want to go.

  Mam : That's your trouble - no spirit of adventure.

  [pause] 

  Mam : I wonder where it goes.

  Dad : What?

  Mam : You know... I expect it's scattered on the central reservation.

  [Man and Dad chuckle] 

• [having been woken in the middle of their first night by a barking dog, Mam and Dad have a cup of tea] 

  Mam : Tea has a right funny taste here.

  Dad : It's the water, so you'd better get used to it.

  [pause] 

  Mam : Have we done right, d'you think? It's like being able to have a choice that makes it so difficult. We've never had a proper choice before. It's always been Leeds. There wasn't anywhere else we could have gone, was there? We couldn't have stopped *there*.

  Dad : Where?

  Mam : Leeds. Well, we *couldn't*, could we? I wouldn't go in one of them tall blocks. Moortown, Seacroft: I don't want to be dumped on the outskirts. New estates - they're all hooligans. You find all sorts in them lifts. If we'd had a lass it'd have been different - lasses are always popping in.

  Dad : [chuckling]  Well it's too late to start now.

  Mam : [talking about their landlady]  Shhh. She'll wonder what's happening.