‘Tammy’s Story, People Like Us’ Transcript
Matt
I am embarrassed about living here. The trash in the yard and all, it’s all messed
up. My Mom likes the place. I like the place a little bit too. I don’t like all my
friends to know where I live at. Cause they’re like a class up from us.
Tammy
This is my living room. He does clean house when I’m at work. He try to help out
and everything. But things I don’t like him to move things where I can’t find them.
Matt
I don’t like to introduce my mom to a lot of people because I don’t like them to
see her image, what she looks like. She doesn’t fix herself up. And, that’s more
or less what people look at. Their appearance, not how they act.
Tammy
And this here is my kitchen. It might not look like much but it’s something. And
you can see that I don’t have a furnace which I would like to have one.
Narrator
Tammy Crabtree and her four children cling to the bottom rung of the social
ladder in their small Ohio town. But even down here, they are not ready to be
counted out, just yet.
Matt
All this junk and stuff, I don’t know where to put it in. And my mom and nobody
will tell me where to put it so I just throw it all there in that big pile.
Younger Son
This is all junk. We got it going down that top of the bank. And junk going there.
Clothes, burnt things. It’s messed up.
Narrator
Why don’t you clean it up?
Younger Son
I’m lazy. I like to sit, being a couch potato. That’s all I know.
Matt
My mom, she won’t lift a hand either. I get on her all the time and she says all
you can do is move and stuff. I don’t want to move either straighten up and doing
all you can at home. That is all me and my mom does.Tammy
I was on welfare eighteen years and now I work at Burger King and I’m trying to
make a living and make it only for the kids. It ain’t my fault because I’m poor. I
grew up poor. My dad worked hard, he worked 27-years as a county engineer
trying to make a living for twenty-two kids. And, it ain’t easy. I was proud of my
dad. He would be proud of me now, for just trying.
Kids, I’m going to work. See you after a while.
I walk to work 10.5 miles because I don’t have a car. Don’t have a license. Even
when I’m walking to work or something, someone would holler, “Hey trashy bitch.
What are you doing?” I’m just walking to work.
All I want for this whole life is to be happy. But, right now, I’m not because the
way people treat me. The way my own kids treat me. My friends think that I
should stay at home, take care of my kids, and draw welfare. I said no, that ain’t
me. I’m hoping to go to college and be a school teacher. That’s been my goal
since the time I was 5- years old up until now.
Matt
I’m embarrassed by my mom because she wears that Burger King outfit every
day.
Tammy
No, I don’t.
Matt
I have never seen her go to a really nice restaurant and wear not that Burger
King outfit. It’s either the shirt or the pants or it’s both. She wears it constantly.
It’s different outfits but the same damn outfits. Sorry, I know I shouldn’t have
used that word.
Tammy
My son thinks he’s high class. He thinks he’s better than me, better than his
brother.
Matt
This is my brother. He dresses like this and I don’t like how he dresses. It’s why I
don’t hang out with him; I don’t talk about him or anything. People will say he’s
my brother and I’m like, “No, no.” But, when he dresses better and stuff, I’ll walk
around with him. Me and my friend over here, me and Josh, the only way we
walk around with him is if he starts looking good and we help him dress good.
We’ll comb his hair, make him look better.
Tammy
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