Jarmila Jarkovská

„Mach came in and as my brother was at the agricultural department, they were talking informally, so he said: ‚Honzo!‘ It was a good spring, so Jenda did everything on a field with the tractor. And Mach opened the doors and said: ‚Well Honza, I let you go the last time and now I am coming for the tractor.´ Of course I started crying and mum did too: ‚Shame on you, thieves!‘ And he replied: ‚You´re vain. Ms Koubníková from Předměřice threatened me with a hatchet and still did nothing at all.‘“

„There was a rate of one to five in a loan office and it was zero there. So I went to exchange 175 thousand and came back with seven thousand. And daddy told me: ‚ So now I can go hang myself. You are about to marry, your brother Jenda is going to marry and we got nothing at all.‘ So I said: ‚Not like that, daddy. A unit it was called at the cooperative a working unit was eight crowns. (Mr Jarkovský, inhabitant from Polánek: ‚Yes, we started at eight crowns at the beginning of the year and got more later.‘) And my daddy said: ‚So I am going to hang myself.‘ And I replied: ‚Oh no, daddy, we´ll work for living!‘ My mum could not work anymore, she had her spine twisted, daddy was ten years older so I said: ‚We can support you, daddy...!‘“