Hannah Carroll Oral History Interview


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Lindsey Mumpower
Interviewer

Hannah Carroll
Interviewee

April 19, 2022
Greenville, North Carolina

LM: (00:00)
Can you state your name and the date for recording purposes?

HC: (00:11)
My name is Hannah Carroll. It is 19th of April 2022.

LM: (00:18)
And what is or was your affiliation with the university?

HC: (00:24)
former student, hopefully future student.

LM: (00:28)
And what was the last year? You were at ECU?

HC: (00:34)
Ah, hang on. Wanting Wani. One. Yes. Eric. And I think about that one.

LM: (00:47)
Now, um, we'll start with a silly question. What is your favorite online myth or legend? Or story?

HC: (01:00)
Specifically online. I like the moth man personally.

LM: (01:06)
Walkmans pretty good. That's, that's honestly one of my favorites, too.

HC: (01:11)
Have you seen what they did to him in West Virginia?

LM: (01:14)
Yes, I did. It is something I wish to go see myself on the path to take you on a date. All right. Now, just because I think my professor would be very deeply interested in this. What is your favorite Tumblr story?

HC: (01:39)
I want to talk about Tumblr dash con ball pit.

LM: (01:44)
Why don't you explain what the dash con Bulpitt is?

HC: (01:50)
So a bunch of feet on this website called Tumblr and space for fans, they thought it would be a good idea to have insert a Tumblr convention

LM: (02:07)
terrible report honestly.

HC: (02:11)
God awful I wasn't I didn't go to it. But I watched it go down online in real time is great. Um, so basically what happened is they it was kind of a scam. And people who were like poor who like were volunteering or working for the thing we're pulling out because there was no money and nothing was set up at all. And so enters the dash con ball pit to appease the people who can spend hundreds of dollars to make this thing happen. They promised they were supposed to be a huge like bouncy house ball pit whatever the hell it is. A promised them one extra hour in the dash cup ball pit.

HC: (03:09)
I could literally I would not be able to fit into dash convolve let me tell you that.

LM: (03:21)
It wasn't there a myth or a rumor? That there was a baby born in the dash cam.

HC: (03:28)
I do remember that. Thank God it was false, because people were pissing in it. Yeah, you want to have your baby in the ball pit?

LM: (03:39)
Not for an extra hour all right. All right. I'm so glad I started off of this because now we have to get into the serious

LM: (04:03)
All right. Getting back into the serious discussion at hand. How old was the pandemic discussed or handled by your classes? Or work and or work? We'll start with classes

HC: (04:22)
um you know it was handled as best as they could but it was not handled well enough for me to pay 1000s of dollars let's put it that way. So I quit college. I got a job. It wasn't much better. Unfortunately, no, I didn't make it you know,

LM: (04:55)
how did your work handle it? If you don't mind me because Someone who also works in customer service and like minimum wage job, then you get paid more than minimum wage because they work at the target.

HC: (05:12)
Yeah, so I was hired as basically the COVID team, which basically, everyone quit at once, and they needed more people. Um, and honestly, I was surprised to get target as my first job. They don't like new people, they want you to have a little experience. So if you ever go if your first job ever happened to be target, I don't know you did something right, I guess. But, um, As for COVID, when I first started, they hadn't quite enforced maths yet. So there were a lot of people just being nasty. They were all nasty. They were rude to like, bam. I got yelled at by this one lady who wanted a discount on six sheets. But the reason the sheets were like discounted, is because they were like, slightly stained, but she wanted the same discounts and new sheets. You know, her son, her teenage son like 13, 14 actually apologized on her behalf. I'm like, we're

LM: (06:40)
all right I'm sure since we're down here in the south, that there's a lot of people that you get that still don't believe in like MIT wearing masks or stuff like that.

HC: (06:55)
No, no, they don't. But the customers got rude. And we were pretty much wiping everything down. The second it was touched by somebody else, which gradually eased up, but like it was a hot hot mess.

LM: (07:18)
Now I'm going back to your time on campus during COVID What was it like? Do you remember leaving campus or like the whole ordeal of that semester in which we got sent home for spring break? And then we just didn't come back?

HC: (07:36)
Yeah. I was like, once they told us they were giving us an extra week for spring break. I was like, oh, it's all over. This is it y'all? We're not going back. Um, the extra break was nice, though. Not gonna lie. And then I also went the semester after like, the fall 2020 semester when they had kind of gotten everything together. Um, but I was stuck in my room. Almost all day. And I was shit. I forgot what building it was. It

LM: (08:24)
was um, Fletcher because we were we realized we were just down Yeah.

HC: (08:31)
Fletcher is not a good building to be confined to.

LM: (08:36)
It's not it really isn't that you had roaches. They

HC: (08:41)
it wasn't I wouldn't have minded a roach or two. But it was con, gray concrete walls and very little sunlight

LM: (08:51)
in mold, which is mold. But like

HC: (08:55)
almost the entire semester. I was there. And then we got sent home again. Yeah, I never returned. We were there for like, three weeks,

LM: (09:03)
if even like we had just realized we lived in the same building. And we're like, oh,

HC: (09:10)
yeah, anyway, and when they sent us home and the second time I was like, I'm not doing this today. I will not be doing this again.

LM: (09:18)
Now, did you ever get COVID?

HC: (09:22)
No surprising, No, I don't think so.

LM: (09:28)
anyone in your family get COVID

HC: (09:32)
We think my dad had it at the very beginning. Before we knew what it was. I think that

LM: (09:39)
happened to my dad too. I think I think it's just a universal experience with dads. See,

HC: (09:45)
the problem with that was when I first started working. I had to be really careful because he has a lung condition and we were afraid to cut it it would be bad. Especially like the stronger versions when the new eggs Mount Wilson

LM: (10:05)
and did your family as soon as they were available to get the COVID vaccine

HC: (10:13)
Yeah, I was down with that shit. I know a lot of my family who what wasn't down with that shit grade to get it

LM: (10:29)
so you had friends and family who are too afraid to get into Did you know anyone who was actively anti Vax?

HC: (10:36)
Yes, well not anti all Vax just the anti COVID facts, if you know what I mean. She was afraid because it was like it hadn't gone under all like the testings. Because, you know, a lot of vaccines take years to test and develop and the fact that it was developed within months. It didn't sit right with her. But it was also really funny because my grandma wouldn't let anyone in her house if they hadn't like been maxed or quarantined for a certain amount of time.

LM: (11:21)
Now, what were your impressions from the media that was covering the COVID vaccine? Like or just even COVID? In general? Like, did you ever like see any like thing on the news? That was just like, What is going on?

HC: (11:40)
It was funny, honestly, because everyone was a freaking out. And B, I kept seeing all of these things. People were saying like they were so glad for the break it had given them and they were like, you know all of those how to tutorials to like keep your mind busy or whatever. You do you remember those? Yeah. Like how to how to bake bread? How to kids entertained? I'm like, What the fuck are y'all talking about? I literally don't know anyone. Except my mom. So she was still work?

LM: (12:23)
I hope. So, do you think that, um, the pandemic was turned into something political? Instead of like an actual, we should be taking this seriously.

HC: (12:42)
I think the pandemic was always political. For the fact that taking the pandemic, seriously was a political stance to begin with. The fact that you should care about people has always been a political stance, but you know,

LM: (12:59)
that was like the weirdest thing for me. Like we should be caring about these people. And then people were like, no action.

HC: (13:06)
So you know how it is?

LM: (13:09)
Um, so regarding your work, whenever COVID would like kick back up again, and that'd be a surge in diagnosis or cases. What was it like doing what you did in target?

HC: (13:33)
Um [unintelligible] have like slowed down I think last summer to the point where we were like, quote, unquote, allowed to take off our masks. I never did. But as soon as it picked up, everyone got a lot grouchy [unintelligible] and the guest we have we I mean, up until recently when the mask mandate was lifted. We still had to like fight Yes to put on a mask and then they would still like take it off once in the store. But see, what else can I talk about? I could talk about oh, we ran out of when when COVID picked up we ran out of plastic bags. Not quite. But we got real close. Because normally pre- COVID We would reuse them right? Yeah. But like if anyone had even touched another bag, it had to go out the trash. We wasted so much plastic

LM: (14:59)
Oh, Um, did you ever hear about the like how the pandemic was in other countries outside of America or the United States?

HC: (15:12)
Yeah, I heard it was was worse. In Hong Kong I believe they actually shut everything down for months. Same with Italy too It felt more controlled over there in a way compared to here because everyone was just kind of roaming free.

LM: (15:37)
People just weren't listening like over a year.

HC: (15:41)
Yeah, but also New York even had heavier restrictions than we did down here maybe it's just a southern thing?

LM: (15:54)
I think it is because let's be honest regarding with how US southerners tend to respond to things apparently we don't like being told what to do Yeah, I use the We as a broad term because where your mask people hang on say that again wearing masks Yeah. Now during the pandemic, what kind of like was your daily life and like how was it affected by restriction to wasn't like affected a lot?

HC: (16:40)
Um, I would say so for about a year and a half period the only thing I literally did was wake up go to work and go back to bed once I was done I mean, besides you know, getting on Discord or whatever and chatting for maybe a few hours that was it

LM: (17:06)
and that's my follow up question was how did you keep in contact with everyone?

HC: (17:13)
Discord Yep. It was just Discord God bless him

LM: (17:20)
same I think I would have died actually.

LM: (17:25)
Honestly cuz we live like all over North Carolina and then we have what like two or three people that like just don't

HC: (17:34)
don't even live in the same state

LM: (17:37)
yep. and what was like normal before the pandemic that seems really weird now?

HC: (18:04)
I'd like to familiar with at least in regards to work, the pre pandemic like protocols people standing too close to me, I guess would be one. Um I always get a little bit nervous like when they're not like they don't have to be six feet away from me anymore, but I'm like four, three feet, minimum four feet, you know, any closer and you're too close

LM: (18:47)
and just before we close out on the interview, is there anything else that you would like to talk about?

HC: (19:11)
No, I think I'm okay.

LM: (19:14)
Try to think of any any weird or outlandish stories from guests.

HC: (19:21)
grant larceny. Oh my god. Well, grand larceny is an all year pre post, I don't even know if I'm technically allowed to talk about the grand larceny. But I guess I don't even really know them. Well, yeah, I've seen people get arrested for stealing shit. Here's a pro tip for everyone listening out there. You can steal from a Walmart do not steal from a target meet keep tabs on everyone. And we start making arrests one It hits like the 200 and you're getting into a larceny you're getting into like grand larceny, felon it felony territory because they'll let you go the first time as long as you don't steal anything too big but like once you start coming back repeatedly, they build a case on you know, only like do it once they can get like one of the higher level charges.

LM: (20:28)
I think that is a wonderful thing to leave off on grand larceny.

HC: (20:35)
Don't steal from Target. Just don't do it.

LM: (20:39)
Thank you for your time.

HC: (20:42)
You're welcome.

[End of Recording]


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Hannah Carroll Oral History Interview
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Audio recording of Hannah Carroll being interviewed by ECU student Lindsey Mumpower about her experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. - 2022-04-19
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