FW1: I hear that y'all been playing poker a long time.
JB: Yeah, it's just been passed right on down. When I first started up, you didn't play in the house, you played in the woods. People didn't play in the houses, used to go out, like I say, before all this was growed up, and the old people that played on Sundays, and holidays. And they'd go out--
FW: Out where the cemetery used to be?
JB: Yeah. They'd go in there and just take a fish box and put some paper on top and take Co-Cola crates and set on the Co-cola crates. But, uh, a lot of women they didn't like that, didn't like 'em playing poker.
FW2: Why didn't they like that?
JB: I don't know. The women back there then, the women didn't care for 'em drinking and playing poker much around here.
FW2: Was that your grandfather's era?
JB: Yeah. They're still playing. We didn't even start moving inside playing, I was playing with them--they wouldn't even let you play until you about seventeen or eighteen.
FW2: Oh, so it was a privilege.
JB: And mostly when somebody'd die off you got in that group. When the old ones would die you'd get a chance to play.
FW1: It's kind of an initiation thing, huh? Some place you get initiated into being a man?
JB: We don't have the same bunch since I started played, you know, in the last--even in the last twenty years, there was some--there's four or five that's died that used to play, the older ones.