26-08-2011, 02:42 PM
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That's funny. I was probably even worse for a young guy. I don't think I even heard the term til I was 19 or something like that.I do remember my first job, and being a 17 year old in the office. On a Friday, I had to go to a big office where they had (what I think were called) comptometer operators. It was an office with 24 women and girls aged somewhere between 17 and 40 operating punch card machines. They sat in rows of four with a central passage with two girls either side. I absolutely dreaded the walk to the office at the front. I would get all sorts of comments and wolf whistles from the women and girls. My legs were quaking every time I got out of there.
26-08-2011, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by bumpthump
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That's funny. I was probably even worse for a young guy. I don't think I even heard the term til I was 19 or something like that.I do remember my first job, and being a 17 year old in the office. On a Friday, I had to go to a big office where they had (what I think were called) comptometer operators. It was an office with 24 women and girls aged somewhere between 17 and 40 operating punch card machines. They sat in rows of four with a central passage with two girls either side. I absolutely dreaded the walk to the office at the front. I would get all sorts of comments and wolf whistles from the women and girls. My legs were quaking every time I got out of there.
Now you know why women don't like cat calls and wold whistles!
27-08-2011, 08:21 AM
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The typing pool in the office where I worked was hot and stuffy so the young women that worked there tended to dress accordingly irrespective of the season. This was at a time when 'hot pants' with knee high boots were all the fashion. Found a number of excuses to 'amend' a letter I had drafted so as to visit the typing pool.
27-08-2011, 08:31 AM
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I was simply never that bold. I was simply terrified by the whole experience. I did eventually go out with one of the girls for a year, but I was madly in love with the supervisor.....her name was Margaret Stobbie. I remember thinking how beautiful she was for someone so old. In truth, I bet she was probably something like 36 or 37!Despite my infatuation with her, I never ever went in there unless I absolutely had to. At 17, I never had that kind of confidence. I think I treasure my lovestruck gormlessness more than I would any memory of going in there to eye the girls. The latter is much less charming!
27-08-2011, 01:20 PM
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These posts have reminded me of my first job in very large bakery as a junior shorthand/typist. As the junior it was my job to collect the tea-break cake orders morning and afternoon from the canteen. To get to there I had to go through the top floor bakery, one end to the other. Those massive blokes in their whites knew exactly what time I'd be passing through and were ready with their friendly bantering. Oh how I hated it. I ended up going out with one of the young lads, he who had the 750 Norton Atlas! We would speed along with no helmets, go grass-tracking, motorcycle clubs, all the wrong things. My Dad would have had a fit if he'd known.27-08-2011, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by maryl
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I ended up going out with one of the young lads, he who had the 750 Norton Atlas! We would speed along with no helmets, go grass-tracking, motorcycle clubs, all the wrong things. My Dad would have had a fit if he'd known.
Norton Atlas 750cc
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