The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

karcher

Hester I can't imagine how your DD keeps a straight face when she is doing her training!

Or is that not a job requirement?

Hard_Up_Hester

Fortunately dd2 is working on the admin side and once she has acquainted herself with the product range she will just have to work with product codes such as VR15894/d, so she,won't be sending emails about things with rude names.
I am hoping for an interesting birthday and Christmas presents.
Failing that I'm happy to road test any items offered.

[Deleted User]

Hester many years ago (1972) when my children were very small finances meant I had to get extra cash, so my friend had the children as she had two little ones as well and I went into an agency to register for work as a temp.

Every Monday morning we had to arrive and sit on long benches until a job came up.One Monday as I was the only married woman there I got sent to a shop in Bexley village called Simon McCoy enterprises

It turned out to be a mail order business for errr... sex aids .

Hence they only wanted married women there . Well it was quite an eye opener for me to say the least .

One of my jobs was to sit at a table filling umpteen tiny pots with Ponds cold cream, which were then labelled with a label saying this cream aided men with their erections !!! T
his was pre -viagra days. The postman would come into the shop three times a day with sack full of orders and cash in envelopes from customers from all over the world.

After the initial shock of seeing the 'store room' with all its various 'aids etc' I just got on with it.

It was a job and it paid £4.00 an hour, but every week I had to update their mailing list and you would be surprised at some of the names on there:)

I had been there for about three weeks when talking to another lady who worked there I said how long have you been here and she said 'Oh about 6 months ,but its OK when we get raided by the police the boss will bail us all out' !!!!

When I got home and told my OH he said thats it no way are you going back there .Just imagine how the kids would feel if their mum got dragged off to the local nick for working in a sex shop :):)

I agreed and went back to the agency and said I didn't want to work at that assignment anymore .The agency lady said I'm not surprised we are always having to send new staff there and they rarely last more than a few weeks

I must admit from the outside you would just see a plain shop front with blinds across the windows .It was the thought of getting involved with the police that put me off I think

My children have now grown up and used to laugh at the thought of Mum working in a sex shop, but it was all very business like and was probably no different than selling a pound of spuds to the owners ,but far more lucrative

I have never seen Ponds cold cream in the same light though and wonder if the placebo worked for many men :):)

JackieO xx

silvasava

Jackie - just to lower the tone even further I'm thinking that probably the action of rubbing the cream in in the first place probably had a reaction - the rest is all in the mind

Hard_Up_Hester

Lol JackieO, that's so funny, especially the ponds cold cream, it probably worked for some people just because they thought it would.

Many years ago I worked in TV licensing when it was being computerised. One of the very first Ann Summers shops opened just across the road, we had great fun watching all the comings and goings.

fuddle

Hester thank you for the warning. The rest of you? Shame on you! :rotfl:

Polly and NM thank you for explaining the tests to me. I should have thanked you yesterday but I was distracted by Mar's antics.

mardatha

Feel like been run over by a bus, really weak and horrible kidney area pain. Going nowhere and doing nothing, off for a sleep xxxx

nursemaggie

So were the rest of us fuddle. You have probably had them before when you were admitted to hospital. No one says it like on Casualty it's just done for everyone. I preferred monna's explanation.

JackieO! You just changed my image of you. That was really funny. I think I would have left as soon as I got there but then £4 an hour was very good pay in 1972. I was not paid anywhere near that amount amount to run a ward at the Maternity hospital. Nurses really did have low pay then.

nannywindow

Mar I hope you get back to normal soon, I'm sending healing vibes your way.
I'm still suffering with this lurgy, the cough has gone on to my chest now .
I'm going to blame Karcher, I think you sent it to me ! I'm all for sharing, but not this thank you very much :rotfl:. Seriously I hope you are feeling better and work is easier for you.
I was surprised at how some people have lowered the tone on this thread today .
Hester I believe grey and chrome are the "in" colours this year :rotfl:.
JackieO My mother always had a pot of Pond's cream on her bedside table. Oooooh! now I've got a horrible picture in my mind _pale_.
Now I will have to go and have a lie down in a darkened room .
nan xx

[Deleted User]

I'm definitely going to despatch that hefferlump up to Scotlandshire and buy it some mountaineering equipment so it can reach Mar at her home!!! It will then sit on anyone who tries to give her things that don't agree with her, if she's poorly it's going to be quicker than an ambulance getting her and the RV to A&E as it will go cross country and it will be bringing with it a huge consignment of purely medicinal black jelly babies which are made specially to restore sufferers to health (or at least make them feel happier while they're getting better!). Be better my little Scots pal xxx.