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Comment by Louise Kiner on April 28, 2012 at 10:40pm

Wow. What a tale...

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 28, 2012 at 9:35pm

                        'My Short Sweet Chalet Maid Experience'

                                      A tale for David Stafford

                                             by Val Herman

 

When I was 19, and a student, I got a summer vacation job working in the kitchen of Butlins' Holiday Camp in Clacton, England. In those days (mid 1960's), Butlins offered very cheap, all-in holidays to the masses.

I worked for 2 days in the kitchens, and the lack of hygiene therein made me feel very ill indeed.. I asked for a transfer, and got allocated a job as a Chalet Maid --  which was supposed to be reserved for the fair sex, but they were desperate.

I had to clean 20 chalets each day. They were all occupied (in theory, at least) by young, single men. I would knock on the chalet doors at 08.30 -- when breakfast was served in a giant hall -- and tell them to get up so that I could clean their chalets. 19 out of 20 of them would tell me, in very unpolite terms, to get lost and let them (and whoever else was in their chalets) sleep (or whatever it was that they were doing in their chalets).

I would repeat my call and get the same sort of response at 08.45.

And again for a third and final time at 09.00 -- when people would threaten to murder me, or worse (?), if I didn't let them (and whoever else was in their chalets) sleep (or whatever it was that they were doing in their chalets).

So I let them sleep (or whatever), cleaned up just one out of my 20 chalets, and went to the pool where there were lots of very nice young girls who had come on holiday especially to meet nice young guys like me.

On Saturdays -- because the chalets had to be cleaned out when new people arrived [make beds, change towels, sweep floor, clean bathrooms, etc] -- I had to work, sort of, but for 6 days out of 7 I didn't really exert myself...until I ended up in one of the nice young girls' chalet, but as this is a family-oriented web site, I can't go into the details of that (even for you, David).

This lasted for 6 or so weeks, and then I got a job interviewing Members of Parliament  in London-- it was better paid, but had fewer attractions and no nice young girls in their chalets.

At the end of that summer I went back to my studies

The End

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 28, 2012 at 12:04pm

Well, Hello Dolly, lookin' strange, Dolly...it's so nice to see you home were you belong ...you're lookin swell, Dolly...we can tell , Dolly...that in the UK, there was a transformation/transgender? But the bike is fantastic! Up, up, and away to the moon (if you were a Greek postman :-)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 28, 2012 at 5:24am

I nearly got arrested for bike theft mail art, A&S, but then I dived into the nearest beauty salon and disguised myself so that the forces of law and order wouodn't find me. I had to leave the bike behind though. Dolly (ex-Val)

Comment by David Stafford on April 27, 2012 at 5:02pm

Very cool, Val. Looking forward the Chalet series...

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 27, 2012 at 4:51pm

This isn't really Postal History, but i thought you might like to know that I was very temporarily involved as a Post Man in England earlier this week...or I would have been, had the Real Post Man not claimed his bike back.Yet another Chapter in the Short Sweet Volume of "My Short Sweet Jobs". (Other Chapters include 'My Short Sweet Chalet Maid Experience' and my 'Very Short and Not at all Sweet Stint asa Dustman/Garbage Collector')

Val

Val

 

Comment by Louise Kiner on April 11, 2012 at 9:13pm

I just wanted to share my Titanic "find" from the post office today:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 10, 2012 at 6:50pm

Oh hum...me posting postage stamps, 'cause this is a boutique for 'em (forum?)

Cherry blossom time in Washington D.C....and on top: from Canada, a commemorative stamp ...that perhaps we should have had a mailing for?

100 Years on Sunday! Wow!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 9, 2012 at 8:43pm

Just stopping by to post some postage stamps....interesting "other side" of the mail art:

Comment by vizma bruns on February 13, 2012 at 10:35am

Just to make the ozone hole larger, I don't like the cold. ;-)

Although I only drive one at a time.

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