Creepy Attentions In The Olden Days.

[Atheist]

Has anybody got memories of "odd bods" doing odd things when they were young? I have a few. We took them in our stride; we knew when things were a bit odd, and we avoided people like that. It seemed part of life that some people were "odd". Colonel Blood went around kissing every street tree that he met. Some priests seemed to be interested in our opinions on our young friends (girls). Nobody made a fuss; but then I was never a victim of anything physically dangerous. I think that we realised that some adults were not comfortable to be with, and so we avoided them where possible. It must have been awful if there had been a more forceful approach from people, but I fortunately missed that.

[Atheist]

OMG; I've just seen PP's post!

[Spicerack]

I was in digs when I was 15 and this old bloke used to invite me up to his room (in an odd way) Never went.
Couple of years later he was in the national papers cos he won big on the pools. Not that that would have made a difference.
Not much of a story but I know what it feels like when nobody answers your post. ;-)

[royfromaus]

Is this thread about Biden?

[Spicerack]

Probably watching Coronation St, roy.

[Peter Pedant]

a bit of a taboo subject
I was at a school where a master later did time
and a lot of the boys discussed 'it' ( 20 y before) - and we all said oh and got on with our school books

gelz have ( had ) a 50% life-time flashed=at rate ( half have been flashed at once) - the vast majorty just say oh and get on with life

[Spicerack]

Read 2 or 3 autobiographies of actors who were 'molested' by old blokes, when they were young, and they went on to be gay. They sort of went along with their 'molesters'.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

My sisters once drove home from the hospital and when they arrived back home, a man opened the back door and ran out! I dread to think of what would have happened if either had been alone.

[Stableford]

We had a strange deputy head who I'd rather not remember who used to join us in the swimming baths. He used to undress in front of everyone in the cloakrooms and was thought of as a weirdo even back then. Thank God for police background checks these days.

[Spicerack]

Must have been frightening for them, Hazi.

[Spungle]

In the seventies, there was an old man who hung round the bus station underpass who was known as "Bummer Arthur". Anyone who lived in Morecambe would also remember "Docker-picker Charlie" who used to go round town looking for discarded "dock-ends" (cigarettes). Probably both harmless, but taunted by all of us high school lads, the poor souls.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

[Must have been frightening for them, Hazi] Yes I remember them running inside shrieking and my Dad running out to find him, but he had long gone. My sisters used to hate travelling anywhere alone after that, and even now, forty years later, one of them locks the car every time she gets in.

[Spicerack]

I'd have given Arthur a wide berth what with his moniker, Spungle.

[Atheist]

Interesting replies so far. It seemed to be accepted in those days that some people were a bit odd and perhaps to be avoided. Nowadays they seem to be targetted by social medias vigilantes. In our day we got over it. There must have been really dangerous people then, but nowadays it is presumed that anyone a bit odd is a murderer.

[bobbinwales]

so are you saying victims now should just 'get over it' and not report it??/

[Atheist]

bobbinwales; I don't think that people who have been attacked or damaged physically or mentally should keep quiet about it and not complain.

[bobbinwales]

Thanks. But still am not surewhich people now if any your thinking should just 'get over it'

[Atheist]

bobb; I think the ones who got over it were the ones who were never seriously abused. We knew and could sense those who made our skin crawl and we avoided them. I never suffered abuse and I never had a need to complain. But, there are many "creepy" people who would never harm a fly, and nowadays they tend to be treated like violent perverts who should be outed, arrested, or locked up in a cell with a noose and worse (often referred to in AB posts).

[Spicerack]

We kind of lived with weirdos in the old days, bobbin.
I'm answering for Atheist. ;-)

[Spicerack]

X-posted.

[Atheist]

Perhaps some female ABers might understand a bit better what I am thinking of. I think that women of my age are perhaps a bit more aware of creepy vibes and a bit less shocked by them.