Job Confessions

On Our Job, Issue 7, 1 March 1944, Page 4

Job Confessions

OUR lady conductors have asked us, on numerous occasions, if they might be mentioned in our publication, so we have started a special column and have hired, at great expense, a lady known in journalistic circles as “Aunt Tilly.” We know you girls have many problems, and if you write to “A.T.,” c/o of us, she will help you solve your difficulties. We answer the first letters received. “Dear Aunt Tilly.— have been conducting on my shift for the past two years and have fallen in love with my motorman. I am only 171 years of age and he is 53 and has a wife and five children. Should I, after walking home with him these past years on my p.m. shift, let him kiss me ?—Conductor .” “Dear Connie.We realise what a great love you have for him, but suggest you ask his wife first.—Aunt Tilly.” “Dear Aunt Tilly.—l am a jolly little tram conductress aged 39 and have fallen deeply in love with the back of my driver, who is a fine figure of a man, as tram drivers go nowadays. Sometimes, when I have no tickets to clip, I tap out a message on the buzzer to him as much as to say, “Hullo, you gorgeous tram driver, I’m still here if you want me”; but unfortunately every time I do that he stops the tram, but nobody gets off and this seems to annoy him. Is there any way in which I can make him understand my true feelings towards him without cheapening myself?—Conductress .” “Dear Miss 39. —How about opening the compartment door suddenly and jumping into his arms? Aunt Tilly.” “Dear Aunt Tilly.—My motorman is most considerate; he gets out and lifts prams on and off for me, opens points, stops tram in traffic and moves passengers off the back platform and sees that I get a nice ride. How can I show my appreciation?—Anxious Annie.” “Dear Anxious Annie.—By finding out how he treats his wife at home, and if not in the courteous manner that he shows you, ask him what the catch is, as either you are the apple of his eye or else plain dumb. Aunt Tilly.” ❖ ❖ * BLISTERS “Trolly Pole.”— The juice stick that leaves the overhead wire on wet and dark nights. “Trolly Rope.”— A length of hemp and cord attached to a loop upder the trolly head, but usually used to convey trolly juice down the conductor’s sleeve in wet weather. “Union.” — A body of employees likened to a chain of strong* and weak links. “Which are you?”