Following on from my earlier exploits when I didn't wear pants under my skirt, my next memorable event took place in July 1982. If you read my previous accounts, you will see that any inhibitions I once had about revealing my body had long disappeared. My boyfriend had stopped doubting my recollections and enjoyed everything I told him.
But, back to July 1982.
The business I worked at decided to support our local annual carnival by entering a tableau on the back of a lorry. About 20 of us volunteered and in May of that year we met at lunchtime to plan our entry. The theme was "Favourite Countries" and after much debate we agreed on Hawaii. We would make palm trees, parasols and a beach bar with a few sunbeds scattered on the lorry. The guys were to wear gaudy bright shorts and shirts and the girls in bikini's and grass skirts.
Over the next few weeks, we assembled the props during our breaks and sometimes we stayed a bit late to carry out the work. The lads had arranged their attire and one girl had made some simple grass skirts from coloured strips of polyethylene and crepe paper attached to an elasticated waistband. Everything was ready for the day when all we would need to do was decorate our float.
On the day of the carnival, brilliant sunshine greeted us as we assembled at our workplace fairly early in the morning. I knew we had a lot of work to do, so decided to wear some shorts and a T shirt over my bra and pants. I took my bikini and grass skirt in a bag to change into later. I also took some spray tan to give my skin some colour.
By lunchtime, we had everything ready and had about four hours to wait until we needed to proceed to the parade assembly point for judging. We sat around chatting all afternoon and I noticed that the lads were trying to chat up us girls and the comments were getting lewd. There were 14 guys and 8 girls. Time slowly passed until we needed to get changed and apply our instant tan. We drifted inside the building to the staff canteen area to change and the guys just hovered outside the building.
Sarah, who had made the grass skirts announced she had brought some tan coloured tights if any of us wanted to wear them and as my legs were quite white, I accepted. I glanced around and saw there were only 5 of us girls in the room. I had no idea where the other 3 had gone. Nevertheless, I began to get ready.