All of my stories include descriptions of sex scenes that could cause offence to some people. Please do not read this story if you are offended by perverse sexual material, or if you are under the legal age of consent for your own country. These stories are pure fiction and are not based on anyone living or deceased.
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The place Australia, the year 1955, and me an eighteen year old English girl, just completed two years of training as a child care assistant. As I've got relatives in Australia who found me a placement, I was able to get a work Visa for a two year stay. The plan was to work for this family as a nanny, looking after their two children for the next two years, and then if I felt I liked the country, apply for permanent residence.
The family lived way out in the deserted North West outback, and they owned a vast area around Jennywren that was being mined for minerals of some kind. I had been warned the place was very remote, and I'd be one of only a very few females living out there. But I took the six week boat journey, and looked upon it as a holiday before my work placement was due to commence. Then once I landed in Australia, I stopped over-night at my aunty Sahara's, and next day I boarded a rail-train that was to take me far from the inhabited part of the country, to a drop-off point between Alice Springs and Mud Tank where anyone whose destination is west, then has to disembark, and pick-up with a land-train for the remainder of their journey.
I'm not sure if other people around the world know exactly what I mean by those descriptions; the rail-train was a big old fashioned steam locomotive, pulling lots of passenger carriages, as well as freight trucks along steel rails. But a land-train is like a massive lorry that runs along the dirt roads, pulling about three or four big trailers, which would normally be used to carry the ore from the mine. But now as the train heads back to the mine, it is the method of transport used to travel to these remote parts.
My story really starts whilst on the rail train travelling to this drop-off point. I'm sitting in this compartment with one man, and a mother with two children, a boy of around six, and a girl of about sixteen. We'd hardly got underway before the woman said as she looked across to me, "Pom eh?"
"Err yes. I'm over here to work as a children's nanny."
"Didn't they give you any advice on what to wear?"
"Wear? Why, I'm not dressed inappropriately am I?"
I was wearing a pair of slacks (the ladies version of trousers, this was before Jeans had started to be worn by girls), and a sort of tennis blouse, and I definitely didn't think that was too sexy.
"That depends where you're actually going to. But this train doesn't go anywhere, that the stuff you've got on, would be suitable for."
"I'm sorry, but I don't know what you mean, I'm not showing any leg, or even anything else for that matter."
"Look my dear, out here, men are men, and there ain't many women, but the ones that are here fall into two groups. You're either looked on as a whore or you're treated with respect like one of the family. So I guess you looking after children will want to be thought of as a family girl, respectable that is. Well dressed in pants, unless you can shear sheep, swear, and fight as good as a man, you're gonna get one hell of a hard time. They'll reduce you to tears, and you'll be catching the next train home."
"Are you saying I should wear a dress or skirt?"
"Depends on what kind of dresses you've got?"
"I've got some in my case, but I can hardly open that now, you know, with that man sitting there."
"Don't you mind me missy, I won't take no notice of what you've got in your case."
"Aw, pay him no mind, these Ausi men are like sheep. When their on there own, you can steer them where you want them. It's only when they get together in groups, that they can become a menace. You get your case down, and let's take a look at what you've got."
I lifted my case down from off the rack above our heads, and placed it on the space on the seat next to the man.
"See, that's the first thing you'll notice. If you'd have been in a frock, the second you stood up, you'd have seen the men coming in from miles around to lift that case down for you."
"Well in that case I'm glad I'm wearing slacks."
"Yes, I guess you could be right, it can sometimes be more trouble than its worth. But never-the-less, it just shows the difference what you wear makes to how you're treated."
"But if that's all this is about, I'm used to doing my own lifting and carrying."
"No my dear, that is just the niceties, you'll find a lot of men will be very rude and even aggressive towards you."
"What's she expect? Fucking lesbian!" That was the man sitting opposite, he only mumbled it quietly, but we all heard him.
"Hey you! Watch that foul mouth of yours, I've got young'uns in here."
"Well, what's she expect? There ain't enough of it to go around out here in the outback, and when you get some silly bitch whose got all the goods, and don't know what sex she is; it's a sin against god, so help me."
"That's as maybe, but there's no need for bad language."
"I'm sorry for my tongue lady, but I bet that there young'un of yours knows what she's a sitting on!" And with that he'd nodded towards the young girl. She didn't blush or appear to be phased by this crude remark, on the contrary, I'm sure she actually wriggled her bottom on the seat, which had the effect of raising the hem of her dress just a little higher.
"My Doris has been brought-up right, and I'm sure when her time comes, she'll do her duty and make someone a good wife. But don't you go assuming this here girl is any less a woman, just cos she's wearing pants." Then turning towards me, "See what I mean? And as I told you, on their own they're like little lambs. But you get a bunch of them together, and there's no telling what they'll do to you. You have to be more careful out here see. The coppers (police) are few and far between, and when you do find one, it'll be a man, and he'll have the same attitude."
"But why would he think I'm a lesbian?"
"Look he's a man, they've only got a few brain cells, and they're concentrating on where his next drink is coming from."
"Be careful, he'll hear you."
"So what, he's no match for me while he's on his own. Anyway girl, lets see what you've got that would be suitable for you to wear while your travelling."
With that she started rummaging through the clothes in my case, the man opposite was taking an interest, and I guess trying to get a look at the underwear being lifted out onto the seat.
The lady asked me where exactly I was travelling to, and when I told her, she looked very concerned. She gave me some very stern warnings about not venturing out of the confines of the house I was working in without an escort of some kind. She explained that women were even rarer in that part of the country than they are in the sheep rearing area where she comes from. She also said there are more whores in that part of the country than respectable women.
"You see the mining companies ship them out on a rota basis to keep the miners from returning back to civilisation, in case they realise what they're missing, and don't come back to the mine. So what ever we do, although we want the men to know you're a girl, we don't want you looking cheap, or you'll have even more trouble."
Then suddenly a look of horror came to her face. "If you're going out to the Jennywren mine. That means you'll be getting off this train at Arnold's crossing to catch the land train?"
"Yes. Why is that a problem?"
"My god girl, who made your travel arrangements?"
"It was all sorted by my aunt who lives in Melbourne."
"Well either she lives with her head in the sand, or she doesn't like you very much."
"But what's wrong, I don't understand?"
"Well she should have told you about what clothes to wear, or more to the point, what not to wear. But letting you come out here on your own, especially having to make a stop at that hell hole. I'd stop over with you myself until the road train comes, but that would mean me and the young'uns having an overnight stay there, and I honestly wouldn't want to risk that with a girl of her age."
"What is it you're so worried about?"
"There are lots of stories going around about things that have happened to women who've had to make stopovers there. Oh, nothings ever gone to court or been proven, but all the same, there's no smoke with out fire."
"But my aunty showed me, it's a recognised changeover point, where the railroad crosses the land train route. It's even got a separate ladies waiting room with its own toilet facilities and everything."
"Maybe you're right, I've never even got out there all the times we've gone past. It just doesn't have a good reputation."
Then she turned to the man opposite, "Where are you headed for?"
"Same place as the little lesbian."
"So you'll be getting off with her."
"Guess so."
"Well how about you do something good for once in your no good life? Maybe then god will smile on you, and you might just make-up for being a waster."
"Who are you calling a waster?"
"Well there's only you here, so I guess I must mean you."
"So why should I want to do something to please you?"