I picked this up from Facebook this morning and followed the blog link, it’s a really interesting article about sexual harassment and some close encounters. Elizabeth is brave sharing her own experiences and it made me think of mine.
I’m five years younger that she is, and the world was a different place. Getting groped was something that happened frequently. However, I do appreciate that I was lucky and nothing really bad ever happened to me but I heard and saw things,
My first experience was when I was seven. My brother and I were coming home from the shops when the driver of a lorry stopped us. “Would you like a lift?” We said yes, because it was exciting. He told us to get into the back. The back was open and it held old clothes and rags, we sat right at the edge with our legs dangling out…
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