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Joan's First Job

When Joan graduated from high school money was tight, so to pay for college classes and help her family out, she got a job in the drafting department of the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.,which she always referred to as "the gas house".  The girls in the drafting dpartment were greatly out-numbered by the men, so their protective older boss set all the girls' drafting tables in a separate windowed alcove, and he modeled respectful and courteous interactions with them, and made sure the young men in the department followed his lead.  However, the building that housed the drafting department was located across from the old Baltimore City jail and unknown to the boss, some of the girls started a flirtatious communication with a good looking young inmate across the way, by means of written messages held up to the window.  This amusing past-time ended abruptly however when the inmate posted the message "I'm getting out next week", and al the girls immediately disappeared from the windows.

Posted by Kate Kenney
Friday August 15, 2014 at 12:55 pm
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