Pransestia

it but I'm not sorry that I spent two years in the service. Most of the time, I didn't miss my femin- inity a great deal. That was until I had about two months left to serve. I was aboard a destroyer in San Fransico Bay, when that feeling I couldn't run away from, hide from, or get out of my mind, returned. I really put up a struggle but naturally I lost out. I would walk down the street and sneak peeks at all the beautiful clothes in the shop windows. I finally made my body follow my mind into a department store to make my very first purchase of feminine under things. I was so nervous that I could hardly speak to the middle aged saleslady. I finally told her that I wanted a panty girdle and bra, also a pair of stockings. I honestly can't recall how I knew my size but everything fitted perfectly. As she handed me the package, she said, "have fun." I couldn't figure out if she knew they were for me or thought they were for my girl friend. I like to think she guessed the first. Now most TV's would have rented a room and indulged themselves for the length of their liberty. Not me, I took my things back aboard ship and wore them for the next two months! Some will say, what nerve, while others will say, what stupidity. I just say it was nervey stupidity. I was a quartermaster and my main job was to correct all the charts. I had the chart room all to myself and spent most of my time there. Another friend and myself would play cribbage until one or two in the morning. He would usually go to bed before me and I then took off my lingerie. When I had to wash them, I would take my girdle and put it in a skivvy, wash them both together in the sink, wrap the clean girdle in a towel and put it in my footlocker.

My sex education was improved a great deal by some of the old salts. I really knew what a girl was and what you were supposed to do with her. They sure tried to lead me astray, but I just couldn't break down and go along with the crowd. In fact, I even gave up using the words hell and damn. Can you im- agine being in the Navy and going to that extreme!