Hi John.
Bragging again.
Cheers Des
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I wonder, did any of the ones on UCL maybe get a Dear Joan?
#10... Wasn't the same outfit from the story of the wreck of the Hesperus John was it ??? JS
ah richard the powers of education ....i was enjoying the favours of .....so much more gentile than the usual term lol.....regards cappy
I should have gotten a second one.
But it was addressed to Ron B Manderson
Chief elect.
British merchant navy.
Never did receive it .
I wonder why.
Ron the batcave
I received one in Oz. on my first trip, Port Jackson, from my first love, Eileen xxxxwood. I was devastated. No sleep that night, worked in a daze the next day. Then I thought to myself....Self, she doesn't know that I've received this. So I posted it on my door and started composing a dear John to her. The rest of the gang in the catering department caught word of what I was doing and decided to help...It was a scorcher, brilliant.
A couple of years later, I was on leave, and went to a dance at the Kursall Ballroom in Southend on Sea. It was a ladies request, where females got to ask the males to dance. Eileen's sister came up to me and asked me to dance. Eileen 'cut-in', the sister and her are almost into a cat fight on the dance floor.
We danced, Eileen was still pished at the dear John she received. She asked me if I received her letter. I told her I had received one, but there was no point in opening it, so I tore it up and flushed it. She was doubly pished now and stormed off the dance floor. I wasted no time in asking the sister to dance and could I walk her home....She was nothing special, but I took her to the movies the next night, just to get the last crack at Eileen.
Funny, I don't think we ever forget our first love. (Forgot the name of the sister though).
"Revenge is a dish best served cold." Anon.:rollinglaugh:
We had a chippy who got a Dear John when we docked at Kingston Jamaica,next night we were in the Dominican Republic,though not a drinking man chippy decided to come ashore with the deck crowd,what a state he got in after a few drinks,he passed out we looked after him and eventually got chippy safely back on board.
For about 4 days chippy walked around in a trance.
I received a Dear John after being away 3 months,it hurt but she did me a favour as she was not a right one
to marry a seaman,have been married to my wife 59 years so I did some thing right.
Getting back to chippy in a good breeze chippy was always sea sick and he always turned green.
Joined a ship in Taiwan where an Assistant Steward had received a Dear John from his boyfriend, he jumped ship, as I knew the ship had just come from South Africa I asked where he had jumped ship, certainly did not expect the answer I got.
He had jumped over the wall in the middle of the Indian Ocean