New swimming trunks
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2026 5:10 pm
This story is based on a true episode in my life but is exagerated a little and may develop further into my imagination, hence the reason for putting it in this section. It takes place when I was 14 years old. At that time I was small for my age in all respects but had grown a little in the past year.
I was about to start having some swimming lessons and so I needed a new pair of swimming trunks. There was a boy's outfitters (as it was called in those days), fairly close to where I lived and so the owner was well known to my parents as he had supplied most of the clothes for myself and my brother over many years.
It was arranged that I would go to him after school one day to buy some new trunks. I used to cycle to school and I was to stop off at his shop on the way home. I arrived at his shop just before 5, his normal closing time. It was September and still quite warm and I was hot after having cycled almost 3 miles from my school.
The shopkeeper, Mr Smethers, was expecting me and suggested I sit down and get my breath back and he would get me a glass of orange squash. He told me to take off my school blazer and tie whilst he fetched the drink.
The shop was fairly small but I was able to put my blazer and tie over the back of the chair (there was only 1 chair in the shop) and put my satchell with my school books on the floor. The shop didn't have a fitting room but he used his downstairs storeroom as a place to try on clothes.
He said that he had selected a pair of trunks that he thought would be suitable which he said were a new addition to his stock as it also came with a matching t shirt (which was quite fashionable at the time). He told me to go down to his storeroom and try them on whilst he closed the shop and he would come and check on me once I was changed.
I went down to the storeroom which was quite large and had mirrors on one of the walls. There was a chair where I could put my clothes and so I took off my shirt and my trousers, and shoes of course and put on the t shirt and trunks.
To be continued.....
I was about to start having some swimming lessons and so I needed a new pair of swimming trunks. There was a boy's outfitters (as it was called in those days), fairly close to where I lived and so the owner was well known to my parents as he had supplied most of the clothes for myself and my brother over many years.
It was arranged that I would go to him after school one day to buy some new trunks. I used to cycle to school and I was to stop off at his shop on the way home. I arrived at his shop just before 5, his normal closing time. It was September and still quite warm and I was hot after having cycled almost 3 miles from my school.
The shopkeeper, Mr Smethers, was expecting me and suggested I sit down and get my breath back and he would get me a glass of orange squash. He told me to take off my school blazer and tie whilst he fetched the drink.
The shop was fairly small but I was able to put my blazer and tie over the back of the chair (there was only 1 chair in the shop) and put my satchell with my school books on the floor. The shop didn't have a fitting room but he used his downstairs storeroom as a place to try on clothes.
He said that he had selected a pair of trunks that he thought would be suitable which he said were a new addition to his stock as it also came with a matching t shirt (which was quite fashionable at the time). He told me to go down to his storeroom and try them on whilst he closed the shop and he would come and check on me once I was changed.
I went down to the storeroom which was quite large and had mirrors on one of the walls. There was a chair where I could put my clothes and so I took off my shirt and my trousers, and shoes of course and put on the t shirt and trunks.
To be continued.....
