"Inappropriate" work conversations, and a July 27, 2987 letter

As I read back through this letter, I had a few thoughts. The first one was that the conversations at work that I talk about here would never be permitted in the present cultural environment in America. My boss would be in a huge vat of boiling hot water for saying the things he said to two female employees at that time. The second thought I had was about why we talked so much about sex at my former workplace. For my part, I think it was because it wasn't something anyone had ever talked to me about before and made me feel more included with the group. It's also likely that, given how out of reach nudity and pornography were at that time compared to the present, it was more taboo and therefore more interesting.

This letter was one of those times when I recounted things that happened in my life in detail to Tito so that he had a better understanding of how I spent my days. It helped him inhabit my reality, which I was only to learn many years later was hardly typical for most people.