My Story by Susan

The news of the creation of your board is spreading. I spent the last few weeks reading the stories and accounts. I have been writing up my own experiences. I’m not a great wordsmith so please forgive my very basic accounts.

I trained as a nurse in the mid-1990. I lived in at a hostel that was about a mile away from the main hospital site. Although not formally anything to do with the local hospital at least 90% of the residents were hospital staff. We didn’t have a history of green horning but we did play a lot of pranks on each other and just generally release stress with bits of fun.

The bit on your board which struck a cord with me was when you where talking about TOPPIES. This is the prank/forfeit/dare most often used in the hostel. The first time I had to do a toppy was when I was 19. I’d been at the hostel for about three months. I should have said that a part from one block of rooms on one floor the hostel was for women.

I had just run a bath and was in my knickers. The fire alarm went off and I grabbed my robe. I put it on and left the bathroom as the alarm was being cancelled. My four block mates saw me and without a word just pounced on me and wrestled off the robe. They pulled me up the corridor threatening to push me through the two sets of doors at the end that led to the next block. I managed to break lose and head for the sanctuary of my bedroom. My most vivid memory was of my 34c breasts bouncing up and down freely.

My next toppy was a few months later I was just coming off shift and on entering the main nurses changing room found a fight going on. I should say hear it was a good-humoured fight between a group of nurses of different grades. They seemed to be trying to strip two of the nurses who where in just pants and bra. When I arrived they seemed to stop and sit down exhausted. I went to my locker to get changed and had stripped out of my dress when I felt the catch of my bra go and it fall away at the front then was pulled away by a hand which came into view. I turned to see what and who which just allowed the person to remove my bra fully and throw it over to one of the women who’d been defending herself from being stripped. This started a game of catch the bra.

The first time I had to do a toppy as a forfeit was when I was 20. I was on a geriatric ward. We had plenty of down time and would play stupid games one was called pie man. If you lost three games in a row you had to do a forfeit. Well I lost. I knew well what the forfeits where like. I had to go to the bathroom at the far end of the ward and strip down to just panties. I then, being allowed to cover, had to leave the bathroom and cross the corridor into the CSSD room, then from there into the treatment room, then out of the treatment room into a kind of waiting space before turning back down the corridor to re-enter the bathroom. All the time my colleagues where whistling and cheering. I had to do a few other toppy’s on that ward before I moved on. I’ve had to do what we call the TWO PEAKS on three other wards. Once as a third year when I lost a football bet to a porter, once as a staff nurse not having learned my lesson losing another bet to a porter, and lastly as a sister as a dare, to prove I still had it in me.

My worse toppy forfeits were when I was a staff nurse. We were at a friend’s hen night in a pub. I lost a drinking game and had to take off my blouse and bra and run around a group of tables in a semi-private room. On my hen night the girls got me in the toilets of a nightclub and stripped off my dress and I had to run out and down the stairs to a waiting minibus topless.

When it comes to dares besides the TWO PEAKS as a sister I’ve done many more. We use to go camping a gang of us. We use to play various games or when we’d had a bit too much to drink egg each other on to do dares. My first toppy was to leave our tent and run to the fire bucket and back about 30 ft each way. We got a regular pitch and developed a range of dares/forfeits. On one occasion I was dared to run around the edge of the field in just a t-shirt, that is, pantiless. The lads, yes there where lads with us, liked us doing toppy’s in just knickers but on occasions they’d reverse it and have us just wear a bra. On one occasion the lads had the four of us girls strip completely naked and run diagonally across the field.

We also had another version of the TWO PEAKS called TWO PEAKS AND A FORREST. I’ll let you work that one out.