So when I started nursing my only knowledge of
initiations was the debaggings at mum's warehouse. The hospital and the
warehouse wheren't to far apart. Once you got to the second floor of the
tower you could look out of the rear windows of the hospital and see
the warehouse.
Cadet's had a one week training course then where put out onto a ward for 8 weeks. This was to see if you had nursing in you before they spent anymore money on training you and advancing you to being a pupil or student nurse. The weeks training was very basic making beds, doing toileting and general fetching and carrying duties of equipment but not patients.
Four other girls started with me and we ended up scattered around the hospital. It wasn't long before I heard about the terrible things that they did to pupil and student nurses. I was coming off duty in my third week and found myself in the chaging rooms with two other cadets and a group of pupil and student nurses.
The older 3rd year student nurse asked if we done our penguin walk yet (peguins being the affectionate term used for cadets because of our black, yellow, white, yellow, black stripes on our belts and caps). We all looked puzzled and suddenly the girls circled us. They pointed out that you either fitted in or you where fitted up. We where asked if we wanted to fit in. Well wanting to fit in especially with the pupils and students who it was told could reduce cadets to tears and make sure they found themselves out of nursing before they began. You can be very niave at 16.
Well the penguin walk was explained to us. I wasn't surprised. It was just like at mum's warehouse. So we agreed to the silly little initiation. The three of us slipped our hands up our dresses and caught hold of our tights and began to take them down. Once they where past our bottoms we went back for our panties. Pulling these over our hips and bottom to rest with the top of the nylons still under our dresses. The other two thinking this would sarfice stopped and I followed suit thinking I'd miss understood the instruction. But the older student said, "All the way down". I blushed a bit the other two blushed bright red.
Soon tights and panties where arround ankles and we where lined up one behind the other me in the pole position. The girl behind me had to grab my belt and the other girl hers. The third year said to folow her and she began to walk around the changing room. It was a quite small changing room but it was still a little embrassing panties on show. I had worn sesible white full panties but the girl behind me had worn a black thong. They where the state of art in underwear in 1979. I don't think I'd seen one until that moment. The other girl had a pair of child panties on. White with red spots. Very embarrassing.
The 3rd year started for the changing room door and I began to feel a little sick in the pit of my stomach. One thing being seen by six or seven girls in a changing room another thing being seen outside in corridors.
I protested but was told point blank that I was obviously not cut out to be a nurse and follow orders. Perhaps i should leave. Well at 16 with all my dreams on the line I went along with it like my two colleagues. We went out the door and started along the long corridor. Suddenly a porter appeared down one of the sets of stairs that entered the corridor from the left. He looked and smiled and whistled. I just blushed being lead my panties where clearly on view. He stood and waited for us to walk up to him and passed comment on my two colleagues panties but just accepted mine.
Now others had appeared from various dors including a sister off my word. "Good girl *******, I knew you had leadership qualities and wouldn't let us down. Another porter apeared pushing a troley. He saw us and made a sqawking noise. We cadets where often subject to this parculiar noise the porters believing it to be what penguins sounded likely. Both the birds and us.
Now groups of nurses, a few doctors even came out of various places once some one had shouted 'penguins walking". It was embarassing I was really sweating with the fear, cold clamy skin with a blush overlay. Soon people where cheering us and congratulating us so the fear/embarassment changed to a form of pride and then not enjoyment but okayness.
We where marched around the main block for about 20 minutes before we ended up back in the changing rooms and where hugged and kissed and intrioduced to our tormentors.
Cadet's had a one week training course then where put out onto a ward for 8 weeks. This was to see if you had nursing in you before they spent anymore money on training you and advancing you to being a pupil or student nurse. The weeks training was very basic making beds, doing toileting and general fetching and carrying duties of equipment but not patients.
Four other girls started with me and we ended up scattered around the hospital. It wasn't long before I heard about the terrible things that they did to pupil and student nurses. I was coming off duty in my third week and found myself in the chaging rooms with two other cadets and a group of pupil and student nurses.
The older 3rd year student nurse asked if we done our penguin walk yet (peguins being the affectionate term used for cadets because of our black, yellow, white, yellow, black stripes on our belts and caps). We all looked puzzled and suddenly the girls circled us. They pointed out that you either fitted in or you where fitted up. We where asked if we wanted to fit in. Well wanting to fit in especially with the pupils and students who it was told could reduce cadets to tears and make sure they found themselves out of nursing before they began. You can be very niave at 16.
Well the penguin walk was explained to us. I wasn't surprised. It was just like at mum's warehouse. So we agreed to the silly little initiation. The three of us slipped our hands up our dresses and caught hold of our tights and began to take them down. Once they where past our bottoms we went back for our panties. Pulling these over our hips and bottom to rest with the top of the nylons still under our dresses. The other two thinking this would sarfice stopped and I followed suit thinking I'd miss understood the instruction. But the older student said, "All the way down". I blushed a bit the other two blushed bright red.
Soon tights and panties where arround ankles and we where lined up one behind the other me in the pole position. The girl behind me had to grab my belt and the other girl hers. The third year said to folow her and she began to walk around the changing room. It was a quite small changing room but it was still a little embrassing panties on show. I had worn sesible white full panties but the girl behind me had worn a black thong. They where the state of art in underwear in 1979. I don't think I'd seen one until that moment. The other girl had a pair of child panties on. White with red spots. Very embarrassing.
The 3rd year started for the changing room door and I began to feel a little sick in the pit of my stomach. One thing being seen by six or seven girls in a changing room another thing being seen outside in corridors.
I protested but was told point blank that I was obviously not cut out to be a nurse and follow orders. Perhaps i should leave. Well at 16 with all my dreams on the line I went along with it like my two colleagues. We went out the door and started along the long corridor. Suddenly a porter appeared down one of the sets of stairs that entered the corridor from the left. He looked and smiled and whistled. I just blushed being lead my panties where clearly on view. He stood and waited for us to walk up to him and passed comment on my two colleagues panties but just accepted mine.
Now others had appeared from various dors including a sister off my word. "Good girl *******, I knew you had leadership qualities and wouldn't let us down. Another porter apeared pushing a troley. He saw us and made a sqawking noise. We cadets where often subject to this parculiar noise the porters believing it to be what penguins sounded likely. Both the birds and us.
Now groups of nurses, a few doctors even came out of various places once some one had shouted 'penguins walking". It was embarassing I was really sweating with the fear, cold clamy skin with a blush overlay. Soon people where cheering us and congratulating us so the fear/embarassment changed to a form of pride and then not enjoyment but okayness.
We where marched around the main block for about 20 minutes before we ended up back in the changing rooms and where hugged and kissed and intrioduced to our tormentors.
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