In the long tradition stretching all the way back to the old place and the famous "hug" thread (anyone remember that one?) I'd like to tell you a story about the mess I find myself in, having only been in Italy for less than a week. That said, if I were to actually tell you the story in customary James fashion, we might be here all day and I would need to buy many more birre medie to actually finish it. So here, in a rare case, the highlights:

Arrive in hotel after 29 hour drive last Tuesday afternoon.
By the evening meet 40 other people here to work on Lakes Garda, Como and Maggiore, I already know perhaps 10 of them.
There are many interesting (and a lot more not so) young ladies.
I ask (and fully expect after guarantees made to me during the winter) to be placed in a team with a manager a know and respect.
I get given a town I don't want, with a manager I don't know and has a reputation as a bit of a "wild one".
I am pissed off for two days.
I form a friendship with, and subsequently begin flirting with a girl who it turns out is shipping out to Lake Como.
Her best friend is a (verified by most in attendence) slut after having worked a winter as a chalet host.
She ships out and continues to flirt with me via text to this day.
I quite like her, but she's like 24 and this is getting to be something of a destructive pattern for me </psychcological observation>
I arrive in said town and it turns out to be rather nice.
My new team are all relatively ok people.
One Scottish one is a little too prudish and polite for my liking. She appears to not like my character (this persists).
I form a friendship with a girl in my team who is 20, but seemingly experienced in life.
She's a bit weird like me.
My boss decides to tell the rest of my team that she is into me, but keeps me in the dark.
We go out as a team and she gets drunk and is a TOTAL mess. Trys to hang off me unsuccesfully, but won't actually say anything.
Awkward.
More awkward.
The 20yr old goes out last night with a few of the team, I go to bed to get some must needed rest and too avoid the boss.
She calls me at 0030 and tells me to answer the door.
She is standing there in just a long skirt with 34Cs in my face.
She tells me that my roomate (24yr old kid who looks like he belongs on X Factor) is in her bed upstairs (we all live in the same building) and she has shagged him after feeling pressured into it by the rest of the group.
But it wasn't very good.
And she regrets it.
And she likes me
I [LIFTED] hate repping. What a bunch of incestous bastards.
I send her away and go back to sleep (I'm exhausted and not ready for my first guests who arrive Wednesday).
This morning, everyone knows about her and my roomie. But she tells her roomie that she came down to see me after and my roomie overhears this.
More awkward.
Have a team meeting in two hours and can't wait.

Comments, questions and thoughts welcome....

Well your were a gentleman in turing her away but if she is a bit of a slapper this might be the 1st time someone has said no and been "nice" to her so she may only get more interested in you (or call you a gay Barsteward)

Overall an "interesting" start to your new job

Sounds like a script for a whole TV series.

Yes. "Skins".

I would've thought Fresh Meat would be more appropriate.

Well done for being a gentleman and sending her away. I'm not going to tell you what to do but whatever you do:

1. Have fun
2. Be safe
3. Remember you have to live with these people for a while

Actually in re-reading this I think she might have been looking for a bit of sympathy / a bolt hole.

I can’t remember how old you are but following a drunken shag (which she regrets) she maybe didn’t want to wake up with said “kid”

OK turning up topless is a bit of a mixed message but she was probably still pissed

So unless said kid has declared undying love for her and wants to challenge you to a dual he will be far more interested in getting off with the 1st good looking tourist he can

So if I was you ignore the gossip, have fun and if she is nice and you get on then all well and good otherwise it’s a regular download of the NSFW thread

Sounds like the was drunk off her face, so I also think you did the right thing.

To me it doesn't sound like a story about girls but a story about repping. From the tales of a few of my colleagues who rep over the winter and some people who go to grads skiing events, it seems to be normal business :S

Seems normal to me for anyone that's young. It's not something just reps do

Up until recently I worked for a tour operator. There is little to do other than in some people's words: "pass yourself around like currency"

Really? I'm pretty sure I never had a girl turn up at my door with her tits out.

Neither have I. What I wonder is how Ken knows the exact size of them boobees?

It's a skill we blokes learn .

Practice makes perfect.


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Ken?

Mark

It's to do with his nickname, Tim.


also: yeah, sounds about right for repping, it's for people who want to live in the short-term and are young enough for that not to get depressing, you may be growing out of it.