Latest update January 20th, 2025 4:00 AM
A human trafficker back then?
Dear Editor,
Reading about “people trafficking” takes me back to 1950 in my first B.G. civil service job, at around age 20.
Every day on the way back from lunch just before 1.00 pm, a mature man on a bicycle, always wearing dark glasses, a cream suit and what was then known as a Panama hat, would join me to say ‘hello’. I never minded, as the environment with several lawyers’ offices was predominantly male, and I thought he was ‘one of the crowd’.
Then one day just before my turning-off point, he offered to accompany me up the stairs, while I locked my handbag in a cupboard and have an ice cream soda with him at the nearby ‘Brown Betty’ soda fountain.
I just had lunch, so I was not hungry and had no intention of complying. But how to ‘escape’, since every colleague would be at lunch and few people would be around? By chance, the clerk I was sharing space with was about to leave for a late lunch. I told him about the man waiting outside and his request, he went to have a look – the man had disappeared. I never saw him again. I sometimes wonder even now whether he was a ‘trader in people’.
I am a firm believer in ‘invisible guardians’ looking out for us. May we all be helped by ours in 2018.
Geralda D.
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