The day Peach-Girl Flashed me!
By: Juliano Righetto
Tags: TV Shows, Workplace, Human Behavior, Curiosity, Relationships

The day Peach-Girl Flashed me!

What a surreal life I have…

The year 1992 was a sad one for me.

I left Pakalolo, the store I loved, to work at Zoomp, other Brazilian clothes store. The main reason for me to change jobs was the salary — three times higher — because Zoomp was far (I would walk to Pakalolo, to go to Zoomp I needed to take a bus), snobby (I was always comfortable at Pakalolo, at Zoomp I felt like a soldier), and I didn’t have the woman I loved (my ex-girlfriend at Pakalolo, another reason that made me change jobs).

So I wasn’t excited. But that’s okay. I needed to get on with my life.

I went into the vast store, at least five times bigger than Pakalolo’s, and introduced myself to the cashier who would train me. Gunther was his name. He was a tall, thin guy, taller than me and slimmer, too. Gunther, very friendly, acclimated me, introducing the rest of the staff. There were two men and a girl — all very solemn.

Damn! How many men! I missed Pakalolo, full of girls who played volleyball with my poor little heart.

But that’s alright. There I was in my new job, now surrounded by several men and ONE woman. A very, very serious one.

Time passed, and, at lunch, the manager comes in. Two more hours and the afternoon staff arrived. Two girls, not very interesting… “Ok, Juliano… You are here to work, not to find girlfriends!”…

AND THEN SHE ENTERED THE STORE.

It is difficult to describe the third saleswoman, who arrived a little late. She was a beautiful blonde, reminded me a lot of Samantha Fox, a “model/singer” of the eighties:

Looking at the photo now, I think they’re even more similar! Anyway… This girl came into the store knocking everything down. She spoke loudly, played with everyone, charging the air with electricity. I was fascinated, of course… After all, that store was so still and discouraging, that figure just made me think that everything I expected was concentrated in one person.

They introduced the girl to me, she smiled (which didn’t give me hope because she was friendly and smiled at everyone) and went upstairs to change and start working.

“Did you recognize her?” Gunther asked me as I watched her go up the stairs to the store’s stock.

“No… Should I?”

Gunther laughed: “Not necessarily … But later on, you will recognize her!”

I didn’t understand what he meant by that and went back to work. The girl came down wearing store clothes and started to work. I tried to pay attention to what Gunther taught me, but it wasn’t easy. That girl was a “black hole” of attention; you couldn’t look at anything else; my eyes were always hooked by that pair of emeralds that she had on her face.

Gunther had lost his cashier partner for the night — I was replacing him — worked until the store closed at ten o’clock, just like me. It was the deal for the first week. We were exhausted… But finally, the store was closed, and we started to pack up the cashier to leave. The Samantha Fox look-alike went upstairs, along with the other salespeople.

And it was then that I finally understood why Gunther kept asking me if I had recognized the girl or not.

Our store had a closed stock. There were two gaps on the sides where stockists could throw clothes. It was like two “balconies.” They were visible to anyone inside the store, but they were right in the back, so whoever was outside couldn’t see anyone in one of them.

I was focused on something Gunther had said to me, going through a drawer… When I hear the voice of Samantha Fox’s double:

“Guuuuuuunther …”

I looked at the balcony where she was. And I saw something like this:

Source: Youtube

Yes, that beautiful girl, who lit up the entire store and attracted all eyes since she arrived… FLASHED US!

Okay, she flashed Gunther… But of course, she wanted me to see “them” too.

The girl lowered her shirt laughing, and went to change. And I stood there, feeling the tip of my shoe with my chin. Gunther laughed and asked again:

“Have you recognized her now?”

I, increasingly confused, just replied, “Nooooooooooo… And I have no idea what are you talking about!”

And then he explained to me that the girl was from a wealthy family from São Paulo. But she was rebellious. She fought with her parents and left their house. She went to work at Zoomp to make a living, but she was used to luxury. She needed to earn more. So she started working, too, on a TV program at the time called “Cocktail” — anyone from Brazil who is my age would understand everything by now. This program was silly, many pretty girls wearing tiny costumes making musical numbers and participating in “games,” which were just an excuse for them to…

Flash their breasts.

You can see one of these programs in this Youtube video (with blurry images and spoken in Portuguese, unfortunately):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lkR_oeE8_A

Well, friends… On the first day of my new job, I found out that I worked with the “Cocktail’s Peach-Girl”!