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Whose Deeley Boppers? Fishnet stockings, a scream in the dark, and a pair of deeley boppers left in his bemused grasp - Graham Blowes re-lives that night back in 1981... Tim, Graham's friend was giving a party. Graham, Tim's friend, did the unwise thing of going when he should have gone home to sleep after working long long hours for the last couple of days. Hoping that a pre-party kip would see him through, Tim showed Graham in his sister's rather cold bedroom. Feeling the chill, Graham, all delicacy, didn't want to get into her bed. Instead, he picked up a long (and then trendy) sheepskin coat, covered himself up, and laid down at the bottom of the bed. Three hours later, woken by the insistent thudding bass from downstairs, and the increasing pile of coats on top of him making him rather hot, Graham surfaced. Another noise had hauled him back to the land of the living, "It was coming from the bed," he remembers, "I formed a little hole to look through and saw a pair of shoes, clearly male, a pair of much smaller fish-netted stocking feet and - a pair of deeley boppers." Uneasiness crept over Graham. Was this a courting couple? "From what was going on I got the impression that he wanted to go past first base and she wasn't interested in baseball at all!" he says. "All I could hear was 'Would you please get off!'" Just as an increasingly worried Graham thought he'd have to intervene, the man got to his feet and left. This helped a bit, but not much. "She didn't know I was at the bottom of the bed getting hotter and hotter under the coats," says Graham. "I was a bit worried about her. I could hear her sobbing." Eventually, having run through all other options, Graham stood up and asked her if she was all right. "Her response was dramatic," he remembers. "She emitted a loud scream like a B movie from the 1950s! Then she ran out the door leaving her deeley boppers behind!" Rather worried now that people would think he was to blame for the state the girl was in, Graham ran downstairs to the party clutching the abandoned deeley boppers. Strangley, no-one had seen the girl in the fishnet stockings, or the man, either. The incident clearly haunted Graham. In the late 80s he even went as far as to place an advert in a paper anxious to trace the owner of the deeley boppers and apologise for the fright he gave the girl. "Were you the girl wearing fishnet stockings… " it began, but drew no response. Which is just as well when you think what might have happened. So the deeley boppers slowly gathered dust as Graham's young and foolish past receded. Then true love swept into his life. Earlier this year, on the verge of getting married, Graham decided to throw out some of those things that single chaps keep. Graham explains, "I thought my wife, Helen, might be uspest to have things around connected with my sordid past." Sordid? Anyway, out went the deeley boppers, and presumably, all memory of fishnet stockings.. Helen and Graham now go to dinner parties where such frivolous headgear would be out of place. A pity, really. Eighties accessories are bound to make a comeback soon, and with a healthy price tag attached. Ever overheard something you oughtn't,
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