In 1957 while at school at the age of ten, a girl I knew who sat just in front of me wore a green rubber-lined mac. Even at that age I envied her.
Later around the same time my mother owned a brown rubber-lined mac and I would love wrapping myself in it and enjoying the aroma it gave off. I ended up playing with it in the garden. It was a long time before I related the feel and smell of rubber to more serious matters...
Later still, about 1962, a girl in the year below me at secondary school wore a red plaid red rubber-lined mac. She wore it for at least two years during the wet weather, and I fell in love with her from a distance.
I never dated her.
I would have found it difficult to control my emotions.
Eric
