Women of reddit, what questions for men have you always wanted to ask but would normally be socially unacceptable?

This is an old story but a true one....Years ago I took a job in a manufacturing plant during my college summer break. It was seriously industrial. We had 50-ton stamping machines, we had welders working and guys grinding down the welds with sparks flying everwhere, and we did porcelain enameling (think washing machine tops) and the baking furnaces made it hot as Hell. It was a sort of low grade hell really, with the roar and thump of the machines, the heat, the streams of sparks, and the stink of hot oil.

So one afternoon we are all sweating and filthy and deaf and it's (as always) 110 degrees in the shop, and suddenly the door from the offices opens and this beautiful secretary of perhaps 22 in the lightest and most delicate of cool! cool summer dresses starts across the shop floor with some papers to take to some offices at the other end of the shop.

She was so cool, and fresh, and clean, and beautiful, and we were such stinking, sweating filthy beasts. It as if coal miners 3 days in the mine and 3,000 feet down saw a fairy princess. The place literally went silent except for the roar of the furnaces. The stamping machines all stopped. The welders all stopped . The whine of the grinders and the hiss of their sparks all stopped. We looked at her.

Suddenly there was a roar of men's voices, and whistles, and catcalls, and she ignored us all, except for the tiniest of smiles. She look straight ahead and just strode elegantly with long steps across the filthy floor in her heels. The foreman of the shop followed her on an electric forklift and tried to pick up the back of her skirt with the forks of the lift. She knew all this was happening and ignored it like the princess she was. It didn't bother her. She understood how different (and how magical?) she appeared to us filthy beasts. Then without so much as a backwards glance she reached the door at the other end of the shop. There was silence for a moment, and the foreman said, "Well, don't just stand there with your thumbs up your asses - get to work! and it was over. I never saw her again, but I'll never forget her.

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