# Anne Bancroft appreciation: who had a "Mrs. Robinson"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 8, 2005, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437 "2005-06-08T11:43:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437/21 "2005-06-09T04:34:50Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > BTW, any of you ladies done the Mrs. Robinson thing yourselves? Not yet, but just yesterday I was telling a friend that I start humming “Mrs. Robinson” whenever I see one particular summer intern at work … oh, the things I’d like to do to that poor, unsuspecting young man… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437/22 "2005-06-09T07:35:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Want a realistic look at teenage life in the 50’s, forget Leave it to Beaver. Check out Blackboard Jungle. That’s it in a nutshell. I wish I’d said it. As to the OP, I was 19 and she was 32. We were both taking a night course in accounting and she asked me for a ride home. I remember her with a lot of fondness and I hope she is doing well today. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437/23 "2005-06-09T11:03:08Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Not yet, but just yesterday I was telling a friend that I start humming “Mrs. Robinson” whenever I see one particular summer intern at work … oh, the things I’d like to do to that poor, unsuspecting young man… 😃 I bet he’d be into it. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437/24 "2005-06-09T11:18:11Z")
I was 24, she was 36, and a lecturer at my university: we lived together for two years before I finally figured that she was crazier than a shithouse rat, but I learnt a _lot_ in those two years. I don’t remember her particularly fondly {well, sometimes: she was cool when she was sane, sober and off the drugs}, but I don’t regret it one bit. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437/25 "2005-06-09T12:57:08Z")
I was 25, she was 35. She was great; and after a while when she decided that she needed a prospective husband instead of a boy-toy, she let me down easy. What a classy gal. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437/26 "2005-06-09T13:00:26Z")
Yep, I was 20 and she was 36. I’d only been with one person previous to her, so she taught me basically everything I know. Two former girlfriends and my wife have told me that should I ever run into her again, I am immediately to thank her on their behalfs. So I gather she was a good teacher. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437/27 "2005-06-13T21:49:42Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > I bet he’d be into it. Maybe … _after_ he stopped screaming in terror. 😉 I had a “Mr. Robinson” experience, myself, that I forgot to share before: I was about 23, Patrick was 38. It was the first purely physical relationship I ever had, it lasted for several months, and I learned a _lot_. Similar to **Dante** ’s story, whenever I get compliments on certain, um, “things” I always tell the guy that he has Patrick to thank. 😃 (He had the best thighs I’ve ever encountered in real life … sigh…) ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437/28 "2005-06-13T22:04:26Z")
Sigh, I promised myself I’d never participate in one of _these_ threads, but . . . Pretty close to **The Gratuate** , actually. There I was at 23, a college graduate for all of six months, at loose ends, and not having a clue about what I wanted to do with myself. I’d broken up with a long-time girlfriend not too long before and was feeling pretty weird . . . and horny. My Mrs. Robinson was 45 years old, and she was an artist. Though never married, she had a son about my age (whom I never met). We kept it platonic for a couple of months and then screwed like epileptic bunnies for one night. It was pretty cool, but that was the only time we did that. We remained friends for a while, but we realized we were drifting apart. A few months after that, I shipped out for basic training and never heard from her again. Ah well . . . That’s casual sex for you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anne-bancroft-appreciation-who-had-a-mrs-robinson/307437.md?page=1)