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I can only bet that your Dad was highly impressed.
Every time I do anything controversial and my wife is around she is always quick to pay me a compliment so I dont feel embarrassed.
Usually along the lines of "Thank God your cute 'cause you sure arent bright". Is'nt she sweet?
Bet your folkes were thinking somthing complimentary too. :)
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oh - my parents did NOT think it was funny, well at least until I read my account of this to my mother this morning, and then she laughed hardy seeing both sides. my father, well, he's still not smiling at all...
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That brings back a old memory of my first Army National Guard Annual Training (AT) I was a lowly PFC with the 1/108th ACR at Camp Shelby, MS. Thinking they had placed me where I could do no harm being a few months back from Basic and AIT I was stationed well in the rear of the action during the FTX. Adjacent my post was a squad tent with ammo in the back and officers cots in the front of the tent. Someone without thinking or giving me any instruction gave me 3 aerial flares and told he how but not when to fire them. The first two I fired off at random moments without incident. The problem was to end at 2400 hr. so around 2345 I figured if I didn't fire the last one they would come and take it in the morning, so I fired it. It hit a tree limb, richocted into the tent with the officers, cots and ammo. Once in the tent the flare lit, it really lights up a tent. Chinese fire drill is probably a good descriptions for what those young LT.'s did exiting the tent.
It was a don't ask don't tell incident; no one ask me and I told no one who shot the flare. No one was hurt but it was pretty funny at the time hunkered under a tall pine tree in south Mississippi.
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awe Jesse that is a great story I'm glad you shared... the ways this incident make me laugh seem to be limitless!