ENGINEERS WIFE said:
Out of the mouths of babes, I mean civvies
I don't care who ya are that's FUNNY!!!!!!
RHFC_piper I'll be your friend and I promise NEVER to shoot at you ;D
At least I know I have one friend who won't shoot at me...
Her comment just reminded me of the kind of stuff my mom would say to me after I got in a fight in grade school: "If those boys are trying to beat you up, they're not your friends."
Really? You don't say. I figure I'd just break the jaws of all my good friends... you know, just so they know where we stand.
ENGINEERS WIFE said:
Last year while my husband was in the sandbox one of my coworkers asked about Christmas and what my plans were. As it was our first Christmas apart I told her not much because he was overseas in Afghanistan. She looked at me and very innocently asked "Oh is he over there visiting family?" I looked at her in disbelief "Not really, he's in the army, he's over there because there's a war!" She just looked at me like I had a toaster on my head. "Oh" was all she could say. I still laugh and shake my head
Heh... Every once in a while, I'm asked to go to a school and speak about Afghanistan. Most kids and teachers have a fairly firm grasp on world events... at least knowledge of where bad things are happening, less the details..
I actually had a teacher (not the host class teacher, but another teacher from the school), ask me why I was in Afghanistan, but not in the way I was expecting... She had come in late to the presentation, during the question period and missed the explanation. All she heard was questions about my experience there, and with kids being kids, they asked more about my injuries than anything. She seemed a little confused... and this is what she said after the bell rang, the kids started leaving and it was just her, the host class teacher, the principal and Vice Principal (who sat in for the whole thing).
"That must have made your vacation just horrible... I mean, I've lost luggage on a trip, but I couldn't imagine getting shot."
Keep in mind, I was in uniform.
I swear, I could hear the record needle scratch across the record as the music came to a abrupt stop (metaphorically speaking)... and you could hear the crickets as the rest of us just looked at her blankly.
The host teacher tried to sort it out; "You know the Canadian military is fighting over there, right?"
The confused teacher looked at us probably the same way your coworker looked at you; "Fighting what? Who are they fighting?"
This is one of those days where I had to bite my tongue and walk away... The rest of them stuck around to discuss the obvious... I made my way home for a stiff drink.
