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Too Soon?

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  1. So anyway,I’m driving down the road and see this guy hitch hiking from a wheelchair. He’s on the other side but no one’s stopping. Later in the day I see him farther down the road so I pull over and help him get his stuff in the Jeep and we head out.

    This guy’s a vet, homeless etc etc and he’s headed to Flagstaff. He’s also a low talker. Like, really low. He’s mumbling along and I figure he’s mumbling out his life story.

    After about 10 minutes of this, I figure out what he’s mumbling about. It’s not his life story….. it’s this really long and complicated recipe for baked potatoes.

    That’s all cool by me until he gets to the part about adding butter pickles on top. Seriously? Butter pickles? On a baked potato? Now, I don’t know about the rest of you but a man has his limits.

    Long story short, if you see some vet in a wheelchair along the 40 headed to Flagstaff, please pick him up. It gets cold up there at night.

  2. I did give you a straight answer. The same answer I’ve been giving sine 99.

    I did two years as a private contractor in south east asia.

    Very little paperwork and I got to go into town for Jolibees and a hotel room every night.

  3. I worked for a company that was hired by The Company. Most of th….fudge, everyone but me had prior military experience. I got the gig due to family connections and possibly due to the fact that I needed to be out of the country for a period due to some thuggish life decisions I had made.

  4. Aaron
    Fascinating, I got hear this story. Be there in a couple weeks, I’ll fix that damn hinge.

    There’s a somewhat local Gun store that’s actually a front for contractors. They suck civilians into joining and ship them out. Luckily they are usually mixed with some experienced guys. The experienced guys are the one bitching the most. I can understand why.

  5. Hell, I’m not a vet either, but I sure wish I could say otherwise. Counting myself, 5 bros in the family and only two have the distinction of having proudly served. One in the Marines the other in the Army.
    Their pride of serving is omnipresent while being tempered with restraint.
    It’s undeniable what a tour of duty can do for the makeup of one’s personality.
    Damn, I think I’m way off topic.

  6. Things I admire about combat vets.
    #1 Combat vets see no skin color. It’s fucking true. when your shitting your pants because your convinced you’re going to die the guy next to you is your brother. Even if the MoFo is Pink.
    #2 Back home Vets stick together. See #1.
    #3 Vets are conservatives. All of them. See #1.
    #4 Vets are great businessmen. Not afraid to take risks. Hell, they’ve been shot at, how much worse can it get.
    #5 Vets have a sick sense of humor, which I enjoy.

  7. I ordered new hinges. Bam. 150 bucks. Why? Cuz Ford restoration is not for broke ass mo-fo’s.

    Anyway, not much to tell. Except this one story. I can tell it because I’ve already told it and no one believes me anyway so it’s safe.

    So I’m sitting in the office when the phone rings. Boss picks it up. Then he snaps his fingers at me and jots down a name. So I take the name and go over to the file cabinet. I pull out this skirts file and give it to the boss.

    Now, he starts shredding her file while telling me he just got off the phone with the State department who called my boss to tell him that one of his employees died in Israel.

    Turns out it was ruled a suicide. Which is routine in Israel if you’re found inside a car trunk shot 13 times from the outside.

    Talk about rude.

    So the next week I pack a boyscout shirt with my regular gear. We all wore them while we trained the Philippine military to do whatever it is that they do.

    The very next day. WSJ headline, “ISRAEL TRAINS PHILIPPINE ARMY” International incident and a yuge embarrassment for the Red Sea Pedestrians until they sorted it all out.

    Man we laughed and laughed.

  8. Israel is a tough place for contractors. They hire a shit load of US contractors. Problem is they’re rather Jewish with their 556 ammo. So you get over there and after you’ve used the ammo you’ve brought with you, NADA. I’ve built probably 50 7.62 by 39 AR 15 uppers for guys going over there. Plenty of that shit laying on the ground.

  9. @Bad_Brad (at 12:15 am): Thing #2 is the only reason I voted for McCain (I regretted it later when I found out more about him). Well…that and Barack Osama.

    McStain violated thing #3, though. Big time, IMHO.

    I’m living proof of thing #5. Of course, I was that way from the get-go, but the military only intensified it.

    One thing I can say is, being shot at focuses the mind like nothing else can. Not that I recommend it, of course.

    😉

  10. You want to hear about my movie work? Well, I did a Golden Grahams commercial as a kid and went to H.S. with Cuba Gooding Jr.

    Other than that I just wrote some junk and got to be an extra in a bunch of movies. Most filmed in S.F but a few in L.A. and Mesiko.

  11. I TOTALLY burst out laughing when I saw the pic 😛

    I don’t think it’s too soon at all. I think he’d be laughing about it himself.

    I managed to make it through four years in the Navy and not a single tattoo.

  12. the kweeron left out two words. It was supposed to read 72 “year old” virgin

    I didnt serve, but from what i see of those that did, i wish dearly that i could have. My draft number was 289 (associated that number with a small block ford V8, explains why i love fords). My buddies joined the AF and i wanted to go with, but they wouldnt take a one eyed and weak kneed 19 year old.

    @AaronBurr, restoring anything is a project of love, but the effort it takes to rebuild any vehicle that is not a popular like mustang, camaro, chevelle etc makes it extra work. Do you machine any of your parts?

  13. Yes. 72 raisins. It lacked appeal, so they made it ‘virgins’. Because even those ree-rees won’t martyr themselves for no damn raisins.
    But then, think how mad they will be when they get to their afterlives and discover the virgins are FEMALE.

  14. I doubt very much that hef EVER had a virgin or even a lady. A pretty face doesn’t count for much unless your just into cheap sex. I’d take one classy lady over a dozen bunnies any day.

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