BarryBobPosthole
08-25-2014, 01:53 PM
I was at Lowe's this weekend picking up some odds and ends and at the register we had one of those deals where a a guy and his wife and me all got to the shortest line at the register at the same time. He told me to go first and I said no, please go ahead the world is in too much of a hurry anyway blah blah blah. So while we're waiting we strike up a conversation (as anyone who knows me knows I do with just about anybody) and I notice he's wearing a navy cap with a ship on it and some nonsense number squids assign to their stuff that I can never understand and he tells me that he and his wife both just retired from the Navy. We talk further and come to find out both of them were Navy tech controllers (I was an Air Force tech controller)! Anyway, we all shook hands and I thanked them both for their service and it was all smiles when we all left Lowes.
Then I got in my truck and it dawned on my that I knew BOTH of them from somewhere and it was crazy of me not to ask where. but if they'd been in the Navy and just retired how could that be? Its been bugging me ever since. I KNOW I know these people from somewhere. Or maybe my brain is just finally burnt completely out. But I can picture both of their faces.
Strange. Maybe I'll bump into them again.
The guy told me to have a plan for what I wanted to do with my time when I retired. He said he didn't and it about drove him crazy for a year or two.
BKB
Then I got in my truck and it dawned on my that I knew BOTH of them from somewhere and it was crazy of me not to ask where. but if they'd been in the Navy and just retired how could that be? Its been bugging me ever since. I KNOW I know these people from somewhere. Or maybe my brain is just finally burnt completely out. But I can picture both of their faces.
Strange. Maybe I'll bump into them again.
The guy told me to have a plan for what I wanted to do with my time when I retired. He said he didn't and it about drove him crazy for a year or two.
BKB