Aug 16, 2006 12:15
So I got up early to go to the staff meeting at 10-11 at work. Then i thought, uh oh...is it 10-11 now, or 10-11 at night?...so i figured id better walk down there just in case it was early, i didn't wanna miss it since my boss pretty much already really doesn't seem to like me. And i get there and natasha tells me that its tonight not now, but i work at 3 anyways, so im gonna be there already...but im sposed to get off at 10:30, now i gotta stay till 11...but i made plans for 10:30....aaaaahhhhh.
Reasons I know for sure I live on a military base:
My house area and work area are fenced in with the rest of the base.
Down the street from my work is an F-18 plane on display where there are always tourist people taking pictures (who comes to tour Cold Lake?!?!)
I can hear the cadets drumming and marching and chanting from the school yard across the road from my house, and whenever we drive anywhere we have to stop so they can take forever and ever to march across the road in their dorky little uniforms. and they look like robots. and my dad tries to convince my brother to be one and my brother tells him to get lost.
There are always planes going over at night really loud and low over my house. And the worst part is, which i didnt realize until last week, is that it helps me sleep and ive been almost missing it for five years. How sad.
I can see the plane hangars from my bedroom window.
My house looks exactly the same as every single other house within the fence. The only difference is ours is slowly being eaten by a large yellow weed and noe one else's is. it makes us special.
We got driven in a special car to the change of command ceremony by lots of men in uniform where we all got called "mame" and "sir".
Men in uniform are pretty much the only people who come in at work, and if you piss them off, they pull out their rank. "but you can make me wait, im a MAJOR!". "I don't have to take this, im a Lft. Colonel!" etc.
And here's the best one. When I was walking to work today, two army tanks with fill guns drove by on the road beside me. Ya.
This is not normal. But then again,neither am i. so i guess it all works.