YA just have......
to LOVE to have fun, FUN F....U....N!!! Like the time, around noon, the Bos'n came on the bitchbox with an excessively (to me) LOOOOONG trill on the pipe, which I'd heard a time or two, thought was somewhat asinine, but today I just wanted to find out what it was for, since it wasn't accompanied by a voice command. So, I called up to the bridge and asked for the bosun's mate of the watch. He gets on the 'phone & I asked, "Hey Boat's, what was that last pipe"?? He answers like a Dad to a son, "Lunch Call." I came back with, "Why didn't you just say,'CHOW!" "WHO IS THIS??" "You don't know?? NO! You REALLY DON'T KNOW??(real authority, now) NO! "Good! Let's just keep it that way" SLAM went the 'phone on MY end, before he got out more than a splutter. And all my buddies rollin' on the deck.
Or the time we'd been cleaning ALL NIGHT to get ready for port the next morning, I think in Norther Ireland; we were running in some eight footers, & had all the curtains drawn, when all of a sudden we start taking some breaks over the side, because we're running up the troughs, so, I called up the Air Boss & asked for the quartermaster's number, got it & dialed it. (You couldn't get away w/this today, they'd know which phone it was coming from.)
I get the QM on the line & say, "Who the HELL you got up there drivin'?? "WHAT did you say"?? "YOU heard me, you're supposed to put this B**** INTO the waves, not crosswise, now straight'ner up! An' Don't MAKE me come up there'n show you HOW!!" SLAM! went my 'phone again. (Always hang up while you have the advantage of anonimity.) Some in my Division could NOT beLIEVE some of the stuff I pulled. Like how I painted part of the ship when it had just been painted & a different color, too! Without getting caught 'til I was on my way w/new orders. But, That's one I REALLY can't tell right now! Maybe another time, but its wwaaaayyyy too long. SEEya