Originally posted by: NuclearNed
When I was a baby/toddler, my Mom put me in one of those baby walker things. I took it for a ride down a flight of stairs. It scared my parents to death, but the doctor assured them I was ok.
When I was in my early 30's, I had to have an xray taken of my head for TMJ. It was then that I learned that I had a fissure in my skull from where it had been fractured, and that my nose had been broken and not reset.
THAT certainly explains a lot...doesn't it?
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It enhanced your story-telling ability.
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When I was about 8, (early 1960's) my dad was NCOIC over a sheet-metal shop in the USAF. On Saturdays, I used to go hang out with him in the hanger while my mom worked.
One day, I got bored and started wandering around. Somehow, in my "walking behind these crates, through this door, around this fence," I ended up on the flight line next to where the "Chrome-Dome" B-52's were parked. This was about the time of the Cuban missle crisis, and all of those B-52's were carrying nukes... (I had no idea at the time)
As I wandered around checking out all kinds of cool stuff, I came around a corner to come face-to-face with a VERY pissed off Air Patrol security guard and his German Shepard...:Q
Needless to say, once they found out who I was...and who my dad was...the shit hit the fan.
We spent all afternoon in the Base Commander's office...a Brigadier General, who must have been a USMC Drill Instructor in a former life, because he knew how to yell and cuss in ways that ONLY a Marine drill Sargent can...not only at my dad...but at my dad's boss and the base AP security boss. (some mid-grade officer)
Fortunately, my dad didn't lose any rank over it, (although he got yelled at and bitched at by every superior he had in the Air Wing...(SAC wing)
When we were done at the Base Commander's office, the General pulled me aside and thanked me for finding some blatantly obvious holes in his base security. I guess he figured that if a kid could do it...a commie could too.
Of course, the base Air Patrol wasn't too fucking happy with the repercussions that came down after this...and as a result, my dad was constantly getting pulled over by the AP traffic cops for every little detail they could find...or hope to find. :roll:
For me, the really bad part was that I was banned from hanging out on base for a while.