Your Most Disturbing Realizations

[2jakes]

I was wearing a “faux leather” bomber style jacket that had “some” semblance
to an A2 leather jacket which I had bought at JCP store .
I liked that it was distressed.

Having seen “Flying Tigers” with John Wayne, I wanted to wear a similar
jacket with the CBI patch.

I found a repo CBI patch @ gun show which I
attached to the shoulder of the jacket.
At that age I thought wearing a leather jacket with WW2
patches was cool.

When Tex saw me coming, he smiled & said,
“Son, you got the CBI patch on the wrong shoulder!”

Darn !

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

My father was in CBI during WWII, in a liaison flying unit. 25 years later, I flew from Ft. Lewis, WA to Cam Ranh Bay, RVN, by way of Flying Tiger Airways. Small world.

 

[tonyb]

My father was in CBI during WWII, in a liaison flying unit. 25 years later, I flew from Ft. Lewis, WA to Cam Ranh Bay, RVN, by way of Flying Tiger Airways. Small world.

I worked as a ramp rat for the (since-defunct) Flying Tiger Line at Sea-Tac in the early 1970s. We flew stretched DC-8s exclusively when I started with the company, some of which were the convertible version, which went from freighter to passenger aircraft in an hour or so. It is almost certain that I had at one time or another been on the very same aircraft which transported you to sunny Southeast Asia.

Tiger got 747s about the time my term of employment there came to an end.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

The first Oyster eater was brave, but my real hero is the guy who came back to the village, found the rotten (fermented) Barley Gruel that they left last week when the saber toothed tiger ran them off, AND DRANK IT.

Later y'all

 

[Stearmen]

I am not sure if I know any Korean war veterans, 1950-53. Oddly, only one did I know who openly said he was one, the others, I learned of their service at their funerals! It truly was, The Forgotten War.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

I shot next to a WW2 / Korea Army vet. He won several of the targets shooting a .45 ACP at 25 yards. He was (I think) 93 when he passed.

Later

 

[Trenchfriend]

And I forgot!:
In 2018, the body of the former "MS Stockholm" will be sailing over the ocean for SEVENTY years, woohoo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Astoria

East-Germany still knows her, very well.

 

[MisterCairo]

I remember renting a laser disc player.

Three times.

I had to explain it to my nephews and niece that it was like a record player version of dvd.

I then had to show them a record player...

 

[kaiser]

My wife and I have been mucking out the house lately and we found a box with 8 track tapes in it !

 

[vitanola]

My wife and I have been mucking out the house lately and we found a box with 8 track tapes in it !

I know how you feel. I was setting my phonograph shed in order and found a whole box of mouldy brown wax cylinders!.

 

[tonyb]

I know how you feel. I was setting my phonograph shed in order and found a whole box of mouldy brown wax cylinders!.

My smoke signal blanket turned up the other day!

 

[LizzieMaine]

I ran out of ochre for my cave paintings.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It's disturbing to realize that I've lived in my house for almost eighteen years now and have never bothered to paint the living room ceiling, which is still covered with yellow nicotine filth. At least it keeps the bugs away.

 

[Fading Fast]

^^^ When my dad finally got with the game and quick smoking in the '70s, we repainted and saw how yellowed and stained everything was from his smoking. We cleaned, painted, aired, etc. - no small job, think Spring cleaning on adrenaline - and the house was never fresher / cleaner / nicer. And it stayed so much fresher as, not only did he quit, we no longer let people smoke in the house - that was a big, big improvement.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

The only time my granny breathed air was when she was asleep. Always had a lit fag hanging out of her mouth. Killed her in the end.

 

[tonyb]

^^^ When my dad finally got with the game and quick smoking in the '70s, we repainted and saw how yellowed and stained everything was from his smoking. We cleaned, painted, aired, etc. - no small job, think Spring cleaning on adrenaline - and the house was never fresher / cleaner / nicer. And it stayed so much fresher as, not only did he quit, we no longer let people smoke in the house - that was a big, big improvement.

Some things are so ubiquitous they become almost invisible.

I took up smoking in my early teens, as did untold millions of other fools of my generation. I quit almost 10 years ago.

In this age of smoke-free workplaces and smoke-free public spaces of almost all descriptions, and smoke-free me, the smell of smoke clinging to a person's clothing, hair, etc. is inescapable.

But it wasn't back when I took up the nasty habit, which goes some way toward explaining why the parents and other allegedly responsible adults in our lives didn't know we were smoking by the smell it left behind. (Willful ignorance had something to do with it too, of course.)

 

[LizzieMaine]

If you live next to an open sewer, you won't notice the stink.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Never start smoking cigarettes, rather enjoy Brasil-cigars and the other have to take their nose-clip.

 

[vitanola]

My smoke signal blanket turned up the other day!

I ran out of ochre for my cave paintings.

WELL! It is time put up or shut up. Here are the (now re-boxed) mouldy cylinders that I was so suprised to find the other day: ]x

I want to see pictures of the smoke blanket and the ochre. Much more than that, I want to see pictures of Miss Maine's cave paintings!

 

[LizzieMaine]

It's too dark in the cave -- you just can't get the right grade of mastodon fat for the lamps anymore. But I did write a mysterious three-letter inscription of significance only to the theatre staff in a wet concrete patch in the sidewalk last summer!

I have a few brown wax cylinders in a box upstairs here, none of which are moldy. However, I've got several radio transcriptions in my closet with an advanced case of palmitic-acid deterioration.