Blackcloud6
Elder Member
- No Luggage carts? Those Squad Leaders going ashore at Normandy didn't have luggage carts.
- No Coca Cola machines? The Screaming Eagles didn't have Coca Cola machines next to their foxholes at Bastogne.
- Have to go downstairs to use the potty? Well the Leathernecks had to scrape a hole in the jungle, on Guadalcanal, with their e-tools just to "use the facilities."
- Have to line up for chow next to the gaming table? Well at least you don't have to do the "three dip" with your mess kit after eating. Or heat up a C-Rat... Or eat a K-Rat (then the problem just above goes away)
- Construction Dust? Well you're not crawling on your belly through the rubble cradling your PPSh as you grimly approach the next building of Krauts in Stalingrad.
- You have to play on a round table? Better than giving an order to your platoon leaders on the hood of your jeep, in the rain, in New Guinea.
- Registration table in the hallway? You could be trying to get to the TOC in the middle of the night, in the jungle, to get your orders for the next day's attack. In the rain, of course.
- Construction equipment in the way? Well it could be one of those damn tankers trying to squish you in your sleeping bag, again, two nights in a row. (actually almost happened to me , twice!)
- Cleveland? Hell, a vacation spot, it could be Stalingrad, December 1942... and you're German!
It's just another way to look at inconvenience.
- No Coca Cola machines? The Screaming Eagles didn't have Coca Cola machines next to their foxholes at Bastogne.
- Have to go downstairs to use the potty? Well the Leathernecks had to scrape a hole in the jungle, on Guadalcanal, with their e-tools just to "use the facilities."
- Have to line up for chow next to the gaming table? Well at least you don't have to do the "three dip" with your mess kit after eating. Or heat up a C-Rat... Or eat a K-Rat (then the problem just above goes away)
- Construction Dust? Well you're not crawling on your belly through the rubble cradling your PPSh as you grimly approach the next building of Krauts in Stalingrad.
- You have to play on a round table? Better than giving an order to your platoon leaders on the hood of your jeep, in the rain, in New Guinea.
- Registration table in the hallway? You could be trying to get to the TOC in the middle of the night, in the jungle, to get your orders for the next day's attack. In the rain, of course.
- Construction equipment in the way? Well it could be one of those damn tankers trying to squish you in your sleeping bag, again, two nights in a row. (actually almost happened to me , twice!)
- Cleveland? Hell, a vacation spot, it could be Stalingrad, December 1942... and you're German!
It's just another way to look at inconvenience.