Posted on 09/29/2015 6:52:38 PM PDT by Utilizer
... Early on in my military career, way back when I was a PFC, my Battalion would occasionally have “Fun Runs”. A Fun Run is just like running for several miles. Except that it’s fun. Because people that outrank you say so.
This is pretty much the Army equivalent to declaring “Our office is so much fun! On Friday we get to wear Hawaiian shirts!” It’s awesome if you happen to love Hawaiian shirts, but just kinda sucks if you have taste.
One of the features of the Fun Run was that afterward the Battalion would gather together and hold a pie auction. The point of the pie auction was that if you bought a pie, you could pick any soldier who was present, and hit them with the pie. So as you can imagine, an awful lot of repressed rage got transferred into pie kinetics after these runs. The important thing to know here is that by tradition, the first pie always got thrown at the Battalion Commander.
(Excerpt) Read more at skippyslist.com ...
“Note that I only excerpted from the blog and did not copy-paste the whole thing.”
I did not mean to imply that you had. I only posted the excerpt I posted as a “teaser”, not so much for you since for all I knew you’d already read it, but for others.
No worries. I’ve already read and re-read this one a few times, it’s that hilarious. *snicker*
I love also how the BattCmdr, after his initial “WHAT THE H*** IS THAT?” comment and stunned disbelief finally reacted with remarkable restraint considering the situation presented to him. *laugh*
Thought you might like this one... :)
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