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To: TomGuy
Some years ago I was visiting San Diego. One night I had a hankering for a foot long ham and cheese sandwich from Subway. So I got in my car (along with my miniature dachshund who spent the entire journey across America riding in my lap) and asked my iPhone "hey Siri, where is Subway?"

Siri returned four or five locations. Including one that had four stars. Something I never heard of a fast food joint having before. I thought "good deal!" So that's where I headed off too.

Well, what I couldn't have known was that the four-star Subway was on the grounds of the U.S. Navy hospital. I got to the front gate, saw that this isn't where I needed to be and started turning around.

IMMEDIATELY armed shore patrol guards came running out of nowhere and surrounded my car. One of them knocked on my window and I rolled it down. He told me that there's no turnaround like I had attempted to do. I meekly told him that I was just trying to get to the Subway that my phone had given me directions to. He demanded my driver's license and walked away and for the next ten minutes I was just sitting there in my Camry.

The guard finally came back and gave me my license and sternly directed me to leave. I guess a guy three thousand miles from North Carolina with a dachshund in his lap wasn't deemed much of a threat to security LOL

12 posted on 09/19/2026 9:48:59 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: Ciaphas Cain

You or your vehicle almost had to match someone/thing that they were looking for. I worked on bases with plenty of nukes and some advanced tech but if a civilian drove up to the gate, which happened quite often, the guard would just say, “No, go away.”


38 posted on 09/20/2026 1:19:49 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (It puts the needle in its skin or it gets the mask again.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Once when I was visiting Ohio, I asked Apple Maps for directions to a Post Office. Several were offered up, and I selected the Post Office with the shortest drive time. An error that several Air Police corrected with an attitude that stopped just short of overt hostility.


39 posted on 09/20/2026 1:27:03 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Yes, but did you have a fully automatic assault doxie?

They are known to go off every once in a while.


40 posted on 09/20/2026 1:42:23 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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