One morning I walked to the Company area from the Senior NCO Billet and the 1SG grabbed me and took me to his office and it was clear he was upset about something. He said “Your wife called last night and left a message, something about a death and she was crying so hard the Staff Duty officer couldn’t make out the whole message. We’ve alerted the MFO Commander in Norway, asking if you could make another call and we have the Red Cross standing by once the emergency is verified.” (My wife was a Sergeant at the time and still at Ft Lewis).
I was freaked out and spent the first half of the day waiting for authorization to call home and the other half trying to get Terri on the phone. I finally got through and she was in tears, crying about “I killed it!” I said calm down and tell me what happened. She said she got home from work the previous day and found a Blue Jay stuck to the grill of the Jeep. I consoled her but kept my end of the conversation cryptic as my 1SG, Commander, and Bn XO were there waiting to whisk me away on Emergency Leave. When I finished the call I told them it was a distant relative that had died in a car wreck but that I didn’t need to go home because my wife had tended to the funeral arrangements.
OMG! LOL
Don’t blame you for being vague at the end.
Oh my goodness, Feckless...what an unnerving story until you finally got to talk to your wife. The relief, what you really wanted to say, but couldn’t, must have gotten you a good laugh...eventually.
Thanks for sharing.