I don’t know what the lunch part means,
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The ‘lunch’ was just a throw in. The reason I spent ANY time around there prior was to keep THEM informed of how their company was doing and apprised what we would be doing..
I just got to the point where I didn’t want to be ‘around’ anyone and ‘invited’ them to ‘my office’ out in the field where the ‘fish were biting’ Guess that will upset a PETA type...<; <: <: .
I am renting from a friend of mine (USMC RET) and before I moved in was talking to his wife and made some kind of statement like “They don’t call it Black Friday for nothing” or something along that line.
She informed me that she had been raised in a Marine household and bases etc, and had heard all the snide racial, sexual etc remarks she could use for a lifetime.
She started to name off a few (to show how worldly?) and when she got to “Irish Pennants”
I jumped in with “Do you mean Irish Penance?” “That is when you are ordered to say a prayer before, during and after drinking”.
She looked me straight in the eye and said “NO!— IRISH PENNANTS”
....I made/make it a point to speak when spoken to in regards to her and never comment on anything.
You Sea Service Types know what ‘Irish Pennants’ are (at least those from ‘my’ era) and I never took it ‘personal’ or figured anything Racial or Ethnic involved.