Stupid huh? oh, I got stupid for ya....
Im on MECEP duty and have been for the past 3.5 years. This means I remain on active duty, but attend college year-round. In exchange, I teach drill, marksmanship, and lead OCS prep for the NROTC guys near here.
I have watched entire drill competitions take place with the platoon at trail arms (m14) because the "plt cmdr" forgot to put them at port.
I have seen people get administratively seperated because they thought it would be a great idea to have sex. in the unit. during the day. IN THE CO'S OFFICE!
I have seen females show up to unit functions and drill periods wearing 2 piece bikinis bc "it was hot"
For one of the OCS prep session (read 2 hr pt hazing) one of the guys thought log pt would be great. I agreed. Rather than arrange the use of a gvt vehicle to take the log down to the beach, he made other plans. I was told the morning of the session, he had it all handled. So I assume he has already loaded the log and gotten the permission to use the van. I load all the participants into my van and pull out to the street to wait for him. I see him come around the corner, in his civilian vehicle, (a buick sedan), with the log sticking out the passenger window. And a younger midshipman holding on to it to stabilize it.
The next ones are unrelated but hilarious. At the first baseball game I ever took my wife to, in the 3rd inning she turns to me after complete silence (I know, I was amazed as well) and points to the batter. "Didnt he already get a turn to go?" she says.
Later that same game, after a pop fly that was an easy out, she turns to me and says, "If they hit the ball so hard it rips into a few pieces, do they have to catch all the pieces for it to be an out?"
The topper: My wife drives a VW bug, which I hate with the depths of my soul. It has a slight hesitation in the gears, and we have known this for quite a while, but its a good daytoday drive to work car for her until we buy a family vehicle and a bunch of kiddie seats. She tells me one day "Oh babe, I forgot last week but my engine light came on. Since we just got paid do you mind taking it down to have someone look at it please?? The knocking and weird noises have gotten really bad, and sometimes when I give it gas or just going down the road its like im in neutral." It was sunday afternoon before a holiday monday so the car had to wait until tuesday. BTW yes I attempted to explain to her why you cant just drive a car when the engine light comes on. I failed to get through. My car was in the shop for a few things so we had to resort to taking hers to dinner that evening, I figured I would use the opportunity to see how bad her vehicle had gotten. When she starts it up I notice the medley of colorful lights that pop up on her dash. I groan. The place we are going is about 3 or 4 miles down the road, nothing big, so i tell her go on. We get halfway there and the car beeps and a new set of lights pop up, including the temp and oil lights. She says, "see if you can have them fix that? I got the oil changed 700 miles ago so it doesnt need anything, dont know why that keeps coming on." OMG! After I stop screaming and hyperventilating 15 minutes later we are there. I go eat, still trying to explain the basics of proper car maintenance. When we come out I tell her to pop the hood so I can check her oil, and other fluids. I had to check 4 times because I was so confused. There wasnt anything to check. Nothing. Her car had NO OIL, not a drop on the stick, nothing. NONE! I lost my mind. I asked her if the light had come on when the problems with her car had started to worsen, she says, "NO, its been on for THREE WEEKS! Basically since I left the place to get it changed."
I think time stopped for a while. I did an immediate oil change in the parking lot (Thank god auto zone was right across the street and I am anal about having tools and stuff in my vehicles). I try to be angry but I cant because of the absurdity of it all. I cant really even comprehend the level of stupidity to be honest. The individual steps that led to me sitting there in a parking lot changing my wife's oil. Then it hits me. Those morons she took her car to NEVER REFILLED IT WITH OIL. They drained it, plugged it, then sent her on her way. And she drove like that for nearly a month.