As in life, nothing in the limo game ever works the way you think it will. Take last Monday night. The Boss rang me in the late afternoon, inquiring as to whether I wanted to do a late-night limousine run (as opposed to an airport collection.) This type of job pays better: the bigger car pays more, the pay is hourly rather than flat, and drinking customers usually means a bigger tip.
Okay, I said, I'll do it.
Then the bad news.
It's a bunch of young guys taking an Army buddy out before he goes back to the Middle East. Starting at 11:00 pm. With a pickup at a nearby mall.
Shit. Sounds dodgy to me. Best take the .38.
It's also likely to mean a BIG mess, BIG drunkenness, BIG male behaviour.
The only part that came to pass was the BIG drunkenness. The guys were vastly amusing, very polite and friendly to me, and made my life as easy as possible.
Yet another case of my expectations being wrong.
The guy going back for another tour in Iraq was in uniform, and the way in which he was received everywhere he went was fan.tastic. People at the casino wanted his photograph. Women practically humped him in the street. Men bought him drinks. And at the strip club...
...but that's another story.
7 comments:
a good send off...i wish him safe travels.
(strip club stories are basically all the same, minor variations, but pretty much uninspiring...)
unless, of course, you have he exception to the rule, sugar!
xoxo
Another book and cover moment.
It's actually kind of cool to hear a story about young guys not being obnoxious as per the stereotype.
Is the strip club story in the works?
Actually, I find American military men to be quite well behaved in my limited experience. Hence why I like them.
I likey this story. Warms my heart it does.
I agree with lakota. This is a very fine story. With all the shit going on around us, this makes me a little prouder to be an American.
Thanks for sharing that, Wombat.
Sugar, I agree with you that strip club stories are all the same. However, the spin one puts on them can turn a sow's ear into a silk thong.
Girl, I thought the same about the guys too. Stereotypes are more fun when brought down.
You want a strip-club story? You get a strip-club story.
VI, you're just a sucker for a well-spoken man in a uniform. I think you like them naughty rather than well-behaved though, no?
Lakota, glad you liked it.
You're welcome, NiteByrd. It is an all around good tale.
That's it, I'm joining the army. If not for the glory, then maybe just for the fun of taking lives. But joining the Australian army would most likely land me into East Timor.
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