Meet Me at Gate Two!

Now how could you get mad at such a good looking sailor?
(even though he had left once to join the Marines, well he also left to join the Airforce, at least this time it was sensible, he had joind the Navy)

It was one of those times I took off and left Sherry behind, this time I had joined the Navy. I had been gone a few weeks and I knew I had a weekend liberty coming, so at the end of the conversation on the phone she had agreed to come up on Saturday morning. WE would spend the day talking in a motel room go out and eat and come back and talk some more. Sounded like a great weekend liberty. This time she was driving, it was usually me going to her. My last words were “Don't forget, Meet me at Gate two”.

The rest of the week I could hardly wait for Saturday. WOW, what a day that was going to be. WE had agreed to ten o’clock (I think). Saturday morning 0900, I stood outside Gate two NOB (Naval Operating Base) Norfolk. I was in Dress canvas, shoes shined and Dixie cup sitting on my head in a rake. Man I was cooler than the other 100,000 sailors around. I was salty, a hash mark seaman (Naval expression). LOL 1000 hrs. no Sherry, No problem traffic etc. 1030 hrs. no Sherry. What is happening? No way to contact anyone, she is transient, I am standing outside. Afraid to leave wanting to call NC to see if they had heard anything, but did not want to upset anyone there. Where could she be? 1100 hrs, 1130 hrs., I think it was around 1200, She drove up!

NO HUG, NO KISS, NO KISS MY___! JUST A DIRTY LOOK!

“SAILOR!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY GATE TWO’S THERE ARE IN THIS TOWN?” says irate sailor’s wife.

“NO MA’M BUT I ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW?” says a very unnerved military man.

“WELL FOR YOU INFORMATION, AND THANKS TO THE SHORE PATROL, I NOW KNOW, THERE ARE AT LEAST TEN, AND I HAVE BEEN SITTING AT ONE OF THEM at A BASE CALLED ’LITTLE CREEK’, FOR THE PAST THREE HOURS WAITING FOR YOU, I COULD HAVE had a CHIEF OR THE COMMANDER THAT STOPPED TO TALK AND FLIRT, BUT NO, I KEPT WAITING UNTIL THE Shore patrol suggested you might be here! SO I CAME OVER HERE TO FIND YOU!”

She was so frustrated I had to perform the "Hind-Lick Maneuver" on her!

Well it was all very unfortunate. But the girl really DOES love me. WE finally did get to talk! (I think). LOL

Nite Shipslog

PS:
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.

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A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house. She slammed the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, 'Honey, pack your bags. I won the lottery!' The husband said, 'Oh my God! What should I pack, beach stuff or mountain stuff?' 'Doesn't matter,' she said. 'Just get out.'