Do you Make you bed?

This is my boot camp graduation picture. So I did graduate from something. I am the one in uniform, I also held the position of High shooter. I am 8th from the left front row. I told mama it was because I was important, but they put the smallest guys up front.

I remember when making up a bed was a terrible chore. Now it is not so bad, with the heavy bed spreads that fit. Now days some folks do not make their beds. I know Paula in Texas does because she spilled the beans once on her blog. We normally do here. But the last two days have been an exception, I have been in and out it. It is nice to be able to do that. I am not what you call really sick, just washed out as my mama used to say, what ever that means.
Now in the USMC especially, there is a rule. You make your rack (bed) first thing. Top or bottom bunks were no big deal, just time consuming. And when I tried you could bounce a silver dollar on mine. AT Camp Geiger we marched to chow every meal and ‘straggled back to the barracks’. The last thing the sergeant would do in the mornings was tour the barracks, then call us to attention and march us to chow. Once I decided to change the Corps policy. I did not make my rack. After the Sgt. Called the Co. to attention he announced, “Darnell, fall out!”
I said, “What’s the problem Sergeant?”
“You did not make your rack.”
“I’ll just mess it up again tonight.”
“Yeah boy, and If I let you go eat, you will just get hungry again.”
They marched off without me. If you try hard you can understand Marine Corps logic.

Sometimes I still wonder why I stayed an E-3 for eight years. Oh well, sometimes I am hard to understand. LOL
Well it is off to bed again.
Nite Shipslog
PS:

Will Rogers died in a plane crash, with his friend Wylie Post, in 1935; he was widely known and a beloved figure of his time -- as a political sage and as "just a good ol' country boy." These are some of his"philosophies."

**The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put itback in your pocket.

*** There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. Thefew who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fenceand find out for themselves.

***Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes frombad judgment.

*** If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every nowand then to make sure it's still there.

***Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' itback.

**** After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good hestarted roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.

Themoral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut