We men know little about women (at times)

 Early  nice  Cars

 This is a 1956 Crown Vic Fords best that year. Friend Corporal Virgil Jensen from Kirkman Iowa,owned one

Today:

AT times I like to think back to time aboard ship,  I loved the sea. When the skipper asked me to consider staying aboard I told the him, "Sir, I would stay forever if you allowed Sherry aboard to live. 

I will never forget his words, “There will never be a female aboard a Navy fighting ship.” I headed for
GITMO and never saw Capt. Hill again.

BUT now Captain Hill could see this aboard his old ship:

And This:

And then this can be seen:

In my last tour in the USN in Washington DC, I was privileged to have the best worker I ever had work for me. She was Petty Officer Third class Lois Brown In addition she was a single mom.  She was never late, and very different from other single parents male & female, NEVER called in saying I won’t be in today with an excuse of: Baby sick, no baby sitter, etc. She was on the job and produced.

She did call in once, the night before. “Chief my babysitter is sick, what can I do? “

“Is your daughter well, can you bring her to work?”

“Could I really do that Chief? She is well behaved and will be no problem.”

“Then do it.”

She did. We worked in the  2^nd largest building in DC. The little sweetheart sat at an extra desk, drawing and coloring. She gave not a minute’s trouble. Towards the end of the day I got the message from the ‘Old Mans’ office. “I hear there is a child in your working space. That is too dangerous here. She could be hurt and there would be hell to pay. Take care of it.”

I explained that to Lois, and let her off early to satisfy the ‘Old Man’.

Weeks later there was a child pushing one of those little ‘Pop-pop toys’ in the hall running from side to side. I asked around who the boy belonged to. “It is no problem, it is the ‘Old Man’s’ grandson.”

I said to my fellow chief, “Oh yes it is a problem, the kid could get hurt and there would be hell to pay. This is a government office.”

Finally in my life I had reached a point where I could exert myself, I walked by the secretary and into the ‘Old Man’s’ office unannounced.

Surprised and looking up from his desk, “Yes Chief, is there a problem?”

I then unloaded about Lois’s daughter and his orders of the dangers of children in government spaces.

His response was like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar, “I understand chief, I will take care of it immediately!”

I walked out, sorta proud of myself, I KNEW I was right and he did too.

Nite Shipslog
PS: Lois is a beautiful woman of color, my son Jack said he proposed to Lois once and she turned him down. Jack has now been married twice,  I have  wondered……… ;-)