There has to be more than a few Navy vets here on this NG. Read this when
you're thinking of the "good" old days.

Eisboch

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Simulate Life In The Navy
courtesy of Rich Campbell
1. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for 6 months straight.
2. Run all of the piping and wires in your house on the outside of the
walls.
3. Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your basement, then pump
it out, clean up, and paint the basement "deck gray".
4. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the
scummiest part of town, find the most run down, trashy bar you can, pay $10
per beer until you're hammered, then walk home in the freezing cold.
5. Perform a weekly disassembly and inspection of your lawnmower.
6. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays turn your water temperature up
to 190 degrees, then on Tuesday and Thursday, turn it down to 50 degrees. On
Saturdays and Sundays, declare to your entire family that they used too much
water during the week, so all showering is "secured".
7. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling.
8. Have your next-door neighbor come over each day at 5 am and blow a
whistle so loud that Helen Keller could hear it and shout "Reveille,
Reveille, all hands heave to and trice up".
9. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the
following day, then have her make you stand in the back yard at 6 am and
read it to you.
10. Eat the raunchiest Mexican food you can find for three days
straight, then lock yourself out of the bathroom for 12 hours and hang a
sign on the door that reads, "Secured - contact OA division at x-3053".
11. Submit a request from to your father-in-law, asking if it's ok for
you to leave your house before 3 pm.
12. Invite 200 of your not-so-closest friends to come over and then
board up all the windows and doors to your house for 6 months. After the 6
months is up, take down the boards, wave at your friends and family through
the front window of your home. you can't leave until the next day. You have
duty.
13. Shower with above-mentioned friends.
14. Make your family qualify to operate all the appliances in your
home (i.e. Dishwasher Operator, Blender Technician, etc.)
15. Walk around your car for 4 hours checking the tire pressure every
10 minutes.
16. Sit in your car and let it run for 4 hours before going anywhere.
This is to ensure your engine is properly "lighted off".
17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep your driveway 3
times a day, whether they need it or not. ("Sweepers, sweepers, man your
brooms, give the ship a clean sweep down fore and aft, empty all garbage in
receptacles provided for on the fantail. Now sweepers.")
18. Repaint your entire house once a month.
19. Cook all of your food blindfolded, groping for any spice and
seasoning you can get your hands on.
20. Use eighteen scoops of budget coffee grounds per pot and allow
each pot to sit for 5 hours before drinking.
21. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your
magazines and randomly lose every 5th item.
22. Spend $20,000 on a satellite system for your TV, but only watch
CNN and the Weather Channel.
23. Avoid watching TV with the exception of movies which are played in
the middle of the night. Have the family vote on which movie to watch and
then show a different one.
24. Have your 5-year-old cousin give you a haircut with goat shears.
25. Sew back pockets to the front of your pants.
26. Spend 2 weeks in the red-light districts of Europe and call it
"world travel".
27. Attempt to spend 5 years working at McDonalds and NOT get
promoted.
28. Ensure that any promotions you get are from stepping on the dead
bodies of your co-workers.
29. Needle gun the aluminum siding on your house after your neighbors
have gone to bed.
30. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a
megaphone and shout at the top of your lungs that your home is under attack
and order them to close the windows and man their battle stations. ("General
quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations. Set material
condition zebra throughout the ship.")
31. Make you family menu a week ahead of time and do so without
checking the pantry and refrigerator.
32. Post a menu on the refrigerator door informing your family that
you are having steak for dinner. Make them wait in line for at least an
hour, when they finally get to the kitchen, tell them that you are out of
steak, but you have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they don't pay
attention to the menu any more so they just ask for hot dogs.
33. When baking a cake, prop up one side of the pan while it is in the
oven. Spread icing on real thick to level it off.
34. In the middle of January, place a podium at the end of your
driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4-hour
intervals.
35. Lock yourself and your family in your house for 6 weeks. Then tell
them that at the end of the 6th week you're going to take them to Disneyland
for "weekend liberty". When the end of the 6th week rolls around, inform
them that Disneyland has been canceled due to the fact that they need to get
ready for Engineering-certification and that it will be another week before
they can leave the house.
36. In your grim, gray dumpster (refer to #1), with 200 of your
not-so-closest friends (cite Para. 12) regardless of gender, suffer through
PMS!
37. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a
curtain. Have your wife whip open the curtain about three hours after you go
to sleep. She should then shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble "Sorry,
wrong rack."
38. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of your
bathtub, move the showerhead to chest level. When you take showers, make
sure you shut off the water while you soap down.
39. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, find a wobbly rocking
chair and rock hard as you can until you become nauseous. Have a supply of
stale crackers in your shirt pocket.
40. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.
41. For ex-engineering types: leave the lawnmower running in your
living room eights hours a day.
42. Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
43. Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the
wind carries the soot onto your neighbor's house. Ignore his complaints.
44. Every other month buy green or red marine primer and put it in a
paint sprayer. Spray it over the roof of your house onto your neighbor's
car. Ignore his complaints.
45. Lock-wire the lug nuts on your car.
46. Buy a trash compactor, but use it only once a week. Store the
garbage on the other side of your bathtub.
47. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and
jelly sandwich on stale bread.
48. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night, jump up
and get dressed as fast as you can making sure you button up the top button
on your shirt, stuff your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard
and uncoil the garden hose.
49. Once a month, take every major appliance apart and put them back
together again.
50. Install a fluorescent lamp under the coffee table and then get
under it and read books.
51. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills of your front and
back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass
through one of them.
52. Every so often, throw the cat in the pool and shout, "Man
overboard, starboard side". Then run into the house and sweep all the pots
and dishes off the counter. Yell at the wife and kids for not having the
kitchen "stowed for sea."
53. Put on the headphones from your stereo set, but don't plug them
in. Hang a paper cup around your neck with string. Go stand in front of your
stove. Say. to no one in particular "Stove manned and ready." Stand there
for three or four hours and say again to no one in particular "Stove
secured." Roll up your headphones and paper cup and place them in a box.