Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for August 01, 2012

In the army you go looking for a box of grid squares or blinker fluid!!

Air force wants you to fetch 100’ of flight line.

In the Navy it was relative bearing grease or two fathoms of water line.

As a lifeguard on the beach we’d send them down to the farthest guard for a hundred feet of shoreline.

When I started my job at a printing company, they sent me all over the shop looking for a paper stretcher. Later, there was a bucket of half-tone dots, but I knew better than that.

Air Force also sends rookies out for a bucket of prop wash. When I worked in the Communications Center someone was sent for five pounds of “Line Feeds and six Carriage Returns.”

Good thing the counselor didn’t tell him to go play in traffic.

New in the publications department, I was told to take some copy to the typing pool and tell them I wanted Miss Masterson to type it. Little did I know, Miss M was the dept. supervisor. Ha ha fellow employee-real funny.

I think she’s looking out for you Mike.

I work at a prison they would tell newboots to go to medical and get a 100ft of medical chain or go fill out the ID10T form.