A couple one mine, one some one Else's we had American picket ships drop into Comox after one with engine trouble had to set down and they discovered we had nickel beer on Friday nights in the airmans wets ( wet canteen-bar) anyhow for the next few Friday nights these Super Connie radar ships would develop mysterious engine problems and it would be hands across the border in our wets any how we got a American a/c one night and instead of being from San Diego it was from Texas every thing was fine until one of the crew spotted a guy named Butch Reddick from the east coast and Butch was black which upset this guy, who said in a loud tone of voice that he wouldn't drink with a around, anyhow he was sorted by a little Englishman so after the fun everyone went back to drinking, the orderly corporal finally kicked all and sundry out around 1230- 1 o'clock, and back to the barracks we crawled, next morning everyone who had been there was really hung, Canadians, Americans and I was sitting by one of the guys that had been on duty crew the night before who looked at me and said watch, so he got up and went to the kitchen and got one of the cooks to give him some fried egg white which he rolled up in his hankie and came back to the table sat down and a minute or so later proceeded to start coughing getting louder and louder finally sounding like he was going to lose a lung by this time everyone in the mess hall was looking at him so then with everyone looking he pulls out this hankie coughs into it and lets the egg white drop on to his plate, puts his hankie away picks up his fork and goes back at his breakfast pick up the egg white munches away at it and clears the mess hall there is people honking in the bathrooms, potted plants any where I'm of course on the floor wondering if I'm going to wet myself I'm laughing so hard. The next was a bunch of my buddy's got pissed up and spread an extra large container of detergent all over my room the night before an inspection, so I got back at the ring leader by waiting until he was at the wets a while later and took a bunch of 5" inch cannon crackers and some steel wool and filled his beside lamp with the powder from 2 cannon crackers steel wool laid the third cannon cracker fuse into the hole and screwed the light back in then took the plug which I'd removed and wrapped a figure 8 of steel wool around the blades of the plug and laid it on the floor any he rolls home trys to turn on his light, nothing so he rolls over, looks sure enough spots the steel wool on the plug and says that bastard McIntosh takes off the steel wool plugs it in rolls back over, reaches up and turns on his light, Boom, apparently I scared him sober so he runs into my room swearing at me and I laugh at him and tell him that I had been going to wire his bed, quickly a third One of my room mates was famous for being a scrounger through out the barracks and he got tanked one night at the wets and had been drinking really cheap rot gut wine so when he went back to the barracks another of my buddies was with him they get back to the room and sit down with the wine bottle so the one guy takes out his teeth and lays them on the side table, then he has to pee, off he goes, and when he's gone my other buddy picks up the teeth and spays them with Asorbine Junior back come the scrounger looks at his teeth stuffs them into his head screams spits them out about this time I wake up, I'd been on duty crew and one guy is swearing spitting and the other is on the floor howling with laughter, away goes the teeth and tooth bush, so I said whats going on, the guy on the floor when he can get his breath back tells me what he'd done, by this time the scrounger is back and my buddy says well Dick I just didn't want you get Hoof and Mouth disease I don't remember how it ended but it was hilarious.
Bill the demon.
