Tuesday, July 1, 2008

COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN!!!!!

True story: A funny thing happened to me on line at the DFAC. For those of you just joining me the Military LOVES abbreviations and DFAC is short for Dining FACility. Anyway, I am in line getting my buddy Greg his lunch while he is stuck in the Firehouse on dispatch. He asked me to get him a pulled pork sandwich, no problem. I get to the server who is a Local National, foreigner typically speaking little to no English. Great people. So I figure I will be getting Gregs sandwich and still staying to eat my own lunch, better put the pork on the side so the bread does not get soggy.....I HATE that. I ask the man serving for the pork on the side with a wierd hand gesture I can't even explain. I wait and wait and wait whle he is putting the food in the to-go box, wondering why it is taking so long. Finally he hands me the box and I look at the sandwiches. He propped them up on their SIDE instead of putting the pork on the side. It actually took me a few minutes to figure out what he had done and then I lost it. I tried to keep them in the same position til we got back to the Firehouse so I could get a picture, unfortunatly they did collapse pretty much, but here you go!

....It was funnier at the time.