Tony B Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 The other month I went scrounging to change shift, I need to tow a gun from Tilbury to Charlton for a display. Dennis obliged by re working the list. As we doing it one of the secrataries went into hysterics, when she had calmed down she told me 'If anyone else had come in said something like that we'd have phoned the police. You we just expect it '. :dunno: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I am the only one in my place that has a certificate to prove I am sane, does that count . :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chappers Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 It's not just my Work colleagues, it's the whole village where I live that think I'm of my trolley. I keep saying it's them that wash the car on Sunday and cut the grass that have lost the plot :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84KB11 Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 They thought I was slightly mad wanting old Land Rovers, could not understand how I could like a vehicle without all the modern creature comforts. I think the day the low loader turned up at work to deliver the CVRT Sultan may have confirmed it for them though, that and the fact I drove it home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Most people think I am mad and a bit of a story teller cum Walter Mitty - but the sad, or good fact remains, I don't have to make things up about me - because it's all true. I used to try and make myself sound a bit more interesting when I was younger, but to be frank, I had no take on what the particular interesting I had in mind actually was. My drinking buddies and friends all see me as a harmless eccentric who happens to know a bit about guns and stuff. I've had a varied career either on the edge of or in some pretty wild industries and have been a keen observer and frequent pariticipant in all manner of nonsense. The most important things is to never tell lies about yourself, because they have a bad habit of rebounding. So, all in all - yes...my workmates do think I am mad. And sometimes (though you should never start a sentence with and I think they almost wish they were more like me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I think the thing is we all have a different hobby to what "normal people" have at your place of work (unless you are in Bovington or IWM) :-D, when they are cutting the grass we are at a show with our vehicles, when they are decorating we are under the vehicle. when they go on holiday we are on Salisbury Plain (hopefully), so they see us as weird as we are a minority to their normality. Who said that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 5, 2007 Author Share Posted November 5, 2007 I upset one loud mouth at work who was boring us all silly with thousands pound plus holidays in Thailand. Just piped up ' My ideal holiday is a tent that doesn't leak. didn't buy tea all day :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambo1969 Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I'm not mad, but everyone I work with is! ;-). The drivers in my cab office salute me when I come into work and say "hello sergeant". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 when they are cutting the grass........when they are decorating........when they go on holiday......... What do you mean - you don't have to do all that AND sort the mv out? :dunno: It's alright for some :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Concrete not grass is the best for parking :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashley Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Concrete not grass is the best for parking :-D Its better if you spray it green as well :-D Ashley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 They don't.......maybe because I haven't got a job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie The Jeep Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 "Do your workmates think your nuts?" Think, no.... Know - Certainly!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I try not to judge someone by their hobby (it's difficult at times though!) What definitely is nuts is not to have a hobby at all, and it's surprising how many people don't. There's more to life than work and cutting grass. Must go out now and cut the grass ....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazz Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Some of my colleagues and mates think I've lost a slate or two, spending most of my spare time working with kids, at times it can be 200 plus of the young ones being looked after by 10-12 adults, especially when some mates/friends can't stand looking after 2-3 kids of their own. Baz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardyferret Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 When I had the Ferret, many of my workmates called me Gruber.... Couldn't understand why the smack in the gob offended :dunno: My little tank! Huh :evil: HF :angry: :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean101ryan Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I was just regarded as very sad (having other interests of an anoraky nature besides MVs didn't help :dunno:) Different story around show time though when they wanted to get in free and let the kids over the vehicles! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 They don't.......maybe because I haven't got a job? Same here! :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 I was born into a mad family (old busses) and grew up on rally sites and steam railways. Worked on old busses for a living so these things are normal to me. It's everyone else thats strange. I also prefer to do my friday nights drinking in a field rather than an overpriced bar in town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 Getting a tracked vehicle delivered to work and then drive it home Thats GREAT! ;-) Where I work they want me to show up some morning in my Jimmie just to show I really have one, get leads on all sorts of O.D. from staff and customers all the time . They think I m mostly harmless and need a more mainstream hobby? :dunno: Currently looking at spending great gobs of money to build a garage to house my Jimmie and trailer so the Architect is happy as long as the money is real ......Wonder if he would take Monopoly money ??? LOL :whistle: :evil: :dunno: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I got this from Baz overnight: If you're a squaddie, stab or UOTC then you must be able to relate to at least 5 of these. (Sadly I probably relate to some 80%) You know you've been Defence Institutionalised (Made military) when ... You use target indication to point out hot chicks... You use the term 'chicks' You insist on dancing like a dick, whilst your civvie mates insist on trying to dance 'properly'. Your civvie mates don't understand any of the terminology you use such as 'no dramas', 'squared away', 'take a knee' etc.... You can't help saying 'Roger', 'Say again' and other snappy bits of VP You use acronyms thinking your civvie mates will understand what you are talking about You don't have any civvie mates.... You cringe, and mutter under your breath 'haircut', when you see men with long hair. You walk at a ridiculous pace and are physically incapable of walking at the shopping pace of your girlfriend. You refer to personal organisation as 'admin' Your girlfriend is stored in your mobile phone address book as 'Zero Alpha' You use patrol hand signals in a night club if people can't hear you You always use the 24 hour clock.... Nothing soldiers do shocks you any more.... You can't watch war movies without giving a running commentary. People in prison have more contact with women than you do.... Whenever you spell something out you use the phonetic alphabet.... You don't trust your mum/wife/girlfriend/any woman to iron your kit because deep down you think that your ironing is better.... You point using your whole hand in a karate chop motion.... You find that the conversation somehow always comes back round to you, because you're more interesting than most topics of conversation.... You think not shaving is a treat.... You get really irritated when people you don't know call you 'mate'.... You can read a junk mail catalogue from cover to cover and refer to everything that is useful as a Gucci bit of kit. You refer to smoke as 'a double edged sword'. You spend hours wondering where in civvie street you can get an equal disposable income and at least 6 weeks holiday a year, by completing an inversely proportionally tiny amount of tangible work Your blood boils when you see civvies wearing DPM. Going out on Thursday 'international army night out' wherever it may be, or whichever course one is on, involves forming the ring-of-steel, talking about ourselves and the army and aggressively staring at girls; who if they don't immediately come over are obviously lesbians. Should any man dare break this ritual, and despite talking to the prettiest of girls - as we would like to do, if it weren't for the fact we tend to chew our own tongues and dribble - he is clearly gay! You come out in a cold sweat if you find yourself still working after lunch on a Friday.... You have to stop work at 10am for NAAFI break or else you might not make it to lunch.... At least half of your DVD collection are war movies.... Even though your disposable income is twice that of a civvie you still manage to spend it all, every month, with nothing to show for it, about a week after you've told all your soldiers that you 'can't believe how much money they waste on the urine'.... You feel guilty about wearing jeans in front of senior officers in the mess The sight of rolling countryside makes you scan for 'enemy depth'.... You think that eating every meal for a week with the same spoon that you licked clean and kept in the pocket of the same shirt you've worn all week is perfectly normal.... All of your food has to be prepared by a chef because you're incapable of cooking anything that can't either be boiled in a bag or eaten cold.... You lie when people ask you what you do for a living.... When leaving your phone number on a voice message you can't just give it once, has to be repeated. When surveying open ground (when not looking for enemy in depth) you think good tank country. If a forestry block - I could get a platoon in here You survey open ground. When you are pointing out some natural feature you begin with 'Reference bushy topped tree etc etc' Your girlfriend has started saying 'admin' and gave you the 'Chop' when telling you to put the bin out. When meeting mates in a pub you always turn up 5 minutes early and are secretly angry that nobody else has.....Worse still, if it's a venue you haven't been to before, you turn up 15 minutes early to put in a CTR, in order that you are definitely there 5 minutes early. You subconsciously red-pen everything you read. I promptly went to my regular 1000 hrs meeting. I arrived five minutes early. (I didn't need a CTR because it's my regular 1000 hrs meeting.) Eventually the project manager fronted up and asked us to natter among werselves while he carried out his admin. I started reading from the above to entertain the troops. They all agreed I had no mates. ;o) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 Gulp :sweat: I do a lot of those things :shake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Gulp :sweat: I do a lot of those things :shake: Offcourse I don't do nay of them.. :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Things are becoming clearer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightweight Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 My neighbours love me - they had never seen someone paint a car with a roller before I moved in! I don't think they had seen a rear differential changed at the roadside either.... Oh, AlienFTM - you missed out, 'you subconsciously walk in step with whoever you are alongside/behind'. I have done this since I left a certain fairly well known military school in 1987! My colleagues thought I was nuts turning up in the Lightweight, although I now have a Defender for everyday use and they STILL think I'm odd so perhaps that wasn't the real reason :dunno: http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa64/lightweight0_3/100_0048.jpg[/img] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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