All that sucks…is in IRAQ!
by ArlingtonUnKnown
Hey all, it’s an update…
Ahh…day 56 here in the sandbox…and what a day it has been. I’m telling you…I’ve been sitting around on guard duty trying to think of ways to amuse myself. My guard buddy and I have come to the conclusion that “I SPY” is NOT a good game to play here since the only thing that you can seem to get out is “I Spy something…uhhh…brown?” The game is usually maddening and short-lived. We also tried to play blackjack…but that was too short of a game so we switched off to GO FISH. I TOLD Jim and Timmeh to teach me how to play cards before we left the states but NOOOOOO… *smirk*
Of all the things that I despise about being in Iraq…I think that the whole GUARD DUTY thing sucks the most. I mean, c’mon. I’m stuck in a tower facing a field of things that blow up if you cross the wire…there are only a few people stupid enough to go there. hahaha…and if they make it without getting mangled I’ll give them a 5.56 round as a present.
The most amusing part of the day was when the Haji guy came to clean the porta-potty that’s near our guard tower. I’m telling you…this was a man that was TOTALLY into his job. He was smiling and chanting “NUMBA 1, NUMBA 2!!” I guess when you don’t know a lot of english and you see some girls with weapons peering out of a tower at you, you have the tendency to say ANYTHING to attract attention and a possibility of citizenship to yourself.
Ahh…while I’m bitching about Iraq…I might as well tell you about the psycho weather in this place. I think I experienced 3 seasons and an apocolypse in the past few days. One day it was 70 degrees, the next it was 120 and later the apocolyptic sandstorm came like some shit out of “The Mummy Returns,” and then, it was like 60 degrees and RAINING. I mean, please. I know I was complaining that this country didn’t have enough diversity in it’s weather but that was just RIDICULOUS. I’m loading pictures of this sandstorm sometime soon…you’ll have to wait dammit…i’m lazy since I have to sit on my ass for 8 hours watching the ground and not exercising my FABULOUS SIGNAL SOLDIER SKILLZ. *smirk*
I guess that’s all for now… until next time!!
You live in a crazy fantazy world. Seriously.
Actually maybe I do because I pretend that stuff doesn’t exist…OOOO DEEP.
Also, Spit or Spades/Hearts are great card games. Spit you can do with 2p.
1) do you play with a deck of iraq’s most wanted cards?
2) if you were in a movie, you guys would be playing i spy, and you know, sand, air, more sand, and then of you guys would spy an ENEMY AGENT and there would be a humourous sequence where the one guy would see the ENEMY AGENT but the other guy wouldnt and he would think they were still playing the game haha.
-midas
clever thinking…or the porta potty guy was in on it…singing a TRICK song.
V