This randomness is random

[elleflies]

I made the mistake of forgetting who I was talking to on my military flight last night.

Military guys: Oh, you lived in Dallas. I love those Cowboys
Me: I'm really not interested in football. I prefer Rugby.
Military guys: Rugby hunh?
Me: Yeah, I like it rough
Military guys: *dead silence*

Even in the darkness of a plane landing at night they could still tell my face was beet red. And to make matters worse, one of the guys involved in the conversation had taken my picture earlier that night (I don't know what was up with that group, but they were snap happy and the flight attendants seemed to be their unwitting subjects) as he was leaving he told me "I took your picture. I'm going to put it up in my locker and every time I look at it I'm going to think 'she likes it rough."

Two weeks of the civilian world and I completely forgot that working with the military involves heavy censoring of stuff like that. It's ALWAYS the dirtiest common denominator with them.

On the plus side an extremely cute boy worked up the nerve to walk into the galley and ask for my e-mail. Which I usually don't give out. I was so astonished he asked (lets just say I'm not used to men actually taking the initiative) and he was so damn handsome that I wrote it down for him. As he was leaving the plane he snuck me his e-mail by doing the thank you for your service handshake with the little slip of paper hidden in the palm of his hand. So CUTE.

A few more random things, in numerical order:

1. I've turned into a True Blood pimp.
2. The nice quite ferry flight to Germany I was looking forward to... ended up having 56 crewmembers on board. It was not nice or quite.
3. In a few minutes I'm meeting some crewmembers in the lobby so we can ride camels along the Persian Gulf and go to the souk. I am astonished that I'll actually be doing something relatively touristy in Kuwait.
4. Kuwait is the most drab, boring little country I've ever been to. Hence my astonishment.
5. When it was decided we would do this my first thought after 'yay camels' was 'shit, now I'll have more photos to edit.' Which is not the best thing to think because how lucky am I that I get to do this stuff?

Comments

[veracity]

Darling, I think you just became wank material. And I don't mean the fandom kind.

*snickers loudly*

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Oh you'd better believe it. As soon as the words left my mouth I realized I had just stoked their fires for god only knows how long.

Feel free to point and laugh. God knows I deserve it. :)

[veracity]

ESPECIALLY since they can superimpose you on their fantasies. Oh my lord. This is the funniest thing I've heard in awhile. And cute boy was in that group, right? HAHAHAHA. *snort louder*

Ahem. I mean, why what an unfortunate incident. I do hope had your smelling salts in that little carrier on bag.

And hey, now. Jason's not all those things! He's just simple-minded and a sex addict. Tsk, tsk.

[vinylroad.livejournal.com]

I am so jealous of your travels. I WANT TO PUT KUWAIT AS MY LOCATION. Ok, maybe not Kuwait, but lots of other places.

Your stories about the military boys NEVER GET OLD. They sound adorable.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm so lucky in being able to do this. Although it can be very exhausting, so there is that downside...

They were extremely adorable. All southern boys from the country, I just wanted to pinch their cheeks and be all "drawl on sugarpie, drawl on"

I love me the military boys :)

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

*sniggers* What WERE you thinking! Still, cute!guy's email FTW!!!!

Has to live vicariously through other people - I'll stop now.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

i wasn't thinking. I had been I wouldn't have said ANYTHING along those lines. At least I gave them a bit of a thrill and something to think about for the next 9 months of their deployment. That makes me a good Samaritan right? :)

cute!guy already e-mailed me too. The boy is wasting NO TIME.

[shinyopals.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA. Yeah, you can see my sympathy, can't you? XD

But yay for getting someone's email! :D

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

I should have known better so I expect no sympathy. I posted this expecting everyone to laugh and be all "ha, you'd a dumbass duurrr" :)

Because it was a dumbass thing to say around these guys.

psst, he already e-mailed me *g*

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

You mean, you couldn't hear the collective BZZZOIIINK sound that comes from 9894819 penises rising to attention? Army dudes are HORNDOGS.

And yay for email giving to cute boys! :D

Sounds like Kuwait would be far more interesting if you were into gay porn, though.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Was that what that sound was? Because I was wondering what it was I heard... *g*

And Army dudes being HORNDOGS is so so so true. There are no words to encompass just how TRUE that statement is.

As we were walking through customs one of the girls on my crew, who had hardly ever been into Kuwait, made the mistake of looking into an office as we were passing and saw one customs guy sitting on the lap of another customs guy. She just about lost her shit not knowing about any of the.. proclivities of Middle Eastern men over there. They left it up to me to explain the ins and outs of Middle Eastern Man Love to her. *g*

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

It was probably louder than the plane engines.

Man, I remember in the Gulf War how Marines used to chase every available girl in the big cities. Horndogs. *sage nod*

Ahahahahaha! I wonder how that conversation went. "See, sometimes when slot A can't go into slot B because slot B can only be used after marriage, slot A goes into slot An. For Anus." I wonder if in the far, far futue, when Muslems are comfortable enough to start laughing at the ridiculous corners of their religion (every religion has those), if we'll get bad gay comedies or something. "When Ahmed met Ibrahim"...

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

First thing they do when they come on a plane is check out the flight attendants. I've seen a girl walk down the aisle and all their heads turn to follow her ass.

It's sad but I love explaining this to new people. The sheer horror on their faces just cracks me up. All the while Ahmadouchebag is all "there are no gays in Iran" and I laugh and laugh and laugh.

And the day when they can pick fun at some of their more ridiculous notions can't come soon enough.

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised. I'm pretty sure that happened to me at some point.

AHAHAHAHAH AHMADOUCHEBAG. FTW. Sure there are no gays in Iran. Just like there are no blogs, Jews and hardcore partying. It's a nice little front those politicians put for the Western world. *headdesk*

It might come faster if the US didn't alienate Muslems quite so much, even in their own country. :/

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

I have no ass to speak of, but you know when they're looking. As my brother put it "there is Hot, and then there's Just Out of Iraq Hot"

Iran is a perfect place full of smiling happy people who support everything the government and Mullahs want. It's us that have the problems. Didn't you know? :)

We're big blundering idiots. Step 1 may be to duck tape the mouths of politicians. Sweet Respite...

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

SO TRUE. It's not only Iraq. It's basically Hot vs. Just Out Of An Active War Zone Hot.

Why, of course! How could I ever doubt. But the thing is, like Iraq, it'll never be a democracy, and it's ridiculous to think there ever could be a democracy there.

Step 2 would probably be to severely limit the actions of Homeland Security, if not eliminate it completely, and definitely retrain all of its employees with a big emphasis on tolerance.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

One of our older ladies was once standing by one of the doors looking stern as the guys boarded, one guy turned to his buddy and said "looks like no one is getting laid on this flight"

According to America, EVERYONE must have a democracy. Even if it doesn't work for them. And if you don't want it, goddamnit, we'll come in and make sure you have one. Nonevermind that I'm firmly of the believe that democracy only works when the people implement it themselves.

I don't mind the idea of Homeland Security, it's just that they kinda suck at implementation.

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. Honestly though, if you're not flying at the very least Business-First, joining the Mile High club sounds like a pretty cramped deal.

Very true. America can't expect different societies to accept democracy. It forgets that prior to the Declaration of Independence, there was no democracy in here. It forgets that prior to today's democracy, Europe had about a century and a half of chaos and mass murders. It forgets that places like China could not possibly appreciate democratic ideas when it's still rebounding from millenias of monarchy. It might never will either. It forgets that India has democracy nowdays, but it's thanks to the British being so goddamn insufferable, after their alliance with the Rajas, anything would be better, and India had Ghandi too. Each society has individual history and authority. It's ridiculous to think that democracy could be forced on anyone when it goes against the very nature of its core.

I find Homeland Security to be a complete Bush power trip. I think it was a complete wasteful backlash from 9/11 with money that should've gone to the improvement of the FBI and CIA.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Not to mention disgusting. You've seen what a plane lavatory looks like! (apparently a flight attendant from my company just got fired for welcoming a solider home a little too enthusiastically if you get my drift *wink wink nudge nudge*)

I love democracy. It works for me and it works for America. It does not work for everyone else, granted I think each country needs to find the type of government that works best for it, within it's society, culture and history while still respecting the rights of its people and citizens. *le sigh* I like to dream big you know? :)

Because the solution to everything is MORE GOVERNMENT. A concept my little Libertarian heart just can't stand.

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah. Man, if the flight has babies in it too...*shudders* ("would you like a side of vejayjay with your lukewarm meal?")

:) I think it's the dream of many people, even in the most rigid counrties of the world. The problem is that religion doesn't necessarily coincide with human rights, and the obtaining of power certainly isn't. And even in the US, people's rights are still not as respected as I'd like.

More government is what happens when you reply to hate with hate. I don't think the FBI and CIA are bad authorities, per se, but they need to change. This rampant use of power cannot be condoned.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

I've seen male and female soldiers sneak into the lavs for a.. good time. They think we don't know but we do. We usually sit in the back row and time them. :)

This is why I'm little miss small government proponent. I want them out of my business because it seems governments just like to control. They want to make little automatons of us all. I don't think there ever won't be a time when people and the government won't be in some form of conflict. Sad as that may be.

The FBI and CIA need to dig themselves out of their rut, it's no longer the 70's and it's time to modernize and move with the rest of the world. Case in Point: Sam and Dean Winchester. If the FBI were doing it's job properly they'd know that two 20-something young men were impersonating Agents ALL THE DAMN TIME.

[aesvir.livejournal.com]

Hahahah. Hey, you're just supporting the troops. Helping them perform their mission. :p

*sigh* Cute military boys. I spent the summer doing morning PT with a bunch of ridiculously fit soldiers. (Rippling muscles and all.) Right now, in the Boston winter, I really miss that. o_0

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Your comment reminds me of something my brother said whilst I was home. We were talking about the differences between this war and wars in the past.

Him: At least in Vietnam and WW2 they had booze and prostitutes
Me: And a higher body count
Him: uhhhh....

I don't know why that sprang to mind, but there you have it. The two things that will help them perform their mission best...

Mmmmm Rippling Muscles... *zones out*