"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Years ago I read A Bloody War, a WWII memoir by an RCN officer. He was First Lieutenant of a destroyer conducting shore bombardment at D-Day, which took a hit in a storeroom.
He said that while the damage was slight, it turned out until the rest of the war that any item of equipage aboard being lost or damaged turned out, by coincidence, to have been stored in that particular storeroom.
Stephen: When I worked for the Yankee government in Washington, D.C., departments at my agency were constantly being physically relocated (generally for no good reason, that I could see), and documents were always being "lost during the move" (my work involved a lot of audit-type activities, and that was a frequent excuse as to why this or that piece of info was missing).
R-man: When I worked for a bank in Miami, FL, I took a course in commercial real estate financing, and my dog did literally chew up one of my take-home tests. Even though it was the truth, I'm sure I looked awful foolish explaining it.
Years ago I read A Bloody War, a WWII memoir by an RCN officer. He was First Lieutenant of a destroyer conducting shore bombardment at D-Day, which took a hit in a storeroom.
ReplyDeleteHe said that while the damage was slight, it turned out until the rest of the war that any item of equipage aboard being lost or damaged turned out, by coincidence, to have been stored in that particular storeroom.
Maybe his family doesn't have a dog.
ReplyDeleteStephen: When I worked for the Yankee government in Washington, D.C., departments at my agency were constantly being physically relocated (generally for no good reason, that I could see), and documents were always being "lost during the move" (my work involved a lot of audit-type activities, and that was a frequent excuse as to why this or that piece of info was missing).
ReplyDeleteR-man: When I worked for a bank in Miami, FL, I took a course in commercial real estate financing, and my dog did literally chew up one of my take-home tests. Even though it was the truth, I'm sure I looked awful foolish explaining it.