I knew Montgomery had to be bad before we came up because dad fought getting stationed up here all the way up to trying to resign. They refused and stuck him up here anyway. My mother likes to point out the trailer park where they stayed for SOS is still there and just as much of a shithole.
Ahaha, we had the opposite situation with my dad. He grew up doing the cool places and thought that his kids would be happier not getting stationed overseas. We rather thought getting stationed overseas would be AWESOME but no luck.
Hawaii was really neat but trying to learn straight english afterwords sucked out loud. Small town Nebraska does not speak Hawaiian patois and thinks you are full-on crazy.
That must have been difficult getting slammed for Grand Forks. I don't really understand why someone would use that as a judging point but some people, yeah? My family has always used personality traits for judging. Which makes sense in a way because mu dad's family is crazy and my mom's is emotionally constipated in that Scandinavian way, so you got the Eyebrow of Judgment if you cried like a baby, or failed to make someone scream from a prank.
I had a friend whose dad was in the same squadron as my dad for a while and that was pretty cool. They'd had cool postings beforehand and were using the time to re-acclimate to the US before getting sent to more awesome places. I was so jealous.
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Date: 5 Apr 2011 06:49 pm (UTC)Ahaha, we had the opposite situation with my dad. He grew up doing the cool places and thought that his kids would be happier not getting stationed overseas. We rather thought getting stationed overseas would be AWESOME but no luck.
Hawaii was really neat but trying to learn straight english afterwords sucked out loud. Small town Nebraska does not speak Hawaiian patois and thinks you are full-on crazy.
That must have been difficult getting slammed for Grand Forks. I don't really understand why someone would use that as a judging point but some people, yeah? My family has always used personality traits for judging. Which makes sense in a way because mu dad's family is crazy and my mom's is emotionally constipated in that Scandinavian way, so you got the Eyebrow of Judgment if you cried like a baby, or failed to make someone scream from a prank.
I had a friend whose dad was in the same squadron as my dad for a while and that was pretty cool. They'd had cool postings beforehand and were using the time to re-acclimate to the US before getting sent to more awesome places. I was so jealous.