Submitted by Barry Sutton, RD3, (’59-’61)
Carrabelle, Fla.
- Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and allow the pot to simmer for 5 hours before drinking.
- Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.
- Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front.
- Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go to the worst part of town. Find the most run down bar, and drink beer until you are hammered. Then walk all the way home.
- Take a two-week vacation visiting the red light districts of Europe or the Far East, and call it “world travel”.
- Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for liberty.” At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.
Who’s ready to go back to sea?