I am telling you this story because,
the world today is full of Hate, violence, negativity, and we as
humans cannot support that, or even feed into it. This story takes
place when I was enlisted in the United States Coast Guard. By the
way if I can laugh at myself feel free to. Laughter introduces
Positive endorphins. We need those.
I was an Engineer aboard a Hamilton
Class Coast Guard Cutter. In order to understand how the systems work
on the ship, we as engineers had to draw out the system. I was
tracing the fire main system, which in the event of a fire would
activate, and hopefully put it out. I was tracing the system out and
drawing it onto paper, when I followed the pipes to the main hallway
that led to the Mess-deck, where we ate our meals. Right smack in the
center of the piping, was a small valve. It looked out of place.
I asked the Master-Chief, “What does
this valve do?” He shrugged and said, “ I don't know look at the
schematics in the office.” I went down to the office and pulled the
schematics, however, the valve was not there. No one knew why it was
there.
For weeks I have tried to get the
answer why that valve was there, after all if I am to be able to do
my job I need to know how the entire system works. No one in
engineering knew.
Finally after six weeks at sea, I have
had enough. It was driving me crazy I need to know. While we were all
standing in line to get our meal, I reached up and opened the valve.
A large stream of water came rushing out of the pipes and completely
drenching the entire crew. I was not wet though. It was at this time
I realized, Dam this was the manual activation valve. I quickly
closed the valve.
After I closed the valve, the only
noise you could hear besides the water dripping, was the loud
laughter coming from only the females in the unit. There was no male
laughter. Actually, it was at that moment I felt the mass of male
eyes all on me.
These were not the attention eyes a
singer or a performer would want. They were not the attention eyes
that any speaker would want. These were the eyes of all the males in
line looking at me as if they wanted to separate my head from my
body, simply because their uniforms were all wet.
I knew I had to think quick,So I
slowly pulled my hand from the valve and looked up with confidence
and said, “ What? At least we know what this dam valve does now.”
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