Comments on: Missile-aneous Dining http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=missile-aneous-dining The Web’s Leading Military Blog Since 2004 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:29:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Miriam http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35750 Miriam Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:46:59 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35750 Ya, Sue, especially when he gets off the interstate the exit BEFORE he's supposed to (even though he has the correct exit number), and the highway is so backed up it isn't worth getting back on. :D (Ok, so I'm ragging on you some CJ, but I mean it in fun. :) My dad was well known for taking us places he only vaguely knew where they were and when he knew even less about how we'd get there. To top it all off, we usually spent most of the time finding the place on foot and in places where it was even harder to ask directions because of the language barrier. He called them his "David Livingstons". Most of the time I wished Stanley would hurry up and find us! :D Ya, Sue, especially when he gets off the interstate the exit BEFORE he’s supposed to (even though he has the correct exit number), and the highway is so backed up it isn’t worth getting back on. :D (Ok, so I’m ragging on you some CJ, but I mean it in fun. :)

My dad was well known for taking us places he only vaguely knew where they were and when he knew even less about how we’d get there. To top it all off, we usually spent most of the time finding the place on foot and in places where it was even harder to ask directions because of the language barrier. He called them his “David Livingstons”. Most of the time I wished Stanley would hurry up and find us! :D

]]> By: sue http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35748 sue Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:52:28 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35748 Loved it Emilly!! Awwww CJ its ok!! You are just SUCH A GUY!!!!! lol Loved it Emilly!! Awwww CJ its ok!! You are just SUCH A GUY!!!!! lol

]]> By: Miss Ladybug http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35725 Miss Ladybug Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:31:05 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35725 As for the inner GPS.... In fall 1986, we were in the process of PCSing back to Germany. We had driven from Texas to NYC, since we were flying out of JFK and the family car had to be put on a ship out of NJ so we'd have it overseas. We got there (well, a hotel 4 miles on the Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel) a couple of days before our flight out. So, the day in between getting there and flying out, we played tourist - visiting Liberty Island, going into Manhattan. One problem: the World Series was going on in NYC that night. We were headed back to the Lincoln Tunnel, and some random guy was trying to direct traffic (it was bad), and we were told that it was taking 2 hours to get through the tunnel. Since it was my parents, me (age 16), and my two little sisters (about ages 5 and 18 months), it was decided we were try an alternate route back to our hotel. Not a problem, right? We that was fine until my dad took a wrong turn after the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (or Bridge? I can't remember...). I was reading the map in the back seat of our van by the headlights of the cars behind us, telling my dad we were going the wrong way. We were in Queens by the time we turned around. Daddy never admitted that we were going the wrong way - he used the need to get gas as the excuse to get off the freeway (and this was around the time there were all those racially motivated killings in Queens...), then after getting gas, he conveniently started heading back in the other direction. It still took us two hours to get back to our hotel.... As for the inner GPS….

In fall 1986, we were in the process of PCSing back to Germany. We had driven from Texas to NYC, since we were flying out of JFK and the family car had to be put on a ship out of NJ so we’d have it overseas. We got there (well, a hotel 4 miles on the Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel) a couple of days before our flight out. So, the day in between getting there and flying out, we played tourist – visiting Liberty Island, going into Manhattan. One problem: the World Series was going on in NYC that night. We were headed back to the Lincoln Tunnel, and some random guy was trying to direct traffic (it was bad), and we were told that it was taking 2 hours to get through the tunnel. Since it was my parents, me (age 16), and my two little sisters (about ages 5 and 18 months), it was decided we were try an alternate route back to our hotel. Not a problem, right? We that was fine until my dad took a wrong turn after the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (or Bridge? I can’t remember…). I was reading the map in the back seat of our van by the headlights of the cars behind us, telling my dad we were going the wrong way. We were in Queens by the time we turned around. Daddy never admitted that we were going the wrong way – he used the need to get gas as the excuse to get off the freeway (and this was around the time there were all those racially motivated killings in Queens…), then after getting gas, he conveniently started heading back in the other direction. It still took us two hours to get back to our hotel….

]]> By: Terri http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35706 Terri Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:44:54 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35706 Too cute! Thanks for sharing that Emily. The things that kids come up with. By the way Emily, CJ isn't the only one who thinks that have that inner GPS. Heaven forbid they stop and ask for directions. LOL! Too cute! Thanks for sharing that Emily. The things that kids come up with. By the way Emily, CJ isn’t the only one who thinks that have that inner GPS. Heaven forbid they stop and ask for directions. LOL!

]]> By: Donna http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35705 Donna Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:01:47 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35705 Good post Emily! Kids are so funny!! :) Yeah, one of my kids asked me one time if I knew Abraham Lincoln Ha! I wasn't that old then either! Good post Emily! Kids are so funny!! :) Yeah, one of my kids asked me one time if I knew Abraham Lincoln Ha! I wasn’t that old then either!

]]> By: Kat in GA http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35698 Kat in GA Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:24:38 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35698 HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! reminds me of the time one of my kids asked me how many "toes" are on a TOW TRUCK! ;) HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!

reminds me of the time one of my kids asked me how many “toes” are on a TOW TRUCK!

;)

]]> By: CJ http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35696 CJ Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:57:18 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35696 It was a cloudy day!! And for the record, my hair doesn't look like that. It was a cloudy day!! And for the record, my hair doesn’t look like that.

]]> By: Chad http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35695 Chad Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:44:11 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35695 Why do women always bag on men's inner-GPS?? Maybe there was a solar flare that scrambled the signal for the satellite. I bet if the GPS was working, you would have been able to find the giant missile you could have eaten in. Why do women always bag on men’s inner-GPS?? Maybe there was a solar flare that scrambled the signal for the satellite.

I bet if the GPS was working, you would have been able to find the giant missile you could have eaten in.

]]> By: Carole http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35694 Carole Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:59:58 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35694 I love it! ... a missile big enough to eat inside! Aren't kids wonderful? Good post Emily. I love it! … a missile big enough to eat inside! Aren’t kids wonderful? Good post Emily.

]]> By: Tracy http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35691 Tracy Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:57:49 +0000 http://militarygear.com/asp/2007/08/01/missile-aneous-dining/#comment-35691 Precious! The image of these two eating in a missile has me chuckling! Precious! The image of these two eating in a missile has me chuckling!

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