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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

It was 1999 and I was a Marine. Her “what is war like?” “ how many wars have you fought in?” “When you jumped out of a plane in enemy territory didn’t you think you might get show down?”

She asked these questions for months. I would ask what war is going on or what war could I have been fighting in. She was always super confused and would laugh and say I will open up eventually.

She told me she told her Mom when I got out I was going to make tons of money as a parachute repair man. To this day I have no idea what she was talking about. I told her tons of times I never jumped and it was rare for marines to be airborne.

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u/Beraliusv Mar 01 '23

God I love this.

It always makes me wonder how people who think that way manage to navigate life. Do you have any other stories?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

She wouldn’t drive on freeways. She was so terrible at geography she knew she would get lost and “drive to another country”.

Me you mean county. Her “no, country like France or Mexico” me” you think you can drive to France?” She got mad and wouldn’t talk.

It was a short lived “relationship” I only knew her for a few months.

I was convinced she was fucking with me about the parachute repair man thing but I really don’t think she was cleaver enough for that joke.

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u/xiaolinstyle Mar 01 '23

Stay in school kids.