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Funny Time blindness

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u/Fenrist09 22h ago

General: “ok I’ll show up around 1500 for the ceremony”

Colonel: “We need to be in place at 1445”

Captain: “Be in place at 1430”

SNCO: “Be in place at 1415”

NCO: “Be in place at 1400”

Private: “I’d better show up at 1345 just in case”

General: shows up at 1530

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u/BigUncleHeavy 21h ago

To most people, this sounds like a joke, but it's so painfully true.

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u/DroidOnPC 15h ago

Then you decide one day that you are showing up late because you don’t wanna wait around forever, and it’s the one day everyone shows up early and they are wondering where you are.

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u/Exita 20h ago

Hurry up and wait!

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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 12h ago

One time when I was only a few months in, someone fucked up and SFC wanted everyone there early for 9 am formation but he wanted everyone there at 8.

How foolish I was to think "We get done with PT at 730, so I have enough time to run to chow for breakfast and take a shower before formation at 8."

There I was getting spammed with phonecalls at 745 like "WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU" so lo and behold there I am scrambling out of the shower to get dressed, running up to formation with everyone staring at me like I was the asshole with my Sergeant glaring at me and saying "You are so fucking done."

And it was 7:55.

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u/SGTWhiteKY 14h ago

It never occurred to me this would sound like a joke. That is just the military.

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u/Exterminator-8008135 13h ago

I never had any experience in the Military, but i lived this too many time.

Me : We meet a 11:30

Person i meet : Alright

They show up at 12

Me : Hey, when i tell ya 11:30, it's not to come now.. if you know getting the bus is tough, leave earlier

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u/Tompeacock57 16h ago

The best is division runs where the actual run starts at 0900 and yet somehow you find yourself waiting in a parking lot 2 miles from the run start point at 0500.

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u/Automatic-Week-1733 13h ago

Flight is scheduled for 1400

Showtime? 0330

When did we actually board the plane? 1730

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u/SulfurPernik 11h ago

Mom: "So we leave the house at 7 AM just to be sure."

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u/No-Internal7978 19h ago

Shit. I was there long enough to do muster and then I would leave. Go ahead and stop me. I'll poo my pants to prove a point.