~Hey everybidy my cuz is in the Navy and some old guy on his ship made this and my cuz sent it to me. Just read it it's really funny. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"HOW TO SIMULATE LIFE IN THE NAVY"
>
> 1. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for
> months at a time.
>
> 2. Run all of the piping and wires inside your house
> on the outside of the walls.
>
> 3. Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your
> basement, then pump it out, clean up, and paint the
> basement "deck gray."
>
> 4. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best
> clothes and go the scummiest part of town, find the
> most run down, trashy bar you can, pay $10 per beer
> until you're hammered, then walk home in the freezing
> cold.
>
> 5. Perform a weekly disassembly and inspection of your
> lawnmower.
>
> 6. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays turn your water
> temperature up to 200 degrees, then on Tuesday and
> Thursday turn it down to 10 degrees. On Saturdays, and
> Sundays declare to your entire family that they used
> too much water during the week, so all showering is
> secured.
>
> 7. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling.
>
> 8. Have your next door neighbor come over each day at
> 5am, and blow a whistle so loud that Helen Keller
> could hear it and shout "Reveille, Reveille, all hands
> heave out and trice up".
>
> 9. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's
> going to do the following day, then have her make you
> stand in the back yard at 6am and read it to you.
>
> 10. Eat the raunchiest Mexican food you can find for
> three days straight, then lock yourself out of the
> bathroom for 12 hours, and hang a sign On the door
> that reads "Secured-contact OA division at X-3053."
>
> 11. Submit a request form to your father-in-law,
> asking if it's OK for you to leave your house before
> 3pm.
>
> 12. Invite 200 of your not-so-closest friends to come
> over, then board up all the windows and doors to your
> house for 6 months. After the 6 months is up, take
> down the boards, wave at your friends and family
> through the front window of your home...you can't
> leave until the next day you have duty.
>
> 13. Shower with above-mentioned friends.
>
> 14. Make your family qualify to operate all the
> appliances in your home (i.e., Dishwasher operator,
> blender technician, etc).
>
> 15. Walk around your car for 4 hours checking the tire
> pressure every 15 minutes.
>
> 16. Sit in your car and let it run for 4 hours before
> going anywhere. This is to ensure your engine is
> properly "lighted off."
>
> 17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house, and
> sweep your driveway 3 times a day, whether they need
> it or not. (Now sweepers, start your brooms, clean
> sweep down fore and aft, empty all trashcans over the
> fantail)
>
> 18. Repaint your entire house once a month.
>
> 19. Cook all of your food blindfolded, groping for any
> spice and seasoning you can get your hands on.
>
> 20. Use eighteen scoops of budget coffee grounds per
> pot, and allow each pot to sit 5 hours before
> drinking.
>
> 21. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a
> month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every
> 5th item.
>
> 22. Spend $20,000 on a satellite system for your TV,
> but only watch CNN and the Weather Channel.
>
> 23. Avoid watching TV with the exception of movies
> which are played in the middle of the night. Have the
> family vote on which movie to watch and then show a
> different one.
>
> 24. Have your 5-year-old cousin give you a haircut
> with goat shears.
>
> 25. Sew back pockets to the front of your pants.
>
> 26. Spend 2 weeks in the red-light districts of
> Europe, and call it "world travel."
>
> 27. Attempt to spend 5 years working at McDonalds, and
> NOT get promoted.
>
> 28. Ensure that any promotions you do get are from
> stepping on the dead bodies of your coworkers.
>
> 29. Needle gun the aluminum siding on your house after
> your neighbors have gone to bed.
>
> 30. When your children are in bed, run into their room
> with a megaphone, and shout at the top of your lungs
> that your home is under attack, and order them to man
> their battle stations. ("General quarters, general
> quarters, all hands man your battle stations")
>
> 31. Make your family menu a week ahead of time and do
> so without checking the pantry and refrigerator.
>
> 32. Post a menu on the refrigerator door informing
> your family that you are having steak for dinner. Then
> make them wait in line for at least an hour, when they
> finally get to the kitchen, tell them that you are out
> of steak, but you have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat
> daily until they don't pay attention to the menu any
> more so they just ask for hot dogs.
>
> 33. When baking a cake, prop up one side of the pan
> while it is in the oven. Spread icing on real thick to
> level it off.
>
> 34. In the middle of January, place a podium at the
> end of your driveway. Have you family stand watches at
> the podium, rotating at 4-hour intervals.
>
>
> 35. Lock yourself and your family in your house for 6
> weeks. Then tell them that at the end of the 6th week
> you're going to take them to Disneyland for "weekend
> liberty." When the end of the 6th week rolls around,
> inform them that Disneyland has been canceled due to
> the fact that they need to get ready for
> Engineering-certification, and that it will be
> another week before they can leave the house.
>
> 36. In your grim, gray dumpster (refer to ..1), with
> 200 of your not-so-closest friend (cite par. 12)
> regardless of gender, suffer through PMS!
>
> 37. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the
> closet door with a curtain. Have you wife whip open
> the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep. She
> should then shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble
> "Sorry, wrong rack."
>
> 38. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the
> middle of your bathtub, move the shower head to chest
> level. When you take showers, make sure you shut off
> the water while you soap down.
>
> 39. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, find a
> wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until
> you become nauseous. Have a supply of
> stale crackers in your shirt pocket.
>
> 40. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on
> high.
>
> 41. For ex-engineering types: leave the lawn mower
> running in your living room eight hours a day.
>
> 42. Have the paperboy give you a haircut.
>
> 43. Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney,
> making sure the wind carries the soot onto your
> neighbors house. Ignore his complaints.
>
> 44. Every other month buy green or red marine primer
> and put it in a paint sprayer. Spray it over the roof
> of your house onto your neighbors
> car. Ignore his complaints.
>
> 45. Lock wire the lug nuts on your car.
>
> 46. Buy a trash compactor, but use it only once a
> week. Store the garbage on the other side of your
> bathtub.
>
> 47. Get up every night around midnight and have a
> peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread.
>
> 48. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during
> the night, jump up and get dressed as fast as you can
> making sure you button up the top button on your
> shirt, stuff you pants into your socks. Run out into
> the
> backyard and uncoil the garden hose.
>
> 49. Once a month, take every major appliance apart and
> put them back together again.
>
> 50. Install a fluorescent lamp under the coffee table
> and then get under it and read books.
>
> 51. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills of
> your front and back doors so that you either trip or
> bang your head every time you pass through one of
> them.
>
> 52. Every so often, throw the cat in the pool and
> shout "Man overboard, starboard side" Then run into
> the house and sweep all the pots and dishes off the
> counter. Yell at the wife and kids for not having the
> kitchen "stowed for sea."
>
> 53. Put on the headphones from your stereo set, but
> don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck
> with string. Go stand in front of your stove. Say ...
> to no one in particular "Stove manned and ready" Stand
> there for three or four hours. And say again to no one
> in particular "stove secured." Roll up your headphones
> and paper cup and place them in a box.
>
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