HAVE YOU EVER HAULED A BIG MOUTH IN A PARADE?

joel gopan · Post by **joel gopan** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:03 am

You ain't lived until you get one of these characters as a passenger in the Memorial Day parade. There will be a constant barrage of, "Hey Sweetie, what are you doing after the Parade?" "Climb on in over the side", (while the Jeep was moving) "Hey Beautiful I like your dog, we used to eat them in Nam !" The worst part was going by the reviewing stand, and worrying he would yell something stupid.
Problem with this guy was that he never got closer to Viet Nam and eating dogmeat, than the Air Guard Mess Hall. It took me two years to shake this guy, I did it by leaving the Jeep home, and driving the CCKW, and insisting he climb in back and be quiet.

armydriver · Post by **armydriver** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:15 am

Never had one of those, but I was driving my GPW in a parade in Poteet , Texas when a guy sitting along the parade route, yelled at me with " Hey buddy, you are too fat to be driving that little jeep." ( then lots of laughter from his friends.) I responded. "Well I may be fat, but you are too damned ugly to be at this parade." ( then his buddies really laughed and started ribbing him.) There are all kinds out there.