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Civilian Friends
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Service Friends
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Get upset if you are too busy to talk to them for a week.
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Are glad to see you after many years and will happily carry on the same conversation you were having last time you met.
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Never ask for food.
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Are the reason you have no food.
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Call your parents Mr and Mrs.
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Call your parents Mum and Dad.
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Bail you out of jail and then tell you what you did was wrong.
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Would be sitting next to you saying, 'Mate...we stuffed up ...but wasn't that fun!'
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Have never seen you cry.
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Cry with you.
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Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
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Keep your stuff so long they forget it is yours.
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Know a few things about you.
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Could write a book with a shed full of direct quotes from you.
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Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing.
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Will kick the backsides of whole crowds that left you behind.
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Would knock on your door.
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Walk right in and say,
'I'm home, do you want a beer!' |
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Share a few experiences.
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Share a lifetime of experiences no civilian could ever dream of.
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ill take your drink away when they think you've had enough.
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Will look at you stumbling all over the place and say "You'd better drink the rest of that, you know we never waste it."
...... Then they carry you home and put you safely to bed. |
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Will talk crap to the person who talks crap about you.
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Will knock the crap out of people who use your name in vain.
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Are for a while.
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Are for life.
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