Military Blunders

[luciemule]

Thought I'd start a more light hearted thread coz I'm bored and have just remembered something funny when reading someone else's post about dinner nights.
Tell me about any funny moments you've had as a forces wife/partner.
Here's my most embarrassing:

It was our dining out from DH's LAD posting and I was sitting next to the CO (lovely guy/quite shy). Was shaking a bit all through dinner in case I said/did something really stupid to embarrass my self.
During the night, the CO had been telling me about how groggy he was feeling as he'd literally just got back from his para course and he said he could hardly walk, his feet were hurting so badly and they were covered in raw blisters. Anyway - following dinner and speeches, he got up to present me with a bouquet of flowers and as I felt myself going bright red as I hadn't stood up straight away to accept them, I hastily shoved back my chair and got up a bit too quickly. In doing so I stood awkwardly with my high heel right on his blistered foot! The thing was, I didn't even realise until he said "you're standing on my foot". I nearly burst into tears. He was very sweet about it though and I apologised big time.

Okay - so as I read that back I thought it wasn't actually that funny but I bet you girls have loads more funny stories..

i once asked our air commodore for his id. (to give him his due, he did hand it over, but then complained to my boss)

and my lovely lovely friend forgot to salute the queen. and you could see the evidence on bbc1 every time they rolled the item... that cost him...

oh, um, as a wife... as you were

That's is funny madwoman - about the ID.
Did the queen notice?

i was merrily trilling away at a dinner party, thinking i was talking to one of a group of visiting officers, and asked them which unit they were from. one of them introduced himself as dh's boss. that was quite funny. [not sure if dh agreed]

No MW - that's funny too. Our CO and his wife would just drive onto camp and expect to be waved through but tbh, there could be someone in the back of the car with a gun telling them to drive them onto camp.
What job do you do again?

i was v new with the id. but i didn't live it down for some time...

i'm sure the queen did notice, but she was far too polite to mention it. we, on the other hand, weren't.

i left last year - these days i bicker over the only job within 50 miles with the rest of the camp lol.

the id thing was vip handling for a flight. i got to carry bags and everything ... although that reminds me - there was also a really good news clip that showed HRH wills and his dad putting their own bags in the back of the landrover outside the vip lounge at brize. i wasn't on duty then...

When DH was on op tour, I heard something smash downstairs in the kitchen late at night. So I grabbed DD out of her cot and took her into my room - armed with magnalight torch - and was so petrified called the guardroom from the phone in my room, whispering that there was someone downstairs and could they come (we lived about 50 metres from the guard room). So two of them came ( I was peeing myself as I had to go downstairs to let them in) and searched my entire house and garden (or so I thought) and found nothing. They were okay about it but they looked a bit giggly as if they thought I was bonkers.
The next morning I went downstairs completely dismissing the night before but when I went into the kitchen, I found broken glass by the bin which had fallen off the worktop. Completely freaked I went into the hall and stood thinking that someone was in the house. All of a sudden, a huge, black cat jumped out from bnehind DDs pushchair which was standing by the understairs cupboard and it shot upstairs. I chased after it thinking it would come downstairs again but no - it jumped out my open bathroom window (second floor!) and ran off unscathed! Sorry -that was quite long! Later on that morning I went to the guardroom and told them and they pissed themselves laughing but so did I. They must have thought I was really dappy.

So they should! (the bags thing).

lol. normally here it's dh trying to break in because he's left his keys at work...

well - got up this morning and smelt cat wee (we;re in our own civvie house now not MQ) and I had stupidly set the cat flap wrong. I found a little visitor curled up on our window sill, unable to cat out again through locked cat flap. Smells of cat spray everywhere! Must be me and cats!!!