3 of us wander over to the px tonight. we've got pogs, which yes, are those stupid cardboard things popular for some stupid reason a decade ago. the px uses them instead of real change because they're lighter to fly back and forth. i hate the px with a passion. it's just the worst organization ever and in my mind it doesn't service the customers. pogs are a good example. even though they say that they are redeemable at any px location worldwide when i went home from my last deployment and tried to use them, i got into a huge argument with the cashier and the store manager about whether or not i could use them in the states and ended up walking out of the store and throwing away about 50 bucks worth of the things. basically they make alot of money off of them because they're easier to loose or destroy than real coins and because they offer up resistance at other worldwide locations when you try to use them. think about how much change you acquire in the average month. multiply that by 12. then multiply that by the hundreds of thousands of soldiers deployed. if even 5% of those guys don't redeem their pogs the px has made tons of money. tracking?
ANYWAYS. we're walking through the px and frick and frack see toy battery operated boats for $1.29. yet another reason to hate the px. don't stock the shelves with stuff we need. no. send over crap that wouldn't sell in the states knowing that soldiers will eventually buy it here out of pure boredom. so after trying to talk the guys into not buying the boats, they buy them and we walk back and i give them batteries. it rained very heavily a couple days ago, so the lake behind our house is back. they go out there, drop the boats in and sit back to watch.
the First Sergeant from the new unit that is replacing us came out and watched with us for a couple minutes. then he got really bored with it and said "man. you guys REALLY need to get laid if this is exciting to you." and started to walk away. "hey top? you realize that this is going to be you in 12 months? your brain will be so mushy that you'll love this?" i think he whimpered...
8 comments:
Yikes.
About the "money," that's terrible! Hope you get them changed before you come back.
you probably just burst his bubble!
Gosh, it hurts my...something...just thinking about it.
My friend Matt, who works as a contractor over there, and makes really good money risking his life every day, (as opposed to regular army, his previous profession, where he risked his life daily for peanuts) told me he's accumulated a huge collection of pron just for the reasons you described.
He said, "I don't want to forget what that part of my body is for..."
Of course, he gets a month stateside every three months to attempt to score.
i forgot to mention, the boats only lasted about 3 minutes before they filled with water and sank. not only do they sell junk that we don't need or really want, but they sell poorly designed and manufactured junk.
pw... i'm trying to spend it all here, but i'm running out of stuff to buy.
megan. i know. i took perverse pleasure in it too.
trouble... yeah, it's been fun watching guys try to either sell or throw out their porn without looking like pervos.
Nice.
Huh, you'd think they would actually send over quality stuff...
Horrible about the goofy pogs. AND... the crap they sell you. Have you ever tried to fit them into a vending machine :) This is so horrible to even mention, but a true story.
Once out of desparation in a ladies room while on vacation...I needed a certain female product out of a machine. I had NO MONEY on me, and was stuck in there alone. I dug a token from the bottom of my purse that my son had left over from the arcade. It fit perfectly.
I felt terrible about ripping off the vending machine owner, but hey... sometimes a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do :)
Forget how I found you, but I think I'll stay awhile and read. I wished you were shit'en about the pogs. POGS? for God's sake, you think that a debit card would be a) more useful, b)lighter, c) a helluva lot more accurate, and d) more consistent across all px's. Lemme see, you are putting your life on the line over there and we're handing out worthless crap for useless pogs. Hmm, my heart goes out to you.
peace.
Post a Comment