Rumors

Military rumor-telling must be the longest held tradition of them all. We had not landed two minutes ago at our deployed location when the maintenence crew chief plugged in his headset and said. "How was the trip? Have you heard that we are moving to..."

Americans are wasteful. We are moving (not where the crew chief thought we were, thank goodness), so we have to clean out our rooms of all the collected junk that others have discarded. I took four HUGE boxes and one old duffel bag to the dumpster - a lot of garbage, but a lot of uneaten food. Spunkmeier muffins, bags of chips, half-eaten snack cakes. Meanwhile, the locals who work on the base go home to minimal food. It makes me feel disgusted with what our land of plenty has turned us in to. Selfish wasteful thoughtless consumers.