Blonde Moments

I'll be travelling the next couple of days.  In fact, I travelled today to one of my nearby sites.  It was another day where it took almost 5 hours to get six miles down the road ~ most of which was spent waiting for my ride to come back. 

Tonight, when they picked me up, they told me that they had to stop at another site on the way back and drop a pallet off.  They were sincerely hoping that the forklift would be there to greet them.  Well, it wasn't.

They told me I could get out and stretch my legs, and I took them up on it.  The problem is, though, this is on a training compound for the Afghan National Army and apparently, they were just getting out of supper.  Because, suddenly, there were gobs and gobs of the guys marching in somewhat of a formation past our humvee.  The gunner laughed when a couple of the guys practically turned their heads right off trying to get a look at me.  I went and hid on the far side of the humvee after that.  It was just too... unnerving.

Finally, they brought out a little bobcat forklift to get the pallet off the truck.  The humvee driver and I looked at it and immediately said, "no way will that little thing lift that".  And we were right.  The little bobcat started to tip over and it had barely lifted the pallet a foot off the bed of the truck.  So, it set the pallet back down and off they went to find something a little...meatier.  Out comes this huge forklift that easily slid the pallet onto its forks. 

The best part of the night?  I made it back to my Camp just before supper at the DFAC closed.

Yes!  Score:  Shawn = 1, DFAC = 0.  You will not defeat me today, DFAC.   Not today.