Ballenxj wrote:
Griff in Fairbanks wrote:
The few times people mentioned the noise, I'd tell them, "This is a truck that spends a lot of time off the pavement. If you want quiet, find someone else for a ride."
Hahaha! That sounds like something I might have said.
I've raised it to an art form.
In one case, a road trip, the person kept mentioning it every few miles. I finally pulled over, 50 miles from town in the-middle-of-nowhere Alaska, and said walking would be quieter.
(I'm a deliberate *******, pulling out that persona when I felt appropriate ... he was an everyday annoying *******.)
At one point in my military career, I had the nickname "Gunny Griff" ... because people said I acted more like a USMC Gunnery Sergeant than a USAF Technical Sergeant. (This was around the time Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak Ridge" was in the threaters ... and only one person dared call me that to my face.)
In 1989, I took over as Chief, Alaskan Air Command Small Computer Technical Center. (I originally set up the AAC SCTC and helped write the Air Force regulations on SCTCs.) After a few weeks sizing things up, I was talking with the ranking SCTC NCO about my plans. At one point in the discussion, he said, "Griff, do you know how many people you're going to piss off?" (He agreed with me and was just warning me.) I replied, "Ken, when it comes to getting the job done, I consider ******* a compliment."
