Just had to bring up mess deck, hey
In 1963, I was awarded an all expense paid cruise across the Pacific.
The only thing required of me for said award was to pull KP every other day for the entire cruise. The cruise line provided me a berth on the USS General W A Mann.
Between San Francisco and Pearl Harbor we lost a boiler---but like any fine line---the cruise went on--albeit now extended to 28 days. But, surrounded by 5000 fellow tourists, how could such a trifle detail be bad.
But bad it got, about 5 days out of Yokohama Japan we encountered a typhoon. Unable to out run or out maneuver the devil our strategy was to hold on! I might have been the only one on board that did not get sea sick
We spent three days trying to keep the bow into the wind and preventing our stomachs from turning inside out. On the second and worst day I was on KP---possibly the best place I could be---no dishes to wash and not a lot of folks sharing the contents of their stomach.
Overall, that cruise still ranks as number one in the assault on my dignity.
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