In the Army, we generally know everyone else by last name. I know some of my friends by first name, but most of my acquaintances and coworkers I know mainly by their last name.
Back when we were in Basic Training, there was a whiteboard where we would write our names every time we got in trouble, and these people would get assigned a fireguard shift where they basically stay awake for an hour in the middle of the night, which sucked because nobody got enough sleep in Basic.
15. Writing your first name on the board when nobody in the platoon knows your first name.
When I was the one who had to wake him up for the shift, I realized that the next person on the fire guard list was someone with a Hispanic first name. I woke up every Hispanic person in my platoon (this being the U.S. Army, there were plenty of them) and the very last one I chose happened to be my future roommate. I guess technically he was my roommate then, too, in addition to the other 50 roommates I had.
That was my first interaction with this guy, and it left a very poor first impression. Later it was made worse when he would sing Tool songs in a tinny, squeaky, nasal voice towards the end of Basic Training.
And by the way, this week I will try to make like 5 posts, because my roommate has decided to feed me gold all month while I was too busy to really work on this site.
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