Friday, April 18, 2008

They Are Getting Desperate

As you may know, our oldest Child of Love is probably going to leave our nest come fall and go off to college.

How am I dealing with it? I’m… adjusting. Le sigh. Le great big emo sigh.

The other day she got this in the mail:

Forget the pic of Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett on the cover. Note the title and who it is from.

Hooah! from the Army National Guard.

Yes, they are trying to recruit MY daughter for the Army.

Obviously, they have done zero homework on her and this is just a part of a mass mailing they send to all High School seniors. Pigs will fly out her butt before she’d ever set foot in a recruiter’s office. Plus, she’d have to step over my dead body which would be barricading the door to her room.

Though I do get a smile thinking about the marketing people in the Army, all coddled together:

“Sir, recruiting levels are down for this graduating class! What should we do?”

“Well, I guess we better start trying to get anyone we can. Let’s push some of those little magazines out to the nerdy-hippie-pacifists. See if we get any hits. You never know, we may get lucky.”

OK, obviously not, but to know my daughter even in the slightest is to know that she would do very poorly in the Army.

Jon scribbled this mess on 04/18/08 at 02:07 PM, best we can tell it fits in the category of Regular Post. This many folks had something to say about that, The permanent home of this entry is here: Link

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