More funny business

We left early (3:30am) Wednesday morning to get to MEPS. (I thought Nathan was leaving Tuesday?? Yes, so did we. We got to MEPS and it turns out that they had screwed up a piece of his paperwork and so they couldn't ship him that day...so we had to go back down Wednesday) On the way I my mom texted me this photo:

This is the remains of my dad's truck. He was going home from work (he works nights) and went to cross a set of train tracks and just as he got to them he noticed out of the corner of his eye a little light. He slammed on his brakes, hit black ice and slamed into the train. He's lucky he saw the little light (which I believe was a headlamp on a helpment of the driver)...otherwise the train would have hit him instead of him hitting the train. Turns out they were moving train cars around and didn't turn on the train lights, crossing lights or put the arm-thingy down. The truck is totaled...obviously. And my dad was very sad about that. (Funny thing is that this is his old, ugly work truck...he has a brand new Dodge Ram Megacab at home. My mom thinks he would have been LESS sad if that truck were totalled instead)



Here's something else that's funny:

This is all the booters (slang for new sailers going to boot camp) sitting in lines in the concourse of the O'Hare Airport. They treated Nathan really well...told him to go hang out at the USO office...so he did. He sat on their couch and watched TV. And he fell asleep. He woke up Thursday morning and realized he'd been left behind. Seriously. But he took a cab and now he's at the base and all set. Oh, my funny honey.