I was standing with all the other excited wives, waiting for the men to get off the plane, and mentioned how I wish they'd all walk faster... Seriously, the new dads get off first, and they take their sweet sweet time walking across the airfield to get to their families. And they kinda set the pace for everyone else...
So the ladies are scanning the distant faces, the height, postures, and some even how the people walk, trying to figure out where their man is as soon as possible. They park the plane so far away, you can't even tell the marines from the desert Seabee uniforms. So I mentioned mine would be easy to spot. He's the one that moves the fastest... My man can run.
Sure enough, a figure in quite a hurry took off sprinting as soon as he hit the California soil. I screamed "There he is!" and ran for the fence. I couldn't even make out his face until he was halfway there. Apparently he yelled "Screw you guys!" as he raced past the new dads, the barrier, and then into my arms. He wasn't a new dad, that's for sure, but I was one of the very first ladies to get her man back anyways.
Let's just say he made all the other men look bad, and I'm sure some got a bit of talking to for it afterwords. lol He always gets other men in trouble for outshining them as husbands/boyfriends... *sighs*
noelle on September 01 2009 11:39:39 ·
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