Archive for June, 2010
Staying clean in camp, what's the deal?
I can't stand being dirty. Just before it gets dark, I heat up this huge coffee pot of water on the camp stove to boiling, and pour it into a bucket and mix it with cold water. I get a towel and a pair of flip flops and step behind a few trees and wash off. My biggest problem is gettin my hair clean; it's down past my shoulders. I keep myself in good shape: if you catch a sight of me washing, and want to stare, I figure that is your problem, not mine. I shave, and use clean clothes every day.
I have been with people who simply don't wash, change clothes, or shave the entire weekend. What the heck is the deal with that? Don't they know they smell terribly?
Crashn87
Being in the Army makes you enjoy being dirty?
How exactly does that work? Explain that to me. I will wait right here. I can't wait to hear your logic on that one. Let me get some popcorn and a drink. This should be good.
Unknown Truth
So you enjoyed being dirty in the Army and decided to make it a permanent part of your life? I didn't.
Boris Karloff
So you would be totally happy camping out with a bunch of homeless people; how dirty other people are does not concern you?
Cheburon
Wow what deep emotion
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