Mark Conley
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Back in the 80's, an air force workplace without a practical joker or paractical jokes just wasnt an air force workplace...
I remember with fondness an Non Comissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC) that had a absolute love affair for new airmen and well really good practical jokes. It would seem that in the darkest hour, or gloomiest day, he could by pulling one of his classics just remove the tension from the guys.
One day, a new airman had just purchased a hostess lemon pie out of the vending machine out front. Our airman made it back to his desk when the NCOIC, who had been chewing the fat with some other NCO's, noticed the pie on his desk.
He asked the new troop had he ever saw the new way to open the pie one handed, but garranteed to remove all the contents quickly? The young man said no, he hadnt.
For those that havent had the luck or the time to ever see a hostess fruit pie in its wrapper..well its a wax paper package about 6 inches by 2 1/2 inches by 1 inch thick that contains one, completely enclosed in a baked shell pie thats shaped like a half moon. it used to sit on a waxed piece of corrugated cardboard (so it wouldnt be broken when it dropped in a machine) and was usally hard as hell to open. :smil:
So the NCOIC carefully arranged the pie on the desk with one of the wrapper ends facing the young man. He asked if he was ready to see the unwrapping. The reply was affirmanative.
Moving so face that you almost couldnt see it, the NCOIC brought his fist down hard on the end of the wrapper away from the airman. The air pressure build-up in the wrapper broke open the side facing the airman...and pushed a pie out as well at just under mach 2. I will never see a sight as strange as the look on the young mans face (Who had bent his head to desk level) when the pie met, collapsed and exploded all over his mouth and eyes.
Everyone was kinda in shock for the first couple of seconds after the blast...until the NCOIC just put a finger on the mans face and got a chunk of the pie and ate it. and then just walked away.
Needless to say...no one else took him up on the offer of one handed pie unwrapping after that. :type:
I remember with fondness an Non Comissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC) that had a absolute love affair for new airmen and well really good practical jokes. It would seem that in the darkest hour, or gloomiest day, he could by pulling one of his classics just remove the tension from the guys.
One day, a new airman had just purchased a hostess lemon pie out of the vending machine out front. Our airman made it back to his desk when the NCOIC, who had been chewing the fat with some other NCO's, noticed the pie on his desk.
He asked the new troop had he ever saw the new way to open the pie one handed, but garranteed to remove all the contents quickly? The young man said no, he hadnt.
For those that havent had the luck or the time to ever see a hostess fruit pie in its wrapper..well its a wax paper package about 6 inches by 2 1/2 inches by 1 inch thick that contains one, completely enclosed in a baked shell pie thats shaped like a half moon. it used to sit on a waxed piece of corrugated cardboard (so it wouldnt be broken when it dropped in a machine) and was usally hard as hell to open. :smil:
So the NCOIC carefully arranged the pie on the desk with one of the wrapper ends facing the young man. He asked if he was ready to see the unwrapping. The reply was affirmanative.
Moving so face that you almost couldnt see it, the NCOIC brought his fist down hard on the end of the wrapper away from the airman. The air pressure build-up in the wrapper broke open the side facing the airman...and pushed a pie out as well at just under mach 2. I will never see a sight as strange as the look on the young mans face (Who had bent his head to desk level) when the pie met, collapsed and exploded all over his mouth and eyes.
Everyone was kinda in shock for the first couple of seconds after the blast...until the NCOIC just put a finger on the mans face and got a chunk of the pie and ate it. and then just walked away.
Needless to say...no one else took him up on the offer of one handed pie unwrapping after that. :type:
