Remember that scene from “An Officer and a Gentleman” where Mayo (Richard Gere) running in place with his rifle above his head while being hosed down with cold water and then has to do 100 pushups in the mud and then after that all that is forced to do leg lifts and Foley (Lou Gossett Jr.) is standing over him and yelling?
Well, if not, then here is a reminder:
Foley: “Now tell me what I want to hear. I want your DOR. I want your DOR.”
Mayo: “I ain’t gonna quit!”
Foley: “Just give me your DOR and you can go home to your daddy and the two of you can get drunk and go whore-chasing together.”
Mayo: “No Sir!”
Foley: “That’s it, you’re out.”
Mayo: “Don’t you do it, don’t you do it. I got no where else to go … *crying* I got no where else to go.”
Well, 2016 is Foley and I am Mayonnaise. It keeps kicking my ass and I keep taking it, because I have no choice. First it was trouble getting the bus started in the cold weather, then I had to replace 2 starters in the jeep, and now we hit something with the mini and the drain plug on the gas tank is stripped out right after I filled up the gas tank. The hits just keep coming and keep us from being able to catch a breath for more than a moment. We are barely keeping our nose out of the muddy water while being forced to do pushups, and my arms are getting weaker and weaker and it feels like if I have to do one more thing, my arms are gonna give out and I’m gonna die, face-down in that mud, and I won’t care I’ll just lay there and drift off because I no longer give a fuck.
I simply do not have anywhere else to go.
Man, I wish I could just quit. I wish I could give my DOR and go home and get drunk and chase whores with my daddy (not that my dad did either one.) That sounds like a great fucking option right now. I’d totally hand in my DOR and get the fuck out. But, like May, “I got no where else to go.”
Come on 2016, just give us a break will you. Give us a little breathing room so we don’t drown in the mud.
Reminds me of one of my favorite cadences that they absolutely would not let us do in Air Force Basic Training:
“Went to his room and lined up 100.
Swore up and down he'd fuck every one.
Fucked 98 till his balls turned blue.
Then he backed off, jacked off, and fucked the other two!”
