Civil/Mil The Friends Difference

[Axel-Flo]

Had this forwarded to me earlier and it both raised a smile and struck a chord. If you've seen it before I appologise for the repeat if not feel free to add any other thoughtrs you may have....:ok:


Subject: The difference between...

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you are too busy to talk to them for a week.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after many years; and will happily
carry on the same conversation you were having last time you met.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Are the reason you have no food.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr and Mrs.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Call your parents Mum and Dad.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Bail you out of jail and then tell you what you did was
wrong.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Would be sitting next to you saying, 'Mate...we stuffed up
...but wasn' t that fun!'

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Cry with you.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it is yours.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Could write a book with a shed full of direct quotes from
you.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Will kick the backsides of whole crowds that left you
behind.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Would knock on your door.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, 'I'm home, do you want a beer!'

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Share a few experiences.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Share a lifetime of experiences no civilian could ever
dream of.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you've had
enough.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the place and say,
'You had better drink the rest of that, you know we never waste it. Then
they carry you home and put you safely to bed.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will talk crap to the person who talks crap about you.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Will knock the crap out of people who use your name in
vain.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Know where you buried the body
MILITARY FRIENDS: Helped you bury the body

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will call you "mate" as a term of endearment
MILITARY FRIENDS: Will call you "Fecking Cnut" "******" "Tosser" as a term
of endearment

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Are for life.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will ignore this.
MILITARY FRIENDS: Will forward this to their military mates (Done), and
Selected Civvie ones too!

[trap one]

Too bloody true mate:D

[ProfessionalStudent]

Very good. Very true. Very poignant. :D

[BRASSEMUP]

Will also remind you about the time you swamped yourself.........And had to do the walk of shame with your p*ssed soaked clothes to the washing woman at the metal factory BL! Ah memories.

[Ali Barber]

Made me smile and, in doing so, brought back some very good memories. For all the bitching about life in the military, that is what it is all about. Thanks.

[Zoom]

I've been out for over 20 years and yet I still have military friends who fit that bill.

And in those 20 years I have made countless civilian acquaintances, some very good ones, but only one friend.

[wokkameister]

Very true...but on the decline sadly.

A friend of mine recently left and started working for a Merchant Bank, had blood seeping through his shirt on the first day as he had fallen down the escalator at kings cross on his leaving doo with his service mates.

c'est la vie