Tuesday, 11 September 2007

You Know You're An Officer's Kid When...

  • It's not "home", it's "The Quarters"
  • You learn at a very young age how to play a brass instrument.
  • You get asked a million times "The Salvation Army is a...CHURCH?"followed by:"Yeah...but what do your parents DO?"
  • By the fourth year you've been in one place you get nervous around move time.
  • You have friends in at least five different area codes and think nothing of it.
  • You find yourself drawn to the clearence racks when you walk into a store.
  • Your parents have an endless supply of Hallmark in storage somewhere.
  • Most of your parents friends have the initals: DC, DYS, CO, DS.
  • "Family meetings" usually mean you're moving.
  • You can't imagine how someone could live in one place their entire life.
  • At age 16 you go on your first date using the 15 passenger van.
  • Your parents show up in full uniform to any parent teacher conference.

Acknowledgment to Melissa Heatwole (Facebook).

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