Gosh, i just had mid-day parade...it's a kind of afternoon fall-in to check our company's strength and to issue new orders and all that. No real marching or whatever lah.
One of my fellow sergeants, who's also an army
regular by the way, was conducting the parade, and i think he heard one of the men mention something about welfare...so he made everyone drink a full one-litre bottle of water at one go and empty the bottles on their heads to prove they had finished it.
That sergeant called it
welfare, and it looked like he really believed it!! I mean, it IS exaggerating it quite a bit, but people can DIE from drinking too much water at one shot! And today was pretty much a no-sweat day too...
As a fellow sergeant, i didn't have to be forced to drink water for my "welfare". And to be
observed doing it too, for "proof". But anyway i was standing on one side and trying my best not to laugh.
Or cry. Because i know these things happen EVERY DAY and will happen TOMORROW.
The brainlessness of it all...
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...it's almost killing me.
