One night a man went inside a bar and ordered 12 beers. He drank them all as fast as he could and staggered out of the bar… He returned the next day, and stated to the bartender: “I ...read more!

Very few people outside the military know what a quartermaster does. So during my aircraft carrier’s Family Day, I demonstrated a procedure called semaphore-I grabbed my flags and signaled an ...read more!

I worked as a medical intern in a hospital, one of my patients, who was  an elderly man with a thick accent. It took a while before I understood that he had no health insurance. Since he was a ...read more!

During basic training, our drill sergeant asked all Jewish personnel to make themselves known. Six of us tentatively raised our hands. Much to our relief, we were given the day off from the rough ...read more!

My husband was stationed overseas and our 5-year-old daughter decided that she needed a baby brother. “Good idea,” I told her. “But why don’t we  wait till your ...read more!

Short and baby-faced, my friend Frank  had trouble being taken seriously in the Army. A mustache, he assumed, would fix that, but He was wrong. “Frank!” bellowed our drill instructor ...read more!

At an age of 85, an old man applied for his first passport. He was told he would need a birth certificate, but he explained that his birth had never been officially registered. When he explained ...read more!

For some reason, the cash counter clerk couldn’t get the computer to recognize my preferred customer card. Peering over her shoulder at the screen, I said, “There’s part of the ...read more!

A friend and I were hitchhiking, but no one would stop. “Perhaps,  it’s our long hair,” I joked. With that, my friend scrawled on a piece of cardboard: “Going to the ...read more!

“What is that sound?” a woman visiting our nature center asked. “It’s the frogs trilling for a mate,” Jade, the naturalist, explained. “We have a pair in the ...read more!