Yes I like it...that would have been funny.
I got him good once though...well joked him once and then made him feel bad once.
I told some guys to ask the Drill SGT to ask me how my grandmother irons clothes....I told them to tell him I am from WV and that my family lived in the backwoods and my grandmother ironed clothes by heating up a flat rock from the creek.
So he comes over and asks me if I was from WV and I said yes and then he asks how my grandmother irons clothes.
At this point I got a hurt and angry look on my face and said something like.....look I know you are the Drill SGT and I can get in trouble for speaking like this but I do not find it a bit blanking funny that you are making fun of my grandmother....she lost her hands when she was younger so how in the heck could she iron clothes. He was flat out stunned and I could tell he felt bad as he started apologizing and said guys had put him up to ask me about it.
After a few seconds I told him it was just a joke....We got a good laugh out of it and I got to do 50 pushups for my joke lol.
Now for the record I am not making fun of anyone that has lost any limbs or extremeties...just telling a story about what happened back then.
Now on to the other story.
We only had about a day or so left in basic training so he, the SGT, had us sit in the barracks and he was just talking about stuff the happened during our time in basic and then let us ask questions and so on....just kind of a nice situation since we only had a day or so left.
So then he starts asking some of us what we told our parents about him.
You have to understand this was a big man, guy was strong as an ox as well....I seen him take metal frame bunk beds with one hand and jerk them up so hard that they got caught in the low rafters of the ceiling lol.....plus he had these intense eyes, hooked nose and chin.
So he gets to me and asks what I told my parents about him.....I said well are you sure and he said yes go ahead you won't get in trouble.
So I said...well Drill Sgt...I told my parents I think you looked like the d*** devil
I really felt bad about it as soon as I said it because I could tell it hurt his feelings....but he told me to tell him so i did lol.