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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 3298040, member: 19250&quot;]I need to sign up for Medicare mid April...</p><p>Funny story about the draft board... well funny now.... then not so funny!</p><p>Since I turned 18 in H.S. they allowed you the time from class to go register before your 18 birthday or on....it.</p><p>So I did... so one day I am sitting in class and the intercom comes on and ask???</p><p>Is Paddy in class...and the English teacher and 1/2 The class reply yes he is.</p><p>Please send him down to the office....so I diddy bop down the hall still wondering what I did ?????&nbsp; And of course before I left the class room the other class members are razing me what did you do?</p><p>I enter the office and am greeted by my guidance counselor Mrs. Luba, and two men in uniforms . </p><p>Now what I didn&#039;t know was they had already did a fly by my home and asked my mom my wearabouts...... she said school.</p><p>So I enter the counselors office and I am told that I will be escorted by these two men in uniforms to be inducted into the service.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Long story short the old woman at the draft board some how messed up my paper work...and had be born in 1950 not 54! Thus I was late by years mind you , for reporting for induction as my draft number was always in the top 100 numbers picked.</p><p>&quot;My old joke...only lottery I ever hit was the draft lottery&quot; now mind you the woman at the draft board as my memory serves me ...looked as she had one foot in the grave and the other on a bananna peel!</p><p>Well everything was resolved...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>But for about an hour.....I was ...well let&#039;s say <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! My pants.</p><p>I am sitting there saying I&#039;m not that stupid that I&nbsp; just spent the last 4 years try to get through high school.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And of course my school records proved it....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>But yeah those days were a blast ....if you didn&#039;t need to worrie about your rich uncle wanting to send you on an all expense paid vacation to China beach!</p><p>&nbsp;This was 1972.... and two years later Saigon fell.... and I just kept asking myself why? Of course these were my college years..... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie102" alt=":writer:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie105" alt=":yuck:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and it was the 70&#039;s. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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