After narrowly escaping from the PX (a Non-uniform had picked Uncle Si up and looked him over like she wanted to buy him but put him back on the shelf next to the calendar of the old guy with the beard), Uncle Si continues, carefully, on his way, seeing what there is to see. He stops for a moment in front of another painted concrete wall...
... then climbs on top of a pole to see if there's anything more to see from up there, which there wasn't. Except, of course, for the trees. This is the first time Uncle Si has seen trees since coming to Afghanistan, and he never knew how exciting something as a tree could be!
Not too far from where he stands on top of the pole is a small building with no fences or barbed wire around it to keep people out and Uncle Si decides to have a look inside. Once there, he knows exactly where he is and wishes immediately he wasn't.
Until now, standing on the smelly floor of one, Si didn't know that there were other latrines (as the Uniforms call them) on Fabulous Bagram aside from the little green houses he's already seen and tried to avoid. As soon as he realizes where he is, he turns to head back Outside but has to stop. Footsteps in the rocks mean someone else is coming, and not wanting to be seen, Uncle Si picks the nearest toilet stall and hides. Luckily, the Uniform chooses a different stall and as soon as the Uniform's business is done, Uncle Si runs out wondering how a guy his size, four inches tall, would ever be able to reach the toilet if he wasn't able to stand on the seat?
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