Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I created an account on arrse purely to post this experience, because it crosses my mind every few weeks and makes me chuckle.
While I don’t want to sound like I’m on a high horse this story genuinely happened.
I currently work at Currys and have done for a couple of years nearly, and a good few months back I was doing my usual mundane sh!te and this bloke came along, talking to me about tellys and stuff and just wanted info. Told him what he wanted to hear and I thought that would be it. He then explained he works as a self employed electrician, which as you can imagine my response was “oooooo” and he started chatting about that.
Then it happened. He asked me what my future plans were and I said I’d recently applied to join the army. (start basic next month as of writing, quite excited to say the least now.). He seemed relatively interested, and there was a slightly short/slightly long uncomfortable pause. He then explained how before he was an electrician he was in the army, and.... wait for it....
*leans in* “this is what regiment I was in”
*shows back of phone case showing the winged dagger*
He then proceeded to explain how he knew them lot on the balcony. And told me about numerous ops he’d been on which he couldn’t tell me about(?)
i understand I’m not in, and I might not even be in a position to cringe at this, but my god I was glad I was wearing a facemask.
I mean if he was in then fair play, but I was getting huge vibes of Super Army Soldiers.
A good 20 minute chat with him, I earned about £3 in that time.
