...Your idea of yellow jacket extermination involves strategically positioning an entire pack of firecrackers at the entrance to their nest in the woodpile, lighting the fuse, and running away.
Also, your idea of getting rid of a huge hornet's nest in a tree involves a shotgun.
I guess when you work with bombs and missiles and things that go boom! for a living for many years, as the Husband did in the Navy, firecrackers and shotguns as rather unconventional methods of insect control are no big deal. He was an Aviation Ordnanceman, and has always been a redneck. Come to think of it, those incidents apply equally well to "You might be a redneck if" so he's got a double dose of influence that makes my life entertaining.
Up on the flight deck for FOD walkdown. FOD is a word that my kids are growing up with, lol.
It's funny how the military can influence your day to day habits, thinking, and speech, and you may not even realize it unless somebody points it out. I'm a veteran myself, who grew up in a military family, plus I'm married to a retired veteran; so even though we are now civilians who don't live anywhere near a base, it's still difficult for me to imagine life without military influence of some sort. It's simply part of my culture and "who I am".
One day the Husband took the kids to preschool, and I picked them up. One of the other moms regaled me with her gleeful account of how, in the elevator that morning, Little Man had run into somebody and the Husband said, "Son! You really need to have more situational awareness!"
"Who says situational awareness to their kids?" giggled the other mom, to me.
Um, I do? You mean that's weird?
Military time is a thing in our house (and the same mom who laughed at "situational awareness" also found it amusing that I write "0845" instead of "8:45" on the sign in sheet at school.) I don't hang onto military time out of irrational devotion to military life. It's a habit and I just happen to like it better. I've also had somebody remark on the fact that I "walk fast" and with a purpose.
I guess we are civilian non-conformists :-)))
For the other veterans around here, in what ways has military influence become a permanent part of your own personal life?
(This article is inspired by the fact that my dependent ID is expired and I'll have to venture into the wonderful world of PSD to get another one. I guess the best way to explain PSD to civilians is to liken it to the DMV. Hooray for government acronyms!)