⊰ Her personality ⊱

Army

Mar 22

Age: Army. After basic training, on my way to the unit where I served in an "administrative role" after a knee injury.
Place: Bus, line 404.

Back in the days before mobile phones, I would sometimes listen to soldiers' conversations to keep myself from falling asleep (I usually tell this story along with Flambé).

Soldier A was telling his friend about a girl he had met, describing her: blonde, tall, thin, and so on.
Soldier B cut him off and said:"Never mind her looks - what’s her personality like?"

Me, sitting on the nearby bench, melted. The last righteous man in Sodom, right here beside me. What an honor.

Soldier A, confused: "The what?!"
Soldier B: "You know, her personality - does she put out or not?"

And just like that, I crashed back down to reality from the cloud I had been floating on a second earlier.