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Song is: "We Got To Get Out Of This Place" from JP Jukebox Camp LeJeune Departure Story We were mustered out of the barracks by 8 am after having breakfast. Dan (another corpsman, name I have forgotten) and I were going to share gasoline and driving back to Ohio where he would drop me off. He told me that he had to go over to main side to pick up these 2 marines that he had met while being there and that he had to drop off in Washington, D.C. Dan didn’t have his car on base but had been parking it at a lot in town so he had to either hitch a ride or walk into town to get it. He asked me to watch his stuff and he’ll be back as soon as possible and the marines. I didn’t think anything about this arrangement until 12 pm, then 1pm went by. I began to suspect something was wrong. About 3pm he finally showed up without the marines telling me that “I just found out that they couldn’t get off until 3:30 pm.” (Guess he didn’t have the nerve to come and get me or he had something else planned. I was thinking to myself “You just found out?” Where have you been since 8 am that morning? Got caught holding the bag again. When will I ever learn!!!!) At 3:30pm we picked them up and started north for Washington, D. C. /When we got to Washington, D. C. they told us (I was driving) to get off at a certain exit and then we would be able to get back on the other side. (Guess they meant the other side of town.) This was about 8:30pm on a Friday night in Washington!!!!! They conveniently got us lost and then to find the entrance within a block of where they needed to go. They then got out but instead of being able to get back on then ended up driving through D.C.’s rush hour traffic. After getting out of town, Dan told me to drive another hour or 100 miles which ever came first. As he had settled down to sleep in back, I turned on the lights and was about 10-15 minutes driving when I saw those dreaded blue lights behind me. I called out to Dan “You better wake up. cause I’m being stopped by a Highway patrolman.” Dan asked me “Were you speeding?” I said “No, something else must be the matter." After I had pulled off and stopped the Higway Patrolman came up and asked to see my license and registration. He then told me “Son, I can’t let you drive on my highway without any tail lights. You’re going to have to pull off up at the next exit and get them fixed.” Dan and I got out and sure enough there were no running lights nor license plate lights. I did as he said at the next exit. (Guess he didn’t trust me cause he followed me into the service station where he saw that repairs were going to be made.) Wiring had shorted out in back. While there the attendant discovered the alternator had quit charging after the repairs were made. This would cost an extra $20.00. I gave Dan $10.00 with him promising to pay me back when we got to Great Lakes Naval Hospital since he was sort on cash. After this was done we got back in and started out again with me driving with the same conditions “Drive 1 hour or 100 miles whichever came first.” As I was driving, I started thinking over the series of events that transpired that day. I realized that Dan had 2 weeks leave while I only had 1 day travel plus 2 days leave, one of which was already blown. I had the funniest feeling that if I did as Dan suggested that I’d wake up somewhere along the highway in the moring cause something else happened. (Dan had mentioned about waiting till the morning to go on.) I decided that I would drive all night or until he woke up. Next morning as I was driving down Narrows road (turned into Main Street 3 miles further) after turning off of route 20 in Perry, Dan finally woke up. He asked me “Did you drive all night? Why didn’t you wake me?” I told him “That’s okay, I just felt like driving. Didn’t want to hurt his feelings about not being able to trust him.” He was from Aurora, Ohio and didn’t know his way in my part of the state. I told him “After we get to my home, unload my stuff, I’ll get my car and get him back on the right road to his home town. After introducing him to my parents and getting my stuff out of his car, I took him back to the interestate. When I got home my father asked me “Did you drive all night by yourself while he slept?” I told my dad what happened and he kind of figured something like that had happened. He also said “Not dependable, reliable?” I said “Something like that.” (Never did get that $10.00 back either) This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page \
Song is: "We Got To Get Out Of This Place" from JP Jukebox
Camp LeJeune Departure Story
We were mustered out of the barracks by 8 am after having breakfast. Dan (another corpsman, name I have forgotten) and I were going to share gasoline and driving back to Ohio where he would drop me off. He told me that he had to go over to main side to pick up these 2 marines that he had met while being there and that he had to drop off in Washington, D.C.
Dan didn’t have his car on base but had been parking it at a lot in town so he had to either hitch a ride or walk into town to get it. He asked me to watch his stuff and he’ll be back as soon as possible and the marines. I didn’t think anything about this arrangement until 12 pm, then 1pm went by. I began to suspect something was wrong. About 3pm he finally showed up without the marines telling me that “I just found out that they couldn’t get off until 3:30 pm.” (Guess he didn’t have the nerve to come and get me or he had something else planned. I was thinking to myself “You just found out?” Where have you been since 8 am that morning? Got caught holding the bag again. When will I ever learn!!!!)
At 3:30pm we picked them up and started north for Washington, D. C. /When we got to Washington, D. C. they told us (I was driving) to get off at a certain exit and then we would be able to get back on the other side. (Guess they meant the other side of town.) This was about 8:30pm on a Friday night in Washington!!!!!
They conveniently got us lost and then to find the entrance within a block of where they needed to go. They then got out but instead of being able to get back on then ended up driving through D.C.’s rush hour traffic.
After getting out of town, Dan told me to drive another hour or 100 miles which ever came first. As he had settled down to sleep in back, I turned on the lights and was about 10-15 minutes driving when I saw those dreaded blue lights behind me. I called out to Dan “You better wake up. cause I’m being stopped by a Highway patrolman.” Dan asked me “Were you speeding?” I said “No, something else must be the matter."
After I had pulled off and stopped the Higway Patrolman came up and asked to see my license and registration. He then told me “Son, I can’t let you drive on my highway without any tail lights. You’re going to have to pull off up at the next exit and get them fixed.” Dan and I got out and sure enough there were no running lights nor license plate lights.
I did as he said at the next exit. (Guess he didn’t trust me cause he followed me into the service station where he saw that repairs were going to be made.) Wiring had shorted out in back. While there the attendant discovered the alternator had quit charging after the repairs were made. This would cost an extra $20.00. I gave Dan $10.00 with him promising to pay me back when we got to Great Lakes Naval Hospital since he was sort on cash. After this was done we got back in and started out again with me driving with the same conditions “Drive 1 hour or 100 miles whichever came first.”
As I was driving, I started thinking over the series of events that transpired that day. I realized that Dan had 2 weeks leave while I only had 1 day travel plus 2 days leave, one of which was already blown. I had the funniest feeling that if I did as Dan suggested that I’d wake up somewhere along the highway in the moring cause something else happened. (Dan had mentioned about waiting till the morning to go on.) I decided that I would drive all night or until he woke up.
Next morning as I was driving down Narrows road (turned into Main Street 3 miles further) after turning off of route 20 in Perry, Dan finally woke up. He asked me “Did you drive all night? Why didn’t you wake me?” I told him “That’s okay, I just felt like driving. Didn’t want to hurt his feelings about not being able to trust him.” He was from Aurora, Ohio and didn’t know his way in my part of the state. I told him “After we get to my home, unload my stuff, I’ll get my car and get him back on the right road to his home town.
After introducing him to my parents and getting my stuff out of his car, I took him back to the interestate. When I got home my father asked me “Did you drive all night by yourself while he slept?” I told my dad what happened and he kind of figured something like that had happened. He also said “Not dependable, reliable?” I said “Something like that.” (Never did get that $10.00 back either)
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