#8 According to my Dad, one of the senior Missile Launch Officers would call one of the newbies at the wee hours of the morning and inform them it was time for a PA gurgle test. This would be done in a deadpan serious tone, as if it's one of the normal routines. The fresh-faced officer would be directed to flush the toilet and count the number of gurgles it made during the flushing cycle and duly report this back to the S-MLO. My Dad they had one poor guy doing this for hours.
The only story he told about them trying something on him was where they'd unscrewed part of the alarm panel, hidden an old two bell alarm clock set for 3-4 am and put the panel back. He said he went over and listened a moment, then got a screwdriver and took it apart. This does fit his character, given he took apart his mother's washing machine to make a centrifuge that wound up being unbalanced and sent a flying two by four through the garage window. Lucky for the mice in the cage on the end, the acceleration of being spun around had already killed them. Needless to say, his idea of a science fair project involving mice living in high gravity had to be replaced. |
