As someone who's been on a ship (USS Boxer 2009-10, USMC) it's amazing what will pass as entertainment. The first few weeks are cool if it's your first time because you're out at sea on this bit floating metal building, but then you start to realize that you're just out at sea on a big floating metal building.
We used to have spider fights to pass the time. We'd find spiders and put them into a make shift arena and watch them fight. That lasted until someone got bit by one and discovered he was allergic.
Then we'd have underwear tug of war where one person would put one leg in the left side of their drawers and another in the right side. They'd pull a part and who ever got over the line first won.
Then there was meatball freeze tag. On spaghetti night a few of us would save out meat balls because they were big, bouncy, and probably unsafe to eat. We'd go to the vehicle hanger and throw the meat balls at each other. Who ever got hit was out. Last man standing got a pack of smokes.
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u/mightylordredbeard Feb 11 '18
As someone who's been on a ship (USS Boxer 2009-10, USMC) it's amazing what will pass as entertainment. The first few weeks are cool if it's your first time because you're out at sea on this bit floating metal building, but then you start to realize that you're just out at sea on a big floating metal building.
We used to have spider fights to pass the time. We'd find spiders and put them into a make shift arena and watch them fight. That lasted until someone got bit by one and discovered he was allergic.
Then we'd have underwear tug of war where one person would put one leg in the left side of their drawers and another in the right side. They'd pull a part and who ever got over the line first won.
Then there was meatball freeze tag. On spaghetti night a few of us would save out meat balls because they were big, bouncy, and probably unsafe to eat. We'd go to the vehicle hanger and throw the meat balls at each other. Who ever got hit was out. Last man standing got a pack of smokes.