"Fruit At a formal dinner, fruit is to be eaten with a knife and fork. ... Cake Cake is eaten with a fork, or a fork and spoon. ... Bacon Bacon is to be eaten with a fork." |
Perhaps the most important question to be asked is, now that the Marine Corps Association, "The Professional Association for All Marines" has released this profoundly useful guide for officers and their wives, do they intend to publish a more useful publication that could be used by "All Marines" and their wives? Something that answers silly questions like "How the (insert expletive of choice) does TriCare work?" "Should I get a new driver's license?" "How do I build a career when moving every few years?" "What the (insert choice word again) are my taxes going to look like?" and "It's nice that the PX is tax free and all, but why are the clothes so darned expensive in the first place?". At least this book gave me some guidelines for greeting sentries at the gate. Apparently wishing they'll stay dry when it's raining is entirely too friendly. Then again, these are just rules for officers and their spouses. Maybe the beauty of being the wife of an enlisted Marine is that I can still act like a normal person, albeit a frequently clueless one.