Sometime last night, I think it was around eight PM, I was speaking to my wife , answering a question she asked: how many miles do you think you traveled while in the Navy? Blank stare. I simply said, “More than five miles.” How does one answer a question like that? As is typical of me, I morphed that into: “How many steps have I taken since I was born?” Have you kept track of how many steps you’ve taken? If you say, yes, I am not going to believe you. Even if you make a wild guess I will throw it out even before you throw it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One has to guess but even a guess is a fruitless gesture. Nobody knows how many steps a person has taken. More than one hundred is merely an admission of the brick wall in one’s mind a person comes up against. A person would have to keep a notebook immediately after the first step because entering into some computer program would not be done until at least seven years old. A guy like me on a ship like the one I was on has to guess hundreds of thousands of miles because we sailed from the U.S. West Coast to Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, and Hawaii – Pago Pago and points in the Antarctic Ocean. I didn’t mention China as we weren’t supposed to be in Chinese waters but we were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next time your wife or husband asks how many steps or miles you’ve traveled just say, “It’s classified.”<\/p>\n
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