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the submariner |
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Between the innocence of infancy and the recklessness of maturity comes the unique specimen of humanity known as the Submariner.
Submariners can be found in bars, in arguments, in bed, in debt and intoxicated. They like receiving mail, mid-monthly's, nude pin-ups, sympathy, complaining and beer.
A Submariners secret ambition is to change places with the Captain for just one trip, to own a brewery and to be loved by everyone in the world.
A Submariner is a Sir Galahad in a Japanese brothel, a psychoanalyst with Readers Digest on the table, Don Quixote with a discharge note, the saviour of mankind with his back teeth awash, Valentino with a fiver in his pocket and democracy personified in a Red Chinese prison cell.
A Submariner is a provider in war and a parasite in peace. No one is subject to so much abuse, wrongly accused, so often misunderstood by so many as a Submariner. He has the patience of Job, the honesty of a fool and the heaven sent ability to laugh at himself.
When he returns home from a long trip, no one else but a Submariner can create such an atmosphere of suspense and longing as he walks through the door with the magical words on his lips:
"Have you got the wets in then ?"
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| copyright gashbag @ 2004 |
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