John jee, So good of you to have popped in! Frankly, I had not even expected comments from the Sajha established writers such as yourself. Very many thanks. The story above, if one can call it so, is a trashy third rate crap (air-port trash) which I had jotted down this morning. All of a sudden - I thought I wanted to write something outrageous, drawing on my military experience, the practical jokes/banters we like throwing at people.. :) I thought, it will be a welcome change from all other usual stuff, something unique. So, the piece has no artistic merit. Did it purely for fun! I hope that you'll excuse a lot of the swear words there and a lot of typos. I thought, the swear words added a certain air of authenticity to the scene that I wanted to enact - a funny scene where hard-looking weather-bitten field soldiers talked all rough and ready! So, humour is obviously the primary goal. And the quality of the write-up is also crap. Didn't have time to go through it properly, no proof-reading or editing was done. So readers without military backgrounds will natually find some paragraphs hard to understand at first. For example, this one below: ""Left, right, left. This was Private Croft's beefy Platoon Sergeant shouting on top of his lunge. His words of command brought with them tremors that reverberated though the corridors of the Headqaurters."" You'd have asked why in the world the Pl Sgt was shouting and to whom. This was the scene of Private Croft's Pl Sgt marching her down the corridor towards the Adjutant's and Commander's office for her orders as she was reported to have gone on AWOL from her night out in town the other day. You would have seen loads of films - like Full Metal Jacket, where the drill sergeant grills his platoon to bits... or the Police Academy scenes with pranksters and crazy weapon fanatics let loose.. all very funny. I wanted to do the same with my characters! I will be writing its next part (Christmas Dinner) in due course - you might as well come and do a cameo role.. Howaboutthat? :)) I have got loads of anecdots to share with you lot - will pen them down when the elusive muse does finally head my way! I hope all is well with you and that the sultry Baamaa mausam has not dampened your otherwise lively spirit. Also hope that we'll get to read yet another of the grand gripping tales from the Galt land! Take care. Carpe diem