Raf's leetle mooolteeeplyeee saaayyyt.

A tale from my late grandfather (hilarious man to the end) about an incident that occurred while he was fighting the Japanese in Bataan during World War II.

So the Japs were starving them out in Bataan and they had nowhere to go except dig in and fight. Part of the digging in process was to make latrine trenches where everyone could just go up, squat and do their thang. Well one time, while my grandfather was about to do his business... a Japanese Zero fighter comes bearing down on the shitting trench with guns blazing. At this point my grandfather said he only had two choices: Jump in the crap hole to avoid the bullets or just stand there.

Without even seconds to think about it... he chose to stand. Amazingly enough he didn't get hit and apparently the bullets just missed him by inches (he was lucky enough to have been standing on a spot that was inbetween bursts of gunfire) but the guys who jumped in the trench weren't so lucky. They jumped but still got hit.

So he gave me a moral lesson that day... either take a stand and die trying and win... or give in, jump in the shit and you just might kick the bucket anyway.

He was laughing for the rest of the day tho. Strange man.