Is It Work Or Play?

[bleujazz3]

Taken from the most recent edition of our local newspaper:

A U.S. Marine colonel was about to start the morning briefing to his staff. While waiting for the coffee machine to finish brewing, the colonel decided to pose a question to all assembled. The colonel explained that his wife had been "a bit frisky" the night before, and he failed to get his usual sound sleep. The colonel posed the question of just how much of sex was "work" and how much was "pleasure"?

A major chimed in with a 75-25 % ratio in favor of work. A captain said it was more 50-50. A lieutenant responded with a 25-75 in favor of pleasure, depending on his state of inebriation at the time.

There being no consensus, the colonel turned to the PFC who was in charge of making the coffee. What was his opinion? Without any hesitation, the young PFC responded, "Sir, it has to be 100% pleasure."

The colonel was surprised and, as you might guess, asked why?

"Well, sir," the enlisted man said, "if there was any work involved, the officers would have me doing it for them." :)

[rosewoodsteel]

Bob,
Now that's a good one. :)

[G.I.G.]

Ha, that's great! Anyone who is active duty or prior service can appreciate that joke!

[Knuckles]

...and here I was thinking this thread would be about gigging: How much of playing out is work and how much is fun, and does one outweigh the other?

[DiverDan]

Outstanding! And true! :p

[bleujazz3]

...and here I was thinking this thread would be about gigging: How much of playing out is work and how much is fun, and does one outweigh the other?

Not to derail, but that actually is a good question, how much is work and how much is fun?

If you're a stay at home Dad with a new baby in tow, THAT'S work, keeping the baby fed, changed and napped.

Fun is tearing a band-aid off your 3-year-old's arm and watching him wince, then smile.

Fun is drinking a glass of wine and not needing to worry about whether the alcohol will be present in breast milk.

FWIW, my high school yearbook picture had as a quote underneath my pic:

"It has always been my intent to mix business with pleasure."

Interestingly, I have found when one enjoys one's work, he is more likely to be a friendly sort of person than one who does his work begrudgingly.

In reality, we are all merely servants of our children, providing for them because they cannot fend for themselves. When they become students of higher learning, they will look back on this and remark how we could have done it ourselves.

Fun is sitting down with your niece or nephew and teaching them a lead line and the chord changes, all in 45 minutes, and they GET it!

[alantig]

Fun is giving your four-year-old daughter a bite of your Slim Jim Tabasco so she'll leave you alone, then watching the facial contortions as the heat hits, watching her gasp "Coke!" then drink about a third of the glass to cool her mouth, then say, "More?" True story.

Fun is watching your son, just learning to walk, stick his hand in a plate with hot (flavor, not temperature) barbecue sauce and stick his hand in his mouth before you can stop him, then watch the soundless cry for thirty seconds before he can take another breath, then...grow up to love the same sauce.

Alan

[dinocicerelli]

Fun is giving your four-year-old daughter a bite of your Slim Jim Tabasco so she'll leave you alone, then watching the facial contortions as the heat hits, watching her gasp "Coke!" then drink about a third of the glass to cool her mouth, then say, "More?" True story.

Fun is watching your son, just learning to walk, stick his hand in a plate with hot (flavor, not temperature) barbecue sauce and stick his hand in his mouth before you can stop him, then watch the soundless cry for thirty seconds before he can take another breath, then...grow up to love the same sauce.

Alan

Yeah, lemon juice. I'd give My Sweet Pea lemon slices when she was a baby, just to see her face.

Just last night, I cooked a Thai shrimp stir fry. I starved her before we ate, so that she'd try it. She loved the first few bites, until the heat hit. Same as above, she knocked back a half can of coke in record time.

Good times.