Trish
IMPress Polly (08-22-2019)
Well, I cannot speak for others, but I am $#@!ing delightful.
Serious note on the article in the OP; the author seems to have a weird background and I cannot find qualifications anywhere. I guess he wrote a book about a fat tiger? Generally, people are both positive and negative and it is simply more pronounced during periods of their lives or at certain times. Narcissism and histrionics are more deeply ingrained and less common than simply being an unagreeable or neurotic person.
IMPress Polly (08-24-2019)
I had a friend (still do) and when he was described by a mutual friend, he said "he's the nicest guy you'll ever meet until he opens his mouth, then the top half of his head pops open and black goo oozes out"
We had a guy in the USS Constellation (CV-64) named Hutchins.
He was always negative about everything. Like was said before. he would suck the moral out of the room just by making an appearance.
A real class A $#@!. I was fortunate to be the same rank as he, so I was left alone, but I did have to insulate the guys in my shop from him and his antics.
Once right before a major deployment, someone went out in downtown San Diego and paid for a years subscription to three different gay porn magazines and had them mailed to the ship with his name on them.
Now, let me explain how mail gets to us. We have a special plane called the COD bird, Carrier On-board Delivery. When deployed it flies to wherever and collects bags of our mail from wherever, then flies them back to the ship. As it lands an announcement is made. " The COD bird has just landed with _____ pounds of mail", and we all cheer.
The mail bags are then carried up to the main mail room where it is sorted out by department.
Once sorted by department, an announcement is made, " All department mail orderlies lay to the post office to pick up mail". We all cheer again.
Then it is sorted again by division or shop and you get your mail.
MAGAZINES, especially ones with a brown paper cover are especially looked over by the orderlies as they might be Hustler, Penthouse, Oui, ect.
Now imagine if one was gay porn! ...AND it has the guy's name on it.
Contrary to what some of you may think (yeah, I saw the posts) us squids are manly men who love women and kicking ass.
But Hutchins was so disliked we always made sure we had one of "his" magaizines opened up on his desk whenever they came in.
SIDE NOTE: No matter what your mail is, it always smelled like perfume. The ladies sprayed a little perfume on their loved one's letter and when you throw them all in the same bag, anything in that bag all smells like perfume.
The stories i could tell everyone about Navy mail.