Here’s a short item on pay parade.
Norm Gibson of Hove, Sussex, U.K., says he was at a holding unit in Aldershot where a multiple-copy acquittance roll had to be signed.
A Canadian newcomer signed so lightly that his signature didn’t register through all the sheets of carbon paper.
“Put your weight on it,” the sergeant shouted.
The soldier promptly wrote: “164 pounds.”
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