Recess

Here’s an amusing anecdote about life on base.

Today I used my lunch hour to run over to base and get some grocery shopping done at the commissary.  It was a very pretty day and and I was enjoying the nice Florida spring.

On my way back I drove by the elementary school on base.  The kids were all outside in what I assumed was recess.  The were all in their street clothes.  Except, as always with the military, something was a bit different.  Instead of running through the playground the were running around it.  Cones had been set-up around the perimeter of the playground and every single one of those little grade schoolers were doing laps.

Recess. They do it different in the military.