Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
Once I was Commissioned, I always had a dream that one day, I'd walk into a room on some camp somewhere and he'd be sitting down at his desk, giving some young apprentices a bit of stick or clever arsed comments and I could say to him
'....stand up when I come in smart-arse........ You don't remember me do you......... Apprentice Laidler......, remember........, you told me my sketch of the 3.5 rocket launcher trigger mechanism looked like something I'd nicked off an old cooker! Not so smart now are you...
It never works out like that Peter. I was relentlessly bullied by a much older (and so much bigger) boy at my junior school. I dreamt of the time when we would be the same size and I could take him on with a chance of paying him back. We both grew up as I had planned but I became a Systems Engineer and he a local hard man and villain. So I shelved my my plan indefinitely.