[audiman08]

I think I learned a life lesson this past weekend...just because you were friends with someone years ago doesn't mean you'll get along with them today. I met up with a buddy I was enlisted in the Navy with a few years ago, after not seeing him for years. He is now in officer training, and decided to call me up so he could crash at my place until his plane left to go back home to New York. After picking him up from the airport, we went to eat. Almost the whole dinner he ranted about how he is going to go back to some old units just to get a few enlisted peons to salute him now that he has his gold bars. He also told me, "hey, don't worry you don't have to salute me...if I'm in a good mood." Then he went on to ask why my wife and I were wasting food, since I set some of my burger toppings aside. He then grabbed them off my plate and ate them. The remaining evening and following day consisted of him treating me like a boot camp recruit, while raiding my pantry and stuffing his pockets with goodies for the flight home. When dropping him off at the airport, I told him he needed to grow up and basically said he had turned into a tool. I was proud that I didn't resort to profanity or worse. I don't know if he changed during ROTC, or I just didn't hang out with him enough years ago to know what he was really like. Anyway, I didn't want to burn bridges but I just couldn't take it anymore.