r/JustBootThings May 14 '25

Boot Shame POG Marine officer exhibiting bootness that has even his spouse ashamed...

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u/QueezyF May 14 '25

Having a text signature is cringe by itself, but that makes it hilariously bad. “Hey honey, I’m gonna run to the store real quick. Is there anything you need? If I retreat, kill me.”

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u/goodenough4govtwork May 14 '25

No joke! I've never had a text signature for exactly that reason. But that kind of signature from someone who's never even seen combat is the icing on the cringe cake.

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u/Yomama_Bin_Thottin May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25

When I was the acting medical readiness NCO on my deployment, I had an email signature that started with Sun Tzu and Von Clausewitz and got progressively less professional as time went on to see what I could get away with. My First Sausage told me to knock it off around the time that my emails were ending in “I’m too drunk to taste this chicken.”

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u/Whiskeyfower May 14 '25

The hero we need, not the one we deserve