08-22-2012, 02:16 PM
I was traveling over the Pacific Ocean some years ago en route to Los Angeles. I was traveling with a Marine who shared a seat in coach with me. he was stationed in Okinawa and was flying home to visit family and get some horizontal r&r with his wife (LOL!) On the looong plane ride to the states we settled in for a long flight with a very good friend...two in fact...Jim Beam and Jack Daniels. Over a game of canasta, we shared stories of boot camp basic training and serving in the military. After a few more snorts of fire water we both let hubris fly as we proudly championed our respective branches of service...I with the Air Force and he, being a proud "grunt"...hooorah! Anyways, after a few more hands of canasta and snorts of 'juice"... a curious thing happened... a freaking "CRAB" the size of a pinkie nail literally jumped from his eyebrow onto the serving tray we were playing cards and drinking from. I was floored and he laughed...he said some mamas-an must have had some dirty sheets at a massage parlor he patronized while being layed over in Guam! I diplomatically found another seat in coach that was not being used and settled in for what became an amusing if uneventful flight home. This crab that leaped from his "control-tower" had visible legs and segmented areas.