Know Your Audience

Not everyone is okay being the butt of a joke

Gunnery Sergeant Pillman emerged into the general area and boomed in his baritone voice: "Where's my coffee, you sonsabitches?!"

Sergeant Phillips had thought it the height of hilarity to play an April Fool's prank on the Gunny. The rest of the office looked away apprehensively as Pillman stood seething. "Who in the hell—!"

Laughing, Phillips finally produced the steaming cup of coffee. "April Fool's, Gunny! Here ya go!"

Pillman took the cup and stormed back into his office. Later that day, he found it the heigh of hilarity to assign Pillman two weeks extra duty as the chow hall NCO.