I got the strangest call today.

I thought it was from a recruiter and while I am not looking, I wanted to be polite instead of having them leave a voice mail. “Hello, Ms S?” “Yes”, “This is ___  with the National Guard, you had expressed interest in finding out more information about joining the National Guard.” “What?”

And so it went downhill from there, for him, not for me. I was laughing a bit and I apologized for laughing, but where did he get my information and the idea that I was interested in joining the National Guard? He tried a few sites and then mentioned the Warrior Dash, I said oh, ok, I did sign up to do the Warrior Dash in Denver this coming summer, he said that was probably it.

I said I wasn’t interested and they probably wouldn’t want me, I love my country, but they wouldn’t want me. [We know I’m vegan first of all, and then I don’t do well with people telling me what to do, especially at this age, maybe if I was younger…] He said of course they would love to have me and then I asked what the age range was.

“Oh, we have them from just starting out at 17 to our cutoff.” “What’s the cutoff?” Oh, we have them all the way to 32-34. I said reverse that and you have my age! “Oh, well, thank you for your time and I’ll remove you from our list.”  “Thank you and thank you for all you do and good luck in your search.”

And thank you to all the service men and women who have served our country, I honor you.