Okay, so here's my story.
At our last reenactment of the year (Ft Steven's, not the subsim club house), we had had a bunch of thefts one year
, so we implemented a night watch program. Our assignment was to guard the reenactor parking entrance at night
(all night until sunrise
). Well, one year, I had the first watch with Richard (the 400+ lbs dude). Now I didn't really like Richard, so getting stuck with him on a two hour watch made for a looong two hours.
Anyway, our relief watch came out to meet us and zooooom Richard was gone. Note, I did not know a 400 lb man could move so fast, and here is the reason why...
Well, my unit commander, and best reeacting mate came out to get me (I was loitering, talking to the next watch pair.)
He said, "Jason, you need to hurry up and get back to camp if you want to eat."
It was after 8pm, our unit had already had dinner.
I said "okay" and kept doddling along.
"No, Jason, you need to go NOW if you want anything to eat...Richard is...."
OMG, then it dawned on me, Richard is there!
I didn't run back, but I walked very briskly back to our camp.
Now, as it was described to me, Richard came flying in and went straight for what was left of dinner and started eating like he hadn't eaten in three days.
Richard was always first in line at chow call and he would eat a lot!