Wasted pretty much whole day, but for a good cause. My reserve platoon was disbanded and we're getting kicked out of the reserve vojska altogether. We were to turn in all our equipment. I remember I was missing some trivial piece (undercap, perhaps) that I don't think I ever got, but rather than pay the outrageously blown up price of a new one, I just went home and took one from dad's territorial units set. This being the army, it took all the time between 8:00 and sunset. No lunch was given and nobody cared.
Of course, heard dozens of jokes and tales. The best one was about some guy in KuPro, who suggested to the trade union to buy off the excess mandarines*. They sold them bundled - one kilo of coffee, one shallow crate of mandarines. But there were always those who were close enough to the union guy, who'd manage to get coffee alone, which then left a few hundred kilos of mandarines, already rotting. So this guy bought them for nearly nothing, peeled them ("my hands were orange up to my elbows") and eventually made rakija. So how was the rakija? No idea, says the guy, I was getting floored by all the beer. "Let's bet a crate of beer that in three tries you won't guess what this brandy is made of"... and he won each time.
The guys from the unit whom I also knew as civilians: Fefi and Brlja, also present.
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* there are three kinds - tangerines, mandarines and forgot the third one's name; only mandarines are sold here. They all look the same to me.
8-VI-2021 - 13-IX-2024