Friday, May 1, 2009

Motorcycle Kick Start Horn Beep Beep

Motorcycle, Kick Start, Horn, Beep, Beep. Well, there it is with punctuation, haha. I hope this blog is searchable because that phrase needs to be out there in cyberspace. Now for a little story about how this phrase came to be:

Long ago we were a group of Airmen, we were friends, serving our country on a nameless northern tier Air Force Base. Well, now it's nameless, but back then it went by the name "Kincheloe".

During that time, our friend Sammy had suspected that the entries in his personal development plan were not being reviewed sufficiently. Sammy would turn in his workbook, sometime later it would be returned, with generic verbal comment, "Keep up the good work Sammy". The hours spent working on our development plans were expended after a full days work in the shop, or on weekends. We all desired meaningful feedback for all of our hard work. We discussed this one day in the shop, could Sammy be right? Certainly Ssgt McCoy was reviewing the entries.

Anyway, Sammy came up with an idea to test his theory. In one of the entries in his workbook he simply wrote, "Motorcycle, kick start, horn, beep, beep. When the workbook was returned without notation and another "Good work Sammy".

Sammy had his answer,... and so did we.