'It was petty, but it felt good': Navy pilot buys a car just to spite an arrogant fleet commodore

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Oct 2, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

It's no secret that petty power begets petty tyrants, but there's something about a petty tyrant who is very aware that they're not quite at the top of the food chain that causes exceedingly terrible behavior. For example, it's often that store managers are the chillest people in existence, being at the top of the immediate food chain with nowhere really else to go; they tend to take things as they come and are easygoing to subordinates. Meanwhile, assistant managers have a much higher chance of being absolutely rabid, desperate to exert every and any ounce of power that they might possibly be able to wield in order to remind everyone else who is (almost) in charge. This same scenario plays out in any situation where there's a large percentage of people who have gotten stuck while climbing the ladder and are still desperate to reach the top.

When the opportunity presents itself, on that rare occasion, getting one over on these tyrants is almost irresistible. 

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    Wheel - ************ 1757 D 660 CHAMPION wwww...
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    Font - Posted by u/DrBarry_McCockiner 8 hours ago Bought a car to spite someone who wanted it. This is long and involves some fairly esoteric Navy knowledge. About 20 years ago, I was a Navy pilot going on my first deployment, flying helicopters off of a destroyer. Over the small flotilla of ships in the Med was a commodore. A commodore is a captain who is given command of multiple ships. This commodore, who I shall call Chuck, was also a complete jack. Here are two examples of his aColery.
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    Font - One day after flying all morning, we were tasked with picking the commodore up from one ship and bringing him to our ship. Easy enough. It was about noon and we had not eaten. It is customary for ships to provide box lunches to flight crews if they land around a meal time, so we requested lunch. After we land, he keeps us waiting for a bout a half hour without shutting down before he gets onboard. During that period, someone brought out four styrofoam boxes with pizza in them. Score! They
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    Font - to the communications system, just put them in the cabin and left. So, we fly Chuck and his staff to our ship, shut down and offload everything. The crewmen dig into the pizza, while the other pilot does paperwork and I rinse the engines. After I'm done, the OIC (our boss) comes to me and asks me what happened to the pizza. I explained that I think the crew ate most of it. I hadn't had any yet. It turns out the pizza was for Chuck. He got angry and dressed down our OIC for "fostering thie
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    Font - Next aplery: I brought with me on the cruise, a three man sling shot. One day during maneuvering drills (ship drivers doing silly formation things with their big boats) I and some of the guys break out the sling shot on the flight deck and start launching water balloons at the ship closest to us. We launched several and only succeeded in hitting it once, low near the water line. I'm talking an actual US Navy warship, a DDG guided missile destroyer. It got hit by one water balloon. Once ag
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    Font - Anyway, before we left on that cruise I had put on order a Nissan 350z. It was the first year they were out. They came out in year model 2003, but this was in early 2002. So, mine is on order. After we get back from cruise, I get a call from the Nissan dealership saying they had a shipment in of 350z's. None of them matched my order specs exactly, but I was welcome to come down and see if any of them would be acceptable and if so, I could have one of them immediately instead of waiting. S
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    Font - "Nice car!" I say to Chuck "Yeah, this is a beauty," he replies. "It's exactly everything I want. I'm going to buy this one." I nod thoughtfully and then wave over my sales guy. "I'll take it. Let's go sign papers," I say. I smile at Chuck and take pleasure in his look of slack disbelief as the salesman slides a little sign that says "Sold" under the wiper and I go take care of the transaction. It was petty, but it felt good. Screw you, Chuck.
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    Font - E scuba_GSO 3 hr. ago Love they petty revenge. Commodores are such asts. They can just taste that flag rank but it's just on the other side. I know a few admirals and generals that were just way too cool for life, ya know? Reply Share 77 maximus459-2 hr. ago Word.. ●●● Some people don't have to demand to be respected.. 10 Reply Share Braqsus 39 min. ago That's leadership right there 2 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - NavyShooter_NS. 3 hr. ago Not sure what it is about that rank, they're big in their own minds, but still not actually important enough to be called an Admiral. I had a spud cannon setup for a sailpast once upon a time...good fun. Our Weapons Techs. loaded up some tomatoes in a torpedo tube as well and let that go with 1350 psi behind it...made an impressive spray. The German Navy got us back though, they had proper fire monitors on the aft corners of their hangar and the water from that w
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    Font - CoderJoel 3 hr. ago That was a fresh slice of vengeance. I bet it drove him crazy. 10 Reply Share idonuthaveaproblem 2 hr. ago I'd never tire of hearing about it 3 Reply Share Blestyr 55 min. ago I agree. Sure sent his heart racing. 13 Reply Share
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    Font - Takssista 3 hr. ago Not only you got to grief the ale, but you also got a much better colour IMHO 5+ Reply Share DrBarry McCockiner OP 3 hr. ago Yeah. It grew on me. They called that color brickyard and it was actually pretty attractive. I replaced the cheap black upholstery with silver and black perforated leather. I loved that car. I kept it for 11 years and when I sold it, it only had 52k miles on it. I miss it. Reply Share 16
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    Font - Extension_Business34 2 hr. ago Asking the real question: Was the pizza good? And great revenge ;) 23 DrBarry McCockiner OP 1 hr. ago You would have to ask the crewmen. I didn't get any pizza. But it was probably sOpizza. Ship pizza was kinda like school pizza. But cold. 3 Reply Share 1 Reply Share Extension_Business34 46 min. ago Sounds awful! Reply Share ...
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    Font - NonKevin 1 hr. ago Well I can top that story. I had an enemy who was not paying for his nice car (only a couple thousands left to pay) and its about to be taken back. I bought the small car loan and personally took the car away legally without notice I was the new loan owner. I changed the locks and parked it in front of his plain site to rub it in. By the way, this guy was late to an appointment and did not get the job. This was great revenge to an ale. 41 Reply Share
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