Finally! A thread about piddle packs.
My favorite no sierra (not to mention joint) story about piddle packs:
There I was… on a cross country in my trusty ‘Vark. While waiting for the fuel truck to arrive and gas us up, I decided to clean out all the crap (well, not literally crap; but stuff) that had accumulated in my helmet bag. I had dumped all the contents onto a table in a waiting room in the operations building when an Army Warrant Officer helicopter pilot comes in.
He sees one of my piddle packs on the table amongst all the junk and asks what it is. I tell him it’s a piddle pack.
“Can I look at it?” he asks.
“Sure,” I tell him handing it over to him. “In fact, you can have it.”
“Wow! Thanks,” he says. You’d think I gave him the keys to my car or something.
After looking closely at the bag and getting an explanation about this indispensable piece of equipment (he wanted to know about the expandable sponge thing on the inside of the bag and the twist-ties used to close the thing up after use), he was quite impressed:
“Hell, I have to piss in my barf bag and throw it out the window of my chopper. You Air Force pukes get everything!”
Although I didn’t use them too often, those “high-tech” AF piddle packs sure made those long sorties a bit more bearable. And I sure wasn’t going to neglect to hydrate myself (as some have mentioned on this thread) in an attempt to avoid using one. Hell, how else would I have been able to recover from X-country hangovers! J
(Note: to any FAA employee lurking on this site, the above comment was completely fictional. Any resemblance to any hangover experienced during the return home from a cross-country military flight, alive or dead, is purely coincidental.)
