and all the sudden mr. holden leans over and says whyd you join the navy kieffer and you say why the service or why the navy and he says both and so you tell him about your shitty job at the plastics factory and how you got promoted to be a manager and you went to one more wedding where one of your buddies was marrying a woman who was as goodlooking that day as she was ever going to be , and the next day you went in and quit your job and then walked down to recruiters row , lots of recruiters in upstate cause there are not a lot of jobs , and you walked past the marine recruiter and looked in the door , and a marine master sergeant looked up at you from his desk and put his pencil down and you looked at him and he looked at you for a long second and then he picked his pencil back up and went back to writing , and you took three more steps to the navy office , and how you always wondered who rejected who .