the most tiresome greeting in my life...

Friday evening at the restroom, I said hi to a friend of mine at work...I had a similar 'Hi' experience when I was in the Officers Training Academy...When we joined the academy as gentlemen cadets, the first and foremost thing that was taught was to behave..
The mandatory rules included saying 'good morning/afternoon/evening sir' to all of our senior batch.we were even adapted to say the greeting how many ever times we see the same senior or even sometimes say it like thrice if we see them in a group of 3 - like one per senior. It took us a couple of days to give this kind of forced respect to our seniors, after a while it became a mechanical and automatic thing - just like breathing !! Thats what the armed forces want - respect your senior automatically...

The Hi story starts here, it was around 0300 hrs and I went the mens room for a shave(as we used to shave twice daily to ensure that we are groomed to standards). One of my seniors was there at that time and instinctively I jumped to say " Good morning sir" with all the energy I could gather at 3 AM with like 2 hours of sleep. What I forgot during this was that we were also taught not to wish seniors in restrooms, that is the only place you are exempt from the forced greeting...How can I ask brain which was working all day with map reading classes/human psychology/field trainings and got rest only 2 hours to have all the factors in mind ..poor guy he too collapsed..

what followed was a cold stare and a roar ' Give me 20..." meaning do twenty pushups.. we all knew that it means start with 20 pushups.. LOL then i had to roll around our bunkers like 2 or 3 times and then my senior gave me a pat on the back and said ok Shave karkae , 0500 report for shave parade...it was already 0430 or so by then..

looking back to all these little incidents Still brings smiles to me .. am sure my dear senior is now a Major and is somewhere serving his motherland being proud and loving what he is doing... " If I see you sometime in your OG uniform, I shall with all respect wish you - Good morning Sir "!!!