My Journey to MEPS Part 1

~January 19th~

9:03am So the day started off as usual.... boring! waiting for a phone call from my recruiter to let me know how my medical papers are coming along so I can get sent to MEPS for my physical.

11:07am

I get a call from my recruiter saying that everything is clear and that I would be staying at the Holiday Inn in San Antonio tonight. I was excited since I finally would get to meet other recruits. I got my bags ready, ate some enchiladas for lunch, and took a shower.

5:34pm

The recruiter picks me up and I end up having to fill out more papers in their office and leave to the Holiday Inn.

8:47pm

I check in and the guy for the MEPS check in was a really grouchy lol... so after i get my room number i started looking for the room. As soon as i got to the room i open the door and my roommate is quiet and weird.... coming from me [a really quiet person]

~The crazy conversation between me and the roommate~

[Me] so i tell him my name and ask what branch of service he is joining. 2-3mins later he answers my question...

[Scary guy] "army"

[Me] and I'm like oh yeah? thats cool. That's when i ask him if he wants to eat dinner since i was hungry and the dinner service ends at 10pm.

[Scary guy] Ok.

[Me] so i'm starting to think the guy that i got stuck with is crazy.. I ask how old he was and tell him my age when we got to the dinning room. "started to think he wasn't talking since he was younger or not a people person" so 4mins after i asked the question he answers

[Scary guy] and he says 24. gets up and leaves to get a drink

[Me] so i look around and all the other recruits are chatting and I'm just waiting for our food to get there and i start feeling left out since everyone else got a friendly roommate. The food comes and we finish it in a few mins, so its 9:35pm and we head back to the room. when we got back to the room i tried talking to him by asking when he moved to San Antonio and he didn't answer me.... so i asked if he wanted to use the shower first and he said

[Scary guy] Ok.

[Me] so 40mins later he is done taking a shower and wearing the same clothes he had still. So i went to take a shower...because he took so long i was thinking i should do that too since he made me wait forever. So when i am done taking a shower i hear a knock on the door , i put on my clothes and open the bathroom door and he isn't there.. so i hear a knock again and its from the room door. I guess he was waiting in the hallway the whole time i was in the shower or something lol i didn't want to ask. After i let him in the room and finish putting away my wet clothes in my bag he says

[Scary guy] "September" i moved here in september.

[Me] Oh really? why did you move to san antonio? and he didnt answer... so i'm like well i'm going to try and get some sleep. while my roommate sits in a chair with the lights on making a pot of coffee.... He calls room service and asks for sugar and creamer for his coffee and then leaves the room with the lights on. I turn off the lights and get some sleep.. around 11pm

i wake up to knocking on the door. the room was pitch black still as i open the door it ends up being a room service guy bringing the sugar and creamer for my roommate. i put it on the table and went back to sleep. i woke up around 2am and he was sitting in the chair drinking his coffee and writing on tons of sticky notes.... so i try to go back to sleep and wake up at 3:30am and thats when he asked me

[Scary guy] Did you sleep well?

[Me] not really i am still tired....

[Scary guy] Do you want to eat breakfast at 4am?

[Me] Sure its almost time for the bus to get here anyways.... This is when things start to make sense on why he is so quiet and crazy. He starts telling me

[Scary guy] I am homeless , I have no memories of when i was younger. Do you happen to know any of these numbers?

[Me] as i'm sitting on the bed tired i'm like huh?? thinking in my head... did he just say that he was homeless? so i started feeling sorry for him since i was thinking he was antisocial and slow. Of course i wouldn't know any numbers he showed me lol but i didn't want to make him mad so i looked at them and told him "sorry i have no idea"

[Scary guy] Do you know any places in Austin that will taken in homeless people??

[Me] no i don't know any places in Austin, i haven't left my small town in 10 years.. sorry.

[Scary guy] Shows me a business card. This guy is in the navy, maybe if you talk to him you can get a job there.

[Me] i didn't want to be rude so i accepted the card he carried and put it in my bag.... after that sad and awkward time we had together it was now 4am and we were the first ones there for breakfast so i got a lot of bacon, some eggs, potato slices, and french toast. as more people started to walk in and saw my plate a stranger said to me "you must be hungry!" and i was like haha yeah.

4:40am

After breakfast i stood next to some random people waiting for the bus to MEPS and never saw "Scary guy" again since he never told me his name. After 20 mins of waiting for the bus everyone got on as we headed to Fort Sam Houston.

5:13am we arrive at MEPS we started getting processed and given name tags... well most of us but i didn't get one! so i was talking to the guy for Navy recruits and he had to call some people and i finally got my name tag.

5:30am

i walk up to the second floor and put my bag in storage, wait in line and get my papers. So after i got my papers they sent me up to the 3rd floor and i waited in line to get sent to the room for my Physical. The lady then looks at my papers and says "hold on i dont see you on the list to take your physical today. your doctor did not give us enough information, go back downstairs and come back next time." in my head i was like wow.... really? so i told the guy in charge of the navy recruits what the medical examiner said and he told me to call my recruiter. 30mins later my recruiter shows up and he couldn't help me either so he had to leave and do some stuff. i waited till 8am and another recruiter showed up to take me home. i get home around 9am+ Thursday January 20th.

~Friday January 21st.~

no calls from the recruiter. went to my friends 22nd birthday party it was freezing cold and fun.

~Saturday January 22nd~

nothing happened.

~Sunday January 23rd~

nothing happened.

Today is January 24th

9:52am

i called my recruiter and asked if i would be going to MEPS again this week and he was like, we submitted your medical papers back and are waiting on the word to send you back.

11:16pm

i wrote this blog entry it probably took me 30 mins+ lol.. well hopefully tomorrow i get some good news from my recruiter

11:20pm

my friend texts me and asks if i want to help dye her hair. I was planning on going to sleep when i finished this so i told her that i was going to sleep. which made her go into a deep dark depression as it progressed it then turned to a rage filled act of violence as she strangled each and everyone of her family members in their sleep and now she is on the run.

does this make me a bad friend??

jk about my friend killing her family. or am i?

Goodnight 11:34pm