april 08, 2009 12:27am
August 2, 2008 Navy Man
Sat. August 2, 2008
Navy Man
The fallow up with Merrill Rumson.
Merrill and I hit it off pretty good in our last interview. Merrill gave me another interview on the inner workings of the Canadian Navy. This interviews lasted for about an hour and a half and we went over all kinds of Navy traditions and procedures. At the end of our last meeting we were looking at some pictures from back in the day, and I noticed a glass of liquid sitting on the table in front of Merrill at a function of some kind. So I said to him in a joking manner ”Hey what this, a little good time juice” he said “no that is Scotch” then he said “do you like Scotch. Keep in mind that this is 10:00 in the morning. He had the look on his face that if I didn't have a drink of Scotch with him he would be offended. So Merrill and I retired to the kitchen for a drink that day. He went to the cupboard and got a bottle of Johnny Walker Black, for those of you who don't know about Johnny Walker Black... well its the good stuff..We had a drink of this fine Scotch and I see him out of the corner of my eye watching me take a sip of scotch. That is the way I drink Scotch. He had a look of approval in his face, I said”what” he said ”you know how to drink good Scotch” He said that some of the people he has in just take it and down it. I said “Ya it's like giving steak to a dog, it mide as well be hamburger” he laughed and we finished or drink that day and went to the Lunch crew luncheon. On this day we had another drink of Scotch together and he let me have a shower at his place. For just meeting someone he was a very gracious man. It was an honor to meet him and to do an interview with him.
