Ways you and your family can get a feel for being a Submariner

You've seen the movies, read the books; hopefully mine.  Still you might wonder how does life go on under the sea. Locked in a steel tube, the sea looking for the smallest mistake. Well here you go.

1. Invite as many people as you can to your house. Then lock the doors and cover all the windows so one one can see out. Be sure some of your guests (crew) are not ones who bath on a regular basis.

2. Assign everyone a task, that must be done and logged. Example: Cousin Minny must watch the dial on the stove.

3. Now be sure you have three people for every job.

4. Set your alarm clock to go off every six hours so Cousin Minny can be relieved by Uncle Bob.

5. Take the spray nozzle from the sink and spray it all over the kitchen,while you yell FLOODING!

6. Take a shower by turning on the water, get wet, turn the water off, soap up, tur the water back on and rinse off.

7. Prepare the meals to include powdered milk, powdered eggs. Bake rolls at 3am. Serve four times a day.

8. Yell FIRE! and cover everyone's face with black panties to simulate smoke. Time Grandpa Fred to see if he gets to the fire within three minutes.

9.Take the TV apart and put it back together.

10. While you try to sleep, arrange for the loudest members of your crew to play cards inches from your head.

11.Yell  REACTOR SCRAM! and turn off all the power to the house. Time Aunt Jean to see how long it takes her to find the breaker.

12. On Friday morning at 0-dark-30 wake everyone up, and make them clean the entire house.

13. Have your niece be able to draw a one line diagram of the houses plumbing system.        

14. Pick a movie everyone hates and show it at the same time every night.

15. One week into this, run out of coffee.

Just a little taste of what it is really like. Enjoy!