The Admiral loves his breakfast and considers it to be the
most important time of the day. As the
story goes – he once sent a sailor to the brig for 30 days just for knocking on
his door during breakfast. There are
even people in Washington who would never dare interrupt the Admiral until
long after his second cup of coffee.
It is
reported that his coffee maker makes a sound like a fog horn as it is brewing a
cup. The Admiral lives in a sprawling 5 bedroom,
3 bath ranch-style home on Putrid Sound.
It was the rather large air-raid siren atop the 75 foot tower that had
caused people to change the name of the area to Putrid Sound, for two eagles
had constructed a large nest right inside of the siren, and the first time it
was tested the twigs and sticks that were used in the construction of the nest
acted like reeds in a musical instrument.
The air pressure and vibration coming through the nest made an awful and
quite putrid sound.
The eagles
no longer inhabit the nest and nobody has ever bothered to clean it out so on
the third Tuesday of every other month it is tested and the entire town groans
at the sound of it.
The Admiral’s
home sits about 200 yards behind this ship.
Knowing the Admiral never sees this side of the ship
they have altered it just slightly.
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