Sarge picked it up and held it in his open palm, testing its heft, and I could smell the soap and shoe-polish odor it gave off.
"Even a mother that reports their child missing, after we search their building, we'll call in and say, 'Sarge, is it O.K. if we swing by the hospital and see if she's there?' " While Officer Yan said he had not become particularly close to anyone in the emergency room — "I'm not great with the nurses, but I recognize their faces" — he said he felt welcome every time he walked in.
Dominick and I and the sarge just make it around the corner, but Antonio doesn't.
Or the time when Muma used to sneak Baby Shaq a bottle when he was 3 years old, and Harrison, his new father, a military man nicknamed Sarge, would take it away because he wanted to make sure the child was as rugged as the old man.
"If I couldn't have a clone of Sarge, I'd never have another dog as long as I live".
I get a lotta guys that go, 'What are we doing out here?' I say to 'em, 'We'll come back here, let 'em see our work.' 'Sarge, they'll tear it up again.' 'Well, that's our job.
"A side effect of sarging is that it can lower one's opinion of the opposite sex," he confesses.
But about a year later, my friend, Terry, the four-star chef, he wasn't around, so I told the sarge that I'd do it, so I went ahead and did it to the best of my ability at what we had at our means.
The show was about bumbling soldiers on the Indian frontier, and that hat got quite a workout: Agarn would manhandle it like a string of worry beads when upset, be flogged with it by the Sarge for ineptitude, and so on.
