Quite some time ago, when I was still in the forces, during a particularly hot summer, my unit was deployed to help manage a growing number of forest fires in my home province. We were dispatched with very little notice and were originally expected to only be in the field for a few weeks before a full scale deployment was staged. A month and a half later I was boarding a bus to go to a nearby base to stay the night finally flying home the next morning.
Once we had set up in the bunk houses we were given leave to go into town, use the mess hall etcetera. As long as we were back at base to load up at 0700 for the ride to the airport and didn’t end up in jail we were free to do whatever we wanted.
It was still early afternoon, and mess hall food really isn’t all that appealing, so quite a few of us walked into town to find a restaurant and maybe pick up a few things that we needed. I had only brought a few civilian clothes so I wanted to get a decent pair of shorts to wander around in as well. The plan was to meet up with a bunch of other guys at the local strip club later on in the evening to enjoy some drinks and ogle the girls on stage.