The narrator begins by asking the soldier how many years he's been in the military. He's 28 and a master sergeant in the land forces. The narrator says he joined the special forces when he was 18 years old, but he didn't join until he was 28. He says he doesn't know if he'd been selected or not, but that he wasn't "humph" , which is a fancy term for a guy who's not "humped" . He also says that his posture is wrong, and that he wants to treat the guy like a "special" guy. He wants to be able to flirt with him, and treat him like a special guy. But the narrator is worried that he'll expose the guy to the public, and the narrator thinks that's a bad idea. He suggests that the guy pretends to know something about the dessert he just made, and then he can pretend to know the truth about it.