Many apologies if this has been asked before, but I can't seem to find it: how strict is the not over 1000 words thing? like, if i'm 1016, for a Totally Random Example.
There’s an Israeli Hebrew idiom: “kitbag question”.
A kitbag is the sac recruits receive at intake. It looks something like this. It’s just about the most uncomfortable thing ever. Nowadays most folks will show up with a much, much better pack they either bought or received as a gift from their township and never use the kitbag until they need to return it at discharge, but once upon a time people had to actually use the miserable things.
Which is how - the story goes - it so happened that when a training sergeant told the recruits to run so-and-so many laps around the base, one of the recruits asked: “With or without the kitbag?” To which the sergeant replies: “Well, that didn’t occur to me, but since you asked - why, with the kitbag, of course.”
So unlike that sergeant, I’m going to pretend I never saw this ask, yes?