Two old Army buddies, Jim and Pete, are sitting up late at night enjoying a bottle of the finest Scotch and reminiscing about old times in foreign places.
They’ve been drinking all evening and they’re starting to get a little tipsy, to say the least.
Eventually, Jim asks, “What time is it?”
To which Pete responds, “I don’t know but give me your old bugle.”
“Why?” Jim asks. “How can you tell the time with a bugle?”
“It’s easy,” says Pete. “Just watch me.”
Jim passes him the bugle and Pete starts playing Reveille very, very loudly.
Within seconds a voice shouts from the floor above, “Who the hell’s playing the bugle at one o’clock in the morning?”