Indian Summer ....FireHouse tales
Today is about as gorgeous as it gets in Chicago. It is Indian Summer.
Windows: open
Cats: on porch
Sun: Streaming through what leaves are left on the trees.
There won't be many, if ANY, more of these days for months to come.
Fireman just drove by in the Engine and tooted at me. He's so darn cute. He has to work a double shift today , 48 hours, to get some time off next week. It is such a glorious day and he's stuck at work....at least he can get out a teeny tiny bit today. I think they are off to the grocery store......
when you work a double shift you have to buy treats for all of the firehouses that day.
Since its October and Fire prevention and all that maybe I should tell you a few stories?
Stories about skunks in the middle of the night......
Fireman often gets called by families who have a distinct smell of burning in their house....and it turns out to be skunk musk.
Fireman also used to get lots of calls by families whose smoke alarms are going off....due to a spider walking through the mechanism. They trip it off.
Fireman gets calls from people who hear a smoke alarm going off OUTSIDE their house.....this is particulary important to some people....Fireman has to scout around at zero dark thirty and has found more than one detector thrown out in the neighbor's garbage chirping...
Fireman had to help an elderly woman the other day. See, Fireman has to go to calls whether he 's on the ambulance or not. They send two rigs or more because they need lifting power and the like. He told her he was going to roll her over, to move her.
She smiled at him and said, "I haven't been rolled by a man in a LOOONG time" .
It is not all about Fires and ceilings falling down, thank God. Sometimes it is more about not getting bit....by unruly citizens who are drunk or high or both.....
These are the stories Fireman must remember. There are so many more that are not to be published here....
ha! And Fireman does NOT like Chicago Fire or any fire shows....except the old original
with Roy and Johnny.......
Comments
Love the socks!
FireHouse Tales: So funny. Very entertaining to read.
Socks: Looking good! Way to go!
I love the socks AND the technique you are using.
My best friend loves to tell the story about taking care of her Father, a large man, who was quite ill. She was just out of the shower and had nothing but a towel wrapped around her, and he fell on her as she tried to help him. When her daughter called the fire department guess who came--my fireman son of course! She says he looked straight at her, on the floor in the all together and said, "Don't you worry, we'll take care of him Ma'am." Don't you love Firefighters!!
The lady across the street would call the fire department when one of the bats got into her living area. And they came with a big fire truck and removed the bat.
We kept a fish net on each floor for our bats, but usually if you opened a window they would fly out.
Love the socks! Great yarn combo.