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Holy crap!! We ran our butts off...
I don't know how supersticious everyone is, but I have a few core things that I think incur bad luck. This may be silly to some, but, heck the sailors won't mention the word 'drown' on boats. I'm not the only one out there. Anyway, here is my short list of what not to do/say when on duty at the old fire station.
1) Never say: Quiet, sleep, bed, or bathroom (this always results in a call at a bad time)
2) Never tell the off going shift 'Oh, we didn't run ANY calls, so you can run them all today'. (This results in the aforementioned unit running 14 calls in less then ten hours and makes the driver engineer extremely sad)
3)And NEVER, EVER,EVER wash the truck at night if you want to sleep at all. The instant soap suds touch the truck after 1800 hours, the gods of emergencies find it highly amusing to make certain that the offending crew has to get up every hour or so and that it is raining so that they have to wash the truck again in the morning anyway.
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Comment by Mick Mayers on September 14, 2007 at 9:47pm
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I don't know how I ended up here reading this (I think I checked out your comment on another thread, but like seventeen clicks later, here I am); ANYWAY- you are absolutely right, there are things you just don't do or say. Like you never tell the ER crew, "See ya later" because then you will. And of course, those gods also have more effect on the lighter truck (the medic) and less so on the medium truck (the engine), and virtually none on the truck. Which is nice, unless you say, "wow, we haven't turned a wheel all shift". Then you know the drill.
Luckily we don't get rookies at our station (special ops), becuae when they do, they say, "you guys don't run many calls", which will cause us to run calls all night long. I tell them to shut up, because I get paid the same amount to not run calls as I do to get up in the middle of the night and run them. Anyway, you seem like you have a lot of good blogging there. I'll probably come back.;)
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