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What does YOUR boyfriend's daddy do?
By Chris | October 29, 2005
Not even noon and apparently I've already pissed someone off. Sorry if I am not impressed by what your boyfriend's daddy does. You see, I'm not impressed by what other people accomplish. I'm not impressed by people who have shit handed to them and probably haven't had to do a hard day's work in their whole life. Now, if the boyfriend had done those accomplishments on his own, that would be impressive. A little while ago I had a short conversation with someone that had involved that their BF didn't have a car, that it was being shipped from CA to here. Okay, so my next question was if they were in the Navy, knowing that the Navy has bases in CA and also one here in SC. I mean…why the hell else would someone move from CA to SC????? I'm not a huge fan of CA, but still… So the person responds that the BF moved here “maybe because he can afford to,” which isn't impressive since SC's cost of living isn't very high (this is a good thing). The next response is “Well his dad is the CEO of such and such.” I responded “Whoopee.” And they got bad. Sorry. That didn't impress me. Not even a little. Yes, it is a well-known company throughout the world, but no…still didn't impress me. Just made me think that this information was divulged to me in an attempt to validate the BF or to make them seem better. It didn't work. So, um, maybe the BF can impress me on his own merits, and not those of his fathers. Because maybe it impresses some people that others ride on their parent's coat tails, but not me. And it shouldn't impress you either. Anyways. </rant>
So, ummmmm what's been happening. Let's see. House fire yesterday off of Exit 194 at the northern end of our district. Appears that a battery shorted out and started an old shop of some sort on fire. Welll…..being old it went up like nobody's business. It was dispatched as smoke & flames showing initially, the first unit on scene advised it was fully involved. Could see the smoke pillar from Exit 199 when I pulled Engine 21 on I-26W and laid the power on. Such a slow fucking truck. I mean, it'll do 70, but getting it there is the slow part. It's overloaded/underpowered. Engine 23 beat us there, they were pulling out of the station as I came around the bend to pull in and get Engine 21. Adam and I had just gotten to Wal-Mart and I was like “Um…you can either come to the station or hang out at the house…I can give you the garage door opener so you can get in.” He decided that sitting at the fire station wasn't exciting, so he walked to the house (I live right behind the Wally World). He said the siren was loud…haha, I lit that shit up in the parking lot of Wal-Mart. People just stared and I even had one idiot dash across the street in front of me. Yes, the truck with all the lights and the siren wouldn't have an emergency call to get to or anything, you go right ahead and walk out in front of it. Anyways…. got to the station, got Engine 21 and another crewmember and made it up there. There was some quick decision making as to whether there was a hydrant close enough, because that would have certainly made it much easier. Of course, this is almost out in BFE, and the fact they have running water is impressive anyways. Regardless, we had to do a tanker shuttle from a frontage road near Exit 194 and truck it back to the scene and drop it into a dump tank, and then use Engine 23 to draft (suck) the water out of the dump tank. Fortunately the hydrant was only about a mile away, because we usually had one tanker at the dump and another was in the queue waiting for the other tanker to finish unloading. Tanker 26 holds about 2200 gallons and we had Tanker 96 and 97, one of which held about 2500 and the other something like 5000. I only broke one thing on Engine 23.. in order to get the suction line on we had to take off the large valve on the pump panel with a rubber mallet. Oops. Smacked the handle right off of it. So sorry. Easy fix, all we need is a new wheel/handle on the valve and it'll be fine. Anyways, we got the fire out and completed the overhaul and then we had to knock down the brick facade, as it was leaning towards the roadway and we couldn't let it just hang there with the risk of it toppling onto traffic. That'd suck. So we got the tank all full and Engine 23 and Engine 81 hit the wall with their deck guns until it collapsed. Amazing what water can do. Deck guns can flow a crazy amount of water at only 80PSI.
In other news, I'm on dayshift at work now, for the next 10 weeks or so. It started on Weds at 7AM, day after my birthday (I turned 27 on Tues). My dad and stepmom came down from New Jersey Monday afternoon and left on Weds afternoon. It was a good time. I've been down here since 1997 and this is the first time they've come down to visit. So…dayshift just drains me. I'm so tired when I get home I'm not good for doing anything. Eish. I think in about a week or so I'll be fine with it but right now I am so wasted when I get home I just want to sleep…and usually do. I'm in bed all early like 10 or 11. I don't mind being on dayshift, it's nice on days off to be able to do stuff all day. The day seems sooooo fucking long…LOL. It's like I get up at 10ish or so and the day seems forever. I'm used to getting up at like 3 or so and then it's not such a long day. Well, I'mma go and head to Wallenious Mart since that kinda got sidelined by the fire yesterday.
–CSM
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