This ought to be in "Events."

After dinner tonight, a few of the guys were standing around out back, talking over the Hoopty. As I walked out into the engine bay, I overheard one of them say, "He should wash this sumbitch once in a while. It'd look good, if it was clean."
It's official. I got shamed into washing the car.
A plastic garbage bag over each seat, one under the engine lid, and out came the garden hose.
I even detailed the pedal cluster, oiled the handbrake assembly and polished the wheels. It's as shiny as a new penny.
It should be good for four more years now, right?

AT LEAST>>>>>>>

About time, biotch!

You were just building up a nice patina too!

I really need to wash my car too. My friends tell me I should buff it out & really make it shine, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Maybe tonight whilst I'm tossing back a brew or two.

Cory, Did you wash your car at tax payers expense??? :) :)

Larry, I kinda feel like I was being paid for my potential. ;)
We ran nine calls yesterday. Pretty evenly spaced out, and a good variety. Anything after five is our time, unless something comes in.
Forty-eight hours on in a row is the usual shift. Then off for seventy-two, on for forty-eight and so on.

Ever seen this?
http://policemanvsfireman.com/

I'm agreeing with Larry here.

Did my taxes pay for all of that water? The garbage bags? The oil and polish, not to mention the hourly wage that you earned while washing your own car?

Your lips must be pretty chafed with all that sucking on the public tit that you've been doing over these past years . . .

Hehehe ...
Yup. I have it pretty well. The work-to-pay ratio is pretty good, and when there's work to do, I'm fortunate that most folks don't really want my job.
Remind me to pay the quartermaster for the garbage bags. I was going to throw them away sooner or later anyway. ;)

"I was going to throw them away sooner or later anyway."

Government waste ! ! !

Send them to ME, I've actually got to PAY for shit like garbage bags and water bills.

HA - A business would just call it overhead and pass it on to customer. I flush toilet at govt work place and don't call it waste (ok maybe I do). Somehow a few cents ain't gonna impact the trillions that get flushed on many govt projects. Gotta start painting signs for the big DC 28 Aug TEA Party - ha, should use the govt big bed plotter for that!

TC, when you're a little older and a little more grey, you can move into the spare bedroom. I'll put up with you longer than a retirement village will!
;)

Cory just call him after ever run at 3AM (:>

One thing to remember Tom is that Cory gets paid to run INTO burning buildings while you're running out! :)

~WB

True enough ! ! ! One of the few remaining noble professions.

But I sometimes feel that he LIKES it when I poke at him.

Yup, Cory's into being poked - er, poked AT.

I don't mind a bit, TC. Kinda fun, really.
Lane, uh ... no.

Check this out. I went in to work this week to discover this rig in the spot our pumper usually ocupies. The engine's behind the rear axle. Looks okay, I guess, but the supply hose is in the middle of the hosebed (on top of the truck; four-inches in diameter), and it has to be stowed ahead of the engine or the heat will cook it.
Not the best design, I think.
Hence the ladder. If you're driving this rig, your job is to get water into the pump. To do that, you have to actually climb up on top of the truck and throw the hose down, then climb down and do something about attaching it to a hydrant. It seems like two or three extra steps over the modern design, where you simply grab some webbing attached to the end of the last section of hose, and pull that down from above you.
This thing was built when Ronald Reagan was president.
If I can find a VeeDub logo to attach to the rear-facing grille, I just might do it. We're supposed to have this crate for a month or so.

Luckily, I'm going to be on vacation with my son for half that time.