Firefighter Training Stinks

Now back when I rode the tailboard a firefighter had to be ready to fight a boatload of fire. We would leave one one building and go to the next with smoke pushing and people going nuts.

Nowadays things are more relaxed but the nuts are still out there. These boys now are lucky if they get to pull a line two or three times a tour so they need a lot of old Buck's war stories to tell them how to do it.

The problem is the training pukles come along and teach them just the opposite. My philosophy is simple. If you are good at what you do you stay there doing it. A guy in training wasn't worth a shit out in the street so they stuck him where he could do little harm.

Why can't thy just stay in their offices pencil whipping training reports? No, they gotta screw it up by coming out to my house and screwing with my crew. Old Buck puts a stop to it quick though. I'll ask them to ride with us and show us how its done. They head out fast because they don't want no part of firefighting.

That's why they are in training.

Diversity for the Firefighter

Some moron came through yesterday to tell us we all have to take diversity classes. What? I am diversified. I eat pasta AND tacos.

What I hate is someone with no time on the job is gonna come in and tell us how to relate to each other. Shit. We've been relating for years as long as we can laugh but these sperm donors are going to tell us not to joke about things. For a fireman that's the way we cope with stress.

I mean, hell, I like the NBA. How much more diversity do we need?

Shut Your Pie Hole Proby

Old Buck does not like the proby. First he is what some of the younger crowd call a metro-sexual, which to me is another term for flaming homo. Anyway he has a mouth on him and yesterday old Buck took him aside and explained that if he didn't shut up I would stomp his ass into a mudhole and then stomp the mudhole dry. He cried.

Holy shit! This is a guy who is supposed to pull me out of a burning room.

Old Buck apologized to the boy and told him to go watch reruns of The A-Team. Where are the firefighters?