Explain firefighters to me

[BamaRider]

About 10 years? Now revenge is NOT a good thing M, you should know that. I saw today the high in Edmonton went to like 20 degrees, heat wave! I hate it when y’all the door open and all that cold air streams down here. Yuck.

 

[Feanaro_s_Wife]

About 10 years? Now revenge is NOT a good thing M, you should know that.

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I am really surprised you lived to tell the tale Guy

As for revenge…wasn’t it just posted above somewhere how the person being pranked is respected when they take it “like a man” and then get their revenge? I want respect too**

 

[sanctareparata]

Great. Just when I think my younger-than-me hubby is finally “growing up”, now I have all this to look forward to.

 

[Gwyn]

A long time ago, I thought up this prank. The paramedics use ammonia capsules on unconscious people to wake them up or to see if their faking. You crush the capsules with your fingers and the vapors quickly go to work. It will bring tears to your eyes in a hurry. They were known in my fire dept as “silver bullets.”

Well one morning before going off duty I went in the ambulance and took a couple out of the med kit. Debbie was at work when I got home. So I went to her bathroom, and put a bullet between the seat, and the rim, so when she sat down it would break open. Man I was laughing so hard when I set the bobby trap, didn’t think I’d be able to pull it off. Her bath is in the master bedroom, she banished me from it the day we moved in.

So she came home for lunch, and I was kinda quiet, just looking around waiting on her to go to the back. Finally she did and a few seconds later I followed her. Soon as I walked in the bedroom I could smell ammonia it was awful. The bathroom door was cracked, and I called out to her, “Ewwwwwwwww dang baby are you sick??” "I dunno, its taking my breath " “Open the window or sumptin.” “I’m trying!” “You better get checked out, it smells like a thousand diapers in there. " " I know I don’t understand.” “What kinda coffee you been drinkin?” “I dunno the same kind as always, but I gott get outta here!” So I put my foot to the door. "Get out the way! Can’t breathe in here! " So I let her out and she came out with watery eyes and hacking. OMG I was laughing so hard.

“Whats so funny, somethings wrong in there” Then I raised the seat and she saw the broken silver bullet. "I’m gonna KILL you! I thought something was wrong with ME! So I ran back down the hallway, and out to the garage, and she was right behind me, she threw a flip flop and hit me in the back. I put the car between us and she chased me around. “Calm down, dang it, it was just a joke!” “Wait till I get my hands on YOU, they’re gonna lock me up for domestic abuse.” So that was that story.

So Malia, always check under the rim before you sit down. Cause he’ll learn that prank in short order. Doesn’t work on guys for obvious reasons (yanno we stand to do it LOL)

laughing and in tears…darn I would hate that…Poor Deb.

 

[Wonderboo]

Thanks for the insight everyone.

I was wrong when i said that guys grow out of it. What I meant was they usually mature in their “jokes”…at least a little bit. I think most of the stuff is funny, but there are always the “jokes” that could end up getting someone hurt or causing some type of damage… I just don’t get those ones. But for the most part I understand the bonding etc. Hubby and I are like that with eachother too. But not the dangerous or damaging stuff:shrug:

So, for those of you “in the know”… give me some good ones I can pass on to hubby if he needs to get revenge

So I asked my EMT husband (a bit different but they’re just as crazy and he knows his fair share of firefighters and he said make sure he always checks his boots…all kinds of things can end up in boots and if he can come with something to put in said boots all the better. …he also said he’s been with firefighters who grease the seats of the truck (he then adds that that isn’t safe but they run into burning buildings so they aren’t into the whole being safe thing) he also adds that they do all the “regular” stuff too…which he says means buckets of water over doors and the like. He also said to watch out for food…the possiblities for evil abound.

They’re all crazy, they have to be. Someone once told me that fire/ems guys are like big fluffy dogs…they act all big and dumb but at the end of the day they’re the one you want to see pulling the sled to come rescue you…and oh yeah they’re hugable

 

[Ruthie]

I think it’s a way of both blowing off steam and “distancing” themselves from the horrors of the job.

I remember this one from boarding school…

Put a bog glob of shaving cream on the hand of someone sound asleep and then tickle their nose with a feather or something.

Medical people are famed for dark humor. My uncle D ick, who was in med school before wall switches were invented, said it wasn’t too unusual to get to your room at night, reach for the string to turn n the light, and find yourself grabbing an ear some other student had hung there. Too gross, and yet funny.

God bless all of you who put your lives in danger for the rest of us!

Ruthie

 

[diosa25]

DH was applied to the fire dept a while back but didn’t get in. He is going to try again this year. I am so not looking forward to this now!

Malia, has your DH been through any new pranks in the past couple weeks? My DH loves hearing about stuff like this. That’s how him and his “guys” are to each other just in general.