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You know you're a Probie...
You know you're a Probie:
- When your officers keep shaking their heads and saying, "Rookies!" whever you are around.
- You are baffled by ICS
- You set the backboard down on the icey ground and it takes off downhill like a sled
- Your Chief is the one who stops the backboard and carries it back uphill
- "White Helmets" terrify you
- You only trip over the firehose when the Chief is watching
- You acctually have to ask, "What is the Nader-thingy??"
- You get totally lost in the hospital and the cleaning lady has to show you the way to the ambulance bay
- You constatnly roll up hose with the female coupling on the inside.
- Your Chief always catches you rolling up the hose with the female coupling on the inside.
- You pull the air-horn cable in the Engine because you wanted to "see what it did."
- You call all fire aparatus "Fire trucks."
- No matter how hard you try, you just CAN'T find the 4X4's in the ambulance.
- When you spike an IV bag you manage to soak yourself down
- When the tones go off you get so freaked out that you put your SCBA on upside-down
- Your name is "Hey you!" "Get out of the way!" or "Hurry up!"
- You get on scene and fall out of the engine
- Tones go off and you put your nomex hood on backwards
- You follow the crusty veteran firefighters like a shadow
- Just as you are about to enter a fire your officer grabs you, tucks your nomex hood into your coat, velcros your neck-band, slaps your visor down and rolls his eyes as you slink over to the nozzle
- You ask about one million questions whenever you are in the station
- You're the one who walks by the Chief holding the pike pole like a lance
- You get geared up in a flash and manage to get a seat on the engine just in time to realize you forgot your helmet
- Your officer asks you to grab the Hurst spreaders at an MVA scene and when you turn
around you knock the State Trooper off his feet with your SCBA bottle
- You say, "Oh no!" in the back of the ambulance and your patient hears you
- Your lead-medic hears you say "Oh no!" and has to calm the patient down
- You get stuck on a ladder and your officer has to rescue you
- It takes you five minutes to figure out how to put a Dutchman in your hose load
- You go to wash the rig after a winter run and the scrub brush freezes to the metal
- The first time you wear an SCBA you stalk your training officer while saying, "Luke...I am your Father..."
- You charge the hosebed at least twice
- You give the rescue snowmachine some gas and promptly run it into the tanker
- You zip your glove into the airway bag
- You drag Rescue Randy out of the building and his pants are around his ankles
- Your medical jumpsuit jingles and clanks when you walk because you have so much stuff in the pockets "just in case you need it on a scene..."
- When you crawl inside a smokey building you run into everything with your head - including your partner's butt!
- The patient stares at you and says, "You must be new..."
- As you exit the building your Engineer grabs you by the scruff and gives you a lesson about water hammer
- You pull the gurney out of the ambulance and a wheel falls off
- The spanner wrenches freeze to your gloves and the Chief has to pry them free
- You resemble a scurrying cockroach when the tones wake you up at night
- You run into a doctor with the gurney
- You drop the hydrant wrench in the snow
- Your officer says, "Catch the plug!" and you give him a blank stare
- You shut your partner in the hospital's automatic doors (and live to tell about it)
- You totally forget to lock the deckgun down and you tell the Engineer to charge it
- Something knocks you on your butt and you look up in time to see the deckgun flying through the air like a rocket
- The Chief sees it too...
- You raid the hospital's glove supply because they have those nifty purple gloves
- Chief tells you to search the second floor of the training building and he finds you on the third floor ten minutes later
- You always hear the phrase: "Why did you do that?" or "Exactly WHAT are you doing?"
- You take a bathroom break and lose your place on the fire station couch but you don't say a darn thing about it!
- You can acctually identify with anything on this list!!!
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