Can you say "Wow, that came out wrong."

"It was really scary at first," says Simms. "I wondered what could be in this hole I was putting my hands in. The first time you reach in a hole you're a little bit nervous."

Is it just me, or does something about that sound a little perverted?
What would you guess that quote is from?
believe it or not, it's from the December/January '06 issue of Outdoor Life magazine.
The topic? "Grabblin'". For the uninitiated, that's one of several terms used for the art of catching large catfish by hand. The person talking about it was a 23 y/o girl involved in a film dubbed "Girls Gone Grabblin'", 'which features more than 30 scenes of women battling monster catfish with nothing but their gloved hands.'
I may need to watch this film.

Can't pick on her too bad though... we all have had those moments where we say something, then either later upon reflection, or immediately after the histerical laughter of our friends begins, you think or say "WAIT!!! I DIDN'T MEAN IT TO COME OUT THAT WAY!!!!"

I've had my fair share... A running joke around my FD is "Did ya learn that from the Discovery Channel?", most often in response to some useless factoid i share with the group. Some time ago, i had one of those "Right sentence, wrong time" moments... i said it in regards to the first half of a comment that a friend made, but the second half of his comment reeeeaaallly made my observation quite amusing and a relatively innocent observation turned not-so-innocent.
I've had several other moments like that, but i would rather not elaborate. Everyone at the station has had them though. It's usually after 23:30 or so when the creative juices start flowing, and people come up with great ideas or hilariously out of place comments.
It has been said that every good idea in my FD has been hatched after 0100.
And thats the truth.

Another example.
The setting: my FD, late at night.
The players: Dave, Jeremy, Ray, Shaun, Myself, another male whom i cannot recall, and Jackie (the only female of the group, obviously)

I am usually the recipient of many jokes and jabs, under the rule "If we didn't like you, we wouldn't pick on you". If that's true, i'm the most popular guy at our station, if you dont count bustin on the probies.

Anyway, I was catchin all sorts of ball-busting and during this session, Dave comments, "We've been pickin on Adam quite a bit tonite, but Ray and Jeremy haven't gotten it too bad tonite.
who should we take on next?"

At which point, Jackie blurts out, "Ooh Ooh, Do Me! Do me next!!!"

wrrrroooooongg thing to say in a room full of guys. the next 5 minutes was mostly nothing but hysterical laughter (you know, the kind so hard you can barely breathe), followed by several minutes of attempts at making a joke out of it, but losing it halfway through and falling prey to another period of hysterical laughter.

Many moments like that at my station. It's great. Especially when i'm not the butt of the joke.

Anyway, nothin new since last time. Yet another sleepless night at V.O. I got up at a decent hour, i dont know why i cant sleep, but i'm not tired. this sucks. at least nothing is going on that i know of tomorrow.

This is yet another shift that i accepted from someone looking for a night off (3rd shift since friday i've picked up). I got a phone call around 1530ish. It was the D.O., asking if i could come in early for a long distance transfer. I said no problem, got in here, found out that it was a trip from V.O. land to near Amsterdam. Gloversville, to be exact. About a 100 mile trip.
We had a 93 y/o woman who is healthier than most 70 y/o's that i've picked up in an ambulance.
She fell and broke her hip at our area's most popular tourist destination. This place picks up people from alllllll over the place. Well this woman was from the Gloversville area, had to have hip surgery for this injury, and didnt want it done at our hospital here in V.O. land.
We were told she was this cantankerous old hag (just about a quote from the nurse who apparently isnt too personable herself), but when we went into her room to get her on our stretcher, she was one of the nicest 93 y/o's that i've been in contact with. My paramedic had some rather choice words about the nurse at our ER. apparently she is about as little of a people person as you can get without turning green.
So this transfer went well, with the exception of receiving horrible directions. We ended up at St. Mary's in Amsterdam. My driver (who was actually the paramedic, but this transfer was BLS so he drove) wound up going into the ER and getting better directions. The Moral of the story? Be very careful how much trust you put into Mapquest.

To make this trip even better, our rig is the company Shambulance (actually in a tie with another rig for that title), just had snow tires put on, and she handles very badly over 60 mph. Or 45 mph in driving rain and high winds, which was the setting of most of this trip.
When you are fish-tailing at 40 mph, it sucks. plus on the way back it was raining so hard the wipers may as well have been off.

So we got back from that trip around 2200 (left quarters originally at 1630ish) and havent had anything yet, knock on wood. Doesn't really matter, i wont sleep anyway. shifts over in 4 hours, why bother.

My partner Jeremy needs sleep though. I feel bad for him. No sleep in 2 days, plus on friday he worked a trauma code on a good friend of his. There was only a 3-4 year age gap between them, and Jeremy has known this guy for about 15 years. Its rough when you're not only working on your friend, but also a fellow EMS worker. The pt was a former co-worker and fellow Vol. of jeremy's.
My condolences to everyone affected by his death.

I'm finding out that i know more and more people who also work for the bus company i'm starting at. One girl i took my EMT original with, 2 ppl who used to work for QVA, a former neighbor of mine, and a few other people. It should be cool. I've got my trainer pretty impressed, so thats cool. I have apparently inherited my father's driving genes.

Well, i dunno what else i'm gonna do this mornin, but i know it involves a cup of coffee, which should be ready by now.
Cya.