A Smoking Fireman!?!
Oct 18 2007

I wasn’t planning to do a post today, but I couldn’t help myself after seeing what I saw today.  After I picked up the kids from school, I took them to a nearby fire station because our son had been asking me to take him there for the last week or so.  So the three of us went to the fire station, got out of the car, and walked toward the fire truck that was parked inside the station.  As we approached, I saw a person (just their legs and feet) sitting on a chair at the opening of the station door and a few wisps of smoke coming from the area that I assumed would have been his/her face.  As he became visible, I noticed that he quickly put out a cigarette and attempted to discreetly slip an unused one inside the Larry McMurtry book he was reading.

I think I was visibly taken aback and half expected my son to say something like “Look Mom, he’s smoking!  That’s bad for you”  as he has done on a few embarrassing occasions before.  After the fireman began opening the fire truck doors so the kids could crawl inside, I got over my initial shock and wondered to myself “Are firemen or women allowed to smoke on the job? Especially given that many fires are started by lit cigarettes?”  I then thought “Well if a fire broke out in the station, they would be well-equipped to put it out!” 🙂

Has anyone else seen such a thing as a fireman smoking?  Doesn’t that seem like an oxymoron or some other such ironic thing?

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