By Diane Feldman, Managing Editor
冰淇淋汤，有人吗？
From Ron Kanterman, chief, Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ: A few years ago, a most beloved FDNY lieutenant from a Brooklyn, New York, firehouse took and failed the captain’s test. He was sad, but his men were elated, because had he passed the test and gotten promoted, he’d be shipped off to another house. So, on the way back from a run, the men stopped and got an ice cream cake and had written on it “We’re F—– Happy.” When they got back to the firehouse, they told the probie, “Hey, this cake is as hard as a rock. Put it in the microwave for five minutes so we can cut it.” Well, five minutes was A LITTLE TOO LONG. The cake became ice cream soup. The members slapped the probie on the head and made him go buy another ice cream cake with his own money.
Lesson: Be careful what you tell the new guy to do-he just might do it!
That’s not a window!
From Carl Westbrook: I work for a small department in Texas. We are a paid/volunteer department. One morning, we got toned out for a working structure fire. On the way to the scene, we had numerous reports of flames visible. On our engine were two paid personnel and one new hot zone cleared firefighter. We arrive on-scene, and my captain sends me in with the new guy. Going through the door, we encountered smoke that was almost to the floor. We crawled for a short period of time, and I told him to find a window and clear it out. He instantly broke glass. Figuring the smoke would lift shortly, we moved on.
As I attacked the fire, the smoke conditions did not changed. I repeated my order to my partner to clear a window, and again, after a short time, I heard glass break. At almost the same time the roof team opened up the roof. When the smoke cleared, I saw the two windows the rookie had opened. The first one was a 32-inch TV set, and the other was an empty fish tank. After a few years on the job, I can say that I enjoy working with this person more than anyone in the world.
男人在浴缸里
From Lieutenant Michael Ciampo, FDNY: We had a run the other night and found a guy lying in the bathtub, wearing only his underwear, covered in plaster that apparently fell from the ceiling while he was taking a shower. Now, if he was showering, why he was in his underwear? Maybe saving on the cost of laundry? Then again, why was he perfectly dry if he was showering?
When we asked his name, no one in the apartment knew him. Then we were really confused: You have some strange guy lying on the floor of your tub, clad only in his underwear, and you don’t know him?
教训：有时候这份工作比小说陌生！
It’s not polite to point
来自利沃尼亚（密歇根州）消防局的汤姆·基斯基（Tom Kiurski）：几个月前，消防人员回应了利沃尼亚多车事故的报告。一位年轻的母亲撞上了几辆汽车，在事故前的停车场撞上了几辆汽车以及一辆警车，当时她正带着小孩在车上开车。消防员完成了几次小刮擦并做文书工作后，现场的一名警官问女人司机是怎么碰到她旁边的汽车的。她解释说，她在告诉孩子，同时指着警车（而不是看着她的去向），警察给那些做愚蠢的事情的人提供了门票。孩子问警车在哪里，母亲转过身，继续指着孩子的好处。那是她移动的车辆撞到她旁边旅行的汽车的时候。警察试图在他递给她票时不要笑得太厉害。
Quote of the week
Marc Shaw, New York City deputy mayor for operations, during a daylong budget conference sponsored by the Citizens Budget Commission, speaking about FDNY: “… they only fight fires 5% of the time; they’re hanging around doing nothing the other 95% of the time…”
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12/27/02
Diane Feldman is a 13-year veteran of188金宝搏是正规吗;她在过去的12年中担任执行编辑。她有学士学位在英语/通讯中。以前，她是纽约美国管理协会的编辑.
