Men in Uniform

Don't you love men in uniform, especially firemen.

Those of you who read here know we have an office in a shared office block. There are a couple of charities who have offices there as well and last week one of the charities was hosting a lunch in one of the large meeting rooms during which the fire alarm went off. We both heard it, stopped looked at one another and said 'Nah, drill'..........then we heard raised voices in the corridor and it became clear it was not a drill so we all filed outside to the assembly point which is just across the road.

It turned out to be a false alarm as thankfully they always have been (we've previously had the building emptied because of burning toast in the tenants' kitchen and a delivery man accidentally smashing a breakglass with a filing cabinet), it seem one or more ladies had gone into the toilets and had a smoke, naughty, so the alarm went off. It had to be one of the charity lunch visitors.

The fire crew came and went round checking the whole building inside and out just in case, but I think they'd established early on the cause of the alarm. I stood watching as they went about their work, professional and calm, I know they get used to false alams and I know they still have to attend but it must annoy them sometimes. As I stood there I imagined one of the firemen coming back outside asking 'OK who was the naughty lady smoking in the toilets?' and me wanting to say 'Me, it was me' (I don't smoke actually) and the strong armed fireman taking me over his knee and teaching me a lesson in front of everyone. Well a girl can dream can't she.

Then imagine my horror when I saw a fireman heading straight for me, I think I must have gone red, I wondered could the fireman or office colleagues know what I was thinking.

Ha, Ha, no it was OK it was one of our son's friend, who'd been at high school with him and is now a fully fledged fireman, he'd just came over to say hello as he hadn't seen us for a while. I giggled to myself afterwards imagining our son coming in one evening and saying 'Hi mom, just met so and so down the pub, told me he had to spank you for smoking and setting the alarm off, didn't know you smoked.'

Ronnie

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