“We have to get back to the station, I’ve got to go.”
“You’re not going to shit your pants like the last guy are you?”
“Maybe.”
It’s a three mile trip from the Rhode Island Hospital Emergency Room to the Allen’s Avenue Fire Station. ETA six minutes. I could probably make it. Everything was going great, light traffic, perfect weather conditions, no road construction in sight. I could see the promised land in the distance, a little more than a minute away. I started to relax.
“A train!”
“You have got to be kidding.”
“It’s the coal train, slowest moving locomotive on the Eastern Seaboard!”
“Oh, my, God.”
The railway gates closed, blocking our approach. Lights flashed, the train approached Allens Avenue at 2 MPH. Doomed.
“Turn around, we’ll backtrack to the one way, circle around the x-rated bookstore, go up the one way down and over the railroad tracks.”
“Let’s roll.”
As we approached the one-way and were about to put on the warning lights and sirens, a battalion chief approached.
“BOGEY AT 12 O’CLOCK!”
“You have got to be kidding!”
I curled my toes, waved to the chief as we passed his vehicle, now headed away from the promised land.
“Stop at the Burger king!”
“I’m on it!”
Mark wheeled Rescue 1 around and headed toward the burger joint. Thirty seconds away the pain in my abdomen subsided.
“I think I can make it, keep going.”
“Are you sure?”
“I can do this. I can.”
The station was around the next bend, salvation moments away. I saw it in the distance, a beacon, a ray of light, the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. We roared onto the ramp, I rolled under the opening overhead door and duck walked to the rest room, just in the nick of time.
What a day. Ten runs, one emergency.
Ruh roh…I totally and utterly feel your pain.
Oh, Michael… at least there was one true emergency all day. Shoulda gone with lights & sirens!
Oh yes….I’ve been there too!!!!
Ohhhh….the true emergency in this case was the “duck walk” !!!! Lucky for Max it was in the nick of time.
This too shall pass.
Hope everything came out all right;)
LMAO, I have been in that boat many a time!
at that point i would have used the burger king-gross public bathrooms are undesirable but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. i think you were just up for a challenge to see if you could make it…was that it????
Hilarious!
BTDT. Sucks, doesn’t it?
I have regained control of my body and am now at peace, thanks everybody for sharing my pain, Walt, I’m racking my brain but for the life of me I can’t figure out BTDT. I’ve got a few ideas, just wondering if I’ve forgotten something.
Man, have I been THERE. Your post had me squirming. Glad to see you made it without a BLEVE.
BTDT = been there, done that.Usually it’s that second or third cup of coffee that gets me. Lately, though, I’m rather immobile, so it only takes one…..I only ran across your blog over the past few days. Now that I have time to read, I will do so. Awesome!
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