we were planning to stick out a major bushfire that was approaching but we had the truck loaded just in case, done prep work etc then my (f) partner, who was a firefighter, was called by her Captain and he said they are pulling the strike team out as its too dangerous.. i literally said " we are leaving now " and we did and drove though the fire.
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Three times in my life I've been in proximity to large bushfires, alone with no transport.
I did the whole routine with stopping gutters and getting hoses ready, but in a couple of those places there wasn't much water pressure to work with.
Lucky the wind never turned in my direction.
This lady on the street wanted me to get her a Popeye's chicken sandwich, and she offered to pay me back with a blowjob.
That was a wild lunch break.
You left out the most important part! How was the head?
Somehow, the less teeth they have, the more teeth you feel, so not great.
teeth you feel,
I call the situation a bit risky when she's still hungry.
One time I was waiting for the bus and a homeless guy offered me a bj. I politely declined. He persisted and tried to convince me. Idk what his deal was, he didn't seem drunk or anything. It was the middle of the day too, like 3pm. People were around. Wierd
For real? Were there cameras rolling? Damn, I hope the ride was uneventful for the remainder.
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Popeyes is fire.
people got into fights over those chicken sandwiches 😂
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I don't have one as dramatic as yours, but a month ot so ago, I was on the bus to the office, I had my Bose headphones on and was half asleep with closed eyes.
The bus were stopped, and I suddenly noticed an acrid smell, like burning plastic.
I opened my eyes and saw the interior or the bus filled with a haze of smoke.
The doors were open and the last few other passengers were spontaneously evacuating.
So I knew I had to leave and got out in 5 sec.
I think bus on fire beats irate driver.
To be fair, I never saw any fire, and when the bus was evacuated, the driver drove on, probably to a garage or so.
Dude was screaming, to no one, about how much he hates white people, flipping off police cars that drove by, and pacing back and forth. I chilled off to the side, just hoping he wouldn't bother me, for about 5 minutes before I decided to walk to the next stop.
There were a few times in the jail where I had to leave because of fights. I've also gone home a few times because harassment from a coworker disregulated me so badly that I was too upset to stay.
Reminds me of this time a guy was trying to fight god. God was this sign on top of a building. He was yelling at him, firing imaginary guns at him, even a bow and arrow.
We didn’t leave for a few minutes though, and backed him up a bit. Great night. Not sure if he succeeded though.
Seeing how things are going these days, I kind of suspect that he did succeed. Good for him I guess.
My first date with my wife, we were waiting to order and someone came up to me and tried to sell me an 8 Ball and some acid.
but were the drugs good though?
Good enough to get me married.
In like 2008 I was coming back from an overnight airsoft event in rural Texas at like 3am and had to stop for gas. I pulled into the only gas station in a small town just off the highway and was just about to get out of the truck when a sketchy dude walks out from behind the gas pump and started asking me questions through my window hey man, cool truck, is that yours or your parents, where you coming from? I rolled out of there real fast and found a safer stop up the road.
Keep in mind, I was in military gear at the time because I was young and dumb, but that didn't stop sketchy McCrackhead from chatting me up.
Airsoft gear does not look like military gear. It looks like military role play, which looks obvious to most people. I think that was part of why they felt so comfortable approaching you
Airsoft gear does not look like military gear.
I used to do the odd paintball in surplus gear. Without the face shield it was the same kind of kit I used to wear for work.
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Any time I see a coworker not at work. no eye contact, no acknowledgement, just nope, I'm gone
Does it count if we left and came back?
It was a great reception, but the photographer had weed, so…
Early_riser, if you want your next post to be "How did you feel when you heard that tal won the lottery?" I'm okay with that.
When the owner of the pet I was hired to look after arrived home early
Username hopefully doesn't check out
Was at a seedy bar, and it was closing time.
Im to lazy to recount but I have had a few and I know some nothing bad happened but I got to say if a situation is wierding you out. Get out of there!
I just moved just outside a major city in Texas. Me and my roommate decided to explore the city so we drove downtown, parked and just started walking around. We walked past a train station and there were people openly smoking weed wondering around the train station. This was in 2015, way before any weed legalization and it's still illegal in Texas.
Now I don't care about people smoking weed, most are nice and at most will just ask if you have money, have weed, or are looking to buy weed. I don't even care if you do other drugs as long as you can handle it, know your limit and stay within it.
What bothered me is across the street there were two police cars just watching. Standing out of their cars just watching. That means they didn't care about the low level weed crimes. They were there incase something larger went off. They were there in case of stabbings, shootings, mugging etc. I got out of there ASAP and never went back