Poisoning, Firefighters, & Whiny Ass Cities

No, I am not poisoning firefighters! I did, however, manage to posion myself recently. Yup. Nearly killed by my own cooking. To anyone who knows me, this should not be a surprise. Apparently, pasta salad made with Italian dressing can and does go bad fairly quickly. Either that or the dressing was plain bad to begin with or mixing it with sunflower seeds was a bad move. All I know is, waking up choking on a mouthfull of mush that tasted what I imagine Mr. Clean tastes like was not fun. Neither were the nasty belches that continued for two days. Nevermind the fever, hallucinations, and other assorted issues. I don't think I'm likely to experiment again...not in my own kitchen anyway. You'd think I'd have learned after the meatloaf trials...or the frozen pizza that was charred on the edges and still iced over in the middle...

Firefighters everywhere are automatic heroes. I don't care about the odd ones or the occasional psycho ones. There's always a joker in the deck. On more than one occasion, I have had reason to be thankful for firefighters (no, not due to cooking). Once, several of them went hunting for my children who I thought were lost in a flooded area. Another time, several of them kept a field fire from spreading to my home (not set by me or anyone I know). Which is why I am torqued. It seems that firefighters in my area are catching flak for cutting each other's hair. You got it, they were saving money (since we all know they make millions) by cutting each other's hair. They were not charging for this or advertising to cut the public's hair. No one is licensed (to my knowledge) so there is no need for State stuff. This is akin to me cutting my own kids' hair or a friend's. No big deal. Not to me, and several other citizens, at least. However, some moron got his underwear in a knot over it and started writing letters to the editor and to the State. Now there's some big deal being made over it. How ridiculous! It's not as if they were going into Great Clips and getting haircuts for free. Do we not have more important issues to worry about? I hope the firefighters have their 'haircutting privileges' restored soon and the idiot who mouthed off gets hemmorhoids. Which leads me to my final topic...

Since this whole firefighter mess is local, and when I consider all the other silly shit that turns into a forum for puling, I have come to agree with another (former) citizen of this town: this is the sissiest city! Any little annoyance gets turned into a formal complaint against someone, a lawsuit, or ends up on some official committee's agenda for study and resolution. Wait..that sounds like the entire country, not just my town...my bad!