If I were saying it, it would be let’s go in or I want to get out.
When SCUBAing you don’t typically talk but use hand signals. There is one is to turn the dive as in turn around & head back in/up. Typically this is when the first diver reaches the agreed upon PSI remaining in their tank but could be for a number of other reasons, equipment malfunction, you’re cold, etc. The signal is a finger twirl or as sometimes seen in ordering orange whips all around
It’s up to the driver &/or officer; IOW, the guys in the front seat. I would typically use a lot less noise in the overnight hours as there isn’t the traffic out there that needs to be alerted, though I believe the law in our state is if the lights are on the sirens should be as well; there is an exception for EMS with a patient as in if the noise will negatively impact them (getting tense & nervous) then you don’t have to have it on. We’re a volunteer organization who relies on community funding & therefore, we want to be a good neighbor.
Volunteer or paid dept? Especially if volunteer, late at night may be that person’s only chance to be up front & play with all of the buttons, knobs, switches, &/or pull chains.
The train runs behind our house, as in I could throw a rock and hit it. The first six months or so it was annoying, but then we didn’t notice it. The one exception is for years I took the third train of the day, and if I was up & showering & the first train didn’t go by, I’d get this uneasy feeling and realize I hadn’t heard it. (usually that was bad commute news)
So, clearly we still did notice it, but in a different way.
I don’t keep a journal-journal, but I do keep a Word document where I jot a brief note of what I did each day or semi-important events that occurred. I limit my text to one line = one day.
For example, I just checked past entries and learned that it was 4 years ago today that I received my first COVID vaccine.
Same with me. If I don’t hear a train within a couple of minutes of 6:30 am, I’m usually on the Internet or radio to check for the bad news, since I’ll be out on the platform soon.
I’ve been in an ambulance many times accompanying people to the hospital in a professional capacity. Although I’ve been a patient in a medevac helicopter I’ve never been a patient in an ambulance. That’s because I was too stupid to call for an ambulance at the time.
So far, I’ve only been in an ambulance once and I was a* patient: two months before my 5th birthday, my family’s apartment building burned down (caused by the guy who lived above us falling asleep while smoking). I went into shock, and was taken to the hospital: Mom rode with, while Dad and my younger brother stayed at the scene. I was fine by the time we arrived at the ER.
*I say “a” patient and not “the” patient because transported with me was a fireman who’d fallen through the roof of the building while venting it. He wound up also being alright, but ever since that night I’ve had a soft spot for firefighters.
I’ve kept a journal since around 1977, though there were a few stand-alone volumes before that. Some years have more writing than others. I have no idea what to do with all of them when I die.
When I was 6, my mom changed lanes into a motorcyclist who went down and ended up jamming his thumb. It was raining heavily, and they put us in the back of the police car for the interview. Not sure we actually travelled anywhere to be honest.
The motorcyclist was not seriously injured and we continued on our way home.
I like chestnuts. And I’ve roasted them on an open fire, once, during the neighborhood holiday party. But it’s fussy, and easy to burn them. If i actually want to eat chestnuts i either buy them cooked or roast them in the oven.
(I guess my oven is gas, and has an open flame. Does that also count?)
I ended up in the back & front of a PD car…in the same night.
On my way home from ambulance shift, still in uniform, when a MVA (motor vehicle accident) call came in so I went right to scene. Park car out of way & get out & there’s nothing at the listed intersection. Cop car pulls up w/ rookie & supervisor/training officer, who I know. He tells me to hop in the back but don’t close the door (as I’ll be locked in) so we drove up the twisty-turny road about ⅓ mile until we found it with me holding the door a couple of inches open so it would neither close me in or open & fling me out.
Pt went to trauma center in the city & I was asked to take the cop there for blood draw as he didn’t know where it was; yes, this was back in the days of flip-phones.
Oh, i answered that wrong. Most of my “nightlights” have a light sensor, any only come on when it’s dark. But i have two older ones that are always on. One isn’t exactly static, it was a gift from when LEDs were new and exciting, and it cycles through a rainbow of colors in our ensuite bathroom. The red is dimmer than the others, and i sometimes wait for it to cycle off red before doing something. But it’s “always on”.
