Your alarm goes off, you hit the snooze and sleep for another 10 minutes. 

My tone goes off at 2 in the morning and im on my way to a wreck with entrapment.
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You take a warm shower to help you wake up. 

I've been awake for three days working at four different stations running calls all day and night and doesn't get to shower.
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You complain of a "headache", and call in sick. 

I get burned or trapt inside, or while cutting someone out of a car something flys off the car and injures me, or car explodes, I get called to a medical call where someone was shot and I wonder if that person still around?? Is he going to shoot me??
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You meet up with your friends at the camp and get drunk! 

I respond to the unconsious people and the grass fire you started.
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You make sure you're cell phone is in your pocket. 

I kiss the maltese cross around my neck and I say a prayer before I go in the burning building.
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You talk trash on your "buddies" that aren't with you. 

I pray that my brothers next to me come out alive and we watch out for eachother..for we know the value of a true friend and are brothers for life.
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You walk down the beach, staring at all the pretty girls. 

I crawl around a pitch black, totally involved house searching for the old lady and her grandchild that didnt make it out.
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You complain about how hot it is. 

I wear my heavy gear, not takeing it off in the 900 degree heat and flames for I appreciates the heat and learns to deal with it
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You go out to lunch, and complain because the restaurant got your order wrong.

All I got was a MRE from a rehab truck because I only have a 10 minute break before I have to go back out and try to stop the three hundred acre grass fire from reaching any houses.
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Your maid makes your bed and washes your clothes. 

I wear the same things for days, but I makes sure my trucks, gear, and equipment are clean.
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You go to the mall and get your hair redone. 

I didnt have time to take a shower or brush my teeth this morning because I got a four alarm fire.
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You call your girlfriend and set a date for that night. 

I go sometimes days not going home or seeing the ones I love. 
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You hug and kiss your girlfriend, like you do everyday. 

I look at the picture that I keep in my gear and kisses it and says baby i promise im comeing home soon and if i dont I love you and i just hope i did everything in my power to make you happy.
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You roll your eyes as a baby cries. 

I sit on the curb and my budies kneel down and cry and say a prayer for the child that didnt make it.
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You criticize your local firestation because they got behind you andwere holding down the airhorn trying to get you to get out of the way 

I  pray even if you dont move out of the way that we can make it in time to save the people inside and maybe even the house.
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You hear firefighters joke around and say they are nothing but a bunch of jackasses 

I hear the tone and I'm are ready in a moments notice, its all fun when its just me and my buddies at the station playing around, once that tone goes off its all work and no play!
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You hear on the news some firefighters were laughing at a wreck and think assholes 

I see the only way to try not to cry out in front of everyone because someone didnt make it was to tell a joke about one of his buddies.
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You stay at home and watch tv. 

I take whatever time he is given to clean, eat, fix something at the station, cook, wash firetrucks, and then relaxe for 20 minutes and has to go assist a medic unit with a collapse patient.
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You crawl into your bed, with down pillows, and try to get comfortable. 

I crawl into a single person bed with a stiff pillow and just a sheet at 4 in the morning to try and sleep until 5 before I have to go to my next shift at one of the other stations.
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You sit there and judge him, saying he is stupid for running into a burning building

If only there were more men like me!