Overheard on the scanner

"I think I'm twenty-three at the correct house, but I'm not sure --
there's only one house with a number on it."  

Now how would you like to be the one lying on the kitchen floor near
the phone that's fallen out of your hand while the dispatcher consults
his notes for clues?    Put a &%*# number on your &%*# house!

BTDT:  It also helps if you *rehearse* what you'll say when you yell
for help.  "Next door to the high school" doesn't help a bit if you
don't say *which* high school.   

At least I did better than the guy who yelled "At my house!" in
response to "Where is the fire?", quite indignant that the dispatcher
was nagging him for details instead of getting the fire engines
rolling.  (Despite zigging back and forth looking for smoke, the boys
did get to his house just barely before the grass fire did -- but the
house-owner panicked himself into the hospital.)  

Joy Beeson
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