mctatters

Just having one of those days I guess. Work was shit ... hardly got any stories written and had to work my way through interview after interview. Normally I could guarantee a Thursday night would get me out of any foul mood I was in - it's the night our local fire department gets together for a meeting, training and a few drinks afterwards. The night certainly didn't start off well. First my chit (essentially a piece of paper we punch for every drink we have) was used last week while I was on vacation. When I left on April 2 it had exactly 0 beers punched. Tonight when I got to the hall and picked it up, it had 14 (there's only 20 on a chit). Then minutes after I had chatted with a friend about how pissed I was ... not because of the chit, but because of the lack of respect on the part of some firefighters, another firefighter decided to come up behind me while I was cleaning a bay, call my name, and let off an air horn a foot from my right ear. He's further down the seniority ladder than me (I have about 2.5 years in - he has about a year less). He never said sorry - not even after they deputy chief called him out, or after I told him I couldn't hear him in my right ear. I guess I had enough. I walked into our club room, grabbed my car keys and sweater and drove home. Otherwise I would have probably decked this guy. Sorry, just in a bad mood and needed to vent.