Firefighter and exile discuss warning sign meme
Sharky (Firefighter): For some reason I love the berserk warning signs meme page on Facebook. Not sure why. Maybe just because I'm a jackass firefighter and we love drama and ridiculousness. But I enjoy it!
p pi (Exile): I like it too.
Sharky: Why do you like it?
p pi: To help the people not die.
Sharky: Well, p pi, that's loving, but I like to laugh at how stupid firefighters are that managers need to warn them not to kill themselves.
p pi: But firefighters will die if you don't tell them not to.
Sharky: True, so the signs are both hilarious and loving.
p pi: We knew a firefighter person who died and I hate it. I wish there was a sign to tell him not to go on the ladder to the chimney.
Manager deficiency can result in death
Sharky (Firefighter): Well that's true p pi, and when it's someone you actually know it's not funny at all, it's horrifying and terrible, and I'm sorry our friend died falling down the chimney when he went on the roof to take pictures, and he climbed up higher, not knowing he was climbing up onto the ledge of the chimney because it was pitch black outside at 2 am.
p pi (Exile): Me too. Why did he have to die?
Sharky: Because he was a super fun, super epic adventurous firefighter-blended person without enough managers to fill a teaspoon.
p pi: I wish he had even one teaspoon of managers. But you're right, he had a manager deficiency. It takes a village of parts to keep us alive and he lacked managers. Hence, he died.
Sharky: As fun as it is to have managers step back, you need managers to tell you not to go on the roof of a hotel at 2 am and then climb up extra stairs to try to get higher, when you're really climbing up the chimney.
p pi: We do need managers. If you have too many, your life is rigid and sucky. But if you have too few, you can die. That's why these signs—which you think are funny because they're made by managers to warn firefighters to not be stupid jackasses—are actually important.
Sharky: I didn't say they're not important, I just...laughed because firefighters can be so incredibly stupid. I was laughing at my own culture and my own people and hence at myself.
p pi: But it's so sad when fun-loving jackass firefighters die just because they're overly fun and don't have enough managers!! Why do the fun ones die?? That is crap.
Sharky: In this world, you really do need some managers to balance things out.
p pi: Well, I'll tell you what. Gumby died too. Because everyone was teenage stupid firefighters drinking and driving and they crashed into a tree. 5 people died there. What kind of crap is that? And also Amy, my best friend from high school was crossing the street on her 21st birthday and got hit by a car on a rainy night in Baltimore and killed. Death, death, death, always the fun ones dying! I'm not a fan and it's not funny!!
Apologies all around
Sharky (Firefighter): Geez p pi, I'm sorry posting this upset you so much.
p pi (Exile): Oh what can you do. You're a firefighter and that's typical, just laughing at everything.
Sharky: Well I guess I'd rather laugh than cry.
p pi: To anyone whose friend died in a cave, don't mind Sharky, they're a jackass firefighter and that's just typical of firefighters. I'm sorry your friend died doing something fun but extremely stupid. And I'm sorry there was no sign for them. I wish there was a sign for Nick Wieme but there wasn't. And I wish the door to the stupid roof was locked but it wasn't because firefighters will find a way to get into very stupid, very dangerous situations.
Thank you whoever put this sign down in the water in the bottom of the cave. I bet you saved one exile at least from being sad about losing their fun-loving, St. Bernard-dog of a hilarious friend from dying. We need managers in this world, in part because of firefighters. And that’s the truth!