Ryan got his new vehicle

I decided that I was going to sleep as long as I could. I woke up about seven hours after going to bed. But I went back to sleep until noon. I finally got up and started to get ready for the day. I made some breakfast and then called Ryan. He told me he had gotten some calls from the dealer but did not answer them. Some messages were left for Ryan that they had a better deal for him.

I went to pick him up and then he called the dealer back. It turned out they were able to get a much better interest rate and it caused the amount of money for his rig to decrease by a lot of money. He is more satisfied with the deal and wants to do it.

I told him we would go there, but we would have lunch first and talk everything over. He wanted to sign right away. I let him know we would work our way there and we stopped at Ted’s Burgers to get some lunch. We talked over the deal some more and contacted his insurance company to get that settled. I told him we should test drive it one more time. He did not think it was necessary.

We went to the dealership and he asked to test drive it one more time. He thought about it and decided to go with my suggestion. We went for another drive and got one more good feel of the vehicle. Ryan was still happy with it, so we went back to the dealership and decided to make it happen.

We went to the office of the closer and started to talk about the final things and worked on signing papers. We were still doing some dealing with the extended warranty and the gap coverage. I was able to see Ryan did not need gap coverage and he declined that. As he was signing his paperwork I got a call from Chuck. I am on the Rescue tonight. I wanted to be on Rescue, but I was supposed to be on the engine.

I went back to Pullman before Ryan was done signing everything, but he was nearly done. I had to be back to be on call. On the way I heard something going on that sounded like we would get called. I got to my office to get my uniform when the call came out. I went to the station and Bryan still thought he was on Rescue so he went on the call. I hung out at the station.

Chuck was there and we were talking about some of the issues going on at the department with engineer training and response nights. I was talking to him about some of my reservations about the way we do things. Ryan and I has also decided to get Pizza Hut for dinner. I was going to meet Ryan there. But I was in the conversation and I got held up.

While at Pizza Hut I hatched a plan to get Bryan on Rescue for the night. I put it in motion and I was able to get him moved to the Rescue. A call came in around four in the morning. I was wearing my department tee-shirt and shorts. Chuck gave me some grief about that. He said I should be in uniform. I asked why, I am on engine and I would have to put on my turn-outs before we left, so what I have on under them should not matter. He said we are expected to wear our uniform.

I explained that if we always had to wear our uniform when we were getting paid it would be impossible to do daytime calls unless we wore our uniform all the time. He said he did not want to argue about it. I think that we need to get the problem settled. I think that we are being required to do things that are above and beyond what we should be required to do. I am going to talk about these things at the meeting we have with the chiefs when it happens in the near future.