Another 20 ways to tell you’re a firefighter

You start reciting lines from “Backdraft” at a fire.

You monitor other city’s fire dispatch and miss a call for your own.

You’ve ever stood on a street corner holding a bunker boot asking for donations.

Your idea of a water fight includes a 100-foot tower with dual monitors and several shots of 2.5-inch lines.

You refer to a room at 1,300 degrees as “toasty.”

You remember who was president the last time your family holiday meal did not have to be reheated.

You have every third day circled on your calendar.

You’ve been called a nozzle hog.

You’ve ever dressed from head to foot in rubber and it was not a sexual experience.

Your house was on fire and you still responded to the station.

You have window punches on all of your knives.

You clear a 3-foot circle around the snow-covered hydrants on your street.

You talk about alcohol foams and are not referring to the head on your beer.

You blame the 10 pounds that you’ve gained on food cooked at the station.

You’ve ever made a Jacuzzi out of a 2,100 gallon dump tank and a rescue boat motor.

You’ve ever “bumped” the back of a P.D. unit parked too close to a hydrant.

You think a fire extinguisher makes an excellent holiday gift.

You can no longer distinguish your spouse’s snore from that of your lieutenant.

You’ve ever over-estimated the bay door’s opening speed.

You’ve watched your helmet bounce down the road when the rig pulled away from the scene.