okay, so you can have a good laugh at my expense, in the last 3 weeks ive found all my bedsheets, pillow and blanket in the freezer. my boots have been tossed off of a 30 story building after a training exercise, i've had the tanker quick dump dumped on me twice, that's ice cold water! we got dispatched and arrived on a scene and i found an interesting undergarment strategically placed in my bunker gear, went to my locker to get changed and my underwear was gone and replaced by a pair of womens thong underwear, my last name on my locker was replaced with a piece of tape and written on it reads "jerkoff" i went to drink my coffee the other day and realized a little too late that someone put superglue on the handle. i found my hat up on top of the flag pole one morning. the other day i had one guy calling the rear phone, another calling the office phone, on at the front door and another at the back door all at the same time, yea they were laughing their asses off at me watching me run around like a freak not knowing which way to go first LOL. this morning the alarms went off, i jumped out of bed to grab my gear and go but my gear was gone, so i go down in just my socks and underwear and there's the crew laughing their asses off! good thing i have thick skin and these are good guys lol.

Jesse,

i am constantly amazed at your inner strength. so much of my abuse by my brother and his friends involved complete humiliation with them laughing at me ... by now i would have quit the job.

i admire your strength and am slightly jealous at your ability to be "just one of the guys".

Mark

hey thanks, its all part of the act, being a ff is more important to me then how i feel if im humiliated so, yea i suck it up, laugh and smile right along with them. this probie shit won't last long and like i said, theyre good guys, not out to hurt me, just have to get me in line, its just how it works. believe me inside im torn up most of the time but like i said, its part of the act and out of everything my father thought he was teaching me thru abuse, it was the being able to suck it up part that i really learned.

Jesse,

We used to do pranks at my old airline job. One guy is sitting at a test panel with some high voltage gear hooked up to it and flips a test switch. At the same time he goes click, someone from behind pops bubble wrap. Watch them scramble to get the switch back off! Someone once tied the arms of my jacket so that when I went to put it on, I couldn't push my hand all the way through the sleeve. I in turn put some of his tools back in his tool box so he would have to get them back out, but I lined the edge of the drawer with lotion so his fingers felt the goo when he opened it back up. Or someone working on an RF generator uses it to interfere with the radio across the aisle that is playing country music. The list goes on...

Andy

i am SO warped

andy yea its funny harmless shit supposed to make me feel welcome there lol

funny ...

well, i guess it's no surprise i don't see it - but as long as you do, that's what matters here

Just as a side note Jesse, I hope they are ok with the favor being returned.

LOL, you mean you hope the NEXT probie is OK with the favor being returned!

I suppose there is that pattern of paying it forward, yes. lol

I was thinking more along the lines of pay-back, like it happened at my old job.