You Might be in a Rural Volunteer Fire Department if...

! Your two way radio transmissions all begin with "Breaker, Breaker"

! You have ever been dispatched to a working cowchip pile fire.

! Your PASS alarm got's "Yeee-Haw!" instead of "Beep. Beep."

! Your dispatcher ever said to you, "Y'all can't miss it"

! You use your rescue air bags as furniture at the fire station.

! You refill your air bottles at the local gas station air hose.

! You wash the station floor to "keep the dust down."

! You end all your radio transmissions with the words "Sure enough t"

! You have to mark the department out of service every Friday night of a home football game.

! You have to mark the department out of service the first week of hunting season

! You count reading fire magazines in the bathroom as training hours.

! Your last four fire department raffles were for a shotgun.. and a member won each time.

! You borrowed the fire department’s quick dump tank for a neighborhood pool party last July.

! Your safety officer is the person who broke their arm at the last house fife.

! Your rehab site consists of a tire stump and a baloney sandwich.

! The last serious fire was at the fire department cookout.

! You have a shotgun rack in the back window of your firetruck and you shot two deer on your last call.

! Your hydraulic rescoc tool is on permanent loan to the local auto body shop.

! You do not allow a person to join the departinent unless they own a pickup.

! You wore a hole in your fire boots while wearing them at your full-time job.

! Your fire department brush truck doubles as your hunting truck.

! You borrowed the firetruck to use the spotlights for deer hunting.

! The directions to your last house fire were "Go down past the last house you burnt up" and you knew exactly how to get there.

! You ever went diving in a swimming pool with your SCBA just to see if it would work.

! You have to take the battery out of your tractor and put in the fire truck before you can go on a call.

! Your definition of "two in and two out" is two persons inside the cab and two persons hanging on the outside.

! You were trained to store important tools in your turnout gear by the rule "Left for life; right for chewing tobacco."

! You keep two packs of chewing tobacco in your turnout gear for emergencies.

! Your preacher borrows the department’s PASS alarm every Sunday to keep the congregation awake.

! The directions to your fire station begin with the words "Turn off the paved road" and end with the words "You can't miss it."

! The last girl you kissed was named Rescue-Annie.