justplainbil

Just Plain Bill

The Pride of a Father

This afternoon, I dropped by to chat with my son, a paramedic firefighter just recently promoted to Engineer. At the end of our visit, his fire station got a call, and he and his captain invited me to ride along.

They belted me in the back seat and I sat there watching, so very proud as my son maneuvered his rig through traffic, siren blaring away, to where we arrived at the site of the call, where another rig had already taken care of the call.

Regardless, I sat there with pride the entire ride, enthralled as he downshifted - just as I’d taught him in his early driving days (which also included a heavy dose of defensive driving skills).

How many dads could be as lucky as I?

I’ll be beaming for many days, for sure!