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How Will You Commemorate 9/11?

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I’ll tell you how I’m going to do it.

On the morning of 9/11, I’m going to get off my 911 job, strap on my kilt, and head over to the Waffle House.

And while I’m there I’m going to drink orange juice and eat scrambled eggs and mounds of bacon and hash browns, read my newspaper and tell anyone who asks why I’m wearing a kilt.

And then I’m probably going to eat more bacon, and maybe argue a little politics with the guy on the next stool at the counter, and each one of us will be utterly convinced that the damned country is going to hell in a hand basket unless everybody votes for My Guy, or His Guy, or That Guy Nobody Has Heard Of that hasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of winning.

And we’ll all take it as a given that, no matter Which Guy wins, the transfer of power will be peaceful.

And in our complacency and American naïveté, we’ll fail to recognize just how rare that is.

When I’m done with my breakfast, I’ll mosey on over to the gun shop, and just maybe, buy myself something I really don’t need.

Just because.

Then I’m going to spend an hour or two turning expensive ammunition into smoke and noise, after which I’ll go to a restaurant with mediocre food served by whorish American women in scandalous outfits that show off their artificially tanned, surgically enhanced boobs, and I’ll order a burger and a beer, and watch reruns of American football while I eat.

With extra bacon on the burger, please.

After which, I think I’ll go catch a matinee; something with plot holes a mile wide and lots of guns and explosions and gratuitous sex and violence and scantily clad women who don’t even know what subservient even means, much less how to behave that way.

In short, I’m gonna be everything our enemies hate; a vain, hedonistic, shallow, greedy, spoiled American capitalist infidel pig.

Because fuck them, that’s why.

  • http://transportjockey.com/ Transport Jockey

    I’ll be putting on a uniform and working a duty shift on an ambulance. Shoot off a few rounds for me!

  • Ambulance_Driver

    I work tomorrow night, too. That’s why only one beer at lunch. ;)

  • Doug

    I’ll be doing the same thing that I did back then on that awful day. Taking phone calls for United Airlines, and I’ll be oh so glad for another dull boring day.

  • Mark

    Alcohol And Bacon!
    What are you, an infidel or something?
    Sounds like a plan, I’ll do something similar, but after work.

  • http://www.firegeezer.com/ Mike “FossilMedic” Ward

    Good plan …

  • http://www.facebook.com/jennifer.o.hast Jennifer Oclaray Hast

    Amen! I’d like to declare today national Bacon, Booze, and Boobs day

  • Auntie J

    I wrote a blog post…and tonight, I’m going out with my college roommate for a girls’ night out. Mommies on the loose! Look out!

  • Auntie J

    I wrote a blog post…and tonight, I’m going out with my college roommate for a girls’ night out. Mommies on the loose! Look out!

  • Sewmouse

    11 years ago today, a large number of police, firefighters and, yes, “Ambulance Drivers” (paramedics, EMT’s, guys in hi-vis vests) left home in the morning and kissed their families and said they’d be home for dinner.
    Politics aside, guns aside, religion aside, – thank you, Kelly, for what you do every day. You never know for certain if you’re comin’ home for dinner – and yet you go out and do the job every day (evening, whatever…)
    Thank you to all of you who work in emergency services. You’re the best.

  • Jeffro

    Can I go too? ;)

  • Midwest Medic

    This post is exactly why I read your blog, and exactly why I love this country. I started a 24 at 6am. And I’ll thank everyone benevolent force in this world that I got to go home in the morning.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000068518248 Christine Dumaine Springfield

    I enjoyed a VERY busy 24 hour shift on the box. Ran from 07:45 to 03:30… almost every call was legit with armloads of supplies involved. I was just thankful to be able to serve my “hood” and hopefully make their bad day a little better, then go home and enjoy some downtime.

  • NeedleNerd

    ” because fuck them, that’s why”

    I love it and couldn’t have said it better myself Ambo


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