I need a beer thread...

[Airborneguy]

I started work at 7:30pm last night. Was almost non-stop with fireworks calls, fights, a stolen motorcycle, and typical ghetto nonsense from the time we got on the road until 3:30am. It was so busy I caught a guy dead-to-rights smoking weed on the street in front of a bar, made sure it was "just weed", handed him back his pipe and said, "have a nice night."

At 3:30, I tried to take a short break to give the guys inside a rest and some cold drinks (the AC is broken), and was immediately sprung by one of my cops screaming that he had been shot. I ran up 15 flights of project stairs to get to him (thank god his vest stopped it), coordinated a search for the perp floor-by-floor (if you've never room/hall cleared, its very ass-puckering), and then spent 5 hours waiting to be questioned by suits who were sleeping in their comfortable beds while this poor cop was taking a bullet directly above his heart.

I just got home. I need a beer.

Keep it going...

 

[KingKlong]

#firstworldproblems.....I need a beer.

 

[The_Dog_42]

Tell your wife the taxpayers demand you get a beer, BJ and a day off.

Compared to your 20 hour day, I think I'd take the 3rd world problem of having to boil your water.

 

[Revvy]

You win....I stayed at home and worked on my keezer.

You don't need a beer, you need a CASE of them.

 

[Pappers_]

I heard a symphony concert on the 4th, which wasn't as dangerous as your day. Glad you and your colleague are ok.

 

[unionrdr]

A/C broke,was 100+ in the house yesterday,no one but me could drinjk since the wife just found out a month ago she's diabetic. All but one burner on the stove gone,can't brew. Car needs VSS put in,gotta remove frame rail. Bad hips & L2 disc preventing that. Thousands in Dr bills from no coverage. Life sucks. I need a beer too.

 

[EllisTX]

Damn. I need a beer after reading why you need a beer. Also I woke up this morning at 7:20. Work starts at 7 :-(

 

[CidCitrus]

Yeah I think I need a beer more from these stories than anything that happened in my life. Umm... it's hot out and I have to work outside.

 

[davidr2340]

Thanks for doing what you do, Airbourneguy!!!

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Try to get July 4 off work next year! And December 31. As uncomfortable as I imagine vests to be, it's good to hear that they do their job.
Hope you had two ice cold beers and a good nap.

I've been on vacation from work. Daughter has had my car, I've been overdrawn since last (biweekly) payday, no money, no coffee, no cigs, no beer, scraping the freezer for meals. And the other kid with her three-way marriage. BIL just diagnosed with bladder cancer today.

I did find $20, so I'm really enjoying the Sam Adams Noble Pils I bought tonight. My first time having it, and I like it a lot! Payday is tomorrow See how a beer can brighten your outlook?

 

[Airborneguy]

I definitely wasn't trying to 1 up everyone, hell I hope no one beats that because it means you had a sh1tty day!

But keep the venting coming. We all need a beer sometime!!!

 

[Airborneguy]

And the other kid with her three-way marriage. BIL just diagnosed with bladder cancer today.

I'll do three more of my days if you don't have to deal with this stuff anymore. Best of luck.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Thanks, Airborne. The marriage thing is kinda funny, but my BIL is just the greatest guy, and I hope the cancer was caught early enough.

 

[Yooper]

Man, I thought I needed a beer last night!

All I did was drive 13 straight hours to visit my family (solo). It was fine, but did I NEED a beer when I got here! My dad just laughed and I had two cold "good" beers with me and downed them.

One was a incredibly hoppy pale ale by Black Husky Brewing (http://blackhuskybrewing.com/- try it when you're in Wisconsin if you can!) and then an IPA.

It's hot in Ohio, so the beer tasted even better than I thought it would. Today, I need to head to the Giant Eagle and load up on beer for the next week.

 

[Airborneguy]

A/C broke,was 100+ in the house yesterday,no one but me could drinjk since the wife just found out a month ago she's diabetic.

After a week of no AC at work, I know how you feel. It has been insanely hot. And I hope for the best for your wife.

 

[Pumbaa]

mine was pretty typical for being at work . . . until you add in the 100+ temps and the drought . . . few trees on fire about 30 feet up due to fireworks, various drunk family beat downs, typical ******* blowing various body parts up, and and one psych patient who died with a internal core temp of 109.

most definitely my least favorite holiday to work.

 

[bscott1011]

Definately needed a beer after the 4th too, all of us on 3rd shift were ordered in early to do crowd control and direct traffic for the fireworks display downtown. Spent way too long dancing around trying to not get run over by thousands of hot, tired, irate drivers trying to get carloads of hot, tired, cranky kids home. After getting traffic cleared we went back out for thirds, no ac in the squad and ran call to call for a couple of hours until the housing project in my area went up for grabs. It's a good fight when charcoal grills are getting thrown and a couple hundred people are in a free for all in the street. We got it all mostly cleaned up and the paper done by end of shift. Thankfully none of us got hurt that night. Came home to cold homebrew in the fridge. Have another beer Airborne and be safe brother.

 

[Obliviousbrew]

Now this thread made me think in the value of the little things I have/like... you all deserve a beer... drinks are on me.

 

[Airborneguy]

Same to you. Do you guys call it "airmail" out there? Until I got promoted, I very rarely dealt with projects. Now, my new pct has tons of them. I don't know how the good people living there deal with it, the few of them that there are.

And I'm drinking absinthe right now... that makes me need a beer. It's rough!!!

 

[Yuri_Rage]

#firstworldproblems

DRMM is as good a place as any to post this rant...

I need a beer every time I see that damn remark. EVERY PROBLEM the average American faces is a FIRST WORLD PROBLEM. Would you rather face third world problems? WTF is that supposed to mean? Is it this decade's version of, "there are starving people in (name a poverty stricken country)?!" Is it supposed to be a polite way of saying, "I don't give a crap about your petty issues?" Of all places, you just wrote "#firstworldproblems" on a website dedicated to crafting a beverage almost solely for one's pleasure and solving the problems encountered therein?! Ugh. I need a beer.

 

[bscott1011]

Have never called it airmail though thats a pretty good description, especially when we start taking rocks, bottles, and anything else that can be thrown at us. This particular project has a history of exploding every year on the 4th, it is only a couple of blocks from downtown and the riverfront. Last year there was a huge illegal fireworks display there that led to dumpsters on fire. Fire dept went in and called for us, the "residents" fired commercial grade fireworks at firefighters and police during the uproar (upper command has forbidden us to use the term "riot" as it is bad publicity) The patrol guys working traffic ran from our posts to get to the fight, I had to catch a ride in the dog cage of one of our k-9 units. It took a ton of pepper balls to clear the crowd.

 

[Pumbaa]

Until I got promoted, I very rarely dealt with projects. Now, my new pct has tons of them. I don't know how the good people living there deal with it, the few of them that there are.

When it's all you know for multiple generations it doesnt bother you at all . . .

 

[motobrewer]

DRMM is as good a place as any to post this rant...

I need a beer every time I see that damn remark. EVERY PROBLEM the average American faces is a FIRST WORLD PROBLEM. Would you rather face third world problems? WTF is that supposed to mean? Is it this decade's version of, "there are starving people in (name a poverty stricken country)?!" Is it supposed to be a polite way of saying, "I don't give a crap about your petty issues?" Of all places, you just wrote "#firstworldproblems" on a website dedicated to crafting a beverage almost solely for one's pleasure and solving the problems encountered therein?! Ugh. I need a beer.

ah, i was hoping it would continue to just get ignored.

it's a dumb fratboy phrase losers use to get more twitter followers. it's really quite sad. also, its the single most unoriginal thing somebody can post.

 

[dfc]

I had cancer 2 1/2 years ago. I wasn't "allowed" to have a beer then...

 

[landshark]

Apparently, I've never needed a beer.

 

[Airborneguy]

I had cancer 2 1/2 years ago. I wasn't "allowed" to have a beer then...

Good enough reason for every beer you drink for the rest of your life!