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Chat: 118 A Shift
Bobby: Good morning team! Ravi is officially joining our ranks as full time A shift to fill Eddie’s spot. Let’s give him a warm welcome! Roll call in ten. – Bobby Nash
Ravi: thanks cap!
Chim: Welcome aboard, Ravi, glad to have you with us full time
Hen: Glad to have you here!
Ravi: thanks guys!
Ravi: .....
Ravi: buck
Buck: what
Ravi: you didn’t welcome me
Ravi: what’s up with that??
Ravi: welcome me to the team
Buck: were u not here before???
Ravi: no but now i’m here full time
Ravi: it’s different
Buck: yay ur with us or whatever
Ravi: wow can’t even pretend to be happy for me
Ravi: i see how it is
Buck: sigh
Hen: Did you just sigh in text form 🤨
Chim: Oh god, it’s starting
Chim: Maddie warned me about this
Buck: *sigh*
Chim: WHAT DO THE ASTERISKS MEAN
Ravi: what did I do to you???
Buck: SIGH
Hen: It’s not what did you do, it’s more of what you mean in terms the firehouse and its operation
Ravi: ???
Buck: I miss Eddie ☹️
Chim: You just got here, how can you miss him already?
Hen: Give the boy a break, his best friend just moved out of the state
Ravi: i take back everything, i’m no longer glad to be here
Ravi: buck’s sighs have been taken out of the chat
Chim: If you sigh one more time I’m going to smack you
Buck: can't a man be dramatic in peace
Bobby: Please no threats of physical violence in the work group chat. Gather for roll call. Thank you. – Bobby Nash
Hen: Here and ready for duty cap 🫡
Chim: kiss ass
Hen: 🖕
Chat: Firefam
Athena: Morning all. I just wanted to let you all know that the leftovers from Eddie's goodbye party are now packed up to Bobby's standards and I'll be dropping by later to drop them all off
Maddie: Oh thank god, I so didn't feel like making anything tonight
Karen: Same, work has been so busy lately, it's nice not to have to worry about it for tonight
Chim: Still think it's crazy that Cap has standards for leftovers
Bobby: You have to make sure that everything is in proper containers so the food lasts as long as possible with a comparable quality to when it was served fresh. — Bobby Nash
Athena: Bobby takes leftovers very seriously
Athena: The amount of tupperware that's in this house has more than doubled since we married
Chim: Nah, doesn't need to be that hard
Chim: Food, container, lid, fridge, nothing else needed
Buck: but what if there's a sauce
Buck: that should go separately so it doesn't absorb into the food and make it mushy
Bobby: I have taught you well. — Bobby Nash
Buck: 😃
Eddie: Wait, you didn't want the one you sent with me back did you?
Eddie: Because that is going to be hard
Bobby: No I gave that to you as a house warming gift so you can have good leftover containers for the new house. 🙂 — Bobby Nash
Eddie: Why does that feel backhanded?
Hen: I don't know but I'm now wondering if Bobby has always been this judgy about tupperware
Athena: He has been
Ravi: IS THAT WHY HE SIDE EYED ME WHEN I PUT MY LUNCH IN THE FRIDGE THE OTHER DAY
Bobby: Plastic containers are not the best for food storage. — Bobby Nash
Chim: I've never been more proud of Cap for being this judgy over something so inconsequential but also questioned every decision I've ever made so hard before
Athena: I'll be dropping them all off at the firehouse since it's the easiest
Maddie: Chim if you eat all the leftovers before I can come pick them up after my shift, I will kill you
Chim: Heard 🫡
Chat: 118 A-Shift
Bobby: Athena dropped off the food, it's in the fridge with your names on it. — Bobby Nash
Buck: sigh
Hen: I thought we were done with this
Chim: That's just because you've been in the ambulance all morning
Chim: You missed his incessant sighing
Ravi: bruh this is like so delayed why are you even doing it anymore
Buck: bc eddie was in the other chat and i don't want him to know that i miss him
Ravi: 😒
Ravi: you make me sad
Buck: sigh
Chim: Oh my god
Chat: Maddie and Chimney
Chim: Your brother is driving me insane
Chim: He keeps dramatically sighing every thirty seconds
Maddie: It can’t possibly be every thirty seconds
Chim: It feels like it
Chim: Save me please 🙏
Maddie: How am I supposed to do that, suddenly become Eddie?
Maddie: I don’t want to do that for so many reasons on so many levels
Chim: Ditto
Chim: But do something
Chim: I’m this close to saying the q-word 🤏
Maddie: Oh shit hold on
Chat: Maddie and Buck
Maddie: Just checking in, how’s the first shift without Eddie going?
Buck: sigh
Maddie: Yeah, that’s what I thought
Buck: i didn’t think it would be this hard
Maddie: Well considering you’ve spent the last three nights on my couch, I would beg to differ
Buck: unpacking is hard ☹️
Maddie: Especially since you moved into your best friend’s house?
Maddie: The best friend you have a very codependent relationship with
Maddie: The same best friend that you have never once been normal about ever and refuse to acknowledge why
Maddie: That best friend
Buck: im very normal abt eddie fuck you
Maddie: Agree to disagree
Buck: but yes ☹️
Maddie: At what stage of missing him are you in?
Maddie: Like is it picture of Jee, doordashing you ice cream, or telling someone to give you a hug?
Buck: yes 😖
Maddie: Now I'm sighing
Maddie sends a picture
Buck: gasp
Maddie: Oh we’re gasping now
Buck: IS THAT THE OUTFIT I GOT HER!!!
Buck: THE ONE WITH THE LITTLE BEES
Maddie: Yes it is!!!
Maddie: She wears it and buzzes around the house
Buck: that’s so cute 🥺
Buck: i think im dying
Chat: Maddie and Chimney
Chim: The sighing has momentarily stopped, thank you 🙏
Maddie: Good, now go give him a hug
Chim: What why?
Maddie sends a screenshot
Chim: Counter offer, I bring Buck the ice cream that’s in the freezer at the station so we save money and I get Hen to give Buck a hug
Maddie: This is why I married you
Chat: Chimney and Hen
Chim: Give Buck a hug, I’m getting the ice cream
Hen: Oh we’re already there, oh no
Chat: Maddie and Buck
Buck: thank you!!
Maddie: You’re welcome!
Maddie: Hope you have a good rest of your shift and it isn’t too insane
Buck: don’t u dare even speak around that word
Maddie: I didn’t say the q-word, it’s fine
Buck: DON’T TEMPT FATE
Maddie: 🙄
Chat: Buck and Chimney
Buck sends a screenshot
Chim: Thank you for sending this to me
Buck: 🫡
Chat: Maddie and Chimney
Chim: How dare you tempt fate with the q-word like that? 🫵
Maddie: Oh god not you too
Maddie: I didn’t even say it, it’s fine
Chim: It is not fine Maddie
Chim: NOT FINE
Maddie: The bell just went off didn’t it
Chim: Yes. It. Did.
Chim: Thank you very much
Maddie: 🙄
Chat: not safe for the work chat
Ravi: soooooo bobby’s mom is…
Chim: Something
Hen: A giant scam artist
Buck: a wacko healer nut job
Eddie: What the fuck did i miss?
Ravi: so much
Ravi: someone thought buck was satan
Ravi: also why are you still here???
Ravi: thought this was a work only chat
Buck: do u want him to leave ☹️
Eddie: Oh, I guess it is technically a work chat
Eddie: I guess I could leave
Buck: NOOOOOO DON’T YOU CAN STAY
Buck: ravi can leave 😡
Ravi: bite me
Hen: Woah ok
Hen: Eddie don’t leave, I don’t want to add another group chain to my phone
Buck: YAYAYAYAY
Chim: Also if Ravi made Buck start sighing again, he’d get put on my list
Ravi: what list????
Ravi: is buck on it
Buck: 🖕
Eddie: (replying to “someone thought buck was satan”) I repeat
Eddie: What did i miss?
Buck: call to one of those weird culty “using god to heal people” things, turns out it was bobby’s mom and they all had carbon monoxide poisoning and someone thought i was satan bc of it
Eddie: Oh
Eddie: That’s certainly something
Chim: That’s what I said!
Eddie: Wait, Bobby’s mom?
Buck: IKR
Buck: like what?
Chim: This is like when we found out he was a figure skater but way less fun
Ravi: CAP WAS A FIGURE SKATER
Ravi: HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS
Eddie: I think we found out before you started
Ravi: damn
Ravi: what other weird dad lore do i not know
Chim: Weird dad lore?
Ravi: your name is chimney and you don’t know what weird dad lore is
Chim: ❓
Hen: Don’t worry Chim, you have a plethora of weird dad lore
Eddie: Do i have weird dad lore?
Buck: yep dw
Eddie: Ok!
Ravi: 🤨
Chat: Ravi, Chimney, and Hen
Ravi: your seeing what i’m seeing right?
Hen: How you’re just now seeing it is beyond me
Chim: They’ve been like this for years
Ravi: hmmmmmmmmm
Hen: Leave it alone, meddling won’t work
Chim: We should know, we’ve tried
Chim: Never once has it worked
Ravi: ok but like…examples??
Chim: Closet, nope
Hen: Mistletoe, bust
Chim: Getting shot and the other person was the one to save you, nothing
Hen: One person struck by lightning and the other watching the child that you're coparenting tell him that it’s all going to be ok while you shed a single tear, not a budge
Chim: Shit, that really happened?
Hen: I witnessed it
Ravi: hmmmmmmmm
Hen: What about everything we’ve just said made you still go hmmmmm?
Ravi: i just don’t think the two of you have tried hard enough
Chim: They are several states a way
Chim: I wouldn’t even try
Ravi: your simply not as skilled as me 💪
Hen: Here we go
Chat: Hen and Chimney
Chim: $20 he fails horribly
Hen: I’m not taking a bet you will win
Chim: But you're always the optimistic one 😁
Hen: 🙄
Hen: Fine
Chim: Yay!
Chat: 118 A shift
Ravi: if someone calls me eddie one more time i’m going to throw rocks at buck’s head
Buck: hey
Buck: why my head
Ravi: bc it’s your fault
Ravi: duh
Buck: how tf is it my fault
Ravi: your dumb sighing is making the eddie obsession spread
Buck: i do NOT have an obsession
Hen: 😒
Hen: You sure about that?
Bobby: I am once again reminding you all to not threaten physical violence in the work chat — Bobby Nash
Ravi: can i threaten violence outside of the work chat 👀
Bobby: What you do on your personal device is up to your own discretion with the understanding that any violence done to a fellow coworker on shift can result in a mark on your file and an investigation leading to termination. — Bobby Nash
Ravi: i’m not hearing a nooooo 👀
Chat: Ravi and Buck
Ravi: fuck you here are some rocks on your head
Ravi: 🪨🪨🪨
Ravi: 😫
Ravi: the aftermath
Ravi: 🤕
Buck: 🖕
Chat: Ravi, Hen, and Chimney
Ravi: save me
Ravi: buck invited me out for drinks and he won’t stop talking about eddie
Hen: This one’s on you
Chim: Yeah, why did you agree to get drinks with him, you knew this was going to happen
Ravi: i agreed reluctantly because i felt like i was force to
Hen: Ah, I see
Ravi: can someone give me a way out please 🙏
Hen: Nah, you did this to yourself
Chim: ☝️
Ravi: whaaaaaat not even trying to get me to babysit your children for free
Hen: I’m not sure I’d trust you as a babysitter tbh
Ravi: fuck you i’m great with kids
Ravi: i babysit my nieces and nephews all the time
Chim: You have nieces and nephews?
Ravi: DOES NO ONE LISTEN TO ANYTHING I SAY
Ravi: oh wait nvm found my way out
Ravi: thanks for nothing
Chim: Glad to be of service 🫡
chat: Ravi and Buck
Ravi: paid for your tab asshole
Ravi: at least i know how society works
Ravi: you can pay me back later
Chat: May and Buck
Buck: men 😡
May: oh no not again
May: is this angry screaming men or screaming crying men or just crying men
Buck: what part of the angry emoji do u not understand
May: you make a good point
May: (sends link to a spotify playlist entitled "scum of the earth")
Buck: thank you!
Chat: Ravi and Buck
Buck: i will NOT be paying u back tyvm
Ravi: you made me sit through hours of you talking abt nothing but eddie only for me to have to find an exit to be able to stop my ears from bleeding and your not going to pay me for that
Buck: I HOOKED UP WITH MY EX BC OF YOU
Buck: YOU GET NOTHING BUT PAIN FOR THAT
Ravi: i apologize for nothing
Ravi: expect a request on venmo
Buck: expect it to be DENIED
Ravi: 🪨 🪨 🪨
Buck: 🖕
Chat: Buck and Maddie
Buck: maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadie
Buck: help
Maddie: Oh my god what?
Buck: i did smth stupid
Maddie: This does not surprise me
Maddie: But please, enlighten me
Maddie: What did you do this time
Buck: ☹️
Buck: ur gonna be mad at me
Maddie: I promise I won’t be mad
Maddie: Please just tell me what it is
Buck: i hooked up with tommy
Buck: 🫣
Maddie: 🤦♀️
Maddie: Get over here right now
Buck: 😔
Buck: ok
Chat: Ravi and Eddie
Ravi: i feel like i should give you this information
Ravi sends a picture
Eddie: Oh my God he did not
Eddie: I thought he was done with that asshole
Eddie: How did you even get this?
Ravi: unimportant
Ravi: but i felt as his best friend you should have this information
Eddie: Yes I should, thank you
Chat: Eddie and Buck
Eddie: The fuck did you do?
Buck: whatever do you speak of??
Eddie: Don’t get weird on me
Eddie: I know about Tommy
Buck: that fucker
Buck: hold on
Chat: Buck and Ravi
Buck: WHY THE FUCK DID YOU TELL EDDIE ABOUT ME AND TOMMY HOOKING UP!?!?!?!?