the apprentice firefighter

[briggie]

A fireman is polishing his fire engine
outside the fire station when he
notices a little girl next door in a
little red cart with little ladders
hung on the side and a garden hose
tightly coiled in the middle.

The little girl is wearing a fireman's
helmet and has the cart tied to a
dog and a cat.

The fire-fighter walks over to take a
closer look: 'That's a lovely fire
engine,' he says admiringly.

'Thanks,' says the little girl. The
fireman looks closer and notices the
little girl has tied one of the cart's
strings to the dog's collar and one
to the cat's testicles.

'Little colleague,' says the
fire-fighter, 'I don't want to tell you how to
run your fire engine, but if you were to
tie that rope around the cat's
collar, I think you could probably go a
lot faster.'

The little girl pauses for a moment,
looks at the wagon, at the dog and at
the cat, then shyly looks into the
fireman's eyes and says:
'You're probably right, but then I
wouldn't have a f*cking siren, would I?'