Emergency Services Bingo

Been meaning to write this up for a couple of days now, since talking about it with my friend Carl over MSN. Now, while waiting to hear back from the people at the Job Centre about the job interview I had yesterday, seem to be the perfect time. We were talking about a topic we hadn’t discussed since we had been at University, ‘How many emergency vehicles have you ridden in?’

Things hadn’t changed much between then and now, he had still only ridden in an Ambulance and a Detective’s Car, both of them for incidents involving him. I have ridden in an Ambulance, but I was going as support and supervision for a hockey player while I was their coach, and I had been in the Detective’s car as moral support for Carl following the incident (which wasn’t as exciting as it sounds). Neither of us have ridden in a fire engine, properly (i.e. the fire engine had been called for an emergency involving ourselves).
Finally, after a little bit of debate, it was decided that there were two levels of “Emergency Services Bingo”. Level 1 involves riding in an Emergency Services vehicle when it has been called for you, while Level 2 involves riding in an Emergency Services vehicle as moral support for someone else. Emergency Service Vehicles cover Fire Engines, Ambulances, Police Cars and Coast Guard vehicles (we didn’t actually discuss whether the boats and helicopters should count as the same or different vehicles, I will have to ask him).

Oh, and if you are wondering, I am waiting to hear back from the Job Centre about a temporary Christmas role at my local Gamestation. My fingers are crossed tightly, and hopefully I will have a job until January.

Filming is nearly finished for the Animus short I am currently working on. I have been planning out the major plot arcs for the following episodes, although I would really like to film them, looking at them it isn’t likely to happen.

ADDITIONAL:

Having talked it over with Carl, we have decided:

That Coast Guard boats and helicopter count as the same emergency service, you do get more shiny points if you get both, but you can claim level 1 from just one vehicle.
That Detective Cars count the same as Police Cars, because while they are slightly less flashy, the detectives are of a higher rank, and therefore it balances out.
I forgot to add breakdown vehicles. The AA ran an advert claiming to be the fourth/fifth emergency service, and all breakdown services use specialised vehicles that are not available for the general public. They have a slightly different ratings system, Level 2 is awarded if you are the passenger in a vehicle, while Level 1 is for the driver.