Sparkie

I hate to repeat a story, but the bedroom arrangement was one of mine as well. My college had a student run fire department. In the dorm I got out of the bunk on the right side. At home on the left. I was home for a long weekend with a friend and of course in the middle of the night the 'Plectron' sounds off. I roll over and hit the wall. I try it again, hit the wall. I call to my friend, "Murphy, I can't get out of bed" and he simply responds, "try the other side stupid".
Then there was the probie who pulls into the firehouse and squeezes his car between two others. Wearing his Helmet, like Homer, he tries to get out of the car and can't. We left him behind.
One of the guys wore a toupe. He's all geared up in a jump seat. Starts to get up, truck stops short he goes back into the jump seat, helmet with toupe comes flying off. Same guy, cooking for one of the meetings reaches too far into the oven, catches toupe on fire.
How about a 'nickname'. Freshman in college joins the department. Claims he's a truck driver. Big guy, like 6-4. Misses a double clutch downshift. Spent the next four years as Tex Tirebiter.

I thought maybe we could change the tone of what we traditionally see on EMTBravo. I want this to be kind of like the "funny things heard over the radio" thread, and I figured it's about time we all had a good laugh....

This little bit from The Simpsons has been showing up on my Facebook news feed over the last few weeks, and it spawned an idea in my little brain; What funny or awkward situation/story do you have about a time when the alarm went off? I'll start.....
When I was 17 I was a very active junior firefighter/explorer. I was chief of the junior corps, always around the fire house, and a regular at every alarm that wasn't during school hours. Any way, around this point in my life I got a new bed, upgrading from a twin to a full, and I decided to rearrange my bedroom so things would "flow" better. My father, who at this point is a 25 year veteran and ex-chief, tells me that this is a bad idea. When I asked the only thing he told me was, "It's going to ruin your routine." I didn't think too hard about it, and my teenage mind said to rearrange the room anyway. Well, later that night the pager sounded for a residential alarm, I shot out of bed like usual, but instead of running towards the door....WHAM!!!!! I hit the wall and knocked myself over! I was so used to getting out of bed on the right side, I had forgotten that I moved the bed . The best part of the story is as both my parents run past my bedroom door (Mom was a lieutenant at the time), I just hear my dad say, "Told you so."
What's your funny story?