Fire Engine

[george]

Fire engine

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 siren, would I????