My Toy Fire Engine

What little boy didn't want to drive a fire truck? Well me, I wanted to drive trains, but I always had a fascination of fire trucks. I remember being 3 years old with my grandfather in the nearby town of Brightlingsea. We parked the car close to the fire station that was letting kids go and sit in the fire engine. So my grandfather asked me if I wanted to go and sit in it and I said, "No, but I would like a toy one." So my grandfather says, "Wait here in the car and don't get out!" (Imagine doing that in this day and age, crazy huh?) So off goes my grandfather to the toy store just across the street and leaves me in the car. Now to say that I was a brat as a kid would be an understatement and telling me not to get out the car, yeah right! So what do I do? I got out and lock the car doors. Oops! Then, my grandfather shows up and finds me standing next to the car. I was in trouble, eventually though he got the car open and we went home. I never did get to sit in a fire engine, but I got my toy one.

This photograph was taken in a field across the street from the fire station in Ranchita, which is somewhere between Borrego Springs and Warner Springs.