Conversation with a Fireman from Brooklyn by Tess Gallagher

Conversation with a Fireman from Brooklyn

by Tess Gallagher

He offers, between planes,

to buy me a drink. I’ve never talked

to a fireman before, not one

from Brooklyn

anyway. Okay. Fine, I say. Somehow

the subject is bound

to come up, women

firefighters, and since I’m

a woman and he's a fireman, between

the two of us, we know something

about this subject. Already

he’s telling me he doesn’t mind

women firefighters, but what

they look like

after fighting a fire, well

they lose all respect. He’...