Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Greatest Trick..

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.. Verbal Kint - Usual Suspects.

The greatest trick I've ever seen "played" in a firestation happened tonight. And I've seen my share.

We realized today that one of our fellow stationmates Matt Vela had taken 4 work days off in a row (approx 2 weeks). We thought this was strange as he hadn't mentioned any vacation plans.

As an entire station we tried and tried to think of what he could be doing. Our imaginations are often much better than the truth, so after much deliberation we decided that we would probably see him on the side of the road picking up trash in an orange jumpsuit paying his debt to society over the next 2 weeks.

That settled, one of the guys gave him a call to rub it in and see if we could come take pictures. He told us that he was just taking a few days off and was going to stop by the station later that evening.

Imagine the suprise on our faces when he walked in with a 3 day old baby. 3 DAYS OLD. Not only 3 days old but actually 9 months + 3 days if you include tummy time.

Matt Vela had played the greatest trick of all time. He had kept the fact that his wife Beth was pregnant from the entire Fire Department for 9 months. We had no idea, we were completely speechless. Nobody believed him at first. Then we realized that nobody in their right minds would let him out of the door with their 3 day old.

Here is a picture of the beautiful baby girl he brought to see us. Lily Rhea Vela - 8lbs 3oz - 21"

Born January 25th at 5:09 am

4 comments:

Kiera said...

baby with NO information!!! Super cute but who is this!?!?

Rob the Blog Ninja said...

Wow you are fast. I put the picture up from my iphone and hadn't even had a chance to finish writing the blog for it ;)

Sam Ransom said...

How do you keep that a secret!!! That is crazy!!

Anonymous said...

I cannot confirm or deny any of the story that Rob has told you. I'm sure I must have said something in the last 9 months. LOL Matt(Rob's co-worker)