Natalie went to the firehouse near her school with her class while I was in <a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/hotels/landing?name=GrandCalifornianHotelLandingPage">Anaheim</a> the later part of this week. 

And while it’s great to know her class is learning fire safety… “stop drop and roll mamaâ€… as soon as I told my friends of her class trip, those who know me quickly read my mind, and then asked… <em>so why didn’t you volunteer to chaperone?</em>  (Her teacher emailed the parents saying chaperones weren’t needed, by the way. Something tells me quite a few moms would have been free to chaperone that day. C'mon you so would have.)

Little did I know, Friday night after being on one of the most interesting flights from LAX to JFK (starting with airport cameos from <a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0124079/">Timothy Busfield</a>, Senator Chuck Schumer and <a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm1864458/">Constantine Maroulis</a>), I’d meet a fireman (he drove me home – thank you, Disney!) and I would ask him all the (STUPID) questions people think to themselves.. or maybe women think right after they watch that <em>Sex and the City</em> episode (which I even brought up.)

I’m embarrassed to admit sentences like <em>So can all firemen cook?or is it a myth – er, I mean an urban legend </em>and<em> Are you allowed to do those <a href="http://www.nyfirestore.com/calendars.html">calendars</a>? </em>actually came out of my mouth. (Although anyone who talked with me after Harrison’s surgery probably is still trying to get over the David Hasselhoff story. I certainly am!) I just can’t believe he answered all of my questions.

Catching up with a friend this morning, she reminded me I left out one more important question to ask this fireman… besides <em>Have you ever saved a kitten from a tree?</em><em> </em>

<em>His name!!!!!!</em>

So we’ve nicknamed him Fireman Sam (and then later we remembered there’s a cartoon with that name but we are all too lazy to come up with a new nickname). Why? Because at 11:30 at night, I can ask everything but normal questions like his name!!

Now before you say moms can’t have <a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21256467/">crushes</a>… I’d like to remind you that just last week, The Today Show did a segment on secret crushes being a good thing. So there. It’s more common than you think.  

And it’s not like he’s going to read my blog anyway. Thankfully everyone reading this already knows, I don’t mind sharing my silliness with all of you.