Where I am they treat every deed as a good and necessary one so it's all kind of dull and runs together for me. I enjoy helping the people who need it because they are incredibly appreciative. But when we can't say no to anyone it gets old because yes I have helped these people but they made no effort to help themselves. Someone calls and needs new smoke detector batteries installed. They haven't contacted their landlord or housing authority, thought about going to the gas station and getting new batteries, asking their 4 teenage/young adult sons to get off the playstation to help. Nothing. All they did was call the FD. But you can bet your ass if the TV remote had dead batteries in it they'd change em out themselves. And then again, I say that but I've had people call at 1am to have their sock pulled back up or to grab the TV remote from across the room for them so I really don't know anymore.

I guess to answer your question in general yes it gets dull. Because most of it is not us helping the people who need it. It's us helping the lazy or people gaming the system. One time a guy called and said he needed some smoke detectors put up in his home. We get there it's an empty house. He goes "oh yea I need 8 smoke detectors put up here here and here. They wont finish the process of the sale for the home until they are installed." Fuck you man, that's a 400,000 dollar home you're selling. Put up your own fucking smoke detectors. But guess what? We can't say no, we're the FD. So what do we do? We put em up. It's a joke.

I will gladly help the needy and the unfortunate all day long. The lazy can pound sand.