It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
"Paul Neal "Red" Adair" was an American Oil well fire/oil well firefighter. He became notable as an innovator in the highly specialized and extremely hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping blazing, erupting oil Blowout (oil well)/well blowouts, both land-based and oil platform/offshore.
More Red Adair on Wikipedia.Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.
I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.
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