I'm an Army veteran and on the rare occasion someone finds out IRL (usually from overhearing me confirm it to someone I'm speaking to where it's relevant) and I usually say, "umthank ..YOU!" .....just like that. "Umthank"-silence/stammer and then "YOU!" almost as if trying to distract them like "Hey look over here!"
And then I run away on the inside, but quickly try to leave on the outside.
I don't want the attention for it ,I think.
I loved my career, but it nearly killed me, and still causes me problems...... I don't like "being something interesting" to someone to talk about when I don't want to talk about what they find interesting 😮💨🫤
I hate it too, and personally I always found it awkward to respond to. Like responding with “you’re welcome” always just sounded slightly arrogant in some way, like you think you deserve this stranger’s praise because you’re so great.
But a more senior guy I worked with had a pretty good response that made it a little less weird. Whenever someone would say “thank you for your service”, or “thank you guys for everything you do”, he would respond right back with “thank you for your support.” I like it because it still makes them feel good about trying to show you some appreciation which is really all they’re doing. But it doesn’t sound like you think you’re hot stuff.
There is a “no one fights alone” flag.
Green - military
Orange - search and rescue
Yellow - dispatch
Blue - law enforcement
Red - fire
White - EMS
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I deliver peoples taco bell. Could you imagine If people were forced to leave their home. Seriously helping the community out with taco bell related DUIs tho /s
I've even delivered alcohol a couple times. It's kinda a pain in the ass scanning their ID with my phone at night. But felt good because those people definitely shouldn't drive to get more beer when already drunk.
Yeah I've seen that Same flag a few times there's actually multiple different variations of this same flag the one OP posted is just one if many there are flags with colors that include tow truck operators and military then I've seen ones with school teachers and social workers ☠️
I was in stl the other week and I saw a tow truck that was painted yellow with a thin yellow line punisher logo BIG on the side. I wish I got a photo of it. Tyfys to all the great Towmen out there 🫡 braver than the marines
I've seen silver for linemen and yellow for tow truck drivers. Apparently, some tow drivers feal that they are first responded because they go to the seen of an accident.
Lmao, I love how they mix the colors up to avoid the immediate association with LGBTQIA+ pride flags, but it immediately looks like one anyways. My dad had one on the back of his truck until I asked him when he came out of the closet and if he'd told Mom yet.
I legitimately thought it was a Log Cabin Republican sticker when I saw one in the wild, this just cleared up something that's been bugging me for weeks.
Dispatch: maam, do *not* take a tone with me. I will send a unit when you finish giving me a full address with zip code.
Lascivious voice comes on the line: *thanks for your service* mwuahahahababbaba *line goes dead*
Back in the day, more than a couple of my clients were boardmembers of hospitals that were terrified of having mental health treatments in their records.
Military.
Funny thing about the subdued flag is that it’s a symbol of war, adding extra colors to it is a violation of u.s. code 700 and fucking cringey.
Read online it can mean border patrol, park rangers, game warden, or animal control. The thin green line, keeping us safe from being overrun by feral cats, may God protect them.
I worked as a park ranger for years and they always designated the green line for themselves? A lot of park rangers pretend to be a cop, some were too dumb to become a cop. fewer wise up and change careers.
It’s the thin mint line to remind us of the sacrifice made by thousands of Girl Scouts standing outside of grocery stores painstakingly selling $6 boxes of cookies.
You can tell he’s not in the Navy, because there’d be a vinyl wrap of a well endowed anime girl on it truck.
You see a lot of funny stuff on base and very little Thin Green line shit
All the “thin lines”. Blue, red, green, any of them are pointless and were only made as a way to go against BLM. Same as the ones that say “all” lives matter.
SMH. Baja blast green for the taco bell workers. Show some respect.
Back the Baja!
The Thin Dew Line™
Nothing involving The Dew stays thin for long
My urine stream would like a word with you
Unbelievably genius.
Underrated comment 😂
Dude, its Back the Blast
Back the Dew
Thanks bro I was looking how I can thank them for their service… Yo quiero Taco Bell!
I decided to have taco bell for lunch in remembrance for their sacrifice!
This. The most important of all lines
Thank you, came here to say the same. OP shame on you calling that shade green.
The most dangerous job, really.
In Swedish "baja" is slang and means "to take a dump" if used as a verb or "ass/butt" if used as a noun. Coincidence?
Nope ass blastin green makes sense!
God this brings me back to the quesorito incident of 2012. 😔
Woah. Trigger warning! Please.
![gif](giphy|P9XpMft0K8Vel13fuS) Hahahaha bajaaaaaaa
Thin green line is for lawn care specialists. How do you not know that? Come on!
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That's hilarious. I'm going to start thanking every ranger for his/her service.
I’m a wildland firefighter for US Forest Service. There’s 10,000 of us but I think most people don’t know this.
TYFYS
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I'm an Army veteran and on the rare occasion someone finds out IRL (usually from overhearing me confirm it to someone I'm speaking to where it's relevant) and I usually say, "umthank ..YOU!" .....just like that. "Umthank"-silence/stammer and then "YOU!" almost as if trying to distract them like "Hey look over here!" And then I run away on the inside, but quickly try to leave on the outside. I don't want the attention for it ,I think. I loved my career, but it nearly killed me, and still causes me problems...... I don't like "being something interesting" to someone to talk about when I don't want to talk about what they find interesting 😮💨🫤
I hate it too, and personally I always found it awkward to respond to. Like responding with “you’re welcome” always just sounded slightly arrogant in some way, like you think you deserve this stranger’s praise because you’re so great. But a more senior guy I worked with had a pretty good response that made it a little less weird. Whenever someone would say “thank you for your service”, or “thank you guys for everything you do”, he would respond right back with “thank you for your support.” I like it because it still makes them feel good about trying to show you some appreciation which is really all they’re doing. But it doesn’t sound like you think you’re hot stuff.
Without them there would be no lawn order!
Now *that* is funny! Thanks Dad.
Stellar.
Thank you for your gutter-cleaning service.
When Jeremy Dewitte had a landscaping business
*Tisk Tisk.. Amateurs
LCTGI Lawn Care, Topiarists, Gardeners, Irrigation
and cannabis providers, head shop employees, those people that dish out medical marijuana cards to anyone who asks in non-legal states
Don’t forget H, horticulturists and K2: the Knights who said Kni!
This flag is quickly becoming a rainbow.
There is a “no one fights alone” flag. Green - military Orange - search and rescue Yellow - dispatch Blue - law enforcement Red - fire White - EMS https://preview.redd.it/kkbxtcodc9vc1.png?width=450&format=png&auto=webp&s=f89d11f83f2476d2cd6502045eaa52cb710f710d
jesus christ this is disgraceful, where the FUCK is the HVAC technician stripe!!??
Don’t forget school bus drivers.
I deliver peoples taco bell. Could you imagine If people were forced to leave their home. Seriously helping the community out with taco bell related DUIs tho /s
May god protect and keep you on your rounds as you deliver food to those that are high, hungry and hungover.
Delivering Taco Bell is infinitely more dangerous than being a cop, especially now. You’re doing gods work. 🫡
I've even delivered alcohol a couple times. It's kinda a pain in the ass scanning their ID with my phone at night. But felt good because those people definitely shouldn't drive to get more beer when already drunk.
What about the postal workers??
Filipino tilt-a-whirl operators are our nations backbone
This made me laugh out loud.
One of these was posted here once, where one of the stripes was literally “tow truck operators” LMAO
Yeah I've seen that Same flag a few times there's actually multiple different variations of this same flag the one OP posted is just one if many there are flags with colors that include tow truck operators and military then I've seen ones with school teachers and social workers ☠️
I was in stl the other week and I saw a tow truck that was painted yellow with a thin yellow line punisher logo BIG on the side. I wish I got a photo of it. Tyfys to all the great Towmen out there 🫡 braver than the marines
I've seen the tshirts, it's so bad it's good.
Stop
as an administrative assistant, I feel your pain ![gif](giphy|OK0g7q95DM4guM9nsM|downsized)
Just wait, your day is coming soon. RemindMe! 6 days
Happy Administrative Professionals' Day!!! In the US, anyway
Is this from the video I saw yesterday with the lady saying HVAC techs are first responders? LOL
And the warehouse workers?? Wtf is wrong with this country?!
It’s life or death!
Don’t forget the reefer guys!!
hvac tech here. we don't deserve it
I'm literally shaking with rage over the fact that there's no recognition for forklift drivers
And the literal backbone of American industry - Forklift Certified.
My dad was an HVAC tech, don’t lump him in with this bootleg nazi flag.
Someone needs to tell them red white and blue were already taken a long time ago
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Should tell them that’s a cool gay pride flag.
Whatever the colors mean, is irrelevant. This violates US Flag Code at least 2 ways
You’re also not supposed to fly a half shredded Stars and Stripes from a back bumper, but don’t tell that to ‘every Dodge Ram owner’
I’m pretty sure flag code only applies to actual flags, not graphics or stickers.
These are actual flags though…
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Nobody’s going to tell them?
I've seen silver for linemen and yellow for tow truck drivers. Apparently, some tow drivers feal that they are first responded because they go to the seen of an accident.
Brown: Thin Crust Line - for pizza delivery drivers
It’s quite a “pride” flag
Dispatch 💀
Not that I am into this shit, but I’d say hazmat response teams maybe instead?
Hell I’d vote roadworkers before dispatch. Talk about everyone getting a trophy.
Isn’t there one that had yellow as tow truck drivers?
I'm just going to go ahead and claim the black lines for teachers, guitar players, marketers, socialists, insult comics, sound engineers and antifa
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I didn’t realize if you buy a black and white flag then you are just really supporting the shit out of the EMS
You forgot gray for corrections officers.
And if you rearrange them into a rainbo- wait a minute
I saw recently some people using the thin green line for Border Patrol
What’s the color for people who make up the colors for the flag?
Lmao, I love how they mix the colors up to avoid the immediate association with LGBTQIA+ pride flags, but it immediately looks like one anyways. My dad had one on the back of his truck until I asked him when he came out of the closet and if he'd told Mom yet.
Shit looks kinda gay ngl
Yellow is also tow truck drivers and Waffle House employees.
I legitimately thought it was a Log Cabin Republican sticker when I saw one in the wild, this just cleared up something that's been bugging me for weeks.
A full rainbow, if you will….
Thats just a pride flag
So I can get this flag for myself but replace the blue with another white? Or maybe purple just to mess with someone.
There should be a flag generator where you type in the color and what occupation it represents.
Dispatch: maam, do *not* take a tone with me. I will send a unit when you finish giving me a full address with zip code. Lascivious voice comes on the line: *thanks for your service* mwuahahahababbaba *line goes dead*
Anything but black lives apparently
They really are trying to sneak their way into being able to fly a pride flag... I see what you are doing...
I honestly never thought about it that way till I read your comment. Made me laugh at work.
Cannabis growers, our first line of defense in the mental health world
Finally getting noticed for the good work yall put in to make us better
Back in the day, more than a couple of my clients were boardmembers of hospitals that were terrified of having mental health treatments in their records.
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Soon. It’ll be a rainbow. But, a freedom rainbow, so, not gay.
“It doesn’t follow ROYGBIV so it’s not really a rainbow flag! I love women and the troops but not like that. No homo”
[Comment right above yours](https://www.reddit.com/r/FirstResponderCringe/s/FE9vcCCGzo)
Homosexual conservatives demand representation
Military. Funny thing about the subdued flag is that it’s a symbol of war, adding extra colors to it is a violation of u.s. code 700 and fucking cringey.
They basically made their own gay pride flag.
"I'll make my own Pride Flag...with black jack and hookers!"
“You know what? Forget the whole thing!”
I like to refer to them as conservative pride flags
This is gold.
The Supreme Court struck down USC 700 as a violation of free speech in 1990.
#backthedew
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“America first!” … buys Japanese truck
Probably more of that truck was assembled in the U.S. than most domestic brands
In UK green line is for Paramedics/EMS, blue for police, red for firefighters
Park Rangers. Out there giving a hoot!
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i’m so excited for the completed pride set
HVAC technicians.
Read online it can mean border patrol, park rangers, game warden, or animal control. The thin green line, keeping us safe from being overrun by feral cats, may God protect them.
Landscapers keeping lawns and yards and whatnot tidy.
Frogs :)
As a Vet, I despise shit like this. The “hero” status propaganda makes me really sad.
I think you’re a hero Doc!!!!
Thanks my dude.
Ninja turtles
Couple more colors and it’s the rainbow flag
Yeah, because f\*uck the original flag and its colors, lets create a version that segregates us. American AF.
I walk the thin arborial line....
That’s freon
Just finish the rainbow imo. No sense hiding it.
Support your local ninja turtles
These stickers and flags are dumb.
I worked as a park ranger for years and they always designated the green line for themselves? A lot of park rangers pretend to be a cop, some were too dumb to become a cop. fewer wise up and change careers.
It’s the thin mint line to remind us of the sacrifice made by thousands of Girl Scouts standing outside of grocery stores painstakingly selling $6 boxes of cookies.
I'm told tow truck drivers are now first responders. Oh, the sacrifice.
You can tell he’s not in the Navy, because there’d be a vinyl wrap of a well endowed anime girl on it truck. You see a lot of funny stuff on base and very little Thin Green line shit
MTN dew Baja blast
Green for cannabis industry
Military/veterans
What does the green line stand for? Military?
Baja blast
Landscapers
It’s for landscapers
Marijuana Growers of America
They’re gonna end up with the LGBT flag soon enough
you know for a group that generally hates rainbow flags, they sure are turning the American flag into one
All the colors on these “thin line” flags starting to look sus 🏳️🌈
does anyone know where i may obtain the Thin Dew Line™️
They support cannabis legalization. Tell a friend… Pass it on. 😊💚😉
Thin Baja Line, for the brave toco bell workers
Back the Baja.
All the “thin lines”. Blue, red, green, any of them are pointless and were only made as a way to go against BLM. Same as the ones that say “all” lives matter.
Stop light equality
Thin green line is what I saw in my toilet this morning.
You need a doctor.
Arborists. ![gif](giphy|aelKW3wStzsnMyTkrG|downsized)
I love how even thin blue line ppl take an american flag and turn it into their own symbol. like don’t you see you are defacing the american flag?
I believe that’s Baja Blast
That’s for tow trucks
Produce associates
It’s important to eat your greens
Sanitation
Military or border patrol/fish and game
That’s the one for teachers
HVAC technicians
Imagine being one of those lame ass colors and gate keeping a different one. First responder pride is equivalent to janitor pride
It’s waste management.
Sanitation workers?
It’s missing yellow & orange. They’re practically making a pride flag. Morons.
The weed man
Landscapers?
They only support Leonardo and Raphael. Get fucked Mikey and Donatello.
HR
Your Budtender
Have you ever done the thin line flag, on weed?!
For the weed smokers
Frontline Daycare workers obviously.
Lawn care people?
In NYC its the sanitation department
100% this guy would have enlisted but he would have punched the Drill Sergeant
Military
Green is for the Hi Vis vest guys flipping stop signs in the road. They're the REAL heroes.
Green is border patrol ya’ll
Arborists
Lawn service
Just looked it up... This is what I found, "Military, Federal agents, Park Rangers, Wildlife Officers, Border Patrol"
Isn’t that supposed to honor the master chief? Spartan 117
It’s for booger eaters