Adventure!
Ems and I had dinner with our friends Alyson and Jeff this evening and were relaxing in their living room afterwards, chatting, with Beck's Guero playing on the stereo. None of us are all that familiar with that particular album yet, and when it got to a part where all of us gradually noticed that there was a single continuous monotone going
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and i too am a tad shaken by people just standing there watching the injured stumble around on the street. it didn't take that much to put my coat around the guy, get him to sit down on the curb, and check to see if he was bleeding or had chest injuries. poor guy. and then just to keep him talking until the ambulance got there.
people amaze me.
oh, and his name was mike. i hope he's okay.
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Maybe they were jet-lagged?!
*kidding of course* ~ it's just me who's still suffering from jet-lag.
> to actually witness peoples' immobility is quite bewildering
It's scarey eh?! Makes you wonder how much you'd be helped by some passer-by... Jo and I both have learned CPR *Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - you guys probably call it something else?* (although, I must say, Jo is far better at it than me - I tend to be a little better at hacking away debris/fire-fuel and pointing a hose!). Jo even carries a St John Ambulance disposable mouth-to-mouth protector sheet on her key-ring!
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I was in Cubs, then Sea Scouts, then Venturers (and was a Cub leader), and had St. John/Mountain Safety Council first aid and CPR courses every couple of years the whole time, then had refresher courses every year or two when I worked in Auckland. Thankfully I've never had to put any of it to use until now.
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