I am at work for eight-and-a-half hours a day. I work eight hours and have a half-hour unpaid lunch. I also get a fifteen minute break in the morning and another in the afternoon.
Today I was working in the town where the office is located. I stopped off at the office to use the bathroom and dropped of some completed paperwork. I then went to take my break. I stopped at a popular convenience store located about a mile up the road from the office. All of the guys at one time or another stop in there. Many of the staff know many of us by name or nickname. I pulled in, parked and went in. I greeted one woman that works there as I prepared my tea; and greeted another and the store manager as I paid for the tea and a slim jim beef snack.
All of a sudden the manager looked at me, called my name and said, 'Come outside and help me!' I immediately turned to run for the door and asked, 'Someone drive off without paying?' She said, 'NO! That guy out there just collapsed.' I turned and looked and a young woman was struggling to hold the guy up. I ran over and got behind him and gently lowered him near the ground. He was on his feet but I was holding him up. He collapsed and had hit his head on the passenger-side rear view mirror of an SUV which was parked next to him. He wasn't bleeding but you could see where he struck his head. We had some light snow last night. The pavement was wet and thought it best just to keep him 'still.'
A small crowd had gathered as the ambulance was called. The one woman from inside the store was relaying questions from the ambulance dispatcher to me. Is he conscious? breathing? pulse? He was in-and-out-of consciousness, he was breathing, had strong pulse. I didn't take his pulse, the SUV woman did. His girlfriend held his hand as we waited for the ambulance. It seemed like forever. Once or twice he wanted to stand up but he was incapable and we encouraged him to stay still. He did.
The ambulance arrived and after another five or ten minutes of them checking his vital signs and stuff I handed him off to the EMTs as they loaded him onto a stretcher.
WOW!
No doubt, the last thing I thought would ever happen. Somehow, I was right in the middle of it. I watched as they lifted him into the ambulance. The store manager was standing back a short bit on the concrete walk. I began looking for my tea. I had forgotten all about the beef stick. The store manager called to me. I looked and she smiled and held up my tea. I don't even know where I put it down. We chatted briefly and I walked to the truck to call the office to let them know where I was and had been doing. As I spoke with the dispatcher on the phone the store manager approached me. She smiled as she walked up to the van and held out my beef stick....lol. I told her I forgot all about it; and thanked her.
When I got back to the office I asked someone in the office to look up the name of the guy. She told me where his last account was. There was no current account. I looked at her when she told me and said, 'You know what? I thinked I hooked his cable up.' She checked the system. Sure enough. I did.
In a day or two I will stop by to see how he is doing.
Sure enough, as I say in my subtitle....every day really is a new adventure.
The picture above is one of my local favorites. I captured that image several years ago at the convenience store I mentioned above.
Hope you all have a good night.
Today I was working in the town where the office is located. I stopped off at the office to use the bathroom and dropped of some completed paperwork. I then went to take my break. I stopped at a popular convenience store located about a mile up the road from the office. All of the guys at one time or another stop in there. Many of the staff know many of us by name or nickname. I pulled in, parked and went in. I greeted one woman that works there as I prepared my tea; and greeted another and the store manager as I paid for the tea and a slim jim beef snack.
All of a sudden the manager looked at me, called my name and said, 'Come outside and help me!' I immediately turned to run for the door and asked, 'Someone drive off without paying?' She said, 'NO! That guy out there just collapsed.' I turned and looked and a young woman was struggling to hold the guy up. I ran over and got behind him and gently lowered him near the ground. He was on his feet but I was holding him up. He collapsed and had hit his head on the passenger-side rear view mirror of an SUV which was parked next to him. He wasn't bleeding but you could see where he struck his head. We had some light snow last night. The pavement was wet and thought it best just to keep him 'still.'
A small crowd had gathered as the ambulance was called. The one woman from inside the store was relaying questions from the ambulance dispatcher to me. Is he conscious? breathing? pulse? He was in-and-out-of consciousness, he was breathing, had strong pulse. I didn't take his pulse, the SUV woman did. His girlfriend held his hand as we waited for the ambulance. It seemed like forever. Once or twice he wanted to stand up but he was incapable and we encouraged him to stay still. He did.
The ambulance arrived and after another five or ten minutes of them checking his vital signs and stuff I handed him off to the EMTs as they loaded him onto a stretcher.
WOW!
No doubt, the last thing I thought would ever happen. Somehow, I was right in the middle of it. I watched as they lifted him into the ambulance. The store manager was standing back a short bit on the concrete walk. I began looking for my tea. I had forgotten all about the beef stick. The store manager called to me. I looked and she smiled and held up my tea. I don't even know where I put it down. We chatted briefly and I walked to the truck to call the office to let them know where I was and had been doing. As I spoke with the dispatcher on the phone the store manager approached me. She smiled as she walked up to the van and held out my beef stick....lol. I told her I forgot all about it; and thanked her.
When I got back to the office I asked someone in the office to look up the name of the guy. She told me where his last account was. There was no current account. I looked at her when she told me and said, 'You know what? I thinked I hooked his cable up.' She checked the system. Sure enough. I did.
In a day or two I will stop by to see how he is doing.
Sure enough, as I say in my subtitle....every day really is a new adventure.
The picture above is one of my local favorites. I captured that image several years ago at the convenience store I mentioned above.
Hope you all have a good night.
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