Stupid People
They're everywhere.... stupid people. I mean it. Walk around during the day and make a list off all the stupid people you encounter. By the end of the day, you'll have 40 or 50 names on the list. Then, realize that half of those people are even dumber than you think.
Case in point. Responded on an EMS call recently for a reported overdose. Nothing unusual there, have them all the times. Sometimes legit, sometimes BS. Many different reasons for them. Someone was depressed, lonely, wanted attention, bored, liked folks in uniform, blah blah blah. Whatever. Anyway, I digress.
So we pull up, and there stands said idiot. His clothes look like they've been slept in for a week, but he looks like he hasn't slept in a week. Ok, this could be something. There's a girl there - woman, I should say. Half his age... and he looks 50. We start to talk to him. Detective time.
Now I have to try and figure out if A) He took something, B) What it was, C) How much he took, D) How long ago he took it, and finally E) Why he took it. So, we commence with the 20 questions. I get 60 answers - each different from the last. First he said he found the pills on the ground. Then he said he found them in friends car, first they were white, then blue now yellow. After several minutes of exhausting questioning, and the girls departure, he admits that they were hers, he was in her apartment, and he took them from her medicine cabinet without her knowledge. He didn't say anything at first, because he didn't want to get her in trouble or kicked out of her apartment. HUH??????
"Ok, let's take it from the top, Pal. You took them from the medicine cabinet, they were yellow, and you took 4 or 5 of them. What were they?"
"Don't know - there was no name on it. I thought they'd help me sleep."
"Why'd you think that?"
"Because the bottle said 'Take before Bedtime'."
"Lemme see if I got this straight....... You took 4 or 5 of some kind of pill that you don't know what it is or what it will do because you thought it would help you sleep because it said take before bedtime on the bottle?"
"Right"
Friggin' genius. Here's your damn sign.... get in the ambulance.
Case in point. Responded on an EMS call recently for a reported overdose. Nothing unusual there, have them all the times. Sometimes legit, sometimes BS. Many different reasons for them. Someone was depressed, lonely, wanted attention, bored, liked folks in uniform, blah blah blah. Whatever. Anyway, I digress.
So we pull up, and there stands said idiot. His clothes look like they've been slept in for a week, but he looks like he hasn't slept in a week. Ok, this could be something. There's a girl there - woman, I should say. Half his age... and he looks 50. We start to talk to him. Detective time.
Now I have to try and figure out if A) He took something, B) What it was, C) How much he took, D) How long ago he took it, and finally E) Why he took it. So, we commence with the 20 questions. I get 60 answers - each different from the last. First he said he found the pills on the ground. Then he said he found them in friends car, first they were white, then blue now yellow. After several minutes of exhausting questioning, and the girls departure, he admits that they were hers, he was in her apartment, and he took them from her medicine cabinet without her knowledge. He didn't say anything at first, because he didn't want to get her in trouble or kicked out of her apartment. HUH??????
"Ok, let's take it from the top, Pal. You took them from the medicine cabinet, they were yellow, and you took 4 or 5 of them. What were they?"
"Don't know - there was no name on it. I thought they'd help me sleep."
"Why'd you think that?"
"Because the bottle said 'Take before Bedtime'."
"Lemme see if I got this straight....... You took 4 or 5 of some kind of pill that you don't know what it is or what it will do because you thought it would help you sleep because it said take before bedtime on the bottle?"
"Right"
Friggin' genius. Here's your damn sign.... get in the ambulance.
posted by FireResQGuru | 11/13/2007 10:08:00 PM
5 Comments:
My girlfriend Lilly who is often featured on the blog is EMS also and deals with the craziness of life on a daily basis also
they have to crack jokes to keep themselves sane
Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt
You firefighters are really all right. The ones that came to take my hubby away were kind and efficient.
this might be a stupid question, but where was the bottle? Did you throw it away?
He didn't have the bottle on him, and we never found it in the apartment. We don't know where it was.
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