Having been on many first aid courses I was nominated as the first aider at work.
All went smoothly until some poor benighted swine cut his head and I was called to attend.
The chumps already on scene had been unable to staunch the blood flow.
Without thinking I quickly applied a tourniquet around his neck.
The bleeding did stop, but I was removed from first aid duties shortly afterwards.
They asked me if I required counselling. I said losing the £80 per month (approx. $100) first aid allowance was upsetting but counselling was not required.
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@the-gravedigger saidI've asked an abdominally plump lady about the due date of her baby. She wasn't pregnant.
Having been on many first aid courses I was nominated as the first aider at work.
All went smoothly until some poor benighted swine cut his head and I was called to attend.
The chumps already on scene had been unable to staunch the blood flow.
Without thinking I quickly applied a tourniquet around his neck.
The bleeding did stop, but I was removed from first aid d ...[text shortened]... the £80 per month (approx. $100) first aid allowance was upsetting but counselling was not required.
I'm still spitting-out the black feathers from that debacle. 🙂
Many years ago on a boozy night out down the pub it was just before
last orders. My mate offers to be a round but I've had enough
(I still have most of my pint left from previous round) and refuse a
drink. After some negotiation I agree to half a pint as a top up.
My mate returns and hands me my beer.
Which I pour into my still half-full pint glass to top it up.
... except he hadn't bought me a half as promised, it was another pint!
@the-gravedigger saidYou did the proper thing. Tourniquets are a viable and effective method of precluding excessive blood flow out of the common swine's body.
Having been on many first aid courses I was nominated as the first aider at work.
All went smoothly until some poor benighted swine cut his head and I was called to attend.
The chumps already on scene had been unable to staunch the blood flow.
Without thinking I quickly applied a tourniquet around his neck.
The bleeding did stop, but I was removed from first aid d ...[text shortened]... the £80 per month (approx. $100) first aid allowance was upsetting but counselling was not required.
First job in London (only been there a week or two) and as I got off the train I suddenly realized my work mobile wasn't in my pocket. In sheer panic, I got the next train to Victoria and rushed to lost property in the desperate hope that somebody had handed it in. (Yes, I tried to get some random person to ring my phone, but it just rang and rang). Suffice to say, nobody had handed it in and I had to endure the embarrassment of telling my manager that I had managed to lose my phone.
Got home that evening and found the mobile plugged into the wall, charging.