I was at a party the other night. Eventually, I found myself on the sofa, chatting with a rather inebriated fellow who was eating very large handfuls of trail mix from a bowl on the coffee table.
It occurred to me, as this nameless individual (he probably had a name, I just never learned it) wolfed down said trail mix that I might have to give him the Heimlich Maneuver. In a worst case scenario, I might even have to give him an emergency tracheotomy.
As we chatted, three things occurred to me:
1) I might need a really sharp knife
2) My warrior needs a butt-load of Fel-Iron
3) How would I know when I needed to perform the tracheotomy?
I mean, if this guy is choking to death, how will I know when to actually perform said tracheotomy? And how long is it going to take to farm all that Fel Iron?
I then had a brilliant idea: emergency-specific flash cards.
This would be a set of cards with specific emergency messages pre-printed upon them, to be used in case you cannot adequately convey what is needed. For example: I am choking to death. Please perform an emergency tracheotomy.
Other, useful cards might include:
Please remove the lamprey from my buttocks
The knife in my head is not fake
Please collect my limb(s) for potential reattachment
I am on fire
I am currently falling to my death. Please provide a parachute, trampoline or other gravity-defying device
Please distract the lion eating my leg. If possible, recover my leg.
Granted, to be truly prepared would require a large assortment of cards, making it difficult to find the correct one. Therefore, the first card in the pack would read: I am having an emergency moment. Please be patient while I locate the correct card to adequately convey my situation.
Cheers,
-Jason
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
This made me laugh so hard I spit on my monitor. Thanks, Jason, I needed humor on a gray and Murphy's-Law-swinging-for-the-fences day like today.
Lamprey...hmmm...that would be an original Halloween costume...much gross-out potential.
Purrs --
--
Cat
Glad to hear I helped a little :)
A lamprey would be a really hard costume to pull off. Plus you'd spend all evening stuck to someone. Granted, that might not be all bad, depending on who that someone was :)
Post a Comment