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Rant about Inconsiderate Morons
Mar. 30th, 2006 04:27 pmLook! If you're driving along during the bright and sunny afternoon and find a elderly man laying on the sidewalk you should stop so that you can:
1. see if he's all right.
2. help him up
3. call for help if he's hurt/having a heart attack/having a stroke
What you don't do is keep on driving along without a care in the world just because you don't know the person. That man could have been dying yet plenty of idiots didn't care. >_<
Backstory: Because I'm the only one around that can drive during the afternoons right now (my aunt sleeps during the day since she stays with my grandfather on the night shift, my brother works, my mom doesn't drive, my grandmother gave up her license 1 1/2 years ago and my dad's on the day shift with my grandfather) I'm doing all of the running around, buying things, doing banking, paying bills, etc. Anywho this afternoon I was downtown of our town walking down the sidewalk (I park and walk whenever I'm down there) when I see a few blocks away that an elderly man is lying on the sidewalk (considering his age I thought he was having a heart attack or a stroke). As I'm trying to hobble forward to him (my feet were killing me since I have new shoes and thus couldn't move very fast) I count at least 20 cars drive by (note: that's only counting the cars who were on the same side of the road as the man since cars going in the other direction probably didn't see him) before a truck full of workers finally stop to help him. Since the man now had help I continued on my way but it only took less than 10 minutes for the group of workers to help the man up and make sure he was alright.
I'm disgusted by the fact that so many people couldn't be bothered to take 10 minutes out of their day to help an old man. Hell as they were driving by they couldn't even be bothered to call 911 on their cellphone.
1. see if he's all right.
2. help him up
3. call for help if he's hurt/having a heart attack/having a stroke
What you don't do is keep on driving along without a care in the world just because you don't know the person. That man could have been dying yet plenty of idiots didn't care. >_<
Backstory: Because I'm the only one around that can drive during the afternoons right now (my aunt sleeps during the day since she stays with my grandfather on the night shift, my brother works, my mom doesn't drive, my grandmother gave up her license 1 1/2 years ago and my dad's on the day shift with my grandfather) I'm doing all of the running around, buying things, doing banking, paying bills, etc. Anywho this afternoon I was downtown of our town walking down the sidewalk (I park and walk whenever I'm down there) when I see a few blocks away that an elderly man is lying on the sidewalk (considering his age I thought he was having a heart attack or a stroke). As I'm trying to hobble forward to him (my feet were killing me since I have new shoes and thus couldn't move very fast) I count at least 20 cars drive by (note: that's only counting the cars who were on the same side of the road as the man since cars going in the other direction probably didn't see him) before a truck full of workers finally stop to help him. Since the man now had help I continued on my way but it only took less than 10 minutes for the group of workers to help the man up and make sure he was alright.
I'm disgusted by the fact that so many people couldn't be bothered to take 10 minutes out of their day to help an old man. Hell as they were driving by they couldn't even be bothered to call 911 on their cellphone.
