With the tap of a finger my phone alarm is turned off, 5:30am. Getting motivation to unwrap myself from my warm cozy bed and untangle my wifes limbs intertwined on my body is a colossal achievement. Riding gear on, downstairs for a bowl of cereal and out the door at 5:55. -4C was a slap in the face, but once I got going I soon warmed up. Alot of black ice coated the quiet roads, just me and my bike. I can truely say I dislike getting out to ride to work, but once I'm out and then having arrived, it's self pleasing and I'm actually very happy I rode.
Get to work, shower, get dressed into my uniform, go over the ambulance, sign into the CAD system..the usual routine. Sunday mornings are sometimes the only 'slow-ish' day of the week, most often it's get into the car at 6:30 am and your gone for a full 12 hours or more. Sunday mornings is the time to go to Starbucks and have that morning cup of coffee. So..that's what we did....and it was so good! However it didn't last long, it never does.
Post coffee it was an assortment of 'routine' and 'code 3' calls, the least appealing was the "my blood pressure is too high" (172/88) " I checked on the internet and I could be having a stroke!"...to the two middle aged guys who lost control of their car at 100km and struck a concrete light standard. The engine comparment was pushed back about a foot, the roof was crumpled, windshield was shattered. Neither were wearing their seatbelts! Seriously? Seriously!...what f^@king idiot doesn't wear their seat belt this day and age?? Anyways we had to call for another ambulance and we rushed them off to hospital with multi system trauma.
Wear your seat belt, get off the phone, put your face on before you get in the car(girls), look at the map or plug it into the GPS before you leave(guys), put your brain on and friggin concentrate on driving. If people were as concerned about driving as they were about their 'fb status update' the streets would be a safer place.
I think I need another coffee!
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