Monday, December 8, 2014

First Responders


It has often been said, "at Boot Camp, we see the news as it happens." This mornings live drama on Peachtree featured a Harley motorcycle dude being T-boned directly in front us. We were the first one to get to him. On his own power, he rose to his knees and said "was I graceful?" When asked his name, he responded "Wendell." We asked him if anything was broken and he said "no." Our assesment was, Wendell was good to go. We lifted him to his feet and walked him to the sidewalk. Then we lifted his motorcycle and pushed it to the sidewalk. Thanks JG for being Johnny on the Spot  and Prancer for having the Answer.

The rest of the story:
We continued out with the workout. We were watching the emergency vehicles go by during our workout. When it was time to go back we crossed the road so we could check on Wendell. As we approched the scene, the APD cop in his vehicle gets on his loud speaker and starts chewing my ass off for running in the road. He was going on about it... "you are going to be killed running in the street." So of course I salute him and say, "Thank You SECOND Responder."

BTW, I (we) were wearing Holly's blinking lights.