This one could be boring, read on if you have nothing to do!!
Yesterday, an old lady boarded the bus. She was unable to walk properly and was trembling…she was OLD…like really OLD. She had two light weight paper bags, I presume with some basic groceries did not seem to be heavy….she attempted to sit and almost fell down before I reached for her. But she could manage without my hand since the bus was not yet moving.
Bus started moving and then the lady tried to change to the opposite seat (with her bags) and almost fell down before another old lady (not very OLD…u know what I mean??) caught her from behind. She started mumbling and was saying it was a bad day as she got hurt (looked to be another small bruise) in the mall and was showing a band aid on her hand. A few inches from her band aid we noticed blood …. It looked to be from a fresh bruise….supposedly from a skin peel off when she was caught from falling down… none of us were sure how it happened. It was not a lot of blood but her shirt got wet with blood stains which the driver noticed. Here comes the main aspect of this post….driver pulled over the bus…called someone and said an old lady met with an accident in the bus….gave small cards to write about the incident … insisted on calling an ambulance…a what??? Yes that was my reaction… that’s correct your read it correct…an ambulance.
All the while the old lady was saying she is fine and she wants to go home (just 2 blocks from where the bus stopped) clean up and apply something (I did not understand). She said no for an ambulance and refused to give her name….he said the same to some other guy on the phone and was not sure what he should do… clearly he was not happy about the whole situation and was kind of looked frustrated about the old lady… he kept mumbling that… it’s an accident… what if your hand is fractured or what if that happens this happens after you go home etc etc…It did not seem to be serious not at least to me again I am no doc…but…the other lady caught her even before she came in contact with any hard object… the bruise I guess was caused by rupture of her skin…anyways…finally the lady conceded to driver and said yes for an ambulance.
Me, the other old lady and another student (yes only 4 of us in the bus)… got down and started walking to the next bus stop after handing over the cards with the info explaining what happened.
It was clear that the driver was over reacting (could be out of fear/liability or whatever) and the old lady was not supposed to be walking outside without some sort of aide. Hey not blaming anyone here…. poor lady had a bad day….bottom-line such over hyped exaggeration and over reactions will probably happen only in USA.
My supervisor with Disciplined character
2 years ago
