lost art

chan | 13/8/09life

On the wayhome last night on the train - just before Padstow - a lady collapsed.

it was a little frightening - but what was more frightening was the complete lack of care/common-sense/insight shown by the other commuters.
i did a first aid course a couple of years ago (in NZ) and i wouldnt by any stretch of the imagination say that i was equipped any better than anyone else to assist this woman - but its like eveyones brains just switched off .
without going into the whole thing i was most astounded at the fact that people were asking for her to be taken off the train by guards so they could get home…
and being asked to keep it down whilst shouting out hoping for a doctor or nurse to be on the train…

what have become????

Comments

  1. cafedave | 14/8/09 | 8:29 am

    Hopefully the way people behave when they’re on trains isn’t a snapshot of what they’re like at their best!