I stood at the bus stop, texting my friend to see if we were still on for a Girly Road trip tomorrow...and i decided to call my mum to pick me up, cause if i had waited for the next number 8 bus, i wouldn't have been home in time to make food for Iftar...
Just as i hung up, a girl in front of me collapsed... a leg bent under her, an arm smacked the ground... A nice gentleman and two elderly ladies helped her up and sat her down on the tiny little bit of plastic... The women sroked her arm and generally tried to make her feel comfortable... I wanted to help, but seeing as she was already being looked after i didn't do much...
Her bus came, and the ladies carried her bags and told her to stand up, she was fine for about 2 seconds, and then she fell again, nearly on me. The gentleman helped her up again, and a lady asked if anyone had a phone.
I offered to call for an ambulance, but i didn't know whether to call hospital or 999... so i asked, and the lady just tutted at me and rolled her eyes and said "YES! 999!"... i was already kinda scared, and she scareded me more!
So i called up, and tried to give our location "on Co-operation St. in front of WHSmith"... i didn't know how else to describe where we were!
and he asked me how she fell, and i was like... "erm... she looked kinda dizzy and fell? really floppily??" and he was like "did she faint?" and i was like... "nooo she hasn't fainted.... she just fell on the floor twice as if she couldn't keep herself up..." and the guy was like.. "i understand, but i need to know why she fainted" and i was like..."i'm sowwie, i reallly don't know.... "
but he was like just reassure her that helps on the way... :)
i got her to sit down on the floor, cause i was scared she might slip off the little bit of plastic that's meant to be a bench... and i gave her my shawl to wear cause she said she was feelin a bit cold...
She was 17 years old, going home from college...
The ambulance peoples came, and the man took her bag, whilst i held her hand and supported her, and walked her to the ambulance...
then i didn't know what i should've done, stayed with her or left...
Seeing as she was a complete stranger and she was in total safe hands i decided i should leave her with them....
and just as i turned around, my mummy was parked behind the ambulance...
so i hopped in, and i started telling them what had happened...
i then heared my mum saying something like "that's odd, i thought your dad had filled in the water the other day"... i didn't really pay much attention...
and told mum to carry on driving, we could always fill it up once we got home...
we then got stuck in traffic, and i looked at her dashboard thingy and hte water light was red! not even flashing.. it was PERMANENTLY red!
and then the bonnet started smoking!
we tried to park the car, but we were in chocablock traffic, and in the inner lane, so it would've been a nightmare for my mum... and then i heard a horrible rattling scarey noise.. and i panicked!
i switched the hazard lights on, and told my mum and sister to GET OUT the car...
we were standing in the middle of one of the BUSIEST roads in my city... and our car was gonna blow up...
i didn't know what to do, so i called dad to get here ASAP!
So many peoples passed us and not one person even asked to help us... a lot of them looked at us with a kinda pityful sympathetic look... but no one did anything...
we waited for about 15 minutes... and then a woman came over and was like "shall i help you push the car towards the pavement?"
The traffic had eased down now, and so we were like "okeys..."
and then two gentlemen helped us aswell...
There was some sort of problem with the steering wheel...it was locked or something and so the two men were steering and me, the woman and mum were pushing....
My sister had seen dad drive past the other way....so i started to feel some kind of relief...
the two gentlemen offered me their phones to call some one to take us home... and they were like, don't thank us...
and they went off...
Dad came and took us to his car, after lockin our little clio....
and d'ya know what?
he had a go at me for not taking an earlier bus home!
So much had happened in such little time, i felt kinda overwhelmed in the car... i was sooo close to tears...
I just hope Chloe gets better, and to the 2 men and the lady who helped us, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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