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Working as an EMT is an enormously stressful job. You’re responding to traumatic accidents, you’re dealing with blood, you’re reviving addicts who will more than likely overdose again in a week. It’s tough work and an often thankless job.
Oh, and there’s the added benefit of the occasional lawsuit from low-grade lawyers who run 10-year-old generic endorsement ads on late-night television that feature a long-expired Robert Vaughn.
Getting sued for cracking a guy’s rib in the process of giving him life-saving CPR? You don’t deal with that of s*** when you’re working the checkout lane at Walmart. Oh sure, you face the occasional 90-year-old with a head drenched in AquaNet who insists on holding up the line while she writes out a check for a $0.39 pack of gum, but at least your gig comes with a discount at the snack bar. You know what you get as an added “benefit” when you work as an EMT? An extensive knowledge of what the flesh of a dead body that’s trapped in a burning car smells like.
At any rate, EMTs deal with a lot of crap on a daily basis. It’s emotionally, mentally, and physically taxing to save lives day in and day out, so be a lamb when you’re traveling the roadways of America and get the f*** out of their way when they’re behind you in an ambulance!
Yes, I realize you’re basking in the glow of your self-anointed status as the most important person in the Northern hemisphere while you zip down the road at a blistering 25 mph in your environmentally-friendly Smart car that’s plastered in “Bernie Sanders 2020” stickers. I know it’s difficult to hear that deafening siren behind you over the morally-superior sound of NPR blasting through your tweeters, but look alive, Skippy. People are dying, and you’re likely to be next if you don’t move your little Lego car out of the way.
On that point, an EMT in California finally had enough of rude and inconsiderate drivers on the freeway this week, and he elected to use his voice and the ambulance P.A. for their God-given purpose: to alert the driver in front of him that’s he’s a dumbass.
Hammer and Nigel have more on this in today’s edition of “Is This Anything?”
