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Tuesday, 26 December 2006

Bennigan's and 911

So Friday Rob, Heather and I went to dinner at Bennigan's and then a movie before Heather left to go to Syracuse for Christmas.

Bennigan's was pretty crowded and though we didn't have to wait long to be seated, there were lots of kids running around and it was loud, so that was a little annoying. But it would have been fine despite all this except for the emergency that happened next.

All of a sudden, just after we had gotten our food, a woman started shrieking hysterically and she seemed to be saying "he's not breathing! he's having a seizure!" The restaurant got very quiet while people tried to figure out what was going on. The commotion was coming from the bar area and every few seconds there was another panicked similar scream. People called 911 and within seconds cops, fire trucks, and an ambulance showed up. In the meantime someone who seemed to know what they were doing could be heard trying to calm down what I assume was a child's mother saying, "he's fine, he's crying, he's breathing, it's fine, calm down" and then you could hear a baby crying. But the shrieking continued periodically so I'm pretty sure this woman was just basically beyond any ability to behave rationally.

So based on the fact that the emergency personnel eventually calmly led the family out of there without any kind of CPR happening or anything looking like something life-threatening was going on, how much of an ass are each of the three of us that our first thoughts were along the lines of calm down crazy woman, you're ruining everyone's dinner! Yeah, I think it's basically right up there with my now infamous (at least with Clementine) "Will someone shut that baby up?" comment. I'm also guessing it's some sort of sign that if I ever had it there isn't much mothering left in me.

I'm pretty tapped out folks. But I can't help it, I try to take care of basically everyone I've ever known. Apparently that wears on you. Hmmmmmmmm. Interesting.

Posted: Dec 26, 2006 11:21

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