You were a hero twice.Just had a funny weird moment, at least to me, leaving work. An elderly man fell stepping up on the curb across the road so I slammed it in park and ran across to help him. As I was getting him up and checking to make sure he was ok, this elderly woman came along and started yelling at him about needing to use a cane. She hoisted her cane up to point the tip of it it at him while lecturing him, and lost her balance and I then had to catch her before she fell. The old man said, "You should have let the bitch bust her ass too" and waddled off in a huff in one direction and she got all under her breath mouthy and waddled off in the other direction. He tumbled back pretty hard but somehow managed not to strike the back of his head so I guess he is okay. He said he was.![]()
No not really. It was just funny to me to see too old people trolling each other at even the most inopportune time. The building across the road from our parking lot is not well suited for old people/the disabled at least that entrance. It is a fairly long slope lengthwise and is sort of concave and the street slopes away and down as well so it is easy to misjudge the curb. There really is no flat ground so this is not the first time I have seen and sometimes helped old folks falling there. They are supposed to park on the upperside and come in the top floor and then come down, but they don't usually because it is such a tight parking lot and it requires more walking than parking on the street. The one good thing about all that slope was that the man fell backwards downslope so he landed on his shoulders and sort of rocked back so he didn't crack his skull on the pavement. I paid careful attention to his head because I knew he was going to lose it the way he was walking before he even lost his balance and started falling. I already had my phone in my hand because if I saw his head hit pavement I was calling 911 first before going over.