How Tom Cruise and I Are Different
Thank Xenu for Small Favors.
Tom Cruise driving by an accident is neither special nor different. Tom is just like the dozens of other gawkers who drive past a wreck but never stop to see if they can do anything, like call 9-1-1 or loan me a coat* to cover a patient in shock.
Unlike Tom Cruise I don't drive past an accident and tell myself how special I am, how my co-religionists and I are unlike those poor bastards in the crumpled wreckage. I stop at accidents and call 9-1-1 as I am grabbing my nitrile gloves and the first aid kit. I make sure victims are breathing, I stop bleeding, I hold cervical vertebrae in alignment, I calm hysterical people by acting far calmer than I feel. I use my first responder training to try to prevent further damage to the victims while I'm waiting for the professionals with the sirens and flashing lights to arrive. I don't stop until they get there and tell me I can stop.
Tom goes on to say, "It's you drive past; you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help."
You know, the next time I'm lying belly-down in a puddle of radiator fluid and battery acid**, chatting with a trapped high-school boy about football to keep him calm, holding pressure on the big bleeding wound on his leg to minimize blood loss ... can I quit as soon as Tom Cruise or one of his fellow Scientologists drives by? How can I tell that they have done something? Should I keep the pressure on the bleeding wound until the Scientology auditors get there with that magic E-meter of theirs? Are my efforts to save lives useless unless the Thetans are expelled and Xenu propitiated?
NOTES:
* In one memorable incident, as commuters streamed out of a posh subdivision, carefully ignoring my attempts to wave them down, two homeless men came out of their campsite in a nearby oleander hedge and gave me one of their blankets for the shivering passenger. Thanks, whoever you were.
** Even diluted battery acid eats holes in clothing. By the time I got home mine were falling apart like a zombie costume in a bad horror flick.
Published by Tsu Dho Nimh
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24 Comments
Post a CommentI like the title.
I didn't hear about Tom Cruise and his experience of not being humane enough to care about a fellow human being. But then who is to say that Tom is human? Are Scientologists human? I also was inspired by the homeless guys. I would help too but I would be pretty ineffectual other than to get help, comfort and be there. Great article and if I am ever in a wreck like that I hope you are there. Thank God I have never had to deal with a very serious wreck.
Great article! First responders are saviors.
I don't know Tom Cruise personally, but he strikes me a very arrogant man. I doubt if I would let him revive me after I had an accident. Tsu, I'm counting on you there then.Just push TC aside. Great article!
Great article, Tsu. I can't believe how arrogant and self-righteous Tom Cruise is, when the rest of the world has more of a heart.
My experience with stopping at accidents isn't so good. One lady coded out 2 minutes after she got loaded in the ambulance (after I spent 10 minutes reassuring her she was going to be just fine, patting her hand, smiling, etc.) and the other was a motorcycle wreck I happened upon 10 minutes after my vet told me my cat would die of cancer. Even in my state of grief, disbelief, anger, etc. after getting that dx, I still managed human compassion and stopped my car, cellphone at the ready, willing to help any way I could. He, unfortunately, is brain damaged beyond repair. Compassion is what separates us from animals.
"It's you drive past; you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help." I found that highly ignorant of Tom Cruise to say. Even more so is he choose NOT TO HELP.
Great article. The title alone was enough to grab my attention.
WOW- You are great at titles and lead-ins!!! Thanks for the article.
My husband and I also stop for accidents; we both have some first responder training, tho his is more extensive. But I am in awe of the EMTs (and in the military, the medics) out there who have to see awful, awful things and still manage to be wonderful folks.