I like to travel in ambulances.
They seem such warm, friendly places
especially the Aussie ones shown on our screens:
‘Paramedics’ and ‘In the Ambulance’.
The ambos are calm, confident and chatty,
the ride authoritative but reassuring;
you feel you’ve landed on your feet
even if you are on your back;
There’s never any drama with these ambulances:
You scoot along niftily, the traffic parting
like the Red Sea for Moses; you’re delivered
efficiently as a package from Australia Post.
* I've never travelled in an ambulance; have you? * have you an ambulance story ?
*pic courtesy of Wikipedia
John Malone 
You’re definitely priority mail in an ambulance. Do you think priority mail feels important or scared because.. why so urgent? Do you think priority mail wishes its Mum could’ve come too?
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Lol ; Worms, you should be writing this: you’ve caught the same wave as me 🙂
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I have never been in an ambulance either *touch wood*. But I always assumed it would have an edge of terror to it due to circumstance.
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yes, that would make sense — though you don’t feel that watching the show; well maybe hints of it —
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Ah. I haven’t watched the show. I don’t doubt the calm skill of the ambos though.
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’24 Hours in A & E’ centred in St. Georges Hospital in South West London is a top rating, long running show usually on SBS though here the ambos very much play second fiddle; my therapist might be worried about my preoccupation with these shows 😦
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Yup, ambulances are such nice vehicles, and I love the way they flash their red-blue lights. Great poem, describing them.I loved it!
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thanks; you ever been in one?
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Great poem. We were in a car accident. Our car ended up upside down on the motorway. Air ambulance helicopter came and Mrs H refused to get in because she is scared of them! Had to wait for the ordinary ambo. Luckily no lasting damage, other than embarrassment! 😂
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thanks Hobbo and thanks for enriching this post with your story 🙂
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👍🙂
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btw Hobbo, I meant to ask you: is ’24 Hours in A & E’ as popular in the UK as it is in Australia?
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Think so John. me and Mrs H watch it occasionally. 🙂
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Like ‘Midsomer Murders’, it has remarkable longevity.Both are in their 20th plus Seasons. They must be doing something right:) Oh, that our blogs had this durability 🙂
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Never mind our blogs…if only we had such durability! 😂
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sad but true, Hobbo: you’ve written quite a few snappy little poems touching on this subject: we were not made to last, Hobbo, we were not made to last …
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😂 It must be an age thing John!
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Hey! Thankfully, never been in an ambulance, though I have had my fair share of nasty ‘incidents’, including a suicide attempt (something I am no longer proud of). As foe ambulance story, I have a crazy one. Once I was travelling to office by autorickshaw (I was already late) and there was an ambulance behind us from a certain hospital. The autorockshaw was not ready to give it way so I forced him to, saying that what if it was going to help someone I know and that person dies?
Once he gave way to them, we were stuck in the slow-moving traffic. 15 minutes later, I reached office and found that one of my friends, who was also my charge as a new joiner, was in a road accident outside office and that ambulance had come to take her to the hospital…
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thanks Shaily; that is quite a story:thank goodness you intervened 🙂 that lady owes you one 🙂
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Well riding an ambulance may seem, exquisite, but I am rather sure the reason for being not so much. 🤣🤣🤣
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totally right; to be taken in an ambulance means you are not in a good way; I think the TV shows I refer to concentrate on patients with less spectacular conditions which might distress the viewers — and heaven knows we mustn’t distress the viewers —
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I’ve never been in one, and I imagine the reason you’d find yourself there is unpleasant, but I also imagine the careers to be quite comforting
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I know a few paramedics: they are wonderful, caring people with a great sense of humor: you probably need it in that line of work 🙂
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Absolutely
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Just once, I was hit by a car as a kid.
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Wow! that’s a lot worse than falling off the monkey bars or off your bike, common childhood mishaps–
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Yes. And I’m pretty lucky it wasn’t worse. But all in all, I just got a bunch of bumps and bruises.
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you did well, Bob 🙂 one of my classmates in Year 7 was hit and killed in our street while riding his bike. Thankfully I never saw it–
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That’s heartbreaking. I’m glad you didn’t see it too. I’ve drilled into the heads of both my boys to look before they go into the street.
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it’s going to be trickier, Bob, if they graduate to motor bikes — but that’s a bridge you can cross if you come to it 🙂
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I wish I never do.
I hope this isn’t a ride to heaven.
Sounds quite comfy though.
Very well written, John. 🙂
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thanks Terveen; I wrote it while watching ‘Paramedics’ 🙂
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🤨 I have a couple of times, it’s not as pleasant experience (I’ll not go into details) however it’s terrifying and not much of a joy ride.
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these shows obviously sugar-coat it; the Aussie versions more than those from the UK which tend to be more graphic: every show has its brand 🙂
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I’ve been in an ambulance before for transport from one facility to another. Non-emerg.
It’s pretty much as you describe it. Feet down though strapped up tight relaxed. You almost feel as if you should be smoking.
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hahahah; yes, it is a bit like that; downing a schooner of beer 🙂
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I wish I could enjoy beer the way normal men seem to be able to. They sit there, feet up, watching the TV set and baseball. I can’t even really get into the sports broadcasts like real guys can. I just want to find a girl and make her kneel before me.
— Catxman
http://www.catxman.wordpress.com
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🙂 I only drink beer with my mates on Friday nights at the pub and I’m not really into AFL footy — the equivalent, I would say, to your baseball —- but I do like a glass or two of red with dinner 🙂
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My son fell and hit his head, lots of blood we had to ride the ambulance. Three years old he ask them to start the “whee, whee’s”. Seven stitches but he only remember the sirens. 🙂
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funny the things that kids remember 🙂
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Those last two lines have some interesting imagery. I’ve never ridden in an ambulance, so I have no idea what it’s like, really. But interesting to think about
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what’s interesting is so few of those who commented have; we must be lucky, avoiding serious accidents 🙂
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