A Celebration Of Learning

"Don't move, I am a First Aider!  I will not touch your skin with my skin or refer to you in any way which references or seems to disparage your gender, age, fashion sense, social standing or how that hamster got lodged in there.  I will refer to your skin tone as 'pink' because that is how I have been trained. Can I help you?"


Military First Aid,  A Glossary of Terms

Weapon: gun

Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss/Ma'am: honorific used for a civilian  
Civilian: whiner
Gloves: thin vinyl line between you and the zombies
Pink, warm and dry: apparently racist phrase used to describe evidence of normal circulation for a person who has a pink complexion
Back to black: apparently acceptable phrase used to describe evidence of normal circulation for people of colour
People of colour, with quotie fingers: apparently 'not us'
Celebration of Learning: less stressful, but exactly the same as a test, exam, assessment or practical demonstration of knowledge gained
Politically correct language:  rainbow sprinkled birthday gift to my blog


After two days, I can honestly say that I have no doubt in the ability of my classmates' to save my life, should I experience a life-threatening emergency. I might feel different if I weren't pink.


And for the record, if it goes without saying don't say it.


For MC, who giggles when things are funny.  We giggled a lot.