Wednesday, Mar 11, 2009

CPR for the Masses

Today's Lunch Break:
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001426.html

I've had several jobs that required getting CPR training. You sit there in a classroom (usually a freezing one) and spend your day learning how to do chest compressions and how that cracking sound is supposed to happen.

Even though I've been certified at least three times, I couldn't tell you how to do it properly, much less actually perform CPR.

I'm pretty sure I'm repressing that knowledge so I'll never actually think, yeah, I'm all over this, and go volunteering myself to try to bring a dead person back to life. Because that would be utterly terrifying and traumatizing for me.

So I repress. But as of today, Dinosaur Comics has provided a mnemonic that moves me one step closer to not being able to forget. If I one day save someone's life, it's all T-Rex's fault.

(Click on comic for full size version)