Louis Epstein
2021-12-04 19:36:18 UTC
Found this and thought it was kind of important.
"What is a basic skill that you grew up thinking everyone had until you saw others do it so horribly?"
(There are more than 24,000 responses.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/r3pd7i/what_is_a_basic_skill_that_you_grew_up_thinking/
Webbie-Vanderquack
6 days ago
"One of the things I wish children were taught in school is how and when to call emergency services and what happens when you do.
"I remember being taught what number to call in an emergency, and when not to call (i.e. 'don't call unless it's really an emergency'), but that just made it seem like we should do everything possible to avoid calling.
"As a kid, I didn't know that the first thing I'd be asked was 'police or ambulance?'. I didn't know that I had to be able to clearly give my address and a brief explanation of the problem. I didn't know that no matter how serious the emergency, the person I spoke to would sound bored. I didn't even know that I'd be transferred to someone else.
"The whole process is a total mystery until you have to do it for the first time."
(That one is kind of far down the thread, but there were still more than 50 responses to it.)
There are also some nice stories about people who were never taught about
hygiene, but who were set straight, in a kind, respectful way, by outsiders such
as employers.
Hmm...when I last called 911 (my tractor caught fire in October)"What is a basic skill that you grew up thinking everyone had until you saw others do it so horribly?"
(There are more than 24,000 responses.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/r3pd7i/what_is_a_basic_skill_that_you_grew_up_thinking/
Webbie-Vanderquack
6 days ago
"One of the things I wish children were taught in school is how and when to call emergency services and what happens when you do.
"I remember being taught what number to call in an emergency, and when not to call (i.e. 'don't call unless it's really an emergency'), but that just made it seem like we should do everything possible to avoid calling.
"As a kid, I didn't know that the first thing I'd be asked was 'police or ambulance?'. I didn't know that I had to be able to clearly give my address and a brief explanation of the problem. I didn't know that no matter how serious the emergency, the person I spoke to would sound bored. I didn't even know that I'd be transferred to someone else.
"The whole process is a total mystery until you have to do it for the first time."
(That one is kind of far down the thread, but there were still more than 50 responses to it.)
There are also some nice stories about people who were never taught about
hygiene, but who were set straight, in a kind, respectful way, by outsiders such
as employers.
the first question I was asked was "what's the location of your emergency?"
I only spoke to one person as I described the location of the field I had
been mowing and what had happened.The local fire department convened a
crew and came and extinguished the fire,and a police car parked by the road
to check out the process.
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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.