My Momma Didn’t Raise No Dummy

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With our lovely 1st Aid instructor, Danni, from Hartbeat Training here in Gympie.

I love my wife, not least because it’s been my experience having her around always makes everything a little better.

“We should get the kid sized manikin,” Tracey suggested,

One of the last boxes to tick before we take off on our big lap was a first aid course for myself and Tracey. Since we’re going to be on some long lonely stretches of road and as far off the beaten track as the last bar of internet will take us, we thought it prudent to do a refresher.

I glanced around the class as pairs of people started to practice the only sort of chest beating I think I’ll ever be interested in.

“But every one else has an adult doll,” I said.

“Maybe their kids are older,” countered Tracey, her mind clearly focused on the fact in a couple of weeks we’ll be travelling with our five youngest kids.

A good point but I had a better one.

“I’m fifty next year. You’re more likely to have to work CPR on me,” I reminded her while grabbing an adult manikin off the table.

I don’t know if 1st Aid is supposed to be funny, but we pretty much giggled our way through the whole day. Even before we started Tracey was using the course to keep us amused and safe.

“You wanna try the brake?” Tracey asked me as I darted through a yellow light. “It’s the pedal you haven’t been using.”

“We’re late,” I explained. “They start in less than five minutes.”

“Yes, I know,” she said calmly, “but I haven’t done the course yet so I’m worried I won’t be much good to you if we crash.”

Except for the sections on snake bites and blue bottle stings – which nearly flatlined the whole bus adventure as we both fought off ‘what if’ scenarios in our heads – it was an educational day and something I think we both should have done years ago. To be honest it’s one of the best dates we’ve had – it counts as a date because we had no kids. We even treated ourselves to KFC for lunch.

But best of all I got to show off one of the reasons I love my Tracey so very much.

“Usually,” I heard her say to the instructor and a couple of other students while I leaned over our CPR manikin to deliver a couple of quick breaths, “it’s me making out with a dummy.”

See? What’s not to love? As if sucking face with a doll in a room full of people wasn’t hilarious enough, Tracey opens her mouth and somehow makes it even better.

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So much has changed since I did a course in cadets at high school, like don’t hold a baby like this. Not sure why though I imagine it’s because your arm will tire.
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Us dummies have to stick together.
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OMG I wasn’t expecting this! Apparently my playing the victim in the final scenario was so good I earned an award. I kept my acceptance speech brief….because they asked me to stop.

Raising a family on little more than laughs

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