Ordinary day with unexpected beginning

Sometimes a seemingly normal day can bring with it unexpected surprises and unexpected opportunities to call on special training or skills you have acquired along life’s way. Back in the 90s I had the opportnity to call on my military training as a medic. It happened on an ordinary day as I went to get a coffee at the local 7-11 convenience store. When I stepped out the door, I heard a man yelling “My baby’s not breathing!” I looked to my right and saw a man yelling into the pay phone but he had no baby with him. I looked around the parking lot and saw, by the gas pumps, a woman by the open door of her pickup with a panicked look on her face. I set my coffee cup on the car beside me and ran to the pickup.