  Yesterday, a bunch of people from work were supposed to go have lunch to celebrate my boss' birthday, which was this week-end. Something came up, and we had to postpone until today. This morning, my colleague and I spent like an hour trying to reach the restaurant we wanted to go to by phone to make a reservation.
No answer. We decided we'd just show up and see. Turns out, the whole block had a power failure and they couldn't receive customers. So we decided to walk to another restaurant. On the way there, we were just having fun, mainly telling stories about times that we tripped and fell and looked crazy (this all started when one of us tripped). We got the a street corner, and another of us fell. Not just fell... She fell big time . We were in the Old Montreal, where streets are uneven... She just stepped down the sidewalk to cross the street, and she fell flat on her face. She didn't even have time to stop herself with her arms. Her arms stayed on both sides of her body. So the nose and the cheeks took the impact. She got up and her nose was pissing blood . Not from her nostrils, but the skin on the nose was cut, and it was cut deep.
We didn't have a lot of tissues and she really was bleeding bad... We found a cab and put her and my boss in there... I told my boss where I knew there was a medical clinic nearby and they just left. I have to say I was amazingly surprised at the reaction of the people around. Guys in a car stopped and put their hazard lights on and gave us a whole box of tissues for our poor friend. Another guy in a suit came out of nowhere with a bottle full of water to wash off the blood. Another one was standing there, offering us to call an ambulance. In the panick of the moment, we didn't have time to thank all of them properly. I know they won't read this, but thank you . I was really amazing that in a big city like Montreal, more than 3 people on a street corner cared enough about another human being to get out of their ways and offer their help.
Same thing with the cab driver, who wouldn't take any money for the ride... In 1997, I had a pretty bad car accident. Tons of people witnessed it, but it took 10 minutes before someone actually stopped to help me. And I know that those things happen a lot: people watch, but they don't help, for whatever reason. Today, I was really happy to see how these people offering their help... Really, it was unexpected (as much as the accident!
) and it just makes me happy that there are still people who have time to do something good in this world... Our colleague bled a lot, but her nose isn't broken... She'll probably feel all the pain more tomorrow, when the adrenaline is gone and the headache kicks in, but she was lucky in her badluck... Needless to say, we didn't have much lunch as we were not hungry, but we're very happy to know that she'll be ok and doesn't even need stitches. If you ever see someone in trouble on the street, stop and offer your help. It'll make you feel good and it'll make them feel better. 
