I have always been the one to come forward and offer to help even when not on duty, even when I was a teenage first aider.... One Christmas in my youth I was volunteered to be part of a seasonal am dram production with some members of my church. So there we all are practicing ready for our debut on the high street. Someone comes in saying a woman has collapsed by the toilets in the car park. I go off with due haste hoping they aren't in cardiac arrest or worse (can you get worse?). What I didn't realise was that the patient had slipped on a large patch of ice, the patch I was now moving rapidly across. I slipped landing on my knees and slid across the ice, stopped by the patients legs. "I slipped on the ice. " the poor woman said as I looked at two badly broken wrists. "Yeah slippery isn't it. " I replied. "Are you hurt anywhere else?" I asked. "I've done both my collarbones in as well. " So I arrange for someone to call an Ambulance and do my best TLC etc. Ambulance duly arrives and out gets the rather well built paramedic carrying kit bag and starts walking towards me..... across the same ice..... The words "Watch the slippery ice" stick in my throat as he slips and hurtles towards both of us dropping his kit bag as his arms do a windmill impression. I stretch out an arm and just about stop him landing on me and the patient. His partner follows him and bends over to pick up the bag as he walks across the same ice..... his partner falls flat on his face. Moments later a passing police car stops and out get two female officers who come over to assist. The second ambulance guy takes the offered hand to get back up and promptly causes the first policewoman to slip ending up beside him. After a couple of minutes everyone picks themselves up and the patient is duly and carefully loaded into the ambulance and away they go. "I'll need your details. " one of the WPCs calls out, so I walk across the same patch of ice... momentarily forgetful and proceed to go flying again. Thankfully the police, ambulance staff or me ended up with more than injured pride but it was a close run thing. Even now 16 years later I remember that day every winter when I need a quick pee.