Falling on His Head

So this guy comes out of the doorway and it's an automatic door at a place with lots of foot traffic. 

There's people right behind him and he falls, kinds of catches himself, leaning toward the left and hits his head on the concrete. 

There's a big industrial gray mat on the ground, but his head misses that and comes down on the side of it on the concrete itself.

The people behind him, coming out the door, don't trip on him, but they have to stop and about 7 people are looking at him in the second before anybody knows what to do.

The faller's parents and one standbyer want to immediately pull the guy up and get him in the car.  The Dad is so mad and frantic to get the son away from this public place that he doesn't even think to go get the car and drive it up, and doesn't want to - even though the Mom and that standbyer are telling him to do so.

The rest of us, including the man whose on the ground, want him to stay down there for a bit.


Who thinks it's a good idea to jump up after they just fell?  Hello, take a breath.


The guy who fell is telling us he has a disease that makes it hard for him to balance or stand up.


The parents say he's drunk.



Whether he has a disease and whether it's alcoholism; hello- he's bleeding from his head so just sit there a minute right?

My companion, a healthcare professional, asks the faller his name and his birthdate and the Dad yells at her, saying why is she asking him questions when he just needs to stand up and leave.  The Dad goes and gets the car, drives it over the curb after mistakenly going in the wrong drive-through and I'm left thinking- no wonder this guy drinks- and no wonder these parents are mad.  Together they circle around in a cycle hating each other and they have no idea why.