Wear clean draws
Everyday
‘Cause things may fall
The wrong way
Then you’re lying there
Waitin’ for the ambulance
And your underwear
Got holes and shit
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The way I’ve always heard it, it’s not about dirty underwear but about ripped/worn out underwear.
Most people who adhere to basic standards of hygiene don’t go about in dirty underwear, and that’s not really an issue. But many people keep wearing old underwear after it wears out and frays, because it’s regarded as more of a functional item than a clothing item that’s intended to be seen by the public. So as long as it “gets the job done” people wear it, even if it doesn’t look decent. And that’s where the “mother’s advice” comes in - you’re not intending for anyone to see it, but you never know what might happen …
More importantly… Did your MOM find out about this?
Ha! Not at the time of the accident but I did tell her about what the driver said. She thought it was pretty funny, though a bit tacky for him to say it in front of a car load of virtual strangers.
My stepfather would say “Watch out, a seagull’s gonna get you!” It ranked down there with the “I’ve got your nose” nonsense as being completely unbelievable.
An injured yuppy is brought into the emergency room sobbing uncontrollably, “My BMW…my BMW…” The nurse grabs him by the shoulders and tells him, “Snap out of it! You have more important things to worry about, your hand has been cut off!”
He quiets for a moment and stares at the stump. “My Rolex, my Rolex…”
Dennis
I wonder if some of this old trope goes back to the days of heavy-handed “charity” in hospitals and other rudimentary social services, when a poor-but-respectable mother might dread the prospect of some interfering do-gooder concluding that she wasn’t caring properly for her children?
The retired E.M.T. in me adds this: Clothing is removed in the field as is required by the presentation of the patient. A serious fall to me would indicate possible spinal cord injuries. That would require collaring, assessment of the body by touch- and in this particular case would require a brief examination of the genitals to check for priapism ( non-sexual erection ). I’d leave underpants on unless there was a clear indication of need to remove them but in the case of a non site-specific trauma such as a serious fall, everything would go but underpants and bra.
Thinking back, I am not sure I ever encountered a patient who was not in a health care facility such as a nursing home who had soiled themselves. Post-trauma, bowel movements rarely occur right away. Incontinence is different.
As to the post up above regarding running into someone who had been your E.M.T. who remembered that you had no underpants on, I personally find that to be pretty unprofessional. I lived in a small town when I was riding as an E.M.T. I heard and saw things- like every E.M.T., Paramedic and Doctor and Nurse does. I took the privacy of every patient and family member incredibly seriously. Never would it occur to me to discuss the lack of underpants with a former patient. Not even years later. Not even in a light-hearted situation like a limo.
Same here.
I was in a nasty semi-on-car accident some years back that involved a ride in an ambulance to the ER. When my mother came to pick me up from the hospital, she asked me if I had been wearing clean underwear. She wasn’t serious, she was just trying to inject a little levity in an otherwise intense situation.
Oh yes. Once when working in the hospital of a small town, we had a young woman get hit by a car and broke her pelvis. She was a member of a well-known developmentally disabled low socio-economic spectrum inbred family. Her underwear were so old and filthy they sort of fell apart as we were getting them off her. And they smelled really, really bad. The poor girl needed a mother to tend to her underwear.
I used to have a Punch cartoon of two parents walking down the street with a child with his a saucepan stuck on his head, and the mother is saying “I know what they’re thinking: they’re thinking what a dirty old saucepan to let a boy get his head stuck into.”
I read some where that in sports and MMA there been cases people having a accidents.:mad::mad::mad:
And in car accidents and trauma too.:(
I think the excitement and shock may be trigger. I know lot my urge to have bowel movement are after I eat or exercising.:eek::eek: And if I was doing some thing really big like sports or MMA where your exercising is to extreme or got into a car accident or trauma!! Black out for some time like in Boxing!! And not gone before I left house:mad::mad::mad::mad: I may have accident.:eek::eek:
I’m sure some doctors here can explain the body mechanics of this.