Experience leads to learning
With experience, you gain more knowledge but also realize you have much more to learn. Yesterday was one of those days for me. As an intern for the Oklahoma Publishing Company, we are asked to participate in the Oklahoma City Greater Grads program. We sit, we eat free food, while people from Oklahoma City talk about how great Oklahoma City is as a community.
At first, everything was going as normal. A man was at the front, talking about the history of the Oklahoma City political scene. After our food was distributed, the intern (not from OPUBCO) sitting in front of me started choking. At first, the table was unsure if he was sick or if he were choking. When we realized it was the latter, the table was divided between how we should help. My first instinct was to grab someone to help him. Luckily, the person sitting next to him knew the heimlich maneuver.
It was at that moment that I realized, I should probably learn the heimlich maneuver for future reference. By the way, the culprit of his choking fit was a piece of broccoli.
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The best part about this, for me, was that they both sat back down and pretended like nothing happened. The choking guy was given a new plate of food and he kept eating while people checked to see if he was OK. Both acted like it was no big deal and I’m pretty sure the guy who provided the heimlich was not thanked.
Oh, I love being an intern.