A story from work

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slugboy Feb 14, 2012

I thought I'd add a post about something that happened about 3 years back.
It's about 2 people I work with. J, a pretty unreconstructed ozzy, wouldn't look out of place in that bar in crocodile Dundee, a bit sexist, disliked gay people, foul mouthed. And P, a lesbian and to put it nicely, a militant feminist. To say the least, they did not get on, making cats and dogs look like two peas in a pod.
But one day in theatre P had been gone a good while and J went to find her (plenty of swearing about her)
When he found her in the stores she was blue faced, choking on a toffee that had gone down the wrong way.
Even tho he despised her and she must have been seconds from collapse and death, he jumped straight in and heimliched the crap out of her til, in his words 'that fucker flew out if her mouth like a missile'
I'd like to say it changed them both and their views and they became best friends, they still really dislike each other...
slugboy Feb 14, 2012

But it still makes my heart sing that his inner human capacity and wish to do good compelled him to save someone so opposed to his world view.
Gave me hope for humanity at large.
Anyway, I thought I'd share.