2 days of torture

I did my first aid course yesterday and today. I have to have a current senior first aid certificate when I enrol next year and I let mine lapse quite some time ago. It was a really little class. There were only 4 of us for the first 1/2 day and 3 for the rest (one guy was just there for the CPR training). The teacher was great. She was funny, interesting and best of all she knew what she was talking about. My two fellow students however were painful. There was a big beefy security guard bloke who was dumb as dogshit and had a conspiracy theory about everything. He had a major problem with authority. The police are all corrupt, the army locks you up if you join and you lose all of your freedom, doctors cannot get a single diagnosis correct and an ambulance won't help him because he didn't pay their bill once. This already had me going alrighty then.

Then he mentioned that he had lost his licence, I asked "for how long?"

Him "20 years"

Me "Wow what did you do to lose it for that long"

Him "Nothing, absolutely nothing"

Me "they don’t just take your licence away for nothing"

Him "I didn't do anything"

Then with a bit more prodding

Him "I didn't have my P plates on"

Me "Well that’s not nothing. So you lost your licence because you were driving without your P plates"

Him "But I had just brought a new car and my P plates were on my old one, I took my made for a ride and got pulled over it was just bad luck, I lost it because of the points"

Me "that wouldn't lose your licence for 20 years, what else did you do?"

Him "nothing"

...And so it continued until it was discovered that after losing his licence for 3 months because he ran out of demerits after being caught not using his P plates, he was caught no less than 4 times for driving whilst disqualified.

I had to spend 2 days in a room with this guy.

The other girl was not much better. She was nice enough and we had lunch together and stuff but 2 things really annoyed me about her. Firstly, she constantly asked personal questions, asked about brothers, sisters, age, husband, kids etc which didn't bother me so much but then 5 minutes latter she would ask the exact same questions again! It was like her brain was on a time lapse like in '50 first dates' and it reset itself every 5 minutes. The other thing that annoyed me was that she kept touching me. I cannot stand being touched, especially by people I don't know. Everything she said was accompanied by a hand on the arm or leaning in close, it was horrible; as if you do that to someone you don't know. Maybe I am the one that is bizarre in this respect, but this girl had definitely never heard of personal space.

Thank goodness it is over and I have my piece of paper for med school.