During a first aid lecture, a rather dashing, war like, man mountain Rodney instructor went on to demonstrate various methods of carrying a casualty, he went through the usual firemanâs lift etc and for each one he pulled up a volunteer. He then went on to demonstrate âthe monkey crawlâ !!
When he looked up for a volunteer, like everyone else I avoided eye contact by staring at the resus doll covered in a thousand manky first field dressings but it wasnât my day. As I got to the front he handed me a rifle sling, he laid on the floor then asked me to bind his hands together and straddle his chest. Needless to say the room erupted but this guy remained completely stoney faced. I did as he said. He put his arms round my neck then asked me to drag him across the floor by crawlingâ¦. the rest of the room had progressed from sniggers to full on belly laughs as I tried to shift him. As for being tempted, thinking about where his head was as I dragged him, it took all I had not to look down and say âErrr whilst youâre down there Sirâ
<re reading that⦠I have never seen this done since, I feel I may have been had!>