She wasn’t breathing. He didn’t know CPR. Then he recalled an old episode of ‘The Office.’

Washington Post ^ | January 26, 2019 | Alex Horton

[EdnaMode]

When it came time to save a life, the mechanic turned to the lessons of Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute.

Cross Scott, a tire shop technician, was test driving a customer’s vehicle on Jan. 11 when he saw a peculiar thing: a sedan pulled over, its hazard lights blinking, according to the Arizona Daily Star. He got out to inspect the vehicle.

There was a woman inside who appeared unconscious as the car crept forward, he told the newspaper. He stuck a rock under the wheel and used another to smash a window, and two women who pulled over dialed 911.

He checked for a pulse. Nothing. Help could be minutes away. He had to act.

But there was one problem. “I’ve never prepared myself for CPR in my life,” Scott, 21, told the Star. “I had no idea what I was doing."

Well, that’s not entirely true. He had seen Season 5, episode 14 of “The Office.”

In a classic scene from the American TV series, Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott acknowledges his leadership style may have led to a heart attack, and, fearing future emergencies, he organizes CPR training for his employees. When he thrusts too fast on the practice dummy, the instructor tells him to sync his rhythm with a well-known disco hit.

[cgbg]

“The Office” is great comedy, particularly if you have spent any portion of your life in cubicle world.

The show tries as hard as it can to ridicule stupid bosses—but trust me, there are real bosses out there even crazier than shown in “The Office”.

[Windflier]

Another song that works but you don’t want to use out loud is Another One Bites the Dust.

Good one, though the refrain might be a tad inappropriate for applying emergency CPR.

[USS Alaska]

For some reason everyone is using this “seared into” in their writing these days. It’s become ridiculous.

This will sear it it into...

[livius]

Thank you for sharing this!

[arthurus]

And repeating “memory” when he should have used a word such as “incident” for the first one.

[livius]

Just downloaded the Red Cross app and it’s great. I may have to send them a donation or check the Amazon smile box!

[FoxInSocks]

It’s much easier now for the layperson: “push hard, push fast.”

You don’t even have to bother with the breathing portion anymore. They want people to get good quality chest compressions and defibrillation as soon as possible.

[JimRed]

What was the cause?

A-fib or v-fib...not sure which, but it just shut down. God's been better to me than I deserve.

[daniel1212]

A-fib or v-fib...not sure whichbut it just shut down.

I hypothesize that there are times when due to certain physical or mental factors that moment we can have a heart attack doing the same thing as days we do not, but if we do not we can go years or even decades without one. Meaning if you had played the day before nothing might have happened then or even decades latter. Thanks be to God in Christ, from whose our breath is and in His hands.

, God's been better to me than I deserve.

Indeed, same here.