Posted on 10/15/2019 11:58:43 PM PDT by ransomnote
Firefighters Soothe Very Scared Little Girl By Asking Her to Paint Their Nails After She Was in a Car Crash
These two Utah firefighters went above and beyond the call of duty to calm an anxious little girl who had just gotten out of a car collision.
According to a Facebook post from the North Davis Fire District, Chief Hadley and Captain Lloyd were some of the first responders to arrive on the scene of the crash earlier this week.
Though none of the drivers or passengers were seriously injured in the collision, there was a screaming little girl who was “very scared” from the experience.
“After noticing the child was holding bottles of fingernail polish, these two officers started talking to her about her polish and asked her if she would paint their nails,” says the post.
“Within minutes, the child was calmly paining their nails and had forgotten about the accident she had just experienced.”
Though the manicure was not necessarily the tidiest paint job, thousands of social media users have praised the firefighters for their kindness.
No, just no. Let one of her parents take care of their child.
I guess she’ll grow up to be a nail salon customer.
The parents mustve been busy on a stretcher or something. What they did worked. Why not?
I guess it’s just my problem. I cannot even stand to look at clowns or ber near them. It really creeps me out. It bugs me to to accidentally get a mark from my ink pen on my hand. This photograph disgusts me. Grown men don’t need to do this.
Aaaaaw!
That was very sweet.
You sir, have issues. They were doing something nice to calm a scared child. To see it in nany other light is weird. It’s polish, not a tattoo. It comes off.
Well, I guess that was the first one...Ha! Good for the firemen to do something to calm the young one down. It costs nothing and did wonders and she will remember the nail painting over the crash... Good job!
Maybe in the future these firefighters should keep a stuffed animal for kids. Unless they like their nails painted. Kinda weird if you ask me.
What does this or even markings on your hand have to do with clowns?
Clowns aren’t known for ink pen marks or for fingernail polish.
So ...I am not sure if you have coulrophobia, fear of clowns, or chirophobia, a fear of hands, or tatouazophobia the fear of tattoos, or transphobia, fear of transvestites... or a combination. Maybe you were punished, taunted or humiliated -or merely just laughed at by a person who really didn’t mean you ill but thought it was cute- for getting into fingerpaint or your mom’s makeup when you were very, very young and so, deep down, anything that reminds your subconscious of that causes discomfort. I think it may also be a more primal survival instinct of not wanting to draw attention from predators that may be at the root of these kinds of phobias in people, too. After all, long ago humans were the favored prey of beautifully camouflaged spotted leopards. In some parts of the world people still have to fear leopards [pardalophobia ], so it really isn’t an irrational fear.
And there’s a thing called nail polish remover.
You need to relax some.
Well, a lot.
Good on the gentlemen for helping her out.
“Maybe in the future these firefighters should keep a stuffed animal for kids. Unless they like their nails painted. Kinda weird if you ask me.”
Performing a task like painting nails involves a lot of concentration. Much better way to divert the mind from trauma than just playing with a stuffed animal.
Quick thinking on the firefighters part. While parent/parents were possibly distracted giving police details of the accident, the firefighters were proactive getting a terrified little girl calmed down.
If she was really scared, she might have just thrown the stuffed animal to the ground.
What works for one kid doesn’t always work for another.
That is really strange
Our firefighters all carry small teddy bears in fire department tshirts in their rigs for scared kids. The ladies auxillary started doing it through fundraisers many years ago.
“What works for one kid doesnt always work for another.”
Exactly, looks like these two were able to read the situation well and came up with a good solution. I’ve been a firefighter and had to deal with people under immense stress and shock. It’s not just the kids. I and a buddy stayed in a burning house until we were almost out of air because we thought someone was still in it. Ends up a friend of his had bought a new truck and came by and gave him a ride. Wife comes home to the house engulfed in flame and his car there but no sign of him. I have never seen someone as messed up as she was.
Didn't I say it's just my problem?
Don't get me started about tattoos!
It might go back to early Sunday school teaching that the body is our holy temple not to be defiled. But that cannot be all of it. Marking the body in any way is a throwback to tribalistic barbarism to be abhorred by thinking man.
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