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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ambulance that Got Away</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Grandpa suffered a turn, we<br>Called the ambulance, right away, <br>They strapped him onto a gurney<br>So he couldn't sit up, or sway, <br>‘We'll see you up at the hospital, '<br>We cried, as we waved him well, <br>The ambulance went with bells and lights<br>Like a demon bound for hell! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grandma wasn't at home, we<br>Had to phone her on the cell, <br>She couldn't come back just then, she said<br>She was having a fainting spell, <br>So we waited until he was settled in<br>Then drove in a convoy down, <br>To the hospital at Ullarook, <br>Just fifty miles from town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nurse at the desk said: ‘No-one here<br>By the name of Alfred Groom, <br>We only have private patients here, <br>We bed them, one to a room, <br>If he hasn't got private cover, then<br>You'll have to look elsewhere, <br>Maybe the ambulance took him off<br>To the hospital at Bulnare.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We phoned the hospital at Bulnare: <br>‘He hasn't been seen round here, <br>There was an ambulance, come to think, <br>But he left with a flea in his ear! <br>We don't take patients from out of town<br>There's few enough beds for us, <br>He's probably over at Gundacoot, <br>They run their own private bus.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We drove ten miles to Gundacoot, <br>An ambulance sat in the drive, <br>We thought, ‘Thank God, he must be here! <br>Let's hope that he's still alive! '<br>We all raced in through the sliding doors<br>And crowded around the Nurse: <br>‘Who? Alfred Groom, in a private room? <br>Not here! ' We left with a curse! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We split up the convoy into two, <br>I drove to the nearest town, <br>A middling place called Jerribee<br>With a hospital, quite run down, <br>‘The government cut our funding, '<br>Said the Nurse in the parking bay, <br>‘We shut down twenty beds last week, <br>Your Dad isn't here today.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My son had travelled the other way<br>To Inkermine on the coast, <br>The hospital there had a hundred beds<br>The locals were wont to boast, <br>‘He's isn't here, but the ambulance<br>Was spotted on leaving town, '<br>My son had sighed on his endless ride<br>When he called on the mobile phone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That night when Grandma got her breath<br>She went to the ambulance place, <br>She battered him with her umbrella<br>Knocking his glasses clean off his face: <br>‘Where did you take him, tell me now<br>Or I'll have to call the police! <br>What? Are your ears painted on! '<br>‘We took him to Bungaleese! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The only place that would take him was<br>The Medical Clinic there, <br>It isn't even a hospital<br>And you sit on a leather chair, <br>When we finally got to Bungaleese<br>Grandpa could barely talk, <br>We said, ‘We'll get you an ambulance! '<br>‘No thanks, ' he growled, ‘I'll walk! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">29 August 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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Called the ambulance, right away, 
They strapped him onto a gurney
So he couldn't sit up, or sway, 
‘We'll see you up at the hospital, '
We cried, as we waved him well, 
The ambulance went with bells and lights
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