Tick Tock Everybody

So there I was sleep deprived and cursing myself for the defect in my nature that compelled me to go to Atlantic City and when I knew I had a long demanding shift ahead of me when one of my servers comes running into the office where I was trying to lay low for a couple of minutes.

"Call the ambulance a guy's collapsed!"

Having no idea what was going on I called 911 and relayed everything I knew. The cops were there in 5 minutes and the ambulance followed shortly thereafter.

I found out later that his name was Paul. Today was Paul's 38th birthday. He, his wife, and their 4 young children were on their way from Connecticut to West Virginia to meet their family for vacation. They stopped in the restaurant to get a bite and rest from the road. It being a busy Friday night we were on a wait and while he was putting his name on the waiting list his wife went to the bathroom leaving the 4 young children with Paul. As he was talking to our host he said, "I feel like I'm going to faint." Down he went. The wife came back to find her husband down in our foyer and a crowd gathering and her children in a panic. She spent the next few minutes clutching her children and her husband praying. They performed CPR and defibrillated him. Eventually they took him into the ambulance where they continued to try and resuscitate him. They declared him dead at the hospital but they think he was dead before he hit the ground.