Darkesteyes He was hauled out of the water, no doubt creating more damage, and the reps told us we'd better have a whip-round because otherwise the ambulance wouldn't take him - this was Spain 1983. I don't know what the deal was. Maybe there was no reciprocal agreement about health care or maybe they were just ripping us off while someone was seriously injured.
So we did. Paramedics arrived and collected the money. He was transferred to a small boat, no doubt making his injuries worse, and taken a short journey to a beach, carried up that by stretcher to an ambulance and then to hospital.
The reps fucked off leaving a bunch of late teens and early 20-somethings on the boat with no way to get back home.
We were young adults and no doubt some people on this thread and in the wider commentary about the blow-job girl would say we should have taken responsibility for ourselves. And why not? After all, my own parents left school at 14, blah, blah, blah.
I agree. We did. His friends told me that he had a broken neck. I don't know what that meant for him because I was going home in less than a week and no one asked me any questions.
These companies want to take responsibility for people while they're milking them of cash but then they want to vanish when it gets bad.
If I had told my parents about it they'd have been horrified, btw. I didn't. In part because I felt silly and also because I felt it was normal 
I guess that's what the blow job girl thinks.