What is with rude people?

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GP44

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I went to see my G.P. to try to get something to help relieve the effects of whatever I caught that is going around.
I checked in and sat down and in less than five minutes a young man checks in and sits across from me.
He started talking like I was a long lost friend and with my weak hearing and the waiting room tv very loud it was very difficult to converse besides the fact that I had been in agony for four days.
Finally another young man walks in and sits down and the next thing you know they high five and are having a rip roaring time.
I kid you not another young guy comes along sits down and it sounds like a bachelor party or something.
I was never so happy as when I was directed to spend the next 45 minutes in the solitude of the little private exam room.
Dr. said I had strep again and prescribed the amox/clave horse pills.
I dread ever going to that office again not that I have been overjoyed at the idea of seeing a doctor in the first place.
I hope you don’t take me for a snob but the loud tv was bad enough without the party atmosphere when I wasn’t feeling very well as it was.
What can a person do?
I hope this doesn’t become a trend.
 

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I dont think they were rude.

Someone started talking to you probably trying to be friendly, and didnt get the hint that you didnt want to talk - and then talked to his mates and was too loud and you were sick so this annoyed you.

When I'm sick, I get annoyed by lots of things - but it really isnt anyone else doing anything wrong.

What can a person do?
- maybe ask receptionist to ask them - if yo u are not confident to do so yourself - to turn the volume down a bit.
Other than that - nothing.

I hope you get well soon.
 
My son recently went to the hospital emergency room in the middle of the night with abdominal pain that turned out to be a burst appendix.

When I arrived he was asleep. My daughter in law was snoozing in a chair. I went to the canteen to get a coffee. The cashier saw my visitor pass, said she hoped everything would be OK and wouldn’t let me pay.

At that hour the canteen was nearly empty, just a handful of hospital employees on break and a couple of visitors scattered around the tables. I took a seat at an empty table near the giant wall television. The old ‘Andy Griffith Show’ from the ‘60s was quietly on the tv, low volume.

I was unexpectedly soon joined by another visitor at the table, an old timer with a large iced coffee who immediately and VERY LOUDLY said, “If a show like this was made today it would have to have minorities, you know, Orientals, Spanish and African Americans.” But he used the N word.

Everyone in the canteen heard his comment and turned to look. Not wanting anyone to think I was with this ignorant nitwit I quickly got up and left.
 
MaddHollander said:
My son recently went to the hospital emergency room in the middle of the night with abdominal pain that turned out to be a burst appendix.

When I arrived he was asleep. My daughter in law was snoozing in a chair. I went to the canteen to get a coffee. The cashier saw my visitor pass, said she hoped everything would be OK and wouldn’t let me pay.

At that hour the canteen was nearly empty, just a handful of hospital employees on break and a couple of visitors scattered around the tables. I took a seat at an empty table near the giant wall television. The old ‘Andy Griffith Show’ from the ‘60s was quietly on the tv, low volume.

I was unexpectedly soon joined by another visitor at the table, an old timer with a large iced coffee who immediately and VERY LOUDLY said, “If a show like this was made today it would have to have minorities, you know, Orientals, Spanish and African Americans.” But he used the N word.

Everyone in the canteen heard his comment and turned to look. Not wanting anyone to think I was with this ignorant nitwit I quickly got up and left.
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Good for you. I hope your son is much better soon.
 
GP44 said:
I went to see my G.P. to try to get something to help relieve the effects of whatever I caught that is going around.
I checked in and sat down and in less than five minutes a young man checks in and sits across from me.
He started talking like I was a long lost friend and with my weak hearing and the waiting room tv very loud it was very difficult to converse besides the fact that I had been in agony for four days.
Finally another young man walks in and sits down and the next thing you know they high five and are having a rip roaring time.
I kid you not another young guy comes along sits down and it sounds like a bachelor party or something.
I was never so happy as when I was directed to spend the next 45 minutes in the solitude of the little private exam room.
Dr. said I had strep again and prescribed the amox/clave horse pills.
I dread ever going to that office again not hat I have been overjoyed at the idea of seeing a doctor in the first place.
I hope you don’t take me for a snob but the loud tv was bad enough without the party atmosphere when I wasn’t feeling very well as it was.
What can a person do?
I hope this doesn’t become a trend.
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Sometimes kids plan a crowd gathering online ….. just to cause a commotion someplace, usually stores.

Those three sound like part of a planned plot …pandemonium. … it’s stupid, but yes, a trend.
 
My husband fell and hit his head on the counter.. and had a stroke,.. he was rushed to hospital , and during his stay he was given Morphine for the horrendous headaches he was suffering, but the the nursing staff weren't very diligent about giving him his next dose on time, so his head was so painful he couldn't even bear move his head.

Yet.. in the opposite bed to him up to 6 visitors were allowed in to see the person in that bed a grown adult middle aged man, who seemed to be acting like this was his own home, and the partying was loud and raucus unchecked by the nursing staff, who incidentally at the nurses station which was just 3 beds from my husband were loudly chatting and laughing themselves..even during the night

My husband was actually lying in his bed crying silently with the pain these noises were causing him... ...I asked several times if people could keep it down because he had a head injury.. but no-one did... it seems people are entirely selfish these days .
 
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Pepper said:
You have been through so much with this turd and yet your heart holds forgiveness. I'm impressed, Holly, I wouldn't be so nice.
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there are times when I wish I could even be half as nasty to him as he has been to me.. but I just can't.. he was my husband someone I loved... despite all what he's done to me... I actually feel that God will take his own retribution on him

However I have no such compunction with other people who do me bad...
 
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I was in a nursing home for three weeks after breaking my leg. The lady next to me was a 100 year old woman with eight grown children and endless grandchildren, all partying in the room, all the time, sitting on my bed and chatting at me because she wasn't really up to much conversation. Once, when I was down at the rehab room one of the men answered my phone and told my brother I had gone.
 
Sorry, but at one time if you got on my nerves, the shark came out in me. My wife has in the past had to remind me I am not on duty.

I am much more acceptable to rude people today than I was in the past. They still annoy me, but I will change seats, go to the restroom or do something just to get away from them.

Holly, sometimes you just have to tell people to shut up. Say it loud enough so the nurses hear you and maybe they will help you to bring some calmness to the situation.
 
911 said:
Sorry, but at one time if you got on my nerves, the shark came out in me. My wife has in the past had to remind me I am not on duty.

I am much more acceptable to rude people today than I was in the past. They still annoy me, but I will change seats, go to the restroom or do something just to get away from them.

Holly, sometimes you just have to tell people to shut up. Say it loud enough so the nurses hear you and maybe they will help you to bring some calmness to the situation.
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That approach may work in the UK but here in the US, it could get you shot, even in a hospital. :confused:
 
GP44 said:
I went to see my G.P. to try to get something to help relieve the effects of whatever I caught that is going around.
I checked in and sat down and in less than five minutes a young man checks in and sits across from me.
He started talking like I was a long lost friend and with my weak hearing and the waiting room tv very loud it was very difficult to converse besides the fact that I had been in agony for four days.
Finally another young man walks in and sits down and the next thing you know they high five and are having a rip roaring time.
I kid you not another young guy comes along sits down and it sounds like a bachelor party or something.
I was never so happy as when I was directed to spend the next 45 minutes in the solitude of the little private exam room.
Dr. said I had strep again and prescribed the amox/clave horse pills.
I dread ever going to that office again not hat I have been overjoyed at the idea of seeing a doctor in the first place.
I hope you don’t take me for a snob but the loud tv was bad enough without the party atmosphere when I wasn’t feeling very well as it was.
What can a person do?
I hope this doesn’t become a trend.
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You were not feeling well and cannot hear well. Someone tried to talk to you. Then he gave up and talked to someone else.
 
Someone posted previously, I change a seat or go to the restroom if there is loud TV and a person is speaking loudly.
For the past 40 years plus years, I ONCE encountered a gentleman in his '60s with walker spoke to a person next to him very loudly when I got out of the Dr's office that is only one incident to recall having been in Drs' office visits, GP, Neurologist. Ortho and other medical procedures done.
 
Nathan said:
Wow, that is unusual, most people under 50 act like you don't exist.
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In this case I had wished that they were that type. I suppose they were talking loud to be heard above the tv but like I said a minute after the second one arrived they were laughing and even high fived each other so that kind of shows the attitude these other “patients” had.
By the way loud guy number one said his middle toe was swollen and had turned blue. Not gout but something about an ingrown toenail.
 
Nathan said:
Wow, that is unusual, most people under 50 act like you don't exist.
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You can screw with young people and scare them . I enjoy it and often do it .

I was at the middle '' stall '' in a bathroom at gym awhile ago with 2 young guys next to me and since they were both built and had nothing to be afraid of I said out loud " I am not sure if going to wash my hands after this , I have to do some serious thinking about this dilemma because part of me simply wants to get going but the other part thinks I should practice hygiene "

Both guys ran out of there .
 

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