Take your angry pants elsewhere.

[Amina516]

There is a fancy, private college in my city. We often get students from there who feel they are very entitled. It comes with the territory I guess. There is also another hospital in the city. We are CITY General. Other hospital is CITY Regional. It is worth noting that CITY Regional is practically on that college campus, a mere 2ish blocks away from fancy pants college.

An anxious looking college guy comes up to the front desk.

Guy: Im here to see *name*.
Registration Guy: Sure, let me look up his name.

Registration checks our ER population. Name not there. Checks the hospital population. Name not there either.

RG: Sir, im sorry to tell you. Theres no one here by that name anywhere in the hospital.
Guy: So, youre not going to let me see him?! *said snottily, of course!!*
RG: I cant let you see him. He's literally not here. He's not registered as being here. He is not on hospital property at all right now.
Guy: *glares and slowly backs away from desk. As in, walked backwards until he hit a chair and then swung around and sat down*

Guy whips out phone and calls someone.

Guy: Yeah, im here...... They wont let me see him. This is bullshit! Why did they bring him to CITY Regional?!..( <<<see what he did there!)....... Yeah. im going to try again. Did you call X? Yeah, I heard that too. Ok. Yeah. Bye.

RG and I hear this part of the conversation and start to snigger. Hes at the wrong hospital. Had he been nicer about it, i would have walked over and told him that while he was on the phone. But he was an asshat, so we said nothing until he walked up again.

Guy: *visibly annoyed* Look, there's a college kid back there. He's not giving you the right name. Hes probably speaking in fake italian. He's been drinking Can I just go visit him?
RG: Look, the last person to come in by ambulance was over 80 years old. Your friend is not here.
Guy: *angry* Hes been here for over an hour, this is bullshit! *starts to rant*
RG. There's no one here that is male or college aged. (which was true)
Guy: *cuts RG off and says something crazy that I dont remember. Maybe about him being rich.?*

RG and I look at each other and can barely contain ourselves.

RG: Can I ask you....what hospital do you think we're in?
GUY: CITY REGIONAL!
RG: *fake, cheery disposition* Theres your problem! We're in CITY General. You know that hospital that's like 2 blocks from your college? Its actually almost right on your campus. Yeah, I'm betting your friend is there!! *all smiles* Check with them!
Guy:*looks crest fallen and leaves, no apologies, head bowed down*

I look at RG and lose it.

We see Guy walk off into the sunset (....quite literally b/c it was like 6am).

Made my morning.

[Sundassa]

I suppose someone had to tell him sometime... At some point he was going to end up on the phone with someone who was visiting the kid, and they would say something like 'well, let me go to the lobby and get you, we can explain from there.' and when his friend came to the lobby, he woulda been like 'Where on earth are you, dude?' and that's when it would have come out. He still wouldn't have apologized, but least his friends would have ample room to tease him, probably for least the rest of the year.

[jennywren]

We see Guy walk off into the sunset (....quite literally b/c it was like 6am).

What part of the world are you in where the sun sets at 6 in the morning?

[NateTheChops]

RG: I cant let you see him.

But I'll make a deal with you. If you swear that you can see him you can talk to the doctor on call in psychiatric and he'll set you up with a bed and some nice soothing drugs.

[Sapphire Silk]

Beautifully handled.

At my local hospital, we have an "Opt Out" program. If a patient "Opts Out" then the hospital will not acknowledge they are admitted to the hospital unless they are on an approved list. If you call, you are told there is no one with that name. If you show up at the front desk, you are told there is no one with that name. If you show up on the floor and are found looking for so and so, security is called and you are redirected back to the front desk.

We take it very, very seriously.

[taxguykarl]

If you swear that you can see him you can talk to the doctor on call in psychiatric and he'll set you up with a bed and some nice soothing drugs.

Either that or ophthalmology, so you can read the big sign outside.

[Amina516]

Beautifully handled.

At my local hospital, we have an "Opt Out" program. If a patient "Opts Out" then the hospital will not acknowledge they are admitted to the hospital unless they are on an approved list. If you call, you are told there is no one with that name. If you show up at the front desk, you are told there is no one with that name. If you show up on the floor and are found looking for so and so, security is called and you are redirected back to the front desk.

We take it very, very seriously.

Us also. We call them "A" patients. Man, that's pissed off more than one person when we tell them someone isn't here.

[Halo_miles]

The only people that know to see me in a hospital are my family, and my husband. If friends try to come in, they send them elsewhere.

[Food Lady]

I am still snickering at the title of the thread. Actually, it's more like snorting.