Racist old duck

[tilly101]

I was in hospital in a shared ward last night. It was in the middle bed, with one middle-aged woman to my right [closest to the door], and an elderly woman in the bed to my left. This was in outpatient care, meaning we had all come in with out various ailments, and has been placed in our beds while we waited to be seen.
The woman to my right was quiet and didnt say anything, I'm not sure what her reason for being there was. The woman to my left, well, she was in hospital because she had tripped on her way to the bathroom in the middle of the night at home and she now had a BRUISED FOOT! And she required IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION!!! I know this because she was YELLING it to the world, and would not shut the fuck up.

SC - The old duck
HL - Hospital lady [the general nurse who attended to us while we waited for the actual Dr to see us


SC - 'Hello? HELLO?! NURSE! I need some attention over here! I've been waiting for HOURS! [NOTE - no, she got there after I did. She had been waiting about 15 MINUTES] I'm INJURED and I need IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION!'

*The nurse walks in, no doubt on account on her insane yelling*

HL - 'Hi ma'am. Okay, I can see here it says that you had a bit of a fall at home tonight and have got some bruising on the side of one of your feet, is that right?'

SC, still talking far too loudly - 'Yes! That's right! I had just gotten up out of bed and I took myself out to the kitchen for a small glass of water, and on the way back to bed I realized that I needed to take a piss! So I walked on down the hallway to the bathroom, I went in and did my business, and when I got back into my bedroom I tripped over and hit my foot on the base of the bed! Is the Dr going to see me now?!'

HL - 'Well ma'am as you can see it's a fairly busy night here tonight, so the Dr will be in to have a look at your foot as soon as he's available. He's got a few people who have come in with some quite bad injuries, there were two people brought in following a motor vehicle accident, so I do apologize but it might be some time. Would you like some water and reading material in the meantime?'

SC - 'I'm DYYYYYYYING here! I need to see the Dr NOOOOOOW!'

HL - 'Again I apologize, our Drs need to attend to those with serious or life threatening injuries first, I assure you though that you will be seen as soon as a Dr becomes available. I can from the notes here that a triage nurse has said it appears that your foot mostly suffered some light surface bruising, but that there doesnt appear to be any evidence of a tear or break. Of course, the Dr will verify that for you, but I can see that the nurse applied some ice which appears to have helped, would you like me to bring in some more ice for your foot to relieve some of the discomfort at all?'

SC - 'No! I don't want any more ice! I need to see the Dr! I've injured myself and I need immediate medical attention! My foot might need to be amputated! You just dont want to help because you're a fresh out the boat slant-eyes!'

Me -

HL - 'Ma'am, please refrain from using racial slurs. I'll leave you be for now, and the Dr will be in to have a look at your foot as soon as he is available'

SC - 'No! I demand to see the Dr NOW! Go get me someone who knows what they're doing, someone whose white! You slant-eyes have no idea how to treat people, all you do is come out here on those boats and steal our jobs! Go get me a real nurse!'

HL - 'Ma'am, again, please refrain from using racial slurs, and please keep your voice down'

SC - 'No! No! I won't be told what to do by some slant-eye! I' might lose my foot! Get me a real Dr!'

HL - 'The Dr will be in to see once he is available'

And with that, the nurse walked out.
The old duck spent the next 10-odd minutes sitting there yelling about how she was clearly dying, how the 'boat-people' were all coming over and stealing our jobs and our way of life. she was that loud that I could still .ear her yelling when I was being taken down the hallway.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Bluh bluh HUGE BITCH

It always makes me sad when I find out that ignorant racist throwbacks like that "woman" exist outside my own country.

Sorry you had to put up with that, tilly.

[Ophbalance]

Wow. I realize this is far over-generalizing, but what is with the some of the older generation and being like that? I've known some older Polish and Lithuanians that were very much the same in their views of people of color. Well, to be fair, they felt that MORE about people of color. Everyone not of their ethnic background was also looked down upon, just not as badly . It's interesting what you find in old mining/logging towns in PA in the elderly generations.

[tilly101]

Ah, I'm all good. I just felt bad for the nurse who you could just tell was trying as hard as she could to remain professional. Props to her, she did well to maintain her composure.

And I do get as well that being in hospitals can make alot of people upset/nervous/angry/rude/a lil bit crazy etc
BUT
Some people are already most of those things on a day to day basis. You can usually tell them apart. And its those ones who just grate my goat, grrr

[dalesys]

The blood pressure cuff goes around the neck, right?

[emax4]

Did anyone else laugh when the woman was quoted as saying, "I realized that I needed to take a piss!"?

[smileyeagle1021]

Is it wrong that I hope that the doctor who was available to see her had similar "slanty eyes"

[Sandiercy]

All you could think of to call her is a Duck??? I can think of many many names I would call her but none of them are appropriate for this site. What a total EW bitch.

[fireheart]

Wow. I realize this is far over-generalizing, but what is with the some of the older generation and being like that? I've known some older Polish and Lithuanians that were very much the same in their views of people of color. Well, to be fair, they felt that MORE about people of color. Everyone not of their ethnic background was also looked down upon, just not as badly . It's interesting what you find in old mining/logging towns in PA in the elderly generations.

Not so sure about tilly's state, but in terms of ethnicity, SA had a huge influx of Greek and Italian migrants in the 50's (from memory). People weren't exactly pleased.

50 years later and it's become about the boat-people. (which generally seems to encompass everything from Sri Lanka to Saudi Arabian) I have yet to hear about someone who was fired and their job was given to a "Boat person."

Certain people also tend to equate anything non-Caucasian as a "boat person" regardless of whether the person migrated legally or not.

Is it wrong that I hope that the doctor who was available to see her had similar "slanty eyes"

That wouldn't surprise me.

Actually, for some reason, I was reminded of Gran Torino where Clint Eastwood's character is a stubborn old coot who initially hates the Hmong family that moved nearby. There's a scene later on in the film where he goes to the doctors office and not only is his doctor female, but she's also Muslim (from memory). He doesn't react overtly well to either of them (although he grows to respect and treat the Hmong community like his own family, given his own family seem to be portrayed as greedy SOB's)

Ironically at the end of the film, the Hmong community attend the funeral and the younger boy of the family Clint's character befriends gets the titular car

[dawnfire]

Is it wrong that I hope that the doctor who was available to see her had similar "slanty eyes"

I thought the same thing

[SailorMan]

Grrr. I hate racists.

[Pixilated]

Is it wrong that I hope that the doctor who was available to see her had similar "slanty eyes"

One can only hope ... or was a representative of some other "boat people" culture that the old bitch didn't like either. Reminds me of the scene in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel where Maggie Smith's character is outraged because the hospital doctor who's seen her is black. She demands "a real English doctor!" The next voice she hears is pure upper-class British ... but when she looks up, she's looking into the face of someone whose ancestors were clearly from several thousand miles further east.

[manybellsdown]

Is it wrong that I hope that the doctor who was available to see her had similar "slanty eyes"

I don't know how it is in Australia, but every single one of my doctors when I lived in California was Asian or Indian. I think at one point the GP's office had a Hong, a Hung, and a Chung which made making an appointment a bit confusing if you didn't enunciate. And then there was the kids' dentist Sangsurasak.

[sms001]

50 years later and it's become about the boat-people.

One race oriented epiphany I had in my younger days was (as a construction worker in Florida), overhearing two of the laborers going on and on about the 'damn Puerto Ricans'
One Black, the other (his obviously good friend), Mexican. Humans are just plain bug-nuts.

[smileyeagle1021]

I think at one point the GP's office had a Hong, a Hung, and a Chung.

Completely off topic, and probably mostly inappropriate... but how awesome of a porn name would Hong Hung Chung be