The most hilariously miserable person on earth just drew my blood. I didn't get her name, and that's fine, because in the 0.000000% chance she's was just in a "funky mood", I'd feel terrible about calling her out. Anyhoo, let's summarize.
Lady: do you have an appointment?
Me: Yes
Lady: no you don't
Me: yes, I do (shows her confirmation email on my phone)
Lady: follow me
*I sit down*
Lady, staring at monitor: you didn't check in
Me: yes I did
Lady: you did it wrong
Me: ok
Lady: you didn't finish the check in process
Me: ok
Lady: who's your doctor
Me: *i tell her*
Lady: I don't see her name *shrugs and stands up*
Me: oh yeah, the spelling is kind of- *I point to screen because at this point I see my doctor's name*
Lady: *jumps back in chair and shoos my hand away, raises voice* ma'am! I see it. Sit down.
Me: *was sitting down all along*
Lady: *dramatically sighs and shakes head*
Me: cool
Lady: you owe $500 right now
Me: what? That can't be right
Lady: you do
Me: can you check again?
Lady: *rolls eyes, but checks again*
Lady: ok you owe 50 dollars right now
Me: *hands her my CC* "Let's hope it goes through!
Lady: (nothing)
Me: (nothing)
Lady: *looks closely at my right arm*
Me: oh, they usually they do my left arm because the-
Lady: *literally unveils a syringe out of thin air and has needle in right arm in nanoseconds*
Me: ok
Lady: *wiggles needle around* your vein is weird
Me: yeah, no one ever-
Lady: *still wiggling needle* does this hurt?
Me: no
Lady: *continues wiggling, pulls out needle and grumbles something*
Me: is that it?
Lady: thank you
Me: ok, are we done?
Lady: *silent*
Me: *tiptoes away to lobby*
Grumpiest Lady in America: I'd you see this, hello! If that was your actual personality, you should probably quit and work at Time Warner Cable. Byeeee!!
Update: as I was sitting in the lobby, Lady came out to check another patient in, and was equally as rude to her. The patient was like 88 years old and super friendly and sharp, but Lady went off on her, told her to use the QR code thing, patient was confused, and then Lady said patient needed to "fast first, anyway". Patient looked defeated and started to walk out and then I stood up like a psycho and walked up to patient and said very loudly "if the doctor told you that u don't have to fast, then you don't have to." Patient looked at Lady to check if true. Lady glared at me but then said "yes if he said that, she is right" and patient smiled politely and sat down to wait. As I walked out, I hollered to Lady (and entire waiting room ) "FYI you're the grumpiest person in America." She stopped talking to other patient and looked over her shoulder, and barked at me: "what?!" And I said "life is short, unless something bad just happened, you don't need to be so grumpy, it's a real doozy" and then I quickly left because it was quite awkward. I wish I had something cooler but it's ok. The end. read more