RANT: Some people!

[Deleted User]

Sorry if this sounds like a pointless rant, but I want to get it off my chest.

Yesterday afternoon a close very elderly relative was taken into hospital, very seriously ill, so my OH and I had to go and accompany her to make sure she was ok, as my GF is the next of kin.

It was all a very traumatic experience (for everyone) and quite touch and go, but eventually she was stablised and transferred to a suitable ward where she is now under supervision.

What I'm ranting about is the chavvy and - quite frankly - low behaviour of others visitors.

The ward my GF's relative was in had a fridge which contained snacks and food for patients. The fridge clearly states 'this food is for patients only' and there was a big yellow sign above the fridge saying 'Food in this fridge is for patients only - please ask a nurse before taking anything from this fridge'.

The person in the bed next to us had their family visit. But presumably they can't read, or else they wouldn't have repeatedly helped themselves to food in the fridge for their dinner. Not just once, twice...but four times they completely raided the fridge like vultures. Not for their patient, but for THEMSELVES!

Eight sandwiches (for two people), two cartons of orange juice, three packets of prawn cocktail crisps, two yoghurts and a carton of apple juice. None of this went to the patient, but they took it upon themselves to treat the hospital resources as their own canteen.

Not only that, but they then had the cheek to approach a nurse and complain about one of the spoons being dirty (that they had pinched from a cupboard clearly marked 'nurses only').

I know this sounds pathetic, but it was such a rude thing to do. The food was for patients only - it's not for visitors. My GF and I managed to pay for our own food from the canteen, but these really chavvy visitors felt compelled to eat their way through the patient's fridge without even asking. It wasn't even as if they had a sandwich each - they literally raided the fridge four times and wolfed down four sandwiches each like gannets. Pay for your own bloody food you spongers!

Anyway, rant over. Feeling really deflated and my faith in other people has been let down a bit.

Minxy_Bella

So basically they stole food items from the patients?

Why did nobody stop them?

maninthestreet

Presumably this was a private hospital ???

missile

I am more concerned about those who bring germs into hospital. Those who come in coughing and ignore the hand cleansing stations.

hollydays

You are surprised hospital visitors behave badly?Even Chavs have go to hospital,unless we build them seperate hospitals?

merdoom

maninthestreet wrote: »

Presumably this was a private hospital ???

The Nhs to tend to feed their patients too you know!
Where i work the kitchen area would have been off limits to visitors, but someone really should have said something, i'd have set a sister on them!

[Deleted User]

The nurses didn't care - it was quite obvious what was happening. I would have said something, but they didn't look like the sort of people who would take kindly to being grassed up...

This was NHS...so even worse to know that resources were being nabbed by those not entitled to them.

I know it's a really small thing, but it really make my blood boil. I can't stand people who think that rules are for everyone else but not them.

DKLS

I despair at what I saw when I went for a meeting at a large hospital in Manchester last week, at the main entrance was a rough looking young woman in her jammies, with a portable drip connected to her arm and waving a £20 note around.

She was trying to persuade taxi drivers to go and buy her booze at 9.30 am! all the taxi drivers refused, resulting in an almighty chavvy strop with lots of effing and jeffing.

She shut up when a passing cop told her to wind her neck in and go back to bed.

voiceofreason

You know - I always think that using the word "chav" to describe others reflects terribly on oneself.

What a nasty, squalid, offensive word it is. You wouldn't describe a poor black person using the "N"-word, so why would any reasonable, intelligent person use its equivalent to describe poor white people?

There are plenty of ways to describe others' conduct without resorting to lazy knee-jerking - if you're as much of a better person than them as you say you are, surely you can find and use them?

HannahIOW

I believe 'chav' is a legitimate, recognised term these days. I could be wrong but I'm fairly sure it started off as a term used by the police, and stood for 'council house and voilent'. These days I don't think it's used to describe poor white people, more to describe those people who choose to be lairy and uncouth for no reason at all.

missile

DKLS wrote: »

She was trying to persuade taxi drivers to go and buy her booze at 9.30 am! all the taxi drivers refused, resulting in an almighty chavvy strop with lots of effing and jeffing.

She shut up when a passing cop told her to wind her neck in and go back to bed.

I would have taken her money and put it in the nearest charity box.
Only thing that surprises me is that she did not give the copper a mouthful too:A