People's Weirdest Hospital Waiting Room Experiences

Feline Friend

"A cat walked in once."

"Shamelessly caught everyone's attention."

"Maybe due to how long we were kept waiting, but a few of us jumped at the chance to grab the cats' attention."

~ Reddit

"I’m excited to see a cat every time I see a cat."

"I own three cats. Or they own me, whatever."

~ Accomplished-Fee3846

"I’ve worked in the vet field 3 years, have my own cat and I’m always excited to see a cat. I love cats!"

~ kxiyaz

YTA, Dude

"Watched a guy fake passing out so he didn’t have to wait, since there were a lot of people waiting."

"A**hole winked at me as he was wheeled back on a gurney."

~ Tangboy50000

Don't Do This

"I once saw a guy cut himself with a piece of broken glass just to be seen sooner by the nurses during triage."

~ Shamanofthealike1

Going Up

"I had taken the elevator down from an appointment at one of the hospital's smaller buildings, my young children in tow."

"When the elevator reached the bottom floor, I realized immediately that there was a very purple elderly man lying between us and the exit, surrounded by medical professionals performing CPR on him."

"I closed the elevator door and rode back up before the kids noticed anything and we hung out in the waiting room until the ambulance had pulled away. Got my first CPR certification a few weeks later."

~ merganzer

Look Away

"I was in the emergency waiting room with my Mom."

"I was the one with an emergency and was drowsy the whole time, but I remember that at some point a man was wheeled into the room while making throat noises (think The Grudge) and my Mom took my face in her hands and told me, very calmy and without an inch of panic in her voice, to look through the window and tell her what that weird tree was because she'd never seen one like that (she definitely had)."

"I had no idea what was going on so I kept staring at that tree, and then it was my turn so we left the waiting room."

"Days later she told me that the man who was wheeled into the room had one of his legs hanging on for dear life and that there was blood everywhere on his pants, but also on his clothes."

"He was drunk so he probably had a fight. I hope he's okay now."

"My Mom is the best. She was worried and didn't want me to see this. So she took in the sight but protected me from it. Sometimes, I think we don't deserve Moms."

~ Magomaeva

HIPAA!

"My doctor hired her son to be a receptionist."

"He announced a woman’s STD tests in the lobby."

"He didn’t work there long."

~ gothiclg

Brains...

"I was sitting in the ER waiting room and this young couple comes in. The man pushing his girlfriend in a wheelchair."

"She’s barely conscious, slumped over and pale."

"As the boyfriend is checking her in, she wakes ups and Exorcist-style projectile vomits onto the floor. Nurses rush her back."

"The boyfriend then sits down and not a minute passes before out of nowhere he does the same!"

"Everyone waiting slapped masks on real quick once that happened."

~ Silent_Push_1413

"This is how zombie apocalypses always start."

~ Maxwyfe

An All Beet Diet?

"I went to the ER with a kidney stone and there was an old couple sitting across from me probably in their 60’s or 70’s."

"The lady was bickering to the man complaining about how long they’ve been there. The only thing is that this woman was completely purple."

"Like all of her face and head was this dark purple. She didn’t appear to be in any pain but my f*ck was she ever purple."

~ PewpyDewpdyPantz

The Circle of Life

"Like 20 years ago waiting in the ER I see a guy dressed up as a full monkey being wheeled on a stretcher past a large doorway and then 3 other monkeys following him."

"They were performers from the live Lion King show at Disney Animal Kingdom."

~ FLcitizen

Holiday Cheers 🍻

"I work as a nurse in the emergency, I’ve seen some crazy things."

"Once while security was busy doing two separate take downs, an old guy dressed up like Santa unzipped his backpack and started handing out beers to everyone in the waiting room."

~ Best_Lead_632

"So what you’re telling me is Santa’s real???"

~ aggressively_baked

DIY

"Once upon a time I was waiting on news of a friend who'd been in an accident."

"I saw a guy (about early twenties) come in with him mom because he'd fallen off of his roof and dislocated his shoulder. After about an hour of waiting his mom just says 'F*ck it! This is taking too long!' and legit began to Google how to reset a shoulder."

"After about 5 mins of research, she took off her belt, folded it up and told him to bite down on it. She then proceeded to violently shove her son's shoulder back into the socket while he naturally screamed in agony."

"Security and nurses rush over to see what the commotion is and more or less need to pull her off of him. Security sits her down and the nurses take the poor kid and get him treated."

~ August-Dawn

Our Robot Overlords

"I watched a robot filing cabinet press the elevator button and guide itself to a different area of the hospital."

~ jessieisokay

"We have these at my hospital. They even dress them up. Handy little robots help us transport non-emergent meds, lab samples, and equipment."

~ mrsfisk

"I wish our robots could do that."

"Instead, we have 4 delivery robots that all need a person to follow them and put them on and take them off of the elevators."

"Or we could just, y'know, hand the meds to the person and not take 38 minutes to get it there."

~ aurelius92a

True (Toxic) Love

"Girl trying to get admitted to the mental health unit, turns out her boyfriend was a patient. She didn't get admitted, she wasn't happy about it but she left."

"Next thing we know there's a car doing donuts just outside of the ER entrance, she was throwing things out the window and screaming 'Am I crazy enough now?'."

"She ends up driving around to the other side of the hospital and driving right through some sliding glass doors."

"She's lucky she didn't kill someone—another 10 feet and she would have crashed over a railing and into the cafeteria below, where staff was napping on a couch."

"Definitely got carted away, but not to where she wanted to go."

"Thing is her boyfriend wasn't even in that hospital; there's a small mental health inpatient unit, but her boyfriend was in a completely separate mental health facility about 15 km away."

"This was right in the heart of the pandemic, when building materials were really hard to come by, and so the entrance that she drove through ended up being closed for about 6 months."

~ beachmonkeysmom

People going to the hospital are in crisis most of the time.

It's to be expected that the unexpected is bound to happen.