The Blondie Incident

At work, I was sitting at a desk reading a chart. I was vaguely aware of a patient's husband having a discussion with a nurse, but wasn't paying attention.

The patient's husband suddenly yelled,"It's not funny blondie."

I'm the only blonde. He was talking to me. Astonished, I looked up at his enraged face and said, "What?"

"You heard me blondie."

I stood up, completely clueless what he was talking about. I followed him as he went back in his wife's room. He turned around and hissed, "I know you girls are all out there laughing at us."

I honestly had no idea what he was talking about. I told him so in front of his wife. I repeated that I was just reading a chart and he yelled at me.

The wife said that I had never been her nurse and wasn't involved. The husband began an angry rant about the surgeons and how he wanted to get a couple of them fired. I just listened and then left.

Later, he came out of the room and apologised. I told him that it was okay.

We really hadn't been talking or laughing about them prior to this incident. That all changed after the blondie tirade. We spent the rest of the evening laughing at them. His paranoia brought an illusion to life.