No Soup For You! Part 6
Bizarre, Canada, Hospital | Healthy | June 10, 2022
I work as a door screener in my small town’s hospital. The hospital is small, too, and doesn’t even have vending machines, let alone a public cafeteria. From the entrance, you either take a right to enter the Emergency Department or take a left to reach the outpatient laboratory for blood tests.
One day, a man comes in needing to fill out some paperwork. He is dressed in business casual clothing and has a stylish messenger bag. I direct him to the doctor’s offices and see him as he exits a few minutes later.
After he turns the corner out of sight, he turns around and jogs back to the front door. He fishes around in his bag for something and then produces…
A plastic container full of soup.
Man: “Is there a microwave I can use to heat this up?”
After a moment’s stunned silence, I stammer out that we don’t have any easily accessible and he nods, puts his soup away, and heads off again.
I still wonder what sort of person would think that a hospital would heat up some random person’s soup for them, in a global health crisis, no less!
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