Bad Timing: 35 Moments When People Made Unreasonable Demands

Hospital nurses enter the conversation.

Of course I will get your mom a glass of ice water as I am running down the hallway with a code cart.

My husband gave CPR to a man that had a seizure on the commuter train in the morning rush our. The man lay with half of his body outside and half inside of the train. Two women came over and asked my husbsnd to drag the man out of the train so that the train could continue on its journey.
Needless to say, he didn't listen to this nonsense.

Happens to nurses with some frequency. Doing CPR? “HEY!! My mom needs ice!” from the doorway.

My partner was in an ambulance outside a restaurant having a panic attack. I was standing outside waiting to see if I'd have to follow in my car. A woman approached me and asked if we would be much longer because she had somewhere to be, and the ambulance was blocking her in. I shrugged at her, and then she stepped INTO THE AMBULANCE to ask the EMTs if they could move!! 😵‍💫

I was working in a restaurant and a man in a table near the front door had a heart attack. As we’re all doing our best to clear out tables and make way for the EMTs, a table maybe 6 feet away leans over and asks me “do you know how much longer our soup is going to take?”

My colleague received a complaint letter and a subsequent formal warning for our airline for failing to give a pax a [darn] Mary.

She'd ordered it during the bar service in Economy just as the pax in front of her passed away. My colleague and I began CPR in the aisle beside her. After the medical emergency was over and we'd dealt with the body, there was still 10 hours of flight time left...

She didn't open her mouth or ring her call bell to remind us that she hadn't got her drink during the emergency.

During my intern year we were in a code, trying to resuscitate a patient, a Karen from the room next door walked into the room to complain that we are too loud and she cannot get her rest.

I was on my home from the hairdresser one afternoon, when I realized there was a man lying on the pavement in the shopping arcade, surrounded by people watching.

While a beauty therapist and I knelt on the pavement giving CPR, with the man's weeping family watching, a woman with a pushchair said "can I just squeeze through?"

"Go the other way" was my response, very politely, out of respect to the man and his family. Why are people so self-centered? And why do they think it's a free show to watch?

I work in public transportation, for a train system… TW: jumpers

There will literally be a, and passengers will ask, “when is the next train coming?”

The general public is beyond selfish and cold hearted.

As an ED nurse many years ago, we were working a full code with all the attendant activity, people, equipment, etc., when I was stopped as I left the room to get something needed by a patient in the next room who reminded me that she had gotten here first.

Delivering narcan to a person on the sidewalk, while people drive by, yelling things like, "Just let them pass already." An elderly woman, walking by asked if we know when the next bus is...

Not medical but had a sprinkler head fail in my store, there's water everywhere and it's gushing out like Niagara.
More than one person asked if they could come in to shop and just wait until the registers opened back up. The registers were in a foot of water!

Waitress here. Older women passed out near the bathroom hit her head hard when she fell. It took me a few minutes to figure out which table she’d been at. I finally found her husband informed him and said an ambulance was coming. YOU CALLED AN AMBULANCE!! She does this all the time and doesn’t need an ambulance. He absolutely did not give a darn.

I was once performing CPR on a client at a homeless shelter where I worked. I got a punch to the back of the head from another client because I didn't stop CPR to get him socks.

My dad required CPR on a plane and the flight was diverted to the nearest large airport. I wonder how many passengers were [angry] that they were delayed because of my dad.