About peed my pants on that one Eagler 
Ya, that was a good one.
Speaking of stupid... I had an "incident" with a VA nurse a few years ago over that spanned about a week. She called for a quick pre-op surgery thing. When she asked if I was (can we say Vaxxed here?). I replied, "no.. and don't ask me to get that way", fully expecting to have the surgery cancelled. All was well, and I didn't think anything of it. Then I had to show up in person for the next pre-op appt, and sat in the lobby for right at an hour after the appt time, late in the day too. There was NOBODY else there. So she (turns out, same nurse) finally comes out and says, "Sorry, we forgot about you." That's when I moved from annoyed to irritated. So, we go back and she has all these questions, then tells me they need more x-rays, it's almost 5pm, and I have to rush over to get them done. Mind you, I'm 2hrs from home (my VA is a tiny little Community one (CBOC)), and was meeting my mom for dinner, and was already almost late. I said "No, I have somewhere to be, and you already wasted an hour. Have my home town VA do the x-rays and send them." She goes off. No really. Slammed her clipboard on the desk then turned and,... it wasn't a poke, but it wasn't a pat either, on my chest and said, "Well, you just let us know when it's convenient for you" in a very snarly tone and stormed out of the room. I was flummoxed. My wife was with me, and I thought she was going to punch the squeak, had to stop her from chasing her down the hall. So there I (wife and I) was in this exam room, nobody else around, wondering what the hell? I was too confused to be mad. So we found our way out and left.
Maybe 15-20min later (otw to dinner), I wanted to make sure the x-ray issue was sent to my home VA, so I called and as luck would have it, guess who I got on the phone?
All I did was ask if they(she) was doing the x-ray appt or was I supposed to. Then she launched again, almost yelling (you know the tone)... it's started with "I TOLD YOU...", that's when I hung up. I called the CBOC the next day and got it all arrainged.
About a week and a half later, after the x-rays were done, 4 days or so prior to surgery, I get a call from you-know-who. I had already had a lengthy conversation with the local VSO and the VA Hosp patient advocate regarding this particular nurse and her behavior, AND found out she was the head nurse of that particular section. Anyway, she was suddenly SUPER nice (another one of those "tones" we all know). She asked if I had got the x-rays done. I said, "Yep, I got them done and told them to send them to you people over there." Then she goes, "Well, nobody told me." My reply, "Well, now you know", and hung up. I had told the Patent advocate that under no circumstances, including delaying the surgery, would that dingus be anywhere near me during anesthesia. As far as I could tell, she wasn't. In fact, it was just a couple months later I found out she'd retired... I wonder. lol
Honestly, it was a LONG time before I tied the whole not-vaxxed-conversation thing into this. Even now I'm not entirely certain, there's no way to know. But I'll bet my last dime that was the root of the whole thing.
