To the trashy guy wearing an entire bottle of aftershave, watching the filth on the waiting room television, you are disgusting. You’re in a waiting room at a children’s hospital! You walked in, and changed the channel to lesbian strippers while children were waiting with their parents, and refused to change the channel back when asked. You were clearly getting aroused right there! So when I got up and physically changed it, you storm out. The scary part is, I don’t even think you were a patient because I spotted you at a few other areas of the hospital and you seemed to just be hanging out alone. You are a sick person, but I’d say you were in the wrong hospital completely. —Grossed-Out Preemie Mom
This article appears in Sep 13-19, 2012.
OP Jesus, why didn’t you go to security?
Totally agree with Boru.
Also, it sounds to me like the hospital needs to start controlling the tv remote. Either that or lock-out all but a few news and kids programming channels.
That’s just messed up.
Are you sure it wasn’t the “Elmo Has 2 Mommies – And They Have Real Interesting Jobs” segment from Sesame St.?
Okay – that’s my obligatory smartass comment. Like Boru said, you should have called security. He was probably a bus driver using his break time to steal ether.
Thats FN scary to think that security seems to allow anyone to walk around the hospital.
You saw him in other parts of the hospital watching unappropriate shit on tv but,you didn’t go to security!
IWK Why aren’t certain channels blocked?
CBC doesn’t show same sex porn during the middle of the day.
there are some scary fucking people lurking around safe places, like hospitals. i worked the abbie lane mental unit a long time ago, cleaning. there was this woman, who used to be a regular fixture there, everyday. she would come in, sit down, say or do nothing for hours.
i finally asked the staff what her story was, they had no idea. so they went to her, asked what she was doing there, she told them that she was homeless, and had nowhere else to go.
they finally found out, that she had even been staying and sleeping there, in an unused storeroom on the second floor. she had been doing this for almost 2 fucking years. how the hell do you get away with shit like that for so long?
anyway, they got her out, and called cops. she never came back, as far as i know. don’t know if she was helped or put in the n.s, in dartmouth. she was only about 25 at the time. but shit like that goes on all the time, everywhere. but i do agree o.p., there are strange fucking people in our hospitals, that should never be there in the first place, and some actually work there as doctors(shudder).
Sick perverts seem to be everywhere, don’t they? Grocery stores, children’s hospitals, in every nook and cranny! Did he look around 19 by chance? Parasites!
“Sick perverts seem to be everywhere, don’t they?”
…..LTWWB? heh heh
Might be something to talk to the police about, could be a child predator. I would agree that security should have been notified but it’s past that now. Give a description to the police and maybe they’ll notify the hospital and they can be on the lookout.
that’s a little skeezy…
it’s usually Nickelodeon playing when I visit.
Do they have showtime in the hospital waiting rooms?
That’s unexpected.
in my experience, hospitals are not secure places. i know people that have had prescriptions stolen and personal belongings
The security at the IWK is a fucking joke. Keep your guard up at all times in there.
zZz when you visit.
I know your young and good looking but that young?
The only security guards I ever see are the ones out on the sidewalk smoking all day. I haven’t seen the creep anywhere lately. And being the mother of a 24 weeker, I’m there a lot, so hopefully he’s gone for good!
Also, to clear it up, it wasn’t porn, it was Jerry Springer. But still, not something to be watching in the waiting room for the NICU.
Wow, funny story kinda.. I was in the waiting room in the Dartmouth General as a kid, needing stitches. Some woman changed the channel to something not so appropriate for kids, I don’t really remember what but my dad asked her to change it to something else and she just sucked her teeth and ignored us. Then she made a big stink when my mom changed it. Wtf is with people? Maybe that guy in the IWK is her son, following in ma’s footsteps.
My friend said her experience in the NICU waiting room was interesting as well… I believe she might have said it was “like Jerry Springer”. Irony!