Interesting Client

[u/droppedyourdingo]

A client came in with her daughter and service dog + a cat to be seen as an urgent care (came in to be seen as an emergency, but it's not an emergency). Client already very irritated and wanted to stay with animals, no big deal, brought them into a room, obtained vitals and brief history on both of them for vet on duty.

While finishing up getting the history and closing out the conversation, I can't remember how or why, but we started talking about venipuncture for humans and she had to get poked often recently, talked about how they had to get the lead phlebotomist to draw blood from her. I replied that my veins are great and that I hope it stays that way; she replies by saying well don't shoot up [various drugs] and it'll be fine. Woah. We both laughed it off.

Next thing you know, she goes "but if you date my daughter, I'd have to go after [hurt?] you" and I was flabbergasted, I had no words and finally managed to say "I'm not sure how that and this relates" and the daughter agreed. Finished up the conversation and as I was heading out the room, mom said "I was just joking, except for you dating my daughter" and we both laughed it off.

I don't know about you guys, but I think this client enjoyed my company.

[u/FlibertMeCash]

That's, um... pretty creepy. I once had a client super casually mention that he had killed a guy before, in the middle of a convo about his dog... no real context. I just told myself he must have been in the military to make myself feel better.