She’s Just Testing You

I worked in testing back during the global health crisis. I joined pretty late, so it was relatively chill.

Normally, we got patient information through an app (the tests themselves were paid for by the German government), and patients could “book” a slot any time, even a minute before they were up. It was normal that some older people didn’t have phones, so we took their information manually and printed their tests for them.

One day, an old lady (late sixties or early seventies, I reckon) with a motorcycle came into the queue, which was pretty much empty at the time. I took her information and we did her tests. She was nice enough, but I noticed her kinda punk fashion style. (We have a phrase in German, “Jung geblieben”, i.e. “Stayed young”, which is meant as a light insult, and it would fit here.)

Me: “It’s going to be fifteen minutes for us to evaluate and print your results.”

Lady: “Oh, no problem. I’ll just smoke my medical marijuana over here!”

And she moved five meters over into the middle of the (empty) queue.

We politely asked her to please not stand in the middle of the queue area while smoking weed, and she was polite and moved a couple of meters outside the tent to her bike.

What a crazy lady. Hope she’s doing good.