You Can’t Pick Your Patients (‘s Noses)

I work on an ambulance. I had a patient call for a nosebleed, which stopped before we showed up.

Me: “Can you tell us what happened?”

Patient: “I picked my nose too much and it started bleeding. I want to go to the emergency room!”

They insisted on going, so we took them. They demanded that we drive with lights and sirens — emergency mode — to the hospital. When I told them we don’t do that for non-life-threatening situations, they threatened to call my supervisor and sue us for not treating them correctly.