1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: My patient put his mistress as his emergency contact, and 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: I accidentally told his wife, okayop, this is Okayop. I'm 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,040 Speaker 1: Samuel Donner and I'm John Fry and we tell the 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: funniest stories of the Internet. And John, who's your emergency contact? 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: Uh, my mama is my emergency contact. 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: My mama is also my emergency contact. When does it 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: like not become your mom? Is there like a that is? 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 2: Honestly, I feel like that's actually like a big life 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 2: stage moment, right like probably getting married. 10 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe when you get married, it's like, go, it's 11 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: from mom to you. 12 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 2: Is there any other scenario where it wouldn't be like 13 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 2: who else could be your emergency contact? What if you 14 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 2: just put someone random? It's just like Joe Joe from 15 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 2: the store. 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: I mean, like for people who maybe don't have like 17 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: family or friends, that's true, what do they do they? 18 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: I feel I feel like that's so sad where it's like, hey, 19 00:00:55,080 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: who's your emergency contact? And they're like you, well, like 20 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: a Valentine's Day just happened, Like will you be my 21 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: emergency contact? Will you be mine? 22 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: Well? 23 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 1: Regardless, luckily John and I have emergency contact. 24 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 2: In our moms thanks, let's go moms. 25 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: Thank you mom. But uh, this is a story of 26 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: emergency contacts gone wrong. 27 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 2: Oh, let's hear it. 28 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: My patient put his mistress as his emergency contact, and 29 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: I accidentally told his wife. 30 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 2: On the list of people that should be your emergency contact, 31 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 2: should be the mistress. 32 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: It should at least be your wife. 33 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: Come on, at least be someone who you're like, not 34 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 2: trying to hide from your entire existence. You know. 35 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: This happened back in two thousand and nine. I was 36 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: working part time at a doctor's office while I was 37 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: in nursing school. I was one of the receptionists and 38 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: did all the filing and cataloging and such. It was 39 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: boring work, but the doctor, my boss, guaranteed me a 40 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: job after nursing school, So that's why I did it. 41 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: Did that job set up? Maybe? 42 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. 43 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: This particular doctor was an orthopedic surgeon. We had lots 44 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: of patients coming in for MRIs, CT scans and X rays. 45 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: This one particular patient, Frank, was scheduled to have surgery 46 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: in a couple days, and he needed to come pick 47 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: up his MRIs and X rays from our office and 48 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: bring them with him to his procedure. Yes, looking back 49 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: at how but backwards things used to be. It's so frustrating. 50 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: All these things are one hundred percent electronic now, and 51 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: even back then they were too. But my boss was 52 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: old school. So anyway, I called Frank to tell him 53 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: to come pick up his images, but he didn't answer. 54 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: I called him again during lunch, but still no answer, 55 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: so I left him a message. The following day, I 56 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: called him again, but still no answer. 57 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 2: Pick up your phone, Frank, Come on, Frank. 58 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: It was imperative that Frank got his images or else 59 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: he wouldn't be able to have his surgery. So I 60 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: looked in his file to see if he had any 61 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: other contact information. He listed his home phone number as 62 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: well as his wife's cell. I called his house, left 63 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: a message, and I also called his wife, Amy, but 64 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: she didn't answer either, so I left her a message 65 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: as well. The office manager, Diane told me just to 66 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 1: call whoever was listed in his emergency contacts, because if 67 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: Frank didn't get his images and missed the surgery, then 68 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: she would have to do a whole new stack of 69 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: paperwork to reschedule him, and she didn't want to be bothered. 70 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 2: Not the paperwork, Not the paperwork. 71 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: I look to see if there was an emergency contact, 72 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: and Frank listed a woman named Helen. The relationship to 73 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: the patient girlfriend wife girlfriend. Huh, get her priorities in order, boy. 74 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: I told Diane I didn't want to call Helen when 75 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: I had already left a message for his wife Amy, 76 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: as that would put me in a very awkward position, 77 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: very sticky. Diane said that as long as the patient 78 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: listed them as an emergency contact, I should call them. 79 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: She also said that it's not uncommon for cup to 80 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: be separated but still legally married for insurance reasons, and 81 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: this could possibly be the case for Frank an Amy. 82 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: Or do you just not want to do paper dying? 83 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like you're just fine for any reason 84 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: not to do your job. So I guess that made sense. 85 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: And I really wanted to believe that no one would 86 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: be stupid enough to put their secret lover has their 87 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: emergency contact. I didn't want to get fired for being insubordinate, 88 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: so I called Helen and she actually answered her phone, 89 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: which is like so funny that the mistress is like 90 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: the go to, like she's the only one what's operating 91 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: legitimately and well in this whole situation. Where Frank needs 92 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: his X rays. I was hoping she wouldn't pick up 93 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: the phone, but she did and told her, and so 94 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: I told her Frank's images needed to be picked up 95 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: prior to his surgery. She came by during lunch, got 96 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: the images, and then left. I immediately called Frank again 97 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 1: to let him know that Helen picked up his images 98 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: and to not worry about it. But this fool wasn't 99 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: answering his phone, so I left him another message. A 100 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: couple hours later, Amy called back and said she wasn't 101 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: able to answer before because she was teaching, but she 102 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: got our message and was coming to pick up Frank's 103 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: images now that the school day was done. 104 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 2: EWO. 105 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: I told her that the images had already been picked up, 106 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: and I tried to be as vague as possible. This 107 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: is how the conversation went, Amy, who picked them up? 108 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: I know Frank is still busy at his office and 109 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: hasn't had a chance to come and get them. Me again, 110 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 1: trying to be really vague, we called someone from his 111 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: emergency contact lists? 112 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 2: Was it his brother Steve? Me? 113 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: At this point I'm really nervous. No, not his brother? 114 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: Well, then who. 115 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:46,799 Speaker 1: Helen? 116 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 2: Who is Helen. I don't know anyone named Helen. Oh no, 117 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 2: I'm not sure. 118 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: But since but since she was on Frank's emergency contact 119 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: lists and no one else was answering their phone, we 120 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: called her her and she already came and got the images. Confused, 121 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: Amy hung up. The following day was Frank's surgery. The 122 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: day after frank surgery, my boss jokingly asked, what. 123 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 2: The hell did you do that gap? 124 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: He came in all pissed, asking he came in all pissed, 125 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: saying that mass secretary told his wif about his other girlfriend. 126 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: I told my boss what happened and that Diane told 127 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: me to call the girlfriend, and he understood. Diane tried 128 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: to throw me under the bus by saying I didn't 129 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: tell her that Helen was Frank's girlfriend, and that I 130 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: told her Helen was just a friend and that she 131 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: never would have given me the green light to call 132 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: a patient's mistress. 133 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 2: Honestly, the real villain the story is Diane. 134 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: Smoke for Diane, but then I reminded her in front 135 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: of my boss that she said it was possible for 136 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: Frank and Amy to be married but separated. Oh, this 137 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,359 Speaker 1: b was trying to cover her, but because she probably 138 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: thought it was some kind of hip a violation, but 139 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: nothing ever happened. I was eighteen years old at the 140 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 1: time and just did whatever my superiors told me because 141 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: I was really thirsty for job security after college. But 142 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: I ended up not working there and went to work 143 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: at another hospital instead. 144 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: Wow. 145 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: Wow, Diane is the real villain? 146 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 2: Is the real villain? Also, just Frank put your mistress, Frank, 147 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 2: what are you doing? Also Frank's other family and loved 148 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 2: ones pick up the phone for his surgery. 149 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: Come on, guys, if they had to go through your 150 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: list of contacts and land on your mistress and the 151 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: mistress is the first one that cares for your husband, 152 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: maybe they should be together. 153 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 2: Mm there's just there was just a beautiful, like a 154 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 2: chaotic series of dominoes that just exploded on the way 155 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 2: to this grand finale. 156 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, and the grand finale it was, but you know 157 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: what else makes a grand finale even sweeter? 158 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 2: John Oh clicking subscribed Okay. 159 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: Smash that subscribe button on YouTube, follow us on Spotify 160 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,239 Speaker 1: and TikTok and if you want to be a real one, 161 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: support us on Patreon. 162 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 2: That is Wrights Join Amanda will Combs Carnor Van Buren, 163 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 2: Keikon Simmons, and Kathy Freakin' quigly cee us O