In a Seinfeld Episode

Every time I go to the hospital to visit my mom I feel like I am in a Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Newman meet each other. If you are not familiar with the show, these two characters loath each other and their greeting is always the same: Newman says "Jerry" with as much disdain as possible and Jerry responds in kind, "Newman."

Anyway, there is a male nurse there that is like that. I was holding my mom's hand and talking to her when he walked in and we "met" for the first time. Instead of a cordial greeting he looks at me and says "Who are you?" But his tone and the look on his face were very accusatory, like I was not supposed to be there or was doing something wrong. I was taken aback and didn't even say anything, I was shocked. Instead I looked at Jim, my mom's husband, with a look on my face that said "Who is this guy and what is his problem?" I am pretty sure the guy picked up on that and was still trying to find out what I was doing there, as if it wasn't pretty obvious. Anyway, Jim answered for me and the guy, tried to make a joke, poorly and went away. The interaction was brief; shorter than it took to type this all out, but the negative impression was lasting.

So I was there yesterday, holding my mom's hand and talking to her and he comes in again and says "I didn't know YOU were here." Again his tone was that I, me specifically, was not supposed to be there, which actually, I wasn't. They don't allow visitors at shift change (7:00-7:30pm) and it had just turned 7. But still, he could have said hi, I am sorry, but I have to ask you leave. Oh no, it was an "It's YOU again" attitude. So I left.

Let me say that the staff is great there. Everyone else has always been really nice. I don't even know this guys name, but I have to laugh because every time we see each other it is just like Seinfeld. We're both scowling and squinting our eyes and he says "Jennifer." and I respond "Nurse."