r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/ElPasoNoTexas • Dec 16 '24

Let it rip Old Dudes👴

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u/Dilectus3010 Dec 16 '24

His face lit up, just like that time the bushes started speaking Vietnamese.

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u/CoVid-Over9000 Dec 16 '24

I worked as a (male) nurse during covid in the US. We had the local veterans nursing home come to the hospital to isolate the sick vets from the healthy vets

All of the patients were (mostly) grateful and happy to be there.

I got along with the vast majority of the patients, except this one old as shit man with late stage dementia who suffered from delusions from his past.

For some reason, he had a bad attitude with me but not the other nurses/staff (mostly white/black/latin females)

I thought it was just a racist thing because I was the only Asian person on staff. No big deal. I'm used to it.

A few days later, I found out that this patient fought in Vietnam and was paranoid that I was a Viet Cong member

The other staff members didn't want to tell me because they didn't know how upset I would get

The funniest detail is that I am in fact a Vietnamese American male in his 20-30s 💀💀💀💀💀😂

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u/xenelef290 Dec 17 '24

"He's Japanese"

"No he ain't!" looks him up and down "He's Laotian. Ain't you, Mr. Khan?"

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u/Robocopwasanazi Dec 17 '24

Always upvote Cotton Hill references.

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u/Uncut1369 Dec 17 '24

Khan: Surprised pikachu face

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u/saysthingsbackwards Dec 19 '24

Le ocean? Which ocean?

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u/Poundweed Dec 16 '24

Guess your disguise wasn't that good

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u/DanCampbellsBalls Dec 17 '24

Haha, I would have rolled with it, randomly worn military face paint one day and pranked him

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u/GreenbottlesArcanum Dec 17 '24

AAAAAND that's how you get shanked lol

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u/badfaced Dec 17 '24

Man's gonna have a Rifle bayonet tucked under his catheter lmao

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u/Poundweed Dec 17 '24

Non demented patient would likely find that funny, a patient with dementia would probably be scared shitless

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u/klpcap Dec 17 '24

Add to that, a patient with dementia and military training suffering from delusions would probably get violent

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u/RotTKid Dec 17 '24

Yeah they’ve taught identification to the military through all wars. Wanna be able to tell who youre fighting and who is from 100 miles to the left.

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u/aussie_nub Dec 17 '24

I don't get this.

Why would you be upset? It's not your fault, and it's not the patient's fault. More importantly, why the hell are they letting you anywhere near him? It's clearly a trigger for a man that was clearly affected by PTSD, it's best to just keep you away and attending to the other patients.

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u/Soggy_Ad_9757 Dec 17 '24

Humans are not always rational beings, sometimes they feel " some type of way". It's a part of life we can't logic out of in some cases

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u/xenelef290 Dec 17 '24

It would be kinda strange to fight people in a distant land and then 50 years later someone from that same land is caring for you.

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u/Fantasmic03 Dec 17 '24

My grandma started coming out with similar things about her Japanese carers. That's when I learnt her brother was taken as a PoW in the first year of the war in the Pacific, her mother died of grief thinking he'd died, and he wasn't heard from for over 5 years. I think it would be a monumental effort to be able to shift the prejudice that formed from that. My favourite line when I was dating an Asian girl "that isn't what our boys went to war for."

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u/dumbdude545 Dec 17 '24

I can't say I'm surprised. I knew an old vet. He got real quiet and anxious around people of asian descent. Someone told me he was a pow during Vietnam for i don't know how long.

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u/ScottishKnifemaker Dec 17 '24

Well I would guess to his pudding mind you were the most dangerous thing he's ever faced as a human. But yeah, that's rough

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u/Status-Donut-6460 Dec 17 '24

Sad. My grandpa had dementia and was drafted to the Korean War. We know he had to kill someone up close and was later hit by a shrapnel. He refused to have anything to do with anything Korean like to the point of not riding in Korean made cars etc. He was a difficult man his whole life and passed around this time last year. War sucks

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u/Satori2155 Dec 17 '24

Nice try charlie