To ask what your reaction would be to seeing someone wearing scrubs at a petrol station?

[Doublefaced]

Negative? Or ‘Meh. Not batting an eyelid’ ?

I'm sure healthcare professionals know what they are doing
I'd actually be like hi 🙋‍♀️

I'd think they were a home carer or community nurse etc who's car doesn't run on fresh air and needs actual fuel for them to continue their day.
🤷

Wouldn't occur to me to think anything

If anyone had a problem with this, I'd assume they don't know many NHS staff, or they're a bit ignorant, or both.

@Madeupwithit

Wouldn't occur to me to think anything

Nor me.

I doubt I'd even notice. If I did, I wouldn't think much.

Wouldn't notice a thing.

Negative? Or ‘Meh. Not batting an eyelid’ ?

No option for positive, then?
Like "Ooh! That green really suits them"

Makes it a slightly skewed survey.

I doubt is notice but if I did I would think they'd just finished work. Wouldn't much care tbh what they were wearing/where they worked.

Why would you think anything?

It’s like saying what do you think of a person wearing a green jumper in the petrol station?

The answer is “not a lot”

@LaMarschallin

Negative? Or ‘Meh. Not batting an eyelid’ ?

No option for positive, then?
Like "Ooh! That green really suits them"

Makes it a slightly skewed survey.

It’s not strictly scientific

Maybe they didn’t want to change in the toilet. Staff areas all taken over for clinical or office use in our hospital. There used to an changing areas and staff rooms once upon a time.

@VinylDetective

If they were NaHS scrubs I’d buy them a bar of chocolate.

Mint aero please

I often go to the petrol station in my scrub top and a jacket. Used to wear my pjs to the petrol station. Normally because ive just finished a night shift and needed petrol.

In American detective novels sometimes the hero (the detective) has been shot at by the villain and taken to hospital where his clothes were bagged as evidence. So they usually give him scrubs to wear. But, being the hero, he can't stay in hospital and wait to get better - he must soldier on. So he borrows a car, perhaps from his detective partner or a kind nurse and hurries off in pursuit of the villain. He stays in the scrubs though.
Am I the only one that was thinking that?

Having never done the kind of work where scrubs are required, I'd barely give it a thought. I certainly don't have the knowledge to know if it's appropriate or what situations might have led to it.

DH puts on fresh scrubs to come home in, people give him more space on public transport. He takes them back the next day and no hospital uniform goes near our washer.

Any time @Doublefaced. As much as you can eat. 💐

Am the scrubs wearer.
Had a narky lady behind me in the queue today comment to the person beside her that it was a disgrace to see nurses in shops ‘in dirty clothes’

I didn’t have the heart to explain that I am community based in a specialist role covering approx 40 sq miles area, mainly rural, totally snowed under at the minute and ended up doing many, many more miles today than I anticipated due to some logistical issues. Not to mention the fact that I swear my car drinks petrol when I’m driving in snow.
It kinda stung at the time and interesting to see the opening responses on this thread before the tide kinda turned.
I just wish people were less bloody judgemental. Or bit their tongues.

I’d hope they were on their way home

Doublefaced

VinylDetective

If they were NaHS scrubs I’d buy them a bar of chocolate.

Mint aero please wink

So, was somebody unpleasant to you about wearing scrubs at a petrol station, OP?

(Btw, "That green really goes with your mint Aero" could be a positive reaction.
If they were green, that is)

Sorry!

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@Hollywhiskey

In American detective novels sometimes the hero (the detective) has been shot at by the villain and taken to hospital where his clothes were bagged as evidence. So they usually give him scrubs to wear. But, being the hero, he can't stay in hospital and wait to get better - he must soldier on. So he borrows a car, perhaps from his detective partner or a kind nurse and hurries off in pursuit of the villain. He stays in the scrubs though. Am I the only one that was thinking that?

@Doublefaced
If I was in the queue behind her I'd tell her to shut up and mind her own business.

If it was me I'd have taken clean clothes to change into after work and for some inexplicable reason had at 6 am packed spare clean scrubs by mistake ! I'd have been far cleaner and safer than most people in there as my clothes had been washed at very high temperatures and hadn't been to the supermarket ...