Currently at a urgent care centre with poorly DD 11yo, sent by 111. Waiting area is packed and it is a 4h wait. We sit on 2 empty chair, next to these there is one chair with bags and coats. Mum n1 comes and saying these are her chairs and we move, don't want to make a fuss. She does not offer to move her bags from 3rd chair to make my sick DD sit. One last empty chair next to a mum with what looks like a 4 or 5 yo child on her lap, I tell my DD to go and sit there while I stand and mum n2 tells my DD not to sit on the only empty chair of a hospital urgent care unit because her child 'will sit there in a minute' (she is still on her lap).
How can some people be so selfish horrible to other children in a hospital?
We ended up sitting on the floor until after a while a member of staff showed us to some other seats. As we were moving to these seats I made sure to explain the staff loudly how other parents are not letting sick children sit on empty chairs. I hope, but I doubt, these women felt some shame (and frankly hope their kids got the message and felt ashamed for them too).