I was recently in the hospital, and had to have my blood sugar checked every couple of hours. This meant that nurses had to wake me up in the middle of the night to prick my finger. Most of the nurses were very gentle about it, so it was not a huge deal. But one night, after a shift change, a nurse I'd never met before came to take my blood. It was an old, hunched over lady of what seemed to be Russian origin. She crept into my room, leaned over the bed, and in a thick Russian accent said, "I take blood now". I woke up to those words, terrified. lol But she was really nice, other than being scary as hell.