My sister has three kids, all boys. With number three her water broke on the tennis court. Her husband rushed her to the hospital, where she worked.
She delivered on a gurney on the way to her room, with only a nurse standing by. Boom, she was done.
She was mildly annoyed when she saw her medical insurance paid her obstetrician for the delivery as well as the anesthesiologist who stopped by to chat and ask if she needed pain meds.
Give it to Kojak!
There really isn’t an actual “Manhattan South” precinct, is there?
There is not a Manhattan South precinct - but there is Midtown South and North. Manhattan South Homicide might exist as part of the Manhattan South Detective Borough Command.
Sadly, I have seen this. 3 times.
Not to be sexist as I am sure it is just low sample size…but all were women leaving their guy. 1 was a wife leaving her husband after he had been diagnosed with a very likely lethal form of cancer which would require aggressive therapy/chemo (IIRC) and 2 long term girlfriends dumping their bf (and the other her fiance) because one got sick and the other got into a bad accident requiring much recovery time. I was particularly close the the last guy and I remember her saying, when confronted, that she didn’t want to go through all this long term care crap and that she was probably expected to contribute to it and that she was so thankful it happened before the wedding**.
These 3 instances, though not affecting me directly (as in me) affected me so much that, to this day, I fully expect to be abandoned if something bad happens to me even though my wife has given no indication she would and, intellectually, I think she would stick by me.
It doesn’t help that in my first marriage my wife left me because I was really, really sad my dad died which lasted for a few months. Just too much for her to deal with, I guess.
** Coincidently, this was the woman that died in childbirth several years later…IN a hospital…which is another ‘thing’ people say happens in movies but never in real life. We still had mutual friends so I know this to be true.
Reporter Betty Rollin’s husband technically did leave when she got breast cancer (she wrote a book that was a big best-seller at the time called “First, You Cry”) but she said that the marriage was already failing for unrelated reasons, and she told him that he should not feel obligated to stay because she was sick, and also because she felt that if she wasn’t going to live very long, she wasn’t going to stay in this unhappy relationship. So, yes, he did move out, but it was a mutual decision.
I also remember a TV mini-docoseries some years back about a group of doctors, IIRC in Texas, and one of them, who was just out of medical school, had a malignant brain tumor that had an essentially zero cure rate. At the time of her diagnosis, she was with a man that at one point she thought she would marry, and their families both hoped they would too, but it had become apparent that this was not going to happen, and their split was a mutual decision. She died about a year later - and actually had another brief relationship while the show was filming.
Oh, this happens a lot. In the USA. Highest mortatlity rate in the developed world. Now, we’ll have even more deaths. Yay, us.
And constantly referred to in Barney Miller.
NYPD Manhattan South is a well known Twitter page.
I saw something on a show Mrs. solost and I were watching last night that I realized I see all the time: the scenario is, someone is being threatened by a person or multiple people, say, a bar fight about to break out, or someone encounters scary-looking person(s) on a dark deserted street, and the threatened person always says “look, I don’t want any trouble”. Which never makes any sense to me. The threatened party may not want any trouble, but the threatening party may very well want trouble.
The only reason it makes any sense to bother to say “I don’t want any trouble” in real life is if you are being perceived as the threatening party, and want to reassure the threatened party.
A friend was conducting a job interview (she was the interviewer, not the interviewee) when this happened to her. She ran to the bathroom to confirm it, then rather hastily terminated the interview.
Something major happening on Earth and humanity immediately throwing away their current time scale and inventing a new one with year 0 being the exact day of the event.
I don’t care how nuked out the world is I’m going to call it 2024 not Year 2 dammit.
One I just saw in a film but I never really saw in real life: post-it notes on a monitor. Now of course, computer monitors have slimmer edges and therefore do not have a lot of room for post-it notes, but even when you had the large CRTs, I hardly ever saw anyone put lots of notes on the edges. I just saw a shot where almost every monitor in the room bore some kind of attached item to the side of the monitor. I can’t remember a workplace or a home at all like that, but I guess it gives those square boxes more “personality”
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There are, right now, 5 different Post-It notes stuck around the edge of my work monitor. There are at least 3 on my monitor at home. Where else would you post a reminder of a video chat or some other meeting? Not to mention the odd complex password.
There’s a woman at my work location who uses the second monitor on her desk as a Post-It board. It’s entirely covered in Post-It notes.
Right, but is it common to see on all the monitors at your work? There might be some people that do so as @silenus noted, but every monitor in an office? I have not seen such a thing, and I have done my share of user support at different places withing my workplace (when we were in the office).
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At a smallish company in a former work life, I took over as sysadmin from the accounting manager who had been doing it part-time double duty along with their manager tasks. The monitor for the company’s server had a post-it note attached with the server login password 
I think sometimes people confuse “almost never happens in real life” with " I’ve never seen anyone do it". A Facebook friend recently posted about how nobody orders Chinese takeout and eats it with chopsticks and it looks stupid and fake when they do that on TV. At which point she was extremely surprised to hear from a number of her friends that they do just that - but she probably never orders take-out with those friends.
As for post-its on every monitor in an office - I’ve seen post-its on nearly every monitor in multiple work locations.( It’s never “every” anything ) Sometimes covering all four edges. I don’t know how common it is overall, but post-its on a monitor are in some ways the new version of “papers taped on the wall” and nearly every monitor having post-its is common enough that I would never say it "almost never happens in real life.
This is one that does happen enough in real life that I don’t roll my eyes when I see it on tv. Not necessarily posted on the monitor, but in some easily accessible space, no need do any actual hacking.
Yes, that is probably true. I guess in just seeing that scene recently it caused me to think back to if I had seen it be as ubiquitous as they made it seem.
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The clever guys stick the post-it with their password under the keyboard…
I read before your edit. Passport works too.
Some blood is required for some purpose - it might be for an oath, or to prove that the character is human and/or in some cases to provide a blood sample for some medical purpose.
The character provides the blood by making a huge slash across their palm. Despite this potentially pretty serious injury, the plot moves forward.