Crotchety

I guess I have always thought of the word as made up...But if you look up "crotchety" it is an actual word meaning irritable. This would explain my least favorite person on our whole floor. She has been a nurse for longer than I have been alive. This could be her problem. She is old jaded, bitchy and just overall the type of person you would not want as your nurse. She comes in half an hour early for her shift. I am not sure why. Does she need this extra time for the whole floor to hear her bitch? She will bitch about her assignment, type of patients, how we give her report, how there is no fresh coffee, how the unit is too hot, how the housekeeping staff is waxing the floor....I could go on. If there is something to bitch about...This old fart will find it. Even when I try to avoid her or keep conversation to a minimum, she will still get under my skin being such a bitch...BUT then have the balls to say I have an attitude. I just want to be like..."WTF is your problem? Maybe you should retire"...But in all honesty it is just not worth it. She is the type of nurse I hope I never turn into. The night she found out I was leaving night shift...Her reply was not..."JJ, I am so happy for you, maybe switching to evening shift will allow you to sleep at night, function like a human being and spend time with your husband". Instead she replies, "You're moving to evening shift?...Are you serious? (long blank stare from her old, non makeup wearing pasty face) I am going to tell Cathy (our nurse manager) to not hire any new nurses because you guys always leave and it's a waste of time!" What I wanted my reply to be is..."YOU are a waste of time. Your mom should have swallowed that load instead of allowing it to fertilize an egg, producing you". BUT I decide to take the higher road and walk off. This is not a battle I am trying to acknowledge or entertain. I am suppose to be the mature professional...As is she. But what she is showing me is if you do your job for 30+ years you become a crotchety old bitch. I use to hear her on occasion talking about her husband; She is hoping he will die soon then she can live off his insurance. I tell you what...If that guy ends up dead or missing I'll be the first volunteer witness on the stand to testify against the crotchety bitch.