The other week my one (half British) (half Sudanese) friend (the brother of the brother-sister pair), was talking about how his mom was getting fed up with the NHS before she retired from being a nurse.
He said that she said that before she retired she hated how she felt rushed with patients more than she used to, but the worst was how the paperwork got worse over all the years, to the point where it'd take up a good chunk of your day to do, and then the bureaucrat who did nothing but coordinate the paperwork made more money than you did, all for doing nothing.
"She said that back in the day, the matron supervised," he was like. "The matron actually had a lot of power."
When he said that, it was so odd, to hear someone talk and for them "matron" was just a word you used, and it wasn't some shit in a novel.
It really is funny how they talk English, but so many of their cultural reference points are different. They're much farther away from us than Canadians, for example.
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