Wow! What a pain, but I'm glad you didn't have surgery that day. I bet something not good happened and staff may have been rattled. I would rather not head in to surgery in that case.
You remind me of an anesthesiologist I had for my emergency preemie cesarean. It was a high risk pregnancy and surgery and I was asking a ton of questions as they started the surgery. All of a sudden I felt all mellow. I looked up at anesthesiologist and exclaimed, " you got me stoned!" The nurses all laughed. Anesthesiologist said, "you seemed anxious".