have an incident

[navi tasan]

1) I had an incident with a nurse yesterday.

Could that sentence be used if the 'incident' was pleasant? Or she played a positive role in the incident? To me '1' implies conflict and unpleasantness.

Is this one natural:

2) I had a pleasant incident with a nurse yesterday.

Gratefully,
Navi

 

[emsr2d2]

Whether you use "pleasant" or not, or another adjective, I would have no idea what you meant. How does one "have an incident with a nurse"?

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you very much, emsr2d2,

I thought an altercation or things of that sort with someone would be 'an incident with that person', but maybe I am wrong.

Gratefully,
Navi

 

[emsr2d2]

That doesn't really work. You could use "incident" as an introduction to what actually happened.

There was an incident at work today. I had an altercation with one of the nurses!