The receptionist looks at him and laughs at how unattractive he looks. Ross wants the hockey puck as a souvenir, but a bratty child in the waiting area has it. Ross returns to the waiting room with a piece of steel bandaged to his nose. Chandler starts off by saying that he thinks it is sweet and romantic, but he then admits that he thinks Ross is a freak. Eventually, Ross finally gets to see a doctor, while Joey and Chandler discuss the fact that Ross has only ever been with one woman. This comes as a shock to his friends, and Joey mentions how hockey was the wrong idea. Ross reveals that he actually lost his virginity to Carol, so he has only ever been with one woman. However, she shuts the glass panel on him, so Chandler talks into the glass instead. A tense Chandler approaches the snippy receptionist, Nurse Sizemore, to inform her they have been waiting for over an hour. In the hospital waiting area, Ross waits to be seen. Her friends clearly disapprove, convinced that she would rather be an effortlessly rich Long Island girl back home. Rachel laughs and tries to clarify that she is staying in the city for good. This makes Rachel feel uncomfortable, so Joanne changes the subject by asking her when she is coming back home. Kiki tells her that everyone is still talking about how she left Barry at the altar. Back at Central Perk, Rachel wants to hear all of the gossip from back home. All three guys are having a great time, until Ross is hit in the face with the hockey puck and they are forced to head to the emergency room. At the game, Ross continues to reminisce. However, the game begins, and Ross starts to forget about Carol and root vigorously for the Rangers. Ross keeps noticing things that remind him of Carol, and it begins to annoy Joey and Chandler. The guys walk to Madison Square Garden for the hockey game. Phoebe and Monica are slightly startled by this side to Rachel, and they mock her and her old friends. They all scream excitedly again, and Kiki shows off her huge engagement ring. Rachel becomes wistful as she notices how heavily pregnant Leslie is, how thin and glamorous Kiki is, and when Joanne reveals that her father has made her a partner in his firm. Rachel's old friends are shocked to see her working Joanne comments on how her waitress' apron makes her look like she is in a play. The four women reunite by hugging each other, screaming, and jumping up and down. Leslie, Joanne, and Kiki, Rachel's old friends from Long Island, enter the coffee house. There is a pause, and they try to not-so-subtly help her by tipping generously. Her friends try to cheer her up, saying that they are good earnings for a first job and that she will easily be able to live off of them. However, her excitement is short-lived when she discovers that she has earned very little after taxes. Rachel comes over, excited after receiving her first-ever paycheck. Ross is about to go home, but Joey is able to convince Ross to attend the game by promising that they will buy him a big foam finger for him to wear. He becomes depressed and tells the guys that he won't attend the game, opting to spend the night thinking about his ex-wife and her lesbian lover. Ross, looking at the tickets, then realizes that it is the anniversary of when he and Carol first slept together. They pretend that the tickets are a birthday present, but Ross remarks that his birthday was seven months ago, realizing they had three tickets and could not decide on which one got to bring a date.
Monica offers to let her sleep over, and Phoebe accepts.Ĭhandler and Joey enter the coffee house and greet Ross with tickets to that night's Rangers and Penguins hockey game. Apparently, they made a lot of noise in bed, keeping her up all night.
Phoebe wakes up and explains that she didn't get any sleep last night, as her grandmother's boyfriend was staying over. Ross and Monica notice that Phoebe has fallen asleep on the couch in Central Perk.