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Got shot

As English language goes getting shot is an attention getter.  Shot with what is a logical question.  So this AM we went to get the ritualistic Flu shots for the family.  As in prevention against the pesky influenza virus strain for the year.

There was an orderly line in front of the clinic.  As in people were standing in organized fashion - that does not mean there were orderlies attending to each other.  The line curved around the building but was being tended to by volunteers in orange vests who were partially functioning.  It was early and they were volunteering for a donut and coffee.

So then they come around and hand out forms to fill.  More paper than the volume of vaccine being injected into the humans but hey the law is the law.  Why they cannot use prior year information and simply click on a screen and go is beyond me - but I have a faint suspicion that there are a lot of things beyond and above me that I have not been alerted to - yet.

A man was offering his wife his back as a clipboard to fill the form on but she refused.  Perhaps he had BO?  He took his shot but got shot back.

Since older people wake early the line constituted more of their variety than the young, sloshed ones that thought nothing of making it in first thing.  What are they gonna do - run out of vaccine?  They actually have in the past.  It was the damndest thing.  America actually ran out of the bug killer.

Now its time for me to get some shots - after the shot.  That's the upshot!

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