I have been flu shotted

[chanter1944]

Got a phone call from my pharmacy today, because I requested they give me a jangle when flu shots came in. I asked if there would be someone available to give the ol' poke in the arm this evening, there definitely was, so I zipped over there after work and, with very little fuss, did the thing for another year. Less chance of me catching the horrible flu and/or, more importantly for my conscience, *passing* the horrible flu to someone, is more than fine by little me. I'm on our city's bus system a dozen times a week on average. I have no way of knowing if the person next to me is immunosuppressed, or 90 years old and fragile by virtue of, well, being 90, or carrying a sleeping infant, or... and better safe than complicit in avoidable awfulness.

And yeah, as I put it to a friend of mine earlier today, better a slightly sore arm than five days of misery.

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[mirrorofsmoke]

We got our flu shot Sunday before last, because we were at the pharmacy getting meds. Our pharmacy has a deal where you get free ice cream when you get a flu shot. We're diabetic so don't generally do ice cream, so we gave it to our wife.

[chanter1944]

Good for you for doing the thing as well! :) I've never heard of that particular means of getting people in for a flu shot, but if it works... :)

[mirrorofsmoke]

This pharmacy has a little ice cream station in back. They sell cheap ice cream, in a cup or in a cone, and you can get it in as many scoops and varieties as they have. Unfortunately, the offer was for one free scoop only, so there was caramel pretzel crunch.

-Shuck