More shots
I’m starting to lose count. I believe that today was the third round of vaccinations. In the third location. I live in a very small community and I did not realize that I had so many opportunities for every medical intervention. I mean, getting a vaccination counts right? But I went I sat and I received an injection in each arm and then I waited the requisite 15 minutes and then I went home and all I can remember is that this wasn’t the same place as last time. I wonder how they decide these things. Especially because I think the nurse today was the same nurse I saw elsewhere. Is this just a roadshow that goes from room to room and I am caught up in the web of it? I’ll need to think this through. We’re into the festivities. That is today is the day that we give away more candy than at any other point in the year. So much so that people no longer come to your home. Instead the candy is prepared before hand and brought to a communal centre where all of the parents can see all of the costumes on the same day. It makes sense in a way. Sending small children out to wander up and down a busy highway in the dark has never been a very good idea. I did my candy gathering in towns where we had a neighbourhood to investigate. Out here in the country that possibility is no longer a valid one. Sometime before primetime all of the candy will be at home with its new owners. From what I can tell tiny chocolate bars are the best take. To be fair I haven’t seen one of those chewy molasses candies in years. No loss nutritionally. Instead we get to file away hundreds of tiny wrappers until the next garbage day. At least we aren’t doing apples dipped in some kind of caramel. That was never a thing in my area but I’ve seen pictures and I know that it exists and I know that the same people that make caramels wrapped in plastic did push the idea. Of course, our only local apple tree is a bit on the bitter side that would not be a good choice for any kind of apple givers. Unless you are using them as armour period. Or a weapon. I’m old enough to remember apple fights.
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