After taking Mom for her third of three rounds of knee injections, we drove to Walgreen’s for a prescription. A sandwich-board A-frame sign greeted us as we pulled into the handicapped parking stall.  Mom read the sign out loud: “Free Flu Shots.”  Then she exclaimed, “Free Flu Shots!  Have you ever heard of such a thing?”  Indeed, I had.  “Mom, you got your flu shot here, for free, just a month ago.  And you got your Covid-19 shot here also, for free, two weeks later.”  They were free to her, anyway, her health insurance having paid any cost.  “I did?  They were free?” she exclaimed again, then mumbled, “I don’t remember that.”  I didn’t want to make her feel bad, and asked only if she recalled how nice the pharmacist was, the one with the curly hair.  “Oh yes, she was wonderful.  She lives nearby in Draper and has two children and went to high school in South Jordan.  What a lovely woman.”

(Photo from Walgreens.com, used under the Fair Use Doctrine.)