It’s that time of year again. Flu shots have become THE thing to do here on the NGC campus. They started at 7 AM this morning, complete with 600 person line snaking a quarter of a mile into the west building. It’s a far cry from my first year here, when Nancyboy Ben McCoy had the inside info on the tech flu shot at an undisclosed location in the bowels of a manufacturing cell. Needless to say, I’d feel very stupid to stand on line for an hour. The line can get no longer, and I can get more prepared for it, so I’m going back in two hours with some reading material so that I can charge my endless march…to get pathogens injected into my bloodstream.
Don’t think I mind that though – if they gave me the chance, I’d inject every pathogen I could find. Especially since it’s free. You have to take advantage of free stuff, so long as it’s actually free. Comping an hour of my life isn’t free. I could pay less than $30 to get it at a clinic somewhere. But that would take me a half hour anyway. The only reasonable thing is to stand in line with a packet of technical documentation and charge the marines for my march. They can’t mind, I can only assume the government inserts a mind control serum in the viles anyway.
I can’t believe you actually get an annual flu shot. What are you, a communist now?
Have you seen me at the meetings?
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