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Messalina | 10:39 Tue 19th Jan 2021 | ChatterBank
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I've just been out to pay the paper bill and got stopped by an elderly couple who asked me for directions to the local Covid vaccination centre. They were off to get their first jabs and I have NEVER seen anyone so excited.
They were like kids at Christmas. I found myself offering them congratulations. They were so happy they were going to be safer in a few weeks.
Cheered me up no end to meet them
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Bless them both,this is what the C word has done to us, excited to be getting a needle stuck in your arm :0(
I know how they feel. Mine is booked for Thursday morning.
Hoping to hear soon... fingers crossed ...
Me too soo looking forward to that call or letter
They sound like sensible people to me.

I was very pleased to receive my first dose of the vaccine. I almost thought it wouldn't happen as when I tried to book on through our own hospital system, it kept insisting my NHS Number was wrong. In the end I made a quick call to the vaccine hub and they booked me in.

My sister was made redundant recently and is now part of the programme.
She said it was humbling at how appreciative all the old folk have been and that they all sounded so grateful.
These people are from a different era when respect meant something.
We are both very excited too. Our jabs are booked for Friday but 60mls away. It will be a day out for us and some new scenery. We may take a picnic!
Three of my relatives (all nurses) have had the jab. Another friend (over 80) has also had it. No side effects for any.
yeah I had to do this this morning
we missed the Turing to the Brusnwick ce
and drove around aimlessly with the sat nav playing around

arr 0720 for a 0810 appt - and someone else 0830
pfizer

if any pair shd have appts on the same day but differing times
turn up at the earliest and ask if both can be done

kssing - but no tongues....
// These people are from a different era when respect meant something.//

seemed very obvious this am

first day for the volunteers. - and you cd see the amazement on their faces. " you tell a crowd of 80 y olds to sit over there, and they get up and do so in order, and quietly and wait - its incredible! "
I`m volunteering in a vaccination centre. The over 80s have been the most excited to be coming in - it's nice to see.
If it eases their lives and minds, great.
I hope that paying your paper bill was more successful than I often found it to be when I lived in Sheffield.

I'd go into the shop and offer to pay my bill, only to be told "Oh, we're far too busy at the moment. Leave it until another day".

A week or two later, I'd try again, only to be told "Oh, we haven't got all our books up to date yet. Leave it until another day".

That would go on for months and months until, finally, I'd have really shirty letter pushed through my letterbox, threatening legal action if I didn't pay my bill immediately, as I'd (allegedly) ignored all of their previous demands!

To make it worse, those letters were never put into envelopes but simply left open for the newspaper boy to read before he delivered them with my newspapers. So the newspaper boy could see that I was (apparently) the type of person who never ever paid his debts on time - and the newspaper boy just happened to be one of my pupils!
That's so lovely.
BTW, while it's nice to hear that the elderly couple were happy, I can't see myself getting too excited over having the jab. I have so many needles stuck into me over the past two years (including the injections that I've had to self-administer) that I'm feeling like a pincushion already ;-)
I know how you feel, Chris. I got our library to put telling offs into an envelope rather than on a post card when a book was way overdue because I didn't want the postman to know I had overdue books...as if he cared......I must have been bored.......:-)

I can imagine their excitement, Messalina. The WhatsApps from friends that were once about shoes, chocolate, men and wine are now about when they're getting the vaccine and congratulating those who have!
^ aww x
^ that was to chris ..
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Well, Buenchico, that's Sheffield for you. Didn't happen like that in Barnsley.

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