Snotty play frowned upon

It is 3:50 p.m. After spending two and a bit hours in line to get a ticket, friend L.  returned to the Tom Brown arena, Ottawa, at her appointed 3 p.m. time for H1N1 inoculation with her one-year-old child.


She is now, reportedly, overdressed as she thought she'd be standing in the rain (as previously) with child while they waited.

Instead, they are in holding tents with other parents and children. Her child, G., at last report was eating an arrowroot cookie and "deciding if he should be upset."

There is no playing; it is, therefore, very loud due to numbers and louder still with upset children who want to shove sticky fingers up each others' noses. Inoculation tent etiquette, as Laura tells me, precludes that, as anybody could be sick. Even though they are all there to be inoculated.

"Oh, no, G. just sneezed. Now everyone is looking at him," she says.


Anyone else read Blindness?