Flu Shot at Giant

I get my flu shot at work. The flu clinic is scheduled to begin this week. But my husband needs to get his flu shot somewhere else, and he really dislikes going to the medical clinic in the neighborhood. The service there is not always the best so we try to limit our time there to annual exams. Having been in health care for thirty years in Milwaukee, we had to get flu shots in order to stay employed. If you have ever had the flu, that's an even better reason to get a shot. For the last few years we have been going to McLean where there is a CVS near the place we go for brunch on Saturday. But the last two years have proven difficult to get the job done...either the person giving the shots was on lunch break, or there was a very long line in front of us. So, as we did last year, we went next door to the Giant Food store, and headed over to the pharmacy. There is something very weird about being in a grocery store waiting to get a flu shot. You keep yourself occupied until your number is called, and the number is also displayed overhead. The whole thing took about twenty-five minutes from getting the paper work processed to the time of the injection. The amount of stuff that we received following the visit was ridiculous. It contained several pages about the flu shot, but there were also a bunch of store deals and coupons. These days it hardly matters where you get the shot, I'm just glad it's easily available - even if it's in a grocery store.