I gave my girlfriend five COVID shots, accidentally.

And this is what happened.

Quick background, I'm in my last year of pharmacy school.

I'm currently bouncing around doing rotations, which are pre-work at different sites.

Hospitals, big pharma companies, retail stores, among many other things.

This most recent rotation is in a grocery store

pharmacy, where things have gotten pretty hectic with the CDC giving the okay for everyone to get

booster shots, which also happened to coincide with flu shot season. I'm pretty much just sticking

people with needles all day every day. So my girlfriend needs her Pfizer booster shot for work, and she wants me to give it to her.

Cute, right?

I tell her I'd be happy to.

On this particular day, for whatever reason, we can't drive to the pharmacy together because our schedules don't line up.

I have an obligation in the morning, so I end up at the pharmacy in the early

afternoon, and she arrived about 15 minutes after I do. On an average day, I'm usually the vaccine

guy, because I'm the guy who says hello at the window, updates your vaccine card, takes your

insurance stuff, and makes you wait 45 minutes. I promise I'm moving as fast as I can, and then gives you the

shot. So I'm used to handling the whole process step by step at my own pace, being as

organized as time will allow me to be. I like to set up my stuff in the morning before we open,

get all the paperwork in order, and have my ducks in a row before the day even starts.

So I walk into the pharmacy in the early afternoon, and it's absolute unbridled chaos.

People waiting for shots, knocking on the windows, some lady poking her head under the plexiglass,

and asking me about her, Venla fax machine, etc. I'm already flustered as heck and off my game

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