There really are nice people in this country
After four years of That Man and his vicious tweets and verbal attacks; after four years of his supporters and their flags and caravans and their Jan 6 terrorist attack; after a decade of Turtleface McConnell, I had just about decided there are no more nice people left.
Sweet Thing and I are in our late 70's. I am blessed to be in good health and decent physical condition, however, Sweet Thing needs a bit of help when she gets up, sits down, moves around, answers questions, deals with other people and the like.
I had my first COVID vaccine a month ago. She was scheduled for her first today at a regional medical center that's hour-and-a-half away. We received email reminding us of the appointment and telling us DO NOT ARRIVE MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES EARLY.
Given the travel time, we left in plenty of time to get there -- and we arrived 55 minutes early. I reported to a nurse with a clipboard, fearing that she would send us off for 50 minutes to wait. She smiled, checked us off on the clipboard, confirmed my cell phone number and said, "Okay, wait in the car, I'll call you in a minute."
I went back to the car, in 3 minutes my cell phone rang -- it was the Clipboard Nurse who said, "We are ready for you!!"
EVERY ONE THERE WAS SMILING -- nurses, volunteers -- all smiling, all asking if they could help.
We checked in, they gave us a clipboard with a form to fill out, another nurse asked if she could help fill out the form, she took the completed form, smiled, asked us to wait just a minute. She then came and led us to the vaccination table -- I asked "Is it okay if I stay with her? She needs a little help walking and sometimes is confused."
To which the Smiling Nurse replied "You just come right ahead and I'll stay with the two of you just in case you need more help!!"
Sweet Thing got her shot, announced "That didn't hurt a bit."
We waited the 15 minutes and left to find lunch as it had been a long time since breakfast. We got to a mom-and-pop restaurant that's operating at about 50% capacity. As we headed for the door, a young man (a complete stranger) broke out of a group of teenagers, asked if he could help us to the door, opened the heavy front door, smiled, told us to have a nice day.
Folks in the restaurant were smiling and helpful.
Drove the 90 minutes back home, stopped to fill up with gas, a teenaged friend of my grandson saw us at the gas pumps, came over and pumped the gas for me!!!
You know, after his four years of meanness That Man has faded away and the nice people are still here !!!!!!!!!!
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Welcome to DU! 
So happy to hear about your experience!
I have Phizer jab 2 on the 15th. I teared up from happiness at the first appointment. 
just think.....if we are able, we can be the nice people in the world.
