There Is No Vaccine For Presumptuous Behavior

(This happened during the bird flu outbreak a few years ago. I’m a receptionist in a vaccination center. A woman enters.)

Woman: “Hello.”

Me: “Hello. Would you like to be vaccinated?”

Woman: “Well, we’re in a vaccination center. I guess you’re not selling cupcakes.”

Me: “Actually, the doctors and nurses who work in our temporary vaccination centers are assigned to different places every few days. I was just wondering if you were a client or a new doctor, that’s all.”

Woman: “…”