farmer’s market drama
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There’s a vendor at the farmer’s market where my sister’s farm sells, who at one point volunteered in an unrelated conversation that he doesn’t believe in vaccination of children.
My brother-in-law said, basically verbatim, “Well, that’s not really germane to this conversation so I don’t want to get into it, but for the record, that’s a position I strongly disagree with, and maybe we could talk about it some other time, but again, right now’s not a good time.”
This vendor, the following week, accosted my mother, who was at that moment attempting to buy something from him. “Do you believe in vaccination?” he demanded.
She doesn’t know him, but she’s around a lot, so he pretty clearly knew how she was related to my brother-in-law. She didn’t know that, though, and of course had no knowledge of the prior conversation, so to her this was entirely random. Stunned, she blinked at him a moment, then said, “Well, my grandmother had polio, and survived it, but I’m old enough to remember how terrified everyone was every summer before the vaccine became widespread.” She was born two years before Salk’s vaccine was announced.
I hadn’t known about her grandmother; the woman had survived, and not been crippled, but she’d had complications the rest of her life.
The vendor didn’t really know what to say to that, and my mother left extremely disconcerted, and has resolved to buy the things she used to get there from someone else in future.
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There’s a vendor at the farmer’s market where my sister’s farm sells, who at one point volunteered in an unrelated conversation that he doesn’t believe in vaccination of children.
My brother-in-law said, basically verbatim, “Well, that’s not really germane to this conversation so I don’t want to get into it, but for the record, that’s a position I strongly disagree with, and maybe we could talk about it some other time, but again, right now’s not a good time.”
This vendor, the following week, accosted my mother, who was at that moment attempting to buy something from him. “Do you believe in vaccination?” he demanded.
She doesn’t know him, but she’s around a lot, so he pretty clearly knew how she was related to my brother-in-law. She didn’t know that, though, and of course had no knowledge of the prior conversation, so to her this was entirely random. Stunned, she blinked at him a moment, then said, “Well, my grandmother had polio, and survived it, but I’m old enough to remember how terrified everyone was every summer before the vaccine became widespread.” She was born two years before Salk’s vaccine was announced.
I hadn’t known about her grandmother; the woman had survived, and not been crippled, but she’d had complications the rest of her life.
The vendor didn’t really know what to say to that, and my mother left extremely disconcerted, and has resolved to buy the things she used to get there from someone else in future.
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