I was remembering when I was a small boy in the 1960’s we were living on a farm in rural west Tennessee. I think it was one Saturday, we all piled into the flatbed truck and drove, I guess quite a ways, maybe close to an hour, to a cross roads on the way to my great-grandmother’s place. She had a lot of land out in the middle of nowhere that had been in the family for generations.
Anyway, at the cross roads right before we get to her place there was a filling station. We stopped at the filling station because it turns out that’s where we had been headed all along. I don’t think we went inside, we may have, but I seem to remember some guy comes out to where we’re all standing about and gives us sugar cubes to eat. I was a kid and like most kids I liked candy. It turns out it was the new polio vaccine. I’m thinking that had to be close to the perfect model for drive-thru vaccinations.
I have no idea how we knew we were supposed to go get the vaccinations but then again it was Tennessee. We’re actually more engaged that people give us credit for. It’s like the first time we checkered Neyland. Who the hell would have thought we could pull than off in under two weeks and have everyone on the same page? I love this state. jmo.