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Big boys shouldn’t cry, especially on front page

Thursday, November 5, 2009
(Updated 3:00 am)

Thanks a lot for the front-page picture of the grimacing grown man getting his flu shot. My 6-year-old son saw that picture of the “big baby” and wants no part of that kind of pain. He’s going to get his shot next week and instead of the little pinch we told him it would feel like, he thinks it will be more like a bullet shot.

In the future, could you please refrain from putting pictures of adult men getting shots? Obviously, he never learned to take it like a man — or maybe we should say, take it like a woman or even a child.

Katherine Gilbert
Greensboro

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AirDoc

November 5, 2009 - 6:57 am EST

Well said Katherine.

truth

November 5, 2009 - 11:18 am EST

His grimace didn't look nearly as painful as the one that Yvonne Johnson displayed on the front page after learning that she would be defeated.

danagain

November 5, 2009 - 2:23 pm EST

Maybe they showed him a picture of Nancy Pelosi whilst giving him the shot. I grimace like that every time I see her on TV.

truth

November 5, 2009 - 5:31 pm EST

Thankfully, I usually hear her "voice" first and have time to cover my eyes!

Mick

November 5, 2009 - 1:18 pm EST

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