cautionary cat lady tale

Don't attempt to rescue the kitten who is meowing pitifully at school while you are there opening the doors for an event. In addition to making you abandon your post where you are checking kids in, the kitten will be feral and it will bite you. Then instead of going to yoga, which you are dressed for, you will go to the ER, where the doctor will tell you that there has not been a reported case of rabies in Harris County in 40 years, but you need to get a tetanus shot and the first in a series of four rabies shots anyway.  Since you don't want to die you decide that you are okay with this.  You will also ponder (a) how it is possible that every doctor in the ER is attractive enough to be on Grey's Anatomy (seriously.  it was awesome.) and (b) how much this visit could possibly be costing you.  Then a 22 year old guy will get put in the bed next to you. Because there is zero privacy in the ER, you will find out without trying that he lives 90 miles away and accidentally (?) got shot in the abdomen last week and was life flighted in and had two surgeries and oh, yes, there are the entry and exit wounds being uncovered in front of you, and now he has a fever and they are running more tests and HE HAS NO INSURANCE.  And you will stop worrying about what this is costing you and focus on the fact that modern medicine is preventing you from getting a fatal disease that you most certainly don't have to begin with, and thank goodness you have a good job and health insurance and weren't shot in the abdomen last week.