Shambles--"The blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad." (Jimmy Rogers)

My son was bitten by a dog when he was about 4, and before we could find the dog to check on its rabies vaccination, he'd had about 6 in the series of rabies shots, each more painful than the last. On our way from the hospital after the fourth, he shocked my mother when he said "I hate those fucking shots!" He had serious blues. Luckily, that afternoon the dog owner called. Another pediatrician later told us that rabies in dogs is so rare in our area that the first one was crazy to recommend the shots: my son was much more likely to die from the shots than from the dog bite. Maybe there's a blues in that. --seed