The Upper Arm Vaccination Scar

How many of us have it? I don't. But some of my friends do.

When I was in the 7th grade my science/health teacher talked about how the vaccination for small pox, TB, measles, mumps, and rubella used to be administered in a way where it created a scar on your upper arm. She said that some of us have it and some of us don't because they stopped doing it right around the time when we were born.

And so when I asked my parents about it (they're boomers) and they told me all about it and how the scar was used as proof that you've had all of your immunizations before you could start the next school year. And so from that point forward I could kinda guess who was a little older or a little younger than me based upon whether or not they had that scar on their arm.