He didn't deserve what he got.
I donated blood today. I am left handed and my blood is O negative. Left handedness is about ten to fifteen percent of the population, and O negative blood is in only seven percent of the population. One doesn't have anything to do with the other, but I enjoy the fact that I am rare.
Anyways, O negative donors are celebrities. Every time I donate, the Red Cross sends me like ten dollars worth of "Thank you, thank you" materials. Maybe if I donated more than twice a year they would give me less stuff, but, I kind of like the stuff...
Wow, I can be a real jerk sometimes.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Charles Drew
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a friend of mine from college, she was AB- which is like .001% of bloodtypes. the red cross refused to take her blood at donation centers. instead she was on a local call list. should they need her blood, they'd call her at all hours of the night or day to head to the nearest hospital to donate. it was kinda neat. cuz apparently they can't store the blood that long, and it's very rare they need AB-, but in three years i knew her, she made two 3 am trips to the hospital.
yeah, only real jerks donate blood.
I'm A-. They like people who are negative - the blood can be given to either positive or negative people. anyway, when I was in college and donated whenever the red cross came to campus, I used to get little reminder postcards in my mailbox that said "It's positive to be negative!" I was the only negative one of my friends, and I liked getting the cards because it made me feel special.
I don't get those postcards any more :(
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