Odd Moment of the Day

[kybearfuzz]

While answering some questions with a co-worker, the phone rang. It was the Hoxworth Blood Center, calling to let me know that they are desperately in need of my A+ type blood and if I would be interested in donating. They're giving out free tickets to King's Island apparently.

I told the lady on the line that I was permanently deffered. She says "Oh no" in sympathy. I tell her that I'm deferred for a lifestyle choice, not a disease. She says "Okay" and proceeds to ask if I could tell others in my office about the King's Island offer. Uh, okay... I guess...

Strange how my blood type was in such high demand, but is no longer any good. At least they'll stop bugging me now.

PS: Just so you know I coined "lifestyle choice" meaning I was choosing to live a gay man finally, not that I chose to be gay. I thought that read a little strange. I'm sure she didn't know the difference.

Comments

[ericdabear.livejournal.com]

grrr yeah, that really boils my blood. pun not intentional nor all that funny, but fitting.

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

Well, we don't want to be turning all those innocent people gay with our blood to we? After all, everyone knows we're more disease ridden than any given city during the Black Plague.

Unclean! Unclean!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Ugh! I agree with you. It's disturbing, because in this day and age, I'd say most gay men are more careful about sex than most straight people.

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

*BEEP* Wrong answer but thank you for playing. It seems like a lot of the guys I know still bareback with strangers. One found out his fling was with someone HIV+. He got lucky he didn't catch it. I'm not saying gay people are worse but they definitely aren't better. There's still no need to treat us like pariahs. That's a leftover from the early 80s when people were clueless about AIDS and thought it was "the gay plague".