2005-01-03

one gallon pin!

I just went and gave blood and I got my one gallon pin! Isn't that exciting? They told me to ask the old lady volunteer to give me my pin, so I went over there and asked her. I don't think she could hear very well because she said "Six?" And so I thought she was talking about pints, so I said, "No, one gallon. Eight pints." So she seems happy with that and smiles and walks over to the pin holder.

She comes back and hands me an eight gallon pin. I don't know about you, but I don't think it's possible for me to have given eight gallons. I am only 20. So I felt really bad and I was like, "No.... I have only given one gallon, not eight." And she can't hear me again. Then finally she does and she says, "Oh, I thought you said eight." And so I finally got my one gallon pin! The man beside me was laughing a lot and told me to keep the eight gallon. But I did not.