Blood Drive Bitches

My school had a blood drive today. There was an assembly, flyers, sign up sheets everywhere! 'we need blood, 80% of people will use blood products at some point in their lives but only 4% donate.'

I took it upon myself to join that small percentage and donate my blood. Afterall, I'm of good health, I'm perfectly capable of doing so, and I'm a universal donor. So when the sign up sheet came around I put down my name and signed up for a spot during my study during last period next week.

Today was the blood drive. I was sitting on the steps outside a-block with some friends waiting for class to start when the principle came up to us.

"Are any of you interest in giving blood today?" he inquired.

My friends said they couldn't 'cause they had gotten piercing within the last 6 months and I said I was sign up to go during last period.

"All appointments after 2 o' clock have been cancelled. There weren't enough sign ups then to make it worth while. There's a bunch of free beds in there now if you'd like to do it still."

Wait, what? 'Weren't enough donors to make it worth while.'. What the he'll right? We get all these statistics thrown in our face about how there's a massive blood shortage out there. 'We need to get up and do our part'. But my blood which 'has the potential to save up to 3 lives wasn't worth staying open an extra 15 minutes for. Whatever though, I just went in then.

So to the auditorium I go. There's a good 8 empty beds, 2 people are being worked on an there's 3 people filling out applications. There's another 5 people ahead of me in line but overall the place looks pretty empty.

I walked up to the coordinator, explained how my appointment had been cancelled and asked to reschedule.

'Do you have an appointment?'
'Well, no, not anymore.'
'Sorry were booked, if you don't have an appointment you'll have to leave.'
'But I had an appointment, you guys cancelled on me. Is there not anytime I could come do it?'
'No, we're booked for the whole day.'

At this point another aid came over to help sort things out. From the looks of it there were two other kids who were stuck in the same situation as me as well as some others who wanted to sign up on the spot. No such luck. A whole group of us were told to leave immediately, they wouldn't take our blood.

In complete disbelief I left and went to class. I mean they spout off all these statistics about how desperate they are for blood but they can't be bothered sticking around an extra half hour for another 15 or so volunteers? I wasn't even given a pamphlet or card in case I was interested in signing up for a later date. Just told to piss of cause they didn't have the time.

Weren't even polite about it.