A Nice Surprise

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Just getting ready to go to work when the doorbell rang. Ran downstairs, it's the postman with a package for me.

Turns out to be my award for giving blood 75 times, a rather nice crystal plate (photo below the cut)





Now I've gotta dash, because I'm now VERY late!

Comments

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It is nice - makes you feel really altruistic and smug for a few hours.

As to the mad cow thing, back around Sept. 11th 2001 a lot of people offered to give blood and were turned away for this reason; as it turns out huge amounts of blood weren't needed, but rejecting blood because there is a tiny chance that someone will die 40 or 50 years down the line strikes me as crazy.