Cause you just never know!

[kitanzi]

I used my lunch hour today to get blood drawn for some medical tests, and while I was at the doctor's office I picked up a flier for a blood drive they're having there on Friday. The hours are ridiculously inconvenient for anyone with a regular full time day job but I figured maybe I could use my lunch again.

So it's a cute little flier for LifeSouth, a regional blood bank type organization, and it clearly tells you where and when this is and promises goodies and cholesterol screening for anyone who shows up. I glanced at it and stuck it in my pocket, and only just now looked at it more closely. When I did, however...

The header is "Life is unpredictable - give blood." Very reasonable, very true. It's accompanied by three little international-symbol style drawings to suggest what sort of unpredictable things might require one to get blood, making this blood drive terribly vital. These appear to be a person and a house being tossed around by a tornado, a person about to be crushed by a soda vending machine, and a person flying through the air after being zapped by a UFO with a death beam.

So, apparently the next time you get hit by an alien death ray in the southeastern US you should call LifeSouth, because hey, they KNOW about these things.

Comments

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Wow. Can you ask them why they haven't sent me that e-mail of my blood type they promised me at Dragon*Con when they nearly caused me to faint tapping my vein?

[riff-77.livejournal.com]

i want to see a picture of this

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact, the flier has a phone number if you want to try and ask them yourself. That's 888-795-2707!

(Sorry to hear about that! I've had some good people and some bad ones when I donate, and Red Cross is no better than LifeSouth. ACat can vouch for me on a lot of those, including the time when I apparently ran out of blood and the other time when they ruined the white tshirt I was wearing by doing SOME screwed up something which caused a burst of blood spray all over that side of it.)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I have no scanner, but give me a fax # and I'll fax it to you. *G* (It's black on blue, though, dunno how well that will fax.... I could try to xerox it first maybe. Anyhow, I'll try!)

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

So, apparently the next time you get hit by an alien death ray in the southeastern US you should call LifeSouth, because hey, they KNOW about these things

Well, it's good to know someone is prepared for all possible manner of emergencies!

They have obviously researched this enough to find that blood would be needed in this death beam case - something I haven't quite thought through yet.

:)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Good point! Perhaps the idea is that it's really just set on stun (sqeamish aliens, perhaps?), and the blood is needed after the person being knocked around lands on something and cracks wide open?

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

the other time when they ruined the white tshirt

Ok, that's creepy. If I weren't already traumatized by needles, that would do it. *shudder*

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Now that is a possibility.... Amidst my giggles I can see the importance of a plan if this were to happen.

I was kind of wondering if it might be a transporter beam instead of an injuring sort of beam (the actual picture might make this clearer). This could then mean that they might do experiments, or even just kindly give the person some of their blood as a favor. Either way some people might see the need for human blood transfusions later.

:)

[braider.livejournal.com]

I want to see these designs...

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Give me a fax # and I'll fax it to you from work tomorrow. :) (email's in my LJ profile, if you don't already have it and don't want to post the number.)

Icon Fodder?

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

"a transporter beam instead of an injuring sort of beam"

Remember the cute little "tractor" beam (complete with farmer) from the first Star Wars trilogy? Huh - maybe I'm remembering a fannish take-off video. Hardware Wars?

"I want to see these designs"

Me too. Any chance of Autographed Doc scanning them at work and putting them up on his web site? Pretty please? :)

Ann O.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Well allrightie then. After all, it's only rednecks that get picked up by aliens. (See also ID4? :)

Although that may be both good and bad... they may decide we're harmless... or they may decide we should be put put of our misery.

Great icon for such things. :)

Re: Icon Fodder?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Geeezzz... well with this many people asking, I'll ask him. :) Sure I can't just fax the silly thing to you all?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Thanks - this one would also have been appropriate!

[ohiblather.livejournal.com]

A quick question: Do you mind if I use your real name in the GAfilk song credits?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I bet you were writing this just about the time I saw your post on your LJ and answered it there. :) I certainly don't.

[ohiblather.livejournal.com]

Yup, we must have been posting at the same time. :-) Thanks again!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*snerk* yes, yes it is.

[eloren.livejournal.com]

But who will take care of our needs in case the underground troglodytes come swarming up to wreak havok?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should write up a disaster plan and pitch it to them? They seem fairly open minded.

Re: Icon Fodder?

[braider.livejournal.com]

Nope. Only fax I have access to is at work, and I'd feel uncomfortable receiving not-strictly-necessary personal faxes here.

Re: Icon Fodder?

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I don't have access to a facs at all. If it's too much ado about nothing, I can certainly live without them. Thanks anyway.

Re: Icon Fodder?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's not, I'm just surprised how many people want to see the thing. *G* I'll see if ACat has a scanner at work - I'd do it, if I did. :)