Just yanking your chain.
I used to live 3 miles from the border crossing north of Bellingham WA and went across the line at least once a week to buy cheap dairy products and gas. Every two weeks I'd smuggle back a couple cartons of Camels under the back seat of my Chevy.
While down in Bellingham once I saw a sign in front of one of those donor places and went in to see what's up. The deal then, 90s, was $50US for every two plasma donations, (guess it is hard to not call it a donation lol), and they paid you on the 2nd one. That was about $75Can so not a bad deal but I was already into donating whole blood back home so turned it down. I used to donate 6 times a year but I've lived way up north since '01 and have to travel 5 hours to get to a donor place so maybe once a year since.
I started donating after I found out the old lady had been screwing around. Went to the doc to get tested for everything including AIDS. He said you don't want it in your medical records that you requested an AIDS test so go do society a favour and donate blood. They'll test it for AIDS, Hep-C and B and a few other nasty things. I felt better after donating like I just got a tune-up so kept going back. Used to take new girlfriends so they could get tested and I could feel safer riding bareback.
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