Donating Blood Can Get You Drunk

I donated blood on MLK Jr. Day. You should too. It doesn’t hurt. If you don’t like needles, just look away and take a deep breath, and you’ll do fine. The American Red Cross really needs your blood. To find the closest place to donate go the the Red Cross Web site and type in your zip code.

The Triangle chapter is incredibly low on type O negative, B negative and A negative blood. And if that’s not a good enough reason, then look at it as a good way to save money. Because everybody knows if you donate blood and go out drinking afterward you get tipsy a lot faster, thus spending less on beer. The Red Cross does not endorse this behavior, as the Minnesota Daily recently reported:

Dr. Gary Bachowski of the Red Cross said donating and drinking doesn’t fit with the philosophy of giving blood to those in need. “It’s our policy to collect blood from donors who really don’t have any other reason to give other than that it’s a good thing to do,” he said. … Donating and then drinking can also be dangerous, Bachowski said. When a person donates blood, a tenth of his or her blood volume is removed, he said. In an average man, that equals about a pint of blood.

When was the last time you donated blood?