# Genghis Bob goes double-red; Genghis Bob falls down

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 22, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genghis-bob-goes-double-red-genghis-bob-falls-down/265481 "2004-09-22T14:11:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genghis-bob-goes-double-red-genghis-bob-falls-down/265481/21 "2004-09-23T15:04:26Z")

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The last time I donated blood, freshman year of highschool back in the last milleneum (about 1981-82) The nurse asked a bajillion standard questions.

The only one she didn’t ask, that I was a-waiting for is: are you having your period.

I was.

I donated.

I shouldn’t have.

Woooooooooooo. Not a good combo.  
I also had to have some blood work done for a routine physical recently and my period had just ended the day before. wooooooo. need.to.lay.down. Apparently I hadn’t restocked enough of the red stuff. That and the fact that I had a nurse who either failed basic phlebotomy or rode the short bus to nursing school and took about 30 minutes to do a simple draw of my blood and I was bored with being pricked and decided to get light headed. The doctor, however, was a hottie. So thats a plus.  
What were we talking about?

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genghis-bob-goes-double-red-genghis-bob-falls-down/265481/22 "2004-09-23T20:06:14Z")

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> The nurse asked a bajillion standard questions.

I love those! That’s my time to play “mess with the nurse’s mind”.

Nurse: Have you paid for sex within the last 7 years?  
Me: Of course I have! I’m a married man!

Of course, don’t do this until you’re sure that the vetting nurse is not the needle wielding nurse. Revenge is too tempting.

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