Have you ever had sex with your dog?

The blood center came to my office for donations today. I hadn't given for a while, so I signed up. A co-worker and I always joke about the questions you have to answer before donating blood.

"Have you ever, even once, had sex with an intravenous drug user?"

"Have you ever, even once, taken money for sex?"

"Have you ever, even once, had sex with someone who has, even once, had sex with a drug-using prostitute?"

My friend and I refer to them as the "Have you ever had sex with your dog" questions. Despite having sworn that I had never, not even once, had sex with a homosexual canine who had been intimate with a drug-addicted street-walker, the blood center refused to take my blood. I spent several hours visiting the Mayan ruins in Belize in January, one of the stops on my fabulous cruise vacation. Belize has known cases of malaria. No one who has visited there can give blood for a year.

A fantastic Carnival cruise vs. the warm and fuzzy feeling of having donated blood in order to save another human life.

Rejection can be difficult, but the vacation was SO worth it!!

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