Date: 2023-10-20 AO: _area-51 Q: MARTA PAX: The Worm, Spammer, Sable, voodoo, baracus, ductwork, Focker, Huddle House, Hops, MARTA, geraldo, war_eagle, thunder_road, Soul Glo FNGs: None COUNT: 16
WARMUP: the Q pestered lots of PAX. recommendation… you can tell the red cross to take you off the phone call list. then all you have to deal with is me.
also I believe blood donations counts as community service hours within at least one bank.. not sure what that means.
THE THANG:
The Blood drive was a success in my books. We were going up against the odds. The little heroes blood drive in OP was held 2 weeks before ours so no neighborhood sign-ups and we lost a few PAX to that @queen @oneeye. I blame the Blood Drive Q on that one… we may also need to improve our marketing a bit.. apparently a sick kid is a more compelling narrative than giving Blood with sweaty dudes.
Anyway we has 24 sign-ups and 22 donations which is just short of the 25 unit goal. Apparently last weekend was parents weekend across the country and we lost reliable blood donor PAX to that one. Again thats on the Q. Stats were 4 random walk ins. 2 of my coworkers and 16 PAX. A solid turnout.
High lights were: – @the_worm sporting a sub 5 min donation
-@ductwork not passing out on a double red @focker being guilted into donating but rocking the 2f with @voodoo and @baracus
Thanks you all who donated or considered donating but the work and life schedule didn’t allow.
Perhaps we’ll try and do a co blood drive with FiA this spring.. though last spring we filled 39 of 44 spots.. granted half were neighborhood walk ups.
Stay tuned for a late Feb 2024 blood drive!
– the vampire
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