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From Russia with Blood
After a check-up with my doctor today, I had to get some blood drawn at a different facility because my insurance is stupid and they won’t let me get blood drawn at my doctor’s office.
It turns out the seperate facility was a single room manned (wo-manned? wo-mynned?) by a single woman – a stern middle aged Russian woman. She looked like a typical technician – there was nothing extrodanrily Russian about her except her very thick accent. Her dyed-at-home hair and aging manicure job were looking a little rough, like this Russian lady had seem some better days – days she didn’t spend collecting blood from strangers.
She did not look like this.
She was gentle with the needle, but tough looking, like she wanted to just jab you to death with that needle. Uninvited, she shared that often men who give blood faint and she finds this ‘disgusting’. Imagine in your best James Bond Russian lady villian voice, ‘I say to them, you are not man. Man does not faint for blood’.
I imagine that when I left she drank my blood, it spilling down her chin as she called the Kremlin to share US military secrets. Or she ordered lunch.
