We went back to Catalonia for Christmas to visit our family and friends (and who doesn’t do it :) and while on Vic ((SPAM: a really small and nice city, if you ever happen to go to Barcelona take a train there, it’s well worth it)) I found the bus for blood donation on my way to buy the best chocolate croissants ever ((I go there from Berlin itself just to buy them!!)).
Whenever I’m around Catalonia ((I still haven’t checked the German blood donation system)) I try to give blood (4 times a year allowed for men over 18 years and more than 50kg), but this time some ideas came to my mind:
- People was making huge queues on the public lottery office in front of the stationed bus ((There’s a huge lottery on both 22th of December and 6th of January)). In contrast, there was no queue at all on the bus. In fact it took me less than 20 minutes to enter and leave the bus. Still without blood on the hospitals, no matter how much money you get on the lottery…
- Just after giving blood and about to leave, one of those security money vans that take money from banks, lottery offices or so arrived and a couple of strong guys came out of it to take the money from the lottery office. Again, money needs gorilla-like people to take care of it, while the blood bags already filled where lying inside the bus on my arm reach.
Anyway, just as the Catalan blood bank system says: “one time (giving blood) is not enough!”