blood donation and more

Well, yesterday, as I was walking through PMU, I saw that they were accepting blood donations. Now, I have always wanted to donate blood. But EACH and every time there was a blood drive nearby, I had an exam the very next day. So, I thought..ok I am going to donate blood. I walk in, fill up a bunch of paperwork and approach the nurse. She goes through it and says... when did you get back from India. I say.. March 20th, 2004. She's like.. uhmmm I think you have to come back after that date as you have to be in the US for 1 year.
I was like... whaaa?? I mean. 1 year... it's been 11 months and 1 week. Oh well. I didn't say all that. I quietly said ok, took the EXTRA LARGE T-shirt she offered me and walked out. (P.S. Why do I always get free T-shirts that are too large for me??).

I mean, I mustered up courage.. and they turned me down. Nothing I could do

In other news, my faith in people just went up. My friend lost his phone and since we are on a family plan, I called att to find out if I could suspend his line till he got a replacement.
1st rep: puts me on hold all of a sudden, and just hands it to a different rep
2nd rep: nice.. but tells me that the other line was the main line (Though I added it later...some goof up someplace), and so both phones would be suspended. Any question I asked got the standard response: "Unfortunately, no sir, we cannot do anything about that"
I asked for her to call her supervisor. She puts me on hold for 10 mins, and comes back saying her supervisor says I should take another plan temporarily without free nights and weekends and a whole bunch of other crap
Then, I call her super.
3rd rep: Just as bad. No interest in solving my problem.
I say, ok, will discuss with friend and call back regarding new sim etc.

4th rep: Nice and sweeeeet!!! She said she could give me free nights and weekends without extending my contract!! Something the 2nd and 3rd reps refused to do. I mean, she was soo sweet. Even told me that posting the sim would cost me 10 bucks .. which I could save by going to the store.

so.. all said and done... there are good people in this world:)

-Mohan.