hoosierdoc
Freed prisoner
Tonight I had the pleasure to dine with two women I did not previously know. We sat outside a mexican restaurant, enjoyed the warm evening with a slight breeze.
Conversations ranged from in depth detailed conversations about fecal transplants and the business model behind it, to having your eggs frozen because you're getting older and haven't met Mr Right yet. Apparently it's $7500 for the procedure and $3000 for the drugs to get your ovaries stimulated and ready for harvest. Sometimes your parents will pay for them even though you had to put yourself through college. One of them was proposed to the morning after a long run where she only rinsed off and didn't wash her hair. And the guy even had a professional photographer there and she wasn't ready for pics
I learned there's a company out there taking all the extra blood tubes from blood bank donations and storing them in case anyone wants to do a study on a certain population. They can then sell the blood to the researchers rather than have to recruit volunteers. What a concept, I was blown away.
As we finished our meal I paid and got up and left to head back to our room. It was at this point I realized I never got their names. Then it occurred to me we didn't even sit at the same table. In fact, I never even said a word to them. I did however barely speak with my own family because they overpowered our table with their own convo.
People... have some tact and speak quietly when in public
Conversations ranged from in depth detailed conversations about fecal transplants and the business model behind it, to having your eggs frozen because you're getting older and haven't met Mr Right yet. Apparently it's $7500 for the procedure and $3000 for the drugs to get your ovaries stimulated and ready for harvest. Sometimes your parents will pay for them even though you had to put yourself through college. One of them was proposed to the morning after a long run where she only rinsed off and didn't wash her hair. And the guy even had a professional photographer there and she wasn't ready for pics
I learned there's a company out there taking all the extra blood tubes from blood bank donations and storing them in case anyone wants to do a study on a certain population. They can then sell the blood to the researchers rather than have to recruit volunteers. What a concept, I was blown away.
As we finished our meal I paid and got up and left to head back to our room. It was at this point I realized I never got their names. Then it occurred to me we didn't even sit at the same table. In fact, I never even said a word to them. I did however barely speak with my own family because they overpowered our table with their own convo.
People... have some tact and speak quietly when in public
