Today, I told my parents that I wanted to donate blood. My dad helpfully interjected, "Sorry, they don't accept blood from gingers." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, as part of my grandad's great struggle to return to the 1960's, he tried to refuse a lifesaving blood transfusion until the nurse could confirm the blood hadn't been donated by anyone who was black, brown, chinese or asian, and so on. My dad is black and I'm half black, so I suspect he doesn't like me either. FML
Today, I overheard my dad's friend complaining to my dad that his new baby boy is a ginger. I continued listening, and heard my dad saying, "Yeah, there's nothing worse than having a ginger." I'm his daughter. I'm a ginger. FML
Today, our class was focusing on discrimination, and our teacher asked us if anyone had ever felt discriminated against. I put my hand up to share a story, and my teacher immediately said, "It's because you're ginger, isn't it?" That's not what I was going to say. FML
Today, I got my blood drawn for a donation and they didn't warn me that I was borderline anemic. I passed out in the middle of Walgreens and woke up to people just standing there, staring. FML
Today, I had to explain to my boyfriend why period blood couldn't be saved and donated to the hospital for transplants. FML
Today, I tried donating blood for the first time because my company was hosting a blood drive. Right after telling everyone I wasn't afraid of needles, I fainted before they could even use one. I woke up surrounded by phlebotomists offering me juice while my coworkers whooped like I'd just scored a goal. FML
Today, my mom was feeling down because of her gray hairs. In an attempt to cheer her up, I suggested that she dye them. Her hair turned orange. FML
Today, I went to a blood drive. The nurse taking my blood mentioned that she'd been called in on her day off, and she swore she wasn't drunk. I didn't know what to do, so I just smiled and blinked back tears as she savaged the vein in my arm. FML
Today, I finally took the courage to introduce my ginger boyfriend to my family. It didn't go too well. My dad asked if he could call him "Ron Weasley" and my 13-year-old brother asked if he had a soul. Now I'm single again. FML
Today, when I tried to give blood, I was turned down before I even made it through the information packet. Why? Because I had thought I was supposed to fast for 24 hours beforehand. FML
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cinderellacat 0
Time to die your hair...... And freckles.... And whatever the hell else is orange
fmessiah 19
Gingers are becoming extinct.
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Taysia_Elice 6
No matter how many times I hear the word "ginger" I always think of Ron from Harry potter.
brettthomson47 0
Us gingers get told we have no souls but yet we have plenty of souls because we take them from everyone else.
cronekelly 0
From another ginger, live it up it is way too much fun but your dad is funny
clue_me_in 20
Wow, I see some people here can't take a joke...
SlickWillyTFCF 5
I can't rate this. I can only laugh because your dads awesome.
denvan 0
It would be carrot juice, not blood. Jk
sodapopper 6
Your "dads" interjected eh? At the same time?
GLiseeyy 1
Hahaha, Sorry OP but... I LOVE YOUR DAD!!!
sfarias28 0
they. are known as day walkers!
Rick_S 3
Tell your dad it's not blood they don't take, it's sperm donations. It's about supply and demand. They have the supply, but there isn't the demand for it. We redheads are a specialty, and not everyone wants one of us as a kid. Really, the only people who go to sperm banks looking to add to our populations are redheads, redhead lovers, and women who are married to redheads.
maxwells_hammer 5
Isn't that true for all the sperm in a sperm bank? It's only going to be chosen if someone is searching for those particular traits? I mean I guess I wouldn't know as I've never been to one, but that's how I would assume it works. Therefore ginger sperm would be no different then others.