1. First and foremost, I did not die.
2. It took me fourteen minutes to donate my blood.
3. There is a lot of paperwork involved.
4. They wanted to be very sure I'm not promiscuous
5. I did not get a cookie, just lemonade. I feel lied to.
6. I was not offered one of the "I helped starve a mosquito by donating blood" stickers.
7. I was rather dizzy afterward.
8. Donating blood apparently makes you hungry because I just devoured half a medium pizza, which is completely disgusting.