KIP pays off

Today was blood drive day. Now the last time around, the Red Cross was short staffed and the waits were very long, first to do the medical history stuff and then to get an open table. I must have spent at least an hour and a quarter just waiting in different lines. So before I left the house today I tossed one of the travelling socks into a Ziploc bag, just in case.

As it turned out, there was no line. I breezed through the preliminaries and never accomplished more than about 10 stitches worth of actual Knitting in Public.

But, when I got to the area where the needles go in, the nurse asked me what I was working on, with that particular gleam in her eye that bespeaks a fellow knitter. So the whole time I was pumping away at the little rubber ball we were discussing different projects, and sharing notes on favorite yarn stores (I think I need to take a day trip to Galena), and she told me all about her friend's daughter's alpaca farm, and I convinced her that she really ought to try socks. All in all, I do believe it was the most fun I have ever had while bleeding.