Donating Plasma

My friend told me today that she was going to this place after work to donate plasma. Basically they take blood out of you and take the plasma out of the blood. It helps save peoples lives. More importantly, you can get paid $200 a month if you donate enough times. Since I drove her to work today, I said I'd come along and donate too. Who doesn't want money for doing nothing? We drove through the ghetto part of Fayetteville to get there. The parking lot was packed. We go inside and there had to have been over 60 or so people in there waiting. We go to the front and ask the guy about getting an appointment. He basically laughed at us and said that people wait outside the building and camp out over an hour before the doors open to get an appointment for that day. It's an entire day experience. Needless to say, we didn't donate plasma today. He said there was another location that doesn't get as many people. That location is actually slightly closer to home. On our way home, we got horribly lost because a road was closed and our GPS obviously didn't know that. We drove through the even scarier parts of Fayetteville with our doors locked and windows up. It took us almost an hour to get home when it should have taken us about 25 minutes or less. Today, it was not worth the money to give blood. We will see how it goes when I try to go to the other location.