Saddest Job on Earth

Have just come back from an insurance-company sponsored medical checkup at Mt. E and it's possible to say that the most unrewarding job on this planet would be the one held by the person who goes from clinic to clinic taking blood samples.

Now that's someone whose well of sympathy is bone dry and dusty, with tumbleweed. I don't believe she even carries around tissues anymore for people who go into hysterics because they're afraid of needles, assuming she ever did.

A good day for this woman is taking blood from a bunch of random people who just grit their teeth and shut up. A bad day for this woman is ... probably today, for reasons I'd rather not go into right now. All I can say is if I were in her position I'd have at least tried to pretend to show sympathy. And for the record, the phrase "Can someone please hold her arm still I don't want the needle to break" is not a sympathetic remark.