But I've stumbled upon a rough stretch lately. I've been on the phone three times with people representing studies. When they've asked me questions, I've said the wrong thing and was summarily rejected:
- First time was with someone whom I talked to before for this study, actually. It's as if she didn't recognize me from before. How heartless. And when I said that I took allergy medicine, I got the kibosh. Just for allergy medicine? And didn't I tell you this already? This was going to pay sweet money, but I had to drink this protein shake. I probably wasn't going to be able to hide it from my parents, whom I know would ask something like, "What the fuck is this?" and we'd get into an argument. Actually, there was a requirement that I wake up in the morning to drink the shake. I actually qualified the first time I spoke to this woman but balked because of that. But I convinced myself I'd adjust my sleep schedule, or lie, to take part. Too bad I didn't qualify the second time after qualifying the first time. Whatever the fuck that means.
- Second time I was driving and had to literally find the closest parking lot (my local post office) to talk to her. I had things to do that day. She seemed nice, chatted me up, blah-blah-blah. But then she asked me if I did any other studies at the U. My guess was that studies at the U. talk to each other, so I came clean. And after asking me a couple light questions -- "How's it going? Do you like it?" -- she abruptly told me I didn't qualify. Screw you, lady. Man, I should've lied and said I wasn't in any other studies. The U.'s a huge bureaucracy, she wouldn't find out. Dammit, I should've lied.
- And the last time was a couple days ago when I was having coffee in the morning. The pre-screening questions got real personal, unlike the others, so when they asked me if I had a certain disease I had to hope the men's room was unoccupied. It was, but my voice echoed in it, so somebody might've heard that I had ... uh, the disease she asked me about. I knew that she was going to cut me, but again, what if I get caught lying? She was the nicest of the three, though.
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