Your Neighbor Could Be One...

In today's Washington Post, there's an article on people who consider themselves to be vampires.  Yes that's right, vampires, although to be fair, not all of them feed on blood, and those that do only take willing victims.

One of the little blood suckers talks about her "energy deficiency" and

occasionally needs to take a little energy from her boyfriend. Just a teaspoon of blood, once every week or 10 days, and always collected with disposable single-use lancet. Safety first, safety first. Feeding is "not as parasitic as people think," she says. "It's more of a reciprocal thing." While she has an energy deficiency, she says, her boyfriend has an energy surplus. "He'd been a little hyperactive, and now he can actually sleep through the night." It's almost medicinal, really.

Well, is that all?  Could it be that maybe you are just a tad anemic?  Could you not just take an iron supplement?

Of course my favorite would have to be the psychic vampires, who apparently just take sips of energy from my aura.  I like the vampire who said she likes to go to Applebee's to feed off of people's energy because it's so positive there.  Well sure, there may be a positive energy there, but i can assure you, that energy is not low in cholesterol.

I am all in favor of people doing their own thing, but really I'd like to meet one of these psychic vampires just so I could laugh at them.  Really, you're taking my energy, yeah I believe that, uh huh sure...