My buddy came over last night with a wrapped Xmas gift. Opened it up.
TA DA! Going to try this out later. Really not interested in dropping off another sample.
That's genius.
Soooooooo......this was an interesting exercise. I wasn't sure where to do it because as I've mentioned a time or two, my house is FULL of kids and activity and there's hardly any time to crap in peace let alone jerk it to a science experiment. As I soon learned upon opening this box, there's more to it than simply splooging on litmus tab. I've assembled complex pieces of IKEA furniture with less instructions than this sperm test. Thus, I decided to do it at the office, which meant waiting for everybody to go home, waiting just a while longer to make sure nobody forgot their phone, locking up the doors, making sure our warehouse tenants were gone for the day and praying like hell that the FedEx guy didn't need to drop off a last minute package. You ever try jerking it when you're paranoid? It's like trying to enjoy a cold shower.
Anyhow, I've got the contents laid out in front of me on my desk, the lights are off and after settling on a nice "film", empty my contents into a plastic dish that looks like every jello-shot container I've ever seen. Coincidentally, I am never taking a jello-shot again. Upon release, you are to wait EXACTLY 20 minutes, not more not less. Folks, if you're anything like me, I treat jism like a guy robbing a bank - once the deed is done, I am quickly moving on and leaving the scene of the crime. I couldn't just sit there with it staring at me, so I threw a manila folder over it.
At 20 minutes, you are to stir the sample around with an injector they give you in attempt to separate the clear fluid from the sticky gunk. Then, they ask you to pull the plunger to load up the injector and then carefully shoot it into a bottle of solution, whereupon you are to close the lid, carefully and delicately mix the solution like the world's most fragile cocktail and then after 2 minutes, drop FIVE little drops into the testing strip. Wait 7 minutes and come back to check. One line good, two lines bad.
ONE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I took a picture, raced home, showed my wife and said "let's hump". She laughed and said, "yeah, I think it's good that your buddy got you a sperm checker from Amazon, but I'd really prefer to hear it from your doctor before letting you anywhere near me".