A method for obtaining a bodily fluid sample, including providing a reel-to- reel tape carrying a first lancet on a service loop portion of the tape, the tape having a length and defining a supply section of the tape, a storage section of the tape, and the service loop portion of the tape that spans between the supply and the storage sections, the service loop portion of the tape is translatable independently of the supply and the storage sections, moving either the storage section or the supply section of the tape to position the first lancet carried by the tape adjacent a bend in the service loop portion of the tape, and relatively translating only the service loop portion of the tape with a mechanism without activating the remainder of the tape to lance tissue with the first lancet.
