Thin Orange Line

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ETA: Planned Parenthood is sending an urgent call to ask people to call their Congresscritter at 202-730-9001 to urge opposition to the Stupak Amendment that will eliminate any abortion coverage from health care reform. None, not even with private funds.

Thoughts from a clinic parking lot:

1) It makes no sense to shout "We have brochures in Spanish" in English.

2) It makes even less sense for a member of an all-white protesting team to play the race card on the all-white escort team.

3) We're not *that* kind of an escort service. (If there's anyone who really gets off by seeing someone in a baggy orange vest over a baggy coat standing in a parking lot, I don't even want to know.) Does anybody seriously think clinic escorts are paid for it?

4) It's good to have a little food, because then you can stuff something in your mouth when you open it to yell back at the protesters.

4a) The Starbucks insulated travel mug will only keep a drink hot for an hour during cold weather.

5) It's good to have flyers for the escorting organization because once in a blue moon, the only way someone knows how to find out more about joining is to walk up to an escort.

6) I should probably get a little more protein at breakfast before a shift, because imagining how fun it would be if we suddenly broke into some choreographed dance number in the parking lot was completely insane.

7) Being a shit-stirrer isn't as edgy and cool as you think it is around the age of 17.

Comments

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for doing what you do.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

6 - I wanna see it! :D

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

1) Good point.

2) "Yeah! That's right! I'm white! What are you gonna do about it, whitey?"

3) Have you considered starting a side-service? Escorts that don't call attention to the fact that they're escorts.

4) Peanut butter works well.

4a) Starbucks needs to address this. Possibly with self-heating cups. The technology is there.

5)Good point. Especially if your mouth is stuffed with peanut butter.

6. Dip your bacon in peanut butter.

7. Yeah, but with age comes experience. And with experience comes more ways to stir shit.

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Thank you for doing this.

(FYI, the House switchboard took 30 rings to answer and my rep's mailbox was full. So I sent an online letter. Arrrgh.)

[rainbow-gray.livejournal.com]

Hullo, just passing through from random corners of the internets, but I wanted to leave some love behind for being an escort.

Also, I am calling the insurance riders women would have to purchase in order to pay for abortions the Woman Tax, because that is what it is.