neadods | Thin Orange Line

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.