February 28, 1998
Picket Report - [aka. Laud gets off her butt and takes her turn]
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Picket Report - 28FEB1998 [aka. Laud gets off her butt and takes her turn]
From: laudanum@bellsouth.net (Laudanum)
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 02:38:30 GMT
We had agreed to meet at the Varsity at 11:00am [est].
At 10:35am, I was woken up by a call from Wynot confirming meeting
places/times/etc. So much for being punctual. And so it goes.
Anyhow, Mad_Cow, wynot, Jeff (who, for some unknown reason, my brain
interpreted as "Chris" for the whole of the days activities. Sorry
Jeff.), and I met up at The Varsity. I was the last to arrive,
finding them just finishing their lunch. We made our way back to the
Org and I made a quick foray to Einstein Bro's bagels for a hummus
sandwich and potato salad. Both were mucho tasty, but hummus is a
little too messy to eat standing up. For the next picket, I'll try it
with plain cream cheese instead, should be less gloppy that way.
After some joking about over my signs being blank, I brought out my
secret weapon (an Xtra jumbo Marks-A-Lot marker) and wrote up two
signs. One said:
[Side one:] [Side two:]
$cientology: A Scam of $360,000 for a Bridge
Galactic Proportions! to Nowhere.
(Thanks Arnie, btw)
The other:
[Side one:] [Side two:]
Are YOU full of dead $cientology says you are!
space aliens? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ask me about XENU!
Wynot, Mad_Cow, and Jeff were already picketing, so I hastened to join
in. Time passed. After a while, three women hastened over to
"handle" us. Diane (in the photo from a.b.s., she is the redhead on
the right) almost immediately latched onto Mad_Cow (he had the coolest
sign). Susan talked to everyone a little (the unhappy looking
brunette), but you could tel her heart wasn't really into it. The
other girl (the blonde one) didn't really talk to anyone, and we never
got her name. She left after a short while and went back inside the
building.
As has been said, we got a few honks, one finger, and a rather
humorous response from a guy driving by to Mad_Cow's "Where's the
Beef" sign. Diane was very rude and condescending, but Susan was
quite nice and seemed somewhat shocked that the eevhul SP's were, in
truth, rather polite and sociable. A more or less good time was had
by all, tho I think the picketers had more fun, since we weren't faced
with ethics if things went poorly.
We only picketed for about and hour and half or so, and I don't know
how people pull off the 4+ hours of picketing without falling asleep
on the way home. I'll be hitting the Stairmaster before the next one,
though, so I should be able to last a little longer.
After the picket we went to a little Mexican restaurant nearby that
made incredible churros before (sans two people) going to wynot's
house and waiting while the film developed. Then it was time to go
home and start brainstorming for the next time.
-Laudanum
--
"I am clean as a hound's tooth and I wield the
flyswatter of truth. Fear me Scientology."
- Pope Charles
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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