October 7, 1999 - AndroidCat

Since it looks like I'm going to have to cut the official Toronto Oct 16th picket short, I decided to fill in a bit. (Wulfen was definitely in favour, so we had a picket! Okay okay, I sort of said I'd like to do a sprint picket and he asked if I was jerking someone's thetan or what.)

A nice day, cool crisp October but sunny. I wore khaki picketing shorts and a red shell--but no red jammies. (Those are trademarked!)

A courtesy call to 52 Division, foot patrol, to let them know what's going to be happening at 9:10am.. but nobody was home. Eh, I'll try later. 11:45, tried again. Gads, law enforcement in Toronto is about to fail due to a lack of pens!

After a busy morning, I met Wulfen at 12:47 in front of the usual coffee place, and we set off for a Short Sharp Picket. THURSDAY. STATS DAY. BEFORE 2PM. (Belgium!)

Me, from last night: "We could just have snap unannounced pickets (with a courtesy call to the police before hand just to let them know). This would be much more cost-effective for Co$, I guess: No police officer rental, no calling an All Hands at the org and dragging people in to serve on the weekend, no pushing of staff to blow -- just poor Mario and his whistling. (A sad damned soul -- he picks up the tab for all the Dianetics Mission purchases before they [if!] get sold to the public.)"

"Of course, if we did any snap unannounced pickets, they might happen on a Thursday just before the stats were due. Maybe, but probably not, you never know, ya know?"

Pure Random Chance, sort of! (I was wondering why Wulfen kept talking about Thursday just before 2pm, I just wanted to hit the lunch crowd. Honestly, I didn't clue in until Tuesday.)

I hope Co$ Toronto is happy now -- this sprint picket was pulled in by Peter Ramsay, OSA, Sporgeries, and the Letter L.

I had my "shrank the Lisa/Xemu" flyer, Wulfen had his and this time we had enough!

The picket sign was "$cientology wants your money *and* your life", but I couldn't find the stapler, so it was just a hand-held single panel.

I was late! (Stapler plus traffic on Bloor and .. me being late! :^) Wulfen was waiting for me (no shit), and we did the picket. Not a whole lot of flyers, not a huge amount of traffic. A couple of bicycle cops happened by five minutes into the picket and thanked us for letting them know (Are you the same bunch as usual? Yeah. Okay, thanks...) (There was a "woman on the phone" in the org. I gave her a nasal-digital salute and a smile as we moved away from the cops. Nyah-nyah, I called them first!)

Just before 30 minutes ticked over, a SUV illegally parked (licence plate *THETAN*!) at the North side of the org, and a member went into the org. (If I can, I'll hunt up a link to a photo. Stacy spent time talking to her last year, I think.) I hope she didn't come all the way down to the org to handle us, because it was 30 minutes, and we left.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/2167/rsm009.jpg Here's the org--subtract 17 or so picketeers and add a year and a month.

Huh! Can't find her! But Check out the wonderful picketures at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/2167/

(You know, there's a lot of members on this page that I haven't seen in at least a year--you don't suppose they've blown or something? Where's Wimpy these days!?)

Wulfen said that we shouldn't visit the Brothers Restaurant until *after* they've moved, so that none of the tab goes to Co$. Good point!

It looks like I will be able to attend the start of the scheduled October picket. See you there! (Yeah, yeah, I'll be slightly late!)

I'd just like to thank Co$ for outing me, thus qualifying me to be a "picket host", and for continuing to provide incentive to keep on doing so. I couldn't have done it without you folks!