From the ER waiting room, part one: senior protest
Yesterday while waiting to be seen for hours at the Guelph General Hospital's ER, I watched what may have been the most ineffective protest I've ever heard of.
At first I didn't even know it was a protest. An old man was marching up and down the sidewalk in front of the hospital. I thought he was waiting for a bus and was walking to keep warm. A bus drove by. He continued walking back and forth.
Claire, Ryan and I then thought he may be crazy. But there was a small sign planted in the snow facing the street, so we were quite puzzled.
Eventually three more older people showed up. One carried a half-sandwich board sign that read 'Abortion Kills Children.'
The four of them marched up and down a thirty-foot stretch of sidewalk for nearly three hours.
I kept hoping more people would join them. I wished I had my voice recorder and a camera. Hell, even just a notebook and a pen.
But then again, my name might have been called at any moment and if I was out interviewing senior citizens I would have missed it.
Oh well.
At first I didn't even know it was a protest. An old man was marching up and down the sidewalk in front of the hospital. I thought he was waiting for a bus and was walking to keep warm. A bus drove by. He continued walking back and forth.
Claire, Ryan and I then thought he may be crazy. But there was a small sign planted in the snow facing the street, so we were quite puzzled.
Eventually three more older people showed up. One carried a half-sandwich board sign that read 'Abortion Kills Children.'
The four of them marched up and down a thirty-foot stretch of sidewalk for nearly three hours.
I kept hoping more people would join them. I wished I had my voice recorder and a camera. Hell, even just a notebook and a pen.
But then again, my name might have been called at any moment and if I was out interviewing senior citizens I would have missed it.
Oh well.
