Our form of "protesting"

If you're lucky enough to be like M or me (oh so lucky), you would work right near the White House and spend most of your lunches on pretty days sitting in Lafayette Square, outside the White House. You would also see at least two protests a day (if you consider a woman in a tent a protest, then maybe three), ranging from things I don't understand to things I do.





Today, as M and I walked around the park and down Pennsylvania Avenue, we came up with a BRILLIANT plan as we heard and saw about ten people holding a big banner about something or another and using a megaphone to yell "Obama stop the Tamil people slaughter" (for more on that, read up on the civil war in Sri Lanka. Messy, horrible stuff)



So here's our idea.

A few clarifications first. One, it will look nothing like the picture above. Two, it will most likely be only the two of us. We'll need to borrow a megaphone from someone, if you know anyone. Then, we'll make a big sign and on it....we'll draw a big brick house. And we'll make another sign, and on it we're going to write "OBAMA-- CAN WE RENT YOUR HOUSE IN HYDE PARK?" Then we'll stand there, chanting over and over and over and over again phrases such as "we need a house in Hyde Park, you're not using yours" and "We'll take really good care and clean up after ourselves" and "The lower the rent the happier we'll be!" We might even cry or get emotional, too (depending on how much of a crowd we draw). Every time someone walks out of the White House, even though we know it's not the President, we'll yell even louder.

I mean it works for the other protestors, right?

If you want to join us, just let us know. We'll be planning it for one of the hottest mid-afternoons in July or August.