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 This morning was a red letter day for me. For the first time in me 22 year history I got to walk through a picket line.  Now for me, coming from a pretty small town with no big business, prior to this week I’d never seen a picket line, live and in person. They were always on TV, being covered by the news.  This morning also allowed me to finally get an answer to a question I’ve wondered about for a while.

“If you’re on a picket line, what do you talk about when you’re not yelling?”

So, I turned off my mp3 player as I walked through, and can tell you that the guys who were fighting the man this morning had some interesting conversations, including, but not limited to:

-The menu at Apples Bees

-His 14 year old daughter maybe being pregnant

-his dog

-arguments against pumpernickel bread

-needing a bathroom break.

I’d also like to take this moment to point out that exactly none of these people were discussing why they were protesting, and their signs were not a ton of help. So it took a while to piece together that they were protesting MSU using non-unionized labor.

I hope that was as informational for you, as it was for me.

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