I would like to ask these women one question...If you all take the day off who is gonna make me a sammich????
You would have noticed it if you were in Prince George’s County, MD, and driving to work this morning - the least traffic we’ve seen since the Christmas vacation :-)
This is an excellent article. I would bet that most of the people who ‘took the day off’ didn’t go downtown to protest, and certainly shopped. I’m acquainted with some of these women, and it wasn’t even a ‘hissy fit’, as the author suggests - it was just a good excuse to take a day off, which many of them had probably not even heard about until the last minute, but took a ‘slacker’s’ advantage of as soon as they did.
One comment that I saw from a person on the Internet was that this could happen because of a snow day - and we haven’t really had any snow days this year. But responsible parents watch the weather, and usually have time to make contingency plans in the event - because they are responsible!
The real burden of this nonsense was that the P.G. County schools made the decision to close late in the day yesterday. They had no choice - the requests for personal leave came in at the last minute, and they were left with staffing and security issues! - and the parents were just left to scramble. A lot of those parents are responsible mothers, who had to go to work today - Yes, many are people who work in law enforcement, hospitals, and other essential services.
In my opinion, this was a really lousy thing for thoughtless females to do to responsible Women.