Escorting

I didn’t go to the clinic escorting for over a month (my trip and then the DIno sleepover). Fortunately, it is still relatively warm, so I knew I could survive a shift. And although I could, indeed, survive the temperature, the overall situation there was horrific.

I was told that it was even worse on the previous Saturday when there were several dozen antis. Other escorts told me that the week before, not only did the police arrive, but they also helped to protect the patients from antis. The police made a “human fence” and even pulled one of the active antis away from a patient.

Still, there are way more antis than us, and they are so impudent, so shameless, so loud…

Also, the parking across the clinic is now under the new management, and they increased the parking fees almost twice and made the pricing almost invisible. When motorists exit the highway, it says “Public parking” and nothing else; there is no bar at the entrance, and the cost of parking is hidden behind a brush. Almost all patients whom we asked didn’t pay because they didn’t know they should have paid. We started telling them that they might be better off using street parking.

It was probably the last time I went escorting before the cold weather, and I do not feel good about not being there for the next three months. I just know that I won’t be able to be outside for two and a half hours, but I still feel guilty.