Toe Zone

 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/17/400329400/espn-suspends-reporter-over-rant-recorded-by-towing-company?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150417

YIKES! Way to make a tow company(!!!) look sympathetic. Did anyone think that were possible? In the same week they go from the bad press of attempting to tow a car with children in it (???!!!!!!) to this.

Frankly, I like the dirty talk from a woman. Britt McHenry can talk dirty to me just about anytime, anywhere but- that's me. Others might not think she's protected under the ASA (Americans with Spankability Act) I'd be a willing participant and match the foul-mouthed little whore word for dirty word. That's slut-shaming and a story for another day. Suffice for now to say that it belongs in the bedroom or any other mutually agreed upon venue.

In the real world though, it's not right. The unseen female clerk in the video is just a Nazi doing her job and not the tow truck driver who actually hooked Britt's car. She did not deserve the abuse. We don't see her but, I bet she's not as attractive as Britt. Perhaps only a million or two women are. To be fair to Britt, we only so far get to see the video that the tow company is willing to show, so we might not be getting the whole story. Perhaps the clerk baited her? No one in the history of the world has been happy about paying a ransom to get their car back so everyone enters that trailer at least a little cranky. I'm going to venture that a person in that profession might be a little thick skinned. And, no, I'm not trying to say she's fat....

Personally I have never been towed. Years ago, however, a carload of us went down to Rush street. We studied the parking sign and though none of us were pre-law, it seemed like we were in the clear to park there. Ya know, we probably were. It doesn't matter in the big city. Do you want your vehicle back? That's all that matters. You pay or you walk. And don't forget the storage fees! That night we all agreed that the space was legit and if the car did get towed, we'd share the fee. I think the fee then was $105. Something like that. It was an odd number and they didn't take credit cards then and they did not make change. You had to have one hundred and five dollars, exfuckingzactly. A hundred and ten and "keep the change" would NOT work. You might as well give them $105 in pennies. They wouldn't accept that either. I'm not kidding. Very anal assholes I'd have to say with little or no irony intended.

So Britt's not winning hearts and minds with her spiel about her spankable exceptionalism. Frankly, I had not heard of her before this. I love sports but I try to keep the love strong by not taking sport's pundits to heart. They are worse than the political pundits on TV. ESPN recently suspended another reporter for disagreeing with Curt Schilling on Twitter(!) vis a vis creationism and evolution. Schilling, who is often shilling for the reichwing.... is a creationist. He's also an employee of ESPN, annoying people on Sunday Night Baseball as the number two color man to John Kruk. Dukeing it out on Twitter with a fellow employee might get you called on the carpet but shouldn't cost one employee a weeks pay. I'm not too sure Britt should be suspended either since her diatribe wasn't work related. But, the message might be that every aspect of our lives is work-related now and that we all must toe the corporate line. And have exact payment.