Flipping off the President
A Western Washington school bus driver was fired after flipping off the President during his tour of Washington State.
Here’s one article, and I’m sure there are lots more.
First off….Woohoo!! I’d flip the fucker off too. Gee, can you tell who I voted for???
However, as much as I just do the happy dance at the thought, she was in the wrong.
Not about flipping off W, ’cause hey, free country and all that jazz, but about flipping off anyone in front of school children. Acting as a role model for kids is part of the job for anyone working in a school district. Granted, it’s not as bad as a teacher doing it, but still….
Although, honestly how many kids were actually paying attention anyways? I never paid attention to the bus driver when I was that age and I didn’t have all these cool toys to distract me back then either. I’m sure most of the kids were on their cellphones (since schools generally restrict them during school hours, I imagine that’s the first thing kids do when they get out). I’d be willing to bet most of the parents first heard about it via the media and word of mouth, not because little Johnny came home and said “Mommy, the bus driver flipped off the President!”.
Since the school district is claiming that there were previous incidents, I can’t offer an opinion on whether or not the termination was justified. If there were previous incidents then it potentially was, but if there weren’t than she probably should have been reprimanded, or whatever it is they do these days.
And why the fuck was a Congressman calling a school district to tell them a bus driver had given W the finger? I’m pretty damn sure that’s not what they are overpaid to do!
As multiple people have pointed out, Georgie Porgie himself is rather fond of that particular gesture, so obviously he can dish it out but not take it. Come on Mr. President….get over it already! Anyone who works in any kind of retail job takes that kind of abuse regularly….and we don’t get nearly as much money and vacation as you do.
