For several months now a group of 20 or so people have been picketing in downtown Tulsa right on the sidewalk in front of the Mayo Hotel. Right at the door of Topeca coffee. I see them several times a week when I go in for my daily Americano. They are protesting the contractor working on the Mayo renovation project. To me it looks like the picketers are trying to do an exorcism.

Based on the book and movie, The Exorcist, I always thought that you had to be a priest to be perform an exorcism. Apparently it is not true, carpenters can do if led properly. That’s right its a bunch of carpenters doing this exorcism. I don’t know if they are ordained carpenters or not. They don’t look like carpenters to me. They look like homeless people and also needs roofing repair services to all their homes in their locality.

The head exorcist told me that they were all members of the carpenters union. I didn’t argue with him. He didn’t have the air of a man who really wanted to debate the difference between being a carpenter and being a member of the union. He did assure me though that they don’t have a problem with the coffee shop.

They might need to rethink their strategy. These men and women have been at this almost every day for at least two hours a day for months.

And the rats are still there. Yep, that is what they are trying to do is get the rats out of the Mayo Hotel. You have to admire them. These bunch of carpenters can chant loud.

“Get the Rats out, get the rats out,
Rats gotta go, Rats gotta go”

Over and over again.