"Sign....Petition..."

The animal rights lady was spotted back at South Station one day this past week. For those not in the know she was a fixture there a few years back...a bedraggled lady with a huge picture of some sad looking kitten imperiously intoning "Sign...Petition..." She fit right in to the South Station scene then as it was a hell hole of a construction site masquerading as a subway stop. She was finally rousted one day by some guy who started demanding where the donations went and, oddly, strangers from the crowd started joining in the attack. The general consensus was she was pocketing the donations and didn't really care if you signed the petition or not (egad!). Perhaps people were just sick of her act...no one wants to see mangled kittens shoved in your face day after day. After that brouhaha she disappeared. I saw her months later one day at my stop Davis Square...and after that she was spotted in NYC by one of my subway riding cohorts who happened to be visiting. In each case she was immediately recognizable by her distinctive oratorical wail...."Sign...Petition..."