Rule of thumb: when your age is an integral multiple of hers,
your lusty references are probably offensive.
"That's so goddamn dumb I can't believe it," said Schaefer, a former governor and mayor of Baltimore who is seeking reelection this year. "I look at one of the girls as she walked out. Big deal. . . . I look at the girls every time they walk out. The day I don't look at pretty girls, I die."
That's not quite the way it was. Silent admiration of geometry is fine.
But...
The public meeting had just begun yesterday morning when a 24-year-old woman delivered a mug of tea to Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer.
Schaefer (D) watched her walk away, appearing to stare at her backside, then motioned for her to come back.
"Walk again," he told the woman, an administrative aide to Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R).
Son. At a public meeting? On a stage in front of 100 or so people?
"A little girl walks out, and I make a joke out of it," he said, expressing dismay. "The one who is offended is me. . . . I can't believe you are making a deal out of that."
A 24 year-old woman is a "little girl," and
he's offended...
