Tell my girls that. I was glad I brought the tissues. 😛
So I headed for the polls just before 10:30 this morning. Perfect time, right? I mean, the people voting before work would be gone, lunch crowd wouldn’t be there yet, not nap time… sounds great. Should go smoothly, right?
Parking was as bad as it is at the mall right before Christmas. I drove through the parking lot twice before I saw someone pulling out and could grab the spot. We still had to walk a little bit to get up to the school, too, but I didn’t mind that… until I got almost to where I needed to be and realized I had left my ID in the van. 😛 Oh well.
They had three lines set up: the first was for people with last names beginning with the letters A through H, the second for I through P, and the third for Q through Z. Of course, A through H was by far the longest line. I through P wasn’t overly short, but it was shorter. Q through Z kept being called up to the front because there were so few of them. So, do they just divide the alphabet up relatively equally, or do they actually look at the registered voters in a given area and divide it up so the voter numbers come out a little more even? If they actually do go to that effort, then it was an odd coincidence that most of the A through H’s decided to vote at the same time. 😛
I really can’t complain too much, though. It was a nice day for it, so we didn’t have to wait in the cold or rain (or snow, as one woman pointed out). The girls were very very good considering they were stuck in the double stroller for more than an hour. And then it was over; I have voted and I will now have a right to complain if my candidate doesn’t win. 🙂
My friend Julie and I were talking today and both of us agreed that the networks shouldn’t report anything until everyone is done voting. Even if they just report that states that are finished, it seems like people on the west coast could be discouraged by voting on the east coast and not end up going to the polls after all. It probably wouldn’t make much of a difference anyway, but it still seems more ethical to just wait to report things until it’s all over. Of course, with all of the lawsuits that are either prepared or already started, who knows when it will actually be over. 😛
Time to go get some reading done. Bible Study is tonight, and I haven’t finished my chapters yet. 🙂