Ol' THREE VOTE Z...at it again!

We here in California voted for judges and State Controller today. I was just a little worried to see how many voters there were at 7:00 pm. A bit too many for my taste because all I heard was "Democrat" as people approached the tables or the booths. Is that a sign of things to come? We're only voting for judges, but are people so angry, do they want CHANGE so badly, they just decided to vote, period?

Stick with me here, I'm still laughing at what happened just now:

A friend in my condo building had called to talk some condo board business just as Mr. and Mrs. Z were starting to eat their dinner so I called her back when we were finished and said "Come walk with me to the precinct and we can talk about the building stuff ..." Off we went.

We approached the high school nearby, where we vote, and an elderly woman in a big ol' white Cadillac stopped her car and waved us to the window..."Isn't the voting place nearby here somewhere?" I said "Yes, see that big tree down there? You'll see a flag there and you go in that door." She waved thanks and I yelled in at her "Are you voting REPUBLICAN?" She nodded her head "YES" and waved again and we continued walking, Liana and I, smiling. Well, it just made me feel better, ya know?

As we got to the door, I turned to find the old lady and saw she was having a heck of a time finding a parking place with that long car. She tried pulling in and kept pulling out again at spots way down the street and I asked a guy at his SUV right in front of the door if he was leaving. He said he wasn't but that there was a parking lot just up the street a little. SO, there was Z waving to the old lady to point her in the direction, her being Republican, dontcha know!

Liana hadn't brought her sample ballot and hadn't even given voting a thought because she has little interest in politics and always asks me who I'm voting for and that's how she votes (actually her AND her Hungarian born husband!)..so I told her I'd give her my sample ballot after I got out. And in I went.

Suddenly, instead of the elderly or "slightly off" (sorry, but it's true) people who've worked the the voting precinct the last 25 years, ALL (let me repeat that) ALL the precinct workers now look like Jimmy Buffet. Ya, cool...hip precinct workers (don't you find that odd?).......the kind who, 4 years ago when I complained that someone not registered in the book was able to vote, said "Hey, you gonna deny a vote?" I said "If they're not registered I am." But, I digress. I walked in, I showed them my name and address typed on my sample ballot and they said "Are you STILL REPUBLICAN?" I rose to every inch of my 5'9" frame and said "YES, I AM." (it's tough here in LA, TRUST me!)

I voted. An older guy working another table said "Thanks for voting!" And I said "Thanks for manning the precinct!" I walked past the Jimmy Buffet types and thanked them, too, after which they said "And THANKS FOR VOTING!"

"Ya, I'LL BET!!" I said sarcastically but smiling as I left. I then passed the baton to Liana who was waiting outside! Just then, the elderly Cadillac driving Republican was approaching.....(she walked slowly, she had to have been 85). "I don't know why I came," she said to us..."I don't even have my sample ballot!" Now...could YOU have resisted? Liana took my ballot in to vote and I told Jean (we'd introduced ourselves by now) that, if she wanted, she could have it after Liana came out! I told her to just vote where I'd slashed through the little circle. We chatted about what a disaster Obama will be and how important the Supreme Court appointments were, and then out came Liana. She handed the ballot to Jean and Jean thanked me, looking pleased as punch, and strolled in to do her patriotic duty, MY ballot in hand! I told her my name was on the ballot and I was in the telephone book if she had any questions before the election. (I guess you could call THAT 'working the precinct' too, huh?)

I got 3 votes tonight! "You could stand out there for a whlie and get even more votes" Liana laughed.

Ya, if I could find one more Republican in my neighborhood, huh?

Life is good...Here's to Jean Davis