Yet Another Holiday For This Lucky Pair

Lovely Looe

• I love holidays.
• I love camping.
• I love Cornwall.
• I love me Sandy.

This week has a lot going for it.

Here's how we got there

Democracy Day

It's the 20th anniversery of that thing that kicked off in china -
tinamamin something or other.
I'm doing my bit to support freedom
I work as a poll clerk
It's now 0930 and I've been at it 3 hours; 85 people have had a go.
Sorry make that 84.
One person realised that it potentially isn't a secret ballot and ran
off with their ballot paper. More on secrecy later. 

If I get time- LOL 12 hours to go and we've now hit the slow patch.
I know that from experience, this is my 3rd election as a poll clerk.
Potentially it could be my 2nd as a voter.

 

I've never really been inspired to vote for the usual cryptoanarchostalinomarxist libertarian
reasons.

• Voting encourages apathy
  
• Most people shouldn't be trusted with a vote
  
• Governments always get elected
  
• It encourages politicians
  
• Insert your own glib statements here
  

So why am I here?
The money is slighty above minimum wage but usually I get released
from work so you get paid twice.
This time however my boss wouldn't give me the time and I've had to
take time off. 

BASTARD 

I will make them suffer for that somehow
So the money is rubbish but it's my money to spend on something frivolous. 

Having collective money and expenses means daft spending is difficult. I sure anyone in a partnership understands.

The polling station I work at is my polling station so I get to nose
on my neighbourhood.
You can have hours (15 in total) of fun perusing the electoral roll.

• Does she live with her? 
  
• Why haven't they registered? 
  
• If they all live together why does nobody have the same family name?
  

Plus you meet the same people once a year when they say "I didn't know you did this"
And put names and addresses to faces I see in the off-licence, at the bus stop, etc. 

Which I then instantly forget so that I can have the same fun next year.

Pip pip

Sent from my Polling Station