Well I got up early this morning, as usual (I’m an early riser) but I got dressed and headed out the door at 5:40 to go to the polls to vote. The polling location is only three miles from our house, and I thought that I could get in the door and vote and get back home again PDQ. I was some surprised to find the parking lot full and a long line of people! I tried to park on the street, but a police officer told me that I couldn’t park there and had to move my car. Since I was hurt in a car accident last fall I can’t walk very far, so I couldn’t park far away and walk the rest of the way, so I just came home, discouraged. My wife says to wait until around 10am when most of the people will all be at work, hoping that the polls will be less crowded then.
We live in a small town, with only about 2,000 people in it, so I hope she’s right and that I will be able to vote in a few hours.
The phone rang at 8:15pm last night (we go to bed at 7pm because we get up at 3am!) from The Washington Post newspaper, trying to get us to subscribe to their daily paper. We already get the Sunday paper subscription. They call us at least once a week trying to get us to upgrade to daily. We’ve told them several times to put us on the “Do not call” list but they keep calling! Anyway, they woke us up and we couldn’t get back to sleep until 10:30, so we were NOT happy! Next time they call us I think I’ll tell them AGAIN to put us on the “Do Not Call list” and tell them that they next time they call us we will cancel the subscription that we DO have!
As I was explaining a little bit earlier, I took the car to a car wash. I was very unhappy with the poor job that the car wash had done. At this particular car wash, you pay AFTER the car is washed, not before. (Bad business, that one!)
So the attendant had not thoroughly sprayed down the car with cleansers and the car came out looking almost as dirty as it did going in. So I told the lady who was collecting the money that I was not going to pay $8.00 for such a cruddy job. I wanted them to wash it again, this time using the cleansers that they should have used the first time. She said if I wanted it washed again, I had to pay for two car washes! I told her that I was not satisfied and they needed to give me a clean car for the original $8. She got nasty and I told her that she could kiss my *** (well, you get the idea, right?)
So she said “You’re a crazy man, I’m calling the police!” I told her “Bring it on!”
