Casting Votes...

Yesterday I worked a 9 and a half hour day, with no lunch and no breaks  Which is inexcusable since I have an assigned substitute carrier and I was only out for two days.  It should not take me that long to clean p after him, but it did.  And now I'm off today, so I'll be cleaning up tomorrow, but that's a gripe for another day.

Any hoo...

Nine and a half hours. I promptly started dinner as I got home, wondering where the hell my husband had gone off to when he came through the door and announced that he "had done it."

Crap.

I forgot to vote.

Getting dinner into a good holding pattern, I threw my sneakers and coat on and headed out the door.

"Youngest, I'm off to cast my vote for Vermin Supreme!" I yell down the stairs.
"You do that!  Ponies for everyone and mandatory teeth bushing!" He replies.

In truth, I would have felt better about casting my vote for the guy that wears a boot on his head and promises a pony based economy.  At least you'd know what you're getting. And who wouldn't love a security team of flying monkeys?  On the mile drive to the elementary school I pondered my choices...

A chick that's completely untrustworthy, who basically has stated little, if no new ideas for the country, but sadly is the most qualified.

An old guy, funded at $25 a whack, who's ideas I like a lot, but even I know are not possible.

The Donald. *shudder*

A guy that may or may not be eligible, since he only denounced his Canadian citizenship when he figured he'd throw his hat in the ring, that is also not trustworthy.

A guy who doesn't show up for work  and is predicted unlikely to win his own state.

A doctor who looks as though he's been doing a lot of self medicating and who I'm not sure knows he's still running.

And the guy from Ohio, who is seemingly the only one making any sense, simply by keeping his mouth shut.

Being Independent, I can pick which party to vote in.  So do I vote against who I like the least, knowing full well that's how it will go anyway?  OR do I switch the party and vote against the biggest of all evils, just so that that candidate doesn't get that extra vote?

Or do I write in Vermin and ensure we'd all have fresh breath, and a funded time travel program?

It's a vexing problem indeed.

In the end, I voted to try and upset the apple cart.  Which it did not.  I did learn that according to CBS, Vermin won 4th in NH, coming in with more votes than the Republican Senator Gilmore. I also learned that "How to move to Canada" internet searches skyrocketed shortly after the polls closed.

We. Are. Doomed.

I sure hope Canada is ready for our refugees...