{"id":439,"date":"2005-11-08T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2005-11-08T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T07:42:00","slug":"election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m running late this morning. It’s one of my long days, wherein I go in to one job at 10:00 AM and emerge from another, battered and bruised, at around 11:00 PM. So the only way I’m gonna get time to vote is this morning. But as I said, I’m running late. I think I’m going to have to skip it. If I have to go deal with the crowds at the Polling Place I just know I’m going to be extremely late…<\/p>\n

Hang on. What did I just say? Crowds? Polling place?<\/p>\n

So I cruise over to the Michael Jackson Auditorium<\/a> just up the street. No lines. Lots of friendly older folks. I vote. No problem. The similarity of my name to that of Keira Knightley sparks a conversation with one of the poll-workers, a seventy-something woman with bright eyes. I tell her my brother, Keir, has a name even closer to hers. She tells me she doesn’t like Keira’s face sometimes, and that its limitations keeps her from becoming a great actress. She asks me if I see movies. I say yes. So she scrawls her name and phone number on a piece of paper and says, “Call me. I’ll go to the movies with you. And I know the good ones from the bad, so you don’t have to worry.”<\/p>\n

I vote. I get a sticker. And I get a phone number.<\/p>\n

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