I like the poll and the hole

[theholyinnocent]

{Photo by MurphyZero, from flickr's Obama Steet Art pool.

Voting this morning was not nearly as traumatic as I thought it would be; the local news was reporting lines and crowds at polling sites all over the city. So we schlepped over to our polling place, P.S. Whatevah, and was relieved to see no lines out the doors.

Inside, though, it was a different scene. Packed. I had never seen so many people there at one time, and was glad that the missus had insisted we get coffee first, because otherwise I would have been "freakin' and tweakin.'" Resigned to our fates, we got in the line to find out which district's machine we needed to wait for. That only took about 5-10 minutes. So we went over to wait in the line for our voting district and there were...

...three people ahead of us. So either our district is really lame, or voted really early, or will vote much later. Other districts had a good 30+ or so people in line, with some lines going out the doors into the hallways. By the time we were done voting and were on our way out, the overall line was beginning to stretch outside the building. We were lucky. But to punish me for my good fortune, fate chose to bestow upon me THE WORST BAGEL EVER. I'm happy to take one for the team, though, just like Hills!:



I know that a lot of you won't be so lucky, though, and will endure long waits--although I certainly hope that's not the case. But to those of you who have yet to vote, chins up, sweeties: We're making history. Let's do it.

Comments

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

yes, my precint was packed as well. no line out the door, but I've been voiting in the same spot for 8 years and I have never seen that many people at that little church.

its exciting, people care :)

[eclecticfan.livejournal.com]

ya know - it was just earlier this week that I found out that some polling places where churches... and houses and garages

I never realized those kinds of places could be (would be) used for voting...

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

yes, I guess it surprised me too when I moved here. I was accustomed to schools, libraries, municipal garages. In the township where I grew up, voting was in this gargantuan garage. There were three industrial green colored voting machines (with the curtain) sitting in front of huge bulldozers and snow plows. There were electric space-heaters around the makeshift registration area. When I lived in Ohio, it was always a public school or library. When I got here to the burgh and learned I would be voting in a church, I was like "a church" what? But that's pittsburgh, just about everything is eventually connected to some kind of church :)

[eclecticfan.livejournal.com]

I just found it the weirdest thing - that you could be going to someone's house to cast a ballot...

When I was a kid my parents voted at my grammar school - it closed down on election days - they brought the old lever machines into the 'all purpose room' - the indoor gym, the cafe (the table folded up into the walls)

[dathon.livejournal.com]

Since I moved to Pittsburgh, voting for me is always inextricably linked with the smell of onions from the volunteers' hoagies that fills up the basement of the church.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, hoagies...::drool::

Pittsburgh has clearly taken you over, since you call them "hoagies." :)