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  1. All right … I confess I haven’t recorded your vote … I hate tabulating votes. I have this terrible un-un-uncontrollable fear whenever I see votes. When I was a kid I used to hate the sight of polling places opening. My mother said I was a fool. She said the only cure for it was to become a Dominion machine. So I spent five ghastly years at the Tabulator Training Center at Newark. Can you imagine what it’s like counting the same set of data for five years? I didn’t want to be a counter anyway. I wanted to be a lumberjack. Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia . . .The giant redwood, the larch, the fir, the mighty Scots pine. The smell of fresh-cut timber! The crash of mighty trees! With my best girlie by my side …we’d sing… sing… sing….

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