- Vote to get a shot - Tuesday, November 02, 2004 I have a new feature that I would like to introduce to the blog. Because kids say the damndest things... Wonderblog's Preschool Dialoge of the Week Two girls, age 4 girl 1: "Do you know what 'Bonita' means?" girl 2: "Um...no." girl 1: "It means 'sexy'. You know, like a 'sexy mama'!" girl 2: "It does? Ooooh!" girl 1: "Do you know what 'sexy' means?" girl 2: "Yeah, I know what 'sexy' means. It's when a girl shakes her booty at a cute boy!" Ok, so how am I, the teacher, supposed to keep a straight face when I come upon these types of conversations? Is it wrong to laugh, since such an uncontrollable jesture may led to all my 4 year old girls giving their fellow 'nose-picking, booger-flinging' 4 year old counterparts a booty-shaking side show? I can't help it, though - I was dying with pain trying to hold back a huge giggle. After giving the 'booty shaker' her lecture on the many things she can discuss when she gets OLDER, I couldn't hide my giggles. Somethings are just too damn funny... I ran to the polls today after work, since I don't even know what sock goes on which foot in the morning, let alone trying to decide which leader should be in our highest office. It was at a middle school just down the street and luckily I didn't have to wait. However, I'm really peeved about this different system of voting. I know that everyone is trying to do away with the 'punching' method, so I was expecting maybe some electronic voting machine. Yeah right. Instead we're stuck with using these BIG ASS, memo-to-congress sized voting sheets, which require you to fill in the bubble PSAT style. Do you know how long it took me to fill that mofo out? They're trying to attract people to the poles, I don't have all damn day to draw happy faces on my choosen candidates! Come to think of it, I don't think I'd be too found of using anything electronic, either. I have such a love/hate relationship with technology that I don't feel right trusting something important like my vote to a machine. What the hell was wrong with punching the ballots? That baby was done and over with in a matter of 2 minutes. Even faster still if I had some espresso before hand. All this 'anti-hanging chad' crap is just that...crap. If you, the somewhat intelligent voter, can't make holes in a paper card, then you shouldn't even be let into the building. Sorry, but I have sub-zero tolerance for stupidity, and now I'm having to spend a whopping 4 1/2 minutes playing 'Fill in the dots' AND wait for my BIG ASS, resturant-menu sized ballot to be scanned before I'm ok to leave. Well, at least Starbucks understands this travesty. I went to my local SB to get some homework done, and found that if you flash your "I Voted" sticker, you get a free shot. Score! Problem is I could have used that free shot for an energy boost BEFORE I entered the polls. What!?! Those bubbles are huge, man! It's almost Wednesday. For once, this week is passing like a Flordia hurricane.

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