Thank You Mitt...For The Reminder

I worked my ten-hour shift yesterday having cleared up all the weekend voice-mail messages during the day. I like clearing all the voice-mail messages--I feel less pressure having no one waiting for me to call them back. I usually don't get messages after I clock out so when I sat down at my desk this morning, I was a little surprised to see a voice-mail message waiting for me.

Then I played the message.

It was from Mitt Romney.

Of course, Mitt (I feel we have a first-name basis relationship now...) and I have never spoken in person, nor have we spoken over the phone. And had I been at my dest at 5:33pm on 11/5/11 and had picked up, I wouldn't have spoken to Mitt himself, but an electronic recording of the man running for US Senate in my home state.

Mitt called to remind me to make sure I submitted my ballot on time. Very thoughtful, yet hardly necessary. I took advantage of our early voting process and submitted my ballot weeks ago. Still, it's not everyday you get a voice-mail message from a multi-millionaire former US Presidential candidate.

Then again, it's highly possible I'll get another message from Mitt in six years.

A Tale Of Two Parking Lots...

I thought I knew what I would find. As I thought about what to include in tonight's blog post, I thought I had an easy topic to cover. I thought I knew what I would find when I pulled up to two parking lots tonight.

I was wrong.

On the way home from the bus stop I noticed a usually empty parking lot at the shopping center in our town. Seeing a full lot I realized the latest big store had opened its doors and it appeared a lot of people were checking out the latest spot to spend money.

One thing I wanted to do today was vote, and I thought since it wasn't a big election year, things would be very quiet at the voting location. I expected to pull up, park anywhere, then rush in a vote. Oh, I thought there might be a couple of people there, but I'd be one of only a few voters.

I was wrong.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm sure there were more people in the store than at the polls at that given moment, but the fact that the parking lot at the voting location had fewer parking spots available made me happy.

News reports are going to say that voter turnout was again poor, but seeing others exercising their right to vote made me happy.

So happy, I had other decisions to make.