[aka.alias] Idiot Alert Files Updated
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aka.alias
Oct 6, 2011, 1:27:30 PM10/6/11
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Ontario's provincial election is today, so out I went to my polling station to exercise my right to vote. I had just finished marking my ballot and fitting it into the designated slot, when I saw Little Miss Brain-Dead making a fuss at the door. She was standing at the table where voters are asked to show their registration cards in order to be directed to correct booth. In her arms was a puppy. He was just a puppy, much too young to be a service dog, and neither was he wearing any I.D. as a service dog-in-training. In other words, there was no reason for the puppy's owner was creating.
Just as I approached, the idiot threw her voter registration card down on the table and declared she "would be in touch with the party". The woman at the table apologized and said she could tie the dog at the door for a moment while she voted, but that she could not bring the dog with her to a voting booth. Says the dog owner, "He's just a puppy and I'm not leaving him anywhere."
Since I had a little time to spare and I thought it might help defuse the situation, I offered to stay with the puppy at the open doorway while the woman voted. Her response was a curt, "No. I don't need your help."
She then declared that she would be contacting her party to tell them why she hadn't been able to vote for them. Obviously, it filled more of a need for her to take umbrage and stage a dramatic stalking out of the place, with the puppy firmly in her arms, than it did to exercise her civic right to have a say in the government.
Women weren't even allowed to vote in Ontario until 1917, not even one whole century ago, but she probably wouldn't know or care about that. Aboriginal women (and all First Nations people, for that matter) were not allowed access to the voting booths of the nation until 1960. She probably wouldn't know or care about that either. She just threw away her right to vote in order to have all eyes on her for her moment in the spotlight, whether it was a valid one or not.
Idiot.
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Posted By aka.alias to aka.alias at 10/06/2011 12:53:00 PM
Just as I approached, the idiot threw her voter registration card down on the table and declared she "would be in touch with the party". The woman at the table apologized and said she could tie the dog at the door for a moment while she voted, but that she could not bring the dog with her to a voting booth. Says the dog owner, "He's just a puppy and I'm not leaving him anywhere."
Since I had a little time to spare and I thought it might help defuse the situation, I offered to stay with the puppy at the open doorway while the woman voted. Her response was a curt, "No. I don't need your help."
She then declared that she would be contacting her party to tell them why she hadn't been able to vote for them. Obviously, it filled more of a need for her to take umbrage and stage a dramatic stalking out of the place, with the puppy firmly in her arms, than it did to exercise her civic right to have a say in the government.
Women weren't even allowed to vote in Ontario until 1917, not even one whole century ago, but she probably wouldn't know or care about that. Aboriginal women (and all First Nations people, for that matter) were not allowed access to the voting booths of the nation until 1960. She probably wouldn't know or care about that either. She just threw away her right to vote in order to have all eyes on her for her moment in the spotlight, whether it was a valid one or not.
Idiot.
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Posted By aka.alias to aka.alias at 10/06/2011 12:53:00 PM
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