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Christmas in Florida
Canvassing on a October afternoon, it's surreal to see the Halloween decorations on the yards, with the tombstones and bones littered all around the McCain-Palin yard signs.
At the Obama houses, happy faces of folks so pleased to see proof of an awesome ground game. We start voting here tomorrow, at any public library regardless of your precinct. Just bring a driver's license if you are registered.
The Obama office has just cleared us to support downticket Dems and we have a challenger to the Republican House incumbent (Ros-Lehtinen) where I'm canvassing.
One house has pumpkins on the steps, but when the lady opens the door, you can see a fully decorated Christmas tree. Her son was home for a bit before his second tour in Iraq, so they celebrated early. She'll leave the tree up until Christmas, I guess. By then, we'll have a new president-elect.
I'll never forget that tree.
At the Obama houses, happy faces of folks so pleased to see proof of an awesome ground game. We start voting here tomorrow, at any public library regardless of your precinct. Just bring a driver's license if you are registered.
The Obama office has just cleared us to support downticket Dems and we have a challenger to the Republican House incumbent (Ros-Lehtinen) where I'm canvassing.
One house has pumpkins on the steps, but when the lady opens the door, you can see a fully decorated Christmas tree. Her son was home for a bit before his second tour in Iraq, so they celebrated early. She'll leave the tree up until Christmas, I guess. By then, we'll have a new president-elect.
I'll never forget that tree.
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Christmas tree, huh? So whaddya got against us Jews?
Or do you just hate trees? ;-)
Rec'd, Rootman.
October 19, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not such a people person that it doesn't give me the willies to see how people live. The way they come to the door in their clothes, or if they are baking something, it taxes me somehow.
October 19, 2008 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hear ya man. I used to get to canvass the fun stuff. Bingo parlors. Strip malls. Army bases. Native reserves. Trailer parks. Funny, I did great in all of 'em except the Mall. That weirded me right out of my head. Ended up having to be dragged away from some guy that started shouting at me about how "You're all liars!"
I figure it was the scent from the perfume section. Made me crazy. Am NOT a happy shopper.
However, all you need to know about human life is contained in your Neil Stephenson. I'd recommend reading & rereading the first 100 pages of Snow Crash. Life looks pretty simple after that. ;-)
October 19, 2008 11:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
He has a new book just out, after a long wait.
October 19, 2008 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm aching to get it, but didn't wanna haul a 23,000 page hardback on the plane. The overweight charges would break me.
October 20, 2008 12:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
What a beautiful, poetic post.
October 20, 2008 12:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for all you do, Rootman.
October 20, 2008 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the story of bones and tombstones around the McCain signs.
In 2004, I lived near a house in a Republican neighborhood of NJ with a teenager who routinely went all-out for Hallowe'en. A couple days into November, but before the elections, I went for a walk one night, and that year's elaborate gallows set-up was partly taken down, resulting in a big pile of bodies right next to a Bush-Cheney sign. I took a photo on my cell phone, but it didn't come out well at all.
October 20, 2008 1:50 PM | Reply | Permalink