I sure did. Call me an overachiever, but early voting is great. I even got to use one of the electronic voting machines. I decided I liked that better than the ones where you have to completely fill in a bubble. Those always make me feel like I’m back in high school taking the state-mandated tests.
I voted at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center down in Fair Park. It was refreshing. I was one of maybe six white people. It’s good to know Dallas isn’t all WASPy and pretentious. One guy asked me what the long line was for (I wondered why he picked me to ask?) and I told him it was for early voting. He asked, “Voting for what?”
It took me a minute to recover. “For the election on Tuesday…”
The big man in front of me turned around and said, “For president, man, for the president.”
“Ohh, we votin’ for the president?”
You mean there are people who still don’t know there’s a presidential election?
OH
MY
GAWD.