jennifer?

so i don't know if he genuinely thought i was jennifer, or if he was just trying to hit on me.

let me back up...

yesterday as i was leaving my precinct (exercising my right to be a moderately informed voter, i suck at life) anyway as i was leaving, the man on the voter mobile (a golf cart) asked me if i wanted a ride to my car, but mid sentence he took a double take and shouted 

"jennifer???" 

and i said "me? no, i'm not jennifer" 

and he said "oh, what's your name?" 

"freya" 

to which he replied "oh i thought you were a girl i went to high school with..."

*awkward silence where i contemplated apologizing for not being long lost jennifer*

"well are you sure you don't want a ride in the voter mobile, as a voter you're entitled to a ride?" 

i refused again, saying i could use the walk and he zoomed off to pick up the next female voter he could find, which he picked up about fifty feet from where we stood at the doors, why you would need a ride for fifty feet, i'll never know. 

anyway i thought you might enjoy that awkward experience, perhaps it was my punishment for voting for someone on the ballot just because i liked his last name (it's hard to be well informed on everybody in every race ha, lame excuse i know, i always tell myself i'll get on the ball next time). i also think it's awesome that our precinct has a voter mobile, does yours? tcc isn't that big of a campus, but ion sancho supplied one anyway. it kind of makes me think of wall-e and how all the people in the movie zoom everywhere and never have to walk. 

oh america!

and one more depressing little detail from this story is that the guy was definitely mid to late thirties, and he thought i went to high school with him? whaaat? i was in elementary school when he was in high school! i don't look like i'm mid to late thirties, do i? maybe i do when i'm doing responsible things like fulfilling my civic duty....
the fact that i don't really look that age is what leads me to believe he may have just been grasping for ways to talk about more than just a voter mobile ride.

 the bat mobile voter mobile.

{image via google images}

happy humpday! the first day sans political campaign ads!