My Election Experience

So yesterday was my first day of work in over a month now lol - and it ruined me!! lol - well not really - it was easy - it was just a long day!! 15 hours sitting at a polling station getting up only once to go to the bathroom - I might as well have been tied to the chair!! However....let's see what I can remember from my super long day. We get there at 8:45am to start setting up our station - all goes well. 9:30am the polls open - we have a line up already - Steph and I are like - but we don't know what we're doing...be patient (yeah the training sucked ass! lol) But we figured it out - it wasn't rocket science by any means - so we were all over it by the second person lol. Our scruteniers was this guy from the conservative party and Peter Adams (the liberal MP that was elected in Peterborough for the past 20 years) so I was all - Peter!! Not to his face but in my head. We also had a hardcore Information Officer that took his job very seriously and whenever anyone came in he would be - u here to vote? where do u live? or even more creepily where do u sleep at nite? Hmm then it was lots of sitting around while people voted - and then the conservative guy came around and asked everyone how they took their coffee and went and got us coffee and Steph and I were all like - yes free coffee!! lol dunno if we were supposed to pay him or not - but whatever - he's conservative - I'm sure he's got money. Then more time passed and I'm really blanking out as to what happened...lol I was amazed at how many people didn't know how to fold paper the same way that u give it to them - mind u they were mostly conservative voters (cause we saw the vote) so I'm not totally shocked. We ended up with 461 votes - and it took us forever to count them!! lol - we started at 9:30 - I think we were done at 10:30...friggin hell. NDP won at our poll - but Conservative won overall... Then we had to get all our shit together and hand it in....11:30 rolls around and we're just getting home - ever so tired and sore - my back was killing me and I had weird bumps on my forearms from the arm rests on the chairs lol - but it was a good expereince...too bad I did all that work just so some used car salesman could win - way to go Peterborough....way to go.