>I pottered along to the nearby school where the voting for this commune takes place every two years and duly voted in my normal fashion. As newcomers may not be aware seeing as the Twat has really driven most of my regular readers away thanks to his ongoing babble about the European Elections and even made me bored of my own blog, I don’t ‘do’ politics. Or religion. Still, beggars can’t be choosers, so thanks, Quarsan, for stepping in when you do. I would like you to carry on with the inane ramblings of my life, afterall, this is all about me, me, me.
Now that’s cleared up I can carry on with the ever so boring topic of me and voting.
Strangely enough, I didn’t see anybody that I knew, which is very unusual. But I saw an awful lot of faces that I knew of but couldn’t place. Some were faces that I see in the tram quite often, others…. well, I had no idea. The man that looks like Minty from Eastenders – does he work in the supermarket? Or is he a regular at the local pub? Every face meant ‘something’ to me, but who on earth these people were was beyond me. The worst is when it happens to be a parent of one of Todd’s friends. I don’t mean to look straight through them, but with age goes memory and I wished the queue to vote wasn’t so long.
Once in the booth it was the usual. Stick in the card, take out the pen thing, choose the language, choose écolo (Greenies), close my eyes and put the pen against someone’s name. It’s as simple as that really, although I do wish I could follow Belgian politics. Or any politics, for that matter. It’s not as if I don’t read the papers – I do. But it’s all very complicated to me, and besides, this country runs equally well – if not better, without a government so I really don’t know why voting is still obligatory. Probably to keep the Vlaams Blok away.
After that, as I was pottering around the garden the girls passed by after having voted for the first time. As their birthday is at the end of June they just missed having to vote last time, but they asked if I’d been, and had I voted Green and who for? The last question was difficult to reply to as I have no recollection of the name of the candidate that I voted for. Still, he was in the Green Party and that’s good enough.
I think the Greens will do well. My working environment is very ‘green’ in the way that they eat, think and travel. There are more and more restaurants opening that have a very ‘green attitude’. Even my hairdresser uses organic hair dye.
But I don’t fancy having to live the entire green way.
There are only so many recycled goods that I will use.
