Saturday, October 18, 2008

Time to Vote

It has been a very quiet week for Bob. There were no doctor visits and the only outing we had planned this week was ice skating and Bob didn’t go with us. We try to make ice skating on a day that Rob is home so that Bob doesn’t have to go. There isn’t much for him to do there and he would be pretty bored.

Next week we have bowling and he will have a lot of fun. So there is something for him to look forward to.

The big event for the week was that he filled out his sample voting ballot Saturday. That was not easy. I read each one through with him and thank goodness he isn’t really voting. He picked all of his names for how they sounded. For the most part if you were a woman or had a funny sounding name you were out. When it came to voting for the judges he felt sorry for them and didn’t want any of them to loose their job so they were all in.

As far as the amendments went, there were a few that I had not researched yet; and you know bad those things are worded. Well he guessed at a few, and then there was a couple that we tried to figure out together. That was really funny. The main thing is that he went through the ballot and marked it through. No, we are not mailing it in. He told me yes on some and then marked no, and when I pointed it out he said, “Oh it doesn’t matter, they are going to do what they want anyways, let’s just leave it alone.” I agreed.

It made him feel good to talk about the candidates and he thinks he did the right thing. He did tell me he didn’t know who to vote for president and I told him well, you have a choice between a bad guy, and another bad guy you just have to pick which bad guy you want.

He thinks the ballot he filled out is really being mailed in so please don’t spoil it for him. Unfortunately, he has lost the ability to make decisions on his own when it comes to voting. That doesn’t mean that we can’t talk to him about the candidates and make him feel apart of the process.

Give him a call this week and talk politics with him. There isn’t a better subject to make a person laugh and cry over than that one.

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