Day Four: The Vote Has Been Baracked

On the way to vote this morning, I was sexually harassed by this guy:

I was waiting for the People Mover to come (we took the People Mover because I'm still all puny and infected from my (marginally better) ear) and I was photographing downtown while I waited. This dude was in front of the library and kept grabbing his crotch, thrusting at me, and then doing that "I'm watching you" gesture. He was also wearing a tie, which somehow made it worse. Like, you took the time to do a Windsor knot and now you're making vulgar gestures at me? Seriously?

After that, though, the voting process went very smooth and no one else thrust their penis towards me. We arrived at the church where we were voting and they said it would be an hour's wait at the most (it was more like thirty minutes), and then we sat in the pews of a beautiful church while a woman played old show tunes on the piano and someone else kept offering us coffee or a roast beef sandwich.

Our actual voting booths were wobbly and we had to go old school and bubble in the circles with old bic pens. Everyone was really happy to be there, though, and all the people staffing the voting station were super helpful. A middle aged woman walked me through how to fill out the ballot (I haven't voted before and was worried about doing it wrong.) and then an elderly man showed me how to feed my ballot into the machine. Then he gave me two stickers and called me "Honey-Chile."

Right now, of course, Detroit is freaking out. It's even louder than when the Wings won the cup -- which is saying a lot. It all seems good-natured but it's wild enough that my window panes rattled at one point.

I think this will be one of my favorite memories of living in Detroit.

Comments

[Captain Dick]

My team has never won the Cup, but this feels like a huge victory nonetheless. Would be nice to live somewhere that is celebrating. It is like a wake here in Central Texas...except at my house.

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[AnneS]

Too bad you didn't get (& post) a picture of the pervert's face.