you lied to me

I forgot the funniest thing that happened at voter registration on Saturday. I knocked on a door and asked the guy who answered if he was registered; he replied that he had already voted. I said good, if you voted in the primary then you're definitely registered. "Already voted," he kept repeating. Right, I said, but it's really important that you vote again in November. At this point the other volunteer joined in and the two of us tried to explain to him that he had voted in the primary, and the general election in November is the really important one.

"Oh, man! You mean I have to vote again?" He turned around and yelled to someone inside the apartment, "You lied to me!"

Tonight I went to an organizational meeting in Hillsborough. There were about a dozen volunteers there, plus the chairman of the Orange County democratic party, and Orange County's paid Obama staffer who will be here until the election. It was about 40 minutes of really interesting information; unfortunately the meeting lasted for 2 hours. The interesting part was about how they're going to structure the volunteer effort from now until the election. The uninteresting part was a lot of back-and-forth about several groups who have been active independently until now, and which one is in charge now, and who is doing what to bring them together, and so on and so on. I actually caught myself thinking, unironically, "I wish they'd stop with all this politics; I came to hear about politics!" I came so close to cracking myself up in front of everyone. That would have been embarrassing.

On the way out I chatted with another woman who had been quiet like me, and we agreed that we don't care about all that, we just want someone to tell us where to go and which door to knock on. I think from now on I'll skip the "organizational meetings" and just keep signing up for volunteer events on the website.