a little democracy

Sawyer attended his first town meeting tonight. There was a meeting to conduct a straw poll about where a new elementary school should be placed.

It was held in the junior high gym and it was standing-room only - probably 1000 people.

For most of the time, Sawyer played in the lobby -pressing buttons on the water machines, counting doors, walking on the windowsill (6 inches from the floor). Finally, the presentations were over, the commenters were done yapping, and it was time to vote. I had convinced him to go into the Ergo, and we went into the gym. We had all (well, not the wee ones) been given day-glo index cards which would be counted. I told him I had to hold up the card to vote. At which point, he started pointing to other cards and saying "vote" "vote" "vote."