It's great that you can go shopping after office hours in this country. There is no need to get into the crush on Saturday morning to get your groceries for the week. Just go after work, after the cinema, whatever time. The majority of large supermarkets are open until midnight during the week and Tesco's is even op 24/7 in some places. Brilliant!
So, as the freezer was getting fairly empty and we had to have something on the table for dinner tonight we decided to get some grub in Dunnes Stores in Douglas. Even though the upcoming National Elections have not been set yet, a date is to be expected very shortly, who is already campaigning to get re-elected? Yes, indeed, the
Minister for Justice himself.
And of course the campaign workers asked whether I wanted to speak to the dearest man. "No, thank you" was my reply but then I thought, let's ask the ladies if they can help me to get voting rights for the National Election. As a EU citizen I have voting rights for the local and European elections, but not for the national government. That's not really helping when I'm paying my taxes here and have zero influence on the day to day running of the country. As if you would when you could vote, but at least it gives you a feeling of democratic influence and importance.
It took them three party members before somebody knew what the situation was. "If you want, you can run in by the Minister?". I didn't bother, the poor man is busy enough trying to get the votes from the people that can vote. The best was yet to come. "Would you be interested in joining the party, you look like a man who knows what he wants". Exactly, I want my voting rights, but not under the current legislation and I definetely do no want to give my vote to the PDs. Still, it was a good sales pitch, if you don't ask you don't get.
Oh, and the gym? That's for tomorrow.
