I know a lot has been written about voting and so on, but I thought I should share my experiences with you as a 1st time voter.
It was around 10am when hubby and I decided to go and vote. As we drove to the school we saw a lot of cars parked and thought it's not that bad, tjo it was horrible. I remember saying to hubby "baby we left the townships avoiding such things and we still find them in the suburb"
So we drive past the long queue of people waiting to cast their votes, and decided to just go back home. We then went back to the school few hours after and found that the queue was still long. We waited in the queue for something that felt like eternity.
People with kids as old as 5years were allowed to go in ahead of us. I could understand a 6month old baby because of the weather, but 5 and 6. No ways.
A white man and his wife said I should have brought a pillow with me and pretended to be pregnant, they would have gone in with me. We laughed until another man standing behind the couple said "you were gonna say she is your maid and the husband the garden boy".
We (us and the white couple) just looked at him (obviously not laughing). The couple apologised to us and I told them that they shouldnt have to apologise for other peoples mistakes. The waiting seemed not so bad as a conversation got more interesting with the couple.
Infact the white man decided to leave us in the line and come back couple minutes later with coffee and chocolate.
I was happy. Other people who had been in the queue with us with their kids decided that they would use their kids as excuses to get ahead when it started getting colder.
Otherwise my first voting experience went quite smoothly.
What happened to you? Share your stories about things you did while you waited....
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