Ok, now, I was never one for the whole Prom King / Prom Queen thing.  It’s not that I wasn’t popular, didn’t have many friends, or wasn’t “cool enough”.  That was never the problem at all.  The reason I didn’t get into it, is that I had better things to do with my time.  I was the type that I was off with my “real friends” getting into trouble, having fun, or perhaps I was even out - working one of my three jobs, being a high school student.  I always held myself to a high level of responsibility, even as a young teenager.  No, I did not fabricate, I held 3 jobs, one of them being a graveyard shift.  Aside from that, I managed to be on the Golf Club in school, in the Youth Philharmonic, intense music lessons, the Chess Club, and actively involved in a “church” at the time. I kept myself fairly busy and didn’t worry about who was popular and who should win this ever-so-ridiculous tradition of who gets to put a flashy fake crown on their head for a freaking night.  Yes, I had much better things to do.  As far as popularity goes - you are you, I am me, and we stand where we stand in this world.  If you think some plastic peace of crap on your head, and a circle of bored people watching you dance with your “Queen” on Prom Night, it’s probably not your charm that made you so popular.  Perhaps it was your dim wit.

Ok, so moving along with the story, as I really do have a point aside from so-called Kings and Queens of high school.  It comes to popularity, and one’s so-called illusion and comfort all wrapped inside it.  I was having a conversation the other day, ok more like a year ago, when all the Presidential Election Buzz started back up.  A year and a half before a Presidential Election, of course everyone starts to talk.  Now, believe me - I am not one to talk politics, for the most part.  I think most political conversations are more bullshit than you can find on a cow farm, and especially when you come across a stupid person, my brain just starts to shut down.  I also tend not to speak on who I think I may vote for - for the same reasons - I just don’t want to go into it with people.

So, this next part is where I become stupid (yes, it happens, but this is very rare) and bring up a question on the 2008 Election.  It was a very general question, so miniscule that I don’t even remember what it was, but of course that one small question turns into a 20-minute-complete-waste-of-my-time-conversation.  It turned into a mini-debate of Obama is black, don’t vote for him / Hilary’s a woman, don’t vote for her.  When people start spewing out their opinions, I usually tend to shut up and just do the occasional head nod, again for the reason, I don’t want to go into it.  I have my opinion and I am entitled to it, as you have your stupid opinion and I just don’t want to hear it.

Well, after about 15 minutes of ignoring nonsense and staring at the other person in the most “really don’t give a shit about what you’re saying” fogged over gaze, something they said woke me out of my trance-like state, and I chimed into the one-sided conversation they were having with me:

“So, you’re not going to vote?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

“I don’t like to…”

“Really?  That really surprises me.  Why don’t you like to vote?  You seem to have so much to say on the subject, and you seem like you would prefer one over the other…”

“I don’t like to vote because the person I vote for never wins.”

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Ok.  Now this is where I just had to take a minute and compose myself.  I think I had to keep myself from laughing and nearly bust a rib bone in the process.  The reason you don’t like to vote is because the person you vote for never wins?!  OMFG!  You dumb broad!  So, ladies and gentlemen, THIS is where the Prom King thing comes in.  All rhetorical and in my head, of course, because I know I couldn’t further punish myself by staying in this ridiculous conversation, but you’re effing telling me you’re not going to vote for who you think should be the next leader of the country you were born and raised in, because you’re afraid the one you vote for isn’t going to win?

I really hope you’re good at something, say, putting on make-up or picking out a pair of high heels, because intellect and common sense, just REALLY doesn’t seem to be your strong suit.  Are you that intertwined with winning, and the popular vote, that you cannot even give your say in who should try to resurrect this falling country for the next 4-8 years?  Wow.

Reading on a different website of “Stupid Reasons To Not Vote”, one listed was MTV hasn’t told you who to vote for yet.  Yes, that is the SAME mentality here.  Higher Powers, be with us, because with a growing population of people with that mentality, this country really will go to hell in a handbasket.

I can understand there might be very good reasons others might not vote:

• You’re still a felon.
• You’re not old enough.
• The last time you voted the Republicans scored the office again.
• Religious reasons.

But beause your vote won’t be the winning person?  But, here, I might have had a moment of enlightenment.  If you’re that dumb-assed anyhow, maybe I really don’t want you to vote.  Wow, I might be a step closer in understanding you stupid people yet.