Entire Virginia town forgets to vote

Well, it was Virginia after all. You expect such things from states such as Virgina and Kentucky.

Isn't Virginia your home state, gustav?

We're talking about a town of about 260 people. I looked it up. I suppose someone has to take care of "the road" and "the one room school" with its 6 students.

my wife was elected auditor in our twonship by one vote. (13 people each got one vote and there was a runnoff and my wife won the lotteryt) Only thing was, she did not want the office but her husband, curious imp he was, voted her in because she was being such a smartass on the way to the polls and he probably thought that hed show her ass a thing or three.
So, she had this runnoff in which , when she won, she seriously thought about serving (for about 4 minutes) Then she called the bureau of elections and told them that she could not serve.
I thought that Id like to introduce my wifes husband to the other 12 people who also cast one vote for someone in such a careless disregard of their rights to vote. Id like to see what kind of dorks they are.

I forgot to vote in the Florida primary.

Gus ain't good enough to be a Virginian; however, Jamestown is still a marsh.

Frankly, I admire the Surry, Virginia lifestyle. My family is half-Virginian, and I've spent a lot of time there, in the rural areas. I love the slow pace, the criminally-rich local foods, the easy access to powerful whisky, the almost South American embrace of manana. I do miss my grandmother's now-extinct tidewater accent--so soft. In-migrating Yankees (who can blame them?) and television have sharpened the tone of Virginia speech. By the way, that image could not be of Jamestown--not swampy enough, and you can't make out the mosquitoes. Typically, they darken half the landscape.

I was just teasing Gus and C.J., Miklos. I was born and raised in Virginia, and have a modified East Virginia accent. Are you a man or a woman? I would love to know which part of Virginia is in your ancestry.

Not one single person understood my post, not even mysteryman.

I am disappointed.

Letty,

My Virginia connections are a little complex, as my mother and father were about 7th cousins. We were all descendants of "John Rolfe, gentleman" of Jamestown, who was, as you assuredly know, no gentleman, but a younger son on the make with a pocket full of illegally-acquired Spanish tobacco seeds. After Jamestown, my family moved to Williamsburg, where it mostly stayed, except for Mt. Jackson (in the Valley) in the summers. My beloved grandmother was born at the Mount Airy near Mt. Jackson. I was depressed to read in the Richmond paper a couple of years ago that my grandmother's summer haunt is now a frequent dumping ground for murder victims from the city. Didn't need to know that!

Thank you for asking. I am sure that I would greatly enjoy your "modified East Virginia" accent.

Until she died at 95 two years ago, my step-mother lived in Heathsville, then Kilmarnock, both on the Northern Neck. Really nice small towns.

Best wishes to a fellow Virginian!

Letty,

Forgot. I am a guy. BTW, my wife and our older daughter went to Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. They, too, love the Old Dominion.

mysteryman, didn't mean to hijack your thread, buddy.

Miklos, my late husband went to Virginia Tech; I got my master's from University of Virginia; my daughter went to Sweet Brier but dropped out because she said that it was a big beautiful prison. My son is the only one that broke the tradition.

Congrats, Letty. That has a nice ring to it, and that is something that can never be wrestled away from you.

Here's lookin' at you, kid.

You didnt hijack it, I find what you are saying interesting.

My only connection with Va is that my family is originally from there (Wythe county), and I was stationed in Norfolk for a while.

Besides, you will never hear me complain when a thread of mine goes off in a different direction, that is the way normal conversation occurs.

Sheeze, Gus. More unlikely coincidences (I prefer synchronicity). I was going to tell mysteryman on his thread concerning lines from movies that were provocative:

"Here's looking at you, kid" Humphrey Bogart's line really said it for me. Often it's the understatement that holds the most allure. Now I understand what you meant by Virginia and Kentucky.

mysteryman, I know Wytheville, Virginia and also Norfolk. Been both places. Odd, there's a town in Wythe County called "Cripple Creek". Need to check that out, because there's a song by that title.