I had to drop a check off at the brokerage so we took in an early lunch at our favorite cafe. I often order smoked salmon benedict there, and did this time.
The cute young server asked me if I wanted my salmon "medium". I thought I did not hear correctly through the mask. She repeated it. I looked confused and then explained the salmon was smoked, so it wasn't cooked. She said "Oh, sorry, I'm fairly new here and still learning." No kidding.
Well, after she left the wife went on a RANT about how the cute young thing was VOTING. I explained to the wife some of the history in the US with things like literacy tests and voting and how a fair number of illiterate people vote legally. They get a card with the boxes in the right places and vote accordingly. The wife was ... um, well, not very happy.
Later two men sit down at a table ten feet away, fine, but one of them is wearing a fully on respirator. OK, fine, he's being careful, but he's DINING in an outdoor cafe, and takes it off of course. Why wear a respirator walking down the sidewalk and then dine at an outdoor cafe?
Maybe we should have a system where "we" don't vote directly for President, we vote for someone to represent us who actually knows a bit, can read, doesn't wear a respirator, and knows that smoked salmon won't be cooked in the kitchen. The, later, THEY could vote for President, say mid-December.
