Hold the Sticker

Steve Brown January 29th, 2008

I’m writing this from Florida.

So?

It’s primary day in Florida. Given that I’m a good citizen, a committed Christian, want to set a good example and think that voting is important, later today I’m going to go and vote.

If you know me, I’m probably the most opinionated person you know. If there is an issue, I have a conviction about it. It’s my nature. I’ve always known who I would vote for weeks in advance and have, on occasion, done everything I could to get my candidate elected.

But this time I’m sitting here and I still don’t know who I’m going to vote for…and it’s driving me nuts.

Everywhere I go, I see people wearing that stupid sticker with the American flag. It reads: “I voted!” I want one of those stickers. It’s a fairly easy place to feel self-righteous and there is a lot to be said for self-righteousness.

The problem is that I just haven’t decided.

Then I got this idea.

You know what I’m going to do?

I’m going to go to the polling place, enter the voting booth, mark nothing on the ballot and then come out smiling. Who’s to know?

They’ll give me the stupid sticker. It’s called self-righteousness without the righteousness.

Everybody will notice and will know that I’m a good citizen and a committed Christian, and have done my duty.

That’s when Jesus screwed up my idea by telling me that I wear a lot of stickers.

I figured that one more place couldn’t hurt. Right?

Okay, okay. I’m out of here and I’m going to vote.

But after I vote I’m not accepting the sticker. Do you know why? Because I’m humble, that’s why!

Then I can feel self-righteous about my humility and the fact that I’m not wearing the sticker that all those self-righteous people are wearing.

Is that cool or what?

(Erik just came in and told me who I should vote for. I asked him if he was voting and he said he’s a registered Independent and couldn’t vote in the primary. Now that ticks me off. He gets to be self-righteous without voting, without a sticker, and without being humble like me and rejecting the sticker. SPIT!)

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