My polling station is a whole 0.5 miles from my house. That’s an 8 minute walk each way (2 minutes if I cycle, which I probably will).
Once I get there, it might take as many as 5 minutes for me to wait in the queue. 5 minutes! Followed by around 1 minute in the booth where I put my cross on a piece of card before popping it into the box.
As a round trip, the whole affair could take as many as 20 minutes. Twenty! Can you imagine? Think of all the other incredibly useful things that I could do with that time…
- Watch an episode of Brooklyn 99, or two episodes of Adventure Time.
- Cook and eat onion rings.
- Rant about ‘the state of the country’ to a partner/parent/friend.
- Walk to Tesco to buy those salted caramel bakery cookies and return home.
- Fold laundry and put it away.
- Thoroughly stalk a colleague or acquaintance on Facbook.
- Compose and send an angry response to an article on the Guardian about grouse shooting.
- Complete a level on Pokemon Gold for Gameboy.
- Overbrew a cup of tea.
- Take up knitting and then immediately quit..
- Take up twitter and then immediately quit.
- Shave my legs.
- Have an extra 20 minutes in bed.
Or I guess I could just go and vote.
(I might pick up some of those cookies on the way back though)
– Hati
Hati Whiteley 