Off to Finish Walking a Precinct Someone Else...

Although I enjoy meeting some people when I knock on doors, time is getting short and about half the people who answer the door have already voted. So today I will probably just leave the postcards under the mats, which is not quite as good as talking to people. I also have less encounters with unfriendly dogs that way, too. I actually got bit one day when a screen door wasn't locked and the dog ran out as I approached. Now I hope my husband is ready to go. Had I not been waiting for him to come with me, I'd probably be half through by now.

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Larry H. Oct 31, 2012, 4:31pm UTC

THANKS FOR SHARING.

Barbara Radisavljevic Oct 31, 2012, 7:06pm UTC

Thanks for commenting, Larry.

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Holly K. Oct 31, 2012, 4:36pm UTC

Thanks for doing that!

Barbara Radisavljevic Oct 31, 2012, 7:08pm UTC

The hardest part is walking it by myself. My husband can't walk far, so when he's tired, he sits in the car until I finish a street and drives me to the next location.

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Leah Christensen Nov 1, 2012, 8:05pm UTC

Are there many Serbs where you live? Too bad you'e not in Canada! I live near Little Serbia, and you and your husband would be having some GOOD TIMES along the voting routes.

Barbara Radisavljevic Nov 2, 2012, 2:35am UTC

Leah, we've never met more than one here. I think you mentioned on myLot how many you have close to you. But we still meet lots of Serbs here in California.

Leah Christensen Nov 2, 2012, 2:48am UTC

Why not come to Ontario and visit us one day? We'll show you around. The nice thing about living so close to Little Serbia is that we can take lots of vacations, and when this neighbourhood drives me nuts, I've got a nice escape! I remember last year when my neighbour was annoying me, I just packed up and went there for a few days. :)

When we had the Serbian festival last July, I came down with Phlebitis in my right leg two days before the festival. Fortunately the hotel had a wheelchair I could borrow. The folks at the festival were more than helpful.

It's actually a much safer place with all the Serbs around. They don't tolerate crap. Wish more lived in Guelph. My neihbour wouldn't have gotten away with half the crap the cops wouldn't deal with.

Barbara Radisavljevic Nov 2, 2012, 3:20am UTC

I'd love to get back to Canada some day, if I live long enough. My husband lived in Niagara Falls with his family before they came to the USA. He did take us back there to see his old house when we were on our way back across the country after his contract position in MA ended.

Leah Christensen Nov 2, 2012, 3:28am UTC

Funny you should say Niagara Falls, because of what happened to Walker and I there, in September.

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981638681

A story that took place in Bosnia, told by a Serbian friend of ours now living in South America, and also a fellow Gather member, and one of the main characters in the story turned up driving a taxi in Niagara Falls! :) What are the odds?

Barbara Radisavljevic Jan 17, 2013, 11:35pm UTC

That is an incredible story.

Leah Christensen Jan 17, 2013, 11:41pm UTC

Thank you. The whole experience was amazing!

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