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p a yeend payjjup 17 sv tragedy and comedy played out on election night all the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players william shakespeare as you like it actually the bard was simply showing an understandable theatrical bias player yes but competing in the great sporting arena of life rather than giving prerehearsed performances in front of an audience which can choose which tragedies or comedies it wishes to patronize and what greater evidence of this than a week in which the usually gripping stanley cup finals were relegated to the status of a pre season exhibition baseball game for when lifes high drama offers a tarnished foot race that would determine the fastest man in the uni verse followed by an election featuring more illegal elbow smashes than a roller derby match driving up hwy 404 at rush hour sud denly becomes an exercise in advanced diplo macy i was still trying to come to grips with just what had transpired at the skydome the day previous when i realized the polls closed in less than an hour and i was yet to decide who was to be the lucky recipient of my vote monday adding to my anxiety was the fact that i still had half of the back lawn to cut and it was proving to be a herculean task given that it had been allowed to grow almost to seed cluttering my mind even more was the need to plan a strategy for my postelection coverage of two of the candidates in the riding so as to be able to give our readers the old thrill of victo ryagony of defeat report in our tuesday paper upon finally arriving to exercise my democ ratic franchise i was greeted by a youthful election official with earrings in his nostril and in his eyelid so distracted was i by this human pin cushion that i had to regroup for a few sec onds to try to remember just which candidate i had finally decided to endorse i took my ballot and walked into the cardboard cubicle sur veyed the names of the 127 someodd hope fuls and looked for something with which to mark my x i saw two pencils which com bined totalled an inch and a half in length at least it had been a good turnout i thought to myself approvingly observing that one pencil 4560 hwy 7 4770181 10720 yonge st 5086190 3811 shoppard ave e 2935191 setup free available i layaway monwed 106 pm thursfri 109pm saturdays 1 06 pm sundays 114 pm from where i live bruce stapley was leadless i attempted to use the other only to find it to be just like one of those dud pencils back in grade 2 where the lead was swimming around uselessly in its cavity with great effort i succeeded in making a rather skewed x observing how the whole exercise rather aptly summed up this wonky election then it was off to what would turn out to be a rather sombre victory celebra tion for the candidate who would finish a very distant second a bristol board tally sheet had been set up at the front of the room for the purpose of recording poll results as they were phoned in by eager scrutineers however it was quickly decided after the first onesided result was scribbled onto the big page to dispense with what would only serve to be a graphic excla mation mark of the candidates disheart ening defeat i got my quote and at around 1115 pm dashed off to the lair of the third placefinishing candidate i was greeted by the same funeral atmosphere after a brief chat with the disappointed would- be mp it was back to the office to engage in some genuine big city late night deadline journalism driving home i observed the unholy mess of election signs cluttering the main road ways most belonged to soundly routed candidates whom only a few hours previous had dreamed of vic tory and once again it was another line from shakespeare that came to mind summing up this suddenly eerie arena well after midnight the rest he penned in macbeth is silence interlock wavy walks dippy drive -txyct- repairs by sentry 9052943791 bankruptcy why face if alone call murray kideckel trustee in bankruptcy personal business bankruptcies personal proposals richmond hill 9058822436 30wertheimcrt downtown 4169716396 27 carlton st scarborough 4167577535 oshawa 9055761926 brampton 9054536881 barrie 7057226398 free initial consultation