Due to the approaching elections, the list of candidates is on our breakfast table. While the coffee simmers, I carefully open the conversation. I push the list to my wife and ask her: “So who are you going to vote for on Wednesday?” A careless “Kweenie”, is her answer. “Aha,” I say triumphantly, “so you’re also floating a bit!” She sighs, picks up the list and taps her fingers somewhere halfway. “No, that’s what I just said. Kweenie, on list 3.” I’m looking over the names. And yes, at number 12: ‘Queeny Rajkowski’.
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