Please pardon the typos I have been drinking you will soon find out why.
Here’s the story…
Ok, I recently moved int a dorm at Washington State University and I decided to run for president of my resident hall. I Put up flyers and had a relative good campaign. The voting ened yesterday. So to day I get home from a meeting and I walk into to bunch of people, one of them being someone I ran agianst. Everyone says "So Ed dis you hear the news?" Obviously I didn't because I had a very confused look on my face. The group goes "The election results are up!" Since they were so excited to see me the breif thought of me winning flashed through my brain. "Fran won!!!" , they chimed in in unison, (Fran being the person I was running agianst and who was standing 3 feet away from me at the time). So not only do I have to digest the fact that I lost, I have to be the bigger person and congradulate my opponent and less that a second.
While I am happy for the person that won it would have been nice to let me get a second to come to terms with my loss before I had to be all nice about it. Then to top it off there were no "Sorry you lost" , or "You were my second choice" . Nothing to console me or perk me up. All I heard was "Well floor reps will be elected on Wedensday." The whole experience led up to the most confusing and dissappointing moment of my life. Well, I have vented, I feel a little bit better, thank you for listeing to me.
The thought that flashed through my mind is that they didn’t know you were the guy who was running. Thought that “Ed For Prez” was that geeky guy on 2, not “our friend Ed the new guy”. Just a thought, and I haven’t even been drinking.
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve been in college, but just how prestigious is it to be president of a residence hall? Apparently you had a lot emotionally invested in it, but my memory is that most people don’t care all that much about the position. So they probably didn’t realize that you’d be scarred for life by their cavalier attitudes.
Geez, when I opened this thread I figured you’d just found out your puppy died or your mom was run over or something … but an election? At school? Dude, that’s life. You’ll get used to it.
Well, a real man would have kicked the guy in the nuts and then run crying to his room. You obviously are far too composed and gracious to have held this position effectively.
Residence elections at my school culminated in phone calls or personal visits to the candidates (by the elections committee(s)), before public posting of the results.
Well, its not too early to start planning a coup, perhaps that will take your mind off it.
You’ll have to make sure you have the military on your side, at least the ranking officers, and having a mole or two in the cabinet couldn’t hurt either. Then its just a matter of biding your time until just the right moment, then surrounding the dorm with tanks.
Personally, I think a well-organized guerilla campaign is the way to go. Stop flushing the toilet after you use it. Leave pubic hair in the sink. Hide perishable food items in the common areas.
[sub]You know, now that I think about it, several of my dorm-mates must have been running guerilla campaigns…[/sub]
Accually they all knew I was running since they were all on my floor. (And so was the person that won.) I just happened into the wrong camp at the wrong time. Oh well, I did my best and I am over the loss, I am just a bit upset at the callousness of the news delevery.
So the moral of the story is: Life’s a bitch, and so is the person that won.
Ok I don’t really know if she is a bitch but she always cames off a bit snobby to me but that could just be her english accent grating on my american ears.
etgaw1
Wow. That’s a bad politican. Can’t even manage a few nice words after being beat in an election, and then goes drinking and posting to cover up the pain.
There’s a lot of folks in Congress just like that. You’ll fit in nicely in a decade or two.
I did manage a few nice word when I found out. I whole heartedly congradulated her. Then I went to the party I was invited to earlier. As for posting to cover up the pain, I cannot refute that. Besides I don’t want to be a politician I just wanted to meet people and have something fancy on the resume.
etgaw1
Yesterday, I had to tell a Net friend in Australia that a mutual Net friend in NY had passed away in July. That truly sucked. My Oz friend hasn’t written back yet but I’m afraid she won’t be taking it well at all.
