I go into a cell phone store the morning after the U.S. Election to buy a new ear bud for my cell phone. I am not saying which cell phone outlet. I'll be damned if i'll advertise for the great Canadian rip off. Check out U.S. cell rates, they are approx half what we pay, in some cases even less.
Anyway, they are just opening the store and the 2 clerks and I start some casual conversation. Both are "young", which in my eyes..... means less than 30. One of them goes over and turns on a very large plasma TV, pre-tuned in to a news channel.
What happened next either scared me, shocked me, or made me sad. One of the clerks looked at the tv and said..."Oh look Obama won..." The other clerk said..."wow, no way. That's wild eh?"
WHAT? What alternate universe were they in that they did not realize that Obama had won until 10AM the next day?
I am not saying that everyone should live for U.S. politics, but this was an event that eclipses most that have occurred in current history. What the U.S. does is their business, but how could you not be aware of what happened until 10AM the next day?
Who wouldn't be interested in history in the making?
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