Funny Things that Happened While Waiting in a Two-Hour Line This Morning to Vote In Harlem

I was asked repeatedly if I was a vet.

There was a man trying to sell a single towel rack and a pair of "beiged shoes."

One man behind me in line was on the phone trying for an early morning booty call: "Baby please, Imma need something after this line!"

The man standing right in front of me had the following dialogue with himself: "Man, this election is gona be cake. Shit! I need some cake.. Does anybody in this line have some cake??" He later was told that he was in the wrong polling place and had to leave.

Another man was upset he couldn't vote because someone had already signed his name on the registration."it was probably my brother, that damned idiot!" He then skulked away.

One man pumped up the crowd by shouting repeatedly "Y'all stay in line. Be late for work, today!" Another man confused the crowd by shouting incoherently into his phone, "Don't talk to me about that damn Maclain junk."

A man in front of me filled out a stack of lotto tickets. Just testing his luck, I guess.

COOL THING that Happened While I Waited in Line to Vote:

Other than the two guys who weren't allowed to vote at our site, not a single person of the hundreds in front of me left the line without voting.

- Seth