A Slow Day

We have been incredibly lazy today. The rain fell steadily, although not as hard as had been expected, and all we did was listen to book tapes and watch TV. I waited until evening to write, thinking maybe the "big" storm might arrive after all, but it is hardly raining at all now. I checked the TV a moment ago, and Obama is the winner for the Democratic party and Huckabee is the winner for the Republicans. This had been predicted all day, but it is still kind of exciting. This will be an interesting year.
I was working for a consumer publishing company in New York the year that Thomas Dewey was predicted to beat Harry Truman for the presidency. People everywhere were reading poll results that clearly indicated that Truman couldn't possibly win. But he did! And resoundingly. It taught everyone the lesson that polls can't always be trusted. That was a long time ago, in l948. The company I worked for was doing surveys on consumer preferences for different kinds of packaged goods. When it closed up I went to work for Fireman's Fund insurance company down on Wall Street. When five o"clock came, everyone came out of the big skyscrapers and walked in the streets because there were so many people coming out of work that the sidewalks couldn't hold them all.