The Inauguration Is Coming!

I just can’t imagine what it must be like to live in or around the D.C. area with this inauguration coming around. It must just seem like an impending nightmare to those people who live there, what with the blockades, the motorcades, the parades---and then the non-rhyming words such as the security, the crowds and the trash. If I lived there, I’d get out of town and go to one of those Orlando Florida villas or something.

We hosted the DNC here in Denver last August, and that was bad enough! Freeway closures, the complete saturation of the airwaves and my kids—ugh! I teach high school, and they ALL seemed to have to miss school to go to that. I worked it myself in a concession stand, and that was a nightmare in and of itself. We had to park across town, have our licenses run, take a bus whose driver clearly had no idea of the shortest route between Coors Field and Invesco Field, where Obama’s speech was held, and then they made us walk a two mile route from where the bus dropped us off with several security checkpoints along the way. The worst was afterward: they seemed to drop all crowd control whatsoever as we exited, the elderly were stumbling over the rocks and railroad tracks along the forced exit route, and the city workers began taking down the concrete barricades while the cars and busses were attempting to take us from the area, honking things up miserably.

Although it was nice to have the city prettified for the event, I never want to do that again. The inauguration will only be worse—run, don’t walk, to that Florida villa!