Some of my family from out West are visiting so I thought I’d take them on a tour of our neighbourhood.
Walking along we passed the constituency office for my local MPP.
Suddenly I hear, “Hey, you live in a Conservative riding? That’s gotta hurt.”
I paused for effect, glanced up at the sign, then with as little smirking as I could muster, I replied casually, “Actually it’s worse than that. She’s NDP.”
Eyes popped. Jaws dropped to the floor. Everyone staring at the sign.
“But she looks like a conservative. She’s got that conservative blonde haircut and sign is blue.”
This was more fun than a barrel of monkeys but I tried not to gloat too much.
“Look closer,” I said, “The sign is sort of a lighter blue than the Conservatives use and the lettering is still orange.”
My poor relatives were scandalized. This was a lowdown, sneaky NDP trick to be sure. Everyone knows Conservatives are blue, Liberals are red, Greens are green and the NDP are orange. That’s you can tell them apart. That’s how it’s always been and where do the NDP get off changing things around. What if people got confused by the sign and voted for the NDP by mistake when they really meant to vote Conservative?
“Well,” I said, without the slightest trace of irony, “Guess you shouldn’t have cheered so much about the NDP knocking off the Liberals because it looks like your team is next.”
