Am I Expecting Too Much From Life?

Two weekends ago I was destined for fun, baby. I was appointed (begged to do it) Election Clerk in my Podunk Town's school board election. To liven things up I decided to wear my hub's collection of political buttons to inspire witty political repartee between myself and the voters. First I wore Hillary (whilst Obama, McCain, and even Rudy stayed in my purse for later). No one seemed to notice. Finally a voter came through whose voter's registration was stamped Republican. Now was my chance. So I said, "I see you're a republican." He said, "I see you're a democrat."

So much for political bantering (for the record, I am not telling who I am voting for or my political affiliation.....GO KINKY!!!!, sorry I slipped). I quickly whipped out my McCain button. One of the other election officials asked what I was doing, I explained and was told no political buttons. Another official said I could wear them if they were not buttons with the school board candidates. And yet a third started furiously flipping through the Official Handbook.
The fun squisher leaves, returns and says she has just spoken to THE MAN and no political Buttons. Whuuhhhh??? I quickly pull out my other buttons and wear them all before another voter comes in (cuz I'm a rebel!!). Bummer.
* before I get sued or something The Fun Squisher was the head over the elections so was just doing her job.
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I'm sure you know Narnia Prince Caspian is out, right? We read The lion, witch and the Wardrobe and then rented the movie,again and again and again. The movie was Teh Awesome. We rushed to read Prince Caspian before the movie came out. It's like this book was written by a different author, indecipherable for a child but still. So we planned to take Lean out of school, wait in line fighting the crowds to buy a ticket to the opening day! Yes. Of course I was nervous about what to say when I took her out of school, I can't lie to the warden, what to do? No one even asked, when I got to the reason question I freaked out and clicked on 'school activity'. HUHHHH???? Why didn't I just check 'other'? I don't know.
I had been rehearsing in my head all week how I'd elbow people out of the way to purchase the three last tickets on the planet, then how I would terrify the popcorn chompers into not chomping, and how I would, violently if the need arose, SSHH the talkers. All is under control.

There were only a small handful at the movie, all well behaved. sigh.

Am I looking for excitement in all the wrong places?