MONDAY 12 AUGUST: By late morning, they have gathered up their remaining lawn signs, and fanned out around town. Some have departed in cars for other parts of the constituency. Dan has just knocked on a door and been greeted by the resident St. Bernard.
VOTER WHO LIVES IN EXCEPTIONAL PASS:
Down Heidi, down, girl. She’s just being friendly. Didn’t like the other candidates at all. Of course we’ll take a lawn sign!
This part of 'By-election in Exceptional Pass' was based on a real life experience I had back in the 1970s before fund raisers had the internet with which to bother people. I had volunteered to go door-to-door asking for donations for Arthritis Research. As I recall, all but two of the houses in the neighborhood I was assigned had dogs whose job it was to answer the door. And at least half of these dogs were named Heidi. My eldest daughter is named Heidi. The conversations that followed my opening comments about this remarkable coincidence resulted in an amazing amount of money being handed to me for Arthritis Research.
Because this page didn't really contribute anything to the storyline, when I decided to shorten the book by one page (in order to keep the last page free for publication info, barcode etc.) out it came. This also eliminated the problem of giving away the ending by having it on the outside back cover!
