It was noon on SATURDAY!
I know that NOW!
How could you have thought… NOON ON SUNDAY!
I’m sorry!
SORRY? My political career has been put on hold for potentially five years!
OUR political careers! Look, I made a simple mistake. If we were to run in the General Election, we had to register by noon last Saturday. I thought it was Sunday. I was only ONE day out!
But you were in charge of logistics! And I warned you not to miss the deadline. High noon I called it!
I’m sorry!
You realise our credibility is shattered? After all our preparations! After we finally decided that we’d run in the election… as a dream team! It’s so embarrassing!
Maybe we could run for the Seanad?
Yeah, maybe…
(They pause to check the salaries and perks of senators)
By the way, I had spoken to the Editor… not that it matters now…
Huh?
As agreed, I asked if he’d keep publishing our column after you and I both took a seat in Roscommon-Galway… of course it’s immaterial now.
Please tell me what he said…
He explained that if we were elected, there would be a conflict of interest if we kept commenting on current affairs in the Roscommon People.
Huh! So he would have dropped us! The rascal!
Actually, he was very gracious. He muttered something about democracy and public service being much more honourable than journalism, and said we would be doing the people of Roscommon-Galway a huge service if we gave up the column and committed ourselves to the service of others! He even offered to finance our campaign!
Ah, fair play. I wonder what he’ll think now when he hears we missed the deadline for lodging our nomination papers…
Well…
When he finds out we’re not running and can continue writing the column for the next five years…
He emailed me earlier. Said he’d heard about our unfortunate timing mishap. But he’s still insisting we should give up the column and voluntarily pledge all our spare time to the service of others… he even attached a list of community organisations we could join…
Ah, that’s very touching. He’s not so bad after all!
(They pause to discuss what to do with the 100 posters that were delivered to them last Friday)
We CAN’T sell them to another candidate!
Yes we can! We’re not going to take a hit! They’ve no party logos on them… they’d be ideal for an independent candidate!
Who’ll want 100 posters with OUR slogans on them?
But ‘Reduce the price of a pint’ is only in SMALL print…
Yeah, but ‘Free the plastic bottle caps’ is in MASSIVE print on the posters and that policy was unique to us!
