blindsided

Well that's just sucky, that is. I was supposed to spend election day being a Deputy Returning Officer at the polls, but I've had to turn down the position; one cannot in good conscience administer oaths and fill in forms that are printed in text small enough as to be nearly unreadable for those of us not possessed of twenty twenty vision. I've taken the job of Information Assistant instead. It pays half what the other job does, but one shouldn't complain of making ten dollars an hour for the simple task of telling people which poll to vote at.