My friend and her compromises

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I spoke to a friend last night and inevitably we got onto the topic of last week's EU referendum. To be fair, it's pretty much all we talk about in the UK at the moment - that and the disgraceful mess that some of our teams have made in the football. I suspected she would have voted 'leave' as she'd been very cagey around me since the vote. Her student son had arranged to have his vote sent to her home as he planned to be there for the referendum. Unfortunately, his plans had to change and he couldn't get home to vote. So Yvonne made a deal with him: he couldn't vote 'remain' so she would not vote 'leave' and then the overall effect of him being unable to get home would be neutral. It's a compromise that even politicians used with MPs of different parties sometimes pairing up to agree not to vote against each other when they can't make it to the House of Commons. But Yvonne couldn't live with herself for NOT voting so she went to the polling station to 'spoil' her ballot. That way she could say that she did exercise her democratic right to vote but she also kept her promise to her son. I was laughing so hard that I couldn't speak for a few minutes.