“How cool is it that in our brief lifetime we get to participate in Seattle's first council elections by district? This feels momentous!”
“Not as momentous as it would feel if we'd been born in time to be optimistic about space exploration or liberal Twitter...”
“Whatever, anyway, I'm so informed about local politics, I know who to vote for in every council position. They should let me vote for every position. Maybe I should take up residence in every district.”
“Even if that was how voting worked you still wouldn't get to vote for position ten.”
“Which one is that?”
“The sky.”
“The sky?”
“By the 1869 Charter Doc Maynard was recognized as sole owner of the sky. He subdivided and sold it to people he knew—”
“—let them in on the ground floor—”
“—yes, as it were, and its ownership has remained a fairly small, though gradually growing, group.”
“Your Boeingses, your Kenmore Airs—”
“—and, typically enough, Ma Bell. Its portion of the sky passed down to Century Link, whose only remaining profitable business is charging cellular providers for easements.”
“Well, that and tricking out-of-towners looking for football parking into entering their company garage, then fining them.”
“Sure. Anyway, until now most of the owners have been businesses, and businesses can't vote, but I figured out how to suspend a hammock from an array of drones, and I'm claiming residence in the sky for this election.”
“Who sold your ass sky? You've lived here like eight months.”
“I'm renting... well, technically it's sort of a squatters' rights situation...”
“How long does that take to kick in exactly?”
“...unh-unh...”
“Fine... so who are you voting for, then, for position ten?”
“Myself. I'm the only one that meets the residence requirement.”
“... What's even, like, your ZIP Code in the sky?”
“That would be nine-eight-one-go fuck yourself—”
“—hey, now—”
“—not you, personally. The postal service would like to establish a branch up—”
“—and I suppose you're still a two-oh-six, or did they stick the sky in four-two-five?”
“Six-five-oh. I got my phone in college.”
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