No Wonder the Election Was So Topsy-Turvy for Some Voters

‘Looking at Al Seib’s photo of the Sherman Oaks Galleria polling place,” downtown L.A. election worker Peter Lee writes, “I noticed that the booths had the cardboard box walls inside out. The printed instructions in the various languages were facing away from the voter. Is this the reason the voters had so much trouble?” (see photo).

And, by the way, did the Galleria have instructions in Val-Speak for the younger voters?

From Election Day to Halloween: Fred Reichel of Santa Monica noticed a dining special for the broom-flying set (see accompanying).

Thanks for the warning! Leslie Siegel-Hauser of Valley Village spotted a sign that seemed to assure vandals that they wouldn’t be spotted as long as they sneaked around to the other side of the building (see photo).

Orders from above: The recent death of fiery televangelist Gene Scott prompted longtime L.A. radio engineer Mike Callaghan to write to laradio .com about a visit he made to Scott’s Faith Center Church in Glendale some years ago.

While inside, Callaghan saw a note from one of Scott’s attorneys on a bulletin board.

The note, Callaghan said, explained to employees that “if you were on the phone with [the attorney] and he suddenly hung up on you, he wasn’t being rude.

“It was because Dr. Scott was calling him on his private line and he was required to answer before the second ring.”

Oh Pooh: Jeff and Amie Rubin wrote a letter to the Agoura Acorn about the adventure their 3-year-old son, Matthew, had during a showing of “Pooh’s Heffalump Movie” at the Mann Agoura 8 Theatres.

It seems the youngster started yelling when he realized he was stuck in his chair, having “put his arm up to his bicep through the cup holder on the armrest,” the Rubins wrote.

A theater employee tried to free him but “realized the armrest would have to be removed.” Meanwhile, other moviegoers began helping, the Rubins were gratified to see.

One man joined theater workers trying to dismantle the chair, but it wasn’t easy.

“Finally, moviegoers told theater personnel to forget about the movie, turn on the lights and help our little boy!” the Rubins wrote. “They did and handed out free passes.”

It was a happy ending.

Matthew escaped the chair with just a couple of scrapes.

And the other parents got to escape a Pooh movie earlier than they’d expected.

miscelLAny: Traffic slowed in the Fountain Valley area Friday after a fruit spill on the San Diego Freeway.

I doubt that any of the motorists were in the mood for this strawberry jam.