This Georgia man is blissfully unaware of who won the election
Worried you won't like the next president? Here's an idea: Don't find out who it is.
A Georgia man named Joe Chandler has done exactly that, warding off election results by using headphones and wearing a sign that reads, "I don't know who won and don't want to. Please don't tell me."
Chandler decided to remain blissfully ignorant after seeing the stress the election caused his friends. "I was invited to an election party to stay up into the night with everybody gnawing their nails, hanging on, and I thought, 'Oh, there has to be a better way,'" he explained. He originally intended to check the results the next morning but gradually kept putting the moment off to preserve the calm of not knowing.
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Chandler, who works from home and did not particularly like either major-party candidate, is pleased with his choice. "Having subtracted myself from this political fracas and all of the mayhem of the digital media, I kind of found the center of the cyclone," he says. "It is very peaceful in my bubble of ignorance."
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