This is one of the consequences of the autumn weather which has been spoiling spring for weeks: the snails are out. They rejoice in the more than humid weather that accompanies us, they who flee dry weather like the plague. And they have a hobby of their own: chewing your mail in your mailbox, if you live mainly in the countryside. Everything goes there: advertisements, your invoices and even your electoral notices.
Particularly greedy, gastropods even seem to have a big appetite for the latter. Obviously cellulose, the plant material that makes up the paper on which they are printed, is very much to their taste. Result: summons that have become illegible in whole or in part. And therefore, unusable.
Let’s admit it, we feel a little stupid when we find the document eaten away on all sides at the bottom of the mailbox. We tell ourselves that we should have been more careful and that we could be the laughing stock of the neighborhood. Except that, after all, we are far from being alone in this situation. It was enough to talk about it around you or within the editorial staff for several acquaintances and colleagues to say they found themselves in the same situation, with photos of the said summons as proof.
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Confirmation at the town hall when you go there to find out what to do in such a situation. The smile of the attendant says it all, cases are increasing. She keeps making duplicates which will allow the “victims” of snails and other gastropods to correctly fulfill their duty as citizens on Sunday during the federal, regional and European elections.
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So don’t panic if you find yourself in this incongruous situation to say the least. Simply go to the town hall, with your identity card, to obtain a duplicate of your summons. This usually only takes a few minutes. The same applies if your document has been destroyed in whole or in part in another way, lost or if it never reached you.
Note that town halls are open on election day until polling stations close, which can be very useful for the absent-minded.
