South Down:"What have the politicians ever done for us?" cries one passerby in Downpatrick, unwittingly referencing the immortal Monty Pythonline about Romans.
He's just been asked if he will vote in next month's Assembly elections. He won't and hasn't voted for the last 20 years.
Mr Disenchanted and others in the predominantly Catholic constituency of South Down, which covers the commuter belt near Belfast and stretches into the touristville of the Mourne mountains - the proposed site of a controversial national park - have 16 candidates to choose from.
And they're from a dizzying range of parties - moderate nationalist, republican, unionist, UK unionist, Conservative, Green, Labour.
Sitting SDLP Assembly member Margaret Ritchie has worked for the party since 1980. She was first elected to Down District Council in 1985, won her Assembly seat in 2003 and is working hard to keep it.
In her office on Downpatrick's Irish Street - just close to English Street, confusingly - she discusses her canvassing commitments over the next few days. Every vote is up for grabs as she visits young families, the elderly and everyone in between. Even shoppers at a shopping centre won't be escaping election fever as Team Margaret visits tonight.
Downpatrick, the ancient seat of Down and the burial place of St Patrick, is a very integrated community, she says, and the work the SDLP has done there means it deserves a continued, stronger presence in the Assembly. Margaret says the party has campaigned for more money for the area's tourism assets, money which has seen the construction of a £6.3 million St Patrick's Centre.
The party lost an Assembly seat to Sinn Féin in 2003 and dearly wants it back. The DUP and Sinn Féin can't provide a sustainable solution, she says. "The two extremes can never provide proper common ground. We are the party for partnership and working together."
She sees Sinn Féin's endorsement of policing as long overdue. Her party's earlier decision to join the policing board meant that "we were the trailblazers. We took risks and suffered for that. We made courageous decisions and it's not very courageous to be following that after all this time."
The national park question is a vexed one. "It's a much misunderstood concept. It would be different from many others as the Mournes is a living, working and recreational area."
Sinn Féin's Caitríona Ruane has her constituency office in the seaside town of Warrenpoint, close to her home in Omeath over the Border. The former tennis professional is frequently greeted by fellow members of her tennis club as she makes her way up the street near her office.
As part of the Sinn Féin leadership, her face is a recognisable one. Her Mayo accent must be important to the party's election hopes too, as it's being used for election broadcasts. But she's not up on the lampposts of South Down as of Wednesday at least: it's still Gerry Adams beaming down from beneath the slogan "Sinn Féin delivers where others promise".
Caitríona has bought new walking shoes to cushion her feet in the long canvass towards polling day. The party's historic endorsement of policing at the ardfheis last month may help make a smoother and more gratifying ride, comfortable shoes or no. "What I'm finding on the doors is that a lot of people are saying, 'we wouldn't have voted for you before, but we will now', " she says.
Though tourism is a big concern, particularly the ever-fading seaside glamour of Warrenpoint, "we're against the imposition of a national park. The legislation is flawed and we have seen only a pseudo-consultation, which hasn't taken the concerns of people seriously."