Best sign of spring: women wearing flip-flops.
Best sign of spring: women wearing flip-flops.
Well that's a huge plus...especially after 4 to 5 months or so without it. Even in a mild winter most are wearing boots.
I can recall a very harsh winter when I didn't see the first woman in flip-flops until April. 😱
Worst Holiday of the Year: New Years Day (because all of the "holidays" are ending and most people go back to work the next day and don't have a lot of holidays afterwards. Plus the hardcore part of the winter is just starting).
Well that's up there. I still don't know how some people fall for jokes on that day!New Year's Day does have all those faults, as well as being a day when I might have a hangover.
But I nominate April Fools' Day as the stupidest holiday of the year. 😀
Holiday I Invented: "Day of Hope" (March 1)
How do you celebrate on March 1st?
When I was a kid, February 29th was called "Sadie Hawkins Day" and it was supposed to be the only day when women could propose marriage to men. 😀
In the comic strip "Li'l Abner," Sadie Hawkins was the daughter of Hekzebiah Hawkins, one of Dogpatch's earliest settlers and the "homeliest gal in all them hills". She grew frantic waiting for suitors until she reached age 35 and was still a spinster, and her father was worried about her living at home for the rest of her life. In desperation, he called together all the unmarried men of Dogpatch and declared it "Sadie Hawkins Day". A foot race was decreed with Sadie pursuing the town's eligible bachelors. She was specifically interested in a handsome boy named Adam who was already in a courtship with Theresa, whose father was the area's largest potato farmer. Unlike Sadie, Theresa had a number of courtship offers. Matrimony was the consequence of losing the foot race, so the bachelors of the town were running for their freedom.
It was based on a comic strip character of that name:
Well make that March 1 now...the same store still has their 90% off Christmas signs. I can't believe it.Latest Date I ever have seen Christmas lights still up on a house: March 16th in the town where I grew up. The neighbor across the street finally took the Christmas lights and wreath off of his front door so that he could put up a big green shamrock for St. Patrick's Day.
Well make that March 1 now...the same store still has their 90% off Christmas signs. I can't believe it.
And I knew someone who said they saw their neighbor had their Christmas lights up all year. Pretty insane.
If they are up all year, then I would not call them Christmas lights. I would just call them lights. 😛
The semi-holiday in many work places: Friday afternoon 😛