So...yesterday was Cinco de Mayo. Which, I believe, is the holiday that celebrates the birth of Tequila. That's as fine a thing to celebrate as any, but it got me thinking about all the other holidays that are celebrated in the US.
Sure, there's important stuff like Christmas and Flag Day, but the real holidays are the ones that call for us to bug out of work early (or not work at all), plop down at the bar (or a lawn chair in the backyard) and glug down enough alcohol to destroy four livers.
Those holidays, it might be said, comprise The Drunkard's Calendar. Which looks a little something like this:
New Year's Eve
St. Patrick's Day
Cinco De Mayo
Memorial Day
July 4th
Labor Day
Halloween
Day Before Thanksgiving
If you notice anything about that list, it is probably that it is far too short. So, I'm thinking that we need to expand the Drunkard's Calendar. We need one holiday a month. At least. We definitely need less than 6 weeks between holidays. So, how about if we add:
Valentine's Day: No one really celebrates this one any way. If they do, they're celebrating it all wrong. Given the choice between flowers that are gonna die tomorrow and vodka that's gonna make tomorrow all headache-y, which would you choose? Exactly.
NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game: It's always gonna be a Monday in April, so we give ourselves a new 3-day weekend right when the weather is turning. Besides, the game is usually kinda mediocre. If you know anything about whiskey, you know that enough of it turns mediocre into legendary.
Juneteenth: No one ever knows what this holiday is supposed to be about, but people sure do like to BBQ and play dominoes to honor it. Where there's BBQ and dominoes, cold beer can't be too far behind.
Kool-Aid Day: This apparently takes place in mid-August. All we need to do is pour some rum in it and we have ourselves another drunkard's holiday.
Repeal Day: Did you know that Prohibition was officially repealed on Dec. 5, 1933? If you can't drink to that, you can't drink to anything.
And that brings us to 13. A full Drunkard's Calendar. So full that there are more holidays to celebrate than there are months in the year. Which sounds about right.
Don't you think?
5 comments:
I'd leave off valentine's day, and add the super bowl instead.
How about Friday of college finals week?
gotta add in election day. drink to democracy!
I'm no drunkard, but every weekend of every month is how my mother, her sister, her grandmother, and her mother gets down... *shrugs* Now, that's a drunkard's calendar for you.
@chrisofspades: We're gonna keep Valentine's Day. And we'll add the Super Bowl, too.
@Red: We're adding every day of Finals Week and every day of the week after Finals Week.
@bda: Election Day...of course. Consider it added. You will need to suggest a National Cocktail for us, though.
@mindful: Ouch. Or wow. Both are probably appropriate. Can we pencil you in for DD status? We're gonna need at least 17,000 of those.
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