I'm not sure if it's just a Facebook thing,
or what, but apparently the 16th of every month is supposed to be "Short
People Appreciation Day". My wife heard that on the radio last Thursday so
it has to be true. And, there's a specific Facebook page dedicated to it as
well.
It
seems that nowadays every day has to have a theme or two or three. For
instance, I'm writing this on the 19th of April so that makes it...take your
pick...National Bicycle Day, National Garlic Day, National Amaretto Day or
National Hanging Out Day. All on the 19th of April. How did this happen? Who
said? I guess one should celebrate the day by eating garlic while riding your
bicycle on your way to hang out with friends drinking Amaretto? I could do
that, I suppose.
Checkiday.com
is where I went to find out what we're celebrating on any given day of the year
but it doesn't tell you who decided on the themes. I clicked on my birthday,
December 12, and guess what I found? It's National Ding-a-Ling Day!! Never mind.
Be nice. It's also National 12-hour Fresh Breath Day, and National Poinsettia
Day as well as Ginger Bread House Day. Who woulda thought?
I
put the 10th of May into the "search" box and I found out that it is
National Lupus Day, National Cleanup Your Room Day as well as National Shrimp
Day. No mention that May 10th happens to be Mother's Day! At least, this year
it is.
April
21st is our Grandson's 6th birthday which he will be celebrating along with,
appropriately enough, National Kindergarten Day, which he is attending this
year, as well as- National Chocolate Covered Cashews Day, Bulldogs are
Beautiful Day and Stay Off the Grass Day! Hmmm. Odd about that last one because
April 20th is International Pot Smokers Day. Get it? Haw, haw! Pot Smokers Day
followed by Stay Off the Grass Day...you know... ah, never mind.
Anyway,
it's obviously an American website but it is really quite interesting to plug
in a date and see what weirdness comes up. Like one of the themes on January
2nd is that it is National Personal Trainer Awareness Day? Awareness of
Personal Trainers? Huh? It's not like personal trainers are like rare skin
diseases or unusual blood disorders or something. I think many people know what
a personal trainer is and maybe they are avoiding them like the itch but
calling it an "Awareness" Day wouldn't be the term I'd use. National
Personal Trainer "Appreciation" Day sounds better to me but maybe I'm
just splitting hairs now.
So,
if you want to have nothing to do we have a day for you there, too. January
16th is Do Nothing Day which is just impossible because even if you wake up and
get out of bed you've done something...there I go splitting hairs again,
anyway, if you want to do as little as possible on Do Nothing Day you could go
to the Checkiday.com website and look up every day of the year just to find
something to celebrate. I think that would be quite interesting.
I'd
just like to touch base on that Small Person Appreciation Day theme for a
second again here, if you don't mind? My research states that males under
5'7" and females under 5'2" qualify as official Small People. Not my
rules, people, and having a personal height of 6'3" I prefer to be
politically correct and not mention anyone's height to anyone, but these height
parameters would take in a large number of people, I would think, so good for
you short people for having your own day and Facebook page.
Pick
a day! Any day! And you, too, may find something worthwhile to celebrate!
"Let us celebrate the occasion with
wine and sweet words."-Plautus (255BC-185BC).