Four leaf clover (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
St Patrick’s Day Parade, NYC, 2012 (Photo credit: specialoperations)
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It’s St. Patrick’s Day already. How time flies when we’re having fun, fun, fun.
But I remember St. Patrick’s Day being a fun day. I used to attend Catholic school and we always had the day off. We would make a point of ticking off the public school kids because they had to go to school. The public school kids had a lot more days off then we did, and they would shove it in our faces when we had to go to school on their holidays. It was all in fun, though.
I also remember at work, everyone wore green, no matter what race, religion, color, we all became Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. (The only color that got someone in trouble on St. Patrick’s Day was wearing orange. It has something to do with the British. If you’re ever in New York on St. Patrick’s Day, don’t wear orange. It’s not a good thing.)
And I loved seeing the green line painted down Fifth Avenue for the parade. And the food was green, green bagels, green beer, green everything, and eating corned beef and cabbage (the best) was the food of the day.
The restaurants were “Standing Room Only.” It was hard to find a restaurant to eat in. Every restaurant had people standing in line waiting to get in.
I have fond memories of St. Patrick’s Day in New York. Since I left New York, I haven’t found too many cities that celebrate St. Patrick’s Day as they do in New York.
Memories of the past…
Anyway, happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone. Eat some corned beef and cabbage, and wear the “green.” No orange, please. And carry a four-leaf clover for luck.
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I was told Protestants wore Orange on St Paddy’s day…I guess only Protestants that want to get hurt…something about an Orange King???? I remember pre targetting wanting to drink green beer. Lately, I’ve liked corned beef and cabbage on St. Paddy’s day but not this year as I’m going meatless for Lent…trying something new. I wore green eyeshadow today. When I was young I always forgot to wear green and got pinched.
Well, if they wear orange, they better stay out of New York. Believe me, it’s not safe to wear orange on St. Patrick’s Day in New York. Green eye shadow sounds good.
I also had a green bandanna. Carried it around but did not wear it. Wonder if the man who gave me the “advice” to wear orange on St. Paddy’s day was a perp!
Someone told you to wear orange on St. Paddy’s Day, definitely a perp. Someone would have beaten you up.
Out of curiosity, what happens if you do? I’m a Prtestant but never heard of wearing orange on the 17th til today, here.
Well, if someone really hates the British, they might beat you up. It’s considered disrespectful to the Irish to wear it on St. Paddy’s Day.
I never knew about the orange thing…I used to forget and get pinched when I was little too.
Yes, orange is bad color for the Irish, because of British harassment.
Happy St Paddy’s Day to you, too! I remember it used to be fun too. Now all the days run together.
Mine run together, too.
Well, hopefully we can help ease that for each other. I’m trying to get myself to be more positive. I’ve been quite down about it all lately.
It’s hard to stay positive with what we have to deal with every day. Just the thought of getting up each day and putting up with the perps is depressing. Remember, this,too, shall pass. Just try to deal with each minute instead of a day. That works for me better than thinking about what’s going to happen the whole day. Live for the minute.
I’ll try to remember that – even looking in the mirror is traumatic for me now. I try to avoid it.
Don’t forget to wear the gang colors! Lol 😉
I’m already wearing them.
What are the gang colors? Red white and blue? Lol
Well, for today it’s just different shades of green, green, and more green.
Sounds good to me! Lol
Lol. My perps love bright pink especially the females. They are starting to use animal prints. I can always spot a perp because they need the fashion police.
Animals prints? Are you wearing animal prints, or anything that looks like it? I guess I should look forward to seeing a lot of animal prints appearing since I wrote about it. And I’m sure you’ve worn pink, right? They mimic every color you wear.
I don’t wear pink or animal colors. I only experienced a girl wearing shoes that I had looked at on the net. She had hair and make up like me.
Well, that explains it. Everything you look at in your computer they know about.