Date Madness

I got invited to an Oktoberfest Celebration next week. It sounds like fun, but it’s a bit confusing seeing as how next week is still September. Good luck explaining that to your spouse. “Of course I know it’s still September next week Marge, but they’re calling it an Oktoberfest.” What’s wrong with calling it Septemberfest?

Last winter I got invited to a March Madness basketball gathering in, you guessed it, February. (I would have called it February Madness.) Is no tradition sacred?

OK. Let’s just move all the holidays. We’ll move the Fourth of July to June but still call it the fourth of July. We’ll move June Teenth to May. We’ll move May Day to April 1^st but still call it May Day. And April Fool’s Day to March 1^st (but no one would really know if the day moved or if it was a trick). And on and on. People will say “Well, Easter moves around.” And, “The Canadians moved Thanksgiving.” That’s lame.

And then people will start just moving their birthdays around. Yeah. You know it’s coming...