That’s all. I just like semi-obscure holidays.
Dangit, and I already drove all the way to work! Guess I’ll just stay here and finish out the day now. Too bad I’ll miss all of the parades and telethons.
Maybe I wasn’t being observant or they hadn’t put them out yet but the VA hospital in Phoenix is usually lousy with flags on any sort of national holiday. I may not be waving my flag but I have a small one at the entrance to my cubicle.
I actually have the day off today. No kidding. See, we get 12 holidays a year (chosen by management). The 12 have to be chosen from a certain list. Well, because of the way the other holidays fell in our fiscal year (which is from July 1-June 30), we had one of the 12 days open and two holidays to pick from: Flag Day or Veteran’s Day. Both fell on Wednesdays. They picked this one. :rolleyes:
I mean, if we have Columbus Day Observed, why couldn’t we have Flag Day Observed and do a long weekend???
More than a month ago, I came home to find a cloth American flag on a little plastic pole attached to my mailbox. “What the hell is this?” I wondered. It actually took whoever put it up some effort, because they had screwed a clamp into the wooden post to hold it upright securely. Some, but not all of the houses in the nieghborhood had them as well.
Hubby comes home, and I ask him if he put it up. No, he replied, he had no idea where it had come from. “Maybe it was the veterans,” he suggested vaguely. “Maybe they put them up for Memorial Day.”
“What veterans?” I asked. “And I thought it was disrespectful to leave an American flag out in the elements. I thought you were supposed to take it inside when it gets dark, and when it rains.”
He didn’t know, and we still have no idea who put the flags up, why some houses were selected, and not others. Memorial Day came and went. The flags are still up. Hubby thinks they’ll take them down once flag day is over. We’ve had a lot of fun trying to guess who put them up and why. It’s our own little Scooby-Doo mystery.