I had to take some books back to my local library before heading back to law school. I figured I could do this on the way. Ha ha, silly me. Turns out the parking lot was jam-packed with cars and sugar-high suicidal children because apparently there was a trick-or-treat thing going on in town, four days before Halloween.
See, I'm crazy and old-fashioned enough to slave myself to a linear view of time, and I tend to think that holidays should be celebrated on the day on which they fall. I know. Silly me.
Speaking of holiday dates, did you know that Thanksgiving was moved from the final Thursday in November to the fourth one by FDR? See, he thought a longer Christmas shopping season would revitalize the economy. I want to repeat this for emphasis. FDR, who never met a piece of overreaching legislation he didn't like, thought it would be easier to move the date of Thanksgiving rather than declare that the Christmas shopping season begins before Thanksgiving Day.
Think on that the next time you hear Christmas songs in a shopping mall the day after Halloween.
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