Oh yeah. I was walking past an income tax prep place on Main Street a little while ago (Liberty Taxes; they had a woman wearing a Halloween-style Statue of Liberty costume walking around handing out flyers a couple of months ago) and I noticed a sign on the sidewalk: 2 days left to file.
Really. I forgot. Today is Patriot's Day. No, it's not a special holiday for the football team—although I wouldn't put it past them—it's a holiday for, you know, patriots. And not for your common, ordinary 21st Century patriots, either—I think you have to be dead for a couple hundred years to get on the list. Except 200 years from now you'll have to be dead for 400. So you just didn't get started soon enough, is all.
In other words it's one of those holidays that only counts in Massachusetts and, maybe, possibly Maine. Or somewhere like that.
It doesn't even count that the schools close for Patriot's Day because it's spring break.
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