February 29 Should Be a Holiday
posted at 9:37 am
on Feb. 28, 2008
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Once every four years, something wonderful happens. Nope, not the presidential elections. Leap Year’s Day!
It shouldn’t be a day of work. It’s extra! No “boss” should be teling you waht to do on a day that doesn’t really exist. My friend George and I decided this when we were in college. George was all, like, “Hey, we shouldn’t have to be IN CLASS on Feb. 29!” which was kind of funny to me because we were sitting in the campus newspaper’s offices, skipping class at the time.
But I saw the larger point he was trying to make, and so we pledged that we wouldn’t work on Feb. 29.
Now what? We didn’t want to just waste the time—a whole day, at our fingertips, and we shouldn’t just be bored watching TV. What was the opposite of being bored?
DISNEYLAND!
(By the way, that’s a really really lame URL for a home page.)
So we rounded up the usual suspects and piled into a car, and headed South to Orange County.
Every four years since, we’ve done the same thing—sometimes to Disneyland, and once to Eurodisney.
This year, I’ll be spending Feb. 29 in DisneyWorld .. but I have to go catch a plane, so this story will continue shortly!
