John Boston | Today Is Feb. 6. It’s a National Something Day. |
On any given day, there is a given day. Every blank space on the calendar comes with some sort of “National” or “Official” warning on the label.
Let’s take today, Feb. 6. There are an entire passel of observances for this 24-hour parenthesis. Among many high holy days of obligation, today marks National Pay a Compliment Day. It was started in 1995 by a Chicago writer, Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith. Ms. A.S.K. reportedly was riding a bus in the dead of winter and noticed that the driver pulled over at a non-designated stop to pick up a freezing commuter. Koopersmith was so moved, she complimented the bus driver, then went through all the rigamarole to establish it as an official American day of recognition.
Fine. A little kindness can go a long way. For instance, we had some local protests last weekend here in SClarita and the usual suspects who looked like they stepped out of a Gary Larson cartoon were at Valencia and McBean, brandishing signs demanding the release of felonious miscreants from foreign lands and the abolishment of ICE. As I rounded the corner, they screamed at me and held up posters. I think one said: “RAPISTS FROM PONGO PONGO HAVE FEELINGS, TOO!!”
In my own way, I celebrated Pay a Compliment Day a week early by smiling and wishing the Democrats with the 14-inch foreheads to go forward, like, off the curb and into traffic, and be fruitful and multiply, except without the benefit of a kind and loving sexual partner.
Locally? With a frozen yogurtorium every 23 feet in the Santa........