Green Beer Day Chicago...

Yes, here in Chicago, along with most other towns in the USA, we celebrate the remarkable holiday of St. Patrick’s Day by binge drinking on the Saturday before. It has become a favorite day to many city dwellers of all ages, and is regarded a time to let loose, wear green, and make-out with random strangers. (you people know who you are) I was appalled when the @drinktown twitter feed, dedicated to highlighting phenomenal drink and food specials around town, posted a tweet stating, “A lot of people in Chicago don’t realize that today IS NOT St. Patrick’s Day- Saturday is just a convenient day for a parade in Chicago.” Like, you think we don’t realize that?!? Of course we all know that Wednesday the 17th is truly the Celtic holiday, but who can consume gallons upon gallons of green beer on a Wednesday? Let alone the buckets of Irish Car-Bombs that are continuously handed around. I mean seriously, just because we play raging alcoholics on the weekends, doesn’t mean that we don’t know how to flip on the respectable adult light Monday through Friday afternoon. Plus, it would be quite suspicious if nearly 3 million people all called out of work on Wednesday, and happened to wind up nursing their “sickness” at the local Irish Pub… With that said, I will be calling out of work on Wednesday to commemorate my Irish heritage one more time and shove it to @drinktown. :P Happy Patty’s Day