Maybe St. Patrick's Day has gotten a little out of hand. 
March has become St. Patrick's month now. Bars have St. Patrck's celebrations every weekend leading up to March 17. Celebrations are no longer just one day, or a single weekend (the closest one to St. Patrick's Day). It's now every Thursday, Friday and Saturday for several weekends in a row. In the weeks before St. Patrick's, there are lines forming outside of Irish Pubs just to get in ... at 2:00pm! And of course, there's the big celebrations on the actual day itself (this year even bigger because it was actually on a Saturday). Irish Pubs move out their furniture just to squeeze in more people!
Of course, another big bar-themed event takes place in March: March Madness (not to mention the conference tournaments right before). People gather together and watch games in bars, and the NCAA tournament games tend to be on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays (weekends, plus their neighbors, Thursday and Friday). Sometimes, you'll drink more in celebration, or to drown your sorrows.
So, St. Patrick's celebrations are covering every weekend in March, and college basketball is on the same weekends. St. Patrick's Day and March Madness are coming to be synonymous in bar culture, and March is becoming a great big slosh-fest.
I'll drink to that. Cheers!
1 comment:
You write very well.
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