Happy St. Patrick's Day!

United States
March 17, 2007 6:29am CST
I just wanted to wish all my friends here at mylot a Happy St. Patrick's Day! Dont' drink too much green beer and eggs when you go out. For me all i want is my corn beef,cabbage, and carrots and potatos. My boyfriend wanted to go to the parade downtown this weekend. I said heck no. Between it snowing and cold. He complained when we had to stand for hours for the Christmas one and i asked if he really wanted to go downtown at 10am and stand for hours till the parade started at 1pm. It would be different if it was nice out, but its snowing so i dont think so LOL! Besides i hate this holiday, when i was 20 years old and only 8 days away from turning 21. Me and bunch of friends were rear-ended by a drunk driver. Now almost 20 years later my neck is still screwed up and will be the rest of my life. It makes me hate the drunks and the holiday, My boyfriend doesnt seem to understand why i hate the day!
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• Canada
17 Mar 07
I am so sorry to hear about your bad St.Patrick's Day experience from before. I hope you have a better one this year. I too am looking forward to Easter and Christmas. Since having my daughter last year I feel like I am getting more excited about holidays. Also getting to see her face light up on Christmas morning and Easter will be priceless too, but to me it will be more about us all being together. That has always been my favorite part about holidays is being with your loved ones. Have a great day :)
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• United States
18 Mar 07
LOL well my st. patricks day was good. Me and the boyfriend were sitting at the bar having corn beef and cabbage stating that if he rotten brother in law if he gets pulled over for DUI we werent going to bail him out. We got home about a hour ago and found out his brother in law got busted the night before. LOL how strange is that.
@caribe (2465)
• United States
17 Mar 07
Happy St. Patrick's Day to you, Yvonne. I realized after I got dressed this morning that it was today and I am not wearing any green. In the USA I would have changed into something green but here in Nicaragua nobody knows anything about that so I am safe from being pinched. If there are any parades on TV for New York I might watch, otherwise it will be just a normal Saturday from me. I am so sorry that you have a permanent injury caused by a drunk driver. There are many people that are injured or have lost their lives because someone thought that they were not too drunk to drive.
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• Ireland
17 Mar 07
Well, that you for your good wishes. The day wasn't so good as it is quite breezy and cold outside. I didn't bother going to any of the parades and I am not going out to-night to celebrate as there is snow forecast. Instead I will spend the night here responding to my friends topics. I am sorry that you had your accident and that you are still in pain. It seems that St Patrick's day holds some bad memories for quite a few people but I think it the same with all holidays. For me it is new years ever but that's another story.
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@lols189 (4742)
17 Mar 07
aaawww that must of been a bad experience yvonne. now i understand why you dont like this day. happy st paddys day to you to anyway. enjoy :-)
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@slickcut (8141)
• United States
17 Mar 07
Maybe your b/f does not understand because his neck is not screwed up haha..I was hit also and got a whip lash and these things are not funny..I also am looking forward to corn beef and cabbage ...there is no way i want to go stand in a crowd of people to watch the parade.I live in a small town in Texas ,and we can go to a place called "blue Jeans" on the top floor and watch the parade..It is warm her in texas also and that makes a big difference...Thank you very much for wishing your friends happy St patricks day...and you also have a happy St.Patricks day!!!
• United States
17 Mar 07
thank you so much i think i would go to the parade if we had the temps. we did last weekend, but there is probably 2 inches of snow on the ground. I am use to having homemade food today, but since i spend the weekends with him i have no clue where on the other side of town to get some good corn beef i guess i will have to make some phone calls to find a good place. I myself cant wait for Easter.
@nancyrowina (3850)
17 Mar 07
Happy St Patrick's day sorry to hear about your negative experiences of the day as it's meant to be a celebration it's a shame as it's meant to be a day for fun. I must confess I'm not really into heavy drinking it's just a way for pubs to sell more Guinness and give away daft big hats and it's original purpose has been lost.
• United States
17 Mar 07
i think so too. But i may just think that because of what happened to me. I love Easter and Christmas just because it means family. I am looking forward to Easter and the spring weather. Look for my interesting discussion closer to Easter and pictures of Eggshell land. Hope you have nice weather to enjoy the day.
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@lucy02 (5016)
• United States
17 Mar 07
Happy St. Patty's Day to you too. I'm sorry this day has such bad memories for you. I'm like you. I don't celebrate it either. We don't have a parade or anything like that around here. I started to pick up some corned beef yesterday and now I wish I had. It sounds good.
• India
17 Mar 07
Hello yvonne1968, Thank you and also wish U a very happy St.Patrick's day.Sorry to hear about your -ve experince this day.Pl forget it. I am from India, tell me something about St. Patrick's Day.We are also celebrating a festival called Gudhi Padwa on Monday 19th March.According to hindu culture our new year starts on this day.Hence we celebrate.
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• United States
17 Mar 07
Happy St. Patrick's Day - Green Beer
Thank same to you! Photo: Happy St. Paddy's day
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@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
17 Mar 07
Yes Happy St. Patrick's Day to you also. Oh I eat this food many times, well I think seeing the wather is not good that it is best to stay inside. Oh my goodness stupid driver, I don't blame you I would hate the drunks as well.
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@avs189 (1030)
• India
17 Mar 07
I really dont know why this day is being celebrated since i belong to different culture but i would surely love to hear more abt it and thanks for wishing evrybody...keep enjoying and take care..
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@sherrir101 (3670)
• Malinta, Ohio
17 Mar 07
I am sorry to hear of you experience. For me it is just a commercial holiday that used to be real. But I am having Colcannon (cabbage and potato mix) for supper.
• United States
17 Mar 07
Never heard of that. I guess we are going to try and go down to the party at the House of Blues for a couple hours, even thou i dont want to. They are having some kinda buffet
@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
17 Mar 07
Happy St. Patrick's Day to you too, yvonne. But I have to tell you, I have no idea what this day is all about...LOL. Enjoy your day!!!
• United States
17 Mar 07
LOL dont worry i dont think i have a real answer for you about the holiday. Other then the people who like to party and drink use it as a excuse to be stupid and get drunk. some posted a reply earlier explaining in this post all about St. Patricks day, try reading that and maybe it will fill you in about it, what it means to the Irish.I am Slovian/Hungarian so i really have no clue either
@Anixie (89)
• Philippines
17 Mar 07
Happy St.Patrick's day to you also.
@Niggywm (308)
• Latvia
18 Mar 07
Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone!!!
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
18 Mar 07
Is he Irish or have some Irish blood in him? Then I guess he wants to see the parades but I wouldnt go in the snow and I gave up today going to the freemont experience to watch 2 bands and thunderdome for we went to my sons for dinner and after that my grad daughter was to tired to put her thru the noice that there would be up there so again I have sacaficed for my family of something I really wanted to do ! ya have to sacrafice sometimes
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@smacksman (6053)
18 Mar 07
Congratulations to Ireland for beating mighty Pakistan in the cricket World Cup on St. Patrick's Day. Amazing!
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@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
18 Mar 07
Happy St. patrick's day to you too. I wouldn't want to go out in this cold either. I don't blame you for hating drunk driver's
• United States
17 Mar 07
I love this Holiday. I am part I Irish and am happy to see aholiday that doesn't care what coleor you are! Thanks for the good wishes and Happy St. Paddy's Day to you as well!!
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• United States
17 Mar 07
Thank you Hope you have warm weather to enjoy it!
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• United States
18 Mar 07
A tiny piece of me is Irish so I love to be green today. I can honesty say "kiss me I'm Irish" *L* ;) Sorry about what happened to you :(( I dont drink though so yeah I wont be doing that. I did wear green, but didnt leave the house. My dog is wearing a green scarf. Shes pure white so she cant get pintched now either with that. haha!! have a good one everyone! be safe!
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