Happy May Day!

Yesterday was May 1st. You know, May Day? Does anybody know what May Day is all about? Why have we let this holiday go by the wayside?

Didn't you drive around in the car and run around the neighborhood with hand made May Baskets? You would sneek up to the porch, set your may basket down, ring the bell and run? Your receipent would already be expecting you and chase you down the sidewalk and try to kiss you (boy-girl), or catch you, (boy-boy) (girl-girl).
It was great, and your May basket would have the traditional things, a little popcorn, a few salted peanuts (now eliminated due to peanut allergies), candy corn, and spice drops.

AAAhhh, your smiling aren't you?
Thinking about the May baskets your mom made, huh?

Well forget it! I made 15 construction paper May baskets, cut and folded and glued, they were great (same ones I had as a kid, my mom gave me the pattern). We went from house to house in the car, my son sneeking to the porch, ringing the bell and running. God, it was great!!

The kid answers the door and just looks at us, like why are you ringing my bell and running?
Next house, everybody looked out the window and waved at us, didn't even answer the door.
This went on and on. The few that bothered to come out on the porch, just picked it up and went in, with this puzzled look, like why are you running and driving away in such a hurry?

They don't god damn get it.

My son's kindergarten class did not know what a May pole was....What is wrong with this generation, the thrill is gone, the chase is gone.
All but one girl...Allie. She knew what to do and it was a great chase, with her dad cheering her on, but she wasn't fast enough.
Allie's mom told me they had not thought about May Day this year because Grandma had passed away recently and she always made the coolest, prettiest, most original May baskets. She was able to describe them well. I said, "She had to leave a pattern for one someplace didn't she?" "No" she said. All she had was the memory of them.

Don't let this holiday disappear.
Remember to save the pattern for the next people.