Sumer is icumen in

[damont]

Yesterday was Memorial Day in the USA (May Bank Holiday in the UK, IIRC). Which, according to the traditional Society types in New York / New England near where I grew up, is the Official Beginning Of Summer. (By this standard, summer officially ends on Labor Day.) And, as it is summer, it is now permissible to:

• Wear white outer clothing (this includes shoes). (Official uniforms or parts thereof are allowed to be white as appropriate year-round.)
• Drink, request, and serve iced tea (this includes hot or warm tea poured into a glass full of ice).

(I myself never quite understood these rules, but by the standards of those Societies I've always been a Philistine...)

Comments

[h3salthea.livejournal.com]

Oh bother..

One of the joys of living on the outer edges of the Hamptons was pooh-poohing those 'rules'...


...tho nothing beats driving in a beat-up Suzuki Sidekick around Westhampton Beach on Fourth of July weekend with your very large, blond, biker-looking viking stickjock bud hanging out in the back seat in his wild tye-dye shirt, and my rather large, rotund, *obviously* Italian husband sitting in the passinger seat....*rather* shirtless...

...I believe we caused at least 10 cases of shock-whiplash....

*smirks*

We weren't philistines...we were screamin heathens!

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Oooooh... very amusing mental picture, that! Go youse for "freaking the mundanes" as it were...

I was from New Jersey, so going to the Hamptons was not something any of us would do for just a long weekend. And did Catholics even *go* to the Hamptons? I was regarded as a philistine because Catholic society was not considered quite as fashionable as either the Protestant group or the Jewish, and thus did not set general standards.