Boxing Day

[robinmckinley]

 
I still think it’s a funny name. You all know about Boxing Day, don’t you? British (or Commonwealth, says my British dictionary, but I wouldn’t’ve said it was a big item in Canada or Australia, can anybody correct me?) tradition where the toffs go around bestowing largess on the commoners who’ve worked for them over the last year, and the scum had

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[mala_14]

We celebrate Boxing Day in Canada. Except that it involves ridiculous sales in stores. And usually it's also Boxing Week sales. No idea about the name though.

[melscott]

Boxing Day is a public holiday in Australia, most people do family things or, in Melbourne, go to the cricket as the Boxing Day test starts. Or, if crazy, go to the sales.

[melsky]

I was surprised when I moved to Canada to find out that it's a holiday there, most people have it off.

[robinmckinley]

Okay, that's interesting. Because I do think of it as a holiday. I think of it as the day-after-Christmas holiday, sometimes called Boxing Day . . . and I admit I do sometimes think about the sales, but I'm free lance, so I go later on, when everybody else is back in the office. Having less to choose from is worth missing the ravening horde.

[rowanf]

I had never noticed that word doesn't know "prandial" when you write things like, "We went for a post-prandial stroll". Of course I write my Lj posts in BBEdit which doesn't actually presume to try to tell me how to spell. I expect the number of typoes in my journal reflects this. *grin* Happy Holidays to you.

[borealis_belle]

The parking there sounds -awful-. This, coming from a woman that requires slightly less room than a 747 for turning radius in a parking lot; you have my utmost respect.

I'm thinking that they are leaving the flowerpot schrapnel for guilt-milkage, but also they might have misunderstood you. Do they think that you will simply go out and return with a Ming Vase and hope that it meets their approval, or had you cleared it up that they would just present you with the reciept?

Maybe they're going to go make a day of it, and shop someplace heinously expensive. *shudder*