Now I’m not advising anyone to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by drinking, but that does seem to be one of the byproducts of the celebration.
Which is fairly curious given that…
St. Patrick was a Catholic priest who allegedly drove the snakes (symbol for pagans) out of Ireland. However, with someone as dour as Patrick and his obsession of ridding the country of sin (and fun), I guess the normal response is to drink.
(You should read the story of St. Patrick sometime. Turns out he was actually a Scot who was brought as a slave to Ireland, escaped, found religion and returned to exact his revenge–and create a nation of drunks.)
Ireland is also home to Murphy, whose curse haunts all of us to this very day. No, not the toast-always-landing-butter-side-down-when-you-drop-it thing, but his observation that “no good deed goes unpunished.” Remember that truism the next time you get the urge to do something good for someone. It’ll end up costing you way more than it was worth in fleeting feelings of self-satisfaction. Save a cat from being run over, for instance, and you’ll no doubt get in a wreck driving home, or have the cat owner sue you for animal cruelty in an evil twist of fate.
Patrick interpreters have been right all along. Just stay drunk.
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