Re: Pinching/St. Patrick's Day

[Arenth - Donna <darenth@UMD5.UMD.EDU>]

I grew up in New York City and we never pinched on St.Patrick's Day. I
never heard of it until I read about it in a story one day. Maybe everyone
was Irish in my neighborhood. Or at least on St. Pat's Day

Donna Arenth
darenth@umd5.umdedu
Benfield Elem. media
Severna Park, MD.

On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Ken Umbach wrote:

> You mean there are people who do NOT know about this?  It was just part of
> the St. Patrick's day lore where I grew up (Southern California), and I have
> never run into anyone who was not familiar with the tradition of pinching
> those not wearing green on that day.  It was standard Kid Stuff, like cat's
> cradles, paper-scissors-rock, hopscotch, and the finer points of blowing
> bubbles with Double Bubble gum.  (Though St. Patrick's day pinching pretty
> much goes out of style as one is reaches a couple of decades past the school
> days ... )  It always seemed to be almost a law!  If nothing else, folks
> seem to wear a green ribbon or something of that sort -- even in my current
> workplace.  (One of my esteemed colleagues, though, notes that nowadays a
> finely honed sense of caution in interpersonal relations may militate
> against pinching for ANY reason ...)
>
> Ken Umbach
>
> At 05:02 AM 1/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have been waiting to see if this is a "real" myth before sharing this
> >story.  Last year on St. Patrick's Day, my 10 year old daughter told me she
> >couldn't wait to go to school to pinch the kids who weren't wearing green.
> --
> Kenneth W. Umbach, Ph.D., Policy Analyst
> California Research Bureau, California State Library
> Sacramento, California
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