They had pinching for not wearing green when I was a kid growing up in New York City in the 1970s. But I never wore green and never got pinched that I recall. Pinching was more of a thing that people thought other people might do, not something that people actually did.
I always rejected St. Patrick's Day and made a point of wearing *no* green until just a year or two ago, when it dawned on me that celebrating a holiday is fun and that it's more fun to participate than to do the kind of crabby sitting on the sidelines that I had been doing. So for the last year or two, I've been gleefully wrapping myself in green on St. Patrick's day, and, to my surprise, I'm enjoying it.
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Date: 2011-03-29 02:23 am (UTC)I always rejected St. Patrick's Day and made a point of wearing *no* green until just a year or two ago, when it dawned on me that celebrating a holiday is fun and that it's more fun to participate than to do the kind of crabby sitting on the sidelines that I had been doing. So for the last year or two, I've been gleefully wrapping myself in green on St. Patrick's day, and, to my surprise, I'm enjoying it.