Half my co-workers are relatives and I've been friends with most of the ones who aren't for over a decade, so I'd probably take it in stride. Random people I don't know well pinching me will result in a fistfight, though.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2017 10:53:42 am PDT #8747 of 30002
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
Jesse - Mar 20, 2017 11:02:07 am PDT #8748 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've literally never been in any setting where the pinching thing happened! Or at least I don't remember it happening. I don't know if it's because 75% of the kids I grew up around had some Irish heritage, or if everyone just wore green anyway, or what. But among adults? That is NUTS.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 20, 2017 11:04:54 am PDT #8749 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
We had the pinching thing too. Green was a very fraught color in grammar school though, because wearing green on certain days meant you were "horny" or "gay", and so I never owned any green. Then St. Patrick's came, and you were pinched for not wearing green.
Dana - Mar 20, 2017 11:09:01 am PDT #8750 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I remember it from grade school.
Last year, someone stuck his head in my office door and pointed out, enthusiastically, that I wasn't wearing green. I offered the fact that my ancestry was French. He didn't take that as an excuse, but when I just stared at him and didn't respond any further, he gave up and walked off.
Laura - Mar 20, 2017 11:17:44 am PDT #8751 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
I don't think I ever was in an environment that did the pinching thing. I may compliment someone on their green, but never for the lack thereof! Except my kids, they will comply with the wishes of their Irish mom, or else.
Fred Pete - Mar 20, 2017 11:28:37 am PDT #8752 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
The pinching thing is news to me. No Irish ancestry here (although I come close -- one set of great-great-grandparents immigrated from Anglesey), and I've been criticized both for wearing green and for not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day.
Connie Neil - Mar 20, 2017 12:15:04 pm PDT #8753 of 30002
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I was one of the few people wearing green here at work. The subject never came up.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2017 12:34:24 pm PDT #8754 of 30002
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
I credit my Irish ancestors for green eyes and the comparatively high alcohol tolerance I used to have; the former means I'm always dressed for St. Patrick's Day.
Sheryl - Mar 20, 2017 1:02:20 pm PDT #8755 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Didn't wear green on St. Patrick's Day because a) not Irish(wrong end of Europe) and b) wasn't going to any celebrations.(Used to sometimes go see a musician friend play, but not in the last couple years )
juliana - Mar 20, 2017 1:27:45 pm PDT #8756 of 30002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I dressed Peanut in green on St. Patrick's Day because if someone pinches my daughter, they're going to get punched. I remember getting pinched in school - never liked it.