Whether you understand they or don’t, Feb. 29 is the best particular retreat, the main night every four decades any time you’re “allowed” to propose to a person.

And, no, I’m definitely not kidding.

Everything in fact launched as a joke, back in the 5th hundred years. As tale have they, St. Bridget need St. Patrick if there will probably be some day outside of the annum when girls could legitimately offer to men and he elected step Day. After that, it has become that which you might call a backhanded getaway, proffering some liberty for women but primarily poking a lot of fun at his or her predilection for wedlock.

Leap week postcards through the early 20th hundred years were prevalent with photographs of stressed bachelors becoming attacked by wart-nosed older maids and portly matrons, each with a hungry bridal glow in her own vision. Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »