A Year of Blogging: October 6, 2011

October 6 is 'Come and Take It' Day. Come and take it should not be confused with come and get it. If someone says "come and get it", they are offering you something. Such as, "Dinner's ready, come and get it!" If you were to come and take dinner, you might be stealing dinner instead of being invited to have some. Which makes me wonder- is Come and Take it day an open invitation to steal? If you are taking it just because you can, I think that borders on stealing. I don't know. Maybe this is a gray area. For sure, if you took money from a store because the cash register is open, that is stealing. I would just advise you to be very careful on this day. Taking something without an invitation might lead to trouble. And I don't know that you could get away with saying 'But today was come and take it day!' On a somewhat related note, October 6 is 'Mad Hatter' Day. The Mad Hatter is a character in 'Alice & Wonderland' who is always acting crazy. So today is a day to be silly. The Mad Hatter wears a top hat. The front of his hat has a slip of paper that says '10/6' so it makes perfect sense that October 6 would be Mad Hatter's Day. Unless you consider that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was written by a British author, so he would have written his dates with the day first, then the month. Which would mean Mad Hatter's Day should have been on June 10. So you're about four months late celebrating.