May 1st - Awesomest Holiday of Them All
So tomorrow’s another May 1st – my favorite holiday. It became my favorite holiday because it usually means no shitty weather from that date on, means you will be wearing your t-shirt outside and that you can burn your damn winter jacket in protest and celebration of spring. (I’m speaking in hyperbole here, don’t really burn your jackets, on a second thought though… Nah, don’t do it.)
However, May 1st was way more awesome when I was a wee lad having very little to care about and very much time to drink beer outside, toss the ball around and party. Now, things are more complicated seeing that May 1st somehow always seems to be a working day, and only post-communist countries are celebrating it, it gets tricky because people expect you to do stuff on that day. With that in mind, I’m spending the entire day today working, trying to make up for tomorrow even though I am not writing tomorrow completely off.
Being a Vegetarian on May 1st
Now that’s a bummer. May 1st means that basically the entire parks and urban areas become one giant barbecue. There’s meat being cooked everywhere. We usually put some mushrooms, tomatoes and zucchini on the grill, also throw some bread on there as well, complete it with a nice fresh cold salad (srpska or šopska and spring onions) and you got yourself an awesome meal. But there’s a problem, because you’re not always in charge of the grill, it’s usually someone who doesn’t give a rat’s ass that you are not a meat eater and he throws all your lovely veggies into the same damn dish with the meat and you end up tasting that meat for two days back in your throat after eating those veggies. I’m telling you, it’s awful, it’s like being constantly by a fire inhaling smoke for 24 hours after the barbecue. But hold on, that’s not all – that’s if you get to your veggies at all, because there’s always a group of early drunks who can’t wait for all the food to be cooked and start eating right away and bam – before you know it your veggies are gone because those motherfuckers love them some tasty motherfucking veggies.
Anyway, so to whoever is going to fire it up tomorrow – cheers, my fellow working blue collars, I’m gonna go prepare my tactic now for guarding our food.
