Well, today is Easter. I didn't really realize this until I started driving around this afternoon. I wanted to do a little shopping, but everything was closed. Every store in downtown Hudson was closed, even some of the big stores and fast food chains. I had to ask myself, "Is Easter really this big of a deal?"
Apparently, in the Midwest, it is. I find myself making comparisons from the West Coast to the Midwest all the time, and here is another case where it is irresistible. I am sure that in Seattle, most everything was still open today. However, in the Midwest, land of the Lutherans (and everyone else, who are Catholics), Easter means stay at home. My brother-in-law who is a Lutheran pastor says it doesn't mean more people go to church, it just means people stay home and don't go anywhere.
So as I am driving around today, I busted out one of my classic heretical sentences: "F*ck Easter!" Sure it's only two words, but it's one of these sentences that, if there is a God, I will be denied entrance into Heaven for uttering.
In case you haven't guessed Easter isn't a big holiday in the Agnostic household. Then again, I know better; I know that Easter was really a holiday created by Pagans, just around the time of the Spring Equinox. It's a holiday about fertility and chocolate bunnies and little yellow chickens and... oh yeah, let's say Jesus ascended to heaven on that day too. It'll be convenient, and the Pagans and the Christians can all have the same days off.
