Green With Envy

It won’t be long before Saint Patrick’s Day is here!  I remember wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day when I was growing up so as not to get pinched.  Why do people DO that anyway?  Some say that it started back in the 1700’s.  If you wear green, you will be invisible to Leprechauns (a mischievous elf) and a pinch was a warning.  Some say pinching gives you a bruise so you’ll have green on you!  Who knows!  It turns out, it’s an American made tradition.

Soon the Chicago River will be dyed green, and green dyed beer will also be flowing amongst many pubs!  I heard that drinking dark Irish beer may be as effective as daily aspirin by reducing the blood clots that cause heart attacks due to the antioxidants that reduce cholesterol deposits on artery walls.

The tradition of drinking on Saint Patrick’s Day is an old Irish legend called Pota Phadraig or Patrick’s Pot.  It’s known as “drowning the shamrock” because it is customary to float a shamrock leaf in the whiskey before downing the shot.

St. Patrick was given a shot of whiskey that was much less than full. St. Patrick wanted to teach the innkeeper a lesson of generosity, so he told him that a monstrous devil resided in his cellar who fed on the dishonesty of the innkeeper. In order to banish the devil, the man has to change his ways.

When St. Patrick returned some time later, he saw that the owner was generously overflowing the patrons’ glasses. He returned to the cellar with the innkeeper and found the devil wasted away from the landlord’s generosity. He therefore quickly expelled the demon, stating that thereafter everybody should have a drop of the “hard stuff” on his feast day. Well, alrighty then!

There are going to be St. Patrick’s Day parades and pub gatherings everywhere.  Now’s the time to make sure you have some sort of self defense weapon on you at all times because you just never know when you might need it. The perfect item to have is a cell phone stun gun such as a Stun Master Cell Phone Stun Gun or a Pretender Cell Phone Stun Gun.

They’re a great means of protection as you can clip it to your side and nobody will ever know it’s a stun gun! When you show all your friends, they’ll be “Green” with envy!