Towel Day, May 25th – Did I miss it? Again!
I just stumbled upon a reference to Towel Day this morning on the web and felt a little saddened that I missed being able to salute Douglas Adams in a positively silly way. Then I checked the calendar. Towel day was two days ago, May 25th, not yesterday. I remembered what I was doing that day, it was very easy, I was driving from NJ to MI — six hours through PA on route 80… not even I could forget that. The greatest thing? I had my towel with me that day!
Not only did I just happen to have a towel with me in the car, but I NEEDED it too. I was wearing shorts in the car. After a few hours driving west in the southern sun, my left leg started to hurt from a sunburn I could feel starting. So, I opened my center console of my car and pulled out a towel! I wrapped it around my leg, in pure, unprompted Hitchhiker fashion, and drove on.
Not only did I have that towel handy, but I had two other towels that were just laying around, handy if they were needed, because it is what all travelers, hitchhikers and road-tripers alike, need.
I feel so much better that even though I may have consciously missed celebrating Towel Day, I happened to have lived it that particular day and, as every Galaxy Hitchhiker knows, I’m going to keep my towel close by at all times.