Today is Boxing Day. The United States is probably the only English-speaking country that doesn't celebrate it.
According to which accounts you believe, this day originated as a day to give gifts to the poor--or when upper class families boxed up gifts and food for their cooks, servants and other employees, who were sent home (with boxes) to spend time with their families after working on the holiday.
Either story leads me to this question: How many bicycles are boxed on Boxing Day?
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| From The Washing Machine Post |
One blogger documented his un-Boxing Day. I don't know what day the blogger's Cielo bicycle arrived, but I'm sure that un-boxing it was at least as eventful for that person as boxing cookies, cakes, leftovers or gifts was for the people who gave them to their help, or to the anonymous poor.
As a child I hoped against hope that one day I would get to unbox a bike. Parents drank all the money...
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