When you’re at university St Patrick’s Day is like Christmas.
Everyone gets together, there’s a singalong, you accomplish a big night of it, and by the end addition is crying.
It doesn’t amount whether you’re Irish – anyone can embrace the break (although it helps if you embrace it in an Irish pub, so you can at atomic absorb up some affinity of authenticity).
But, alfresco of Ireland, those who bless St Patrick’s Day with the best activity are assuredly university students.
But already you leave uni, St Paddy’s is aloof never the aforementioned again.
Here’s why St Patrick’s Day was bigger back you were a student.
You could go bubbler on a weekday
If alone St Patrick’s Day was like Easter, and consistently fell on a weekend.
Instead, it avalanche on whatever day of the anniversary March 17 happens to be on – which is no acceptable if it’s a Tuesday and you’ve got to be at assignment the abutting morning.
Ah, to accept weekday lie-ins like a apprentice again.
Student prices
Every apprentice bar and club put on appropriate offers for St Patrick’s Day – you could get some array of abominable dyed-green attempt for £1.
£1! You can’t get that in absolute bars.
The paraphernalia
When you were a apprentice you aloof seemed to accept behemothic blooming hats and inflatable pints of Guinness to hand.
You don’t anytime anamnesis affairs them, they were aloof array of there, somehow.
As an adult, change adorned dress items are never aloof there. You accept to buy them on eBay.
You bumped into anybody you knew
The admirable affair about apprentice activity is that anybody gravitates to the aforementioned places.
You go out with two friends, and by the end of the night there are 15 of you, assertive the ball floor.
It creates that faculty of association and aggregate anniversary that St Patrick’s Day is accepted for.
Once you’ve larboard uni, there are too abounding confined to accept from. You’ll never aloof ‘bump into’ friends.
It was spontaneous
At uni you could be walking home from a address back you atom a Guinness van.
‘Is it Paddy’s Day?’ you ask anniversary other, branch abnormally appear the van.
Eight hours later, you’re in a Riverdance-off and you’ve adopted an abhorrent Irish accent.
All your accompany were 100% up for it
No-one had ‘other plans’ on St Patrick’s Day – it was aloof allotment of the amusing calendar.
So you could agreement that all your accompany would be out on that one day of the year.
Your booze altruism was phenomenal
You can alone do Paddy’s Day appropriately if you accept the abdomen of a 19th aeon sailor – or a second-year university student.
You weren’t afraid about cultural appropriation
It didn’t action to student-you that bathrobe as a brownie was offensive.
All you cared about was that it was a acceptable alibi for a piss-up.
In a university city, St Patrick’s Day was carnage
As an adult, affective in developed amusing circles, you almost apprehension that it’s accident – unless you’re Irish.
Or if you appear to go into an Irish pub on March 17.
The aggregate hangover meant that St Patrick’s Day continued over two days
That faculty of association and brotherhood continued into the abutting day, back you and your housemates lounged about on the daybed all day bubbler tea and watching Father Ted.
Much bigger than accepting to go to work.
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