Ode to Sticks Day

Just saying:
If you should happen to be at Patty's Egg Nest at 11:11 this morning (11/11/11), and you hear a bunch of women being rowdy, it's okay to join in the merriment! Just celebrating a long, honored, and silly tradition known as "Sticks Day"!
The Sticks phenomenon began with a very simple thing: a digital watch, back in the day at Blanchet High. Miss Rita Lu wore it to school one day, it beeped (teet teet), Miss Susie said "What's that?" And Miss Rita Lu answered "Sumpm new!"
Soon it was noticed that when it was 11:11, it looked like little "sticks" all lined up, and we began calling it Sticks Time. And so, 11/11, of course, became Sticks Day.
We actually call, email, text, or message each other every year "Happy Sticks Day", and we laugh when something happens at Sticks Time - or if we're on the phone together at Sticks Time.
The "we" I'm referring to, if inquiring minds want to know, is: Miss Rita Lu, Miss Adrienne, Miss Susie, Miss Cathy, and I (Miss Sharon).
At some point we figured out that the Ultimate Sticks Day (11/11/11) was going to happen in our lifetime!!! Imagine our unbounded joy! And so, a few months ago, plans began. (Originally we were going to do 'leven 'leven 'leven in Leavenworth, but those plans fell through...)
Miss Susie bought her plane ticket to come back to the Seattle area. Okay, she has family here to visit, also, but the true purpose of her trip was to join the gang for Sticks Day. Sorry to break it to you, family.
Hotel rooms downtown were booked, dinner reservations were made, and breakfast was scheduled so that we would all be together at both occurances of 11:11 that day.
Listen, we know it's silly, but it's OUR silliness! And I, for one, thank God for friends who are willing to give in and just BE SILLY every now and then!
And did I mention that we met in the fall of 1973...? 38 years of friendship! Now THAT'S something to celebrate!!! (Sorry for outing your age like that, ladies! :) )
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!
(I'll report back on how it went later...)