Happy Leap Year, 5-year-olds!

Happy February 29th, also known as Leap Day.  This odd little day started when Julius Caesar decided to listen to the Egyptians, who calculated a full year being closer to 365 days and 5(ish) hours.

Caesar decreed to add an extra day to the year every four years, to offset this irregularity.  And then he was stabbed.  Over and over, by his peers...

Et tu, Brutus?  Yeah, him too, because this was just a weird idea.  I would have stabbed you too, Julie...

So, thanks to Caesar, we do this once every four years.  Leap Years coincide with Summer Olympics schedules and US Presidential Elections, so the good news is if you remember them one, you remember them all.

A fun Leap Year tradition, dating back to 5th Century Ireland, involves a woman proposing to her man, or simply asking him out on a date.  Now it's just called "normal" or "equality" but 1600 years ago, this was the one day every four years were women were allowed out of the kitchen and were able to act like equals.  Schools modernized this by holding "Sadie Hawkins" dances around this time each year.

Lastly, there are about 4 million people on Earth who were born on February 29th.

To have your birthday once every four years must be rough...

Well, TECHINICALLY 36, but meh...

I actually dated a girl in college named Stacey.  She was a Junior when I was a Freshmen, and I have NO idea how I bagged a gorgeous girl like her.  When I was introducing myself to her, she floored me.

"I'm 5," she quipped.  She was born on February 29, and was really 21, but she liked to tell people "well I'm TECHNICALLY five..."  She was the only 5 year old I've ever known with a drinking problem... and piercings on her nipples...

(...poor Pedobear is shaking his head.  He doesn't know whether to believe his eyes or his ears...)

To all of you born on Leap Day, congratulations, you're rarer than a left-hander with green eyes.  To those of you dating Leap Day kids, remember: 4 is too young, but 5 is OK!