May 25 is Towel Day
A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta…wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat…wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes…any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it … win through, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
- Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Of all the dumb coincidences! Today, I rode my bike to work for the first time this year, and I was within 2 blocks of my destination when I realized I had forgotten my towel. I need more practice as an interstellar hitchhiker.
Perfect Towel Day here…rainy and therefore wet. Have used my towel several times already, mostly for the dog.