We both create our own holidays. However, I understand when people don't close their place of business on my "Whitney Holidays" but France closes everything. May Day...have you ever heard of it? I have heard of it but it is an actual business holiday here. Grocery stores, banks etc will all be closed Friday May 1, many staying closed all weekend for the "holiday". According to Wikipedia it is similar to Labor Day. I really don't know how they do it, technically I mean--because the fridges were are SO small, if you have more than one mouth to feed, you cant stock enough food in your house and most restaurants are closed.
Another thing we have in common is we both stop everything for lunch. You cannot go to the bank and several other stores during lunch, because they close. I am just fascinated by this....it would never occur to anyone in the US to just close down an entire bank branch so that everyone could leave and go eat lunch....for an hour and a half. It sounds great! Easter closed everything down for about a week! So any ways I need to go prepair for May Day so I don't run out of food.