Remember November

To be perfectly honest, I always feel a little indifferent toward November. November is like friends from high school whom you never talk to. You're mildly happy when you get to see them, but you tend to forget about them after they're gone. \nNow, I know what you're thinking, and yes, Thanksgiving rocks. However, it's so late in the month, I mentally moved it to December, or rather, the "holiday season." \nNovember got mad at me when I did that.\nNovember also got mad when I told it it's not important. It snapped back something about it holding political elections in certain years, but I just ignored it. November is always pushing its liberal agenda.\nNovember then argued it was still a part of fall and therefore should be given some respect. I conceded a little on this point but told November that by now everyone's over the "fall fad" and ready to move on. November held back tears.\nWhile in this bitter mood, November said something in poor taste about my mom, but I knew it didn't really mean it. It just had hurt feelings.\nRealizing that maybe I was being a little too hard on the 11th month, I decided to boost its ego a bit.\nI told November it has some of the best football around, but in a depressed and self-deprecating tone, it replied it was jealous of the Super Bowl.\nThen I tried to cheer it up by reminding it that it houses the start of the college basketball season. That cheered it up momentarily, and it asked me if I thought they'd ever change it to "November Madness." I told it I didn't think that was a realistic expectation, and it let out a terrible sigh.\nThat's when I really started feeling bad for November. I mean, it didn't do anything to deserve all of this. I began asking around for ways to cheer up November. My roommate Oscar looked at me as if I was crazy, asked me what the heck I was talking about and then, after a few painful moments, asked in a perplexed tone, "What is so great about November?"\nOscar then asked if a lot of people get married in November, but November said "no" and is now angry at him too. \nOscar tried to backpedal by asking if there were any songs that talked about November but hurt any chance he had at repairing his relationship with the month by humming Counting Crows' "Long December."\nThat stung November deep.\nI then asked Seth, my other roommate, if he had any advice. Without a moment's hesitation, he said November is the unofficial month of pumpkin pie.\nNovember offered a rather prideful smile and said Seth was his favorite.\nI was glad to see November happy again. I told it that without November, Halloween would be too close to the December holidays and again, its smile got a little bigger.\nMoral of the story: Don't take November for granted. It has feelings too.