Today is Towel Day… Don't Forget Your Towel

There are some things I wish I knew about a day earlier.

Apparently today is Towel Day… have you got your towel?

Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001).  Fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.  What a brilliant way to remember a great author.

… a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

From Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Oh and of course… DON’T PANIC 🙂

Find out more about Towel Day here: http://towelday.org/