2019-09-26

National Good Neighbor Day 2019

It is my opinion that I am not a good neighbor. I don't really mingle with my neighbors and check on them as likely I should. By the same token, nobody comes around checking on me either.

I'll probably be found someday passed away after an extended period due to my lack of interaction in the hood.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood a lovely day for a neighbor ...
When I was a very young man, I would watch Fred Rogers speak of neighbors and being neighborly, the cultivation of manners, and various topics I thought to be relevant for children today.

Never having been one to impose my opinions on the raising of other people's children; my spate in the local public school system left me aghast with the reality of just how unsophisticated and ill mannered the children were in general. I also found it difficult to fathom how such stupid parents as those from which these miscreant children arose were allowed to procreate.

National Good Neighbor Day is a national holiday in the United States. It was changed from the fourth Sunday in September to September 28 in 2003.

Becky Mattson of Lakeside, Montana created National Good Neighbor Day as a day to connect with and recognize the importance of good neighbors in the early 1970s. President Jimmy Carter who should have never been elected signed a Proclamation establishing September 24, 1978 as National Good Neighbor Day, stating that it should be observed "with appropriate ceremonies and activities" on September 22, 1978.

On April 28, 2004 the Senate passed a resolution by one Montana Senator Max Baucus designating September 26 as National Good Neighbor Day.