St. Patrick's Day

[amelia_petkova]

Seeing photos of the Chicago River dyed green reminds me of the time I held a children's program on St. Patrick's Day at the library: before they arrived I put green food coloring in the water for snacktime. This backfired when almost every child (Elementary school age) refused to drink it because the teachers had done the same stunt in the toilets earlier that day, saying that green water was leprechaun pee.