Back when May Basket Day was a thing, perhaps.
The curious custom — still practiced in discrete pockets of the country — went something like this: As the month of April rolled to an end, people would begin gathering flowers and candies and other goodies to put in May baskets to hang on the doors of friends, neighbors and loved ones on May 1.
In some communities, hanging a May basket on someone's door was a chance to express romantic interest. If a basket-hanger was espied by the recipient, the recipient would give chase and try to steal a kiss from the basket-hanger.
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I guess it beats rounding up all of the virgins in town and forcing them to dance around a large phallic symbol erected in someone's back yard.
My may pole got quite a bit of attention every spring.
3:24 PM - and so did the virgins who danced around it.
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