What does one do on Towel Day? Well that’s simple as cake: “Carry your towel with you throughout the day to show your participation and mourning.”
Who exactly are we mourning? Well that would be master Hitchhiker, Douglas Adams. He wrote that tell all guide you know. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, 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 hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker 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.
—quote from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
To paraphrase, a man, or woman, in posession of their very own towel is a man, or woman, who has their shit together.
To all those prudes who are embarassed or can’t be bothered with toiletries on such an auspicious day well:
Yes, you should really carry a towel with you all day. You might get teased or looked at weird, but then you can just hide
behind your towel until the offensive people go away.
And donate some money to Douglas Adams’ favorite charities while you’re at it.
The Gorilla Foundation or Save the Rhino International
