The "Pi is a Rational Number, Pie is an Irrationally Delecious Dessert" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Having a piece of pie.  My favorite!  Oh yeah, a scoop of ice cream on it.  Why not?  The reason why I'm having the piece of pie? It was National Pie Day last Thursday!!  You forgot all about it I'll bet, didn't you?  Well, it's not too late.  That's why I'm having my pie today.  The American Pie Council decided to continue the holiday until tomorrow.  So I'm having another piece tomorrow, also.  And maybe the next day too.  Hey, have to use up the half gallon of vanilla ice cream I bought just for the holiday.  Of course it's not really a half gallon, but that's another story.  Tell you the truth I had totally forgotten about National Pie Day until Larry Alexander, staff writer for the Lancaster Newspapers, wrote a column about the holiday.  Seems all people with the name Larry love to eat pie.  He even told me that pie isn't just a dessert; it's a tradition.  It certainnly is in our house.  Now, some days are more suited for pie such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, my birthday, my wife's birthday, Ground Hog's Day, National Pie Day and odd and even days of the week.  On my birthday my wife puts the candles on the pie and then sings Happy Birthday to me.  The American Pie Council, which I told you extended the pie holiday, was the group that said pies have to be round and decided how many flies have to be placed in a shoe-fly pie.  They also declared apple pie as our nation's favorite and named Don McLean national pie spokesman.  Not really, but who ever heard of a square pie?  There are certain traditions in our house that go along with pie baking.  

Carol's favorite pie plate.

They are:  On holidays when we have guests for dinner, always make two cherry pies so there will be some left over after the guests have had dessert; the cherry pie that gets cut last has to be made in the "special" pie plate.  Carol asked me years ago if I would ask Jim, the art teacher in the room next to my classroom at Manheim Township High School, if he could have someone make her a pie plate that would last forever.  

Mark Urban '77 dates the rear of her pie plate.

I kinda put it to Jim as a joke, but he had Mark, his best student, make that pie plate, and it has lasted at least 36+ years already.  Oh yeah, my favorite type of pie, if you're wondering, is cherry.  You probably guessed that already.  I do like others such as apple, shoo-fly, coconut cream, blueberry, and pumpkin.  Now the next thing you probably are wondering is when did National Pie Day start.  Well, in 1975 a teacher in Boulder, CO told his students that he was declaring his birthday, January 23, to be National Pie Day.  His students believed him and soon Chase's Book of Events declared that day National Pie Day.  So there you go.  Have a piece of pie .... today …  ala mode .... in honor of LDub.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.