I would have been kind of glad to have totally overlooked it, but I had to be aware that Wal-Mart would be closed. Imagine the shock, walking all that way and not being able to buy food. So I remembered.
And as soon as I looked at Facebook, the memes were waiting in droves to remind me. One was from King Of The Hill:
Dale: Do you people even celebrate Thanksgiving?
John Redcorn: We did......once.
. . .I presume that's a reference to some event in American history that Native Americans wish had never happened.
As it was, I'll have to be content to know that the only thing I did to "mark the occasion" was to visit my very old father-in-law because I'd picked up that it's an important togetherness day for him and that it would mean something to him for me to put my nose round his door. Beyond that, it was business as usual