So, I watched a Christmas M.A.S.H. episode last night

[potentiality_26]

Or rather, a just-after-Christmas M.A.S.H. episode, where they meet a couple of a British soldiers and learn that there is a Boxing Day tradition wherein the gentry switch places with their servants for the day.  Is this true?  I've never heard of it before, and if it is true I feel like I should have heard of it before.  (I'm aware that I could just google/wikipedia this, and I will if I have to, but I just want to say that if it is true, it's been horribly un-exploited in fic if I've never read about it.  There should be two or three Jeeves and Wooster stories at least).
    

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

It is an old tradition that actually died out within the last sixty years. don't know when it started, but there was a tradition just like that...

*HUGS*

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Cool. Thank you! Now I just how to figure out how silly I should feel for not having known that already...

:-)

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweetie!! No need to feel silly - tis a lost tradition after all...

*HUGS*