The most serious holiday.

I wrote in an older blog post that Remembrance Day was the saddest and most solemn of all holidays.

Mother's Day is the most serious of all holidays. If you don't honour your mother, you're in big trouble. She will be devastated. Mothers take this day very, very seriously.

On the flip side, father's day isn't much of a big deal. Half the cards are gag cards making fun of fathers' incompetence and farting problems. Dads don't care.

Mother's Day is the only day that galvanizes men everywhere. For every other holiday, we let our wives take care of the festivities. But for mothers day, we actually have to make an effort.

For example, a friend and I once agreed that if there were no women on earth, all holidays would simply die out - because men wouldn't care enough to keep them going. Perhaps mother's day would be the only exception - we'd keep mother's day alive to honour the women who no longer exist on earth.