Marshelltown/Ames, IA First, Leap Year Day celebrations would be carried out by the individual or the family. There might be a day off from money-earning work, but there would be no superdooper special sales or high status travel opportunities. I can visualize it as a Day for Rectifying Omissions whether catching up with old friends or healing family breeches or organizing a junk drawer any project that has been postpone because of lack of time or disinclination or old fashioned sloth. The festive holiday meal menu would be planned by the cook, not dictated by any outside authority. The evening of Leap Year Day would be spent in well-deserved, smug satisfaction. Jill, 59
Saylorsburg, PA An offence to good taste and polite society, as is everything I create. Beaucoup nudity and, well, leaping. Anthony, 24
Baton Rouge, LA Because Leap Year comes only every four years and is essentially a day that doesn't exist at any other time, I would treat it very much in the vein as free time. Like when the clocks go back an hour. On this day, which doesn't really exist nothing would happen. No work, no school, no special anything . . . in fact this is exactly the type of holiday I envisioned when adding to the calendar another holiday (see 2/23/00). Felicia, 34
Somerville, MA I have no idea about a celebration...but I do wonder why there is a special extra leap year every millennium. I understand why there's one every four years, but why the extra one? Is it just because they want an extra day, for fun? Or is the earth's rotation more messed up than we thought? Like a year is REALLY supposed to be 365.00154347 days or something? Whoever figured out calendars must have been a genius.
Elizabeth, 18
Rochester, MN
A leap day shouldn't be celebrated. The gregorian calendar will be about 6 days off in approximately 10,000 years or so.
Ray, 17
Toronto CANADA
Pensacola, FL It would be like a great big blowout party at my house. I'm always looking for an excuse to party. Not that I really need one... Kristin, 20
IA USA