Monday, January 02, 2006

The New Sunday

Avs and I were wasting the good portion of today running around doing random, unnecessary shopping and eating. It was a generally good day but we noticed one frusterating thing. Monday is the new Sunday. There are a significant amount of businesses and government owned buildings that are closed on Monday. Didn't it used to be that everything was closed on Sunday? Makes sense, right? I mean it's the "sabbath", supposably. And it wasn't just that today is a made-up holiday. Here's short list of places we tried to go to that were closed today:
Botticelli's Restaurante Italiano
Iowa DOT @ MarketPlace
The Sioux City Art Center
a second hand/antiques store
Panda Palace
3 different Mexican restaurants

I'm sure there are more but those were the only ones that I noticed in the few short hours that we were out. I'm kind of baffled by this. Did businesses start accomodating to people's time restraints and start to be open on Sundays and then realized that they needed another day off but needed the weekend business and started closing on Mondays? This changes the whole system! The weekend is now split between Saturday and Monday! And what about people (like nurses) that have odd schedules and need Mondays to get things done? This screws up everything! I hope this doesn't escalate into the weekend being moved to Monday and Tuesday because that would piss a lot of people off! Imagine the chaos that would erupt! Bar specials on a Monday-Tuesday weekend would piss off a lot of bosses with hung over employees for 2/5 of the week. Church goers wouldn't be able to get to mass because they'd be at work and this would result in people losing faith and resulting in an increase in immorality and crime. Which would cost the tax payers and you know what happens when the gov't takes more of our money! I'm going overboard, but it still bothers me.


1 Comments:

Blogger Della said...

That's ridiculous! If that was considered a holiday then we really are the laziest nation in the world! They need an extra day? FYI- the businesses I mentioned aren't open on ANY Monday.

1/03/2006 9:06 AM  

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