Sunday, March 13, 2005
The Concept of Monday
"Looks like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!" I'm sure most of you recognize this turn of phrase from the cult movie, Office Space, and while I don't attribute the coining of the term to Mike Judge, he certainly is the reason it became such a prevalent comedic phrase in the last few years. We have decided as a society to hate Mondays, because it signifies [spoilers!]the end of the weekend and the beginning of another long week of boring old work. Could this happen with Tuesdays? Wednesdays? or Thursdays? What about people that only work on weekends? I bet the LOVE Mondays! Unfortunately, the problem doesn't fall on us as individuals that just don't appreciate Mondays, it of course relates to whoever the jackass or jackassette was that named the "real" first day of the week Sunday and the second day of the week, Monday(the opposite of Sun, being Moon). So we already subconciously are thinking of the opposite of whatever we were doing the day before, which either had to do with the couch and Arrested Development or Church. And who is the douchebag that still make calendars that start with SUNDAY as the first day of the week. I don't know ANYBODY that considers Sunday the first day of the week. Everyone in the world calls it the weekend collectively, so why do we consider Sunday to still be the first day of the week. The stock market isn't open on the first day of the week. The banks are ONLY closed the first day of the week. The mail doesn't come on the first day of the week. If I'm correct, it was on the FINAL day of creation that God rested, not the fucking FIRST. I buy those small day planners from my college campus. It's about the size of a piece of letter paper folded in half, a spiral notebook, and it's got the entire week written on the two pages when the book is open. And the first day on the left page is MONDAY! Because as a college student, that's where you start to think about things, that's where the week starts for everyone. Will someone please explain to me the reason that printers still make Sunday the first day of the week when no one considers it to be that way? I hate that whenever I go away fro the weekend, I have to draw a line through Friday and Saturday and then, go to the next row and draw a line through Sunday. There has to be a reason I don't know about! Please someone help me with this.
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