A call for more holidays
I don't understand why President's Day is a holiday. Half of us don't get it off as a holiday. I think they make up these holidays so that people who work for the government have a day off to shop. It certainly helps in my industry since they have a lot of advertising inserts for mall sales. But the people who work at Gottschalks and Mervyn's certainly don't get the day off.
What's up with that? If it's a holiday why do only certain people get the day off?
Nobody in government or at the city work on these holidays. Heck, they don't even give parking tickets on these days.
And which presidents are we celebrating?
When I was a kid there were two presidents days, I think Washington and Lincoln. Then they combined them or something.
Funny how the president's birthday always comes on a Monday. If we were truly honoring the past president wouldn't we actually celebrate on their birthday?
But that's right, we're Americans, so we just make up what we want to fit the shopping days.
At least with 4th of July you can't fudge. They’re already set up for this by calling it “Independence Day.”
I predict that during my lifetime Independence Day will be switched to Monday.
I don't want to discourage holidays. Somebody was really smart to make Thanksgiving on a Thursday. That most certainly guarantees that you also get Friday off. How else are you supposed to travel down to the Bay Area and back without missing another day of work?
I'm all for holidays. Why don't we get the unions and the government workers to rally for current presidents' birthdays? Hey, why not add a "future presidents day," which I'm sure would always fall on a Monday. I'm leading the call to add Oprah's birthday, certainly that must rank high in our nation's values.
Oh wait ....... she's not dead.
Folks, if we did this right, we could have holidays three times a week. Mondays are always popular, why not make it Monday through Wednesday. I'm game. If only I worked in an industry that actually celebrated these holidays.